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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:30["Pomp and Circumstance"]
01:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
01:30["Pomp and Circumstance"]
01:47No, no, I cannot stand it!
01:49Don't look, Mama, I'll turn your head away.
01:51To be reduced to being mere visitors on sufferance in one's own house!
01:55No, indeed, I cannot endure it!
01:57Oh, poor, beloved Norland!
02:00Look at them! Like the hordes of an invading army!
02:04But you must remember the house is now theirs by right.
02:07Oh, don't talk to me of rights!
02:09What are they compared with feelings and the concerns of the human heart?
02:13Oh, believe me, I do understand your attitude.
02:16But, alas, strong feelings alone are of no great value in a court of law.
02:21Now, come, Mama.
02:24Oh, they could be so insensitive as to force their way in and dispossess us
02:29for being scarcely dry upon the will I do not know.
02:32Well, one thing is certain.
02:34I cannot bring myself to be civil to that young woman.
02:37No, nor I.
02:38But, Mother!
02:39I'm sure it is all her doing.
02:42Oh, well.
02:44My mind is quite made up.
02:46I shall seek some other place for us to live.
02:49I cannot remain here on sufferance.
02:51What? And leave Norland?
02:54I think I should die.
02:59Fanny, my love, I have been thinking.
03:02I feel it is an obligation that we should make some additional provision
03:06for the girls and their mother.
03:08After all, Norland has been their home all their lives.
03:11Remember, John, dear, they are only your half-sisters,
03:14and their mother, excellent woman though no doubt she may be,
03:19is no blood relation at all.
03:21Oh, yes, quite.
03:23But it was my father's last request to me
03:26that I should assist his widow and daughters.
03:28So you say, dear, but 10 to 1 he was light-headed at the time.
03:32He must have been to persuade you to give half your fortune away from your own child.
03:37But do exactly as you wish, of course.
03:40The money is yours.
03:42In that case, we will settle the matter immediately.
03:45Very well, John, dear.
03:49But it was not my intention to give away half this legacy, my love,
03:53although I suppose it could be said
03:55that we were already reasonably provided for ourselves.
03:58No, I was thinking in terms of an annuity of some sort.
04:03An annuity?
04:05Oh, John, dear, is that wise?
04:07I have not seen Mrs Dashwood closely,
04:10but if you observe, people always seem to live forever
04:13once an annuity has been settled upon them.
04:15No, I cannot agree to that.
04:18But the decision is entirely yours, of course.
04:24Please ask Mrs Dashwood and the Miss Dashwoods
04:26if they would be kind enough to join us.
04:31No, you are probably quite right, my love.
04:34On second thoughts, it would be wiser, possibly,
04:38to make it a fixed amount.
04:40And no doubt they would greatly prefer it that way.
04:44What sum had you in mind?
04:47Well...
04:49would you think £1,000 to be an adequate amount?
04:52£1,000?
04:55I should think they would consider it a prodigious increase to their fortunes.
04:59What brother on earth would do half as much for his sisters, I'd like to know,
05:03even if they were his real sisters?
05:05You think it is too much, then?
05:07Oh, no, indeed, not in the least,
05:09if that is the sum you are settled upon.
05:13I was merely thinking that three women alone
05:16with no man to guide them.
05:18One would like to feel they might become the prey of fortune hunters.
05:23Oh, that is true.
05:25That is very true.
05:27A smaller sum, prudently invested,
05:30would not prove a temptation to the unscrupulous,
05:33while in addition to what they already have,
05:35should secure their independence,
05:37if they are careful.
05:39To be sure it would.
05:41Indeed, I am certain your father had no thought
05:44of anything near so generous in his mind.
05:48You are probably quite right, my love.
05:50Goodness.
05:52Three women alone with no carriage and scarcely any servants,
05:56their housekeeping will be nothing at all.
05:58Indeed, you can depend upon it.
06:00They will be far better off than we are
06:03in this great house,
06:05with 20 servants and so much entertaining to be done.
06:10As to your giving them more,
06:12it's quite absurd.
06:14If you ask me,
06:16they will be much more able to give you something.
06:19Ah, here they are.
06:21Come in.
06:23Well, now, there is no need to extend to you
06:26a welcome to what is...
06:28Oh.
06:29My mother and Marianne asked me to apologise,
06:32but they are very busy sewing at the moment.
06:34They hope to be done shortly.
06:36Indeed?
06:38I trust that you're quite comfortably settled, Fanny.
06:41I always think moving house is so fatiguing.
06:43Thank you. We are getting straight by degrees.
06:46Good. I am so glad.
06:48Well, now, we wish to make it quite clear...
06:52Do we not, my love?
