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The young people at Mansfield Park decide to put on a play, but Edmund believes Sir Thomas would disapprove.
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00:30My dear brother William,
00:47I was much delighted by your letter from Gibraltar
00:50and by the sketch you sent me of your sloop,
00:53which sits now, very handsome, on this table.
00:56But most of all, to learn you may be again in England,
00:59before the year is out.
01:02My uncle is expected from Antigua in November,
01:05and tonight at Mansfield we celebrate the return of my cousin Tom.
01:10He has recently come home from the races at Basingstoke,
01:14where I fear he had small success by his own account.
01:19He brings with him a young gentleman,
01:22the Honourable John Yates,
01:24who is to spend some weeks here.
01:27So with the addition of a fiddler,
01:29and Mrs. Grant,
01:31we shall make five couples.
01:33Since five it may be,
01:35if I am asked to dance.
01:43We see some happy faces again now.
01:47I mean, dear Mariah,
01:48and Mr. Rushworth.
01:50She does indeed look happy at this moment.
01:56It is quite delightful to see young people so well suited.
02:00So much to think.
02:03And what do you say to the chance of another match?
02:06The couple above, sister.
02:07Julia and Mr. Crawford,
02:10do you see those symptoms there?
02:13His property is Ā£4,000 a year.
02:16Ā£4,000?
02:17It is not a settled thing, of course,
02:19but I have no doubt it will be.
02:21He's growing extremely particular in his attentions.
02:24Yes.
02:32Fanny, if you want to dance,
02:34I'll stand up with you.
02:35I thank you, cousin.
02:36But I do not wish to.
02:38I'm glad.
02:39I tell you, I'm tired to death.
02:41How do they keep it up so long?
02:43They must all be in love to find any amusement and such folly.
02:47And so they are, I fancy, if you look.
02:49All but Yates and Mrs. Grant.
02:51And she, poor woman,
02:52must want to love her as much as any of them.
02:54A desperate, dull life hers must do with the Dr. Grant.
02:58Uh, strange business is in America.
03:02What's your opinion?
03:03I always come to you to know what I'm to think on public matters.
03:06Oh, the embargo, sir.
03:08Tobacco spoils the palate for good food.
03:11They may keep it.
03:12Very true.
03:12Very true.
03:13My dear Tom, as you are not dancing,
03:15I dare say you will join us in a rubber, shall you?
03:17You and I and your mother and Dr. Grant will just do.
03:21And though we pay but half crowns,
03:23you know you may be half guineas with him.
03:26I've been most happy, with the greatest pleasure.
03:28But I am this moment going to dance.
03:31Come, Fanny, don't dawdle any longer or the dance will be over.
03:33Oh, yes, indeed.
03:38A pretty modest request upon my word.
03:41To nail me to a card table for the next two hours with herself and Dr. Grant.
03:44You're always quarrelling.
03:52I wish my good aunt would be a little less busy.
03:55It was all rehearsed and ready to be performed
04:05at Lord Ravenshaw's seat in Cornwall
04:07at Ecclesford, you know?
04:08Oh, yeah.
04:09Lovers' vows was to be our play.
04:11And why was it not done, Mr. Yeats?
04:12Why?
04:13Why, because Lord Ravenshaw's grandmother died two days
04:16before the curtain should have risen on us.
04:18The worst possible time for the old dowager to pop off.
04:21I believe the news of it might have been suppressed
04:23but Lord Ravenshaw wouldn't hear of it.
04:25Oh, what a pity.
04:27Well, he was never equal to the Baron.
04:29The part he had taken for himself.
04:31He's but a little man with a weak voice.
04:34I might have done it but I arrived too late
04:36so I got Count Castle.
04:38A trifling role and not at all to my taste.
04:41Yet I made no difficulties
04:42and upon the whole I believe it would have gone off wonderfully.
04:45A hard case.
04:46So lovers' vows were to an end.
04:47A tragedy in place of our comedy, you see.
04:50But we had a splendid theatre.
04:53If I had such a stage again
04:54I'd take the Baron's part and show what could be done.
04:57For I know every line.
04:59And why not?
05:01Might not we have a theatre?
05:03Here, at Mansfield.
05:05Why, yes, indeed.
05:06I suppose any room in the house would suffice.
05:09Well, we should need a curtain.
05:10A few yards of green bays.
05:12That would be enough.
05:13Oh, quite enough with just a side wing or two
05:15and three or four scene to be let down
05:16for mere amusement between ourselves
05:18which would want nothing more.
05:19No, me.
05:19Well, what do you say?
05:20I'd say let us do nothing by halves.
05:23If we are to act
05:24let it be enough theatre
05:25fitted up with pit box and gallery
05:27with a figure dance, a hornpipe and a song.
05:30If we don't outdo Ecclesford
05:32we do nothing.
05:33Now, Edmund, don't be disagreeable.
05:35Nobody loves a play better than you.
05:37Or would go further to see one.
05:39And to make Yeats amends
05:40he shall be our manager.
05:42Oh, yes.
05:43Now, what play do you think we should choose?
05:45I really believe I could be fool enough
05:46at this moment
05:47to undertake anything
05:48from Shylock
05:50or Richard III
05:51to the singing hero
05:53of a farce in his cocked hat.
05:59I could rant and storm
06:01or sigh and cut capers
06:04in any tragedy or comedy
06:05in the English language.
06:07Oh, let us be doing something, Tom.
06:10Be it only half a play.
06:11Please, Tom.
06:14In this room.
06:16We might do it here, you know.
06:17In this very room.
06:18Yes.
06:19Where would you set the stage?
06:21Here.
06:22At this end.
06:24And there's the door to my father's room
06:25which would be our green room.
06:27Well, to be sure it's locked
06:28at the moment
06:28with a bookcase on the other side
06:29yet that could be moved.
06:30Well, Edmund would not approve it.
06:31You may count on that.
06:33I shall speak to Edmund
06:33and I shall do it now.
06:35Yeats,
06:35you may give Crawford
06:36a better challenge than I have known.
06:38Oh, where is my brother?
06:39I haven't seen him since we dine.
06:41In the drawing room
06:42with Mama and Fanny.
06:43Right.
06:44Give me but three minutes with him
06:45and I shall settle it.
06:47Depend on that.
