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In Venice, Miss Tita and her aged aunt rent part of their villa to an author, but he has an ulterior motive--involving the aunt's past. Starring: Margaret Tyzack, Beatrix Lehmann, John Carson.
In Venice, Miss Tita and her aged aunt rent part of their villa to an author, but he has an ulterior motive--involving the aunt's past. Starring: Margaret Tyzack, Beatrix Lehmann, John Carson.
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04:08bond but and as for eating why there must be a second kitchen in this first house and my servant
04:14he's a wonderfully handy fellow can easily cook me a chop my tastes are the simplest i live on
04:20flowers well i'm not at all sure besides if you are as poor as you say you are then all the more
04:26reasons for you to let your room your house is your capital put it to work for you no wonder
04:34you poor i've never seen such shockingly bad economists as i say the house is not mine the
04:43decision is not mine i must speak to my aunt when will you do that today then i shall return this
04:49time tomorrow for your answer may i have the honor of knowing your name bordero miss tita bordero my
04:58aunt is juliana bordero until this time tomorrow then miss bordero and in hope
05:12the aunt will refuse she will think the entire proceeding very loose no i have a distinct
05:18presentiment that i shall succeed i see you fancy you've made such an impression upon the niece that
05:25she can be depended upon to bring the old lady round if you do get in you will regard it as a
05:30conquest my dear mrs pressed if there is to be any conquest it will be one for literature not myself
05:36i take no pride in using arts ah then you have used arts i've put myself out to be agreeable as we
05:42all do when we want something nothing more you want those papers very badly don't you charles more than
05:49anything in oh my dear rosa if i could tell you of tomorrow on meeting juliana bordero if you meet her
06:00juliana bordero the loveliest the most tempestuous woman in aspirin's life the most exquisite lyrics
06:07in the language now when i first learned that jeffrey aspen's mistress the juliana of his finest love
06:14poems was still alive huh it was as if napoleon's josephine or mrs siddons or lady hamilton still lived
06:22the scent of reckless passion clings to her
06:27our house is far from the center of venice mr breen but the little canal is coming full it is the
06:55sweetest corner of venice and i can think of nothing more charming i hear very well please to sit down there
07:05miss bordero i am perfectly aware that i have intruded that i lack proper introductions that i can
07:13only throw myself on your indulgence perhaps your niece has explained about the garden i fell in love
07:20with the whole thing at first sight and i felt it was just a case of risking something you would be
07:27scarcely aware of my existence i will conform to any restrictions and regulations as long as you will
07:34allow me to enjoy the garden if it's gardens you're so fond of why don't you go to the mainland there are
07:44many there far better than this oh it is the combination the idea of a garden in the middle
07:50of the sea it's not in the middle of the sea you can't even see the water you can't see the water why
07:59my dear madam i came to your very gate in my boat oh you have a boat i haven't any it's many years since i
08:09went in one of the gondolas i would be delighted to put mine at your service my niece will be here
08:17presently i told her to keep out of the way i wanted to see you alone at first your niece was very
08:28courteous to me considering how odd she must have thought me oh she has very good manners i bred her
08:35up myself i don't know what will become of her when i'm gone i don't know who you are and i don't care
08:48to know it signifies very little today you may have as many rooms as you like if you will give me
08:59a good deal of money i will pay with pleasure in advance of course any sum that you consider it
09:06proper to ask me a thousand francs a month then i will have the pleasure of paying you three months
09:15in advance tomorrow he will pay three thousand three thousand tomorrow do you mean francs do you mean
09:27dollars or francs i think francs were what you said that is very good oh would you know about it you're
09:33ignorant yes of money certainly of money i'm sure you have your own branches of knowledge oh she had a
09:40very good education i saw to that myself but she's learned nothing since i have always been with
09:47you good job too at what time tomorrow shall you bring the money the sooner the better if it suits you
09:56i will come at noon oh i'm always here but i have my hours you mean the times when you receive
10:03they never receive but i'll see you at noon i shall be punctual may i shake hands on our contractor
10:15i belong to a time when that was not the custom oh well you will do just as well yes yes to show it's
10:25all arranged yes miss warderall shall you bring the money in gold aren't you afraid of having such a
10:38sum of gold in the house of whom should i be afraid if i'm not afraid of you
10:45since when and that was eight weeks ago i've had neither sight nor sound of either of them
