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During Sir Thomas's absence abroad, the glam Crawfords arrive to stay in the neighbourhood.
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00:00.
00:30Thank you Mr. George.
00:52Good afternoon.
00:54Miss Bertram.
01:00It is strange.
01:14Yes.
01:17The first time I saw him I thought him absolutely plain.
01:20Black and plain.
01:22And yet he is still plain of course, but...
01:26but not so very plain.
01:29His teeth are good.
01:30And he's so well made.
01:32With such a pleasing manner.
01:34And with so much countenance that one quite forgets.
01:38Then, Mariah, you cannot much regard it.
01:43Being engaged in Mr. Rushworth, it cannot touch you as it does me.
01:49No.
01:50Indeed.
01:51Though there is never any harm you know in liking an agreeable man.
01:56Mr. Crawford, Julia, must take care of himself.
02:01I like your Miss Bertrams exceedingly.
02:04They are very elegant, agreeable girls.
02:06But you like Julia best.
02:08Oh yes.
02:09Yes.
02:10I like Julia best.
02:11But do you really, Henry?
02:13For Miss Bertram is usually thought the handsomest.
02:15So I should suppose.
02:17She has the advantage in every feature.
02:19But I like Julia best.
02:22I shall always like her best.
02:24Since Mrs. Grant has ordered me.
02:26I shall not talk to you, Henry.
02:28But I know you will like her best at last.
02:30But don't I tell you.
02:32I like her best at first.
02:34And besides, Miss Bertram is engaged.
02:37You should remember that.
02:39Yes.
02:40And I like her the better for her.
02:42An engaged lady is always more agreeable.
02:44Her cares are over.
02:46And she can exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.
02:49All is safe with an engaged lady.
02:52No harm can be done.
02:53And Mr. Rushworth is a very good sort of young man.
02:57And she doesn't care three straws for him.
03:00That is what you are saying.
03:01But I don't think it.
03:03I think too well of Miss Bertram to suppose she would ever give her hand without her heart.
03:08Mary how shall we manage him?
03:10We must leave him to himself.
03:12Talking does no good.
03:14He will be taken in at last.
03:16But I wouldn't have him taken in.
03:18I wouldn't have him duped.
03:19Oh let him stand his chance and be taken in.
03:21It will do just as well.
03:23Everybody is.
03:24But not always in marriage Mary.
03:27In marriage my dear sister especially.
03:31I fear you have learned in a bad school in London at your uncle's house.
03:36The Admiral has spoiled you.
03:38You're as bad as your brother.
03:40But we shall cure them shan't we Dr. Grant.
03:43Mansfield shall cure them both.
03:46Good morning Miss Price.
03:47Miss Crawford.
03:48I believe I begin to understand you all now.
03:49Except Miss Price.
03:50Your Portsmouth husband.
03:51There's no mystery of family.
03:52Her family is greater than her father's fortunes.
03:53She's lived with us since she was ten.
03:54Oh I know the reasons for her gratitude towards your parents.
03:55But is she out or is she not?
03:57She dined with you all at the parsonage which seemed like being out.
04:01And yet she says so little I can scarcely suppose that she is.
04:03My cousin has grown up.
04:04I'm afraid the outs and not outs are beyond me.
04:06But the distinction is generally so broad.
04:07A girl not out has always the same sort of dress.
04:08A close bonnet or a little bit.
04:09I know the other people.
04:10I know the reasons for her gratitude towards your parents.
04:11I know the reasons for her gratitude towards your parents.
04:12But is she out or is she not?
04:13She dined with you all at the parsonage which seemed like being out.
04:16And yet she says so little I can scarcely suppose that she is.
04:21My cousin has grown up.
04:23I'm afraid the outs and not outs are beyond me.
04:26But the distinction is generally so broad.
04:31A girl not out has always the same sort of dress.
04:34A close bonnet for instance.
04:36You may smile but it is so I assure you.
04:39And very proper girls should be quiet and modest.
04:44One objects most often to the sudden alteration that results when they are introduced into company.
04:49into company. one doesn't like to see a girl so immediately up to everything.
04:54Mr. Bertram I dare say you have sometimes met with such changes. this is
04:59hardly fair you know. I see what you're at. you're quizzing me about Miss Anderson.
05:04no indeed. now I am quite in the dark. but I will quiz you with a great deal of
05:10pleasure if you will tell me what about. you carry it off very well. it was exactly
05:15so. the Andersons of Baker Street. you remember Edmund? I was speaking of them the other day.