06:48Bravo, Tal.
06:51Oh, Mum.
06:52Oh, Fanny.
07:07What must I do here?
07:10Pray let me see, Aunt.
07:15That's a vile billiard table.
07:17Nothing shall ever tempt me to it again.
07:19But one good thing I have ascertained
07:22is the very room for a theatre.
07:26Precisely the shape and length for it.
07:29The door to my father's room
07:30communicating with it
07:31is the very thing we desired.
07:32It seems to join the billiard room on purpose.
07:36You are not serious, Tom.
07:40Serious?
07:41Never more so, I, shall we?
07:43What is there to surprise you in it?
07:45I think it would be very wrong
07:53in my father's absence
07:54to attempt anything of a kind.
07:57Well, on the contrary.
07:59I think it would help to keep up
08:00my mother's spirits
08:00and ease her anxiety
08:01till his return.
08:06Oh, by Jove.
08:07My dear mother's anxiety.
08:09Well, I was unlucky there.
08:10Why, what is the matter?
08:14I was not asleep.
08:15No, ma'am, no.
08:16Nobody suspected you a moment.
08:21Well, Aunt Brenda.
08:23But this I maintain,
08:24we will be doing no harm.
08:27Why, my father encouraged us
08:28to act when we were boys.
08:29How many times have we mourned
08:31over the death of Julius Caesar
08:33for his amusement in this very room?
08:34It was a different thing.
08:36You must see the difference.
08:37No.
08:37But my father wished us
08:38as schoolboys to speak well,
08:39but he would never wish
08:40his grown-up daughters
08:41to be acting plays.
08:43Mariah is engaged
08:44and Julia is...
08:45I am concerned for her
08:51and the position of Henry Crawford.
08:53I am sure my father
08:54would not approve it.
08:55His sense of decorum
08:56is very strict.
08:57I know all that
08:58and I know my father
08:59as well as you do.
09:01I'll take care of his daughters
09:02and do nothing to distress him.
09:03Tom, if you...
09:04Manage your own concerns, Edmund
09:05and I'll take care
09:07of the rest of the family.
09:08If you are resolved on acting,
09:17I hope it will be
09:19in a very small way.
09:21I think a theatre
09:22ought not to be attempted
09:23if only for the expense.
09:24Oh, well,
09:25the expense will be prodigious.
09:27It might cost a whole 20 pounds.
09:29And as the carpenter's work
09:30can be done at home
09:31by Christopher Jackson himself,
09:32it is absurd to talk of expense.
09:35Don't imagine that nobody
09:36in this house
09:36can see or judge
09:37but yourself.
09:39Don't act if you don't like it.
09:41But don't expect
09:41to govern everybody else.
09:42Perhaps they may not be able
10:01to find a play
10:02to suit them.
10:06Your brother's taste
10:07and your sister's
10:08seem very different
10:09from what they've said.
10:10I have no hopes there, Fanny.
10:13If they persist in the scheme,
10:14they will find something.
10:17I shall speak to my sisters
10:18and try to dissuade them.
10:21I should think my Aunt Norris
10:22would be on your side.
10:24She has no influence
10:26with Tom
10:26that would be of any use.
10:30Things must take their course.
10:32To be or not to be.
10:36That is the question.
10:37I say there is no question,
10:39Mr. Crawford.
10:40It must be
10:41the school for scandal.
10:43No, Julia,
10:43the heir-at-law.
10:44Surely Macbeth.
10:45Or at least
10:46the rivals.
10:47But consider Hamlet
10:49or Othello.
10:50Why, here is
10:51lover's vows.
10:52I do forgot.
10:54Lover's vows.
10:55Indeed.
10:57Oh, I shouldn't
10:57you do for us
10:58as well as for the
10:58Ravenshaws.
10:59What say you all?
11:00Here are two capital
11:01tragic parts for Yates
11:02and Crawford
11:03and the rhyming butler
11:04will do for me.
11:05A trifle,
11:06but the sort of thing
11:06I don't dislike.
11:08And the rest may be filled
11:09by anyone.
11:11There's only Count Castle
11:12and the young clergyman.
11:13I may assure you
11:14Mr. Rushworth
11:14will take one of those.
11:15Well, then we're agreed.
11:17Aye.
11:18Hamlet,
11:19thou art slain.
11:20I am content.
11:21The rest is silence.
11:23As to the Baron,
11:23you know,
11:24I shall not want to prompt her.
11:25But we are not fair
11:27to the absent.
11:28Here are not women enough.
11:29Agatha and Amelia
11:31may do for Mariah and me,
11:32but there's nothing
11:34for your sister,
11:35Mr. Crawford.
11:36Oh, I believe Mary
11:37will grieve little.
11:38No, no, no, no.
11:39Miss Crawford
11:40must play Amelia.
11:41Well, it falls as naturally
11:42to her as Agatha
11:43does to one of my sisters,
11:45the Baron for Yates,
11:46Frederick for Crawford,
11:47and Agatha...
11:48but which?
11:56It seems improbable,
11:58but if I am to be the son
12:02of one of these young ladies,
12:04I really must entreat,
12:07I do entreat,
12:09Miss Julia Bertram
12:10not to play Agatha,
12:13or it will be the ruin
12:14of my solemnity.
12:16I could not stand
12:16to see your countenance
12:17dressed up in woe.
12:19The many laughs
12:20we have had together
12:21would quite overpower me.
12:22Yes, Mariah must be Agatha.
12:23Julia cannot do it.
12:24She prefers comedy.
12:26Her features are not tragic
12:27and she walks too quick.
12:28She'd better play cottage's wife.
12:30You had indeed, Julia.
12:31Cottage's wife?
12:32What are you talking of?
12:33The most trivial,
12:34paltry, insignificant.
12:35There's not a tolerable speech
12:37in the whole piece.
12:38Why, it excles
12:38that the governess
12:39was to have done it.
12:40Well, as to that,
12:40someone must play cottage's wife.
12:42We cannot.
12:43We must not allow
12:44your sister to accept the part.
12:46Her talents will be wanted
12:47in Amelia.
12:48It requires great powers,
12:50great nicety.
12:52You must oblige us.
12:54When you have studied
12:55the character,
12:56I'm sure you will feel
12:56it suit you.