06:54That though by the terms of my father's bequest
06:56Norland has now passed into my possession,
06:59we naturally wish to extend a very sincere welcome...
07:02Yes, what is it? Oh!
07:04Beg your pardon, I... I was not aware.
07:07Oh, do please come in. Ah, Edward.
07:09May I present my wife's brother,
07:11Mr Edward Ferrars, Miss Dashwood.
07:14How do you do, Mr Ferrars?
07:16How do you do, ma'am?
07:18Fanny and Edward's dear mother has a very fine place
07:21not far from Tunbridge Wells. Is that so?
07:23Yes, a very fine place indeed.
07:26Edward, be seated!
07:30I do beg your pardon.
07:32Yes, as I was saying.
07:34The, uh... the timber alone
07:37is considered to be some of the most valuable
07:39in the south of England.
07:41You say he's handsome,
07:43but has he what I call an expressive face?
07:46Oh, yes, I think so.
07:48One can hardly credit such a thing somehow in one of that family.
07:52At least he bears no resemblance at all to Fanny.
07:55Oh, then that is enough for me.
07:57It implies everything that is aliable.
07:59I'm sure you will both like him when you get to know him.
08:02I almost love him already.
08:04Oh, dearest Mama, you are incorrigible.
08:06Oh, Eleanor, my love.
08:08I do apologize for my outburst just now
08:11and for my childish refusal to meet her.
08:13From henceforth, I promise you I will mend my ways.
08:17Oh, what shall we do without our wise, our prudent Eleanor?
08:22What are his interests, Eleanor, and his powers of conversation?
08:25Rather limited, I fear.
08:27As I say, he scarcely spoke a word.
08:29And yet you liked him, eh?
08:31For you did like him a little, my love, I think.
08:34Did you not?
08:35What I was permitted to see and hear.
08:37While Brother John was holding forth
08:39about the great wealth and perfection of the Ferrars family in general,
08:43I liked well enough, certainly.
08:49Ah, Miss Dashwood.
08:51Oh, am I the first down?
08:54I was just admiring this view of the house.
08:57Were you the artist?
08:58I was, yes.
09:00Oh, I don't profess to be a great judge of these matters,
09:03but it seems most excellent to me.
09:06From where exactly did you take it?
09:08The viewpoint is most novel.
09:10Ah, well, I'm afraid my system must take the credit for that, Mr Ferrars.
09:13She has a great eye for the picturesque.
09:16I merely record what is before me as best I can.
09:20I'm sure you underestimate yourself.
09:22Eleanor!
09:23But here she is, so you can ask her yourself.
09:26Heaven's sake, save me from Brother John and that awful...
09:30Oh!
09:32I beg your pardon.
09:33Mr Edward Ferrars, my sister, Marianne.
09:36How do you do, Miss Marianne?
09:40How do you do?
09:42Mr Ferrars was intrigued to know from which point the sketch was taken.
09:46I was about to tell him that we could show him many others equally fine, could we not?
09:50You could, Eleanor, but I'm afraid I could not.
09:52Marianne!
09:53Mr Ferrars, wise and discerning man,
09:56has paid you the compliment of admiring your work.
09:59Please don't embarrass him by dragging me into it.
10:04But I thought I heard the gong.
10:06Ah, well, in that case...
10:07Oh, no, I might well have been mistaken.
10:09Please excuse me.
10:11Um, there are several other sketches of my sister's,
10:14which I'm sure you'd like to see on that wall.
10:20Over here.
10:21I'm sorry, Mr Ferrars, but you cannot possibly wish to see them.
10:26But I do.
10:30Ah, good.
10:31Then we may all go in for dinner.
10:44My fugitive years are all hasting away,
10:47and I must ere long lie as lowly as they,
10:50with a turf on my breast and a stone at my head,
10:53ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
10:58Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
11:01to muse on the perishing pleasures of man,
11:04though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see,
11:07have a being less durable even than he.
11:11Bravo! Bravo!
11:13You chose well, Edward.
11:15It's a particular favourite of Marianne's, isn't it, my love?
11:18Yes, maman.
11:19Well, now, who else will entertain us?
11:22Eleanor, may we be permitted the pleasure of hearing you sing?
11:26I doubt very much whether you would have counted a pleasure, brother, if I did.
11:30No, Marianne is the musician of the family.
11:33She is an accomplished singer.
11:34Ah. Marianne?
11:36I'm sorry. I'm afraid I have a sore throat.
11:39Dearest, you never told me.
11:42Well, then, perhaps the young people would like a hand at cards.
11:46John dear?
11:48Oh, yes, dear.
11:54And what is your opinion of the novels of Mrs Radcliffe, Cousin Edward?
11:58Well, if it's just an opinion you want, cousin, I will give it readily.
