18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers.
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00:00I don't know what to do.
00:30A new age has been born, out of rebellion and bloodshed.
00:38I am of another time.
00:49I was raised in a different world.
00:53How could I know how unusual we were?
00:56I was the much-pampered Lady Emily Lennox.
01:01I and my sisters knew nothing of the world beyond our own.
01:05Nurse?
01:06We barely acknowledged that there was a world beyond our own.
01:10Take Lady Louisa and make her quiet.
01:14Mama, does not the pink do well enough?
01:18It's amazingly insipid.
01:20I cannot be prettier than God made me.
01:22Lady, sea-green taffeta will not alter the case.
01:27Do you want to look like a dowdy?
01:28Caroline couldn't look like a dowdy.
01:30The centre of my world was my sister Caroline.
01:35May I wear these when I'm of age?
01:37Emily, those are Caroline's for the season.
01:40Must I go to this ball?
01:41Yes, you must.
01:43It's Lord Harvey's.
01:44I wish I could go.
01:46Don't you want to get married?
01:48What objection do you have to Lord Beaufield?
01:50I have no feeling for him.
01:52Feelings will follow.
01:53They always do.
01:54Mother!
01:55You have the pick of London.
01:56Who do you want?
01:57Someone who loves me.
02:00Someone I love.
02:02We were the great-granddaughters of King Charles II.
02:05Our grandfather was the first Duke of Richmond.
02:08Our father, the second Duke.
02:10Our mother was Lady of the Bedchamber.
02:13We were of royal blood and we mixed with royalty.
02:17Does your daughter not take?
02:19She has had offers, your royal hands.
02:23A dowry of £10,000 and your rank.
02:26It would be strange if she had not.
02:29Particularly as her appearance is in no way disgusting.
02:34She is slow to decide.
02:37She is permitted to decide.
02:40She is permitted to postpone.
02:42The Duke of Richmond is an indulgent father.
02:47Caroline herself had expectations which our closed, arranged world could not satisfy.
02:55At her third season, much to my parents' dismay, she had still not found a husband.
03:01Excellent ball.
03:02Indeed, Lord Fairfield.
03:09Shall we go into supper?
03:10I believe they have lobster.
03:12Uh, perhaps they have...
03:14Shellfish don't attract me.
03:15An excellent speech today, Mr. Fox.
03:18Ah, thank you, Prime Minister.
03:20We could do with your brain in the treasury.
03:22Positions such as those are yours to dispense, Prime Minister.
03:25The royal veto runs.
03:28The king has his favourites.
03:29I'll deal with that.
03:32Ah, Lord Harvey.
03:33Mr. Fox.
03:35Splendour occasion.
03:37Oh, they have excellent pork and a lamb ragout.
03:40I wondered if I might presume on your good nature.
03:46His Majesty has wax in your hands.
03:48Me?
03:49I'm a spent force.
03:51Your force will be spent when the Thames runs dry, Lord Harvey.
03:54You mean that?
03:56Mr. Fox, your grace.
04:00These occasions, more business than pleasure.
04:03Oh, I find them full of possibility.
04:06You're not an old married man.
04:09Always bending people's ears, that Fox fellow.
04:13Can't stand still for a minute.
04:14Do you know him?
04:16Well, I play them at cards occasionally.
04:18How do you amuse yourself, Lady Carole?
04:21I like to read books.
04:23Oh, books?
04:24I've just finished A Tragedy by Voltaire.
04:27Voltaire?
04:29Henry Fox, Lady Caroline.
04:31And what did you make of Voltaire?
04:33I find him wicked.
04:34You mean he has independent thought?
04:37Well, independence of thought is not wicked.
04:39Most people think it is.
04:40Most people do not think.
04:42No?
04:43They just agree with the current fashion.
04:45Voltaire thinks.
04:47He doesn't accept anything without examination.
04:50You're right.
04:50Perhaps that's why his books are so diverting.
04:53Who's Voltaire?
04:54Your taste surprises me, Lady Caroline.
05:00What else do you read?
05:02Novels.
05:03Scandal.
05:05Philosophy.
05:06History.
05:07Are you influenced by your reading?
05:09Well, I suppose I must be.
05:10But what one enjoys in books, one may not practice in life.
