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An adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.
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00:30How was he?
00:42Well, enough.
00:50What were you thinking of, Gilbert? You could have killed him!
00:53What was I supposed to think? I saw you together.
00:55Of course you thought what they all think.
00:57And if I did, whose fault is that?
01:03I never listened to their gossip.
01:05I defended you.
01:07And then I saw you both.
01:09And I heard what you said.
01:11If you had met me on the moors as I asked,
01:13you could have heard what I had to say in my own justification!
01:15Well, I'm here now!
01:16Would it please you to discover I am not so very bad as you imagine?
01:34Would please me to know the truth?
01:35I know the truth.
01:44Very well, then.
01:55Read this.
01:55I trust to your honor not to breathe a word of it to anyone.
02:06Here in this haven of Wildfell, I feel almost free at last.
02:25Except for one haunting care, the dread of discovery.
02:28After all that has befallen me, it is hard to revisit the spirit of my youth.
02:33But I shall set it all down now, as it was, as a lesson to myself.
03:07When I was just 18, my aunt and uncle brought me to London for the season.
03:12By the end of which, it was my aunt's intention to have me settled and well provided for.
03:16But I was young, and full of romantic notions.
03:21Childhood acquaintances who had teased a gawky 12-year-old
03:24and shunned her attempts to join in their sport had now grown and changed.
03:29Much to their surprise, so had I.
03:37Always remember to receive every attention coldly and dispassionately
03:42till you have ascertained and duly considered its work.
03:45Yes, aunt.
03:46I fear, my dear, you have rather too much beauty for a young girl.
03:50I hope you may never have cause to regret it.
03:53Why should you fear it, aunt?
03:55Beauty invariably attracts the very worst kind of men.
03:58It could lead to a great deal of trouble.
04:00Have you ever been troubled in that way, aunt?
04:02Believe me, Helen, matrimony is a serious thing.
04:05Please, I'd like to introduce my good friend, Mr. Forrest.
04:11Delighted.
04:18I recalled Arthur Huntingdon as a bold and reckless child,
04:22surrounded then, as now, by mischievous companions.
04:26My aunt took great care to keep me away from him.
04:29Her intentions were admirable.
04:31Her choice of men was not.
04:33I still shudder at the remembrance of Mr. Boreham's voice droning in my ear.
04:43Nothing could dislodge him.
04:47May I have the honor?
04:53Mr. Huntingdon, where's the house?
04:57Of course, dear.
04:59I thought you needed rescuing.
05:01How chivalrous.
05:03My motives were entirely selfish, I assure you.
05:09Who wouldn't choose to dance with the most beautiful woman in the room?
05:12ami.
05:20No.
05:21No.
05:23More.
05:24No.
05:25No.
05:29No.
05:30No.
05:34No.
05:35Your old beau is still making picky eyes at you.
05:54Mr. Borum.
05:56How appropriate.
05:58Are you always so uncivil, Mr. Huntington?
06:01Oh, you favor him.
06:02I misunderstood.
06:03Let me return you to him directly.
06:07I see you are quite as wicked as they say you are.
06:11It's true.
06:12But a little daily talk with you, I'm sure, would make me quite a saint.
06:33You could not have found a man with a worse reputation.
06:47He behaved as a perfect gentleman to me.
06:49Naturally.
06:50You sort always do at first.
06:52Always depend on a robe for a beguiling manner.
06:54What is a poor, beguiling rogue to do, aunt?
06:57If every woman followed your advice, society would soon come to an end.
07:02What do you think of Mr. Borum?
07:04Mr. Borum?
07:05A sober, sensible, respectable man.
07:07A 50?
07:0840.
07:08Oh, aunt!
07:0945, perhaps.
07:11Well, how do you like him?
07:13I have no doubt Mr. Borum would be a worthy and devoted partner throughout life's pilgrimage.
07:19You do?
07:19I do.
07:20I have it on the best authority.
07:21He told me so himself.
07:23And what did you say?