12:02But I have to admit, in all honesty, that I haven't read them.
12:06Do you mean you actually haven't read The Castle of Otranto?
12:09I have to confess it. I have not.
12:11There. Now I suppose you will never speak to me again.
12:14Oh, Marianne, one cannot possibly expect gentlemen to read such things.
12:18Why not? What's the intent?
12:20Brother John is trying to attract your attention.
12:23Oh, nonsense. The differentiation of sex has nothing whatever to do with it.
12:30Yes, Mama?
12:32Well, now, who would care for a game of whist, Eleanor?
12:37If you wish it, Cousin Fanny, but I'm quite happy as I am.
12:40Marianne.
12:41I will not play, thank you.
12:43I always find cards rather a poor substitute for intelligent conversation.
12:48Edward.
12:49Oh, I'm no good at intelligent conversation.
12:52I'm for cards every time.
12:54Good. Splendid.
12:56Well, now, perhaps Edward and Eleanor would be content to play two-handed, eh?
13:02Eleanor, dear?
13:03If Mr Ferris would not find that too tedious. Yes, of course, Mama.
13:07Tedious? Indeed, no. I shall like it, of all things.
13:11Now, shall we play whist or shall we play something else?
13:15Well, then, we shall leave them to their game, shall we?
13:18John, dear, be so good as to ring for a lamp.
13:25How dark it is getting in the evenings, is it not?
13:29We shall have to have a fire very soon, no doubt.
13:35I see he's quite made you his confidant, sister.
13:38I do not attempt to deny that I've come to think very highly of him,
13:43that I like and indeed greatly esteem him.
13:46Like? Esteem him?
13:49Oh, cold-hearted, Eleanor, nay, worse than cold-hearted, ashamed of being otherwise.
13:55Use such language again and I shall leave the room immediately.
13:59Dear Maria, I meant no offence to you
14:03in speaking so quietly of my feelings.
14:06Quietly of my feelings?
14:08Believe me, they are stronger than I have stated.
14:11But I feel at this stage that it would be premature,
14:15even a little immodest, to disclose them too fully, even to myself.
14:19Well, if you're not already engaged, I'm pretty certain you soon will be.
14:23Dear Marianne, I really must ask you to curb that eager imagination of yours.
14:28Oh, fie, Eleanor, he's at least as partial to you as you are to him.
14:32Go on, Eleanor, admit it.
14:37Well, sometimes I think so, yes.
14:41Then at others, there's a kind of coolness.
14:45No, not a coolness, a reserve,
14:48a want of candour almost that disturbs me a little.
14:51It is not like him.
14:54No, perhaps I do him an injustice.
14:58It is my imagination, no doubt.
15:00But how can you bear the thought of leaving Norland now?
15:03I almost hope Mama's letter remains unanswered.
15:06Why? The situation is unaltered?
15:08Oh, Eleanor, how can you pretend such a thing?
15:13What I mean is that if Edward's feelings
15:16will not survive my mere removal to another district,
15:19then the sooner that I am acquainted with the fact, the better.
15:24A cottage, you say?
15:27And where is it situated?
15:29Near Exeter.
15:31On the estate of a kinsman of mine, Sir John Middleton.
15:34Sir John Middleton?
15:36Now, he is a man of considerable substance, I believe.
15:39So I believe.
15:41I was not aware that he was a kinsman of yours.
15:44You would do well to place yourself under his protection, I would say.
15:47Very well, indeed.
15:49But Devonshire's a great way off.
15:51Must you really go so far?
15:53I'm afraid so.
15:55Oh, dear.
15:56If you are thinking of the expense of the removal, my love,
15:59I'm sure a man in Sir John Middleton's position would be prepared to assist.
16:03We have no spare transport or labour here, as I expect you realise.
16:07Oh, of course, I wouldn't hear of such a thing.
16:10But I hope once we're properly settled at Barton,
16:13we could persuade you to pay us a visit.
16:15That's very civil of you, I'm sure.
16:17Though I'm afraid we shall not be in a position
16:20to make such long and costly journeys ourselves
16:23for a considerable time to come.
16:26Yes, we shall have to measure our expenses very carefully.
16:29Very carefully, indeed.
16:31Edward, then.
16:33I'm sure that the girls will be quite heartbroken
16:35if you are not our very first guest.
16:37Thank you, Mrs Dashwood.
16:39I'm only sorry that you're going so far.
16:41However, I should be very glad...
16:43Edward, I'm afraid, is not free, ma'am.
16:45He has his career to think of.
16:47Indeed.
16:49This is news.
16:51I was not aware that I had one.
16:53Mother and Fanny are obsessed with the notion
16:55that I should enter Parliament, Mrs Dashwood,
16:57regardless of the fact that I am quite incapable
16:59of making a speech to save my life.
