The Lion in Winter Page #10

Children.

They're all we have.

Go on.

I'm done.

I'm finished with you.

You and I are finished.

You spare the rod,

you'll spoil those boys.

I couldn't do it, Eleanor.

Nobody thought you could.

Come rest.

I want no women in

my life. You're tired.

I could have conquered europe,

all of it,

but I had women in my life.

Go on, get out.

Go on.

I should have

killed you years ago.

You put me here. You made me

do mad things. You've bled me.

Shoulder it yourself.

Don't put it on my back.

Pick it up and carry it.

I can.

My losses are my work.

What losses?

I'm the one with nothing.

Lost your life's work,

have you?

Provinces are nothing.

Land is dirt.

I could take defeats like

yours and laugh. I've done it.

If you're broken,

it's because you're brittle.

I've lost.

You won.

And I can't ever

have you back again.

You're all

that I have ever loved.

Christ, you don't know

what nothing is.

I want to die.

No, you don't.

I want to die.

I'll hold you.

Henry, I want to die.

Eleanor.

I want to die.

Let me hold you.

I want to die.

You will, you know,

someday.

Just wait long enough,

and it'll happen.

So it will.

We're in the cellar,

you're going back to prison,

my life is wasted,

we've lost each other,

and you're smiling.

It's the way

I register despair.

There's everything in life

but hope.

We're both alive.

And for all I know,

that's what hope is.

We're jungle creatures,

Henry,

and the dark

is all around us.

See them...

in the corners?

You can see the eyes.

And they can see ours.

I'm a match for anything.

Aren't you?

I should have been

a great fool...

not to love you.

You'll let me out

for easter?

Come the resurrection,

you can strike me down again.

Perhaps next time

I'll do it.

And perhaps you won't.

You know,

I hope we never die!

So do I.

You think there's

any chance of it?

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