The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Eula Morgan: Madame Nicolau
Quotes
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Louise Soubirous : [obviously initially very concerned after having just heard that Bernadette was suddenly taken ill] Bernadette! Are you alright?
Bernadette : [calmly, due to thankfully being ok] Yes mama. There's nothing to worry about.
Louise Soubirous : Nothing to worry about?...
[starts to cry]
Louise Soubirous : ... Scare me half to death and you say 'there's nothing to worry about.' I left your father's dinner to burn; I ran through the streets like a mad woman, what do I find? You, sitting there like... like a princess on a throne. You good for!...
Madame Nicolau : [quickly intervening] Don't strike the child! She's an angel of God.
Louise Soubirous : [dismissively and sarcastically] Angel... she's the laughing stock of Lourdes.
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Antoine Nicolau : [upon Bernadette having just left with her mother Louise and sister Marie] What do you think of it old maman?
Madame Nicolau : Things like that bode no good.
Antoine Nicolau : Maman, as long as I live I'll never see anything more beautiful than the face of that girl as she lay there at Massabielle.
[pauses a moment]
Antoine Nicolau : One ought not even touch a being like that.