00:00These two persons present come now to be joined.
00:03Therefore, if any man can show any just cause
00:06why they may not lawfully be joined together,
00:09let him now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
00:14Now, no, he may yet himself recant.
00:19I require and charge you both,
00:21as you will answer at the dreadful day of judgment,
00:24when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed,
00:27that if either of you know any impediment
00:29why ye may not be lawfully joined together in that journey,
00:33ye do now confess it.
00:35For be ye well assured that so many as are coupled together,
00:39otherwise than God's word doth allow,
00:41are not joined together by God,
00:44neither is their matrimony lawful.
00:47He paused, as the custom is.
00:50The marriage cannot go on.
00:53I declare the existence of an impediment.
00:55I cannot proceed without some investigation of the charge of impediment.
01:08The objector had his opportunity. He did not take it.
01:11He's been enjoined to hold his peace forever. Proceed.
01:13I cannot, Mr. Rochester.
01:15I waited, sir, lest you might yourself recant.
01:19Proceed.
01:19The ceremony is quite broken off.
01:22I'm in a condition to prove my allegation.
01:25An insuperable impediment to this marriage exists.
01:33What is its nature?
01:35Perhaps it can be explained away.
01:37It cannot be.
01:39It simply consists in the existence of a previous marriage.
01:43Mr. Rochester has a wife now living.
01:46He disavowed nothing.
01:57Who are you?
01:58My name is Briggs, a solicitor of Essex Street, London.
02:02And you would thrust on me a wife?
02:03I would remind you of her existence, sir,
02:06which the law recognises if you do not.
02:09Favour me with an account of her,
02:11with her name, her parentage, her place of abode.
02:13Certainly.
02:23I affirm and can prove
02:25that on the 20th of October, A.D. 1821,
02:30Edward Fairfax Rochester
02:32of Thornfield Hall, Yorkshire
02:34was married to my sister,
02:37Bertha Antoinetta Mason,
02:38daughter of Jonas Mason Merchant
02:41and of Antoinetta Mason,
02:43his wife, a Creole,
02:46at the church of St. Paul,
02:48Spanish Town, Jamaica.
02:50The record of the marriage
02:52will be found in the register of that church.
02:55A copy of it is now in my possession.
02:59Signed, Richard Mason.
03:00That, if a genuine document,
03:05may prove that I have been married.
03:07But it does not prove
03:08that the woman mentioned therein
03:09as my wife is still living.
03:10She was three months ago.
03:13I have a witness to the fact
03:14whose testimony even you, sir,
03:16will scarcely controvert.
03:18Produce him.
03:20Or proceed to hell, sir.
03:22He is here.
03:23Mr. Mason,
03:26have the goodness to step forward.
03:41You.
03:43What have you to say?
03:46Please, Rochester.
03:48The devil is in it
03:49if you cannot answer distinctly.
03:50I demand again, Dick.
03:54What have you to say?
03:56Sir.
03:59Do not forget this is a sacred place.
04:03Are you aware, sir,
04:05whether or not
04:06this gentleman's wife is still living?
04:10Courage.
04:11Speak out.
04:16She is now at Thornfield Hall.
04:17I saw her there last April.
04:22Hi, my brother.
04:23At Thornfield?
04:25Impossible.
04:26I'm an old resident
04:27in this neighborhood, sir,
04:28and I've never heard
04:30of a Mrs. Rochester at the hall.
04:31No.
04:33By God,
04:34I took care
04:35that none should hear of it.
04:38He held counsel with himself,
04:41formed his resolve,
04:42and announced it.
04:44Enough!
04:45Wood, close your book.
04:46John Green, leave the church.
04:47There'll be no wedding today.
04:51Fate has outmaneuvered me,
04:53or Providence checked me.
04:56I'm little better than a devil
04:57at this moment,
04:58and deserve, no doubt,
04:59the sternest judgments of God
05:01even to the quenchless fire
05:02and deathless worm.
05:05What this lawyer
05:06and his client say is true.
05:09I am married,
05:11but to what kind of wife
05:13you shall see directly.
05:14Bertha Mason, by name,
05:18sister of this resolute personage.
05:20Cheer up, Dick.
05:21Never fear me.
05:22I'd as soon strike a woman as you.
05:24My wife
05:29is mad,
05:32gentlemen.
05:33And she came of a mad family,
05:36idiots and maniacs
05:37through three generations.
05:40I found out after I wed the daughter,
05:43for they were silent
05:44on family secrets before.
05:46Oh,
05:47I went through rich scenes.
05:49Briggs,
05:50Wood,
05:51Mason,
05:52I invite you all
05:53to visit Mrs. Poole's patient
05:54and my wife.
05:56You shall see
05:57what sort of
05:58being
05:59I was cheated
06:00into espousing,
06:01and judge whether or not
06:03I had a right
06:03to break the compact.
06:04This girl knew
06:11no more than you
06:12of the disgusting secret.
06:17She thought all was fair
06:18and legal
06:19and never dreamt
06:21she was going to be entrapped
06:22into a feigned union
06:24with a defrauded wretch.
06:25Come.
06:30All of you.
06:47For the right about every soul,
06:50away with your congratulations.
06:53who wants them,
06:55not I.
06:57They're 15 years
06:58too late!
07:02Mason!
07:05Did you never hear
07:06rumors, Wood?
07:07Some said she was
07:08my bastard half-sister,
07:09others my cast-off mistress.
07:20You remember this place,
07:21Mason?
07:22She bit and stabbed him here.
07:33Good morning, Mrs. Poole.
07:35Morning, sir.
07:36How are you
07:37on your charge today?
07:38We're tolerable, sir,
07:39thank you.
07:40Snappish,
07:41but not rageous.
07:42Be careful, sir.
07:43She sees you.
07:44You better not stay.
07:45You must allow me
07:46a few moments, Grace.
07:47You must allow me!
07:48Why do you care, sir?
07:49We better leave her.
07:50Go to that devil.
07:51Take care.
07:55You lie!
07:58You say you take me home.
08:01You say you take me home.
08:03Grace!
08:16Grace!
08:24That is my wife.
08:30Such is the sole conjugal embrace
08:35I'm ever to know.
08:40And this is what I wish to have.
08:43This young girl
08:44who stands so grave
08:46and quiet at the mouth of hell.
08:50Compare them.
08:51Then judge me,
08:54priest of the gospel
08:54and man of the law
08:55and remember
08:57with what judgment
08:58you shall be judged.
09:05Go now.
09:05I must shut up my prize.
09:14I must shut up my prize.
09:14dance about my kids out.
09:14Thanks a lot.
09:18olvidate.
09:19Farm!
09:20Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