05:17Is that not the pleasure of books?
05:20Books have many pleasures.
05:21As has life.
05:28Supper.
05:28Lady Caroline.
05:31Caroline became intrigued by a Mr. Henry Fox, a politician, who was quite unlike anyone any of us had met before.
05:39Caroline must choose now, before the season ends.
05:49Why doesn't she take Bowfield?
05:52He's handsome, charming.
05:54He's very sober.
05:55Will you speak to her?
05:57She's hard to persuade.
05:58Persuade?
05:59You must demand.
06:00I wish to tell you all of an event that took place when I was 18 years of age.
06:06I was bound for France.
06:07My father would regularly recount to us the story of his own arranged marriage, the moral of which was clear.
06:15I thought I still dream when I heard what he said.
06:17Marriage, my son.
06:18Get dressed for your wedding.
06:20I said, well, how can I marry?
06:21I'm going to France.
06:22What has France to do with the matter?
06:24He said, I found you a capital wife.
06:26Of course, I didn't know then how he'd found her.
06:28But he was a man of honour, my father.
06:31He would never have reneged on a gambling debt.
06:33So there we were.
06:34My father, myself, my bride.
06:37One sentence past my lips and only one.
06:39Will you marry me to that?
06:40Doughty, I said.
06:42Well, I took that girl for my wedded wife and was off to France the following day.
06:45The bride went back to the schoolroom.
06:47I was in no hurry to return from my tour.
06:50One year turned into two, two stretched to three.
06:53And when I did get back, I was slow to claim her.
06:55What did I do?
06:56I went to the theatre with a group of my friends, and there I saw a woman.
07:01A splendid woman in the box across.
07:04I couldn't wait to know who she was.
07:06And what did I discover?
07:08She was my own dear wife.
07:10The humiliation to be wagered in the hand of wist.
07:14Oh, my love.
07:16My father lost the game, but it was I who won the prize.
07:19What if she hadn't been beautiful, father?
07:21You might have been miserable.
07:23Your mother and I are happy because I obeyed my father.
07:27And we are not merely happy.
07:29We are the happiest couple in London.
07:30London is not full of happy couples.
07:33I do everything for your good.
07:34I always have.
07:35I'm the most indulgent parent in England.
07:37The affection within our family was considered unusual.
07:40But much as he adored us all, my father's indulgence had its limits.
07:46Lady Caroline.
07:49This is my sister, Emily.
07:51Mr. Fox?
07:52Lady Emily.
07:54Do we delay you?
07:56No, the Commons can wait for a while.
07:59And how are you enjoying the season, Lady Caroline?
08:02It is more duty than delight.
08:04Dancing, entertainment, flirtation.
08:07You don't like them?
08:08I enjoy solitude more than company.
08:10Hello, Henry.
08:11Peace more than bustle.
08:14Modesty more than vanity.
08:15You are too young for such preferences.
08:18It has aged.
08:18It takes preference.
08:20You are older, Mr. Fox.
08:23Yet you are no friend to solitude.
08:24I plan to take what the world has to offer.
08:28Ah, your grace.
08:30What am I to do with my daughter, Mr. Fox?
08:31She refuses all her suitors.
08:34Lady Caroline is a prize that all men would desire.
08:36If she continues in her present manner, she will end her days unwebbed.
08:39Ah.
08:40I cannot believe that.
08:42She has her mother's charm.
08:45Oh, your grace, if you will excuse me, ladies.
08:48The truffle hog.
08:58A lowly animal of insignificant habits and unfortunate appearance.
09:04God has so organised the universe that within the animal kingdom there are degrees and hierarchies just as there are in the human world.
09:14If we consider the lion, the monarch of the plains, the lion is given his strength and his power so that he may rule over lesser...
09:27Oh, you're not bored with the universe, Lady Caroline.
09:29Not in the least, Mr. Fox.
09:32But it is also their destiny to become the lion's food.
09:37Consider...
09:38Such a studious young lady.
09:40Should the cow hunt?
09:43The notion is ridiculous.
09:46The cow was designed to graze and to milk.
09:50And also committed to move.
09:52The precise position of a creature in his creation may at times be obscure.
