The Little Colonel
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- 1935
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# Oh, the days are gone #
# My heart's chain wove #
#When my dream of life #
# From morn till night #
#Was love, still love #
# New hope may bloom #
#And days may come #
# Of milder, calmer beam #
But there's nothing half
so sweet in life
As love's young dream
# Oh, there's nothing #
# Half so sweet in life #
Oh, that was delightful, indeed.
- Delightful.
- That was lovely, Elizabeth.
Thank you, Dr. Scott.
Colonel, if I were 20 years younger,
I'd carry her off.
have the same idea.
Father,
you shouldn't say such things.
- Oh, I know I shouldn't, my dear.
- I've missed a lot.
Marriage is a wonderful institution.
- Yes. No family should be without it.
- Oh!
Thank you.
Oh! Confound you, Walker!
Watch what you're doing!
- I'm sorry, sir.
- You'd better be.
If you'd broken that,
I'd have broken your head.
Yes, sir.
It's pretty, isn't it? Valuable too.
Yes, someday your temper's
going to split you wide open.
Well, sir, when it does,
I won't send for you to sew me up.
That's a good one.
But it's too late for you to change
your family physician now, Colonel.
Oh, I don't know, Doctor.
This is an age of change.
Colonel, a toast
before we say good night.
Yes, Colonel, a toast.
I give you our homeland-
glorious in defeat...
gallant in victory...
and brave in her hour of grief.
Gentlemen, I give you the South...
and confusion to all her enemies.
Hear! Hear! Right, right.
A very lovely evening, Colonel.
Oh, my dear boy,
it's a pleasure, always.
Oh, my dear friends, don't run away like this.
The evening's young.
Hurry, Becky.
Oh, Miss Elizabeth,
I hate to see you go...
and I'm afraid of what the colonel
will do when he finds out.
He won't find out
till I'm well on my way.
Now, stop crying
and don't act suspiciously.
- I'll send for you as soon as I can.
- Yes'm.
Put up your hands!
Don't try to run, or I'll shoot.
Come here.
- Take my bag down the back way.
- Yes'm.
Now, who are you...
and what are you doing prowling
around my place at night?
- My name is Jack Sherman, sir.
- Sherman, huh?
Well, that name's
no recommendation.
You're a Yankee too, huh?
Well, out with it.
What are you doing here?
Wait, Jack! Let me tell him.
Father, this is the man
I'm going to marry.
I knew you would never give your consent,
so we were going to elope.
- I wanted to come to you, sir, and ask you if you'd-
- Silence!
Why did you assume I would object
to an honorable marriage?
I know how you feel about the North.
- I hate all Yankees.
- That's why we didn't come and tell you.
Then you knew you were doing wrong.
I love him.
How can you love a man who represents
what every true Southerner should hate?
A man who probably fought
against your father...
your brother and all your kinfolk.
Why, for all you know...
he may be the very man
who fired the shot...
that killed your brother.
I was a soldier just as you were, sir...
and even though I fought on the other side,
the South has my respect and sympathy.
My mother was a Virginian.
But may I remind you,
the war has been over for a long time.
The war will never be over
for me or mine, sir.
You know, I ought to kill you.
I don't know but what I will.
Elizabeth, go to your room.
- No.
- Go to your room, I tell you.
I'm going with Jack.
Elizabeth!
When that door closes...
it'll never open for you again.
- Assemble the men for orders of the day.
- Yes, sir.
Sound assembly.
Attention!
- Troop is formed, sir.
- Take your post.
General Weatherby has this day
appointed to his staff...
as honorary colonel, Lloyd Sherman.
Draw sabers!
Eyes right!
Eyes front! Present sabers!
This honor has been conferred on you
for distinguished services.
Completely unarmed...
except for your golden curls,
brown eyes and your dimples...
you've captured
an entire regiment- this one.
I take great pleasure in handing you
your commission, Colonel Sherman.
I can't read this writing.
It isn't big enough.
Besides, I can't read anyway.
Oh, I assure you, it's all according
to military regulations.
Now that I'm a colonel,
can't I play with the boys anymore?
- Of course you can.
- Well, you don't.
Uh-
Do colonels have to
go to bed at 7:
00?Why, no. Sometimes colonels
stay up as late as 8:00.
- I wish you'd tell my mother that.
- I will.
Now I'll show that I'm a real colonel.
Attention, men.
Company dismissed!
Company dismissed!
You heard the colonel's order.
Well, Colonel, how does it feel
to be in command of a big army like this?
Thank you.
We feel just as proud as she does.
Bob, I want to thank you
for everything.
It's been a great pleasure to have you and
your family with us even for so short a time.
- Quite different from Philadelphia, isn't it?
- Yes, indeed.
We lived there for six years, but I never
got used to the noise of the horse cars.
I understood from Jack
you had sold your home there.
We sold everything-
lock, stock and barrel.
Took Greeley's advice to go West,
and here we are to find our fortune.
Depending on your help for that.
Oh, there's plenty there for the finding,
if we're lucky.
Attention, men!
Present arms!
I do wish I didn't have to
go back home to Lloydsboro.
Now, dear, we've settled all that.
This country's no place
for women and children...
and whereJack's going
it's even rougher.
The colonel is right, ma'am.
Jack told me you have a lovely home
waiting for you.
That sounds too grand.
It's just a cottage my mother left me.
No one's lived in it for years.
- A safe journey to you and an uneventful one.
- Thank you.
Now, you gotta watch very close.
Well, having a fine time
for yourself, aren't you?
What's the matter?
Has the cat got your tongue?
- You hurt. Put me down!
- Oh, I wouldn't hurt you, little lady.
Give me a kiss, hmm?
- You'll write often, won't you, dear?
- Of course.
- The coach is here, Mr. Sherman.
- Thank you.
- Remember what I told you, little Colonel.
- All right.
Kiss me good-bye.
Good-bye, darling. Home safe.
- Do be careful.
- I will.
Now, honey, you be a brave soldier
and look out for Mother, won't you?
Yes, Papa Jack. I will.
- Good-bye, my baby.
- Good-bye.
Good morning, Colonel, sir.
- Fair and bright today.
- Mm-hmm.
I hear down at the village
prices is picking up...
and it's a big year for cotton.
- Oh, stop chattering, Walker!
- Yes, sir.
- I don't want to hear all this gossip.
- No, sir.
I was gonna tell you
about the cottage, sir...
but I reckon you
wouldn't be interested.
- Cottage?
- Yes, sir. Someone is moving in to it.
- Walker!
- Yes, sir?
Confound you! Why don't you let me know
- Who's moving in to the cottage?
- I don't know, sir.
I hear tell they moved in this morning.
Well, well, well, well.
It's been empty a long time now.
Ever since-
on our new neighbors...
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