10:58i sit here like the weaver bird in my beautiful nest waiting for the women folk to arrive and they do
11:02not come you lack boldness charles faversham richard bream if you please it suits you ill however richard
11:13bream you started this enterprise with panache you follow through with timidity my dear mrs pressed
11:19what can i do i bombard them with flowers daily great arms full transmitted from my man to their girl
11:26i hang about to sala waiting to intercept miss tita but she never emerges the door remains shut
11:35and those blank eyes remain blind and shuttered
11:39i haven't even had a receipt for the rent they will lead you on to your ruin
11:47they will take all your money without showing you a scrap of their precious papers now rosa i will have them
11:54why it can't be
12:05oh dear i'm so glad you've come i'm delighted to hear it miss tita i'd begun to think that you abhorred my
12:13presence i'm so nervous out of doors at night queer silence and everything looks so strange then why make
12:19your first visitation at night it is infinitely prettier my day my aunt made me come out tonight
12:24ate you she has been less well of late oh i'm sorry to hear that i hope she's not failing at times it's
12:29as if she has no strength at all she sits utterly motionless for hours at a time she eats almost
12:36nothing i don't know what she lives on tonight she said i irritated her made her nervous that's why she
12:41made me come out here so that i'd be right away from her but i have wanted to come seeing it from
12:45my window you've made it most beautiful and what of the beautiful flowers that i have
12:51plummeted from it for you my aunt enjoys them a great deal they were for both of them
13:00why in the world do you want to know us mr breen ah now that question is not yours it's your
13:05answer you were put up to it she didn't tell me to ask you maybe not but she has wondered about it
13:11allowed so often that she has put the idea into your head that i am insufferably pushing i don't
13:16think that well upon my word she must have lost all sense of sociability if she finds it strange that
13:25two intelligent people living under the same roof cannot exchange word i don't think she does she's
13:32often urged me to come out here she said it again today when you were out here with your pretty friend oh
13:37why have you not come well when shall i see you again i should like to come out again tomorrow but
13:44i shan't i'm very far from doing everything that i like perhaps you will do some things that i like oh
13:51Hugh i don't believe you why don't you believe me because i don't understand you then you must just have
14:01faith in me must you well i shall like the flowers better now i know they're also meant for me how could
14:12you have doubted it tell me the kind that you like best and i will send you a double lot of them i like
14:19them all best oh please alone there tell me what do you do all day do you read what do i do do you read
14:30poetry novels biographies oh yes we used to read a good deal of poetry at one time yes i like poetry
14:37i read a lot in general just before i go to sleep i read some great poet nine cases out of ten
14:44then it's jeffrey aspington oh we read him we have read him he is my poet of poets i know him almost
14:55by heart by heart that's nothing my aunt when she was a girl used to know him to know to know him as
15:03a visitor visitor he used to call on her and take her out oh sionis why didn't you tell me this before
15:10i should so like to ask her about him she wouldn't care for that she wouldn't tell you oh i don't
15:16care what she cares for she must it's not a chance to be lost you should have come here 20 years ago
15:23she still talked about him then and what did she say oh i don't know that he liked her immensely and she
15:33but didn't she like him she said he was a god fancy
15:44tell me does she have a portrait of him they are distressingly rare portrait it well i don't know
15:52i must go in now could i is but surely you would know if she had one do you write about him do you
16:05pry into his life now that is another of your aunt's question it's not yours all the more reason then that
16:11you should answer it do you please yes yes i write about him and i am looking for more material
16:23it would have been less costly had you accepted the rebuff to your original letter i considered that
16:41the rebuff may have been occasioned by their having read some of the material that i had published
16:45concerning jeffrey aspern evidently you were wrong your personal charm even in the guise of richard
16:54has brought you no nearer your goal in that crumbling palazzo on that out of the way canal
17:01in the possession of that little old lady and her niece are papers that could set the world on fire
17:06and i am living there incommunicado it's about the beautiful flowers i ought to have thanked you for
17:18them a long time ago but i never write letters and i only receive at long intervals i'm afraid there have
17:27not been many of late but they shall begin again immediately tomorrow tonight do send us some tonight
17:32what else would you do with them it's not manly to make a power of your room i don't make a bar of my