09:59If we take time to consider our own English countryside, what may we discover there?
10:06The otter, the otter, the badger, the voe, the mouse, the frog.
10:14Does a frog have teeth?
10:16Does a frog require teeth?
10:18Whereas the weasel has a mouth full of implements designed to fight.
10:26We must not expect to...
10:29Mr. Fox.
10:32We should not be alone together.
10:37I thought I might find you in the library.
10:41Soon you will say I am bookish, which I know is a term of abuse.
10:46It is only applied to ladies who, like the truffle hog, are unfortunate in appearance.
10:51You may read from dawn to sunset and attract no criticism.
10:59It is a strange world.
11:02One wonders why God created the truffle hog.
11:06If God exists.
11:08Surely you believe in God.
11:09Do I?
11:11But you must admit there is a divine order.
11:14I would quarrel with it if I did.
11:16On what grounds would you quarrel?
11:17On the obscure position of the fox.
11:20Ah.
11:25Are you never serious, Mr. Fox?
11:27Oh, I am extremely serious.
11:29Have you not seen me being serious?
11:31I have seen you flatter people for advancement.
11:38The prime minister.
11:44Lord Harvey.
11:46My father.
11:47Of course, I was far too young to understand then that my sister might see in Mr. Fox qualities more significant than those of mere appearance.
12:05To me, he seemed only unhandsome and excessively old.
12:11Lady Caroline.
12:15Excuse me.
12:21You were fond of Lord Harvey?
12:22I'm always melancholy at funerals, even when the connection is not close.
12:26It may be a funeral, but at least it's not yours.
12:29Do you not miss your protector?
12:40Indeed I do.
12:41His company.
12:43His kindness.
12:44His wisdom.
12:46Lord Harvey had many to mourn him.
12:48Friends, toadies, creditors, a wife, eight children, lovers of both varieties, including my brother.
12:56You should not speak so frankly to me.
13:00Oh, I approve frankness.
13:03Because you are young and fair, it does not follow that you are foolish.
13:06And so you approve Lord Harvey's way of life?
13:12I do not judge how another man should live.
13:17How do you live yourself?
13:19I believe I told you.
13:21I live to the full.
13:24You will excuse me, Lady Caroline.
13:26I must attend to some business.
13:36My position in the treasury is granted.
13:38Your father has told me.
13:39Is it not undignified to scramble for position at a funeral?
13:43It is easy to scorn position when it comes to one by birth.
13:47I'm a greedy man.
13:49You admit you are greedy?
13:51I'm also industrious and wise.
13:54But not modest.
13:56Of course.
13:57You value modesty.
13:59I'll try for it.
14:02May do as you wish.
14:04It has nothing to do with me.
14:06I would like it if it had.
14:19There's Mr Fox.
14:21Don't worry!
14:22No, please, listen.
14:24Don't worry!
14:25Will you excuse me?
14:28What are you gazing at so intentionally?
14:31Mr Fox.
14:33Oh!
14:36Is that the actress?
14:38The one who carries his most recent child?
14:42I saw him the other day with Lady Glen Harvey.
14:45And it's not long ago that Lady Coleman was hanging on his arm.
14:48He hates it, Henry Fox.
14:50Please!
14:51He's entertaining, Ola.
14:53But his behaviour is unconscionable.
14:56But then, what else can one expect from an unbeliever?
15:00Did you know about it?
15:06Him and the actress?
15:08He must be loved by many women.
15:10He's zaczyna go формizar...
15:11For Old cop BREAKM comp Cash
15:13To the Gi-Bi-iere
15:13And welcome to the
15:20Where are you walk?
15:20Cool gales shall bomb the glade
15:24My parents were happy enough to include Mr. Fox in their circle
15:47as an amusing acquaintance.
15:49That he should be anything more than an acquaintance was simply inconceivable.
15:56Lady Caroline, I would speak with you.
16:06I would prefer to make a speech asking the Commons to increase duties, then.
16:11Say what I must say now.
16:13On the outcome of the next few minutes depends the happiness of the rest of my life.
16:24You must be aware of your beauty of person.
16:28You must have been told many times by others more worthy than I.
16:32You compliment me.
16:33Oh, it is no compliment.
16:36It is the sober truth.