17:02They would make me a man of consequence
17:04or at least have me drive around London in a barouche
17:06with the appearance of one.
17:08I hope, Edward, your poor mother
17:10never gets to hear of such a statement.
17:12She will not, Fanny dear, unless someone repeats it to her.
17:17Well, then, it only remains for me to say once again
17:20that we shall expect you at Barton
17:22in the very near future, Edward.
17:24And to thank you, my dears,
17:26for putting up with us at Norland for so long.
17:36When he comes, I shall leave you.
17:38Why? He will want to say good-bye to you as well as to me.
17:44Oh, just these two, please, Charles.
17:46We'll have a good time.
17:48Oh, just these two, please, Charles.
17:50We'll have them inside, I think, at his room.
17:54Ah, here you are. Good.
17:56Now I can say my farewells to you both.
17:59Adieu, dear Edward. I shall not say farewell.
18:02Oh, don't run away.
18:04No, please. I'm sorry. There's something...
18:06I think perhaps we should all go. Edward and I will come with you.
18:09It's time we were in the carriage if we're to reach Midhurst by midday.
18:12Then I shall follow you in a moment.
18:14Oh, will you not come too?
18:16Edward, can you not see that I wish to be alone?
18:30Dear Norland, farewell.
18:38Sweet garden.
18:47Good-bye, curtains.
18:52Oh, happy, happy house!
18:55Marianne? The horses are thirsty.
19:05Marianne?
19:16Marianne?
19:46Marianne?
20:16Marianne?
20:35Welcome to Barton Coffin, ma'am.
20:38... And young ladies.
20:40Thank you. Mary, isn't it?
20:42That's right, ma'am.
21:04Oh, what a beautiful farm.
21:09Oh, goodness, what a welcome sight. I'm quite frozen.
21:12Well, now, there's nothing like a good fire.
21:16That's what I always say.
21:19But there, you'd make some nice tea, I expect.
21:23Oh, thank you. Thank you.
21:25And I've taken the liberty of making you one of my lardy cakes.
21:29Indeed? How come?
21:31Sir John, he always says, Mary says,
21:34there isn't anyone could make a lardy like what you can.
21:38That's what he says. Look.
21:42Well, now, you'd like to take your things off, I expect.
21:59Oh.
22:02Well, what in heaven's name is a lardy cake?
22:07Marianne, you're very silent.
22:10Poor dear, the motion of travelling never did agree with you.
22:14Never mind. A hot cup of tea will soon settle you, no doubt.
22:18It's all right, Mama. I'm not distressed in body, merely in spirit.
22:22Marianne, you shouldn't think so much of what we've left behind as what lies ahead.
22:26Eleanor, how can you say that when we've left all that is most dear?
22:29If I do not weep, it is merely for the good reason that weeping will not help our case.
22:35Besides, we have much to be thankful for, Mama, have we not?
22:39Oh, yes, indeed, my love.
22:41A new life, new surroundings, new acquaintances.
22:44New acquaintances? In Devonshire?
22:47Why not? Devonshire is people, surely much in the same manner as we are.
22:52Devonshire? Why not?
22:54Devonshire is people, surely much in the same manner as Sussex.
22:57And the Middletons have been most cordial in their letters.
23:00They've lived here for generations. I'm sure they have quite a numerous circle.
23:05Well, Marianne, here you are.
23:07You think I'll hear Sir John?
23:09Oh, no.
23:11In the sitting room? Well, well, cousin Dashwood, eh?
23:16Welcome to Devonshire, my dears.
23:19Well, now, do I get a kiss?
23:22John, dear, Mrs Dashwood is probably fatigued after her long journey.
23:26Oh, nonsense, you ain't fatigued, I am, my dear.
23:28Oh, I should have introduced you. This is my wife, Lady Middleton.
23:31How do you do, cousin?
23:32John, dear, what has become of little William?
23:34Oh, that boy, he's a regular rascal. He'll be all right, I swear, my dear.
23:37And these are the two young ladies, eh?
23:39May I introduce Miss Dashwood, Miss Marianne, Lady Middleton, Sir John.
23:44Oh, how do you do, my dears? How do you do?
23:48Well, gracious me, I was hardly expecting to see two such fine young creatures.
23:53No, indeed not.
23:55Why, you see, all the gentlemen are going to be set by the ears now, eh, my love, eh?
23:59Just a moment.
24:01I thought I heard something.
24:05There, I knew it. He's in the yard. He will get his feet wet.
24:09Oh, leave the boy alone, my dear. He'll come to no harm.
24:12John, how can you say that when you know how delicate the boy is?
24:15Well, we must conclude our business briefly and be off home then.