17:40room but i am interested in growing flowers and watching their ways there's nothing unmanly in that
17:45it has been the amusement of philosophers of statesmen of great military men even you know i suppose that
17:52you could sell them make a bargain under rialto i am not very good at making bargains as you ought to know
18:02my man disposes of them and i ask no questions oh i should ask a few i promise you and so would
18:08your wife if you have one have you got one no you must come down and pick as many as you like as often
18:15as you like i can't imagine why she doesn't come down oh you must make her come come up and fetch her
18:23that that odd thing you've built in the corner is a capital place for her to sit wouldn't it do you
18:30good too to sit there in the shade in the sweet air oh when i move out of here it will not be into
18:38the air and it will be a very dark shade indeed but that will not be quite yet i'm not afraid to wait
18:48until i'm called and i shall have tidied up everything before then i don't think one should
18:56talk of such things oh do you pity her do you teach her to pity herself she has a much easier time than
19:04i had at her age i don't know about that some people might consider you a rather inhuman companion
19:11inhuman oh that is what the poets used to call the women a hundred years ago don't try it you won't
19:21do as well as they there's no more poetry in the world you bandy words with me you make me talk and
19:34talk and it's not good for me i'm sorry i i stayed too long do you remember the day you came to see me
19:45about the rooms i do it is the only day i've seen you since now you offered us the use of your gondola
19:52the offer still stands why don't you take the girl out and show her the place what do you want to do
20:00with me i know all about the place we'll go with him as his guide and of course the gentleman won't harm
20:09you he'll show you the famous sunsets if they still go on do they still go on oh the sun set for me a long
20:20time ago show her the piazza san marco the drawing room of europe they call it show her the shops
20:34she can take some money and buy whatever she likes aunt juliana miss teacher it would give me
20:40very great pleasure only the fear of being refused prevented me from asking you before
20:45please mary may name the hour of the day and let it be soon and shall i have the pleasure of seeing
20:53you again soon is it so necessary to your happiness i find it immensely diverting
21:03you're wonderfully simple don't you know it almost kills me how can i believe that when i see you
21:12more animated more brilliant than when i came in if you think me brilliant today you don't know what
21:17you're talking about you've never met an agreeable woman don't try and pay me compliments i have been spoiled
21:29my door shut my door shut but you may sometimes knock
21:43i am sorry i truly am i don't know what got into my aunt i think she's up to something
22:05then you must find out what it is tomorrow we will go in our little persegio through the city and end
22:11up at the piazza san marco and you can tell me all about it over an ice at florian's oh yes please
22:35thank you
22:51oh and may i have some little cakes and coffee afterwards but of course signorina oh dear no i
22:59didn't mean he thought may i but of course signorina oh dear it's so nice it hasn't changed
23:07none of it has changed you like my purchase they're charming it's such a lovely shop i always liked it
23:13i'd forgotten what an attractive place the world is how long have you been out
23:17oh i don't know since my aunt first became ill years ago by the way i found out the new notion
23:26she's got in her head she's afraid you'll go she thinks you're not happy with us you mean she is
23:30willing to make me happier well she wants you to stay on account of the rent i suppose yes by the
23:38way i i don't know if it'll make any difference to you but the money is for me how much more does she
23:45want and she ought to fix the amount so that i can stay long enough so that we can reach it well
23:51that wouldn't please me and it would be unheard of you're taking that trouble supposing i should
23:57have my own reasons for staying in fairness i think you'd do well to give up your reasons and go away
24:03altogether yes teacher they are not so easy to give up i think i know what your reasons are
24:09i wish you would help me i can't do that without being forced to my aunt why she would never consent
24:16to what you want it's all so completely deeply private and living to her she has been asked
24:22written to and it made her fearfully angry but she has got papers letters from jeffrey asperance
24:27she has got everything have you read them no they're hers she does love them so excuse me signori
24:37i haven't seen those for years yes thank you and thank you mr breen oh no it is my pleasure miss
24:45teacher yeah now tell me how pray does she propose to make me happier by allowing you to see her more often
24:56oh and why should she think that would sway me to stay on you told her yourself you found her
25:01interested no no she has guessed she has guessed my purpose she lets me think there is a chance
25:11while she monstrously plunders me she is clever with people but she does it for me yes but you know she