12:58You visit me in prison
13:00with a basket of provisions.
13:02You will not refuse
13:03to visit me in prison?
13:05I think I see you coming in.
13:07You do not seem afraid
13:08of not keeping your countenance
13:09over a basket of provisions,
13:12one might have supposed.
13:14But it is only as Agatha
13:15that I shall be so overpowering.
13:18Oh, no.
13:18Miss Crawford must be Amelia.
13:21Julia's too robust.
13:23Amelia's a light, girlish figure.
13:25Oh, do not be afraid
13:26of my wanting the character.
13:28If I am not to be Agatha,
13:30I am sure I will do nothing else.
13:32As to Amelia,
13:35it is of all parts in the world
13:37the most disgusting to me.
13:39I quite detest her.
13:40An odious,
13:42poet,
13:43unnatural,
13:44impudent little girl.
13:46It would be no comedy,
13:47let me assure you,
13:48for me to plead.
13:49It would be a tragedy.
13:51A tragedy of the worst.
13:52Come on.
13:53I think she may be vexed.
13:59I fear I was to blame.
14:01Oh, no.
14:02But perhaps,
14:04Mr Crawford,
14:05I should go with you
14:06to the parsonage
14:07to beg your sister
14:08will accept the part
14:09else you shall play it.
14:10Oh, Miss Bertram,
14:11I shall be much obliged.
14:12Now return to Christopher Jackson.
14:14By all the sound of it,
14:15my father's bookcase
14:16is ready to be moved.
14:16Good evening, Jackson.
14:46Good evening, sir.
14:48Her ladyship is waiting dinner, sir.
14:50Mr Rushworth is come.
14:51Thank you, badly.
14:57The Green Bay is sent
14:59from Northampton
14:59and I have made a saving
15:01of full half a yard.
15:02Oh, here is it.
15:05Good evening, ma'am.
15:07Mr Rushworth.
15:08Mr Yates.
15:08Do you hear our latest?
15:10We have got a play.
15:11It's to be lover's vows
15:12and I am to be Count Castle.
15:14I come in first
15:15with a blue dress
15:16and a pink satin cloak.
15:19I don't know how
15:20I shall like it.
15:21Lover's vows.
15:22Yes, after all our difficulties.
15:25The wonder is
15:26we should not have
15:26thought of it at first.
15:28We have cast almost every part.
15:31But what do you do for women?
15:33I take the part
15:34that Lady Ravenshaw
15:35was to have done
15:35and Miss Crawford
15:37is to be Amelia.
15:38I come in three times
15:40and I have
15:42two and forty speeches.
15:44I shall hardly know myself
15:45in a blue dress
15:46and a pink satin cloak.
15:50Your nature,
15:52the carpenter wishes
15:53to speak to Mr Bertram
15:54if you're obliged, sir.
15:56Oh, sorry.
15:57Come, Yates.
15:59You, how we progress.
16:01Oh, and, uh,
16:02Rushworth,
16:03if you care to see
16:04how we progress.
16:05Of course.
16:06I hesitated to speak
16:14before Mr Yates.
16:16But now I must say
16:18my dear Mariah,
16:21I cannot believe
16:22that you have read this play
16:23and still approve it.
16:25Read only the first act
16:27to your mother
16:27or your aunt.
16:30It will not be necessary
16:31to send to my father's judgment,
16:32I am convinced.
16:34We see things
16:35very differently, Edmund.
16:37I'm perfectly acquainted
16:38with the play,
16:39I assure you.
16:40And with a very few omissions,
16:42which shall, of course,
16:42be made,
16:43I can see nothing objectionable.
16:45And you'll find
16:46I'm not the only young woman
16:47who thinks so.
16:49Then I am sorry for it.
16:51But in this matter,
16:52it...
16:52It is you
16:55who have to lead.
16:56You are the daughter
16:57of the house
16:57and your conduct
16:58and your conduct
16:58should guide the rest.
16:59Do not act anything improper,
17:01my dear Sir Thomas
17:03would not like it.
17:04Fanny,
17:05ring the bell.
17:06I must have my dinner
17:08to be sure
17:09Julia is dressed
17:10by this time.
17:12I am convinced,
17:13Madam Sir Thomas
17:14would not like it.
17:15If I were to decline the part,
17:17Julia would certainly take it.
17:18If she knew your reasons.
17:19Oh, she would point out
17:20the difference in our situation.
17:22She is not engaged.
17:23She need not be so scrupulous.
17:24I'm sure she would argue so.
17:26No!
17:27You must excuse me.
17:29It is too far settled.
17:30Everyone would be so disappointed.
17:32Tom would be quite angry.
17:33You know that, Edmund.
17:35Besides,
17:36if we are to be so very nice,
17:37we shall never act anything.
17:39I was just going to say
17:40the very same thing.
17:41If every play is to be objected to,
17:43you will act nothing.
17:44And the preparations
17:45and all the money
17:46will be thrown away.
17:48Now, I am sure
17:49that would be
17:49a great discredit to us all.
17:52And as Mariah says,
17:53if there is anything
17:54about the play
17:55a little too warm,
17:56it can easily be left out.
17:59And as Mr. Rushworth
18:00is to act too,
18:01there can be no harm.
18:06I only wish Tom
18:07had known his mind
18:08when the carpenters began.
18:10There was the loss
18:11of half a day's work
18:12about those side doors.
18:13The curtain will be
18:14a good job, however.
18:15I told the maids
18:16there was no occasion
18:17to put the rings
18:18so very close together.
18:19but I am of some use,
18:21I hope,
18:21in preventing waste
18:23and making the most of things.
18:29Thank you, Mrs. Norris.
18:31I must congratulate
18:32your ladyship.
18:34Indeed, Miss Crawford.
18:35Upon what?
18:37Why, on a play being chosen.
18:39You bear it
18:40with exemplary patience,
18:41but I'm sure
18:42you must be sick
18:43of all our noise
18:44and difficulties.
18:44No, I assure you
18:47I quite disregard it.
18:49Disregard it, ma'am?
18:51Why, the Mansfield theatricals
18:53will be the talk
18:54of the whole neighbourhood.
18:56I trust they will give you joy.
18:59And Mrs. Norris, too.
19:01And every other bystander.