24:19Now, our object in greeting you, cousins, was to extend a most hearty welcome
24:23to come and dine with us at the hall every day until you're well settled in.
24:28There, how's that then, eh?
24:29Sir John, you are too generous, really.
24:31Oh, nonsense, nonsense. We won't take no for an answer, will we, dear?
24:35Well, now, that's all arranged. The carriage will call for you at 3.30.
24:38Oh, you will excuse the smallness of the company at such short notice.
24:43Merely my old friend, Colonel Brandon, and me wife's mother.
24:47No younger lance, I'm afraid, my dears,
24:50but we olduns will do our best to give you a jolly evening in our own style.
24:54Oh, yeah, well, come on, my dear.
24:56Mustn't keep these good people about any longer.
24:58I think you fret about that boy a little too much, my dear.
25:01Bye-bye, ladies, eh?
25:04Oh, lovely! Simply lovely!
25:10Shh!
25:13Brandon, another glass of claret.
25:15Oh, come on, Colonel, come on, you've only had but the one, surely.
25:18What?
25:20Oh, is it? Oh, right they are, then.
25:23Right they are.
25:26Oh, sing, grief, up, sing,
25:31Though I falter, ye die.
25:38Faint is ancient voice,
25:43Ah, is spirits of time.
25:51Long johns and burleys,
25:56All echoed in song.
26:03They made all things right.
26:08Mrs. Dashwood!
26:10May I come and sit by you, Mrs. Jennings?
26:15You certainly have two fine girls, Mrs. Dashwood.
26:20Aren't you proud, eh?
26:21That's very kind of you, Mrs. Jennings.
26:23My, my, shh!
26:28Two lovely girls.
26:30And I should know, because I have two fine girls myself.
26:33There's Mary here.
26:36And another, younger, but also married, thank goodness.
26:40Oh, the relief!
26:42And they've both done remarkably well for themselves, I do assure you.
26:48Oh, the anxiety we poor mothers have to undergo, eh, Mrs. Dashwood?
26:54Oh, lovely!
26:56Thank you, Mrs. Dashwood.
26:57Oh, bravo, my dear! Encore, encore, encore!
27:00Now, may we have the one about the fellow with the harp?
27:03You know, it's a lovely piece, you know what I mean, a lovely song.
27:07That's what I've just sung, Sir John.
27:09Is it, my dear? Well, sing him again, then, sing him again.
27:12I have yet to hear that song more purely, Sir.
27:14Look, Colonel Brandon.
27:16I declare he's quite taken a fancy to your Miss Marianne already.
27:20Oh, I always know.
27:22You ask either of my gals, you can't deceive me.
27:26And I can assure you, Mrs. Dashwood,
27:28you'd do very well to get the Colonel as a son-in-law.
27:31Oh, really, Mrs. Jennings?
27:33He's a very fine, honourable man.
27:35Shade too solemn for my taste, of course,
27:38and hardly what you could call a young man these days.
27:41But there's property there, Mrs. Dashwood.
27:43Oh, there's property there, all right.
27:46Please, Mama. Very well, dear.
27:48If you would excuse us, ladies.
27:50Oh, you're not going? So soon?
27:53Oh, we cannot allow this, can we, Brandon?
27:55Such a wonderful turn.
27:57Oh, very well, if you must.
27:59They must be exhausted.
28:01Now, tomorrow night, I think I can promise you some real young company.
28:05Oh, tomorrow night, we'll have a right old to-do
28:08with all the neighbourhood, eh?
28:10Your singing was lovely, dear.
28:13A little bird tells me that someone's left her heart in Sussex.
28:16Is that not so, Faye?
28:18I think I see someone colouring up a little, do I not?
28:22Do you, Mrs. Jennings?
28:24I think not, madam.
28:26Blushing is not one of my sister's many accomplishments.
28:29Oh, there, now. That's me thoroughly put in me place, is it not?
28:33Well said, my dear.
28:35Oh, well, I suppose we must let them go.
28:37Till tomorrow, then, and come early, mind.
28:40Oh, lovely girls.
28:42Simply wonderful to have young people in the house.
28:45Oh, darling, are you going out?
28:47Yes, soon as the rain eases a little.
28:50You know, do you not, my love,
28:52that Sir John spoke of walking down later with Colonel Brandon?
28:55Yes, I do.
28:57And that, to be quite honest, is one of the reasons for my walk.
29:00Oh, Marianne, how unkind you sometimes are in your judgments.
29:05I know Sir John may be a little overpowering,
29:08but even you must admit he has a kind heart.
29:10Oh, Mama!
29:12Well, if that's not damning with faint praise.
29:15Well, Colonel Brandon, then.
29:17He seems a genuine sort of man, and serious enough, even for you, my love.