16:40But it is your character that I value.
16:44Perhaps because it is so very much more worthy than my own.
16:48What are you saying, Mr. Fox?
16:51I love you.
16:52I love you.
16:56I'm asking for your hand in marriage.
16:58Can you allow me to hope?
17:06Please forgive my surprise, Mr. Fox.
17:09I had not thought of you as a man who would wish to marry anyone.
17:12You are the first I have ever asked.
17:15And Lady Glenarvie and Lady Coleman?
17:18They are both married already.
17:20You are flippant.
17:22I have never been more serious about anything in my entire life.
17:26Those women are my past.
17:28My future rests only with you, if you will have me.
17:33And the actress?
17:34And your child?
17:35It is over.
17:37They are provided for.
17:39You know I cannot consider your offer without the blessing of my parents.
17:45If I may have permission to approach your father.
17:48You have my permission.
17:50But I warn you, my father is not an easy man.
17:54I do not think they dislike me.
17:56I wish you every success.
17:58Who does he think he is?
18:10How dare he address her?
18:12He thinks to rise in the world.
18:14His impudence knows no bounds.
18:16What does he imagine he offers her?
18:18He has no birth, no breeding, no reverence for the deity,
18:22no charm of person.
18:23He looks like a toad.
18:28Henry?
18:32Henry?
18:34It is the first time he aspires to marry, she says.
18:37I wonder what she did to provoke him.
18:40We have dismissed, Mr. Fox.
18:45It's an unfortunate incident, of which we'll quickly forget.
18:48Dismiss?
18:49Forget?
18:50Father, did you consider?
18:52As if I would give my daughter to a man who is closer in age to me.
18:56Well, age has brought him prosperity.
18:58And should we settle for mere prosperity?
19:01You're an attractive prize, my dear, but you're not for him.
19:04You must know I've forbidden him the house.
19:06What?
19:08Mr. Fox will visit us no more.
19:10Your Grace.
19:21Oh, excuse me.
19:22Shall we not show an appearance of civility?
19:25I will be civil in more than appearance if you will do as I wish.
19:28What does your Grace want from me?
19:31I have not spoken a word to Lady Caroline for weeks.
19:35Speak to her, my lord.
19:36You alone can persuade her from her affliction.
19:39My fear is that what is being decided is the happiness or misery of her whole life.
19:44Not just of a few months.
19:46She doesn't take her fancy lightly.
19:49Nor easily abandon a course once taken.
19:52She is young.
19:53What does she know of the world?
19:55Permit me to suggest she knows herself.
19:59This conversation is at an end.
20:01In future, you will address neither me nor my daughter.
20:09Car, I know her as dull as a dead lobster.
20:15Try to look more cheerful.
20:17I cannot look what I do not feel.
20:20You make no effort.
20:22My dearest, most adorable Caroline.
20:49You find me in such a jumble of misery and joy.
20:55That I am hard put whether to dance or weep.
20:58I am in such a situation that whatever I...
21:01He is writing to you.
21:05I would die without his letters.
21:08There is no other way he can prove his love.
21:13He is besieged from all sides because of me.
21:16Will you marry him?
21:17I should like to.
21:29Father, please.
21:31Do not believe I blame you.
21:32It pains me when we disagree.
21:34You have seen between your mother and me such examples of affection you think it common in the world.
21:38I know it is uncommon.
21:40What you cannot believe is that it can be inspired by me.
21:43Oh, if your mother's puppy should love you, would you marry him?
21:45You know who I wish to marry.
21:47Because you have no idea what he is.
21:51He is intelligent.
21:53Diverted.
21:54He is a godless libertine.
21:55What attracts you to him?
21:57He cuts a poor figure.
21:58He thinks he is clever.
21:59He was even once a Tory.
22:01He has a future.
22:02Future?
22:03Anyone has a future.
22:05Can you eat, live it and wear a future in fine style?
22:08Will a future furnish you with carriages?
22:10Or pay the servants or fill your library with books?
22:12Can a future stable a horse?
22:14Father, why do you torment me?
22:17It is I am tormented.
22:20My foolish child.
22:22It is an unworthy choice.
22:27Let me abide by it.
22:31I would sooner let you sell fish in the street.
