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Lady Ashford:
[to Lady Mansfield]
Do you feel I have any lesser need to ensure my child's well being and future than you? [everybody remains silent] Lady Ashford:
[looks around, then loudly referring to Dido Elizabeth Belle]
Does she still have a tongue? Dido Elizabeth Belle:
I have a tongue, madam. Though yours explains well enough why I may not marry your son. You view my circumstances as unfortunate, though I cannot claim even a portion of the misfortune to those whom I most closely resemble. My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family who would carry me as their shame, as I have been required to carry my own mother - her apparent crime to be born negro, and mine to be the evidence. Since I wish to deny her no more than I wish to deny myself, you will pardon me for wanting a husband who feels forgiveness of my bloodline is both unnecessary and without grace
[to Lady Mansfield]
Do you feel I have any lesser need to ensure my child's well being and future than you? [everybody remains silent] Lady Ashford:
[looks around, then loudly referring to Dido Elizabeth Belle]
Does she still have a tongue? Dido Elizabeth Belle:
I have a tongue, madam. Though yours explains well enough why I may not marry your son. You view my circumstances as unfortunate, though I cannot claim even a portion of the misfortune to those whom I most closely resemble. My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family who would carry me as their shame, as I have been required to carry my own mother - her apparent crime to be born negro, and mine to be the evidence. Since I wish to deny her no more than I wish to deny myself, you will pardon me for wanting a husband who feels forgiveness of my bloodline is both unnecessary and without grace
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Do you feel I have any lesser need to ensure my child's wellbeing and future than you
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Does she still have a tongue
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I have a tongue madam
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Though yours explains well enough why I may not marry your son
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You view my circumstances as unfortunate
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though I cannot claim even a portion of the misfortune
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to those whom I most closely resemble
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My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family
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Movie Summary
The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth ce
