The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Never the New (2022)

Louisa Jacobson: Marian Brook

Quotes 

• Tom Raikes : Have you slept at all? You look worn out.

  Marian Brook : Just what every woman wants to hear.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Now, you need to know we only receive the old people in this house, not the new. Never the new.

  Marian Brook : What's the difference?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : The old have been in charge since before the revolution. They ruled justly until the new people invaded.

  Ada Brook : It's not quite as simple as that.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Yes, it is.

  Marian Brook : Well, I'm new. I've only just arrived.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, never mind that the Brooks have been in Pennsylvania for a century and a half. My mother, your grandmother, was a Livingston of Livingston Manor, and they came to this city in 1674. You belong to old New York, my dear, and don't let anyone tell you different. You are my niece, and you belong to old New York.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I suppose you only recently learned that your father had let you down.

  Marian Brook : Please don't speak ill of Daddy.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I will say what I like in my own house.

  Marian Brook : Not to me.

• Marian Brook : Don't worry, Mr. Raikes, I'm not beaten yet.

  Tom Raikes : At the risk of impertinence, I would say you're a long way from being beaten, Miss Brook.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : You carried a suitcase through the streets?

  Marian Brook : Oh, have I broken another rule?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : You were to check it was ready and then send the footman to collect it. And never go out unaccompanied. Please don't do such a thing again.

• Marian Brook : Training orphans to be servants?

  Ada Brook : To save them from... something worse.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : There's no need to go into that.

• Marian Brook : Mrs. Chamberlain was at Mrs. Fane's charity gathering.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Was she, by heavens? Ada, who else was there? Pickpockets? Newly released criminals?