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As Fanny visits her parents, calamity befalls the Bertrams. Henry runs off with Maria, Tom lies sick with fever and abandoned by his friends..
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00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:30Come on, my face!
01:00Yes, I'm here.
01:12Don't you be telling tales to your mamma.
01:14Oh, wait till them boys are home. I'll lay them about the ears.
01:17I warrant you the young vermin.
01:19I do declare I quite dread Saturdays.
01:22Tom and Charles all over the house, banging at doors.
01:25Did you go to the post?
01:26Yes, my mamma. There was no letter.
01:28Why, it is almost four weeks now since the boys say.
01:31Oh, I'm sure mamma William will write as soon as ever he can.
01:34And Sam besides.
01:35Mamma, Rebecca has dropped the bowl and all the curds are gone.
01:39And where are Tom's trousers that were to be mended?
01:41To be sure I put them in these drawers.
01:43They're done already, mamma.
01:45Susan brought them to me last night.
01:47Shall I put them in his room?
01:48Well, yes indeed, Fanny, for he must wear them, you know,
01:51tomorrow being Sunday.
01:53What has Rebecca been about?
01:55The breakfast thing's not cleared away yet.
01:57Upon my soul there was never such a servant and nobody so vague as I.
02:02But things have come to such a pass in Portsmouth that she'll be gone before long.
02:06Indeed it is quite a miracle to keep a servant more than half a year now.
02:10Why, Betsy, have you Susan's knife again?
02:14Put it away!
02:15You know how cross Susan will be with you.
02:17To be sure, I told her I had hidden it.
02:26Susan, here are three volumes of Mr. Henry's history from the circulating library.
02:31And when we've read these there are three remaining that I was obliged to leave behind.
02:38Was there no letter from cousin Edmund at the post?
02:41Why, Fanny, he must be in London by now.
02:44He promised you that he would write.
02:46Yes, and I'm sure we may depend upon it.
02:48I dare say he's been busy.
02:50In London there will be much for him to do.
02:56He will write, I know, when he has anything to tell me.
03:01Susan, you know my uncle made me a present of ten pounds when I left Mansfield Park.
03:07And you've spent too much of it in getting books for me.
03:11Yet that is such a pleasure.
03:13To be a renter.
03:14A chooser of books.
03:18It's quite amazed me.
03:21But I determined I should do something for Betsy too.
03:24So, um...
03:26I bought her a small trifle.
03:28Cost but half a guinea.
03:33Do you see?
03:34Oh, Fanny.
03:38How good you are.
03:40Now Mary's knife shall be my own.
03:42Betsy will never take it.
03:46But you have done this so I shouldn't quarrel with her.
03:50Can you forgive me for being unkind?
03:56But you must not reproach yourself.
03:58It was Mary's wish to give the knife to you.
04:01Now it shall be yours and yours alone.
04:04Come.
04:05If I have your good opinion, shall we take our present to Betsy now?
04:17It is a silver knife.
04:18Of my very own.
04:19So it is.
04:20It is indeed Betsy.
04:21How kind your sister is to you and you must thank her for it.
04:25Aye.
04:27I am sure I shall not want yours now.
04:29For this is new and much prettier besides.
04:33Indeed.
04:34I hope you find it so.
04:36I am sure I shall not want that again.
04:39Mama, may I take it now and show it to my friend Tilda?
04:42For she has nothing half so fine.
04:44Yes, my dear.
04:45If it will please you.
04:48What a handsome present.
04:50I am sure, Fanny, it must have cost you a vast deal.
04:52No indeed, Mama.
04:54I remember poor Mary's.
04:55It was a gift from old Mrs. Admiral Maxwell.
04:58But my own dear Betsy has not the luck of such a good godmother.
05:02Aunt Norris lives too far off to think of her.
05:06My Aunt Norris said before I left, she hoped her goddaughter was a good girl.
05:12I know she went to see for some old prayer books that she might send something for Betsy.
05:17But one she found was too large for her to carry.
05:20And the other, she said, had too small a print for a child's eyes.
05:23Now who should that be?
05:25I had not expected any callers.
05:27And Rebecca will be at the door this instant.
05:29It is the only thing she ever does without the least delay.
05:36Oh, sir. Good morning.
05:38I'm calling on Mr. and Mrs. Price.
05:40A gentleman.
05:41Are they at home?
05:42Yes.
05:43Use the case and take the things away.
