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Anna : [reads from a book] In 1857, it's estimated there were 80,000 prostitutes in the county of London.
Mike : Yeah?
Anna : Out of every 60 houses, one was a brothel.
Mike : Hoo, hoo, hoo.
Anna : At a time when the male population of London of all ages was one and a quarter million, the prostitutes were receiving clients at a rate of two million per week.
Mike : Two million?
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Charles Henry Smithson : Tell me, who is this - French lieutenant?
Ernestina : He is a man she's said to have...
Charles Henry Smithson : Fallen in love with?
Ernestina : Worse than that.
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Davide : Have they decided how they are going to end the movie?
Mike : End it?
Davide : I hear they keep changing the script.
Mike : No, not at all. Where did you hear that?
Davide : Well, there are two endings in the book. A happy ending and an unhappy ending, no?
Mike : We're going for the first ending. I mean the second ending.
Davide : Which one is that?
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[last lines]
Mike : Sarah!
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Charles Henry Smithson : [to Sarah] There is talk in the town of committing you to an institution.
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Charles Henry Smithson : [to Ernestina] I can assure you, the true charm of this world resides in this garden.
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Sarah : I have long imagined a day such as this. I have longed for it. I was lost from the moment I saw you.
Charles Henry Smithson : I too.
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Charles Henry Smithson : Shall we return? The wind is getting very strong.
Ernestina : I thought you might welcome a reason to hold my hand without impropriety.
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Charles Henry Smithson : This isn't mistletoe, but it will do, will it not?
Ernestina : Oh, Charles. Oh! Oh! Oh!
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Charles Henry Smithson : He was very respectful of what he called - my position as a scientist and a gentleman. In fact, he asked me about my work. But as I didn't think that fossils were quite in his line, I gave him a brief discourse on the theory of evolution instead.
Ernestina : [laughs] How wicked of you!
Charles Henry Smithson : Yes, he didn't think very much of it, I admit. In fact, he ventured the opinion that Mr. Darwin should be exhibited in a cage in the zoological gardens. In the monkey house.
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Charles Henry Smithson : Good Lord! What on earth is she doing?
Mrs. Tranter : Oh. It's poor "Tragedy".
Charles Henry Smithson : "Tragedy"?
Mrs. Tranter : The fishermen have a grosser name for her.
Charles Henry Smithson : What?
Mrs. Tranter : They call her "the French lieutenant's - woman".
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Charles Henry Smithson : It's really not necessary to hide.
Sarah : No gentleman who cares for his good name can be seen with the scarlet woman of Lyme.
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Charles Henry Smithson : Do you know that lady?
Dairyman : Aye.
Charles Henry Smithson : Does she come this way often?
Dairyman : Often enough. But she be no lady. She be the French lieutenant's whore.
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Dr. Grogan : Do you approve of my telescope?
Charles Henry Smithson : It is most elegant.
Dr. Grogan : I use it to keep an eye out for mermaids.
[laughs]
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Charles Henry Smithson : Palaeontology is my interest. I gather it is not yours.
Dr. Grogan : When we know more of the living, it will be time to pursue the dead.
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Charles Henry Smithson : She has confided the true state of her mind to no one?
Dr. Grogan : She has not.
Charles Henry Smithson : But if she did? I mean, if she could bring herself - to speak?
Dr. Grogan : She would be cured. But she does not want to be cured.
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Charles Henry Smithson : Ernestina, I know our private affections are the paramount consideration; but, there is also a - legal and contractual side to matrimony which is...
Ernestina : Fiddlesticks!
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Charles Henry Smithson : Pray control yourself.
Sarah : I cannot! I cannot!
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Charles Henry Smithson : You are a remarkable person, Miss Woodruff.
Sarah : Yes, I am a remarkable person.
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Charles Henry Smithson : I shall be back in three days.
Ernestina : Kiss me, then - to seal your promise.
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Charles Henry Smithson : I've come to tell you the truth.
Ernestina : The truth? What truth?