07:23I assured him I should not fail to recommend him to any pilgrim ladies of 50 I happen to meet.
07:42Mr. Huntingdon.
07:48Very pretty.
07:50It's not finished.
07:52Very fitting.
07:54Spring just opening into summer.
07:58Girlhood just ripening into womanhood.
08:01Is she dreaming of her sweetheart, imagining how tender and faithful she'll be to him?
08:07Or perhaps how tender and faithful he will be to her.
08:12I suppose so.
08:13The young are very hopeful.
08:14You think her deluded then?
08:20I might have said so once.
08:22Now I say, give me the girl I love and I will swear eternal constancy to her through summer, winter, youth and age.
08:37You can't look at those.
08:47They're just sketches.
08:48I love a young girl's sketches.
08:50Ooh, it works.
08:54It's got me rather well, I think.
08:55Mr. Huntingdon, I insist you give me that back.
08:57It is mine and you have no right to it.
08:59Since you value it so much, I'm not deprived of it.
09:02Helen!
09:05Helen!
09:06Oh.
09:17Helen?
09:17Helen?
09:17Helen?
09:17Helen?
09:17Helen?
09:18Helen?
09:18Helen?
09:18Helen?
09:19Helen?
09:19Helen?
09:20Helen?
09:20Helen?
09:21Helen?
09:21Helen?
09:22As the weeks passed, my aunt's disapproval of Mr. Huntingdon served only to increase my fascination.
09:36She persisted in her hopes that Mr. Boren would win me over.
09:40But Arthur Huntingdon was always in my thoughts and dreams.
09:44Yes.
09:54I look forward to our every meeting, although too rarely did we have a chance to be alone
09:59together.
10:00Miss Lawrence?
10:01Mr. Hargrave.
10:02Good evening.
10:03Lord Loughborough.
10:04Miss Lawrence.
10:05Miss Lawrence.
10:06Good evening.
10:10Miss Lawrence.
10:16Mr. Borough.
10:20His attentions to me were strangely fitful.
10:34Sometimes he would shower me with compliments and seeming affection.
10:38But whenever Annabella Wilmot was in the room,
10:42he scarcely seemed to notice me at all.
11:00Helen.
11:06What is it?
11:08It's nothing.
11:10Nothing?
11:12Nothing to you, Mr. Huntington.
11:15Are you sure it's nothing to me?
11:18Please leave me.
11:20Only if you tell me what you're thinking of.
11:23You are excessively impertinent.
11:26Do you want me to go?
11:29Yes.
11:31Or shall I tell you a secret?
11:35Do you want me to tell you a secret, Helen?
11:37Shall I tell you that, compared to you, Annabella Wilmot is a flaunting peony, compared to a wild, sweet rosebud?
11:48Shall I tell you that I love you to distraction?
11:52Am I still being impertinent, Helen?
11:54Please.
11:57Please.
11:59Shall I tell you that I can't live without you?
12:03You mustn't say such things.
12:05Why?
12:06Because you don't mean them.
12:08Oh, but I do.
12:09I never meant anything more in my life.
12:30Marry me, Helen.
12:31What do you say?
12:43Tell me you love me.
12:44Hello.
13:11Hello.
13:11Hello.
13:12I beg ten thousand
13:20pardons, Mrs. Maxwell. Don't be too severe
13:22upon me. I've been asking
13:24your sweet niece to take me for better or for worse
13:26and
13:26she informs me she cannot think of it without her
13:30aunt and uncle's consent. We will talk of this
13:32another time, sir. You're wanted in the drawing room.
13:34I know I'm a presumptuous dog to dream
13:36of possessing such a treasure, but
13:37I swear
13:38I would sacrifice
13:41body and soul
13:44for sweet Helen's happiness. Body and soul,
13:47Mr. Huntingdon. Sacrifice your
13:49soul. Well, I would lay down
13:51my life. That will hardly be required of you.
13:54What I mean is I have never... Your meaning is transparent,
13:57sir. The company await you.