05:50Stay. There is no time.
05:53Here is a gentleman to see you, ma'am.
05:59Why? It's Mr. Crawford.
06:03William's friend, ma'am.
06:05My mother, Mr. Henry Crawford.
06:08I hope I see you well, ma'am.
06:10Yes, indeed.
06:13I fear my husband is not at home, which I am very sorry for.
06:17I know how much he would have wished to meet you and how warmly William spoke of you, didn't he, Fanny?
06:23Yes, indeed, ma'am.
06:24Shall we be seated by the fire?
06:26I fear we have but lately finished breakfast.
06:28Mr. Crawford, will you take my husband's chair?
06:30Thank you, ma'am.
06:31Thank you, ma'am.
06:32I suppose your son has sailed already?
06:43Yes, and Sam has gone with him.
06:47We think they will have a cruise to the West Indies, do we not, Fanny?
06:51But there is nothing known for certain.
06:53William was in hopes of writing when the thrush put into Lisbon.
06:57But we have had no letter yet, though Fanny goes to the post each day.
07:01And why do you come to Portsmouth, sir?
07:07Have you some business with the Port Admiral or the Commissioner?
07:11With neither of these gentlemen.
07:13Why then, you come to visit the dockyard or to go to the island?
07:17No, ma'am.
07:18I can supply nothing as proof of such importance as you expect to justify my appearance.
07:23In truth, I reached here late last night and am staying at the Crown.
07:28And come you from London, sir?
07:30Oh, yes, ma'am.
07:32Though I had been in town scarcely 24 hours since my return from Norfolk,
07:36I have a house there, ma'am, at Everingham.
07:39I had so little time before setting out again,
07:42I thought myself lucky in seeing Mary for even half an hour.
07:45But she sends you her best and kindest love.
07:48Anne begs that you excuse her that she has no time for writing at all.
07:52It's very kind, but Miss Crawford owes me no letter.
07:55Pray thank her, Mr. Crawford, and return my compliments.
07:59And do assure her, I think of her very often.
08:05Indeed it's true.
08:07Miss Crawford, Mama, is Mr. Crawford's sister.
08:11What further intelligence do I bring?
08:16Oh, yes.
08:17Your cousin Edmund is in town.
08:19Has been in town, so Mary informs me for a few days.
08:22I did not see him myself, so offer no proof.
08:26But I understand he is well, had left them all well at Mansfield,
08:30and was to dine with my sister last night at the Fraser's.
08:34Indeed.
08:35I believe he dined there the night before.
08:38I hope I entertain you with these minute particulars.
08:42Yes, indeed.
08:43I'm always eager to hear how things go on at Mansfield.
08:47And I should be very happy to tell you more.
08:49Yet, this is all my news.
08:57Were we in Mansfield today, ma'am,
08:59we should not sit indoors on such a lovely morning.
09:02It is very fine, sir.
09:04For the time of year.
09:06But then, at this season,
09:08a fine morning so often turns off.
09:11I find it wisest not to delay one's exercise.
09:14Don't you agree?
09:15Oh, yes, indeed, sir.
09:16When one is going out, it is not wise to delay at all.
09:19You are of my opinion.
09:22And so, ma'am,
09:23if you and your daughters should think of taking your walk,
09:26I would most strongly advise that you do so, without more delay.
09:30A walk? I, Mr. Crawford, oh, no, indeed,
09:32I scarcely stir out of doors except of a Sunday.
09:35I am sorry to hear it.
09:37Indeed, I must own that I can seldom, with so large a family,
09:40find time for a walk.
09:42I have so much I must attend to,
09:44and servants so little to be depended upon.
09:46A walk is quite out of the question.
09:48I understand you, ma'am.
09:50But in that case,
09:52would you not then persuade your daughters
09:54to take advantage of such fine weather
09:57and allow me the pleasure of attending them?
09:59Oh, but I'm sure, ma'am...
10:01Mr. Crawford, now that is kind, isn't it, Fanny?
10:04Oh, yes, ma'am.
10:06I fear my daughters are very much confined
10:08and Portsmouth is such a sad place.
10:10They seldom get out.
10:11And you know, Susan, there are several things.
10:13Errands in the town,
10:15some lengths of ribbon I had forgot.
10:17Rebecca would never match the colors,
10:18but you and Fanny might do it right.
10:20Indeed, you might call in at the butchers
10:22for some neck of mutton.
