00:00This additional ceremony seemed somewhat stately.
00:03However, I replaced my black stuff dress by another of black silk.
00:07The best and only additional one I had, except one of light grey, which in my
00:12Lowood notions of toilette, I thought too fine to be worn except on first-rate occasions.
00:20Here is Miss Eyre, sir.
00:24Let Miss Eyre be seated.
00:25I sat down quite disembarrassed.
00:31A reception of Finnish politeness would probably have confused me,
00:35but harsh caprice such as this laid me under no obligation.
00:44The eccentricity of the proceedings was piquant.
00:47I simply studied my traveller of the night before.
00:49Pray accept my condolences, sir, on the pressure of business you have had to endure today,
00:56particularly as your ankle must have pained you.
01:02Clearly Mrs Fairfax's kindly but trite observations pained him more.
01:07Madam, I should like some tea.
01:13Oh, of course, sir.
01:16You've been resident in my house three months.
01:21Miss Eyre.
01:23Yes, sir.
01:26Mrs Fairfax, have the goodness to amuse this child.
01:28She thinks of naught but presents.
01:29Come, Adele.
01:33Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre?
01:36Oh, no, sir.
01:37I have little experience of them.
01:39Unlike Adele, I have less confidence in my desserts.
01:42And no claim being a stranger to you.
01:44Oh, don't fall back on over-modesty.
01:46I've examined Adele and find you've taken great pains with her.
01:49She has no talents, but she's made much improvement.
01:52Sir, you have given me my present.
01:53The Mead teachers covet most praise of their pupils' progress.
01:58Hmm.
02:01And you come from where?
02:03Lowood School, sir, in the West Riding.
02:05Ah, a charitable concern.
02:07How long were you there?
02:09Eight years.
02:10Eight?
02:12You must be tenacious of life.
02:14I'd have thought half the time in such a place would have done up any constitution.
02:19No wonder you have the look of another world.
02:20Well, bring Miss Eyre her cub, too, if you please.
02:24Adele.
02:34When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales.
02:38I had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse.
02:41Had you?
02:42No, sir.
02:43Promptly spoken.
02:44Do I believe you?
02:49Who are your parents?
02:50I have none.
02:51Nor ever had, I suppose.
02:54Do you remember them?
02:55No, sir.
02:56I thought not.
02:59So, you were waiting for your people when I saw you in the lane.
03:03For whom, sir?
03:03For the men in green.
03:05It was a proper moonlight evening for them.
03:08Did I break through one of your rings that you spread that damned ice on the courseway?
03:12The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago.
03:16Not even in Hay Lane or the fields about it would you find a trace of them.
03:20I don't think summer, harvest or winter moon will ever shine on their revels more.
03:24So, no kinsfolk of any sort?
03:31No, sir.
03:32No aunts, uncles, cousins?
03:34No.
03:35Who recommended you to come here?
03:37I advertised and Mrs Fairfax answered my advertisement.
03:41Yes, and I am daily thankful for the choice Providence led me to make.
03:45Miss Eyre has been an invaluable companion to me and a kind and careful teacher to Adele.
03:51Oh, don't trouble yourself to give her a character.
03:53I shall judge for myself.
03:54She began by felling my horse.
03:58Sir?
03:58Sir?
03:59I have to thank her for this sprain.
04:01Oh, I'm sure not.
04:02Oh, but I am.
04:03Mr Rochester, will my vip for me to...
04:05Mrs Fairfax, I charged you to amuse Adele.
04:07Oh, yes.
04:08Come, come, child.
04:09I cannot endure her prattle.
04:12Too like a mother.
04:15Miss Eyre, have you ever lived in a town?
04:17No, sir.
04:18Have you seen much society?
04:20None but the pupils and teachers at Lowood.
04:22Oh, and now the inmates of Thornfield.
04:26Oh.
04:28Have you read much?
04:29Only such books as came my way.
04:32They have not been numerous or very learned.
04:35You've lived the life of a nun.
04:38No doubt you're well drilled in religious forms.
04:40Brocklehurst, who I understand directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?
04:44Yes.
04:45You girls probably worshipped him, as a convent of religieurs would worship their director.
04:51Oh, no.
04:52You're very cool.
04:54No.
04:55What, a novice not worshipped her priest?
04:57That sounds blasphemous.
05:00He starved us when he had sole superintendents of the school,
05:03before the committee was appointed.
05:05And he bored us with long lectures once a week.
05:08He is a harsh man, at once pompous and meddling.
05:11I disliked him.
05:13And I was not alone in the feeling.
05:14Hold it straight, child.
05:16Hold it straight.
05:17Hold it straight.
05:18How old are you, Miss Eyre?
05:2018, sir.
05:23Point difficult to fix in your case.
05:25Such freshness of feature.
05:27A light to so decisive a spirit.
05:31Now, what did you learn at school?
05:33Can you play the piano?
05:35A little, sir.
05:36And the established answer.
05:38Go into the library.
05:41I mean, if you please.
05:43You must excuse my tone of command.
05:44I'm used to saying, do this and it's done.
05:47I cannot alter my customary habits for one new inmate of Thornfield.
05:51And take a candle with you.
05:52Leave the door open.
05:53Sit down at the piano and play a tune.
06:16Thanks, sir.
06:23Please.
06:30Thanks, Bill.
06:36Thanks, Bill.
06:40Thanks, Bill.
06:44enough you play like any other English school girl
06:52perhaps you play better than some school girls but not well
07:04I said I played a little sir yes Adele showed me some sketches this morning she said they were
07:13yours I don't know whether they're entirely you're doing probably a master aided you
07:17no indeed ah that pricks pride well fetch your portfolio if you can vouch for his contents
07:25being original I warn you I can recognize patchwork I did not doubt him he seemed at
07:36some pains to expose his worldliness to my inexperience
07:40no crowding
08:10Mrs Fairfax take these others to the table you may look at them with Adele thank you
08:15where did you get your copies out of my head sir and that head I see on your shoulders I have no other
08:28has it more furniture of the same kind within I should think it may have I should hope better
08:36did you sit along each day painting these yes it was the vacation and I sat at them from morning
08:47till noon from noon till night oh the length of the midsummer days favored my inclination to apply
08:52and were you happy I was absorbed sir yes I was happy to paint them was to enjoy one of the keenest
09:03pleasures I've ever known that's not saying much your pleasures by your own account have been few
09:07I dare say you did exist in a kind of artist dreamland
09:12did you feel self-satisfied with these results of your long labors
09:18far from it I was tormented between my idea and my handiwork in each case I'd imagine something
09:26something I was quite powerless to realize not quite you've secured the shadow of your thought
09:33were you not enough skill to give it full being
09:35yet these are for a schoolgirl peculiar as to the thoughts they are elfish
09:43and who taught you to paint wind there's a high gale in that sky
09:49that hilltop is latmos
09:51where did you see latmos
09:56where
10:01put them away
10:04it's nine o'clock
10:11what are you about miss eyre to let adele sit up so long take her to bed
10:15and wish you all good night off with you
