eloigne:

James Flint Appreciation WeekDay 1: Favourite Scene

Spare yourself the humiliation.
Spare her.
I’ll see she’s interred with proper respect, her name clear. Let her go to her rest peacefully. You cannot tell me that isn’t what she would have wanted.

She was clear about what she wanted and I don’t think it had anything to do with begging your forgiveness. What she wanted was the truth to be known. What was the truth of it, my lord? Why did you betray those closest to you all those years ago? Was it really so small and vile as a bribe? The promise of lording over other men in this place? Or were you simply too weak to say no?

captain-flint:

If we truly are to reach a moment where we might be finished with England, cleared away to make room for something else.. there most certainly lies a dark moment between here and there. A moment of terror where everything appears to be without hope. I know this. But I cannot believe that that is all there is. I cannot believe we are so poorly made as that. Incapable of surviving in the state to which we are born. Grown so used to the yoke that there can be no progress without it.