00:00Lady Bessie, my cousin Charlotte, an honour to meet you.
00:30Let me introduce Miss Clarissa Harper.
00:35Now leave us.
00:37Oh but I...
00:38Leave us and don't presume to return until you are expressly called for.
00:54I know that nephew of mine.
00:59Now come and sit down. I want to talk to you.
01:16There is no need for you to explain who is at fault in this matter. I know my nephew of old.
01:23What I have to say to you is not so much for his sake
01:26as for mine, for Charlotte's and for all our family.
01:33We are very well aware of your virtues and when we heard that you and he...
01:38It seemed the best thing that could happen. Such a strong moral example.
01:44Such a steadying influence.
01:48I did once hope so. I once hoped I might be a humble means of reforming his morals
01:53but not now. Now my only resolve is to prevent him from corrupting mine.
02:01You are stronger than you think my dear.
02:05The insults you have suffered may be of too delicate a nature to bear inquiry.
02:09Yet since happily he did not abandon all self-discipline and since he is now deeply and
02:16I believe genuinely penitent, might we just this once forgive him?
02:22I say we because an offence to you must be an offence to Charlotte
02:27and an offence to all virtuous women.
02:30He needs you my dear. Only you can save him.
02:34And how shall I save myself?
02:37Oh my poor child. You are so alone.
02:43We must stay with you. Let us stay with you may we?
02:48Do say yes.
02:50You must ask Mr Lovelace. He has engaged all the other rooms.
02:55Fetch Morrison.
02:58The air will do us good. A walk on the heath. Now and then a rustic sermon.
03:06Would you object? Do please say.
03:09As your ladyship wishes.
03:11Excellent.
03:14Ah nephew we are staying. Kindly see about our rooms.
03:18Certainly.
03:23Charlotte you are the romantic. You shall have the view of the heath.
03:28Morrison you must return to town. We shall need nightgowns, walking clothes, parasols.
03:33I have some letters in my private box.
03:35Certainly. Morrison.
03:36Private letters. I trust nobody with the key.
03:41And our jewels. There was the most dreadful robbery on the heath just two days ago.
03:48Ah well. Seems there's no help for it.
03:51We have come unprepared for our country sojourn.
03:54We must return to town and don our rural ribbons and bows.
04:03We shall all go together. You too my dear.
04:07Oh no. I'll stay.
04:10Nonsense. She shall not deprive us of the pleasure of her company shall she Charlotte.
04:16Morrison you shall stay here and see about the rooms.
04:18Really my lady. I'm hardly dressed for visiting.
04:21But you look charming doesn't she Charlotte?
04:24Yes.
04:25So unaffected.
04:29Perhaps just...
04:35There.
04:38Ah mrs Moore. It is mrs Moore isn't it?
04:41Yes my lady.
04:43Dinner at nine if you would for... how many are we?
04:47For all of us.
04:50Come my dear. There's so much I want to talk to you about.
05:07How happy Lord Marchmont will be to see you.
05:10Really he can talk of no one else.
05:12Miss Harlow is his constant theme.
05:15What a pleasure it must be to give so much joy to those you meet.
05:18Where are we? Where are we going?
05:22Is not this our way?
05:23Fool of a man. I tell him quite distinctly.
05:26Hey!
05:26What treachery is this? Why have you brought me here?
05:30Is this the house you told me?
05:32Nephew what do you mean by this?
05:35The fool misunderstood me.
05:37But since we are here I'll just ask if there are any letters.
05:40No.
05:42My dearest why so wild?
05:44You can stay in the coach if you prefer.
05:49We shall all stay in the coach.
05:51Do not distress yourself niece.
05:53May I call you that?
05:54We shall stay with you.
05:55Any letters for me Dorcas?
05:57Two sir and a gentleman mr Dolman waiting above an hour.
06:00My dear are you ill?
06:02No no I'm well.
06:04I'm quite well.
06:05Won't the man drive on?
06:07I'm quite well.
06:09Man drive on.
06:10Oh but we must get out.
06:12Nephew your lady will faint.
06:15Girl a glass of heart's horn and water.
06:17My dear you must step out.
06:19We must cut your leg soon.
06:20No no.
06:21I won't force her against her will.
06:23Let the coach go on.
06:25My dear you are ill.
06:27I really think you must step out just for a few minutes.
06:30You will come to know how.
06:31We shall stay with you.
