Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman Quotes in The Little Colonel (1935)

Col. Lloyd: What are you doing here?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Wait, Jack, let me tell him! Father, this is the man I'm going to marry. I knew you would never give your consent, so that's why we were going to elope.

Jack Sherman: I wanted to come to you, sir, and ask your permission, but?

Col. Lloyd: Silence! Why did you assume that I would object to an honorable marriage?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I know how you feel about the South.

Col. Lloyd: I hate all Yankees.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: That's why we didn't come and tell you.

Col. Lloyd: Then you knew you were doing wrong! How can you marry a man who represents everything that a true Southerner should hate? A man who fought against your father, your brother, and all your kinfolk. For all you know, he may have fired the shot that killed your brother!

Jack Sherman: I was in the war, sir, and though I fought on the other side, the South has always had my admiration and respect. My mother was a Virginian. But might I remind you, sir, that the war has been over for some time.

Col. Lloyd: The war will never be over for me and mine, sir. I want to kill you. I don't know but what I will. Elizabeth, go to your room.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: No.

Col. Lloyd: Go to your room, I tell you!

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I'm going with Jack!

Col. Lloyd: Elizabeth, when that door closes, it will never open for you again!

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mother, who was that?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Your grandfather.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why didn't he come in?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: He didn't want to.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Did he make you cry?

Jack Sherman: I want to thank you, Bob, for everything.

Col. Gray: It's been a great pleasure having you and your family with us, even for so short a time. Quite different from Philadelphia, isn't it?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Yes, indeed. We lived there for six years, but I never got used to the dreadful noise of the horse cars.

Col. Gray: Jack told me that you'd sold your house there.

Jack Sherman: We sold everything, lock, stock, and barrel. Took Greely's advice to go west, and here we are to find our fortune. I'm depending on your help for that.

Swazey: Oh, there's plenty there for the finding, if we're lucky.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I do wish we didn't have to go back home to Lloydsboro.

Jack Sherman: Now, dear, we've settled all that.

Col. Gray: This wild country is no place for women and children, and where Jack's going it's even rougher. Besides, Jack told me you have a lovely home waiting for you.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, that sounds too grand. It's really just a cottage my mother left me.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, I'm expecting Aunt Sally Tyler for lunch. Will you have enough?

Becky Porter: I don't know if I can stretch one small chicken, but as long as the water's runnin', we'll have soup enough.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Well, do the best you can.

[Lloyd picks up a cookie]

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Honey, don't eat that now. You'll spoil your lunch.

[Lloyd puts down the cookie]

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Is Aunt Sally Tyler my aunt too?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: She's your great-aunt, dear.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: My great-aunt? Oh, I remember, the big fat one.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You must be very polite to her, dear. She's coming all the way from Louisville to see us.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: All right, Mother, I will.

Aunt Sally Tyler: There are some things to be considered besides your pride, Elizabeth. There's the child herself, you know. You ought to think of her interests.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I don't care. I don't want anything from him!

Aunt Sally Tyler: I know, dear, but just the same I say you ought to think of Lloyd. If I were you, I'd let her go over there as often as she pleases. And who knows? It might end in your all making up some day.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Never! Not after the terrible things he said about Jack!

Dr. Scott: He's still running a fever. He's going to need very careful nursing and plenty of it.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck and I will take care of him.

Dr. Scott: Yes, but if I were you, I would send Lloyd away until he was well again.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: But where can I send her?

Dr. Scott: There's only one place, Elizabeth, and you mustn't be stubborn about it. He's all alone in that big house, you know, and he'd see that she was properly cared for.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Lloyd has never been away from me for one night in her whole life.

Dr. Scott: I know, but this house is no place for her now. Let me speak with him and I'll arrange it.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mother, do I have to stay here very long?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: No, dear, just until Papa Jack is well.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: You know, I'm gonna be awful lonesome without you.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You're going to be brave, aren't you? You promised you would.

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, but when I promised, I didn't know I'd feel this way.

Aunt Sally Tyler: Can that be Lloyd that Becky is carrying?

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Hello, Mother! How do you do, Aunt Sally Tyler?

Aunt Sally Tyler: How do you do, dear?

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Where have you been?

Miss Lloyd Sherman: I've been to see my grandfather, and I threw mud on him.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You threw mud on him?

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, because he poked me with a stick. Then I got mad and he got mad, and we hollered at each other.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh baby, how could you disgrace Mother by going over there looking like a dirty little beggar?

Miss Lloyd Sherman: I didn't beg him for anything.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You've been a very naughty girl, and you're going to be punished. Becky, take her inside. Give her a bath and put her to bed.

Becky Porter: Yes'm.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, I'm terribly upset. I wouldn't for worlds have him think I encouraged her in going there.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Tell me, dear, what happened?

Jack Sherman: Swazey and Hull were thieves. The land they sold me was worthless. We're ruined. We haven't a penny.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Jack, is all our money gone?

Jack Sherman: All of it. When I found out I got swindled, I almost went crazy. And on top of it, I got this fever.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Hush, dear. Don't think of that now. You must be quiet.

Jack Sherman: Poor Elizabeth. You made a sorry bargain when you gave up your beautiful home to marry me.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I'd do it again.

Jeremy Higgins, Union-Pacific representative: Do you have the deed here?

Jack Sherman: It's at my bank.

Jeremy Higgins, Union-Pacific representative: Well, you bring it here, and I'll have a check for you. That's the way the Union-Pacific does business!

Jack Sherman: This is more cure than all the medicine. I'm well again!

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh no, you're not! You just stay right here.

Jack Sherman: The best part of it is, we won't have to ask your father for anything, and he can't laugh at me for being a failure! Darling, you go to the bank. I'll give you a note to take to Mr. Jennings. You bring back all the papers I left there. The deed is with them.

Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, it's almost too good to be true!

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Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: [singing] Oh the days are gone when beauty bright my heart's chain wove, / When my dream of life from morn 'till night was love still love. / New hope may bloom and days may come of milder, calmer beam, / But there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. / Oh there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.