10:23Allow us for five minutes, Mr. Crawford.
10:25Ten at most while I collect myself.
10:31I believe we shall find the high street
10:33at the bottom of this alley.
10:35You cannot lead me astray.
10:37I'm no stranger to Portsmouth.
10:39I visited the dockyard very often
10:41and sailed from it too.
10:43But you have not asked me yet what I did at Everingham.
10:49For I had business.
10:51The renewal of a lease to a poor family.
10:54But my agent seemed almost too ready to oppose.
10:57For there was something underhand in his objections.
11:01And I made the acquaintance of cottagers and families.
11:05Tenants of mine I had never seen before.
11:07Good people.
11:09I hoped in all this to have your approval.
11:11Oh.
11:12We should have come another way.
11:14Here is my father.
11:16Hi there! Fanny and Sue!
11:22What's this then?
11:24Sir, here is Mr. Crawford.
11:26My father, sir.
11:28Mr. Price.
11:29How do you do?
11:31Mr. Henry Crawford.
11:34Why, sir.
11:36I hope I see you well.
11:38Very well, I thank you.
11:40Do you know this, gentlemen?
11:42This is William's benefactor.
11:45The nephew of Admiral Crawford.
11:48I'm sorry, sir.
11:50I never met your uncle.
11:51But I'll wager he was the finest sailor
11:53that ever captained a three-decker.
11:56By George, I would drink a toast with you.
11:59And not the pacing of a quarter-deck from here.
12:02We may...
12:03Father, we have some errands for my mother.
12:05And Mr. Crawford goes with us.
12:08You have my girls in tow, eh?
12:11Very well.
12:12I will walk along with you.
12:14And we may talk as we go.
12:16Do you make much stay in Portsmouth, sir?
12:20A day or two at most.
12:21I must leave by Monday.
12:23Ah, I would show you the dockyard, sir, if you would spare the time.
12:26Come!
12:27Come, girls!
12:28Come back!
12:29I shall see you again tomorrow.
12:30Look after yourselves!
12:31You attend the Garrison Chapel, I suppose?
12:32Yes, sir.
12:33With my family?
12:34Tomorrow.
12:35Here's O.C.
12:36Good job, Jan!
12:37Good job, Jan!
12:38Good job, Jan.
12:39Good job, Jan!
12:40Good job, Jan!
12:43. . .
13:12After the confines of chapel, this is a pleasant prospect.
13:17But I came to Portsmouth only to see you.
13:20It was in your account and yours alone.
13:23I found I could not endure a longer separation.
13:29You have been here a month, I think.
13:32No, not quite a month.
13:35It's only four weeks tomorrow since I left Mansfield.
13:38You are a most honest and accurate reckoner.
13:41I should call that a month.
13:43I didn't arrive here till Tuesday evening.
13:47And it is to be a two months visit, isn't it?
13:50Yes. Yes, my uncle spoke of two months.
13:53I suppose it shall not be less.
13:55Who comes for you? Who will convey you?
13:58I do not know.
14:00I've heard nothing about it yet from my aunt.
14:03Perhaps I may stay longer.
14:05It may not be convenient for me to be fetched at the end of two months.
14:10I know Mansfield.
14:12I know its ways.
14:14And I know the danger of your being forgotten.
14:17If Sir Thomas cannot settle everything for coming himself,
14:20or for sending your aunt's maid for you,
14:23this will not do.
14:25Two months is ample.
14:27I should think six weeks quite enough.
14:29I am considering your sister's health,
14:33which I think the confinement of Portsmouth unfavorable to.
14:37And when you know her as well as I do,
14:39I'm sure you will agree she ought never to be long banished
14:42from the free air and liberty of the country.
14:44She keeps too much indoors here, helping my mother.
14:58If you find yourself growing unwell,
15:00and any difficulty about returning,
15:03let my sister know it.
15:05Give her only the slightest hint.
15:07She and I will immediately come down and take you back.
15:09Since I keep so hearty, I see no occasion...
15:12I am perfectly serious.
15:15As you perfectly know.
15:19If you feel yourself less strong,
15:22less comfortable,
15:24I hope you will not cruelly conceal it.
15:26Indeed you shall not.
15:28For you must positively say in every letter to Mary,
15:30I am well.
15:33I know you cannot write or speak a falsehood.
15:36Sir,
15:37you must not,
15:39you or your sister,
15:40concern yourself on my account.