06:33Drive on.
06:34Here drink this.
06:37It will calm you.
06:43There now.
06:45Give me your hand.
06:47Fear nothing.
06:48I will not stir from your side.
06:53Trust me.
06:55You are quite safe.
07:04I will bless your footsteps madam if once more you honor my home with your presence.
07:23I am here don't worry.
07:25We shall only stay a few minutes.
07:27Just a few minutes.
07:29Come you sing there bring some tea this minute.
07:31We shan't stop long.
07:33This instant.
07:35Lean upon my arm.
07:39How you tremble.
07:41Sit here.
07:42I'll be back in a moment.
07:44I'll be back in a moment.
07:46I'll be back in a moment.
07:48I'll be back in a moment.
07:51Sit here upon this chair.
08:01The tea will be here soon.
08:03I'm sure it will revive you.
08:20It tastes strange.
08:37It's the London milk.
08:41You must rest.
08:48Likewise.
08:50I shall come back in a few minutes.
08:52Don't leave me.
08:54Down.
08:55Rest.
08:57Rest.
09:00I shall return before you know I've gone.
09:21Thank you.
09:24Well nephew she's all yours.
09:27It's up to you now.
09:32Can you play your part as well as we played ours?
09:34Bravo Connie you were magnificent.
09:38So convincing.
09:40Almost as good as our matchmaker here.
09:51Where's Lady Betty?
10:04They will be here this instant.
10:07I'm so thirsty.
10:09Throat's parched.
10:12Here drink this.
10:15What is it?
10:23Why am I still here?
10:26Oh lovely.
10:27My angel.
10:28Why this wildness?
10:32Take me out of this vile house.
10:34And what prayer madam has this house done to you?
10:37Let me tell you madam.
10:45I am amazed at the freedoms you take with my character.
10:49God help me.
10:51Who will protect me?
10:52I will protect you.
10:53Dearest love.
10:58No.
11:04No.
11:08No.
11:17No.
11:37No.
11:56No.
12:07No.
12:23No.
12:37No.
13:07Why did you drag me here for this time?
13:15The trial is over.
13:19Clarissa lives.
13:21You savage.
13:24How could you?
13:26This will not be the end of it.
13:29If I were a brother I'd hunt you down.
13:32I will not rest until this violation has cleaned the blood of one of us.
14:37What further evils are reserved for me?
14:58I find I am your prisoner.
15:08Madam.
15:21Clarissa.
15:23I am truly, truly sorry.
15:27Don't touch me.
15:33I love you.
15:34I love you.
15:36Some new stratagem.
15:37Believe me.
15:38Again?
15:40As I believed Captain Tomlinson and Lady Betty.
15:45How you all must have laughed.
15:48Such a witty masquerade.
15:50Let me make amends.
15:52What?
15:54Can you blot out the past week?
16:00Am I or am I not at my own liberty now?
16:04Or is the pantomime not yet over?
16:08Once subdued, always subdued.
16:11Is that not one of your maxims?
16:14Every woman is at heart a rake.
16:19Well?
16:21Do you think to make me your whore?
16:23No.
16:25My wife.
16:27What?
16:29Marry me.
16:33Never.
16:51I warn you, do not make me desperate.
16:53My patience is not inexhaustible.
16:57No other man will have you now.
17:01Depend upon it, madam.
17:03You shall be mine.
17:04Yours?
17:07My soul is above you, man.
17:10Urge me not to tell you how sincerely I know my soul is above you.
17:17I would not bind myself in covenant with you for a thousand, thousand worlds.
17:32More of her nonsense.
17:34I never heard of such a doings in my life between a chicken of a gentleman and a tiger of a lady.
17:39She's new to it.
17:41Leave her to us.
17:43We'll show her the way.
17:46Why on earth did it take him so long?
17:51She's not getting any comfort from me.
17:55She's one of us now.
17:57She can use her airs.
17:59She can use her airs and graces to satisfy some of our young gentlemen.
18:13Didst ever see a license, Jack?
18:17Can there be so much harm done if it can be so easily repaired by a few magical words as
18:22I, Robert, take thee Clarissa.
18:25And I, Clarissa, take thee.
18:26And I, Clarissa, take thee, Clarissa.
18:28And I, Clarissa, take thee, Robert.
18:30And all the rest of the for-better-and-for-worse hocus-pocus.
18:37Stop.
