Scenes with Elliott Templeton
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Elliott Templeton [Louisa and Isabel have arrived from America and are visiting him in his Parisian mansion]
This is my music room.
Oh, what a beautiful piano!
Elliott Templeton Well, it's a spinet by Larande, late 18th century French.
It must have cost a fortune.
Elliott Templeton It did. My poor dear friend, the viscount de Corvence had to part with it at a slight reduction, but then, estates are so draining on one these days, don't you find?
And are all these things for sale?
Elliott Templeton My dear Louisa, this isn't a shop. Oh, I occasionally allow the odd piece to be torn from my grasp.
Elliott Templeton You know, if I may say so, Louisa, it makes perfect sense to me. All Americans should avail themselves of at least one season in Paris just prior to marriage. It curbs the itches which tend to rise a year or two down the connubial pike.
Elliott Templeton You know, that's always been my problem. People think I'm being vulgar when I'm being serious, and they think I'm being serious when I'm being vulgar.
Elliott Templeton [Holding freshly made hot dogs at the fair]
This is the singly most disgusting concoction in the culinary annals.
That didn't stop you eating a dozen of them every 4th of July when you were a boy, Elliott.
Elliott Templeton Well, this quaint little village may have been the place of my birth, but after 15 years in Paris, I have come to regard that as a most unfortunate accident of genetics.
[laughing]
Oh, Elliot, you are the biggest snob in the world!
Elliott Templeton I sincerely hope so.
Nice looking dog you've got there, Unc!
Elliott Templeton Oh, how I envy you, young man. Off to Paris, the City of Light. You know, I really ought to provide you with a few introductions. I could put you in touch with some of the most elite members of the European aristocracy while you're there.
Albert Cocktail, Mr. Templeton?
Elliott Templeton No, thank you, Albert. I fear my drinking days are over.
Albert Surely, a tear of Żubrówka could do Monsieur no harm?
Elliott Templeton Żubrówka! We used to drink it at the Radziwill's when I stayed there for a shooting. I don't suppose a drop will hurt me. Oh, we must all try some... Ah, the herbs. It's like newly mown lavender.
Elliott Templeton [Lying on his deathbed, after suffering a stroke]
Life is full of ironies, isn't it, Darrell? You know... I spent my whole life... among the great names of Europe. Now I'm dying... And who comes to see me but... Well, I mean... An itinerant...
Elliott Templeton Fish packer.
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