Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999 TV Movie)

Cherie Lunghi: Duchess of Wharfedale

Quotes 

• Duchess of Wharfedale : It is lucky for you that last night I had another card to play. At least it bought his silence.

  Hornblower : But how could you?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : What is it to you? Are you jealous?

  [sighs] 

  Duchess of Wharfedale : You completely misunderstand me. If I resisted de Vergesse, he would announce my secret, which would lead to my arrest as a spy and the discovery of your precious dispatches. So I sacrificed some small insignificant things such as my pride and my self-respect.

• Hornblower : What will you do, Ma'am? You cannot continue this in London.

  Duchess of Wharfedale : I have friends in high places and low. Friends who value me enough to forgive the manner of my return.

  Hornblower : In that case I can only wish you good luck, Ma'am.

  Duchess of Wharfedale : [as Hornblower is going over the side into the rowboat]  Horatio... I will always count you, as I hope you will count me, among those friends.

  Hornblower : In high places or low, Ma'am?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : The highest, Mr. Haitch!

• Duchess of Wharfedale : After a night in Mr. Hornblower's rowboat, I think I'd sleep easier on a perch in a parrot's cage.

• Kennedy : [upon seeing a storm outside] 

  [faintly] 

  Kennedy : No walk for you today, Horatio. A pity, you walk with such lovely company.

  Hornblower : Do you have a sweetheart in England, Archie?

  [no response] 

  Hornblower : Archie?

  [no repsonse] 

  Hornblower : [more worried]  Archie?

  [he runs over to Archie and pats his face] 

  Hornblower : [caling out]  Archie!

  [runs to the door and bangs on it] 

  Hornblower : Guard! Guard! Hunter, call for help.

  M'Man Hunter : Why?

  Hornblower : [races back over to Kennedy, and tries to wake him]  Archie? What's happening to him?

  M'Man Hunter : Starvation.

  Hornblower : We gave him the same rations as ours.

  M'Man Hunter : He didn't eat them.

  Hornblower : But why?

  [pause] 

  Hornblower : Why didn't you tell me this before?

  Don Massaredo : [a few moments later] 

  [upon seeing Horatio standing in the rain and carrying Archie] 

  Don Massaredo : What is the meaing of this?

  Hornblower : He's dying!

  [carries Archie inside and places him in bed] 

  Hornblower : Archie, why did you do this?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : [enters the room]  What's happened to him?

  Hornblower : [upset]  He's been starving himself! And I haven't noticed- I didn't notice because I was carrying on conversations on clifftops.

  Kennedy : [seemingly concious, to the Duchess]  The crow o' earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war...

  Hornblower : Archie, what are you saying?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : Sssh... just rest.

  Kennedy : Are level now with men; the odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visting moon.

  Hornblower : What is he saying?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : He's delirious.

  Hornblower : No, it wasn't like that. It was from something.