22:35He is not one of us.
22:38Your great-grandfather was a king.
22:42My dear, calm yourself.
22:45The house is in an uproar.
22:47Tell your daughter to remember her duty.
22:49Of course she must remember her duty.
22:51She has no choice.
22:56Caroline!
23:01Oh, Charles.
23:03Not Hermione.
23:04Her nerves are in shreds.
23:06Nobody in the family had counted on Mr. Fox's ambition and determination.
23:17Or on my sister's stubbornness.
23:20I have been miserable.
23:22I am more cheered by your grief than dismayed by your father's hesitation.
23:27Hesitation?
23:28He is furious.
23:29You have much to lose.
23:31And much to win.
23:32All London talks of us.
23:37They say your proposal is based on ambition.
23:40You don't believe that.
23:42If my father becomes your enemy, he would destroy you.
23:45I shall be harder to dispose of than he thinks.
23:48Trust me.
23:49I am scared.
23:54And so it was that by wishing to marry only for love, Caroline embarked on a small rebellion.
24:13I am scared.
24:43Most adorable Caroline, I hope this letter finds you well, and that the step I may ask you to take may not dismay you.
24:58And put that a lot higher.
25:01Where did you go with those peaches?
25:03The dining room, Your Grace.
25:04Take them back to the kitchen and place them on ice.
25:08Charles, don't break that.
25:09Have the oysters arrived yet?
25:19Not yet, Your Grace.
25:20Send a man to the market for them at once.
25:22Have your plum puddings for the supper, my dear.
25:25I want plum puddings, apple pie, souced fig and sillabab.
25:28Everything goes wrong.
25:30The oysters don't arrive and the flautus has the ague.
25:33It's going to be the worst ball of the season.
25:36Our ball?
25:38Nots.
25:39It's always the best.
25:41The flowers at least will show us.
25:42It will all be perfection.
25:45Perfection?
25:46With the oysters still at Billingsgate and the flautus threatening to die?
25:50The oysters have arrived.
25:52Don't fret about the flautus.
25:53The flautus has been replaced.
25:54Oh, you've found another flautus.
25:57Oh, I don't believe it.
25:58What luck.
25:59There is no excessive foliage.
26:01Father?
26:02The foliage always looks penny-pinching in an arrangement.
26:05I've told you.
26:06Mama.
26:06Those chairs are to stay here.
26:08Be easy, my...
26:09Will nobody listen?
26:14I don't know how to tell you this.
26:15What is it?
26:20I'm married.
26:23To Mr. Fox.
26:27You will never enter this house or speak to any member of this family again.
26:35I will not be disobeyed!
26:37My sister's departure from my life taught me that there could be cruelty even in our comfortable
26:45world.
26:46Caroline!
26:48Caroline!
26:56Caroline!
26:56Emily, you must go back inside.
26:58Why do you wait?
26:58Go on!
26:59Stay with me!
27:00Emily.
27:01I'm sorry.
27:02Please!
27:04Caroline, don't leave me!
27:07All London spoke of the affair, and my father did not hide his fury.
27:21I could not foresee the long consequences of Caroline's elopement.
27:28I only knew that her rebellion had torn our family apart.
27:33She might have been a thousand miles away.
27:37I pined for her.
27:40I was anxious for her.
27:42I wondered what would happen when my turn came.
27:47What would my parents require of me?
27:53Emily?
27:53Emily?
27:53What are you reading?
28:03Voltaire.
28:04Books can be overrated as part of a young woman's education.
28:08Father would not agree with you.
28:11You're too pretty for books.
28:13Come see what I brought you.
28:14To go with your lovely blue eyes.
28:34Mama, you're so kind.
28:43You shall wear them in London.
28:48I so look forward to the season.
28:51So you should.
28:52You're going to be a great success.
28:54I hope so.
28:56I know so.
28:57You'll have an abundance of admirers.
28:59Admirers?
29:03Mercifully, in your case, we have the luxury of time before we consider whom you might marry.
29:07Mama!
29:10Anyway, you're still too young to consider such things.
29:13But if in the fullness of time you discover that you favour someone in particular,
29:23you will tell me who it is, won't you, my dear?
29:26Of course.
29:33Lady Emily, will you make me the happiest man on this earth?
