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Mrs Jennings took Elinor and Marianne to a ball in London. There Marianne at last saw Willoughby but was dismayed when he ignored her.
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00:27ORGAN PLAYS
00:57Marianne.
01:28Take no notice.
01:31How long have you been sitting there like that?
01:36I thought I should be better up.
01:39You've not slept at all.
01:42I so much as closed my eyes.
01:49It was only to re-enact that dreadful...
01:53You must come back to bed.
01:55Yes please.
02:01And I will send for some spirits of camphor.
02:04And tell Mrs Jennings you are too unwell to get up.
02:06No I shall go down to breakfast as usual.
02:08But you cannot.
02:09I could not bear her sympathy.
02:10That would be too much.
02:12She shall learn nothing of my distress from me.
02:14I can assure you.
02:16Come come Miss.
02:17That will not do for a breakfast.
02:19She must indeed be in love my dear.
02:22But I can assure you...
02:23that my Charlotte never let that put her off her face.
02:30Oh dear no.
02:31She was far too far to the table for that with Charlotte.
02:32Excuse me ma'am.
02:34Ohара dees.
02:40Oh troubleye.
02:41It is.
02:42As if you don't.
02:43Yes.
02:44And there more happy women in some place.
02:45That might concernoko �vah.
02:47And your k colega Merlis,
02:48Anything to do not bear for Mayfua.
02:49I can assure you...
02:50that my Charlotte never let that put her off her feet.
02:54I want my kdist Bill.
02:55That might not take care of anything.
02:57You were too far to the table for that with Charlotte.
02:59Excuse me ma'am.
03:00Ohf!
03:01Oh ho! A letter.
03:04I think we need not ask you that is wrong eh?
03:07That'll do her good. That'll bring her appetite back eh miss?
03:11I hope it's to your liking.
03:16No no Mrs Jennings please. Let me.
03:20I will be up shortly with something that I'm sure will settle her.
03:26Poor thing.
03:28I'd never have jested for the world if I'd known she'd be so upset.
03:44What is it?
03:51My dear madam
03:53I am much concerned that you appeared to find something in my manner last night that did not meet with your approbation.
04:01I assure you that any fault on my part was quite unintentional.
04:07I shall ever recall my visit to Devonshire with grateful pleasure.
04:11My esteem for your family is very sincere.
04:15But if it has given rise to a misunderstanding I shall reproach myself greatly for not being more guarded in my behaviour.
04:23You will appreciate my meaning when I tell you that my affections have long been engaged elsewhere.
04:32And it will not be many weeks now before that engagement is fulfilled.
04:38I beg you therefore to forgive me any unwitting distress I may have caused you.
04:44I am dear madam.
04:47Eleanor?
04:51Yes Mrs Jennings.
04:59Has she vomited yet?
05:00No madam.
05:01Well the moment she does give her this.
05:03But not before mind or it will all be wasted.
05:05It is from my last bottle of old Constantia wine.
05:09My husband always took it for the colicky gout.
05:11My gals swore by it whenever they had a little upset.
05:14Now I must leave you.
05:15I have just this instant received the news that my Charlotte has begun her labour.
05:20Is it not exciting?
05:21Yes.
05:22I'm so excited I'm quite beside myself.
05:25Tell poor Marianne will you not the moment she is better.
05:27And if she is not fully recovered by the time I return I shall send for a physician.
05:31Oh no no madam please.
05:32Yes yes miss indeed.
05:34How cruel cruel will it be.
05:50Nothing can acquit him of this.
05:52Nothing.
05:53No Marianne I'm afraid it cannot.
05:55And yet this woman who knows what her art may be how much he may have pursued and pestered him.
06:00The vault may not be his.
06:04Will you not try a little sister?
06:06Eleanor please leave me.
06:11You cannot know what I suffer.
06:13If only you knew.
06:15Edward loves you.
06:17You must be happy.
06:19What could make you otherwise?
06:21Many many things.
06:23Now am I to understand that you do not want this.
06:26Eleanor I must go home.
06:28Marianne.
06:29I must be with Mama.
06:30Can we not be gone tomorrow?