05:19yes I remember. well when Anderson first introduced me to his family his sister
05:25was not out. I couldn't once get her to speak to me so I sat in a room an hour
05:29with her and another little girl. lately I saw her again. she was then out and I did
05:35not recollect her. she came up to me and claimed me as an acquaintance. she talked
05:38and laughed till I didn't know which way to look. I felt I must be the jester of
05:42the entire room. and it seems Miss Crawford's heard the story. and a very
05:47pretty story it is. with more truth in it I dare say than does credit to Miss
05:52Anderson. mothers have certainly not got the right way of managing their
05:57daughters. those who show the world what female manners should be are doing a
06:02great deal to set that to rights. oh Miss Crawford there's the hunter I mean to
06:08race next week at Basingstoke. what do you say to him? oh mr. Bertram I am no
06:13judge but it looks very fine. and will you and mr. Crawford join my party to see me
06:20win there? I should like to I am sure but I don't think Henry will be parted yet
06:25from Mansfield. and you are both to dine with us next Wednesday to meet mr.
06:28Rushworth. didn't I hear my mother arrange it so with mrs. Grant? why so she did. I am sorry mr.
06:36Bertram but it seems your splendid horse must win without me and I am sure he
06:40will. ah but you know there shall not be so much pleasure in it. I dare say since
06:44you are inclined to be so gallant but the odds you know will be the same. and now I
06:51must be satisfied about miss Price. does she go to balls? does she dine out
06:56everywhere as well as at my sisters? no. I do not think Fanny has ever been to a ball. no
07:04Fanny never. my mother seldom goes into company herself and dines nowhere but at
07:10the parsonage and Fanny stays with her at home. oh then the point is clear miss
07:16price is not out.
07:24I spent the week at Compton. do you know the house lady Bertram? belongs to a friend of mine.
07:29no mr. Rushworth. I do not think I have ever been as far as Compton.
07:37no matter. you wouldn't know it. I never saw a place so altered. the approach now is the finest thing you ever saw.
07:44I declare when I got back to Southerton yesterday it looked like a prison.
07:48oh for shame. a prison indeed. Southerton court is the noblest old place in the world.
07:54I must try and do something with it. I don't know what. I want some friend to advise me.
08:00your best friend on such an occasion will be mr. Repton I imagine.
08:04as he has done so well by Smith at Compton. his terms are five guineas a day.
08:09well and if they were ten I am sure you need not regard of the expense.
08:13I would have everything done in the best style.
08:16mr. Norris and I did have asked you at the parsonage when we first had it.
08:20you young ones don't remember but if dear sir Thomas were here after all his troubles in Antigua
08:24he could tell you what improvements we made.
08:27if I were you mr. Rushworth I would have a shrubbery.
08:34one likes to go into a shrubbery in the fine weather.
08:39do you think so ma'am?
08:42uh at Compton they've cut down two or three old trees that grew too near the place.
08:49it opens the prospect amazingly.
08:52at Southerton I believe Repton or anybody of that sort would certainly have the avenue down.
08:58the avenue that leads from the west front to the top of the hill you know.
09:02cut down an avenue doesn't it make you think of Cooper?
09:07ye fallen avenues once more I mourn your face unmerited ears.
09:12I fear the avenue stands a bad chance Fanny.
09:16Southerton is an old place I suppose.
09:19is it any particular style?
09:21Elizabethan heavy but respectable looking.
09:25I wouldn't influence mr. Rushworth but had I placed a new fashion I should not put myself in the hands of an improver.
09:32I would rather abide by my own blunders.
09:35and it would be delightful to see the progress of it all.
09:38but not to me.
09:40I should be thankful to any mr. Repton who would undertake it
09:43and never look till it was complete.
09:46Henry is different he loves to be doing but not I.
09:50mr. Bertram let me tell you I have tidings of my harp at last.
09:54it has been seen by some farmer and he told the miller who told the butcher
10:00and the butcher's son-in-law left word at the shop.
10:03but you cannot conceive what a piece of work was made in bringing it.
10:07not a cart nor a wagon nor anything of that kind could be hired in the village.
10:11I was astonished but it seems that haymaking must account for it.
10:16so Henry has offered to fetch it tomorrow in his barouche.
10:19it travels in style.
10:21during the haymaking it would be hard to spare a horse.
10:25hmm.
10:26well in London we have a maxim.
10:29everything can be bought with money.
10:33I shall understand all your ways in time.
10:37but would you write to your brother
10:39and tell him I shall prepare some plaintive air against his return
10:43and you shall come and listen to me.
10:46it will give me the greatest pleasure
10:49though I am not expecting to write to Tom at present.
10:52what brother would?
10:56when they are far from their families they can write long letters.
11:01I believe.
11:02Miss Price has a brother at sea.
11:04an excellent correspondent.
11:06at sea? has she?
11:08in the king's service of course.
11:10perhaps you know something of his captain.
11:14you have a large acquaintance in the navy I think.
11:16hmm.
11:17among admirals and their flags
11:19and bickerings and jealousies.
11:22hard enough.
11:23but very little of the lower ranks.
11:26certainly at my home at my uncle's
11:29of admirals and rears and vices we saw a great deal.