29:37I have 67,000 acres in Ireland.
29:42I have a town and a country house.
29:45I can assure you my feelings of...
29:49When I entered society and was of an age to attract suitors,
29:59I was altogether more fortunate.
30:02I could not see that my parents would have any objection to Lord Kildare.
30:06He was, after all, not only handsome and young, but a lord and very rich.
30:13I thought you in London.
30:15London was bleak in your absence, so I came here to the country.
30:19I missed you, my lady.
30:22All my pleasure in the city departed with your family.
30:25I had no ease or enjoyment in anything.
30:28We had much enjoyment together.
30:32Lady Emily, I have come here for a purpose.
30:34Lord Kildare, I feel like walking.
30:40Will you help me dismount?
30:51I cannot bear it.
30:53My lord?
30:54That is the most beautiful foot I have seen in my life.
31:06Is not the buckle on the shoe vastly pretty?
31:09Fairly worthy of that it adorns.
31:13Lord Kildare, it is a ruinously expensive buckle.
31:15Were it in my power, I would make you a present of a dozen.
31:19You would spoil me.
31:22Nothing could spoil you.
31:26Kind of you to say so.
31:27Do you like this part of the country?
31:44I have barely observed it.
31:46I only came here because of you.
31:48Lady Emily, will you marry me?
31:52Yes.
31:53Since we met, I have thought only of you.
31:56My position in Ireland is of one who leads rather than follows.
31:59I can assure you of a life of eminence in a society which would...
32:01Yes!
32:03What?
32:03I would like to marry you.
32:09My dear.
32:13Emily, Ireland is a country of bogs and cottages.
32:18It would not agree with you.
32:22Is he not a wealthy man?
32:25Irish athress.
32:27Irish wealth.
32:28No.
32:29No, no, no.
32:29Okay, stop that.
32:30Behave yourselves.
32:31Not there.
32:32Not there.
32:33I don't think you're in and out of the library.
32:35It's from there.
32:36I don't think you've been told me here when I said you first place.
32:39That's it.
32:41Do you not find him handsome?
32:43Maybe.
32:44But he has no exceptional qualities.
32:47None of them have.
32:48If one excludes presumption.
32:50Sarah!
32:51Papa told me to stop!
32:53What do you think, girls?
32:54Do you think it looks like your papa?
32:57They speak of Irish, Charles.
32:59I've never noticed it.
33:01What about you, Charles?
33:02What do you think of it?
33:03Good, papa.
33:04Well, I don't know that I agree with you.
33:06Mother, do you remember Ireland?
33:10That part of my lineage I have chosen to forget.
33:12You will not speak of it again.
33:14Oh, have no fear, my love.
33:15There's no trace of it in your demeanor.
33:17Lord Kildare is an irritating reminder.
33:19I will discuss this no longer.
33:21Lord Kildare, I believe your countrymen excel when it comes to the horse.
33:34They have that reputation, yes.
33:37Horses have little intelligence.
33:39Quite true, your grace.
33:41Dumb beasts.
33:44Yet of surpassing interest for your countrymen.
33:48Indeed.
33:49So, my lord, how do you occupy your time?
33:58Well, at the moment, I'm building a house.
34:02In London?
34:02On the south side of Dublin.
34:05Is the south side fashionable?
34:08When I live there, it will be.
34:12You set the fashion in Dublin?
34:16Yes.
34:17Can there be fashion in Dublin?
34:20So far from everywhere.
34:23Dublin grows into a presentable capital.
34:25It has everything one needs for a civilized life.
34:29You've surprised me.
34:31I had thought it a poor imitation of London.
34:34We imitate what is pleasing about the capital.
34:38The rest, we discard.
34:41And you presume to judge?
34:43I must.
34:44I'm asked to decide.
34:45You, then, are a person of influence over there?
34:49It is the tradition in my family.
34:53We have a duty to lead.
34:56As you have here.
34:58Is that not true, father?
35:06Oh, I will now.
35:08This is a good stand.
35:08I'm going to stay.
35:09I'm going to stay.
35:11I'm going to stay.
35:12I'm going to stay.
35:13I'm going to remain.
35:14Thank you, your majesty.
