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Old 08-05-2012, 08:11 PM   #1036
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Quite right! And I never got to post "The dog it was that died"!

A beautifully written book - one of a very few for which the movie version was (IMHO) equally beautiful. I think Diana Rigg, as the Mother Superior, was superb - esp. with her speech about being married to God - even though it wasn't in the novel.

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Old 08-05-2012, 08:44 PM   #1037
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Quite right! And I never got to post "The dog it was that died"!

A beautifully written book - one of a very few for which the movie version was (IMHO) equally beautiful. I think Diana Rigg, as the Mother Superior, was superb - esp. with her speech about being married to God - even though it wasn't in the novel.

Take it away Issy!
I've never seen the movie, obviously something I need to remedy. I think the book is wonderful.

And what guilty pleasure does this come from?

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Old 08-05-2012, 08:52 PM   #1038
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Hmmmmm ....

The Man in the Iron Mask?
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Old 08-05-2012, 09:15 PM   #1039
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Hmmmmm ....

The Man in the Iron Mask?
Somewhat later.

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Old 08-05-2012, 09:21 PM   #1040
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"The king would never forgive it," I stammered.
"Are we women? Who cares for his forgiveness?"
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Old 08-06-2012, 01:05 AM   #1041
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Not one I recognise...can't even take a guess.
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Old 08-06-2012, 09:06 AM   #1042
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This should give more of the flavor:

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. My honour lies in being true to my country and my House. I don't know why God has let me love you; but I know that I must stay.‎
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There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.
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Old 08-06-2012, 02:34 PM   #1043
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The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Your quotes sound like the dialogue in an old Douglas Fairbanks movie ...
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Old 08-06-2012, 03:00 PM   #1044
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The Three Musketeers?
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Old 08-06-2012, 03:08 PM   #1045
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The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Your quotes sound like the dialogue in an old Douglas Fairbanks movie ...
Close. There were several movie versions and while it's not Fairbanks in the most famous, it has that feel.

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The Three Musketeers?
You and pooh are on the right track, but it's later than Dumas and earlier than Orczy.
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Old 08-07-2012, 08:34 AM   #1046
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:23 AM   #1047
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Cyrano de Bergerac?
No, but the right genre.

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A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.
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"That picture in the paper--" he said.
"Well, what of it? It shows that the king of Ruritania and your humble servant are as like as two peas."
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:33 AM   #1048
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The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. It was Ruritania wot gave it away .
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The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. It was Ruritania wot gave it away .
I figured that would do it. Still a goodie! My pbook copy is inscribed 1910 and I like that over a hundred years later, that particular copy still gives pleasure.

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My last couple have obviously been too easy for people of the calibre who frequent MR, so here's something that I think will be a bit more obscure:

"X stripped off his faded shorts and his green drill shirt, and reached for a bowl of ochre mud which had been softened to a pliant paste with water. He smeared the mud over his face, neck and shoulders until his sunburnt skin was dyed a deep coppery red."
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