The Last Express (1997 Video Game)
Marla Craig: Madame Boutarel
Quotes
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Madame Boutarel : [In French] Francois, get ready for dinner. My God, what's that floating in my cologne?
Francois Boutarel : [In French] It's Eugene. I had to embalm him before we left.
Madame Boutarel : Eugene?
Francois Boutarel : My praying mantis. He died.
Madame Boutarel : How horrible. You should have thrown him in the garden. Claude speak to him!
Monsieur Boutarel : [In French] Francois, you must not touch your mother's things or use them in your experiments. You did quite well however, to use the cologne. The alcohol does have a preservative effect.
Francois Boutarel : My scarab whistle died too, but he didn't fit in the bottle.
Madame Boutarel : Claude, you really must speak to him. This obsession with death, does it seem normal to you in a seven-year old boy?
Monsieur Boutarel : Why not? It is a natural process like any other.
Madame Boutarel : But a toy whistle, how can it die?
Francois Boutarel : It's dead!
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Francois Boutarel : [conversation is in French] There are pretty ladies in the first sleeping car. They gave me candy.
Madame Boutarel : François, I forbid you to have anything to do with them. Claude, speak to him!
Monsieur Boutarel : Why? He would do well to begin exposing himself to different cultural practices. After all, Masjid-Es-Suleiman is a Muslim town.
Madame Boutarel : And if they kidnap him, would that be a good learning experience for him?
Francois Boutarel : They took me into their bed, played with me and gave me candy.
Madame Boutarel : Claude!
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Monsieur Boutarel : [During the hijacking, entire conversation is in French] I want to know what is going on.
Conductor #2 : I'm sorry, sir, but the company no longer has control of the situation. We are asking all passengers to remain in their compartments until we are able to stop the train.
Monsieur Boutarel : Stop the train! Do you mean that the train is out of control? Oh my God, we're going to die!
Madame Boutarel : [François starts crying] Claude! Calm yourself! Oh, my darling, don't cry. Mama is here, everything is fine.
Monsieur Boutarel : This is absurd! I have a wife and a small child here! Something must be done! I demand to speak to the engineer immediately!
Conductor #2 : I will send the trainmaster to you right away, monsieur. But please, stay in the compartment. It is for your own safety.
Madame Boutarel : Claude! Do as he says. Sit down! There's nothing you can do.
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Madame Boutarel : [at lunch, conversation is in French] I don't see why you have to share a compartment with that Englishman. Why couldn't they have put him in somewhere else?
Monsieur Boutarel : In my profession it is necessary to accustom oneself to difficult living conditions.
Madame Boutarel : That is exactly why François and I are coming to Abadan... to provide you with a proper home. Searching for oil in the desert! What was so wrong about staying in Villefranche? You had a fine job; our little house was so lovely! My garden was coming into bloom. There will be a garden in Abadan?
Monsieur Boutarel : The desert is not noted for its gardens. But there is oil.
Madame Boutarel : And when the oil has run out? François will be as wild as a desert nomad! He is already uncontrollable. Crawling on the floor, picking up filthy objects.
Francois Boutarel : Mama, look out the window, there's a cemetery.
Monsieur Boutarel : The floor is a natural place to find beetles.
Madame Boutarel : Oh! I can't talk to you.
Madame Boutarel : [Later, about Anna Wolff] First the dog, now the violin. It's really too much. I have a mind to say something to the conductor.
Francois Boutarel : Is that her sitting with the fat man? I think she is beautiful.
Madame Boutarel : François, eat your food.