35:16When royalty visited, I, my younger brother, and my sisters, would be paraded before the
35:21king, not unlike the exotic beasts my father acquired for our education and for his entertainment.
35:28And what do you do with him, Richmond?
35:32I observe him, sir.
35:36Observe him.
35:37Observe him.
35:39Pace up and observe him.
35:42Pace back.
35:42There's no entertainment in that.
35:45Oh, those educations, huh?
35:47I encourage my children to become acquainted with all the wonders of the world.
35:51You don't change, Richmond.
35:53How long have you been a member of my household now?
35:56I am lord of the bedchamber for eight years now.
35:58Well, you serve us well.
36:01It's a time you moved up.
36:04We consider making you master of the horse.
36:07Would you like that, children?
36:10Eh?
36:11Children.
36:12Now, we hear you contemplate marriage.
36:24Yes, your majesty.
36:26All young women think about marriage.
36:28Oh, what else should they think about?
36:29It's their lot.
36:31And you will be the third Duke of Richmond.
36:36Will you be like your father?
36:37Will you collect everything that grows and moves?
36:41Yes, every cauldron of coal leaving Newcastle will put 12 pence into your coffers.
36:48Now, what would you do with it?
36:50Huh?
36:51Will you build houses like your father?
36:53I don't know, your majesty.
36:56And you, Lady Louisa, what shall you do with your life?
37:01I shall try to be good, your majesty.
37:03Excellent.
37:04And you, little Sprout, what would you do?
37:07I want to marry you.
37:08Well, we shall consider it, Lady Sarah, for you will be pretty as a plumb.
37:15This one will break hearts, your grace.
37:22Master of the horse.
37:23It is an honour, your grace.
37:26Your father will be responsible for moving the royal household wherever it goes on English soil.
37:31Will there not be a trifle tedious?
37:34What's tedium?
37:35Where honour is concerned.
37:37Hmm.
37:40It does have the advantage of being a cabinet post.
37:44And it is in the cabinet that real power resides.
37:48If you were in the cabinet, father, you'd have to work with Mr. Fox.
37:52Gentlemen, the situation is desperate.
38:01We simply cannot go on pouring more and more troops into this campaign.
38:05And I do not believe that the banks will continue to lend us this amount of money.
38:09I have seen cases like this do extremely well when subjected to cool rooms, melipidus, fresh air, and exercise.
38:23Exercise?
38:24He's a few months old.
38:26I was still not permitted to visit Caroline.
38:31I wondered, did she miss the family when she gave birth to Stephen, whom they called Stee?
38:37I heard he was sickly.
38:39Dissolve in a pint of water.
38:41Three drops, six times a day.
38:45What is melipidus?
38:48Ground wood lice.
38:50I must speak to Mr. Fox.
38:58Mr. Fox's political career was advancing impressively.
39:02He even encouraged a cabinet rebellion against the king.
39:08Prime Minister.
39:09Prime Minister.
39:11We know why the war on the continent drags on.
39:14It's because the king listens to his friends and not to us.
39:17The cabinet is being ignored.
39:19What do you suggest?
39:21The ultimate sanction.
39:23We should resign.
39:25What?
39:26Isn't that a fox?
39:28Resign?
39:29The cabinet?
39:29All of us.
39:31We must draw up a petition.
39:36We'll get a second opinion.
39:39I have come to renew my request for Lady Emmer's hand in marriage.
39:43I don't intend to discuss it.
39:44Your grace, I am sensible of the feelings of the parent.
39:47They do not appear to deter you.
39:50Look, your dad's returning.
39:51He's arguing with father.
40:01You can't marry if father won't allow it.
40:04Can't marry.
40:05Can't marry.
40:05I have waited a long time, your grace, and Lady Emmer's feelings have not changed.
40:11I will decide when she marries.
40:13It is my privilege.
40:14Your grace.
40:15Do you behave like parlour mates?
40:25I will be all comfortable.
40:34Your grace, Lady Emily.
40:39Lord Kildare.
40:41Should I like your place of birth?
40:45Have you cause for complaint of it, sir?
40:47Well, the sea is a sole cause of complaint.
40:53You would take our daughter from these shores.
40:56That is your complaint.
41:00Then the rumours I've heard are clearly false.