11:34now do not suspect me of a pun. I entreat.
11:40it is not a favorite profession of mine I confess.
11:44but Mr Crawford has done it all.
11:46at his house at Everingham.
11:48so he informs him.
11:50if Mr Rushworth seeks advice
11:52he should ask Mr Crawford.
11:56if Crawford's willing
11:58I am entirely at your service.
12:00why then?
12:01we must make up a party.
12:02yes.
12:03oh Mr Rushworth
12:04I have long been wishing to call on your good mother again.
12:07Mr Crawford might take my two nieces with me
12:10in his barouche.
12:12and Edmund could go on horseback.
12:14and sister you
12:16why Fanny you know will stay at home with you.
12:19as soon as ever Mr Rushworth's mother is home again
12:21we must make up a party.
12:23oh my dear.
12:25well Fanny
12:29how do you like Miss Crawford now?
12:33how did you like her yesterday evening?
12:35very well. very much.
12:39she entertains me
12:41and she is so extremely pretty
12:43that I have great pleasure in looking at her.
12:45she has a wonderful play of feature.
12:47but was there nothing in her conversation that struck you as not quite right?
13:03yes.
13:04she should not have spoken of her uncle as she did.
13:07it was very wrong. very indecorous.
13:11and ungrateful I think.
13:13she has been living at the Admiral's house.
13:15yes.
13:17you know the reason she left it?
13:19after her aunt's death?
13:21there was some other cause?
13:23the Admiral introduced his mistress.
13:25that's why Miss Crawford came to live with Mrs Grant.
13:28though they are half sisters they had not seen one another for many years.
13:35I do not tell you to excuse her but only so that you may understand.
13:42whatever the Admiral's faults she should remember his kindness to her brother.
13:47they say he treats Mr Crawford as his own son.
13:52you'd forgive anything Fanny for kindness to a brother.
13:56no cousin.
14:01you must allow me to make sport of you a little.
14:04and I do not ask you to forgive Miss Crawford even for a brother's sake except for having a lively mind.
14:10for there is nothing loud or coarse about her.
14:13she is perfectly feminine.
14:17except for this one instance we've been speaking of.
14:23well I am glad that you saw it all as I did.
14:26we agreed on that?
14:28yes cousin.
14:35to midshipman William Price on board the Antwerp.
14:39my dearest William the 11th of this month brought me your letter and I am very much obliged to you for filling me so long a sheet of paper.
14:49my letter was a note compared to yours.
14:54my cousin Edmund.
14:57my cousin Edmund asks to be remembered to you and desires his best wishes.
15:01my uncle still on his affairs in the West Indies but we are in hopes of seeing him again before winter comes.
15:10I keep very stout you will rejoice to know and ride my cousin's mare almost every day.
15:15almost every day.
15:24why Fanny what are you about?
15:30I am sure you have been standing out that window an hour or more.
15:33no I assure you.
15:35you know you were to come with me to turn out my larder at the White House as soon as ever you were done riding.
15:39I am sorry Aunt Norris but my cousin Edmund has the mare.
15:43he's teaching Miss Crawford to ride and they've not returned.
15:46well if he does not come soon you must go without.
15:48I cannot wait all day.
15:50and Lady Bertram will require you.
15:53you need not loiter at the window neither.
15:55find some employment and be useful.
15:57I came to see for Lady Bertram's pug but she's not here.
16:02pug!
16:04pug?
16:05Not able to think.
16:28That's good.
16:29Very good.
16:31Now ring back a little and bring her in to me.
16:35excellent you manage her very well and only the third time in the sun. but see
16:45who is here? Miss Price? I must apologize we have been much too long. oh no. is it
16:51so late Fanny? Miss Crawford should continue. I'm pleased to see her right.
16:56she does so well. but you have every reason to reproach me and I have
17:00nothing in the world to say for myself. I knew it was very late and that I was
17:04behaving extremely ill and therefore if you please you must forgive me. oh I
17:08assure you selfishness must always be forgiven you know for there is no hope
17:12of a cure. I'm sure Fanny will very readily forgive you. yes indeed. there'll be time
17:18enough for her to ride twice as far as she ever goes and clouds are coming up you
17:22have saved her from being too much fatigued by the Sun as I fear you will be
17:26now. nothing fatigues me I assure you but getting off this horse nothing ever
17:31fatigues me but doing what I don't like. miss price I give way to you with a very
17:37bad grace but I sincerely hope you'll have a pleasant ride and I know I'll hear
17:42nothing but good of this dear delightful beautiful animal. we shall walk to the
17:49parsonage. I promise it will be no trial if I have your arms. you'll see to miss
17:54price Jenkins. aye sir I was sure she would ride well. she has the make for it. her figure is as neat as her brother's. she has the same energy of character good night Fanny. good night puzzles. I think good horsemanship has a great deal to do with the mind. I agree.
