Becky Sharp:
Two men and two men only will enter my bedchamber. My husband and the doctor.
Becky Sharp:
Revenge may be wicked, but it's perfectly natural.
Becky Sharp:
Are you trying to steer me towards an indiscretion?
Rawdon Crawley:
Would you like me to?
Becky Sharp:
No man has managed it yet.
Amelia Sedley:
This is all just a blessing in disguise
Becky Sharp:
Well, the disguise is convincing
Miss Matilda Crawley:
Keep your toadying until I get to a fire. You can suck up all you wish once I'm warm.
Miss Matilda Crawley:
Oh, please tell me there's something disreputable in your past
Becky Sharp:
Well, my father was an artist
Miss Matilda Crawley:
Ah, that's better, a starving one I hope
Becky Sharp:
Absolutely ravenous
Mrs. Sedley:
I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer
Miss Matilda Crawley:
[
Rawdon gives Becky a note, and there is a sound as she throws it into a bowl of water] What was that?
Becky Sharp:
Nothing. False note.
Miss Matilda Crawley:
How do I look?
Becky Sharp:
A good deal stronger. They will be disappointed.
Maria Osborne:
George is engaged. It's understood.
Mr. Osborne:
And it can be un-understood.
Rawdon Crawley:
She talks like Oliver Cromwell and thinks like Charles I.
Becky Sharp:
I'll manage.
Rawdon Crawley:
Won't you just. There never was a woman that could manage like you, Becky Sharp.
Rawdon Crawley:
What? Tears? Tears from my strong, little Becky?
Becky Sharp:
[
as Rawdon is about to leave for battle] You won't do anything brave, will you?
Amelia Sedley:
[
to Becky] If you have stolen my last night with him I will never forgive you!
The Marquess of Steyne:
They'll bully you and patronize you. But that's what you want I suppose?
Becky Sharp:
I do.
Becky Sharp:
Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.
Rawdon Crawley:
I should. I traveled it with you.
Becky Sharp:
Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.
Rawdon Crawley:
Then that has been your misfortune.
Rawdon Crawley:
[
pauses]
Rawdon Crawley:
Goodbye Rebecca.
[
leaves]
Becky Sharp:
[
screams in despair]
George Osborne:
[
as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?
Becky Sharp:
My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.
George Osborne:
You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.
Becky Sharp:
Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.
George Osborne:
How very obliging of you.
Becky Sharp:
I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?
[
George remains silent and stern]
Becky Sharp:
Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.
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