15:42Yet I...
15:43I shall do very well
15:45till I am sent for.
15:51My mother and father are waiting for us.
15:57Yet I do concern myself.
15:59And the cause,
16:00you know very well.
16:01And the cause,
16:02you know very well.
16:03you know very well.
16:04You are very kind.
16:05But I regret you must excuse me.
16:06I am engaged at dinner already by an acquaintance at the crown.
16:07And I fear he will not be denied.
16:08I am most grateful for the invitation.
16:09now mr Crawford sir what say you will you do us the honor of taking your mutton with us sir
16:22you are very kind but I regret you must excuse me I'm engaged at dinner already by an acquaintance
16:30at the crown and I fear he will not be denied I'm most grateful for the invitation and for a
16:36pleasant walk good day to you mr Crawford come boys you are blown into harbour again sir I pray you will call upon us
16:52we'll be honored sir to make your acquaintance a word with you sir I wish you
17:05were not so pale I wish I left you in stronger health is there anything I can do for you in town
17:12I want nothing I have half an idea of going into Norfolk again I'm not satisfied with my agent I'm
17:19sure he means to impose on me the mischief such a man does on an estate and to the welfare of the
17:25poor is inconceivable it would be worse than simple to let him give me a hard-hearted griping fellow for a
17:32lieutenant instead of an honest man would it not be worse than simple shall I go do you advise it I
17:41advise you know very well what is right yes when you give me your opinion I always know your judgment is my
17:50rule oh no don't say so we all have a better guide in ourselves if we attend to it than any other person can
17:59be goodbye I wish you a pleasant journey tomorrow is there nothing I can do for you in town nothing
18:09I'm much obliged to have you no message for anybody my love to your sister if you please and when you see my
18:20cousin my cousin Edmund I wish you would say that I suppose I shall hear from him soon certainly and if
18:30he is lazy or negligent I will write his excuses myself mr. Crawford
18:46my dear Fanny I write to you from Mansfield Park in very great distress I take up my pen to communicate
18:55some alarming intelligence which I make no doubt will give you much concern as it has done both to
19:02Sir Thomas and myself your cousin Tom is returned from Newmarket where a neglected fall and a good deal
19:11of drinking after it with a party of young men has brought on a dangerous fever your cousin Edmund
19:20received the news in London and left at once to bring his brother home for he found that all Tom's
19:25friends have deserted him leaving him in sickness and solitude with only servants to attend him
19:31Edmund has thought it best to bring the poor sufferer to Mansfield where his own physician may be
19:40depended on to fetch him back to health and strength the family you know is not consumptive
19:48and so I do pray and believe that he will soon be well again oh my dear Fanny he is just
19:56taken upstairs and I am so shocked to see him poor Tom I am quite grieved for him and very much
20:05frightened and so is Sir Thomas how glad I should be if you were here to give me comfort
20:13but Sir Thomas hopes he will be better tomorrow and says we must consider his journey dear Fanny I shall
20:25write again so soon as I have better news your affectionate aunt Bertram this has been three days in the post but I'm sorry not to be at home not to be with my aunt at
20:41not to be with my aunt at Mansfield Park my poor sister Bertram she must be in a great deal of trouble
20:48and is not Tom her eldest son yes mama my god they'll all go one way one way or the next
21:01I've seen them run overboard I've seen them
21:09I'll give my sniveling and pipe in your eyes poor Jack say there's a providence sits up alone
21:27I'll give my sniveling and it's a good night
21:36you're not trying to remember
21:38there's a roadblocks
21:48Fanny tell me some more of Mansfield Park I wish that I might see it is it so
22:12beautiful yes most beautiful tell me some more it's six weeks and five days since
22:31I used to ride the old grey pony it was so slow and gentle and yet I tremble the first time my
22:38uncle ever put me on it was my cousin Edmund taught me not to fear it to venture a little further
22:49Susan my dearest Fanny forgive my long silence the diversions of London have been too pressing but
23:06now even your cousin Edmund has been called away whilst he was here he visited me at the Fraser's
23:12on two or three occasions and once we walked together in the park for a brief tete-a-tete
23:17he will be too much concerned now to think of me again poor Tom Fanny I see you smile but upon my
23:28oath I never bribed a physician in my life if he dies there will be two poor young men less in the