14:00He is
14:00dissolute, lightheaded and vain,
14:02and he is recklessly squandering his fortune.
14:05I do truly believe that his worst
14:06vice is thoughtlessness. I must say, Helen,
14:08I thought better of your judgment than this.
14:11I love him, aunt.
14:16I'm afraid he is not kind.
14:19He only wants for guidance.
14:21May I not love the sinner, but hate the sin?
14:23May I not love the sinner, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin, but hate the sin
14:53I'd like to keep you in the museum.
15:20Just for me.
15:23I'd come and look at you.
15:35My work of art.
15:49My work of art.
15:54My wife.
16:00My work of art.
16:14Gilbert, the most dreadful news.
16:18It's Mr. Lawrence.
16:19He's been attacked.
16:20They say his head's all broken open.
16:21His body covered in bruises.
16:23What nonsense.
16:30It was you, wasn't it?
16:36Just leave me alone.
16:40Get out!
16:45What's he thinking?
16:58Oh, it's nothing.
17:02Tell me.
17:06Actually, I was thinking of someone I used to know.
17:18Lady Eleanor Fane.
17:20Fane?
17:21That was many years ago.
17:24I can't think why she should pop into my mind now.
17:29Was she...
17:30Was, my love?
17:33Was she what?
17:35You and she...
17:37Were you...
17:38Poor love.
17:40I didn't mean to upset you.
17:44It's been a consequence, she had this dreadful or bore of a husband.
18:02She was married.
18:04Well, it don't look so severe.
18:09Is it such a wicked thing to make someone happy?
18:13How could it make her happy to deceive her husband?
18:19I assure you it did.
18:23Don't worry, my angel.
18:25Don't care for her now.
18:28I swear I never loved any of them half as much as I love you.
18:35If I'd known all this before, I should never have married you.
18:39Wouldn't you, my angel?
18:40No.
18:42You know, Helen, if I believed you, I'd be very angry.
18:52But luckily I don't.
19:02I hope that you'll be just happened in the last night.
19:04I will never forget.
19:05You will never forget.
19:06I can't wait to see my angel.
19:07I know.
19:09My angel, I'll never forget.
19:11I'll never forget.
19:14The artful's quite besotted. He thinks she's in love with him.
19:17And isn't she?
19:19That's the cream of the jest. The artful minx loves nothing about him.
19:22That his title and his delightful family seat.
19:25How do you know?
19:27She told me so herself.
19:29I see nothing to laugh at.
19:31I'm laughing at you now, my love.
19:44Helen.
19:48Annabella.
19:50Forgive this intrusion.
19:52But I couldn't wait to tell you my news.
19:55What do you think?
19:57Lord Lobra has proposed and I've been pleased to accept him.
20:02Don't you envy me?
20:05Do you love him?
20:08Yes, to be sure.
20:11And will you be a good wife to him, do you think?
20:13Why the best?
20:16Then I hope you'll be very happy together.
20:20We shall.
20:22Just as happy as you and Huntingdon.
20:32This is such a dull neighbourhood.
20:34It's only when my brother comes that I see anything of society.
20:38I expect you'll be going back and forth constantly to London.
20:42Not at all.
20:44Our country life suits us.
20:46We are quite content to remain at home.
20:49Really?
20:50I never knew Huntingdon to remain here about three months in an entire year.
20:55Eight.
20:56Eight.
20:57Nine.
20:58Ten.
21:00Come on.
21:01Now you, Lobra.
21:02No.
21:03No.
21:04Let me go.
21:05I told you.
21:06I've made up my mind.
21:07Getting to be a regular epidemia of this marriage business.
21:10Toast.
21:11Annabella.
21:12Annabella.
21:13Annabella.
21:14Annabella.
21:15Annabella.
21:16Annabella.
21:17Annabella.
21:18Annabella.
21:19Annabella.
21:20Annabella.
21:21Annabella.
21:22Annabella.
21:23Annabella.
