All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Barbara O'Neil: Duchesse de Praslin

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Quotes 

• Duchesse de Praslin : Mademoiselle Deluzy, just a moment.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : But, Madame, I'm supposed to... Monsieur's downstairs...

  Duchesse de Praslin : Monsieur's downstairs, yes. I am here to make sure that you understand, this time you've gone too far, Mademoiselle. You are to leave this house into which you've brought evil and sin!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Yes, Madame, there is evil in this house, but it was here before I came. 'Twas not I who brought it.

  Duchesse de Praslin : What intrigue there is beneath that mask of innocence! It was not enough for you to be a governess! No, you had to conspire to become the mistress of my household! To steal from me everything that was mine, including the affections of my children!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Affections can not be stolen, Madame, they are given freely or not at all. If you'd ever been a mother to your children, if you'd earned their love instead of driving them away, nothing I could've done would ever make them turn away from you to...

  Duchesse de Praslin : You've used them shamelessly to attract him! To separate him from me!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Is it possible you've finally deceived yourself into believing...

  Duchesse de Praslin : Have you not one shred of decency? How dare he entice you to come here to confess that you and he... to admit openly without delicacy that you...

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Why do you stop? I challenge you to accuse me of what you know is not true!

  Duchesse de Praslin : I am not here to challenge you in a matter that is personable between myself and Monsieur le Duc! I am here to dismiss an unsatisfactory servant!

• Duchesse de Praslin : Don't leave me, Theo!

  Duc de Praslin : I'm late in Paris.

  Duchesse de Praslin : But... I must talk to you! I never see you!

  Duc de Praslin : The king expects me.

  Duchesse de Praslin : [She grabs for his hands and he pulls it away]  Does even the touch of my hands feel you with aversion?

  Duc de Praslin : Oh, really, Francoise...

  Duchesse de Praslin : It must be aversion you feel, since you always avoid me, never giving me a moment's thought or attention!

  Duc de Praslin : I have no wish to avoid you Francoise. I would talk to you by the hour if we could do so with calmness and sanity, but it always ends the same.

  [He begins walking out] 

  Duchesse de Praslin : Wait! Theo! Wait! Oh, how cruel you are, my darling! Take the children! Take them! I care nothing about them, about anyone but you! Theo! If I promise never again to torment you with my anger, with my unreasoning mistrust... Theo!

  Duc de Praslin : You don't know what you're saying.

  Duchesse de Praslin : Theo! Theo! Come back! Theo I beg you! Oh, Theo come back!

  [She sees he is already gone and becomes hysterical] 

  Duchesse de Praslin : I hate you! I loathe you! You're wicked! Wicked! Wicked!

• Duchesse de Praslin : Even if she goes to the ends of the earth, my hatred will follow her!

• Duc de Praslin : May I have Pierre come for your luggage?

  Duchesse de Praslin : Theo, last night I poured my heart out to you in a letter. I crept to your doorway which I am foridden to enter and stooped in humility and pushed it under the seal!

  Duc de Praslin : I received it, Francoise.

  Duchesse de Praslin : But look! You didn't even open it! Oh Theo, do you suppose this empty pretense is what I hoped for? Last night I begged for you to come to me! I hoped we might start this journey today united as we once were! Theo, Theo! Have you completely forgotten the life we once shared together?

  Duc de Praslin : If you're unhappy, Francoise, I am truly sorry, but I swear I never intended you a minute's pain.

  Duchesse de Praslin : Oh no! You only say that! In reality you delight in torturing me! As one day, heaven willing, I will torture you!