Marion Davies: Gail Loveless

Operator 13

Gail Loveless

Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A.: [disguised in blackface] You're horse looks kinda droopy. Come a long way, ain't cha?
Gail Loveless: You know, Lucille, some day that snoopy little nose of yours is gonna lead you right into trouble.
Gail Loveless: No, sah, but if it do, des two feet of mine's gonna get me right out!
[laughs]

Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Miss Cushman is one of our best Operators.
Gail Loveless: Operators?
Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Well, call them what the Court Martial calls them if they're unlucky enough to be caught: Spies.

Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Where's Miss Loveless?
Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] Miss Loveless? She dun have an accident.
Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Accident?
Gail Loveless: Yes, sah. She turned colored. Just like me.
[no longer speaking with a blackface accent]
Gail Loveless: How do you do Major?
Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Well, I'll be.

Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Now listen, I'm sending you through General J.E.B. Stuart's lines at Martinsburg. Stuart is the firebrand of the South. No one ever knows just where he'll strike next. So, it's up to you to find out. How? Is your business. Is that clear?
Pauline: Very clear, Major.
Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Operator 13, Operator 27 will tell you that the chief duty of the Spy - is not to get caught.
Gail Loveless: Yes. It rather puts an end to your usefulness, doesn't it.

Pvt. Sweeney: What you doin' tonight, Lucille? They tell me you's goin' to the big dance - and I got a bottle of cold whisky.
Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] None you appears to care 'bout nothin' but nothin', 'cept courtin' and drinkin'. Ain't you ever gonna do any fightin'? Ain't you ever gonna *ride* any place?

Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] Ain't he uppity! Casin' I ever gets hold of one of his own personal shirts, I's starch the tails, that he can't sit down.

Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] You're a stranger here, ain't cha? I'll bet come from general headquarters in Richmond.
Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A.: I'll bet you're a nosy little so-and-so, aren't you?
Gail Loveless: Yes, sah.

Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] My stars, soldier man. Don't it make you no never mind that I slaved over dem clean clothes all day?

Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] Lan' sakes, Miss Vale, you got dem very panties on now. They'll liable to drop right off - with all these nice lookin' gentlemen around.

Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] I love you, ma'am. Only, that you're a Yankee.
Pauline: I loved you, too.

Gail Loveless: [disguised in black face] Din, you take de basket, I'll take de panties.
Rufus: I'll take 'em myself!

Gail Loveless: [in blackface] Would you go so far as to tell us where we could get a bath?
Pauline: Please! And lots of soap.
'Doctor' Hitchcock: You see, that's all they've been talkin' about the last two hours - a bath. Cannon's roarin', brave men dyin', J.E.B. Stuart licked, and all they talk about is a bath. Well, ladies, you know yourself better than I do.
Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: They look as though they needed a bath. Ladies, you shall have it! The best bath that we can provide.
Gail Loveless, Pauline: Thank you, Major.

Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A.: We must all forget. Forget war. Forget hate. Forget division.
Gail Loveless: And remember only loyalty - and love.

Col. Sharpe: What I have to say is more important than your good looks, my dear young woman.
Gail Loveless: Not to me, Colonel.

Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: What's he like, this Captain Gailliard, Miss Loveless?
Gail Loveless: Keenly intelligent, rather attractive, and very good looking.

Gail Loveless: War is the cruelest thing in the world. I hate it! I hate it!
[sobs]
Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A.: I know. - - War teaches one thing: to live while we can.