06:31Tomorrow we cannot possibly.
06:32Why not?
06:33Why should I stay here?
06:34I came only for Willoughby.
06:35And now who cares for me?
06:36Who regards me?
06:37Oh Marianne that is most unjust.
06:39Poor Mrs Jennings is very concerned for you in her own way.
06:41Her concern is not sympathy.
06:42Her good nature is not tenderness.
06:43All she wants is gossip.
06:44Marianne you do distress me when you talk like that.
06:45You know how untrue it is.
06:46Very well.
06:47If I distress you go away leave me.
06:48Forget me.
06:49Don't be so silly Marianne.
06:50Now come and get into bed.
06:51Here let me unhook you.
06:52Let me unhook you.
06:53Come on.
06:54Come on.
06:55Come on.
06:56Come on.
06:57Come on.
06:58Come on.
06:59Come on.
07:00Come on.
07:01Oh, Ella, good kind Ella.
07:02I'm so unhappy.
07:04I'm so unhappy.
07:17Come on.
07:18I love you.
07:19I love you.
07:20I love you.
07:21Oh, Ella.
07:22Good kind, Ella.
07:24I'm so unhappy.
07:25Oh, Ellen.
07:26Oh, Ellen.
07:27Oh, Ellen.
07:28Oh, Ellen.
07:29I'll breathe.
07:32They're both upstairs.
07:37Eleanor?
07:39Eleanor?
07:43Eleanor, my dear. I wish you the poor thing.
07:45I've sat with her, thank you, Mrs. Jennings.
07:47Oh, la. I hurried all the way there only to find the spasms have gone off again.
07:51So like my Charlotte. Oh, I am sorry.
07:54Oh, my dear, my dear.
07:59I now know the full story.
08:04I had it not an hour since from my friend Mrs. Taylor
08:07who was standing right beside the boat last night.
08:10Why did you not send for me?
08:12Oh, but Mrs. Jennings... Oh, never mind.
08:14That poor creature. Poor, poor creature.
08:16No wonder she's unwell.
08:18She has a weak stomach like my Mary
08:20and anything at all disagreeable upsets it instantly.
08:23That poor...
08:25Oh, the wickedness of that man.
08:28The wickedness.
08:30He has used her abominably
08:32and I shall tell him so to his face when next I see him.
08:34Oh, yes, I shall.
08:35I shall not scruple whoever is present.
08:37Oh, Mrs. Jennings, don't upset.
08:39Oh, 50,000, they say her fortune is, this young woman he is to marry.
08:44And by all accounts it won't come before it's needed either
08:46because they say his affairs are all to pieces.
08:49All to pieces.
08:50Oh, goodness, who's that at the door?
08:52Well, there is one comfort.
08:54He's not the only young man in the world worth having
08:56and with her pretty face she will never want to admire us.
08:59Never.
09:00Oh, goodness.
09:02I do believe it is.
09:04It's Colonel Brandon.
09:06He has heard the news
09:08and lost no time in turning the situation to his own advantage.
09:12He will take her on the rebound, as they say.
09:15And she could not do better.
09:162,000 a year without debt or drawback.
09:19Except, of course, for the little love child
09:21and she's a very quiet little thing, I understand.
09:23My dear, I must slip away.
09:25They will be married before the Midsummer. You may depend upon it.
09:39In you go, sir.
09:45Colonel Brandon.
09:47Miss Ashwood, I'm sure you would prefer not to discuss the painful events of last night.
09:51But I feel there are certain matters which should no longer be withheld from you.
09:55However, if you would rather I did not speak, I would say nothing.
09:58You mean matters concerning Marianne and Mr. Willoughby?
10:01About him principally, your sister, thank God, must be utterly blameless.
10:05Then tell me what you know.
10:07Please.
10:14You remember the day I quitted you all so suddenly at Barton
10:17when we were to have gone on that expedition and I was recalled to London?
10:20Yes, yes, of course.
10:22But now I shall have to go right back to the beginning.
10:27Miss Ashwood, you may or may not be acquainted with the fact that I have a ward.