19:09One scene, I suppose,
19:10will serve all the open spaces.
19:11You will need a scene painter.
19:12Indeed.
19:13And one for the inside
19:14of their castle
19:15and another for the inside
19:16of the cottage.
19:17Sidewings may show the rest,
19:18the outside of the alehouse
19:19and the cottage.
19:19My good friends,
19:20I shall admire your alehouse
19:22and your cottage
19:23inside and out,
19:24but meanwhile,
19:25pray let me know my fate.
19:27Who is to be Anhalt?
19:30What gentleman among you
19:31am I to have the pleasure
19:32of making love to?
19:33Well, it's a question,
19:34Miss Crawford,
19:35not yet resolved.
19:36Mr. Rushworth
19:37is to be Count Castle,
19:39but no one has undertaken Anhalt.
19:41I had my choice of the parts,
19:42but I thought
19:43I should like the count best.
19:45You chose very wisely,
19:46I am sure.
19:48Anhalt is a heavy part.
19:51The count has 240 speeches,
19:53which is no trifle.
19:56I am not at all surprised
19:57by this want of an Anhalt.
19:59Amelia deserves no better.
20:00Such a forward young lady
20:02may well frighten the men.
20:04Cannot you double it, Tom?
20:05Well, I don't believe so.
20:07The butler and Anhalt
20:08are in together.
20:09I'll not entirely give it up, however.
20:10I'll look it over again
20:11and try what can be done.
20:12Your brother should take the part.
20:14Do you not think he would?
20:15Well, I shall not ask him.
20:18Or we must apply
20:19to some other gentleman.
20:21Have no fear, Miss Crawford.
20:22Your Anhalt shall be resolved.
20:25Now, to more important matters.
20:26I think the cottage
20:27should be on the left-hand side.
20:28And the alehouse.
20:30And the alehouse.
20:31They do not wish me
20:37of their party.
20:39They have other business.
20:43Mr. Edmund Bertram,
20:45as you do not act yourself,
20:46I appeal to you
20:47as a disinterested person.
20:50What shall we do for an Anhalt?
20:52Can any of the others double it?
20:54What is your advice?
20:56My advice
20:59is that you change the play.
21:05If any part
21:07could tempt you to act,
21:09I suppose it would be Anhalt.
21:12For he is a clergyman, you know.
21:16That would by no means tempt me.
21:19For I should be sorry
21:20to make the profession
21:21appear ridiculous
21:22as such bad acting would.
21:25Fanny, we want your services.
21:26Yes.
21:27I'm here.
21:28No, you needn't leave your seat.
21:29We don't want you now.
21:30But for the play,
21:32you must be cottage's wife.
21:33No!
21:35Indeed, you must excuse me.
21:37I could not act for anything
21:38if you were to give me the world.
21:41No, indeed.
21:42I cannot.
21:44Well, indeed, you must.
21:46It needn't frighten you, you know.
21:47It's a nothing of a part.
21:48Not above half a dozen speeches.
21:50It won't signify
21:51if nobody hears a word.
21:52You may be as creep mouse
21:53as you like.
21:54No, cousin, please.
21:56If you're afraid
21:57of half a dozen speeches,
21:59what would you do
21:59with such a part as mine?
22:01I have two and forty to learn.
22:03It's not that I'm afraid
22:04of learning by heart,
22:05but I really cannot act.
22:06You can act well enough for us.
22:09Now, you've only got two scenes
22:10and as I'm the cottager,
22:11I'll put you in and push you about.
22:12You'll do it very well.
22:13I'll answer for it.
22:14No, indeed, Mr. Bertram,
22:15you must excuse me.
22:16You cannot have an idea.
22:18It would be absolutely impossible for me
22:20if I were to undertake it,
22:21I would only disappoint you.
22:22Fanny, we don't expect perfection.
22:25Now, you must have a brown gown
22:27and an apron and a mop cap
22:29and we'll make you a few wrinkles
22:31and have little crow's foot
22:32at the corner of your eyes.
22:34No!
22:36Indeed, you must excuse me.
22:37You must.
22:37I pray you.
22:38What a piece of work about nothing.
22:41I'm quite ashamed of you, Fanny,
22:42to make such a difficulty
22:43of obliging your cousins
22:44in such a trifle.
22:46So kind as they are to you,
22:49pick the pub with a good grace
22:50and let us hear no more of it.
22:51Do not urge her, madam.
22:53It is not fair to urge her.
22:54You see, she does not like it.
22:56Let her choose for herself.
22:57Her judgment may be quite as safely trusted
22:59as any of the rest.
23:00I am not going to urge her,
23:02but I shall think her
23:03a very obstinate, ungrateful girl
23:05if she does not do
23:06what her aunt and cousins wish her.
23:09Very ungrateful indeed,
23:10considering who and what she is.
23:30Never mind, my dear Miss Price.
23:33This is a cross evening.
23:34Everybody is cross and teasing.
23:37But do not let us mind them.
23:40No, indeed.
23:42I shall ask my sister, Mrs. Grant.
23:45I'm sure she will oblige us
23:46by taking Cottage's wife.
23:48Oh, if she would.
23:50Yes.
23:51Yes, I assure you,
23:52have no more fears.
23:55But of my clergyman lover,
23:57I am much less certain.
23:59I fear it must be some stranger,
24:01which will be very disagreeable to me.
24:04And by no means
24:06what I had hoped.
24:10Ah, me.
24:18Come in.
24:21Fenny,
24:21can I speak with you for a few minutes?
24:23Yes, certainly.
24:25I mean to consult.
24:34I want your opinion.
24:36My opinion?
24:37Yes.
24:38Your advice and opinion.
24:40I do not know what to do.
24:49This acting scheme gets worse and worse, you see.
24:54They have chosen almost as bad a play as they could.
24:57And now they are to ask Charles Maddox to take the part.
25:04Tom is to ride over to Stoke this morning.
25:05A young man scarcely known to any of us.
25:09This is the end of all the privacy that was talked of at first.
25:13It must, it shall be prevented.
25:15Don't you agree?
25:16But what can be done?
25:18Your brother seems so determined.
25:21There is but one thing to be done, Fenny.
25:26I must take the part of Anhalt myself.
25:30Nothing else will quiet Tom.