25:19is frail she must feel that she is getting near her end how will she protect the papers then i think
25:27she'll destroy them before she dies you must prevent that oh can't you get them away from her and give
25:34them to you oh only only to look them over it isn't for myself it is simply that they would be of immense
25:40interest to public and to scholars a gentleman once wrote to aunt juliana using almost those words
25:47she said he was a devil she told me to write back saying there weren't any papers
25:52oh poor gentleman i hope you won't consider me a devil that depends on what you asked me to do for
25:58you not to see you not to fib even i don't think you could anyway what i'm asking is you to stop her
26:06destroying those papers but i have no control of her it is she who controls me but she can't walk
26:11i'm asking is it you stop her destroying those papers stop her watch her and warn me before she
26:18commits that horrible sacrilege well i can't watch her when i'm not there
26:25well maybe she won't destroy me maybe she has left them to you in her will
26:30but if she has it will be with very strict conditions which i must observe
26:36oh
26:50that's right my girl turn up the lamp and let me look at you
26:58oh upon my soul you look positively animated if i didn't know you better i'd say you have enjoyed
27:08yourself oh i have aunt mr breen is a stimulating companion i dare say and you did you stimulate him
27:19he's very kind have word conveyed to him that he may wait upon me tomorrow is this in pursuit of your
27:30new policy of friendliness aunt the three months are up we must bargain dear niece we must bargain
27:48oh i had expected to see you in your sitting room expectations are dangerous they expose us to
27:59disappointment have you come to tell me you will take the rooms for six months more oh dear madam i'm
28:08just a poor devil of a writer who lives from day to day i don't know that i will have bread to put in
28:13my mouth six months hence i can't afford to hire palaces by the half year if you write books don't
28:19you sell them writing books is the last road to fortune oh well perhaps you don't choose the right
28:26subjects what do you write about about the books of other people i'm a critic and historian in a small
28:36way what other people better ones than myself the great writers philosophers poets of the past what do
28:44you say about them i sometimes say that they fell in love with very clever women do you think it's
28:52right to rake up the past i'm not sure what you mean by raking but how can we get at it unless we dig a
29:00little i like the past but i don't like critics neither do i but i like their discoveries aren't
29:08they mostly lies unless they fail to uncover the truth the truth is god's not man's who can judge who
29:19can say we are terribly in the dark i know but unless we try to judge we have nothing by wooden by which to
29:27measure the great works you talk like a tailor this house is very fine the proportions are magnificent i don't
29:43suppose you've ever stayed in such a fine house i can't often afford to well what will you offer for six
29:52months more why should i want to stay that long i thought you liked it here i thought i should
30:01quite frankly madam i cannot stay here at your prices i'm quite prepared to pay twice as much as
30:07i'd pay anywhere else but not 20 times as much oh very good you've done what i asked you've made me
30:15an offer but not by the half year only by the month oh well i must think about it um do you know
30:29anything about curiosities what curiosity oh antiquities the old gym cracks people pay so much for
30:41today did you want to buy something well i might want to sell what would a collector give me for that
30:53i would part with it only for a very good price what a striking face
31:00do tell me who it is oh it's an old friend of mine a very distinguished man in his day
31:15he gave it to me himself i'm afraid to mention his name in case you've never heard of him critic and
31:23a historian though you are the world goes fast but he was all the fashion when i was young
31:35the face torments me it comes back surely he was a celebrity a a writer a a poet it's only someone who
31:45knew without asking who would give me my price well then you have a price i know the least i would take
31:53i want to know the most i can get
31:59well i should very much like to have it for myself but with your idea of prices dear madam
32:05i very much doubt if i could afford it
32:06would buy the likeness of a man you don't know by an artist you never heard of and the artist may
32:16have no reputation but the thing is wonderfully well painted oh it's lucky you said that the artist was
32:24my father ah that indeed makes it precious if you would entrust it with me for 24 hours i would be happy to
32:32take advice on it for you in any event i hope that you will not offer it without giving me first refusal
32:42i would want your money first oh
32:48what do you and my niece talk about when you take her out you make it sound as though it were a regular
32:55occurrence indeed i hope it may become so as for your question i never betray a lady's confidences
33:02confidences has she got confidences to betray why here she is she can answer for herself miss
