Jack 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!

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: 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!

Swazey: Why, Jack, old partner! What's happened to you?

Jack Sherman: I've been very ill.

Swazey: Gee, that's too bad. Anything we can do? Maybe when you find out what we've come for, you'll feel better. When we sold you that land, we did it in good faith. We thought there was gold and plenty on it, and then we went off to California. On our way back, we stopped to see how you were faring, and we found out what had happened. Partner, we felt bad. Didn't we?

Hull: That's right.

Swazey: Now we'll prove we're honest. We made a long trip to find you to give you back your money.

Jack Sherman: You did, did you?

Swazey: Why, I couldn't sleep again if I thought you'd lost money. All we ask is that you hand over the deed to the property, and we'll pay you what you paid us, fair and square.

Jack Sherman: That's very kind and generous of you. Now be kind enough to get out of my house! You found out my land was valuable and the railroad wanted it, and I found out what kind of men you are. Now get out!

Swazey: Now partner, we came here to make an honest business deal for that deed. But if you're going to get rough about it, we'll have to get it another way.