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Major Sergius Saranoff
Louka is an opinionated, beautiful young servant working for the Petkoffs . She is expected to settle down with and marry Nicola, the family’s head servant. However, she rejects the idea that her being born into a poorer family means she must live as servant to the rich her whole life. At first she rejects Sergius’s advances believing he is simply using her because he thinks she is beneath him. When she realizes Sergius disdains his own wealth and “nobility” she admits she has fallen for him.
Louka Quotes in Arms and the Man
The Arms and the Man quotes below are all either spoken by Louka or refer to Louka. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 2
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She is so grand that she never dreams that any servant could dare to be disrespectful to her; but if she once suspects that you are defying her, out you go.
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You have the soul of a servant, Nicola.
Yes: that’s the secret of success in service.
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Act 3
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How easy it is to talk! Men never seem to me to grow up: they all have schoolboy’s ideas. You don’t know what true courage is…I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage to do...You dare not: you would marry a rich man’s daughter because you would be afraid of what other people would say of you.
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The world is not such an innocent place as we used to think.
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Louka Quotes in Arms and the Man
The Arms and the Man quotes below are all either spoken by Louka or refer to Louka. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 2
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She is so grand that she never dreams that any servant could dare to be disrespectful to her; but if she once suspects that you are defying her, out you go.
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You have the soul of a servant, Nicola.
Yes: that’s the secret of success in service.
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Act 3
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How easy it is to talk! Men never seem to me to grow up: they all have schoolboy’s ideas. You don’t know what true courage is…I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage to do...You dare not: you would marry a rich man’s daughter because you would be afraid of what other people would say of you.
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The world is not such an innocent place as we used to think.
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