18:39Stop there.
18:41You must not go out, madam.
18:43How dare you?
18:44Oh, no.
18:45Mr. Lovelace!
18:46I will go.
18:47You have no right.
18:53Is this your doing?
18:54Do you authorize these women?
18:58What right have they, or you, to stop me?
19:00My dear, you are not well.
19:02Indeed, I am sick of you.
19:08Let me go.
19:08Compose yourself.
19:10For your own sake, compose yourself.
19:13Depend upon it, madam.
19:15This is not the way to avoid the evils you dread.
19:20Stay there.
19:21Stop where you are.
19:24Ah!
19:26Don't touch me.
19:29You fiend.
19:31I will do it.
19:33I'm not afraid to die.
19:36The law shall be my refuge.
19:39The law.
19:53Oh, Jack, whose triumph now?
20:21Mine or hers?
20:22A woman's tears used to be to me like oil upon a flame.
20:27How can I say the trial is over when the will,
20:29the consent, is lacking?
20:33Oh, I can never, never let her go.
20:37My old fool of an uncle, Lord Marchmont, is dangerously ill.
20:41I must hover dutifully at his bedside, or Pop goes my inheritance.
20:45Watch over my charmer for me, Jack.
20:48The Sinclair girls are savages.
20:51Vow for me, swear for me.
20:53Bind thy soul to her for my honour.
20:55For I have told her we will marry upon my return.
20:59Oh, muslin?
21:04I wanted silk, Miss Lyons.
21:06With ruffles here and here.
21:09And a big bow.
21:10I was told it was to be a private ceremony.
21:13Everything very simple.
21:15No frills.
21:17You can take the dress off now, madam.
21:21I was told the bride is rather a Puritan.
21:24Oh, her.
21:24Nobody minds her.
21:26Mr. Lovelace is paying, and Mr. Lovelace likes a show.
21:50Miss Lyons, where are you going?
22:50Miss Clarissa Harlow?
23:17Yes, who are you?
23:18You must come with us.
23:19What do you mean?
23:20We have a warrant for your arrest.
23:22That's right, my dearie.
23:24Such handsome lodgings.
23:25Who did you think was going to pay for them?
23:27Keep away.
23:27Don't let her near me.
23:29A hundred and fifty pounds is no small sum to lose
23:32by a young runaway who would have built her lodgings.
24:20Permit me, madam, to...
24:35No.
24:37No, go away.
24:39I beseech you, madam, please.
24:41Let me take you from this terrible place.
24:43Are you?
24:47I think your name is Belfort.
24:50Yes, it is.
24:53And a constant admirer of your virtues.
24:56No, leave me.
25:01Leave me.
25:03I will owe no obligation to a friend of his.
25:09You owe no obligation to anyone.
25:13The debt is paid.
25:15The arrest was false, madam.
25:17Please, I have my coach outside.
25:20Are you to be my keeper now?
25:24I would as soon die here as anywhere.
25:33Take this.
25:35It's all I have left.
25:37If you wish to help me,
25:39take it and pay my jailor the price of these lodgings.
25:42Just keep enough for my decent burial.
25:45Madam...
25:46Take it.
25:49Why won't you take it?
25:50I have no one else to ask.
26:20Why should marriage be a life sentence?
26:37Why shouldn't men and women do as birds do,
26:39change partners every year?
26:41Once I'm in Parliament,
26:42I shall introduce a bill for annual marriages.
26:45What a splendid reform.
26:47It would eradicate any number of capital sins at a stroke.
26:50Rape, adultery, bigamy, dueling, murder.
26:54No more domestic bondage.
26:56Marriage would be a perpetual honeymoon.
26:59What glorious variety.
27:01What freedom of choice.
27:03Everyone would be married a dozen times at least.
27:06The churches would be the principal marketplace for the fair sex.
27:09Congregations would swell.
27:11In short, a total improvement in morals,
27:14manners and happiness of both sexes.
27:16How does Miss Clarissa Harlow, sir?
27:19I have not seen Miss Harlow for some days.
27:23If what I've heard is true, sir,
27:24you have much to answer for on her account.
27:27That lady has so much virtue and so much delicacy
27:30that little sins are great ones in her eyes.
27:32No one who knows Mr Lovelace believes he can commit little sins.
27:36You are very good to me, Miss Doyley.
27:39Indeed, sir, I am not.
