Jamie Bell credited as playing...
Smike
- [At the assembly to see Smike flogged for running away]
- Mr. Squeers: Is every boy here? Get back! You too Nickleby!
- [to Smike]
- Mr. Squeers: And you. Have you anything to say?
- Smike: [Crying] Please, sir, spare me.
- Mr. Squeers: I'll spare you. I'll flog you to within an inch of your life, and I'll spare you then.
- [Squeers strikes him once, Smike cries out in pain]
- Nicholas: Stop! This must not go on. I will not allow it.
- Mr. Squeers: You dare to challenge my authority! Stay back!
- Nicholas: Touch him at your peril! I will not stand by and see it done.
- Mr. Squeers: You will do as you're told!
- Nicholas: If you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall on your own head! Once I begin, God help you!
- [Nicholas grabs the stick and starts hitting Squeers with it]
- Mr. Squeers: Stop! No, please, wait!
- Nicholas: I do not know why, but I am going to show you what you have never shown any boy in this room... Pity.
- [Nicholas cuts down Smike and helps him out]
- Smike: What faces will smile on me when I die? Who will comfort me that long night? They cannot come from home. They would frighten me if they did, for I shouldn't know them. No. There is no hope.
- Smike: Tomorrow where will you go?
- Nicholas: Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?
- Smike: You are my home.
- Nicholas: [affectionately] Smike.
- Smike: Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.
- Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.
- Nicholas: [on the Squeers treating Smike badly because he is friends with Nicholas] You will do better when I am gone.
- Smike: [alarmed] Gone? When are you going?
- Nicholas: I would go tomorrow if I could.
- Smike: Tell me, is the world as bad as this place?
- Nicholas: [smiles] Oh no.
- Smike: Should I ever meet you there?
- Nicholas: Well, yes I'm sure at...
- Smike: No, no tell me. Tell me that I should be sure to find you.
- Nicholas: [affirmatively] You would and I would help you and aid you. I would not bring fresh sorrow on you as they have done here.
- Nicholas: Mother, this is Smike.
- Mrs. Nickleby: How do you do, Mr. Pike?
- Nicholas: No, Mother, "Smike," with an "S."
- Smike: How do you do?
- Mrs. Nickleby: Very well, thank you, Mr. Spike.