25:32Of that I am sure.
25:35It is not at all what I like.
25:38After being known to oppose the scheme from the beginning,
25:40it appears absurd.
25:41But I can think of no alternative.
25:45Can you?
25:47No.
25:48Not immediately.
25:51But.
25:53But what?
25:55I see your judgment is not with me.
26:00But think it over.
26:02Put yourself in Miss Crawford's place.
26:05Consider what it would be like to act Amelia with a stranger.
26:08It would be really wrong, ungenerous, to expose her to it.
26:12Doesn't it strike you so?
26:14I.
26:16I am very sorry for Miss Crawford.
26:19But I am more sorry to see you drawn into what you are resolved against.
26:24And what you know would be disagreeable to my uncle.
26:28It may be the means of restraining the publicity.
26:31As it is now, I can do nothing.
26:33When I have put them in good humour,
26:35I am not without hopes of persuading them
26:37to confine the business to Mrs Rushworth and the grants.
26:39Won't that be worth gaining?
26:43Yes.
26:44But still, it hasn't your approval.
26:53Give me your approbation, Fanny.
26:56I am not comfortable without it.
26:59Oh, cousin.
27:00If you are against me, I must distrust myself.
27:11And yet it is absolutely impossible to let Tom go on this way,
27:15riding about the country in quest of anybody who can be persuaded to act.
27:24I thought you would have entered more into Miss Crawford's feelings.
27:27No doubt she will be very glad.
27:31She never appeared more amiable than to you last night.
27:35It gave her a very strong claim to my goodwill.
27:39Yes.
27:41She was very kind.
27:54I shall walk down immediately after breakfast.
27:58I am sure of giving pleasure there.
28:00And now, Fanny, I won't interrupt you any longer.
28:05If Tom is up, I shall go to him directly and get it over.
28:07Do you still read, Cooper?
28:14You remember the hours we spent together in this old schoolroom?
28:19Yes, indeed.
28:20You have made it yours.
28:24I admire your little establishment exceedingly.
28:27But you have no fire.
28:31Do not stay to be cold.
28:35And trust me, Fanny.
28:42But tell me,
28:44had the father his daughter's innocence to deplore?
28:47Aye, my lord.
28:48You must hear that party rhyme.
28:51Loss of innocence never sounds well except in the verse.
28:54For are the very night before
28:57no prudent guard upon her
28:59the county gave her oaths a score
29:01and took in charge her honour.
29:06Mrs. Grant, I'm seeking Mr. Rushworth.
29:09Where is he, Mary?
29:10He's to come on.
29:12Then you who now lead single lives
29:15from this sad tale beware
29:18and do not act as you were wise
29:24before you really err.
29:27Leave the room instantly.
29:33Now where is Rushworth?
29:35Surely he knows his cue.
29:36Count Castle enters here.
29:38Rushworth!
29:39Miss Price has come to see for him.
29:41He was here but a moment, since.
29:43He cannot be far afield.
29:45I shall go and find him, Mr. Yates.
29:48We may rehearse this scene again
29:49until he has come.
29:51We shall not want Miss Crawford
29:52from Amelia's exit.
29:57No, no!
29:59That did not cause my reluctance to speak.
30:07Miss Price.
30:08Oh, Mr. Rushworth.
30:10I was seeking you.
30:11What?
30:12My Aunt Laurie sent me to finish the work on your dress
30:14and I cannot find it.
30:15My blue dress?
30:16It's in the green room.
30:18And now you're wanted on stage?
30:20What?
30:20You were wanted a moment since.
30:21They've gone back without you.
30:23No, I shall not go yet.
30:24Oh, but you, Mr. Yates...
30:25Oh, there I have not the limes.
30:29I pray you.
30:30Hear me a scene.
30:31It'll take back a moment.
30:32Yes, yes.
30:34I think I have it now.
30:35My two and forty speeches.
30:38But this, come down the piece.
30:40It's all confused.
30:43I am the epitome of the world.
30:45Do you find it?
30:46Yes.
30:47Yes, indeed.
30:48An epitome of the world.
30:51In my travels,
30:53I have learnt
30:54Delicacy in Italy.
30:59Auteur in Spain.
31:01In France.
31:05Enterprise.
31:06No, that's Russia.
31:07No, no, no, no.
31:08What?
31:10So it is.
31:12In France.
31:16Enterprise.
31:17In Russia, Prudence.
31:20And in England.
31:24Oh, hang on.
31:25Now, what did I learn in England?
31:27Sincerity.
31:28In England, sincerity.
31:31In Scotland, frugality.
31:34And in the wilds of America,
31:37Love.
31:37Is that all?
31:39Yes, Mr. Roshua.
31:40Hmm.
31:41Hmm.
31:42Very well.
31:42I shall say it all together now.
31:43Ah.
31:44In my travels,
31:45I have learnt
31:46Delicacy in Italy.
31:49Enterprise in Russia.
31:51No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
31:53Indeed, no.
31:54Why?
31:54Quiet, Penny.
31:55What do you hear?
31:56Are these going from room to room?
31:58No, it was Mr. Rushworth
32:00who sought my help.
32:01Auteur in Spain, didn't I say so?
32:03I have been slaving myself
32:05till I can scarcely stand.
32:07Where is Mr. Rushworth's dress?
32:08There are but three scenes
32:09and you may put it all together.
32:11Indeed, Arnold.
32:12Mr. Rushworth has just now told me
32:13it's in the green room.
32:14Oh, you are the best off,
32:16I can tell you.
32:16If nobody did more than you,
32:18we should not get on very fast.
32:20Mr. Rushworth,
32:21I think I may contry your cloak
32:23without sending for more satin.
32:26May you, ma'am?
32:27Well, I dare say it will look well enough,
32:31but I am to be somewhat splendid, you know.
32:33Oh, indeed.
32:36Pick up your box.
32:38We must cut his lines
32:39from the beginning of the act
32:41to the middle.
32:42Oh, Mr. Yates.
32:43The beginning of which act.
32:44All his lines, Mr. Yates?
32:45Yes, he takes over the scene.
32:47Too much, he's so bad.
32:48Oh, now, come along.
32:51To do good
32:52satisfies both hunger and thirst.
32:54Take this, good woman.
32:57Frederick.
