Svengali (1931)
Bramwell Fletcher: Billie
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Quotes
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Billee : You're wonderful. You're the sweetest thing I've ever known. When we're married, I want to take you to England, and to my mother... She'll be proud of you, Trilby. Proud of you as I am.
Trilby O'Farrell : Tell me: what's England like?
Billee : Oh, England's beautiful! Green fields, and hedgerows and hollyhocks, primroses...
Svengali : [Svengali, who's been eavesdropping, butts in] ... and fog, and pneumonia, and shopkeepers, and flat feet, and boiled beef and cabbage - ha, ha, ha! Trilby in England would be like a butterfly in mutton soup!
[continues to laugh]
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Trilby O'Farrell : [after Svengali has hypnotized her, making her headache disappear] What'd he do?
Monsieur Taffy : He hypnotized you!
The Laird : Yeah, and don't you ever let him do it again! Those fella's can make you do anything and say anything they want. Lie, steal, *anything*!
Billee : And then they make you kill yourself when they're done with ya'.
The Laird : Yeah, they do that.
Trilby O'Farrell : But he took my pain away!
Billee : I'd rather have the pain than have it cured like that!
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Monsieur Taffy : Maestro Svengali... this has been a marvelous change since we saw him last.
The Laird : Yeah, it's been just five years.
Monsieur Taffy : Wonderful!
Billee : They say that his wife is a very beautiful woman.
Monsieur Taffy : Didn't you say that she was a Polish woman that he picked up in Russia?
The Laird : Yeah, that's what I heard.
Billee : Well, if she's as beautiful as they say she is, he must've hypnotized her into marrying him.
The Laird : I'm not interested in that. What I want to know is who's giving him his baths now?
Monsieur Taffy : Probably she is - in self defense!
[they all laugh]
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Monsieur Taffy : And where are you going?
Billee : After him!
Monsieur Taffy : Svengali's not running away from you.
Billee : Not from me, Taffy, but from his fear of the day when his spell over Trilby will be broken, as it was for a moment last night.
The Laird : Eh? And what will you do when you catch up with him?
Billee : Just wait till the day comes. I'll get her back - - if I have to follow them 'round the world.