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Ferdinand de Lesseps: Oh, Eugenie, darling, I'm leaving for Egypt in an hour and 45 minutes. Will you marry me?
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: I'm going there as secretary to the Consulate. Marry me, come with me. Rene's going for the license.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What license? What are you talking about?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: The marriage license! Quick, pack your things, we've just time to get to the church.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that, you know I couldn't...
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Don't you understand, I may be gone a year, five years... this may be our last chance!
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: Oh, Ferdinand, are you insane?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: No.
[pause]
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Yes
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: I'm going there as secretary to the Consulate. Marry me, come with me. Rene's going for the license.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What license? What are you talking about?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: The marriage license! Quick, pack your things, we've just time to get to the church.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that, you know I couldn't...
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Don't you understand, I may be gone a year, five years... this may be our last chance!
Countess Eugenie de Montijo: Oh, Ferdinand, are you insane?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: No.
[pause]
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Yes
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Eugenie Ferdinand
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Eugenie darling I'm leaving for Egypt in an hour and forty five minutes
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Will you marry me What
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I'm going there as secretary of the Consulate
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Marry me come with me Ren 's gone for the license
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What license what are you talking about
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The marriage license
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Quick packing things We've just time to get to the church
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But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that You know I couldn't
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Darling don't you understand
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I may be gone a year five years This may be our last chance
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Oh Ferdinand are you insane
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No
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Yes
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Don't you see It just isn't possible
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Yes I see
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I've made an idiot of myself as usual
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Asking you to change your whole life
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marry a nobody and go to live in a desert
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You're not a nobody
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You never could be
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Movie Summary
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