32:58Mother!
33:11How is this?
33:13Why do I find my mother thus?
33:17Speak.
33:18I cannot.
33:27What was that?
33:30Nothing.
33:32Miss Bertram,
33:34forgive me.
33:36For what?
33:38May not a poor mother embrace her son?
33:41And how should Mr. Rushworth
33:43protest at that?
33:44Am I right?
33:57Yes, this is the East Room,
33:59my dear Miss Price.
34:00I beg your pardon.
34:01Miss Crawford.
34:02Pray come in.
34:06I have made my way to you
34:08on purpose to entreat your help.
34:10You will excuse me.
34:11I have no fire.
34:13Oh, I am quite warm.
34:14I assure you, very warm.
34:16You see,
34:17I have brought my book.
34:19If you will but read a scene with me,
34:21I should be so obliged.
34:22I am to rehearse it with Edmund this evening,
34:24but in truth,
34:25do not think I could go through it with him
34:27till I have hardened myself a little.
34:29For really, there is a speech or two.
34:31You will be so good, won't you?
34:32If I am able.
34:36Oh,
34:37but these are schoolroom chairs,
34:40not made for such a scene as this,
34:42but for little girls to kick their feet against.
34:44What would your governess have said?
34:46Uh,
34:47there,
34:48now,
34:48look at that speech.
34:50And that.
34:50How can I ever look him in the face
34:56and say such things?
34:57Could you do it?
34:59But then he is your cousin,
35:01which makes all the difference.
35:04I shall imagine you him
35:05and get on by degrees.
35:09You know,
35:10you have a look of his sometimes.
35:11Have I?
35:14I'll do my best
35:15with the very greatest readiness,
35:16but I think I'll really do it very ill.
35:18Pray,
35:18do not be too modest
35:19or you will quite undo me.
35:23Now,
35:23who is this?
35:24Come in.
35:26Why,
35:27Mr. Bertram?
35:29Miss Crawford.
35:33What do you hear with Fanny?
35:35Can it be your business
35:37was the same as mine?
35:39To read with her that scene?
35:41Act three,
35:41it is.
35:45Well,
35:46this is a happy chance.
35:48We may rehearse it here together
35:50with Fanny to hold the book.
35:52May we not?
35:53I must own
35:54I had rather do it so the first time
35:56than before all the rest.
35:57Wouldn't you also?
35:58That was indeed my reason
36:00for seeking out Miss Price.
36:02She shall be our confessor
36:03and here as both together.
36:04How say you?
36:05I begin to feel
36:07I may be bold enough now
36:08yet
36:09Miss Price
36:10If we both entreat her
36:12Fanny will not refuse,
36:13will you?
36:14No, cousin.
36:16Pray be seated.
36:17You may blush for us both.
36:40This is this scene.
36:41I scanned it so often
36:42I have the lines almost by heart.
36:44Indeed, I too.
36:45Now, where shall we begin?
36:48I have been sent to you
36:50by your father
36:50as his clergyman
36:51to teach you
36:52the meaning of the marriage state.
36:55Here is the place.
36:56Annhalt says you mean
36:57to say you will not fall in love.
36:59Do you have it, Miss Price?
37:00Yes, yes, yes, you do.
37:07Mr. Bertram,
37:09give me my cue.
37:10You mean
37:13you mean to say
37:16you will not fall in love?
37:18I am in love.
37:20With the Count?
37:21I wish I was.
37:23Perhaps he would love me.
37:25Who is there
37:25who would not?
37:27Would you?
37:29I?
37:30I?
37:31I am out of the question.
37:33No,
37:33you are the very person
37:34to whom I put
37:35the question.
37:43But I cannot answer.
37:45Then let me teach you.
37:49There are some things
37:50I had rather never know.
37:53Why, so I said
37:54when you began
37:55to teach me mathematics.
37:56But now I know it,
37:57it gives me
37:58a great deal of pleasure.
38:00None but a woman
38:00may teach
38:01the science of herself.
38:02And though I own,
38:03I am very young.
38:05A young woman
38:06may be
38:09as agreeable
38:10for a governess
38:11as an old one.
38:12I am sure
38:13I learned faster
38:14from you
38:14than from the old clergyman
38:16who used to teach me.
38:17This is nothing
38:18to the subject,
38:19Miss Vildenheim.
38:20What is the subject,
38:21Mr. Anhalt?
38:22Do you remember?
38:24Love.
38:24Then teach it to me.
38:28Teach it
38:29to me.
38:30Do you see it, Fanny?
38:39It'll affect you more
38:40even if you pull
38:41that ring a little
38:41to the right.
38:42Mr. Bertram,
38:43I do not think
38:43there are quite rings enough.
38:46Aye, aye.
38:47It is better so.
38:48And the next one along.
38:50Good.
38:50We must begin on time
38:51to do three acts together.
38:54Ah, the crawfords
38:54come at last.
38:55Mr. Bertram.
38:56Welcome, my friends.
38:57You see,
38:57we have a curtain
38:58and our first scene
38:59ready for your appearance.
39:01But I fear we bring ill news.
39:02My sister cannot rehearse tonight.
39:05What's this?
39:05I'm afraid it's true.
39:07Mrs. Grant desires her apologies,
39:09but she must stay this evening
39:10with Dr. Grant.
39:12Dr. Grant is ill.
39:13He has been ill
39:14ever since he didn't
39:15eat his pheasant today.
39:17He fancied it tough
39:18and sent away his plate.
39:19He has been suffering
39:20ever since.
39:20The devil he has.
39:21Well, what's to be done?
39:22We cannot act
39:23without your sister.
39:24Yeats!
39:25All of you in that.
39:26Come up.
39:28We're going to have an audience.
39:29My mother and Mrs. Norris
39:30could have come up
39:30as soon as they've done
39:31drinking her tea.
39:32And Julia, too.
39:34What is it?
39:35Oh, Mrs. Grant cannot rehearse.
39:38She has to stay with the doctor
39:39and there's no help for it.
39:40Dr. Grant's state is precarious.
39:42The worst case
39:43of uneaten pheasant
39:43we ever saw.
39:45How shall we manage
39:45without Mrs. Grant?
39:46And who is to play
39:47Cottage's wife?
39:48That is the question.