41:03Rumours?
41:04That you refuse me because I'm Irish.
41:06I will take my leave.
41:29I will take my leave.
41:36Oh, father, please.
41:43You were spoiled from your youth.
41:46It's your mother's fault.
41:47My fault?
41:49Who gave her the white pony?
41:51Who took her to the theatre at five years old?
41:54Louisa Serra, leave the room at once.
42:01He is, after all, both rich and young.
42:04Are you changing your mind?
42:07Though he has a very fiery nature.
42:09And will you concede because he frightens you?
42:12Well, I'd rather have him as a son-in-law than have a bullet in my head.
42:16Oh, father, did he threaten a duel?
42:18No.
42:20But he might.
42:32Love is accounted brief and passing.
42:36Well, wealth is dependable and long.
42:41Your sister's ever?
42:43No, she believes in love.
42:47Though I must admit, I like wealth too.
42:51Oh.
42:53I think I've got a pebble in my shoe.
42:55Allow me.
42:56And this one?
43:21I think I've got a pebble in my shoe.
43:22I think I've got a pebble in my shoe.
43:22I think I've got a pebble in my shoe.
43:27Oh, I think I've got a pebble in my shoe.
43:29Oh.
43:30Hmm.
43:49His pallor is most disturbing.
43:52His breathing is shallow.
43:55And he is altogether far too big for his age.
43:59He must drink this.
44:00Oxymel of squills.
44:04What is that?
44:06A combination of vinegar, extract of bulbs and mercury sulfide.
44:24There. That should do it.
44:26As Mr. Fox's star rose, my father, quite against his preference, was drawn into supporting his cause.
44:42How could I not sign that petition?
44:46I don't even like most of the cabinet, as you know.
44:49Until now, I have supported his majesty in everything.
44:52But he only listens to his friends.
44:55I would support him still had not my duty overcome my inclination.
44:58He's taken it very badly, as a personal betrayal.
45:02But what else could I have done?
45:03I know, my dear.
45:05What else could you have done?
45:12Charles.
45:14I've been thinking about Emily.
45:16From my sister's impulsive behaviour, I had learned to be more circumspect and patient in the achievement of my own wishes.
45:24I was as determined as she had been, however, to get what I wanted in the end.
45:29I can do nothing for this child, Lady Caroline.
45:37I don't say so.
45:38If I do say so, most emphatically, what treatment has he had?
45:42Blisters, purging with broth, mercury, ground wood lice.
45:48Ground wood lice?
45:50That was prescribed?
45:51I...
45:52Lady Caroline, this child is beyond the reach of my attention for the simple reason that there is nothing wrong with him.
46:03Nothing wrong?
46:04Nothing wrong.
46:06But his cough, I mean, his twitching...
46:10His twitching is the natural growth of a normal infant.
46:15Many infants have a fidgety habit which, in the fullness of time, they abandon.
46:21And his cough?
46:22It is widespread across the country this year and has injured none that I know.
46:28I can't believe it.
46:31The king has conceded.
46:35We have regained authority and I have been made secretary at war.
46:40Are you pleased by that?
46:42I hope to bring it to a speedy end.
46:44And will you?
46:45It will not be easy.
46:47I shall have to do business from morning till night.
46:49Henry, I must tell you about Steve.
46:52Later, my dear.
46:54Later.
46:55Duty is the light which has guided my life and which I recommend to all my dear children.
47:03It is the quality that can sustain happiness in the face of adversity.
47:08It is the rock on which our lives are built.
47:11Duty of subject to monarch, of king to country, of child to parent.
47:17It isn't your father, Charles.
47:20You are possibly aware that Emily has received a proposal of marriage that she desires to accept.
47:26Yet despite her strong feelings, she has been dutiful in her regard for my opinions.
47:32I have gathered you to see that duty is rewarded.
47:38Emily's behavior is an example to you all.
47:42I shall tell Lord Kildare that your mother and I withdraw our opposition to his suit.
47:48And I shall tell you all.
47:53You are sorry.
47:54Remember, the Lord.
47:56Amen.
48:00Amen.
48:12Amen.
48:12Amen.
48:13Amen.
48:13Amen.
48:13Amen.
48:15Amen.
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