18:18my sisters have a plan to go to Mansfield Common. do you mean to ride tomorrow Fanny? no not if you want the mayor. it's not for myself but whenever you are inclined to stay at home Miss Crawford would be glad to have her a little longer.
18:42mrs. Grant has been telling her of the views from the common and she has a great desire to go but any morning will do.
18:49I shall not ride tomorrow certainly. I've been out very often lately.
18:53are you sure? yeah I can easily walk if I want exercise and I'd rather stay at home.
19:01good night. good night Fanny and thank you.
19:16Mark? Mark? Mark?
19:21come back here.
19:24are you on the flower bed again?
19:26are you on the flower bed again?
19:27are you on the flower bed again?
19:28Mark?
19:29Mark?
19:30I don't care for you with that sweet.
19:34look.
19:35where is he gone Fanny?
19:39where is he gone Fanny?
19:44shall I bring fresh tea Mr. Bertram?
19:49no thank you badly. I took tea at the parsonage.
19:52very good sir.
20:03I've been discussing with Dr. and Mrs. Grant the arrangements for our trip to Southerton.
20:08there is one slight alteration ma'am which I trust you'll approve.
20:11but all the arrangements are done.
20:13I made them myself with Mrs. Rushworth when she called the other day.
20:16indeed ma'am.
20:17this is a matter that I agreed with Mrs. Rushworth herself when I showed her to her carriage.
20:23but where is Fanny?
20:25has she gone to bed?
20:26she was here a moment ago.
20:28yes I'm here.
20:30why what a foolish trick Fanny to be idling upon a sofa.
20:35if you have no work of your own I can always supply you from the paw basket.
20:41you must learn to think of other people.
20:43it is shocking for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
20:47I must say ma'am that Fanny is as little upon the sofa as anyone in the house.
20:51yes very true.
20:54Fanny?
20:55have you the headache?
20:57I think you do.
20:58it's nothing.
20:59a trifle.
21:00how long have you had it?
21:01it's nothing but the heat.
21:02did you go out in the sun?
21:04why to be sure.
21:05would you have her stay in on such a fine day?
21:08we were all out.
21:09even your mother.
21:11why yes indeed Edmund.
21:13I was out above an hour in the flower garden while Fanny cut the roses.
21:19it was shady enough in the alcove but I quite dreaded coming home.
21:25perhaps sister she might try some of your aromatic vinegar.
21:29mine is at home.
21:30well she has had it mrs norris ever since she came back from your house a second time.
21:36has she been twice to your house ma'am in such heat?
21:39no wonder her headaches.
21:41Fanny take this to bed with you and drink it before you sleep.
21:45I hope tomorrow you'll be well.
21:47I thank you cousin.
21:51indeed.
21:52not very well.
21:56good night mum.
21:57good night mummy.
21:58pray excuse me.
21:59good night Fanny.
22:01good night.
22:02good night Fanny.
22:04I am to blame.
22:11upon my word ma'am this has been a very ill managed business.
22:24I am sure I do not know how it might have been better done unless I had gone
22:30myself when the roses were gathered your aunt wished to have them of course and
22:36were there so many that Fanny must go twice but they were put into the
22:42spare room in the White House to dry and Fanny forgot to lock the door and bring
22:47the key so she was obliged to go again it is not above a quarter of a mile how
22:53often do I pace it myself three times a day and in all weathers too I wish Fanny
22:59had half your strength ma'am if Fanny would be more regular in her exercise she
23:04would not be knocked up so soon between ourselves Edmund it was cutting the
23:08roses and dawdling about in the flower garden it was as much as I could bear
23:15myself sitting and calling to park was almost too much for me we are agreed at
23:23least that Fanny must have proper exercise in future and so she shall
23:39and next Friday she is to join the party to go to Southerton
23:43no not Fanny if it's agreed but your mother is not to go Edmund who will stay
23:50with Lady Bertram oh yes Edmund Fanny must stay with me I cannot do without Fanny
23:56indeed ma'am so I understood that is why I have asked mrs. grant to spend the day
24:05with you Fanny has a great desire to see Southerton and I'm sure you would be glad
24:10to give her the pleasure now I should be very glad it is always a pleasure to be with mrs. grant
24:17if your aunt sees no objection very well very well just as you choose settle it your own way I am
24:29sure I do not care about it there will be room in the carriage I suppose in mr.
24:35Crawford's barouche why certainly it holds for very well without the box on which one may go with mr.