27:43There would not be an old maid left in Great Britain
27:45in all its territories.
27:47What an odd soul must she be
27:48who could not have her 12 months' trial.
28:06You could distinguish types of women like flowers,
28:09some annuals and some perennials.
28:14I must talk to you.
28:15Not for a king.
28:16Please, only you can speak for me.
28:18Speak for you?
28:20I abhor you, vilest of men. I detest you.
28:22You cannot call me anything worse than I call myself.
28:25I have indeed been the vilest of men, but not now.
28:27Believe me, please.
28:30But ten words in private.
28:31Not one.
28:34Have you no idea that your actions have caused Miss Harlow to be imprisoned?
28:38Is everything all right?
28:40I ask but ten words of Miss Howe, sir.
28:43Please, be a witness.
28:45And you, madam?
28:46Hear, Allah, what he has to say to me.
28:48To get rid of him, hear his ten words.
29:13Lady Elizabeth Lawrence and Miss Charlotte Montague.
29:43My Lady Betty.
29:55Impersonate me with your strumpets.
29:58You are a disgrace to the name you bear and a traitor to all around you.
30:13My dearest sister, if I did not think my state of health most precarious,
30:44I should hardly dare to write.
30:47It is with trembling that I beg you to intervene with my father
30:51to revoke that heaviest part of the heavy curse he laid upon me,
30:56which relates to the hereafter.
31:00As for the here, I have already met with my punishment.
31:04For God's sake, your father's curse must be lifted.
31:13But she was warned.
31:15She was advised.
31:17Her duty was made plain to her.
31:20But our sister chose to place her own selfish inclinations
31:25above all sense of prudence or responsibility.
31:29We can hardly pretend surprise at the result.
31:32No pity.
31:34We only wish her conduct had made her case more pitiable.
31:39But it was of her own seeking.
31:41If what she says is true, then she must prosecute.
31:45It is her duty.
31:47Nothing will be heard in her favor unless she does.
31:51A modest woman, however just her case,
31:54must surely shrink from the exposure of a public inquisition.
31:57And if she dare not prosecute, she must marry the fellow.
32:01A husband makes a charming fig leaf for a wife's little failings.
32:12I cannot.
32:13You must try.
32:15A little bread and water is all I need.
32:18Come, madam.
32:19Resolve to do all in your power to get well, and you'll soon be better.
32:24No sin attaches to you.
32:28Read it.
32:29Saint Augustine.
32:31I have already done so.
32:33The city of God is my soul's ease.
32:39Bodily chastity is not lost, even when the body has been ravished,
32:43while the mind's chastity endures.
32:47Therefore, when a woman has been ravished without her consent
32:50and forced by another's sin,
32:53she has no reason to punish herself by a voluntary death.
32:57Death is not a punishment.
33:00Death is my friend.
33:03The only real dishonor is compromise and self-betrayal.
33:09Death is my independence.
33:16My dearest Anna,
33:17truest friend,
33:19do not grieve for me.
33:22Adversity, you once told me, is my shining time.
33:25And so I believe it is.
33:28Never prefer a libertine to a man of honor.
33:31You see, I'm better at giving advice than taking it.
33:36Mr. Hickman is a man of honor.
33:42You must marry him.
33:48Farewell, beloved friend.
33:52Your Clarissa.
33:55One pair of steps, is it not? I'll find her.
33:57Who's there?
34:01Lovelace.
34:03Is she here?
34:05Jack.
34:07Jack.
34:09Do you want to kill her?
34:11Let me pass.
34:15Not one word.
34:17Not a word.
34:19I'll kill her.
34:21I'll kill her.
34:23I'll kill her.
34:25I warn you.
34:26Not me.
34:32I will not lose her.
34:34I will have her.
34:36My heart is set on it.
34:38I will have her.
34:39Even on her deathbed.
34:41Then you'll have to kill me first.
34:55Jack.
35:09Was Lovelace here?
35:12He's gone now.
35:14Can he never leave me in peace?
35:18Will he pursue me to the grave?
35:23Wait.
35:25Wait.
35:31Mr. Lovelace.
35:35I have good news to tell you.
35:38I'm setting out with all speed for my father's house.
35:43I hope he will receive his poor penitent with a goodness peculiar to himself.
35:49I beg you, sir.
35:51Do not disturb or interrupt me.
35:55I beseech you, do not.
