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Clip from 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, Brenda Kempner as Bertha Mason, Isabelle Rosin as Adele. Directed by Joan Craft.
Transcript
00:00There.
00:02I declare, Miss Jane, you look almost pretty.
00:06Mr. Rochester may be proud of his bride after all.
00:11Try the veil.
00:13It is too fine.
00:15I should have preferred a square of plain lace.
00:18But it was worn by Mr. Edward's mother and her mother before her.
00:22That only serves to make it too solemn an object for such as I.
00:25What nonsense!
00:27You may wear it with head held high.
00:30Have you not won him against all odds?
00:32It's like a dream.
00:34I cannot believe it.
00:36Do you believe it is true?
00:37Do you ever have anyinations of full Playstation, which seem to be worth it?
00:39Do you think of it?
00:40Here we go.
00:41Ello, let's get into it.
00:51I am going through trying to floss it.
00:52Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
01:22Sophie?
01:46Sophie what are you doing?
01:52Sophie?
02:22Sophie?
02:28Sophie?
02:30Sophie?
02:32Sophie?
02:34Sophie?
02:36Sophie?
02:38Sophie?
02:40Sophie?
02:42Sophie?
02:44I do with my whole heart.
02:46Look wicked Jane.
02:48Coin one of your wild shy provoking smiles.
02:50Tease me.
02:52Vex me as you have these last weeks.
02:54Tell me you hate me.
02:56I will tease you and vex you sir to your heart's content when I finish my tale.
03:02I thought you told me all.
03:04I thought I'd learned the source of your melancholy in a dream.
03:07There's more.
03:09I'll not believe it.
03:11I warn you of incredulity beforehand.
03:14His disquietude, his apprehensive impatience surprised me.
03:19Was I looking for comfort where there would be none?
03:23I woke from my dream of Thornfield as a dreary ruin.
03:27And a light dazzled my eyes.
03:29Daylight I thought.
03:31No, a candle.
03:32Sophie has come in.
03:34Then a form emerged and my blood crept cold in my veins.
03:38Sophie I cried.
03:40But it was not she, nor Leah, nor Mrs Fairfax.
03:43No, nor even that strange woman, Grace Poole.
03:46It must have been one of them.
03:48No sir, I solemnly assure you.
03:50It seemed a woman.
03:52Tall, with thick dark hair.
03:55Her face...
03:56I wish I could forget that savage face.
04:01She took my wedding veil and placed it over her head.
04:06Then?
04:07Then what did she do?
04:09I removed the veil once more and rent it in two parts.
04:13Then she came towards me, thrust the candle close to my face.
04:17Her lurid visage flamed over mine.
04:20For only the second time in my life...
04:23I became insensible from terror.
04:26Great God.
04:31Who was with you when you revived?
04:33No one but the broad day, sir.
04:36The creature of an over-stimulated brain.
04:39No sir, the thing was real.
04:41As your previous dreams?
04:43Is Thornfield a ruin?
04:45Am I leaving you without a tear, a kiss, a word?
04:49Not yet.
04:50Not yet.
04:51Am I about to?
04:53There.
04:55The clock announces the day which is to bind us...
04:58indissolubly.
05:00And once we are united...
05:03There shall be no recurrence of these mental terrors, I assure you.
05:06It was no mental terror, sir.
05:09For there on the carpet in full daylight was the veil torn in two.
05:14Oh, my darling.
05:17I thank God if anything malignant had come near you last night, it was only the veil that was torn.
05:22Do you think what might have happened?
05:25Now...
05:27It was half dream, half true.
05:29A woman did I doubt not enter your room, tear your veil, and that woman was Grace Poole.
05:33Oh, no, sir.
05:34Yes, it was she.
05:35In a state between waking and sleeping you ascribe to her a goblin appearance different from her own.
05:40Her hair, her black face.
05:42But I had not referred to the blackness of her face.
05:44I see you would ask why I keep such a woman as Grace Poole in my house, and I will tell you.
05:53When we've been married a year and a day.
05:56Are you satisfied, Jane?
05:58Do you accept my solution of the mystery?
06:01It seems the only possible one, sir.
06:04Satisfied I was not.
06:06But to please him I answered with a contented smile.
06:09It is something of relief, sir.
06:11Could you not share Adele's bed tonight?
06:14It is no wonder the incident has made you nervous.
06:17Promise me to go to the nursery.
06:19I shall be glad to.
06:20And fasten the door securely on the inside.
06:25And now no more somber thoughts.
06:28Chase dull care away, Janet.
06:32The wind has fallen.
06:35It's a lovely night.
06:41The night is serene.
06:44And so am I.
06:45And tonight you will not dream of separation and sorrow.
06:49But of happy love and blissful union.
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