24:41Crawford there is no hardship I suppose nothing unpleasant in going on the
24:47barouche box unpleasant oh dear I believe it would be generally thought the
24:51favorite seat then there can be no harm in Fanny using it Fanny I do not think it
24:58will be funny no indeed I believe miss Crawford will choose the box herself yes
25:05most probably
25:17do you see now miss Crawford is not this the finest view what do you say miss price it is most beautiful
25:26such a fine burst of country I wish you had my seat but I dare say you would not take it let me press you
25:33ever so much mr. Crawford isn't it a charming view it is and yet I find it always a shade more
25:41charming to my left and to my right oh no indeed I'm sure it is quite the reverse we come next to the
25:48village this is the last hill your brother should have gained on us by now and yet I don't see him yes
25:56we shall come soon to the house one of the finest places in the country though I am sure mr.
26:04Rushworth with mr. Crawford's advice will make it finer yet
26:09mrs. Norris had you a pleasant journey miss Crawford I'm glad you'll come mama here is miss
26:37Bertram my dear welcome to Sutherton these windows have an eastern aspect from which one sees the avenue
26:48to be appointed by our ancestor James Turnbull Rushman James Turnbull Rushman
27:00is here he defended his sovereign at the Battle of Edge Hill as a consequence of which he lost his life
27:08from a severe chill the result of unaccustomed exposure severe chill this gallery leads to the
27:17family chapel which properly we ought to enter from above and look down upon but as we are quite
27:22amongst friends I will take you this way if you will excuse me
27:26should be a table above
27:27that's great aunt Agatha
27:30this way
27:32this way
27:35this chapel was fitted up as you see it in the time of James the second before that as I understand it the pews were only wenskitt
27:43it is a handsome chapel the prayers were read in it both night and morning by the domestic chaplain within the memory of many
27:52but the late mr. Rushworth left it off there is some reason to believe that the linings and cushions of the culpins and family scene were only purple cloth but that is not quite certain
28:02every generation has its own improvements
28:07but what a pity it was left off
28:09there's something in a chapel and a chaplain so much in character with a great house
28:14a whole family assembled for prayers very fine
28:19very fine indeed to force the poor housemaids and footmen to say their prayers twice a day
28:25that is hardly Fanny's idea if the master and mischiefs do not attend themselves there is no good in the custom
28:32but can you not imagine with what unwilling feelings the former bells of the house of Rushworth repaired to this chapel
28:40the young missus this and that starched up into seeming piety but with their heads full of something very different
28:47especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at
28:51and in those days I fancy Parsons were even more inferior to what they are now
28:58do look at mr. Rushworth and Mariah standing side by side
29:02exactly as if the ceremony was about to be performed
29:05haven't they completely the air of it
29:08I do not like to see miss Bertrand so near the altar
29:17so mr. Crawford
29:19will you give me away?
29:21well what's that you say?
29:23who's to give whom away?
29:25I'm afraid I should do it very awkwardly
29:28upon my word it really is a pity
29:31if we had but a proper license
29:34nothing in the world could be more snug and pleasant
29:37my dear Edmund you might perform the ceremony directly
29:41what a pity that you are not yet ordained
29:44mr. Rushworth and Mariah are quite pretty
29:47ordained?
29:49what are you to be a clergyman?
29:51yes
29:52I shall take orders soon after my father's return
29:57if I had known this before I would have spoken of the cloth with more respect
30:03Mr. Rushworth
30:06the air in here oppresses me
30:08would you persuade your mother to lead us out of doors?
30:11hmm
30:12we have spent time enough
30:14if we're too long going over the house we shan't have time for what's to be done
30:18it's uh
30:19past two
30:21we're to dine at five
30:25ah mr. Crawford
30:27I mean to show you the west front
30:29I want your opinion
30:30excuse me
30:33miss Bertram
30:35pray tell your aunt where we are gone
30:37excuse me
30:40excuse me
30:42yes
30:43yes
30:50now this is the beautiful one of the four from the track
30:52and of course one can't see the number of the trees
30:54no
30:56no come down here we see it much better from down here
30:59yes
31:00yes
31:01no I can make it hard for me
31:02now you see all those trees simply obscure the view
31:04and
31:05there
31:06That's the avenue I was telling you of before.
31:09Now, now, Repton, you see, I'm sure would advise having all the trees down.
31:13Please, simply.
31:14It's good.
31:15Don't you find?
31:16I must be able to do it.
31:18There's the middle of the proper hill.
31:20But I'm not sure what you see.
31:22I'm not sure what you see.
31:23You're not sure what you see.
31:24I'm not sure what you see.
31:26I'm not sure what you see.
31:28I'm not sure what you see.
31:30It's a little tiny.
31:32It's a little tiny.
31:33It's a little tiny.
31:44...
31:57...
32:00...