23:35world and I will say boldly that wealth and title could fall into no better hands oh it was a foolish
23:44step he took at Christmas but the evil of a few days may be blotted out varnish and gilding hide many stains
23:53things and I put it to your conscience whether sir Edmund would not do more good with all the
24:00Bertram property than any other possible sir now Fanny do not be alarmed for I must break it to you that
24:09Henry determined not to go into Norfolk and the reason is very simply that I had need of him in town last night your
24:17cousin mrs. Rushworth gave a party at her new house in Wimple Street and the value of a man like Henry on
24:23such an occasion is something you can have no conception of but mrs. Rushworth was in beauty poor
24:32mr. Rushworth he has bought her such a house as Henry could never have afforded she has got her pennyworth for
24:39her penny to use a vulgar phrase yet Fanny do not be thinking anything foolish or uneasy for shall I tell
24:50you how he was received yes very coldly and mr. Rushworth's mother was come from Bath where nothing
25:00that had befallen her would entertain you so other matter must fill my page well let it be your cousin
25:09Julia who you may be sure enjoys London exceedingly indeed I do not believe your cousin Julia will ever
25:18more be satisfied with Mansfield or Mansfield Park again from all I observe and guess mr. Yates continues
25:27as his attentions to her she ought to do better a poor honourable is no catch though as the baron in
25:36lovers vows I will confess he made fine speeches but take away his rants and the poor baron is nothing
25:43see what a difference a vow makes if his rents were but equal to his rants ah then
25:57must one always wait to give to one is us
26:19to do good satisfies both hunger and thirst you do not take your cue have you forgot the lines it is lovers vows
26:38there's something wanting it take this good woman
26:47Frederick how is this how do I find my mother thus speak I cannot
26:56oh my dear one what shall I do I can no more endure it no you shall not say so
27:06what of mr. Rushmore I hate him upon my soul
27:25upon my soul
27:31did you go to the library?
27:33oh I quite forgot my mother is sure to want some errands I may call in later
27:40a most scandalous rumor has just reached me dear Fanny and I write to warn you against giving the least credit to it if it should reach your ears
27:44I must go to London I shall take Edmund too
28:00A most scandalous rumor has just reached me dear Fanny and I write to warn you
28:05against giving the least credit to it if it should reach your ears.
28:09I must go to London. I shall take Edmund too.
28:13What shall I do without you? And Tom not out of bed.
28:17My poor Mariah. I will tell you Sir Thomas who is to blame in this affair.
28:21Why Fanny Price to be sure. It is her neglect of him.
28:25Her proud and obstinate refusal...
28:27Silence Mrs Norris.
28:29I shall blame no one but myself.
28:31I've left my daughters too much in others care.
28:34It may be your neglect ma'am which has kept Fanny true.
28:38Neglect?
28:40Of Fanny?
28:42Depend upon it there is some mistake.
28:44A day or two will clear it up.
28:46At any rate Henry is blameless and thinks of nobody but you.
28:52Say nothing. Whisper nothing till I write again.
28:55I would lay my life. They are only gone to Mansfield Park and Julia with them.
29:00But why would you not let us come for you?
29:04I wish you may not repent it.
29:06I am surprised Easter should fall so late this year.
29:21I do not remember it was ever so late before.
29:25How long Rebecca is making the tea?
29:34I am sure I told her to mend the carpet.
29:37You see the hole yet Fanny?
29:40Yes Mama.
29:42What's the name of your great cousins in town fan?
29:54Rushworth sir.
29:58Don't they live in Wimpole Street?
30:02Yes sir.
30:04I don't know what Sir Thomas will make a wedding.
30:07What does it say Mr. Price?
30:08Why it's all here in the post.
30:13It is.
30:14With infinite concern this newspaper has to announce to the world a matrimonial fracass in the family of Mr. R of Wimpole Street.
30:30The beautiful Mrs. R whose name has not long been enrolled in the lists of him and who had promised to become so brilliant in the fashionable world has quitted her husband's roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C.
31:00It cannot be.
31:01It cannot be.
31:02The intimate friend of Mr. R.
31:06And it is not known even to the editor of this newspaper where they are gone.
31:13Why Fanny?
31:14It must be mistaken.
31:15It cannot be true.
31:16It must mean some other people.
31:18Yes to be sure.
31:19See for yourself.
31:20Much good may such fine relations do you.
31:25By God if that girl belonged to me I'd give her the rope's end as long as I could stand over her.
