Clarissa (1991)

Sean Bean: Lovelace

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• Lovelace : If you marry Soames I swear you will become the youngest and prettiest widow in the county.

• Lovelace : I will see her.

  Belford : Then you'll have to kill me first.

• Lovelace : Her grandmother came to me, begged me to be merciful.

  Belford : And you agreed?

  Lovelace : Word of a gentleman, Jack.

• Lovelace : [after he has raped Clarissa]  I love you.

  Clarissa : Some new strategem?

  Lovelace : Believe me.

  Clarissa : Again? Like I believed Captain Tomlinson and Lady Betty? How you all must have laughed. Such a witty masquerade.

• Lovelace : Where is she?

  Dorcas : It's not my fault.

• Lovelace : Spare us a shilling squire, spare us a shilling for an old soldier.

• Lovelace : No other man will have you now.

• [showing a letter from Clarissa] 

  Lovelace : Mine, Jack, Mine!

  [Reading the letter] 

  Belford : Hmm. It's more like a sermon than a billet-doux.

• Lovelace : I trust you slept well.

  Clarissa : I did not sleep.

  Lovelace : Scribbling? Is that wise? Letters can be traced.

  Clarissa : As you should know.

  Lovelace : I hope at least you used an alias.

  Clarissa : I leave all such subterfuge to you.

• Lovelace : Oh she may threaten, she may weep, she may rave 'Oh you traitor! Oh you fiend!' but little by little she comes to like her little cage.

• Lovelace : Well done Jack, you have avenged her well. One man cannot have every woman worth having... Clarissa let this redeem my soul.

• Lovelace : Ain't I the regular blaggard!

• Lovelace : I swear

  Tomlinson : [interrupting]  No oaths, sir. Oaths won't do it. Not your oaths leastways.

• Clarissa : [on arriving at the Sinclair house in Dover Street, Clarissa is welcomed as Mrs Lovelace]  *Mrs* Lovelace?

  Lovelace : The lady is a very moral woman. What more could I do?

  Clarissa : I would rather you did less, Mr Lovelace, not more.

• Lovelace : Have a care, Mr Harlowe.