29:21Mrs. Jennings likes to laugh at him.
29:23Now, that's what I call really unkind to make sport of a man of his age.
29:27He can't help his years, poor fellow.
29:29My dear girl, you speak of him as though he were an old man.
29:32Well, so he is.
29:34Oh, my dearest girl, he cannot be more than 35 or 36 at the most.
29:38Oh, I'm not so concerned with mere years.
29:41But did you not notice that he spoke of nothing
29:44but rheumatism and flannel-lined waistcoats?
29:46Well, I mean, that, to me, is old age.
29:49But let us not speak of the Colonel.
29:51It's Edward's strange behaviour that fills me so with apprehension.
29:55Still no letter this morning.
29:58It's not so very long since we were at Norland.
30:01Not long? You call two whole weeks not long?
30:05Really, much as I like Edward, there's a dreadful want of ardour about him
30:09that would not suit me at all, I'm afraid.
30:12Poor Eleanor.
30:14She puts a brave face on it, but I can see that underneath it she suffers.
30:21Come, Marianne.
30:23If we're to go walking, then I think we should do so before it rains again.
30:26Yes, let us, by all means.
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30:42Oh, Eleanor.
30:44What a subject for your pencil.
30:47Eleanor?
30:49Oh, I think I've heard a spot of rain.
30:52If only there was something picturesque here in the foreground.
30:56An ivy-clad ruin or something.
30:59There. Do you not see it in your mind's eye?
31:02I felt another. It is, it's raining.
31:05Oh, poo, it's nothing. It'll pass.
31:07Yes, and in the meantime this dress will be ruined.
31:10All right, let's shelter for a moment under that tree.
31:13Come on.
31:16Marianne?
31:18Oh, is there a sensation more splendid?
31:22Marianne, be careful!
31:24What have you done?
31:26Are you all right?
31:28My ankle.
31:30I've twisted my ankle.
31:32Keep still. Let me take your shoes.
31:34Is she much hurt?
31:36I saw you running down the hill. Then I heard a cry.
31:39No, really, I'm quite all right, thank you.
31:41It's no good, Marianne. You cannot possibly walk.
31:43That won't do at all. Come along now.
31:45Allow me, please.
31:47Oh, sir, can you? Is she not too heavy?
31:49Heavy? No. She's as light as a feather.
31:52Oh, your gun.
31:54I'll leave that. It'll come to no harm.
31:56Won't it get rusty?
32:00In here, on the sofa, if you please.
32:02Here?
32:08I'm sorry.
32:10It's all right.
32:12Well, there we are then, safe at last.
32:14Oh, poor soul. She might have dashed her brains out.
32:18Some water, please, Marianne. Some strips of rag for a cold compress.
32:21Very well, ma'am.
32:23Oh, sir, I don't know how to thank you enough.
32:25Yes, thank you. And a thousand apologies for my foolishness.
32:29No apologies required, I can assure you.
32:31But, please, no more running down hills
32:33unless you're certain that I'm in attendance.
32:36But you cannot go like this, sir, without our having thanked you properly.
32:39Well, I must.
32:41Besides, I'm in no fit state to be amongst ladies.
32:43Oh, thank you.
32:45His name, Mama?
32:47At least, sir, perhaps you will tell us to whom we are so much indebted.
32:51Oh, of course, I'm sorry. My name is Willoughby, ma'am.
32:54And you may find me for the next few weeks at least
32:56down at Allenham House, which is a mile or so along the road.
33:00But I hope you will permit me to call again tomorrow
33:02to make my inquiries after the invalid.
33:04Oh, you will always be more than welcome here, sir, I can assure you.
33:19Mr Willoughby. Good day.
33:21I came merely to make my inquiries after the invalid.
33:25The invalid, as you see, is an invalid no longer.
33:29No, no, no, no, no, please, not too rapid a recovery, I beg of you.
33:33I've made it my intention to ride by every day with your permission.
33:37So long as your health is a matter of anxieties,
33:39permit me a few more aches and pains, please.
33:42Oh, well, as you wish.
33:44If you will excuse me, there are several things I promised to do for my mother.
33:48Eleanor, don't go. Just when Mr Willoughby has come.
33:51Oh, your sister will have many opportunities to see me again, I'm afraid.
33:58Never fear.
34:00Willoughby! Oh, yes, to be sure I know him.
34:03So he's at Allenham, is he?
34:05Oh, this is capital news.
34:07I must ride over and ask him to join our picnic.
34:09What sort of a young man is he, cousin?
34:11Oh, as good a fellow as ever lived, I can assure you, ma'am.
34:15He's a very decent shot, and you won't find a bolder rider in England.
34:19But what are his pursuits, his talents, his genius?