31:32Aye.
31:33A little flogging for man and woman too would be the best way of preventing such things.
31:39Yet it may not be true.
31:41May all be a lie of course but so many fine ladies are going to the devil nowadays there's no answering for anybody.
31:56Indeed I hope it is not true.
31:59It would be so very shocking.
32:01If I have spoken once to Rebecca about that carpet I'm sure I've spoken at least a dozen times and it would not be ten minutes work.
32:09Now he must send for me.
32:11Now he must surely come.
32:13Fanny!
32:14Here comes a carriage.
32:15I think he must be here.
32:16Yes it is Sir Thomas's.
32:17And my cousin Edmund.
32:18Shall we go down?
32:19Mama!
32:20The carriage is here outside the door.
32:21Susan!
32:22Bring him in Fanny and I will make the parlour ready.
32:23Yes Mama.
32:24Let me go to him alone.
32:25Stay a while with Mama.
32:26Dear Fanny.
32:27My father wishes me to take you home for my mother's sake.
32:28You left him in London.
32:29And my cousin Mora.
32:30And my cousin Mora?
32:31Yes.
32:32And my cousin Mora.
32:33And my cousin Edmund.
32:34Shall we go down?
32:35Mama!
32:36The carriage is here outside the door!
32:37Susan!
32:38Bring him in Fanny and I will make the parlour ready.
32:39Yes Mama.
32:40Let me go to him alone.
32:41Stay a while with Mama.
32:42Here Fanny.
32:43My father wishes me to take you home for my mother's sake.
32:53You left him in London.
32:54And my cousin Mora?
32:56There is nothing to be done.
32:57They cannot be traced.
32:59And Julia is gone with Yates to Scotland.
33:03They left London a few hours before my father and I could be there.
33:08Oh Fanny.
33:12My only sister.
33:15My only comfort now.
33:20When shall you be ready?
33:22Have you breakfasted?
33:23How have you settled it with Susan?
33:24Is she able to accept my father's invitation?
33:26Susan will gladly go with us.
33:28And she's here.
33:29Susan!
33:31Here's my cousin Edmund.
33:32Cousin Edmund.
33:33How do you do?
33:34And are you ready Susan?
33:36Oh yes.
33:37And all my things are packed beside.
33:39Only think cousin.
33:40I shall see Mansfield Park.
33:42They're coming indoors.
33:44You must receive him.
33:47Give him some kind of welcome.
33:49Well I shan't stir for him from drydock.
33:53Pull up alongside.
33:55Here.
33:56Here.
33:57Here.
33:58Here.
33:59Here.
34:00Here's my cousin Edmund.
34:02You must excuse us.
34:04My daughter Betsy.
34:06Here.
34:07Here.
34:08Here.
34:09Here.
34:10Here.
34:11Here.
34:12Here.
34:13Here.
34:14Here.
34:15Here.
34:16Here.
34:17Here.
34:18Here.
34:19What do you do sir?
34:20Oh.
34:21My god.
34:22See this leg of mine.
34:24The...
34:26Sorry.
34:27Huh.
34:28I said to them.
34:30You would have saved me better to have cut it off.
34:33Ha.
34:34And let the Frenchmen have it with they're grapeshot.
34:38Ha!
34:39Ha!
34:40I'm sorry sir to find you unwell.
34:42My father sends his greetings.
34:45My mother and my aunt Norris, too.
34:48Oh, my poor sister Bertram.
34:49If I had had but a moment to myself, I could have written her a letter.
34:54So, you're Sir Thomas' boy, eh?
34:59You never had a mind to put to sea, sir?
35:02There's a true man's life.
35:05Better than to skulk indoors a snivelling parson.
35:10Father, my cousin is anxious to be on the road.
35:13Indeed, sir. If we are to sleep tonight at Oxford, we must set out.
35:17What would the girls have not had their breakfast yet?
35:19Is it no matter? Is it, Susan?
35:21No, indeed, Mama. Fanny and I are eager to start at once.
35:24What about your cousin?
35:25Thank you, ma'am. I have breakfasted at the post-hub. The horses are baited, too.
35:30Well, then, I suppose everything is ready.
35:32I've had such trouble finding boxes, for Rebecca takes them all away and spoils them, making firewood.
35:37But Fanny has done it all. Indeed, without her, I do not know how we should have managed.
35:41No, ma'am. That is her single fault.