32:01so you ought to be a clergyman mr. Bertram this is rather a surprise to me
32:13why should it surprise you? you must suppose me to be designed for some
32:18profession and see that I am neither a lawyer a soldier not a sailor. yes but why a
32:23clergyman? what is to be done in the church? men love to distinguish themselves
32:29and a clergyman is nothing. nothing. it is true that a clergyman cannot be high in
32:37fashion but I cannot call it nothing to have the charge of all that is most
32:41important to mankind. no one can call that nothing. you can assign greater consequence
32:48to clergymen than I am used to here. one scarcely sees a clergyman out of his
32:54pulpit. you are speaking of London. I am speaking of the nation at large. I imagine
33:01the metropolis is a pretty fair sample of the rest. but it isn't there that the
33:05influence of the clergy can be most felt. they are lost in the crowd. it is not in
33:10fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be useful if his parish and
33:14neighborhood are small enough to make it possible. oh yes that's true. there you
33:18have quite convinced Miss Price already. I wish I could convince Miss Crawford too. I do not
33:25think you ever will. I am just as much surprised as I was at first that you
33:30intend to take holy orders. you really are fit for something better. come do
33:35change your mind. it is not too late. go into the law.
33:39no I might just as easily... open this gate since it is plainly locked. were you about to tell me?
33:46no there is no wit in my nature. you need not forestall me.
33:52but it is true the... the gate is locked.
34:04I wonder that I should feel tired from only walking in this sweet wood and yet...
34:09oh my dear Fanny how thoughtless I have been. Miss Crawford will you take an arm?
34:13though I am not at all tired. and yet you scarcely touch me. at Oxford I often had to support a man for the length of a street.
34:20you are only a fly in comparison.
34:24and I really am not tired. which I almost wonder at.
34:31we must have walked at least a mile in this wood.
34:34no not half a mile.
34:36oh you don't consider how we have wound about.
34:39oh the wood itself must be half a mile long if you could see the end of it.
34:43but we have.
34:44but before we left that first great path we looked down the whole vista and it could not have been more than a furlong.
34:51oh I know nothing of your furlongs. I say we have walked a mile.
34:56and I am not in the least surprised Miss Price should be tired.
35:00oh there is nothing so fatiguing as what we have been doing this morning.
35:04seeing a great house dawdling from one room to another.
35:09it is generally allowed to be the greatest bore and Miss Price has found it so.
35:14though she does not know it.
35:16I shall soon be rested.
35:18to sit in a wood is the most perfect refreshment.
35:22ah but I cannot sit. I must move.
35:25resting fatigues me.
35:27I must go and look at that vista again.
35:31if you do Miss Crawford you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long or half half a mile.
35:37it is an immense distance. I shall see that with a glance.
35:42will you stay for us Fanny? we shall be gone only a few moments.
35:45if we do not wind about too far.
35:47yes I'm quite content.
35:49keep in the shade. we shall return.
35:53we have been walking you know for just a quarter of an hour.
35:57and do you think we have been walking four miles an hour?
36:00don't attack me with your watch.
36:02a watch is either too fast or too slow.
36:04I cannot be dictated by a watch.
36:07but I think I saw a knoll just now through the trees here.
36:23we might take a view of what I propose.
36:25oh yes. we shall see it all from the park.
36:27now here is Fanny.
36:29oh Miss Price I declare.
36:30what do you do alone?
36:31I'm waiting for Miss Crawford and my cousin Edmund.
36:34they left me here to rest a little and said they would return.
36:37this gate is locked. have you the key?
36:39a key?
36:48oh hang it.
36:51uh I ought to have that key about me.
36:54um I had a mind to.
36:56I was very near thinking whether I shouldn't bring that key.
37:00I tell you I'm quite determined I shall never come thus far again unless I have it.
37:04but now you do not have it.
37:06no.
37:07well then it must be fetched.
37:08we sadly cannot take in the aspect of Mr Crawford's improvements
37:12unless we have the key.
37:14true.
37:19I must go for it.
37:22I shall.
37:28it is a long way to the house you know
37:30but I shall make haste for it.
37:33I knew I should have brought that key.
37:36it is the best we can do.
37:52since we have come so far.
37:54though to tell the truth I do not think I shall ever see Southerton again with so much pleasure as I do now.
38:09some of this year's changes will hardly improve it for me.
38:12well if other people think Southerton improved I have no doubt you will.
38:15you are a man of the world.
38:17well not quite so much as might be good for me in some points.
38:20my feelings are not as free as one may find with men of the world.
38:24you seem to enjoy your drive here this morning.
38:30you and Julia were laughing the whole way.
38:32were we?
38:34I don't recollect.
38:36but your sister loves to laugh.
38:38you think I'm more light-hearted than I am.
38:41more easily amused perhaps.
38:43by nature I believe I am as lively as Julia.
38:47but I have more to think of now.
38:49you have undoubtedly.
38:55but that should not justify a want of spirits.
38:58you have a very smiling scene before you.
39:01literally do you mean?
39:03it's true the sun is shining.
39:06but this iron gate gives me a feeling of restraint.
39:10I cannot get out.
39:13as the starling said.
39:19and Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching this key.
39:22and for the world you could not go without Mr. Rushworth's authority.