34:22Well, upon my soul, I don't know about his genius, as you call it.
34:25I only know he has the nicest little pointer bitch as ever lived.
34:30But who is he, and where does he come from?
34:32Ah, now, as to that, I can soon tell you.
34:35Allenham is not his, but he will inherit when the present owner dies, so they say.
34:40And he already has a pretty little estate up Somerset way, I'm told.
34:43So I can assure you, young ladies, he's quite a catch.
34:47Mr. Willoughby need have no fears of my girls, cousin.
34:49Catching young men, as you call it, be they never so rich,
34:52is not an employment to which they have been brought up.
34:55Thank you, ma'am.
34:57Oh, but they couldn't do better than catch young Willoughby, ma'am.
35:01Why, he's one of the best fellas alive, I can assure you.
35:04Well, last Christmas, at a little hop we had at the park,
35:09he danced from 8 o'clock till 4 in the morning without once sitting down.
35:13Did he? And with spirit, with elegance?
35:16Oh, yeah, and that 8th next morning he was up again and in the saddle.
35:19So that'll show you the sort of fellow he is, ma'am.
35:21That is how a man should be.
35:23Whatever his occupation, he should pursue it to the uttermost without thought of fatigue.
35:28Oh, so that's how it is, eh? That's how it is.
35:32Poor old Brandon. His nose is quite out of joint already, eh?
35:36I'm sure I don't know what you mean, Sir John.
35:39Isn't Miss Eleanor here going to be allowed a chance?
35:43Must you set your cap at all the man, eh?
35:46That is an expression I particularly dislike, Sir John.
35:50If its use could ever have been deemed at all witty, that time has long since passed.
35:55Oh, so that's it, is it?
35:58Touched the honour a little, have I, my dear?
36:07Miss Marianne.
36:10Oh, I didn't hear you come.
36:13I've come as usual to make my inquiries.
36:15Well, you can see for yourself how greatly improved I am.
36:19See, I no longer need support.
36:21I see nothing of the sort.
36:23But please let your walking stick be me.
36:26Thank you, thank you indeed.
36:28Seems I was a little too sanguine in my hopes.
36:32That is a very excellent fault.
36:35Colonel Branton.
36:37You've come to inquire after my sister, no doubt.
36:40How kind.
36:41I have, but I gather that I am forestalled.
36:43She has another visitor, yes.
36:45But let me go and tell her that you're here.
36:47No, no, no, please, do not disturb her.
36:49But after you've walked over here especially...
36:51That is no great matter.
36:52Besides, I had a second purpose in calling,
36:54which is to know if you and your sister would care to join the excursion,
36:57Sir John and I have arranged.
37:00I'm sure we should both be delighted, Colonel Branton.
37:02I'm afraid I can't promise you much young and lively society, Miss Dashwood.
37:06However, if you or your sister would care to extend the invitation to Willoughby,
37:10please feel free to do so.
37:12To Willoughby?
37:13You know him, then?
37:15Yes, I know him.
37:16In that case, why not ask him yourself?
37:18No, I should greatly prefer that either you or your sister should do so.
37:21Very well, Colonel Branton.
37:23I'll see to it.
37:25I should greatly prefer that either you or your sister should do so.
37:28Very well, Colonel Branton, if that is your feeling.
37:31Thank you. I'm greatly obliged to you.
37:33Not at all.
37:35Well, I...
37:37If you will not join my sister in the garden,
37:39will you not sit here for a moment?
37:41That's very kind, but I mustn't detain you.
37:44However, I must confess that I did hope for the opportunity to speak to you, Miss Dashwood.
37:49To me?
37:51Your sister is a person of very strong and fixed ideas, I think.
37:56Oh, dear, what has she been saying now?
37:58She doesn't approve of such things as second attachments, I believe.
38:03No, her opinions are all romantic.
38:15So, in her eyes, all such attachments are equally false.
38:19She makes no distinction for those unfortunate people
38:22who may have been disappointed in their first choice.
38:25It isn't so much that she doesn't approve of such attachments.
38:29She doesn't admit that they can exist.
38:31Well, to her, love is something which comes only once in a lifetime.
38:37If you will instruct me in the art of horsemanship,
38:41then I will return the compliment, if I may,
38:44by educating you in your taste for literature.
38:46Well, Miss Marianne,
38:48I am an open book.
38:50Write upon it what you will.
38:55You must not take too much notice of her, Colonel Brandon.
38:58Her ideas are extremely romantic, and she is, of course, very young.
39:04There is something very affecting about the prejudices of a young mind, I always think.
39:08My sister's enthusiasms are indeed rather strong.
39:11I fear they sometimes have the unfortunate appearance of setting propriety at naught.