10:31A young lady who was in my charge.
10:34She is in fact my niece.
10:36Although I'm quite sure the world would have her somewhat more closely related.
10:40This poor girl is very dear to me.
10:43She is the child of a loveless and unhappy union.
10:46Both her parents are now dead so I have a double responsibility as her guardian and only relative.
10:51She is a girl of striking character.
10:56As her dear mother was at her age.
11:00Wanting often in prudence I'm afraid but never in liveliness of spirit.
11:06It is hardly surprising that your sister should instantly have put me in mind of her.
11:10But to return she went last summer to stay with a schoolfellow in Bath.
11:18There I later discovered that two young people were permitted to roam almost at will without proper protection.
11:24I should blame myself to the end of my life for not making sufficient inquiries.
11:27But how could you?
11:29Yes yes I should have done.
11:32But that is beside the point.
11:34The result was that they met in a coffee shop or somewhere
11:38a party of young bloods
11:40of whom
11:42Willoughby
11:43was the ringleader.
11:47Further meetings were arranged
11:50of a more
11:52intimate nature.
11:55Need I make myself more clear?
11:57No you need not.
12:00The first I heard of it
12:01was when I received that urgent summons the day of the picnic.
12:05She had run away to London
12:08when her
12:10her condition could no longer be concealed.
12:13Poor thing.
12:15There she
12:17she had attempted to do away with herself.
12:20So I was obliged to stay with her you see for the remainder of her time.
12:23And has she...
12:25She was brought to bed of a boy the week who came to London.
12:28Oh a boy.
12:29And is she fully recovered?
12:31She is well enough in body
12:33but her life is in ruins.
12:36She is just 18 years old.
12:38How dreadful.
12:40It is indeed a dreadful and sordid story.
12:42Perhaps I was wrong to speak to you at all.
12:44No no indeed you are not.
12:46It is as well that one should know of these things.
12:49So you can imagine my feelings when I saw this girl in the company of your sister.
12:53Because I was aware from the beginning that he had formed some sort of relationship with my poor niece.
12:58Though at that point I was ignorant of its exact nature.
13:02Really?
13:04I can scarcely yet believe it.
13:07I can see him as foolish and...
13:10profligate.
13:12But not as a villain.
13:15There are some men Miss Dashwood whose villainy consists largely of weakness.
13:19They are not to be trusted in matters of the heart.
13:22Yet the strange thing is that this weakness seems to render them not less attractive to members of the opposite sex.
13:28But more so.
13:30It is curious and paradoxical but I have observed it to be the case.
13:33Yes I believe that may well be so.
13:36I have ventured to tell you this Miss Dashwood
13:38so you may see the events of last night in a somewhat different light on your sister's behalf.
13:43Whether or not you pass the information on to her
13:46I leave entirely to your own good judgment.
13:48I think she should be told.
13:50It may cause her added pain for the moment.
13:53But in the end when she comes to herself again
13:56it should help her to see matters in their true light.
13:58I agree. That is my feeling exactly.
14:01Thank you Colonel Brandon for being so frank with me.
14:04Well you know do you not that your sister's well-being is...
14:08is of great concern to me.
14:10I believe I do know it.
14:12And I thank you for that even more.
14:14There's no need to thank me Miss Dashwood. I can assure you that...
14:18Oh yes thank you.
14:20Ah Eleanor.
14:22Brother John.
14:23What brings you here?
14:25I learnt from your mother that you were both in London.
14:27And as Fanny and I are to be here for a while I thought that we should all meet.
14:31That was very civil of you.
14:33Colonel Brandon.
14:35May I introduce my brother Mr John Dashwood.
14:37How do you do sir?
14:38Fanny sends her warmest regards.
14:42She would have come herself only getting around London is so monstrous fatiguing and expensive.
14:48She's having to rest this morning.
14:50How very wise of her.
14:52And Marianne where is she?
14:55Out shopping I presume?
14:56No Marianne is in her room.
14:58In her room still?
14:59What is this hour of the morning?
15:00She is a little indisposed that is all.
15:03Oh dear.
15:04Nothing infectious I hope.
