Second Quotes in Barry Lyndon (1975)

[first lines]

[two figures visible on the horizon prepare to duel. Three witnesses stand between them]

Second: Gentlemen, cock your pistols! Gentlemen...

Narrator: Barry's father...

Second: ...aim your pistols!

Narrator: ...had been bred, like many other young sons of a genteel family, to the profession of the law.

Second: One!

Narrator: And there is no doubt he would've...

Second: Two!

Narrator: ...made an eminent figure in his profession...

Second: Three!

[the two duelists fire at each other, one of them collapses]

Narrator: ...had he not been killed in a duel, which arose over the purchase of some horses.

Second: [to both Boris and Count Inbedkov] Starting back to back, on my signal you will walk ten paces, turn and fire. Is that clear?

Inbedkov: Of course.

Boris: Of course.

Second: Good luck. And God be with you both.

Boris: [to God] You listening?