39:29or
39:31I think you might
39:32with little difficulty
39:34pass through the gate here.
39:37with my assistance.
39:41if you could allow yourself to think it not prohibited.
39:44prohibited?
39:45nonsense.
39:46nonsense.
39:47I certainly can get in here and I will.
39:49Mr. Rushworth will be back here in a moment you know.
39:51we shall not be out of sight.
39:52or if we are
39:54Miss Price will be so good as to tell him.
39:55he may find us near that knoll.
39:57oh no.
39:58Mr. Crawford.
39:59by the grove of oak on that knoll.
40:00you will hurt yourself Miss Bertram.
40:02you will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes.
40:05you will tear your dress.
40:06thank you my dear Fanny.
40:07but I am alive and well.
40:09and your dress too.
40:10indeed.
40:11so goodbye Fanny.
40:12you may tell Mr. Rushworth where we are gone.
40:16oh
40:17heyday.
40:18what's this?
40:19I thought that Mariah and Mr. Crawford were with you.
40:21and Mr. Rushworth too.
40:22but Mr. Rushworth is gone.
40:23to fetch the key to the gate.
40:24and instead of waiting,
40:25Miss Bertram and Mr. Crawford have climbed through the gap.
40:27and now they are gone.
40:31a pretty trick.
40:32upon my word.
40:33cannot see them anywhere.
40:34they cannot be far off.
40:35and I think
40:36I am equal.
40:37I am equal to as much as Mariah.
40:38I am equal to as much as Mariah.
40:39and I think I am equal to as much as Mariah.
40:40and Mr. Rushworth is gone.
40:41to fetch the key to the gate.
40:42and instead of waiting,
40:44Miss Bertram and Mr. Crawford have climbed through the gap.
40:47and now they are gone.
40:48a pretty trick.
40:49upon my word.
40:50cannot see them anywhere.
40:51they cannot be far off.
40:52and I think I am equal to as much as Mariah.
40:54even without help.
40:56but Julia,
41:11Mr. Rushworth will be here in a moment with the key.
41:14do wait for Mr. Rushworth.
41:16not I.
41:17I've had enough of the family for one morning.
41:19my child,
41:20I have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother
41:23while you were sitting here so composed and happy.
41:26might have been as well if you had been in my place.
41:29you always contrived to keep out of these scrapes.
41:32but didn't you see Mr. Rushworth?
41:35yes yes I saw him.
41:37he was posting away as if upon life and death.
41:40he scarcely had time to tell me of his errand
41:42and where you were.
41:44it's a pity he should have so much trouble for nothing.
41:48that is Miss Mariah's concern.
41:50I'm not obliged to punish myself for her sins.
41:53the mother I could not get away from
41:55as long as my tiresome aunt was prancing about.
41:58but the son I can avoid.
42:15what?
42:16Mr. Rushworth.
42:18yes
42:19I fear they are gone.
42:21gone?
42:24Mariah and Mr. Crawford?
42:27yes.
42:28into the park.
42:31but I brought the key.
42:33they climbed.
42:34what?
42:35round the gate.
42:40there's a little space you see.
42:42what?
42:44damn it!
42:47pine did they?
42:48yes indeed.
42:51good lord.
42:56they desired me to say
42:58my cousin Mariah charged me to say
43:00you would find them at the knoll
43:02or thereabouts.
43:03what?
43:04thereabouts.
43:11how did she?
43:15I do not believe I shall go any further.
43:20I see nothing of them.
43:23by the time I get there they may be gone somewhere else.
43:28I've had walking enough.
43:44I'm very sorry.
43:46it was
43:48unlucky.
43:50I think they might as well have stayed for me.
43:54Miss Bertram thought you would follow her.
43:56I shouldn't have had to follow her if she had stayed.
44:05tell me Miss Price
44:06you're such a great admirer of this
44:10Mr. Crawford as some people are.
44:14for my part I can see nothing in him.
44:18I do not think him at all handsome.
44:20handsome?
44:23he's not five foot nine.
44:27I wonder if he wasn't one of five foot eight.
44:30I think he's a very ill-looking fellow.
44:36in my opinion these Crawfords are no addition at all.
44:41he did very well without them.
44:49if I'd made any difficulty about fetching the key
44:52there might be some excuse but
44:54I went the very moment she wanted it.
44:57when people are waiting they're bad judges of time.
45:06it is a pity you should not join them.
45:09they expected a better view of the house and how it may be improved.
45:13and nothing of that sort you know may be settled without you.
45:20well
45:21well
45:24if you really think I had better go.
45:29would be foolish to bring the key for nothing.
45:32I think you should.
45:35aye
45:37very well
45:51do you stay for Mr. Bertram and Miss Crawford still?
46:01yes
46:03I do.
46:05oh
46:21well Fanny this has been a fine day for you upon my word.
46:25indeed aunt.