21:24Annabella.
21:25Annabella.
21:26Annabella.
21:27Annabella.
21:28Annabella.
21:29Annabella.
21:30Annabella.
21:31Annabella.
21:32Annabella.
21:33Annabella.
21:34Well, I'd want some meek little homebird who'd let me go wherever I want, do whatever I like, and not a word of complaint.
21:48Well, find me one of those, and I just might be tempted.
21:54Millicent.
21:56Who?
21:56Hargrave, sister.
21:58Say, Hargrave, what about Millicent for old hatters?
22:00Oh, absolutely.
22:02Meekest girl you'd ever find.
22:04You'd love her.
22:06Hmm, just say the word, and you shall have her, old man.
22:10Millicent.
22:12Millicent.
22:13Millicent.
22:14Millicent.
22:16Millicent!
22:16Millicent.
22:17Millicent.
22:24Millicent.
22:24In.
22:26Millicent.
22:27do you tell annabella will not all our private affairs oh no my love only the spicy bits
22:43most of our private life is so unendurably virtuous i should not dream of admitting it to our friends
22:57and we're married to this pillow man
23:27hello my darling
23:30hello
23:49i'm such a brute i know
24:05oh sir i don't mean it
24:10forgive me
24:25rachel tell richards to hire you with a coach
24:37the coach where are you going to london what about our guests well i am accompanying them this very
24:46hour can i come
24:48no need for that my love i have a little business with my lawyer
24:53piece of property to sell
24:56do let me come with you
24:59what bore you my love
25:01i'm a foul london air
25:03you know how you hate the london air
25:06there are places i could visit people i could see oh arthur please
25:10helen
25:10on your health you know depends the health if not the life of our future hope
25:15i don't wish to keep you a prisoner at home if you're happy to be away
25:20oh you do worry about me
25:22well then in that case
25:25promise you i'll be back before you've even noticed i've gone
25:32arthur
25:41arthur stayed away above two months
25:42he seldom wrote and when he did he told me little about what he was doing
25:47but i did not need his letters to imagine the kind of life he led among all his dissolute
25:52companions drinking himself to oblivion
25:55when he finally returned
26:08i longed to upbraid him for his neglect
26:11but he was still my husband and the father of my child
26:14seeing him standing there
26:17his beauty strangely diminished
26:19already anticipating forgiveness
26:21my heart swelled with pity
26:24it was all i could do to hold him
26:27oh
26:34good
26:48g sharp
26:57yes
27:00oh damn it
27:07it's useless have no patience for it
27:10you just need a little practice
27:15i've invited some of the old crowd down hope you don't mind
27:23i haven't seen lobra since he got married
27:26thought it might be rather fun to see how he's liking it
27:30poor old lobra
27:36so blind
27:38well
27:40at least he's in good company
27:42i suppose i'm in for one of your lectures
28:05it's not a joke arthur
28:07unless you think it's a joke to torture me
28:10oh come now
28:11forgive me helen
28:15dear helen
28:19forgive me
28:21i promise i'll never never do it again
28:25you think it's all so amusing
28:27there was nothing i tell you
28:29don't make such a fuss
28:30nothing
28:30flirting with a woman in front of her husband's face
28:34what about your marriage vows are they nothing too
28:37but you're the one breaking the marriage vows
28:39honour and obey
28:41remember
28:41i won't be dictated to by you
28:44what will you do
28:45go on till i hate you
28:47you never hate me helen
28:49you can't hate me can you
28:53can you
28:55can you
28:56your husband was very merry last night helen
29:18is he often so
29:22no
29:22and he will not be so again
29:25you gave him a sermon did you
29:28i thought he was looking a little subdued
29:31helen you've been crying
29:37nothing like a few tears to bring them round
29:41i never cry for effect
29:44do you
29:45i never cry at all
29:47no need
29:48i make lobra cry all right
29:51have you tried anything like that
29:52not that i need to worry