39:16But a better acquaintance with the world at large
39:18will, I hope, bring about some modification.
39:21In the meantime, one can only hope and pray
39:23that they do not receive too sudden and too cruel a setback.
39:25Indeed.
39:27But when the romantic refinements of the young mind
39:29at last are obliged to give way,
39:32then is the danger.
39:34No, no, no, I insist.
39:36Nobody who is unfamiliar with the poems of Cooper
39:39can possibly claim to have a properly educated mind.
39:42Oh, come, come, Miss Marianne, you're very hard in a feather.
39:45I have his complete works.
39:47I shall lend them to you volume by volume
39:49and insist that you read them every line from cover to cover.
39:52Well, it'll be a labour of love, I can assure you.
39:55Pray don't move.
39:57I came merely to tell you that Colonel Brandon
39:59has invited us all to a picnic at Whitwell on Friday.
40:02Is it not kind of him?
40:03Brandon? Has he been here?
40:05Invited us all? Does that include Willoughby?
40:07Oh, he particularly mentioned Mr. Willoughby, yes, if you would care to come.
40:11Oh, you will come, won't you?
40:14Since you ask me, Miss Marianne, indeed I will.
40:17I think it extremely civil of the Colonel.
40:19He inquired particularly after you, Marianne.
40:22He's a good-hearted man.
40:24Poor old Brandon, that's what everyone says of him.
40:27He has everybody's good word and nobody's notice.
40:30He's the kind of man whom everybody is delighted to see
40:33and nobody remembers to talk to.
40:35That is exactly what I think.
40:37On the contrary, I particularly enjoy talking to him.
40:40He's seen much of the world
40:42and he has a thinking mind.
40:44That must always be an attraction to me.
40:47Well, yes, Marianne, even in a man of between 30 and 40.
40:53Miss Marianne, I see your sister is in a saucy mood
40:56and spoiling for a fight,
40:58so I shall retire while I get married.
41:00Well, goodbye then, ladies, until Friday.
41:06Goodbye.
41:08Goodbye, Mr. Willoughby.
41:13Well, Marianne,
41:15you've tried him on Pope, Cooper and Sir Walter Scott.
41:18I think for one morning you've done pretty well.
41:20You must admit that he has great enthusiasm.
41:22Oh, yes, and that he's very handsome.
41:24Oh, Eleanor, he's promised to give me a horse
41:26so that we may ride together.
41:28A horse?
41:30You didn't say you would accept it, I hope.
41:32Why not?
41:34Oh, the added expense of a groom would be a mere trifle.
41:37Oh, Eleanor, think of it, galloping over those splendid downs.
41:41You shall share it with me.
41:45But I must say I seriously question the propriety of such a present
41:48from a man you hardly know.
41:50You're mistaken, Eleanor, dear, in thinking I know little of Willoughby.
41:54Our acquaintance has not been long, I grant you,
41:57but days and hours have nothing to do with it.
42:01Oh, Eleanor, if only you could hear a word of Edward,
42:04my cup of happiness would indeed be full.
42:08Are we all ready, then? The horses will be around in a moment.
42:11Where is little William?
42:13Have you seen him?
42:15Oh, I expect he'll be all right, my dear.
42:17Now then, who's coming with us, eh?
42:19I only hope that girl didn't give him too rich a breakfast.
42:22A long carriage journey always makes him so unwell, poor lad.
42:25Miss Dashwood, you will come in with us, I hope?
42:28Wouldn't you rather have one of your own family, madam?
42:31Certainly.
42:33Mr Willoughby has been most adroit, I see.
42:36He's brought along his fayton with room for one passenger only.
42:40I think we need not ask who that will be, eh?
42:43Come along.
42:45Oh, here come the horses. Come along.
42:48Oh, come along, Brandon. I didn't see you over there. Come on.
42:51I'm very sorry. I'm afraid our excursion will have to be cancelled.
42:54Oh, why not?
42:56I have to return to London immediately.
42:58What, today?
43:00Yes, today, I'm afraid. Excuse me.
43:02I'll never survive the disappointment, dear.
43:04I mean, there are some people who are going to bear the prospect of a day's pleasure.
43:07I mean, no doubt he's fearful of catching cold or something.
43:10But this is infuriating.
43:12We won't spoil our day together.
43:15I've got a plan of my own.
43:17Come on.
43:21I know what the colonel's business is.
43:24It concerns a certain young lady in London, a very near relative.
43:29In fact, they do say she's his natural daughter.
43:32Ah, look at what's this, then, eh?
43:39Young friends are good off without waiting for their starter's gun.
43:43Oh, that's capital.
43:45That's the spirit I like to see.
43:47Yikes! Yikes! Tally-ho!
44:02Tally-ho!
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