33:11teeter have you any confidences your aunt wishes very much to know i don't know what to do with
33:18her she has bits of horrid imprudence she's so easily tired and yet she has begun to roam to drag
33:22herself around i know what i'm about i'm not out of my mind i dare say you wish i were perhaps you
33:30will come upstairs next to visit me oh no i can keep an eye on you from here you are very tired and
33:38you will certainly be ill tonight nonsense my dear i feel better today than i felt for a month i shall
33:46come out again tomorrow i want to keep my eye on this clever gentleman perhaps i could see you in your
33:56sitting room oh yes no doubt you think you would have a better chance at me there you excite her
34:03dreadfully and that's not good for her i want to watch you i want to watch you all the more reason why
34:12we should spend as much of our time together as possible oh no i've seen enough of you today
34:19i'm satisfied i want to go home oh please allow me
34:27oh yes you may move me this way but you shan't in any other
34:50i may not have held her hand but at least i've pushed her chair
34:53yes but you're no nearer your letters are you mr breen mr breen my aunt is very ill i think she's dying
35:09she was over excited i knew she would be she became suddenly oppressed here she had to fight for
35:17every breath when it subsided she was left like this where is the doctor has she been taken like
35:25this before never so badly where is the doctor my man is perfectly competent he will find the doctor
35:31and fetch him directly
35:35she likes it this way she's had these old band boxes with her nearly all her life
35:39those papers we talk of so much we're in there we're in there you mean they're not there now
35:50i am so sorry to hear the news
35:52i am so sorry to hear the news if you would excuse me signor but of course i shall be in the sala
36:01how long has she been like this about an hour
36:13the doctor's given us something he's gone for some more specific medicine is she conscious does she
36:35speak no she doesn't speak but she takes my hand olympia is with her
36:49where are they i'm sorry the papers you said they were in the trunk you implied that they were not
36:55there now no they're not i looked for you you mean that you would have given them to me had you
37:00found them i don't know what i would do would you look again somewhere else i can't while she lies
37:08there it isn't decent no it isn't decent i can't deceive her that way i can't deceive her perhaps on
37:14her deathbed no heaven forbid that i should ask you to deceive although i have been guilty myself
37:22you have been guilty of deceit i don't know how long i could have sustained it perhaps i could but
37:27somehow you shame me my name is not richard breen that letter that your aunt received that made her
37:38so angry was from me i am the devil about whom she swore when she got it one of the rakers up of the
37:45past then your real name what is it charles faberisham charles faberisham charles faberisham
37:55i like it better than richard breen so do i it is a great relief to get rid of mr breen how much
38:04you must want them at least i think i have never deceived you about that if i may revert to them
38:11i'm sorry but how is she capable of moving their hiding place i mean she she can't she can't walk she
38:20can't lift or carry when one wants and when one has so much will oh heavens how she must feel i hound
38:28her i feel as if you were a new person now that you've got a new name no it's not a new one it's a
38:34very old one thank him i do like it yes but if she is capable of changing their hiding place she is also
38:41capable of burning them i will find out but you must be patient i said before i didn't know what i
38:47would do i realized now what i wouldn't do i wouldn't deceive her and i don't think i ever
38:53promised that i don't think it matters whether you did or did not for i'm sure you couldn't
39:00it's the doctor back i must go to my aunt what will you do and take mrs pressed for a walk
39:06i may have your leave to return for news soon yes of course i'll be here
39:11signorina i have brought something
39:35signorina i have brought something to you please come rosa i'll take you home
40:05signorina nice tea-type
40:09miss tea-type
40:22miss tea-type
40:24miss tea-type
40:35Let's go.
41:35You publishing scoundrel!
41:50You mean no harm.
42:05Come.
42:17I'm sorry I ran away.
42:31You had no need.
42:32It wasn't your fault.
42:33She lived for three days.
42:35That night I had simply come for news.
42:40I wouldn't have.
42:41I couldn't.
42:42The doctor said it was only a matter of time.
42:44A very short time.
42:47The funeral, the arrangements, I might have been expected to help.
42:50Your friend Mrs. Prest helped wonderfully.
42:52We've become great friends.
42:54She sees me every day.
42:58Knowing my obsession you will forgive me.
43:02I have come to know my fate.
43:04Your fate?
43:05About our papers, our famous papers.
43:07Were there any?
43:09Yes, there were a great many, more than I had supposed.
43:12May I see them?
43:14I'm afraid not.
43:16Oh no.
43:18You didn't make a deathbed promise.
43:20No, it isn't a promise.
43:21Then what?