39:53Fanny.
39:55Oh, Mr. Bertrand,
39:56I told you...
39:57But see how I am placed.
39:58Cottage will make a sad appearance
39:59with no wife at all.
40:00Come now, Fanny.
40:01Miss Price has but to read the part.
40:03She can say every word
40:04since she put Mrs. Grant
40:05right in 20 places
40:06the other day.
40:07She has learnt it
40:07as well as I learnt
40:08delicacy in Italy.
40:09Fanny!
40:10It may be Spain.
40:11Why will you be so obdurate?
40:12You know you know the part.
40:13How will you not read it
40:14but this once?
40:15Do, Fanny,
40:16if it isn't very disagreeable to you.
40:19Your cousin.
40:20Why, I declare she will!
40:22The young lady's
40:23first appearance
40:23upon the stage.
40:24But I'm not sure.
40:25Come, Fanny,
40:25give her your hand.
40:26Applause!
40:26Oh, I say, hooray!
40:28Hooray!
40:29Have you heard nothing yet?
40:33My father is come.
40:35He is in the hall
40:36this moment.
40:37What's this?
40:38Sir Thomas.
40:39Oh, heavens.
40:40Well, he was not expected
40:41till next month.
40:42Do what you will.
40:44I need not be afraid
40:45of facing him.
40:48Edmund,
40:48what's to be done?
40:49Well, we must give him welcome.
40:56Shall I go too?
40:59Shall I come too?
41:00My dear wife
41:10and dear children,
41:13how fortunate to find you
41:14thus together
41:15and Mr. Rushworth also.
41:16I bet you know,
41:17Sir Thomas,
41:18I'm here often now.
41:19What with the acting of...
41:19Mr. Rushworth has so eagerly
41:20awaited this opportunity
41:21of making himself known to you, sir.
41:23And my dear sister
41:25could scarce contain
41:26her own impatience, sir,
41:27till your return.
41:28I would not become so soon
41:30had I waited for the packet.
41:31But my affairs in Antigua
41:32being happily completed,
41:34I had opportunity
41:35to take my passage
41:35on a private vessel.
41:37I come direct from Liverpool.
41:38We are very glad
41:39to see you, sir,
41:40in such good looks.
41:41Aye, indeed, sir.
41:42But I am sure,
41:43my dear Sir Thomas,
41:44you should take some dinner.
41:46Let me but send to the kitchen.
41:47Thank you, Mrs. Norris.
41:48I want nothing but tea.
41:50My dear Sir Thomas,
41:51I do entreat you.
41:52A basin of soup
41:53would be a much better thing
41:54for you than tea.
41:55Do have a basin of soup.
41:57Still the same concern
41:58for everybody's comfort,
41:59my dear Mrs. Norris.
42:01But I assure you,
42:02I would rather have nothing but tea.
42:04And so you shall, dear, sir Thomas.
42:07I have told Bradley
42:08to speak for tea directly.
42:10I'm afraid he will be
42:11behind hands somewhat tonight.
42:14Oh, and how do you think
42:17the young ones
42:18have been amusing
42:19themselves lately?
42:20They have been acting.
42:25We have all been alive
42:27with acting.
42:29Indeed.
42:30And what have you been acting?
42:33Oh, they will tell you
42:35all about it themselves.
42:37And the all will soon be told.
42:39We must not pull my father
42:41with it down.
42:41We shall hear enough
42:42of it tomorrow, sir.
42:44We've had such excessive rain.
42:46Indeed.
42:46You've hardly taken
42:47a gun out
42:47since the third.
42:48Lovers!
42:49It's honorable sport.
42:50Oh, here is Fanny.
42:52Well, of course,
42:53Fanny.
42:54My little Fanny.
42:56My, you have grown.
42:59Where is the tender
43:00waif I left behind me?
43:02Such a fine young woman now.
43:04Thank you, sir.
43:05I'm glad to see you well.
43:07And your family besides?
43:08Your mother and father
43:09in Portsmouth.
43:10Are they too well?
43:11And best of all,
43:13your brother William.
43:14How is young William?
43:16I thank you, Uncle.
43:16Very well.
43:17William's in hopes
43:18of coming again to England
43:19by the end of the month.
43:20Well, if he stays long enough,
43:21we shall see him in Mansfield.
43:23Now, where's my baggage?
43:24Did Charles take it to my room?
43:27I think, sir, he did.
43:29Well, sir, if there's anything
43:30you want to...
43:30No, no, I will go myself.
43:32I have some trifles for my girls
43:34and know how I've disposed them.
43:36You cannot imagine
43:38how often I have longed
43:39to see my own dear room again.
43:41My desk, my hangings,
43:44my library.
43:45I shall be but a moment.
43:51Something must be done.
43:52What of our visitors?
43:53Where did you leave Miss Crawford, Fernie?
43:55I showed Miss Crawford
43:55and her brother to the door.
43:56They said they would not stay
43:57and desired their apologies.
43:59They asked Mr. Yates
44:00to go with them,
44:01but he would not.
44:02He said he preferred to stay
44:03and pay his respects
44:04to the old gentleman.
44:05Then poor Yates is all alone.
44:07Someone must go and fetch him.
44:08Edmund,
44:09Shall I go too?
44:12Yes.
44:13Yes.
44:13Yes.
44:39Desist, barbarian.
44:48Savage.
44:50Stop.
44:51What can this mean?
44:53He is my son?
44:56He is my son.
44:57Go and out, advise me, help me.
44:59Go to the poor woman, his mother.
45:02Make haste, speed to protect her.
45:04Go, and your heart will tell you
45:07how to act.
45:09Who am I?
45:11What am I?
45:13Mad?
45:14Raving?
45:15No, I have a son.
45:19I have a son.
45:19The bravest.
45:21I will.
45:23I must.
45:24Ah, why have I not embraced him yet?
45:28Why not pressed him to my heart?
45:30Ah, see?
45:33Sir, who are you?
45:36Who am I?
45:39What am I?
45:40He's here.
45:43Sir, you've stumbled upon my friend.
45:47My very particular friend,
45:49the Honorable John Yates.
45:52Mr. Yates has been assisting us
45:53in our theatricals,
45:54as we should have told you.
45:57Mr. Yates, sir.
46:00My father.