29:55he worships the ground i tread on
29:57are you sure you deserve to be worshipped
30:00oh i doubt it very much
30:03but are you sure darling huntingdon
30:06deserves all the love you give him
30:08well there's a little room in that millicent
30:22well there's a little room in that millicent you should try to be more like her my love
30:39hattersey swears it's not such a jewel in all england
30:43does he love her
30:44a distraction almost as much as his horse
30:46he gave two thousand dinners for that
30:48good morning mary
30:59this is huntington
31:00i have gone to london for a few days because i cannot be happy here
31:14i have gone to london for a few days because i cannot be happy here
31:18it's a wretched thing when a man knows his wife doesn't love him trust you'll be in a better temper when i return
31:35i have gone to london
32:05yum
32:08uh
32:22uh
32:24uh
32:25uh
32:29uh
32:30uh
32:33what a wonderful picture mother child and faithful retainer mr. Hargrave
32:43pretty little fellow Rachel it's getting chilly I should take him in now I fear
32:54you must be lonely here with Huntingdon so often absent I wonder that he can
32:59stay away from all of this I expect him back very soon actually I had a letter
33:07from him this morning I wish it were the kind of thing that I could show a lady
33:12but he tells me he plans to return next week he tells me so every time he writes
33:19really how like him is it possible mrs. Huntingdon that you can rejoice at his
33:25return of course mr. Hargrave is he not my husband
33:39in truth I felt less joy than apprehension at Arthur's return
33:46he had stayed away so long I felt we should be strangers
33:55damn it you're witch pull harder Arthur
34:09who have you been I need to drink Arthur please don't start lecturing me
34:21already woman fix me a damn drink
34:24hmm
34:31mm-hmm
34:36hmm
34:37hmm
34:39hmm
34:40hmm
34:40hmm
34:50It's better.
34:56Come with me.
34:58All right?
35:00Upstairs.
35:03You've been missing me, have you?
35:05Mm-hmm.
35:15I've been missing you.
35:18You and your...
35:20...delicate goodness.
35:23And your skin.
35:38There.
35:38Isn't he lovely?
35:53Mm-hmm.
35:57Mm-hmm.
35:57Ginny, Ginny.
36:14Hello.
36:17Hello, I'm your papa.
36:20Papa.
36:22Take it, you take it.
36:27Can't you stop it, making that damn noise.
36:36He needs to sleep.
36:42There's more in one minute lavished on that little senseless, thankless oyster than you give me in a month.
36:48Now you are equal.
36:58You are really.
36:59I'm sorry.
37:29Damn you! You damn stupid hoose!
37:35Arthur, he couldn't help it. Thank you, Benson. That will be all.
37:50How dare you take a servant's fight against me?
37:53How can you care about a stupid, insensitive...
38:01like that when my nerves are being torn to shreds by his confounded blunders?
38:07I didn't know you suffered from nerves.
38:10Oh, you think I shouldn't have nerves as well as you?
38:16You... you have nothing to do.
38:19But stay at home and take care of yourself.
38:25And when my head is splitting,
38:28you have more concern for the servant than for me.
38:34Perhaps if you took a little less wine, you might...
38:38By Jove, if you start on that again,
38:40I shall order six bottles and drink them before bed!
38:47What a shame it is for a strong man like you to reduce yourself to such a state.
38:55If you knew all, my girl,
38:58you'd rather wander at bed as well as I do.
39:00I've lived more in these four months away, Helen,
39:03than you've lived in the entire course of your existence,
39:05all well until the end of your days.
39:08So you must expect to pay for it in some shape.
39:11Can't you see it's killing you?
39:14Oh, no.
39:16No, it isn't this.
39:18It isn't this that's killing me.
39:21It's you!
39:22You're the one that's killing me!
39:32Why must you always judge me, Helen?
39:36Why can't you just love me?
39:38Why?
39:52Dear Helen,
39:54what are you crying for?
39:59You know I love you.
40:02Do you?
40:04You know I do.
40:11Oh, Arthur.
