Here, my child. I ask you to wear it. Please.
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Hegai:
A plain white gown. Such simplicity! Was it your choice? Esther:
Yes. Hegai:
Indeed. One might think you have no desire to win a queen's crown. A most becoming modesty. It pleases me. An unassuming virtue that needs rewarding. [to the servants] Hegai:
Fetch me the cloak of gold! [to the maidens] Hegai:
You may rest, my little doves. [Hegai brings the golden cloak] Esther:
I am grateful, but I don't wish to be so favored. Keresh:
I will accept it. Esther:
Oh, yes. Yes, give it to her. Hegai:
[to Keresh]
Speak only when you're spoken to! Keresh:
Take care, eunuch! I have mighty friends. Hegai:
In the brothels of the street of the soldiers, no doubt! [to Esther] Hegai:
Here, my child. I ask you to wear it. Please. [wraps the cloak around Esther]
A plain white gown. Such simplicity! Was it your choice? Esther:
Yes. Hegai:
Indeed. One might think you have no desire to win a queen's crown. A most becoming modesty. It pleases me. An unassuming virtue that needs rewarding. [to the servants] Hegai:
Fetch me the cloak of gold! [to the maidens] Hegai:
You may rest, my little doves. [Hegai brings the golden cloak] Esther:
I am grateful, but I don't wish to be so favored. Keresh:
I will accept it. Esther:
Oh, yes. Yes, give it to her. Hegai:
[to Keresh]
Speak only when you're spoken to! Keresh:
Take care, eunuch! I have mighty friends. Hegai:
In the brothels of the street of the soldiers, no doubt! [to Esther] Hegai:
Here, my child. I ask you to wear it. Please. [wraps the cloak around Esther]
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A plain white gown Such simplicity
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Was it your choice
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Yes
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Indeed one might think you have no desire
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To win a queen's crown
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A most becoming modesty
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It pleases me an unassuming virtue that needs rewarding
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Fetch me the cloak of gold
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You may rest my little doves
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Movie Summary
Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty (1981), Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the fourth century B.C., as Es