46:02Ah, Sir Thomas.
46:03I'm delighted, sir,
46:05to make your acquaintance.
46:06I hope my rantings
46:07did not disturb you.
46:09Why, no, sir.
46:10To speak true,
46:11I was more surprised
46:12in the appearance of this room.
46:14And of my own room,
46:15which I had gone to visit.
46:17It shall all be put to right, sir,
46:18at the earliest possible moment.
46:20Christopher Jackson shall see to it.
46:22He built the theatre himself.
46:24And it does him credit.
46:27Though I had not imagined work so extensive.
46:30I will confess, sir,
46:32it was very wrong to embark
46:34on such an undertaking
46:35and in your absence.
46:37We should have heeded Fanny.
46:39Fanny was against it from the first.
46:41Ah, yes.
46:43Dear Fanny.
46:45If I must say what I think,
46:48it is very disagreeable
46:50to be always rehearsing.
46:51I find I'm not so fond of acting
46:53as I was at first.
46:55I think we were all
46:56a great deal better employed
46:57sitting comfortably amongst ourselves
46:59and doing nothing.
47:01my own sentiments exactly,
47:04Mr. Rushworth.
47:06I come home to be happy
47:07and indulgent.
47:09Tomorrow I shall consider this.
47:13We rant no more tonight.
47:15There shall be no waste.
47:24Be assured,
47:24my dear Sir Thomas,
47:25I shall see to that.
47:27There are curtains wanted here
47:28for some of the maids' bedrooms
47:29and my own little house
47:31lacks provision at many windows.
47:33Fanny will make the seams
47:34and Mrs. Grant at the parsonage
47:37has quantities of rings
47:38that she has...
47:38It is not the waste,
47:40Mrs. Norris.
47:41Tom, I had reproved
47:44and Edmund sought me out
47:46this morning
47:47to make his own apologies
47:48but you,
47:51I am sorry your advice
47:53did not prevent
47:54what I am sure
47:55your judgment
47:55must have disapproved of
47:57considering the status
47:59of my daughters
48:00and of Mariah especially.
48:02Oh, as to our dear Mariah,
48:04I do believe, Sir Thomas,
48:05that I must have some credit there.
48:07That you will allow.
48:08If I had not been active
48:11and made a point
48:12of being introduced
48:13to Mrs. Rushworth
48:14and then prevailed upon
48:15my sister to pay her visit,
48:17I am as certain
48:17as I stand here
48:18that nothing would have come of it.
48:21But I left no stone unturned.
48:23I was ready to move
48:24heaven and earth.
48:26If you had seen,
48:27my dear Sir Thomas,
48:27the state of the roads that day,
48:29I thought we should never
48:30have got through them.
48:31And poor old coachman
48:32was hardly able to sit on the box
48:34on account of rheumatism
48:36which I had been doctoring
48:37since last Michaelmas.
48:39Coachman, I told him,
48:40you had much better not go.
48:42He was already putting on his wig.
48:45Your lady and I
48:46shall be quite safe with Stephen.
48:48But he would not do.
48:50He was bent on going.
48:52And as I hate to be
48:53worrying and officious,
48:55I said no more.
48:58That is what my advice has done.
49:00to make Mariah's marriage.
49:05Only look at her,
49:06my dear Sir Thomas,
49:07and you may judge
49:07how much I have achieved.
49:09Dr. Grant, Sir Thomas,
49:24with Mr. Crawford.
49:25Dr. Grant,
49:26I am pleased to see you.
49:28I hope you are well.
49:29Oh, tolerably well,
49:30Sir Thomas.
49:31Though you are bronzed,
49:32I fear you have lost some weight.
49:35Oh, you'll never tempt me
49:36on board a vessel, sir.
49:37Salt beef and biscuits
49:39are the very devil.
49:42Sir Thomas,
49:43my brother-in-law
49:44has come to pay his respects.
49:46Mr. Henry Crawford.
49:47Mr. Crawford, how do you do?
49:49I'm very pleased, Sir Thomas,
49:50to make your acquaintance.
49:51My sister Mary
49:52desires her warmest greetings
49:54and will attend you soon.
49:55Pray thank your sister.
49:57Tell her I look forward
49:58to meeting her.
49:59Dr. Grant,
50:00you stay to drink some tea with us.
50:03I shall stay
50:04with the greatest of pleasure,
50:05Sir Thomas,
50:06but as to tea...
50:07Lady Bertram.
50:09Good evening, Mr. Crawford.
50:12Miss Price.
50:13Oh,
50:14person.
50:14Indeed, sir.
50:16Still a question.
50:21Miss Bertram.
50:23I fear we intruded
50:25upon your music.
50:26Perhaps you will resume
50:27for the entertainment
50:28of myself and Dr. Grant.
50:30Gladly, Mr. Crawford.
50:31When you choose.
50:32Mr. Bertram and Mr. Yates.
50:37Pray tell me,
50:49is there some prospect
50:50of a resumption
50:51of lovers' vows?
50:52What of our play?
50:54Lovers' vows?
50:55It is not even talked of.
50:57I fear lovers' vows
50:58are broken.
50:59Oh, yes,
51:00quite at an end.
51:01The painter's been sent off
51:02and very little of our theatre
51:03will remain tomorrow.
51:04I go myself
51:06in a few days
51:06but I've stayed on
51:07for the shooting.
51:08I'm sorry to hear it.
51:10Though,
51:11I shall leave tomorrow also.
51:13Oh.
51:14In the morning.
51:15Where do you go?
51:16To Bath.
51:17To join my uncle,
51:18Admiral Crawford.
51:18It's very early for Bath.
51:24You'll find nobody there.
51:25It's about my uncle's usual time.
51:28Excuse me, Papa.
51:30Indeed, Mother.
51:32We have a brief sighting
51:33at the end of it.
51:35And you'll get as far
51:38as Banbury tomorrow?
51:39Yes,
51:39as far as Banbury.
51:48Enjoy Emma on BBC Four
51:52next Wednesday.
51:53It's among the adaptations
51:54of all Jane Austen's classics
51:56including Northanger Abbey,
51:58Persuasion,
51:59Pride and Prejudice,
52:00Sense and Sensibility
52:01and Mansfield Park
52:03on BBC iPlayer.
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