40:14If only you would love yourself as much as I love you.
40:30Perhaps I know myself too well.
40:33I never had to.
40:51As the years passed, Arthur's absences grew longer.
40:55I spent many months alone in that great house with my son,
40:58my only consolation.
40:59consolation. I still loved my husband, and in his own way he loved me. Oh, but how very
41:07different from the love I could have given and once had hoped to receive. I grew to cherish
41:15the tranquility of the empty house, which was only disturbed when Arthur's friends came
41:20to visit.
41:21Helen, my dear, how are you? It's been such a long time.
41:27Mrs. Huntington? Mrs. Huntington?
41:39George!
41:43Why didn't you go and join the men? You look so silly to be always dangling after the women.
41:48Very well. Since my presence is disagreeable to you, I will relieve you of it.
42:01It would serve you right, Annabella, if you went back to his old habits. He'd be sorry then.
42:07On the contrary, I wouldn't mind if his lordship's all fit to get blind and drunk every night.
42:12Get off! Get...
42:14Here you are. Come on. Come on. You've got to enjoy yourself, even if you hate it.
42:22Get off me, I'm a drunken idiot!
42:24Ralph, please, stop.
42:27What's the matter with you? What are you crying for? Eh?
42:32I'm not crying.
42:34Don't you lie to me. Tell me! What are you crying for?
42:38Ralph, please. We're not at home now.
42:40Tell me! How can you let him treat your sister like that?
42:42Tell me! Come on, Hatters. Leave her alone.
42:45Show some respect.
42:47To your own wife.
42:59Mr. Hargrave, have you seen my husband?
43:01Mr. Hargrave, have you seen my husband? Not since...
43:03Not since he went outside.
43:07Outside?
43:07Mm. He said he needed some air.
43:31He said he needed some air.
43:32Oh, my darling.
43:34Helen.
43:39Did I startle you?
43:42What are you doing here?
43:46You'll catch a chill. Go back inside.
43:48Nonsense. It's a glorious night.
43:50Catch a death, you mad creature.
43:54Please. Go back to your guests.
43:58Are you coming in?
44:00No, no, no.
44:01Come in.
44:24I can't stay here.
44:54I know. I saw her. I saw you kissing her.
44:57I can't help you.
44:58And besides, I had to watch you kissing your fault of her husband a hundred times.
45:04Yes.
45:07But you still love her, don't you?
45:10No, not at all, I swear.
45:12But I was naked.
45:24Come here. I want to talk to you.
45:40What are you doing?
45:49Sitting up here on your own, in the dark.
45:55You look like a ghost.
46:00Won't you sit down?
46:01I would leave you tonight.
46:24I'd never again come under this roof, but for my child.
46:32What are you talking about, Helen?
46:35You know full well.
46:39I saw you and heard you tonight.
46:43Both of you.
46:44Well, what of it?
46:55Let me take my child and what's left of my money and go.
47:01Go where?
47:02Anywhere we can be safe from your contaminating influence.
47:05No.
47:10God damn it, I won't, no.
47:15Let me just take my child, then.
47:17No, not you, not him, not the money, nothing.
47:20You are my wife.
47:22Do you think I'm going to be made a laughingstock because of you?
47:25I have created no scandal.
47:27And will not either.
47:31That is up to you.
47:33Don't threaten me.
47:51That with my body I thee worship.
47:55Remember, Helen?
47:57I promised.
48:03Oh!
48:03Oh!
48:11Oh!
48:25Oh!
48:31Oh!
48:31Oh!
48:32I never want you to touch me again.
48:53Don't you know I'd find you.
48:56Wherever you went, I would find you.
49:02I would find you.
49:32I would find you.
50:02I would find you.
50:04I would find you.
50:06I would find you.
50:08I would find you.
50:10Papa!
50:12I would find you.
50:18I would find you.
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50:28I would find you.
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50:58I would find you.
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51:02I would find you.
51:04I would find you.
51:06I would find you.
51:08I would find you.
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