46:26nothing but pleasure from beginning to end.
46:28I'm sure you ought to be very much obliged to your aunt Bertram and myself for contriving to let you go.
46:34a pretty good day's amusement you have had.
46:37yes ma'am. I thank you.
46:39I think you have done pretty well yourself ma'am.
46:41your lap seems full of good things.
46:44and this basket between us has been knocking my elbow unmercifully.
46:47my dear it is only a beautiful little heap which Mrs. Rushworth and her dear old gardener insisted I must take.
46:54but if it's in your way I'll have it on my lap directly.
46:57there Fanny you shall have the parcel.
46:58take great care of it.
47:00it is a cream cheese.
47:01just like the one we had at dinner.
47:03now I can manage my basket.
47:06and the hamper.
47:07very well.
47:08what else have you been sponging?
47:10sponging my dear?
47:12nothing but four of those beautiful pheasant's eggs.
47:15which Mrs. Rushworth quite forced upon me.
47:18I shall get your dairymaid to set them under the first spare hen.
47:22it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to have some living creatures by me.
47:28and if I have good luck your mother shall have some.
47:45you will find the young people in the drawing room.
47:50why I declare the Crawfords.
47:52I met them in the hall and have not yet given them our great intelligence.
47:56we have had a letter from poor Sir Thomas in Antigua.
48:00good evening Lady Bertrand.
48:01Sir Thomas is well.
48:03I believe so.
48:06why aunt would you have Miss Crawford believe there is something ill?
48:09no no I assure you we hear nothing ill.
48:13as yet.
48:14Sir Thomas informs us his business is so near done.
48:17he proposes taking his passage in the September packet.
48:20if there be no delays.
48:22storms or other misfortunes.
48:25one cannot foresee all.
48:27Sir Thomas will be home again in November.
48:28and dear Mariah will be married.
48:32then it's good news indeed.
48:35if you need more candles at the Piano Forte Julia
48:37I'm sure Mr. Crawford will assist you.
48:42we are to have a song.
48:43Mr. Rushworth proposed it.
48:48then I'm sure Henry will lend his voice as well.
48:54Mr. Bertram.
48:56Miss Price.
48:57it is a pleasant evening.
48:58Miss Crawford.
48:59we have been looking at the stars.
49:01indeed.
49:03how happy Mr. Rushworth looks.
49:08your father's return will be the forerunner of interesting events.
49:12Miss Bertram's marriage.
49:13your taking holy orders.
49:15sacrifices to the gods for a safe return.
49:20there is no sacrifice in either case.
49:23Mariah's marriage and my taking orders are freely chosen.
49:27yes.
49:28I was merely joking.
49:29she has done no more than many young women would do.
49:34and as for taking orders
49:36there is a very good living I understand kept for you hereabouts.
49:40true.
49:41but if the church is to be supplied surely her clergy must have provision.
49:46it was you who spoke of sacrifice.
49:49forgive me.
49:50I shall say no more of clergymen.
49:53except for one who vexes me.
49:56I must own.
49:58Henry and I were partly driven out this evening by the behavior of Dr. Grant.
50:03a brother-in-law who is kind and obliging to me and I dare say preaches a good sermon.
50:08but who if his cook makes a blunder is out of humor with his excellent wife.
50:13tonight it was a goose he could not get the better of.
50:16and my poor sister was forced to stay and bear it.
50:18oh but surely.
50:19it goes against us Fanny.
50:22we cannot defend Dr. Grant.
50:24no but we need not give up his profession.
50:28Miss Crawford we are to sing a glee.
50:30shall you join us?
50:31yes I come.
50:33there goes good humor I am sure.
50:39how well she walks.
50:42and how readily she falls in with others wishes.
50:47what a pity she should be so influenced by her uncle's worldly views.
50:52indeed.
50:53but there's not a cloud tonight.
50:59here's harmony.
51:00here's repose.
51:02leaves all painting and music behind.
51:04poetry can only reach for it.
51:08when I look out on such a night as this
51:11I feel
51:13there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world.
51:17it is a lovely night.
51:19I wish everyone could learn to see it as you do.
51:21it was you that taught me cousin.
51:24to think and to feel.
51:26I had an apt scholar.
51:31there's Arcturus.
51:32looking very bright.
51:33yes yes.
51:35and the bear.
51:37I wish I could see Cassiopeia.
51:39we must go out on the lawn for that.
51:41should you be afraid?
51:42not in the least.
51:44it's so long since we've had any stargazing.
51:46yes.
51:48how has that happened?
51:49who did?
51:50i do not know.
51:55wait.
51:57we'll stay till this is finished.
51:58was never a place so pleased my mind
52:04i did not see her pausing by
52:08fanny.
52:09what do you stand and stare for?
52:11you will catch a cold.
52:13you will.
52:14shall i die.
52:16will i die.
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