35:58I pray you may so redeem yourself that we may, one day, meet again in his presence.
36:16Mr. Lovelace.
36:18I have a new face for you.
36:22A peach, just to your taste.
36:26This way.
36:48She's new to the game and must be waited on.
36:58Oh, Mr. Lovelace.
37:01My soul is above you.
37:06But my body...
37:48There. Set it down.
37:53What shocking sight is this?
37:56Why shocking?
37:58Are we shocked in church to see the monuments of our ancestors with whom we hope, one day, to rest in peace?
38:06See.
38:08My palace.
38:11Proud to the last.
38:13Dig a hole deep enough to conceal this unhappy body.
38:17For I fear that those who would not stir to protect me living,
38:21will move heaven and earth to avenge me dead.
38:39He begs you on his knees.
38:43Just one last time to see him.
38:47To forgive him.
38:50No.
38:52How can he ask?
38:55How can you?
39:02He has my forgiveness.
39:04Tell him that.
39:07But I cannot, cannot see him.
39:13Tell him,
39:15I not only forgive him,
39:18but if my suffering could in any way atone for his sins,
39:24my last tear should fall on his brow.
39:29I could have loved him.
39:40A week?
39:41At most.
39:43It cannot be longer.
39:45Oh, Clary.
39:46Oh, my child.
39:50All she asks is that the curse be lifted from her,
39:53and that she may have your blessing.
39:55Is this another one of her fetches?
39:57James.
39:59No child should be forgiven who has so flagrantly defied the most indulgent of parents.
40:04Are you, sir, to be taught by an unfeeling son to forget you are a father?
40:09God forbid she should be quite lost.
40:13Let me go to her.
40:15Let me bring her home.
40:17No.
40:18If she ever enters these doors again, I shall leave.
40:24Then leave.
40:26The child has suffered enough.
40:40Do not be sad.
40:42I am not sad.
40:47Rejoice with me
40:50that all my worldly troubles are so near an end.
40:57Mr. Belford.
41:04Bless.
41:06Oh, bless you all.
41:13Oh, come.
41:15Blessed Lord, she is.
42:12No!
42:30No!
42:42No!
43:12No!
43:42No!
44:01I shall have my revenge on them.
44:03I shall sweep away every last vestige of the Harlow tribe from the face of the earth.
44:07What sacrifice shall be offered up to my Clarissa Lovelace?
44:10Starting with yourself.
44:13You betrayed her.
44:15Take care, Jack.
44:17I love you like a brother, and I warn you, do not provoke me.
44:22You violated her.
44:24You killed her.
44:25No!
44:29Don't play the moralist with me.
44:31A rake's a rake, Jack.
44:33We're two of a kind, you and I.
44:35I was hunted as a pair.
44:37I only seem more wicked because I am handsome and you are ugly.
44:41So poor, frightened Puss always throws herself into my paws, not into yours.
44:45Haven't you learned nothing?
44:46What is there to learn?
44:48Is death the natural consequence of rape?
44:51You are not so innocent, my friend.
44:53You knew my plans, every detail, every stratagem, every disguise.
44:59And what did you do?
45:01How did you try to save her?
45:04You're as guilty as I am.
45:06More.
45:07At least I don't pretend to piety.
45:12This is no pretence!
45:15Take my virtue, I did not offend you.
45:27Jack!
45:41No, wait!
46:12Jack!
46:18Well done, Jack.
46:20You know revenge so well.
46:24A man cannot have every woman worth having.
46:27God have mercy on your soul.
46:31Clarissa,
46:33let this redeem my sins.
46:41Jack.
47:12Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God
47:16and in the face of this congregation to join together
47:19this man and this woman in holy matrimony.
47:22Therefore, if any man can show with just cause
47:26why they may not be lawfully joined together,
47:31let him speak now.
47:41Jack.
48:11Jack.
48:42And these, leases, inventories, tenancy agreements...
48:46The rents are mine.
48:47Not in law.
48:49Do you wish to litigate?
48:50Do you wish to withdraw all your estates?
48:52Yes, everything.
48:53But we'll be ruined.
48:54Why should we pay the price for Clarissa's willful stupidity?
48:57And I fail to see what making me a beggar does for my sister's reputation.
49:02I should have thought this was a time to pull together.
49:05Exactly.
49:07Money will never pay for what we've done.
49:12This family is broken.
49:15Greed has destroyed its own heart.
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