The Gilded Age (TV Series)
A Long Ladder (2022)
Louisa Jacobson: Marian Brook
Quotes
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Marian Brook : This is wonderful news.
Agnes Van Rhijn : May I know this wonderful news?
Marian Brook : You'll be thrilled.
Agnes Van Rhijn : I haven't been thrilled since 1865.
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Marian Brook : ...I cannot make vague promises about unforeseeable circumstances in an unknown future.
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Peggy Scott : And you could be a bride, if you give Mr. Raikes an answer.
Marian Brook : I still can't believe he asked the question. Maybe he didn't. Maybe I was mistaken.
Peggy Scott : Do you hope you were mistaken?
Marian Brook : Not exactly.
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Marian Brook : You'll know the Russells one day.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Hmm. Over my dead body.
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Peggy Scott : A Mr. Fortune, the editor of "The New York Globe," is going to publish one of my stories-- "Alone in the City."
Marian Brook : What's it about?
Peggy Scott : A young colored woman living on the Upper East Side.
Agnes Van Rhijn : It's about you, in other words.
Peggy Scott : All writers write about themselves, at least at the start. But Mr. Fortune wants my next article to be more political.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Just make sure that if you do, I never find out.
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Agnes Van Rhijn : Aurora Fane has invited you to the Academy of Music. You will hear John Knowles Paine conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is raising money for your Miss Barton.
Marian Brook : When is it?
Agnes Van Rhijn : Friday. Aurora will collect you on her way.
Marian Brook : That sounds fun. Will you come?
Agnes Van Rhijn : I'd rather be put to death.
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Ada Brook : Why would you not promise Aunt Agnes to marry someone suitable?
Marian Brook : Dearest Aunt Ada, how could I... when someone who is suitable to me may not be suitable to her?
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Sylvia Chamberlain : We're what your aunt would call "new people." But my husband had something better than birth.
Marian Brook : What was that?
Sylvia Chamberlain : Luck. Right from the start.
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Sylvia Chamberlain : Mr. Chamberlain was a widower when he married me. He and his first wife did not fully understand the power that money had put into their hands. I showed him.
Marian Brook : So you taught him how to live.
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Ada Brook : She had the taste, the looks, and the brains. He had the money.
Marian Brook : Rather sharp for you, Aunt Ada.
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Oscar Van Rhijn : Why would you want to go to Brooklyn?
Marian Brook : As a matter of fact, I'm thinking of paying someone a surprise visit. She may need cheering up.
Agnes Van Rhijn : So should I if I lived in Brooklyn.
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Marian Brook : Why are you here, really?
Tom Raikes : My lady was in a high window, so I realized I needed a long ladder.
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Bertha Russell : Does he have money, your Mr. Raikes?
Marian Brook : I don't think so. Not what you would call money.
Bertha Russell : Pity, when he's enjoying himself so much. He may find it hard to keep up without it.
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Aurora Fane : Now for the third movement-- "A Romance of Springtime," how lovely. What's the matter, Marian? Don't you like the sound of it?
Marian Brook : I like it very much. As long as there's a happy ending.
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Marian Brook : I just can't get over the shops in New York. We have nothing like them in Doylestown, I can assure you. How can they have such a choice wherever you look?
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Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, you would never entertain advances from someone whom I might not consider suitable?
Marian Brook : Entertain advances? That sounds like a dance step in the gavotte.
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Ada Brook : But surely you intend to marry a gentleman?
Marian Brook : I will marry a gentle man. Is that enough?
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Ada Brook : And now may I know who sent the beautiful carved box?
Marian Brook : Mrs. Chamberlain.
Ada Brook : Oh, dear. This is very bad.
Marian Brook : You understand why I wouldn't tell.
Ada Brook : If Agnes knew, we should none of us have any sleep for a month.
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Peggy Scott : What are you doing here?
Marian Brook : I thought I'd surprise you.
Peggy Scott : You succeeded.
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Peggy Scott : What's in the bag?
Marian Brook : Oh, well, I... I wanted to bring something useful. But I'm not sure they will be very useful after all.
Dorothy Scott : Can't we see? If you've brought it all this way...
Peggy Scott : Old shoes?
Marian Brook : I thought...
Dorothy Scott : What did you think, Miss Brook? That we would need cast-off shoes?
Marian Brook : I'm so sorry. I...
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Peggy Scott : Because we're colored, we must be poor? I loaned you train fare!
Marian Brook : I made a stupid assumption.
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Marian Brook : I envy your fan. I wish I had one so I could cover my face and look fascinating.
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Marian Brook : My aunt lets you live at her house.
Peggy Scott : Lets me? I work there.
Marian Brook : I know...
Peggy Scott : No, you don't know anything... about me, about my life, about my situation. I live in a different country from the one you know.
Marian Brook : Look, I'm sorry.
Peggy Scott : Don't be sorry! Just stop thinking you're really my friend.