43:22She tried to burn them, far gone as she was.
43:24But I prevented it.
43:26She'd hidden them under her mattress.
43:28She told me.
43:30She charged me, sacredly.
43:34Oh, it was terrible.
43:37And what did you do?
43:39I took them away.
43:41For me?
43:42Yes, for you.
43:44And what good will you have done me if after all I can't see them?
43:47Oh, none. I know that. I know that.
43:51Did she believe that they would be destroyed?
43:53I don't know what she believed at the last.
43:56If there is no promise, I cannot see what ties you.
43:59You would understand if you'd really known her.
44:02How much she hated it.
44:04How she felt violated by the thought of strangers prying.
44:07Somehow to have given up the papers, it would seem like...
44:11Impiety.
44:13Sacrilege.
44:19If you regard the interdiction
44:23that rests upon your conscience as insurmountable,
44:27then there is nothing more to be said.
44:30I can't tempt you to do anything that you would feel to be base.
44:36I will importune you no longer.
44:40Naturally, I will give up my rooms here.
44:42I leave Venice immediately.
44:44Oh, must you?
44:46Well, naturally, if I can be of the least service to you.
44:49Well, my aunt was trying to say something the last day.
44:54Something she wanted to say very badly.
44:57But she couldn't.
44:59About what?
45:01Something more about the papers.
45:03The papers.
45:05And did you know?
45:06Could you guess?
45:07No.
45:08I've thought.
45:10I've thought all sorts of things but...
45:14I don't know.
45:16Well, for instance?
45:18Well...
45:20If you were a relation it would be different.
45:24If I were a relation?
45:27Well, if you were not a stranger...
45:32Then it would be the same for you as for me.
45:35Anything that is mine would be yours and you could do what you like.
45:38She was very fond of me, you see.
45:40She...
45:41She wanted me to be happy.
45:43And if anyone should be kind to me, she wanted to speak of that.
45:49She knew I should like it if you could carry out your ideas.
45:53You could see the letters.
45:54You could use them.
45:56If you were not a stranger.
46:02Oh.
46:03I would give you everything.
46:08And she would understand where she is and forgive me.
46:12Mm-hmm.
46:32I had hoped.
46:34I had imagined.
46:36It was not all calculation on his part.
46:38I outlined a circumstance in which it might be possible.
46:44To give him his precious papers.
46:48Oh, my dear.
46:50He has fled as you can see.
46:53He will be back.
46:55No, I saw his face.
46:58I know him.
47:00As you are well aware.
47:02With Charles his head will always rule his heart.
47:05His calculation is contemptuous.
47:09But it is also heroic.
47:13I promise you.
47:14He needs those papers so badly.
47:16You may have him.
47:19If you want him.
47:23How can I have him on those terms?
47:26My dear.
47:27Many marriages have been based on harder bargains than this.
47:34I will send him to you.
47:39Oh, no.
47:41Wait.
47:42What does she say?
47:58I told you a long time ago, Charles.
48:01There would be a price to pay.
48:04It's settling day.
48:05I'm sorry.
48:06You must stay here.
48:07I'm sorry you must think me very ill-mannered
48:37unmanly even it is just that I have been very overwrought for a long period
48:43and the papers have obsessed me
48:47many more than you anticipated you said
48:52you know that I have always held you in the very deepest respect
49:01and respect can be the beginning of many things
49:07it's I who should apologize
49:10you must have thought me deranged
49:13my only excuse is that I too have been overwrought
49:17what with my aunt's death
49:19I had no right to inflict on you my aunt's imagined fantasies
49:24of things that could never be
49:26could never be
49:27exactly
49:28I realize that as you have done
49:31things cannot be as romantic old ladies would have them
49:35life is not like that
49:37which is why I burned the papers two days ago
49:43burned?
49:46I didn't know what else to do with them given how she felt
49:49but you said I could see them
49:52and I could have them if I agreed
49:54I'm sorry
49:58what I said was
50:01I felt that that was what my aunt was suggesting
50:05and I might have been quite wrong even in that
50:06even so
50:07I can see as you have done
50:09that it would never do
50:11burned
50:15I start on a little trip tomorrow
50:19thanks to you there's money in the house
50:22we shan't see each other again
50:26I belong to a time when it is the custom to shake hands with friends
50:34goodbye Mr. Favisham
50:37goodbye
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