15:05No nothing infectious.
15:08Now brother if you will excuse me for one moment.
15:12I do beg your pardon.
15:13Oh please.
15:14I shall await news of your sister's recovery with some anxiety Miss Dashwood.
15:18I shall give you news of her of course.
15:21In the meantime I am happy to feel that she could not want for more loving and sympathetic care.
15:26Then she will receive at your hands.
15:35Who is that fellow?
15:36Colonel Brandon is a friend and neighbour of the Middletons.
15:39He's an excellent good-hearted man.
15:41Brandon?
15:43Brandon?
15:44Is not Colonel Brandon of Delaford by any chance?
15:47I believe that is the name of his estate yes.
15:50He is a man of some substance.
15:52Considerable substance.
15:53My dear sister why did you not make that clear when you introduced him to me?
15:57I'm so sorry brother.
15:59Perhaps I should have said this is Colonel Brandon who owns so many hundred acres
16:04and has so much invested at five percent.
16:06My dear Eleanor I wish he had twice as much for your sake.
16:09For my sake?
16:12Why for my sake?
16:15Oh if you think that Colonel Brandon has any intention of making me his wife
16:19then I assure you brother that you are quite wrong.
16:21I think you are mistaken Eleanor.
16:24I think you are very much mistaken.
16:27I thought I observed a considerable warmth in his manner towards you just now.
16:31Oh you may well blush miss you may well blush.
16:36I'm not blushing thank you brother.
16:38It would indeed be droll if Fanny were to have a brother married and I a sister at the same time.
16:43Would it not?
16:44What?
16:46Did you say Mr Ferrars is to be married?
16:48Well it is not quite arranged yet so say nothing.
16:53But his mother has decided that it would be as well.
16:57Is that so?
16:58And has she also decided whom he is to marry?
17:01She has her ideas on the matter certainly.
17:03Yes I may safely tell you sister since you are always discreet I know.
17:10But it is her wish that he should be betrothed to no lesser person than the elder Miss Morton.
17:18That surprises you does it not?
17:21I'm afraid I can make no comment as I do not know the lady.
17:25Not know Miss Morton?
17:26But anyway what is Mr Ferrars opinion of this arrangement?
17:32Edwards?
17:33Why what concern is that sister?
17:35Goodness me I'm almost forgetting the purpose of my visit here.
17:39I am to give a little dinner at which Mrs Ferrars has graciously consented to be present.
17:44Fanny and I would of course be delighted to give you and Marianne the opportunity of being presented to her.
17:49Thank you brother but...
17:50Now there is no need to feel nervous I assure you.
17:52Her manner is a trifle austere at first.
17:57But I think you need have nothing to fear.
18:00Especially now that Brandon has come upon the scene.
18:07Oh Marianne surely you're not ready. I'm not nearly.
18:11Why must they always put the fastenings just where one cannot possibly reach them.
18:16Oh do be a sweet girl and do me up.
18:18The carriage will be here in a moment and I've hardly had...
18:20Oh Marianne.
18:23You cannot go like that.
18:25Why not?
18:27Well you cannot possibly.
18:29Oh I wish now that I had not told you the full extent of that wretched man's treachery.
18:34But I thought to do so would settle your mind once and for all.
18:37It has done so.
18:39That can scarcely bring me any comfort I'm afraid.
18:43Look sister don't push!
18:45Well if you would allow me a little more room.
18:49Sister!
18:54Steel.
18:55Lucy.
18:56Gracious heavens.
18:58La Eleanor.
18:59You look mighty well this evening I must say.
19:02And that frock.
19:04Mercy may I see?
19:06Mercy.
19:07And what prayer are you doing here?
19:08I expect your surprise to see us.
19:11I am indeed.
19:12Well Sir John and your brother have struck up the greatest friendship it seems on your account.
19:17Which as you can imagine is a great fortune to me.
19:20At last it seems I am to meet his family.
19:22Oh those two and their secrets.
19:25Come Marianne let us take no notice of them.
19:28Oh how brave you are to wear such plain colours.
19:32I would never dare.
19:34But with your complexion of course you are quite right.
