Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)
One Corpse Too Many (1994)
Sean Pertwee: Hugh Beringar
Quotes
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[last lines]
Hugh Beringar : I would know more of you, Cadfael. In this new town of mine I shall need a good friend. And I can think of none better than a rare Benedictine.
Brother Cadfael : Then in this end there is a beginning as well. And that is as it should be.
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Brother Cadfael : I wonder about you too. A natural conspirator, I'd say.
Hugh Beringar : Yes, well, one knows another.
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Hugh Beringar : [he comes upon Cafdael working in his herb garden] A pleasant change from harvesting dead men, brother.
Brother Cadfael : I hope we've finished with *that* kind of crop in Shrewsbury.
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[Cadfael and Hugh return to Cadfael's workshop]
Brother Cadfael : Would you like to taste my wine?
Hugh Beringar : Oh, gladly! And I'll drink to your better success, against all opponents but Hugh Beringar.
Brother Cadfael : [finding his wine] This at least the mercenaries missed...
[Hugh opens the treasure sack, and finds nothing inside except stones]
Hugh Beringar : And I've been commiserating with you all this time, when you had this in store for me! What a fool I was to think I could out-trick you...
Brother Cadfael : [handing him wine] Now I'll drink to your better success, against all opponents but Cadfael.
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Hugh Beringar : [as he and Cadfael watch Godith and Torold depart] You'll miss her.
Brother Cadfael : Like a fiber gone from my heart.
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Hugh Beringar : They say you had a wide-ranging career before coming to the cloister. You must find it unbearably dull here after such battles, with no enemy left to fight.
Brother Cadfael : Well, I'm not finding it at all dull these days.
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Brother Cadfael : Is there something here I can help you to? Or are you just curious to learn about these simple herbs of mine?
Hugh Beringar : I'd hardly say it was any simplicity I came to study.
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Hugh Beringar : [after Adam Courcelles has been killed in the trial-by-combat] I trust I've proven my case?
King Stephen : Your opponent proved it for you, all too well.
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Brother Cadfael : We deal with what is. Leave what might have been to eyes that can see it plainly.
Hugh Beringar : And none see plainer than yours.
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Hugh Beringar : [before the trial-by-combat begins] I knew you wouldn't fail me.
Brother Cadfael : Now see that *you* don't fail *me*.
Hugh Beringar : No dread. I shall never be readier, and your arm will be seconding mine.
Brother Cadfael : Yes, at every stroke.