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Clip from Jane Eyre 1973, E3. The fascinating adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, starring Sorcha Cusack as Jane Eyre, Michael Jayston as Edward Fairfax Rochester, Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Fairfax, Stephanie Beacham as Blanche Ingram, Juliet Waley as young Jane, Geoffrey Whitehead as St. John Rivers, Jean Harvey as Mrs. Reed, Isabelle Rosin as Adele. Directed by Joan Craft
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00:00Will you have a flower?
00:11Thank you, sir.
00:26Were you frightened when I left you alone with Mason?
00:28Very. I feared lest some...
00:32someone come from the inner room.
00:34But I'd lock the door.
00:36I should have been a careless shepherd if I'd left a lamb.
00:38My pet lamb.
00:40So near a wolf's den unguarded.
00:44Will Grace Poole continue to live here, sir?
00:46Yes.
00:47And the danger you feared last night for Mr. Mason.
00:50Is that now gone?
00:52Not till he's out of England.
00:54To live for me is to stand upon a crater crust, Jane.
00:58But Mr. Mason seems a man easily led.
01:01He would not defy you, surely?
01:03No.
01:04Not knowingly hurt me.
01:06But unintentionally he might.
01:08One careless word, Jane, could deprive me if not of life,
01:12yet forever of happiness.
01:14But tell him so, sir.
01:16If I could do that, simpleton, where would the danger be?
01:26You look puzzled.
01:28I will puzzle you further.
01:31You...
01:33You're my friend, are you not?
01:36I'd like to serve you, sir, and obey you.
01:39In all that is right.
01:41Yes, in all that is right.
01:43Yes.
01:44You're implacable, Jane.
01:46Properly so.
01:49But suppose you're no longer a girl,
01:51well-reared and disciplined,
01:53but a wild boy as I was,
01:54indulged from childhood upwards.
01:58Imagine yourself in a remote, foreign land.
02:02Conceive that you commit there a capital error.
02:04Mind, I do not say crime.
02:06My word is error.
02:08The results of which...
02:10dog you all your life.
02:15Suppose...
02:16twenty world-weary years after,
02:18you discover a stranger...
02:21whose goodness and true qualities revive you.
02:24Regenerate you.
02:27What then, sir?
02:28Yes.
02:32What then?
02:38Is the wandering and sinful but repentant man
02:41justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom?
02:44A mere conventional impediment
02:47in order to attach to him this
02:50gentle, gracious stranger
02:53who can work his reformation?
02:55I think not, sir.
02:57Salvation should never depend on a fellow creature,
02:59but on God.
03:00But God ordains the instrument.
03:05And I believe...
03:06I have found the instrument for my cure in...
03:13In Miss Ingram.
03:15Don't you think if I married her,
03:17she'd regenerate me with a vengeance?
03:19She's a rare one.
03:21Is she not, Jane?
03:23You say nothing?
03:26Yes, sir.
03:28Hmm.
03:29A deliberate silence, I see.
03:34Bless me, there's Ingram and Lynn up already.
03:38Go in by the shrubbery.
03:40Show the wicket.
03:42Mason got the start of you all this morning.
03:45He was gone before sunrise.
03:46I will go, he's not too old, but he's still a good guy with a bald axe.
03:48Good guy, I'm sad.
03:50You're tired...
03:52My dreams are real.
03:54I'm so sorry for your sleep here.
03:56I'm gonna be hungry, I'm so sorry for the rest of you,
03:57I'm so sorry for your sleep here,
03:59because I love you, I'm so sorry.
04:01I'm so sorry for the shift or your mask.
04:03I'm so sorry for my breath, I'm so sorry for the rest of you,
04:04I'm so sorry for you.
04:06You're right, OK.
04:07I'm so sorry for everybody.
04:08But you're going to be a day later.

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