35:46So we have found at Mansfield.
35:48Fanny makes herself indispensable to those she loves.
35:51We shall reach Newbury in good time for dinner.
36:09I fear this homecoming will be a sad affair for you.
36:12It's my uncle I think of, alone in London, and able to do nothing.
36:22Yet my cousin Tom gets better, and that must be of some comfort to him.
36:27And my Aunt Bertrand, too.
36:29There was anxiety over Tom, more than my mother knew of.
36:32But he had been out of bed upon the sofa some days before my father and I were called away.
36:38And all our new senses of his improvement.
36:44If Tom had not been taken ill, I should have stayed in London.
36:48What then?
36:51Could you have prevented it?
36:52It is beyond belief that Crawford and Moriah, Witts and Julia,
37:05when I consider what is lost to us all,
37:13and to you.
37:15No, not to me.
37:17Yet I think Crawford truly loved you, and you must feel it.
37:20You must suffer.
37:22But it's funny when you think of Papa, and of me.
37:38Oh, Fanny, it is beautiful.
37:41I never thought that it would be so grand.
37:44Now I must remember all you've taught me of napkins and finger glasses.
37:52Is it my Aunt Bertrand?
38:17Aunt Loris.
38:17Mrs. Susan.
38:23Well, child, you have your mother's mouth.
38:24I trust you do not have her temper.
38:28Edmund, I advised your brother to stay within the door.
38:30Here's my Aunt Bertrand.
38:32Yes, Fanny.
38:34Yes, Fanny.
38:35Aunt Bertrand.
38:37This is...
38:38It's my sister, Susan.
38:40Susan.
38:41I'm glad to see you.
38:47Well, the old leech has had so much of me.
38:50I'm glad you see me at all.
38:52It's your cousin, Tom.
38:54Tom,
38:55I think you're looking better.
38:56I'm here.
38:58I'm here.
39:00Fanny,
39:01so pleased I am that you are come back.
39:05Dear Fanny,
39:07Now I shall be comfortable again.
39:13Scenes must be beautiful, which Daly viewed please Daly
39:18and whose novelty survives long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
39:37Sonny?
40:08Here's a wet Sunday.
40:12My uncle comes home tomorrow.
40:21I have not yet told you...
40:26I have never spoken of my last meeting with Miss Crawford.
40:32In London.
40:35No.
40:38She sent a note asking to see me.
40:51I called on her at Mrs. Fraser's.
40:58There was a hint of such entreaty in her message.
41:04It revived in me the strongest feelings.
41:09For her gentleness.
41:12And warmth of spirit.
41:20Yes, cousin.
41:21I will tell you everything and then have done forever.
41:32She was alone.
41:37Let us talk over this sad business.
41:39But what can equal the folly of our two relations?
41:50Oh, I do not mean to defend Henry at your sister's expense.
41:54The lack of caution of common discretion condemns them both.
42:00And indeed Henry is the more to blame in my opinion since he had so much more to lose.
42:09I'm sure we shall agree on that.
42:24I hope we may.
42:26Oh, but surely.
42:27Mariah must have been aware that Henry cared nothing for her.
42:31What could she hope for but to trap him by some foolish indiscretion?
42:35Well, if that was her wish the plan succeeded.
42:37She has lost a husband whom she never cared for anything except his fortune.
42:42But Henry...
42:45Henry had thrown away such a woman as he will never see again.
42:50Fanny Price would have fixed him.
42:52She would have made him happy forever.
42:55Why would she not have him?
42:58It is all her fault, simple girl.
43:00I shall never forgive her.
43:01If she had accepted him as she ought they might now be on the point of marriage.
43:06And Henry would be too busy and too happy to want any other.
43:10Surely you believe that?
43:12He would not have troubled with Mariah.
43:15Exposed himself to such a foolish risk of their detection.
43:19It would all have ended in a regular standing flirtation
43:22that they could have carried on at Southerton and Everingham.
43:25The sort of dalliance the world smiles on.
43:31It seems this happy future is now denied them.
43:38Then...
43:40What is to be done?
43:43We must bring about a marriage.
43:46We must persuade Henry to marry her and I do not despair of it.
43:50Fanny...
43:52He must give up.
43:53I do not think even he could now succeed with someone like her.
43:57When once they are married...
43:59If Mariah is properly supported by her own family...
44:03She may recover her position in society to a certain degree.
44:07With good dinners and large parties there will always be those who will be glad of her acquaintance.
44:13Fortunately there is more liberality on such things than before.
44:17What I advise is...
44:21That your father be quiet.
44:23Persuade him to let everything take its course.
44:26If by an exertion of his...
44:29Mariah is induced to leave Henry's protection...
44:32There will be much less chance of his marrying her.
44:34Let Sir Thomas trust to Henry's honor.
44:40And it may all end well.
44:44But if he gets Mariah away it will destroy her chief hold on Henry.
44:48What do you say?
44:57What can I...
44:58I...
45:03But that I...
45:06I had not thought it possible...
45:09Coming in such a state of mind to this house as I did...
45:14That anything should happen here to make me suffer more.
45:19But...
45:21You have spoken with such indifference to feeling...
45:25Such cruelty...
45:27Marriage...
45:30What sort of marriage is this you speak of?
45:33Would it...
45:34Would it not be a greater crime than any folly?
45:37But...
45:39It seems that...
45:41To be detected in a folly...
45:44Is the greatest crime you know.
45:46I could know.
45:50That I could so little have known you.
45:57But...
45:59It wasn't you.
46:03It was some...
46:05Creature of my imagination that all these months I've dwelt on.
46:11Indeed.
46:16Well...
46:18A pretty fine lecture upon my word Mr. Bertram.
46:21Was it part of your last sermon?
46:23At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield.
46:26You must excuse me.
46:28And when I hear of you next evening as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists.
46:33Or as a missionary in some foreign parts.
46:35Believe me...
46:37From my heart...
46:39I wish you well.
46:41Mr. Bertram!
46:43Mr. Bertram!
46:52Mr. Bertram.
46:54She smiled.
46:58A playful...
47:00Saucy smile.
47:02Seeming to invite.
47:04At least so it appeared to me.
47:09I resisted and went on.
47:11It was the impulse of a moment.
47:12For a moment.
47:17I confess...
47:19I have since...
47:20Sometimes...
47:22For a moment...
47:24Regretted that I did not go back.
47:29But I was right.
47:32Brother and sister.
47:38Brother and sister.
47:40I was equally deceived in both.
48:01But you...
48:05You were not deceived.
48:08Were you?
48:11You held to what you knew.
48:15In your heart.
48:18Yes.
48:21Constant.
48:26Constant as the rain.
48:32What should I do if you should ever go away?
48:37I shall never.
48:42No.
48:46My dearest Fanny.
49:01To Lieutenant Price.
49:03On board his majesty's sloop thrush.
49:05At Bermuda.
49:07My dearest William.
49:09So far from you.
49:11I shall not dwell on guilt and misery.
49:13That you already know of.
49:15Briefly then.
49:17Mr. Rushworth has his divorce.
49:19My aunt Norris has quitted Mansfield.
49:22To set up home with my cousin.
49:24To my aunt.
49:26To my aunt.
49:27My aunt Norris has quitted Mansfield.
49:30To set up home with my cousin Mariah.
49:32As I'm sure you will remember.
49:34Mariah was her favourite.
49:36Always.
49:38Yeats and Julia are married.
49:40And my uncle is now reconciled to her again.
49:44All the family is here together.
49:46My father and mother too.
49:48For now I must tell you.
49:50William.
49:51What will surprise you more than all the rest.
49:54And which you will not have heard from any other quarter.
49:57For today.
49:59I am to be married to my cousin.
50:02Edmund.
50:04And dearest William.
50:05I know you will rejoice as I do.
50:07Wanting but one thing.
50:09That you were here to share this joy with me.
50:12Dr. Grant leaves the parsonage shortly.
50:15Having succeeded to a stall in Westminster.
50:17So Edmund and I shall make this house our home.
50:22And one day William.
50:24I pray it may be soon.
50:26We shall see you here.
50:28Where you are welcome ever.
50:30Through all the years to be.
50:32Happy as we remain together.
50:35Within the view.
50:37And patronage.
50:39Of Mansfield Park.
50:47Enjoy Emma on BBC4 next Wednesday.
50:50It's among the adaptations of all Jane Austen's classics.
50:54Including Northanger Abbey.
50:56Persuasion.
50:58Pride and Prejudice.
51:00Sense and Sensibility.
51:02And Mansfield Park on BBC iPlayer.
51:08You're good.
51:26You're good.
51:29God bless you too.
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