19:37How clever of you to perceive that.
19:42Oh Eleanor how glad I am of this chance to speak.
19:46Only you know my true situation and what this evening means to me.
19:50I declare I have such a dreadful fluttery sensation here.
19:55That I can scarcely stand.
19:58Stay by me Eleanor.
19:59Support me.
20:00I'm quite sure that you will not need any of my support Lucy.
20:03Oh but I shall.
20:05Thank goodness at least that he is not coming.
20:08Poor fellow.
20:10I know how dreadfully it would distress him to see me so agitated.
20:15You say Mr Ferris is not to be here?
20:17Oh no.
20:18Did you not know?
20:21He wrote to me especially to say that he would be unable to be in London.
20:25Which is very civil and thoughtful of him don't you think?
20:27Yes very.
20:29Poor Edward.
20:31If you ask me it means so much to him that I should come well out of this.
20:36That he cannot face the ordeal.
20:37Men are so squeamish in these matters are they not?
20:42Whereas we poor creatures have to put a brave face on it.
20:53Are you quite comfortable ma'am?
20:55Perfectly thank you.
20:56Is there anybody else you'd care to meet ma'am?
20:59No thank you.
21:02Oh ma'am may I not be permitted to present my sister Miss Eleanor?
21:07Did you say Miss Eleanor?
21:10Eleanor and her mother and sister now live in Devonshire ma'am.
21:14They are not often in London.
21:15I am perfectly aware to whom you refer thank you.
21:23Bring her here.
21:24My sister Eleanor ma'am.
21:33She's at present staying with friends in Barclay Street.
21:36Indeed.
21:38How do you do Mrs Ferris?
21:41The upper end.
21:42Is that so?
21:44Just overlooking the park.
21:46Oh brother John.
21:47One may just see the trees from the servants bedroom I believe.
21:51Anyway it is a most delightful house.
21:54Indeed.
21:56Who is that girl pray?
21:58Oh that ma'am that is Miss Lucy Steel.
22:00It was at her uncle's house in Plymouth that Edward lodged for several years if you remember.
22:05Indeed.
22:06She's also an acquaintance of Lady Middleton's ma'am.
22:10Quite a quietly spoken sort of girl I understand.
22:14Bring her here.
22:15You wish to speak to her ma'am certainly.
22:17Certainly ma'am of course.
22:19I've never seen a fella look quite so sick in all my life.
22:22Oh Mr Ferris.
22:23Confounded man I said.
22:24I've seen better retriever bitches than that come out of a pigsty.
22:27Tush Mr Ferris.
22:28What a thing to say indeed.
22:29I'm surprised at you.
22:31Miss Lucy.
22:32Yes Mr Dashwell.
22:33Mrs Ferris would like to speak to you please.
22:36To me sir.
22:38Oh goodness.
22:40Oh laugh.
22:41Yes yes.
22:42Come along.
22:43Your pardon sir.
22:44Miss Lucy Steel ma'am.
22:45Oh Miss Steel.
22:46On it ma'am.
22:47Bring up a chair for Miss Steel.
22:48Certainly ma'am.
22:49Oh.
22:50Thank you sir.
22:52That is quite a becoming gown you are wearing Miss Steel.
22:53Quite becoming.
22:54Oh ma'am it is most gracious of you to say so I must say.
22:56There.
22:57Do you really like it?
22:58I see you were admiring fire screen.
22:59Colonel.
23:00I see you were admiring fire screen.
23:01Colonel.
23:02Oh uh.
23:03Oh.
23:04It is the work of my sister Eleanor.
23:07that is quite a becoming gown you are wearing Miss Steele
23:14quite becoming
23:16oh mum it is most gracious of you to say so I must say
23:20there do you really like it
23:23I see you were admiring the fire screen
23:26oh er
23:28it is the work of my sister Eleanor
23:31she is reckoned to draw tolerably well
23:34then you as a man of taste should be able to judge that better than I
23:38I'm hardly that I'm afraid
23:39so this is your sister's work eh
23:41yes Eleanor my elder sister
23:44yes
23:44rather fine is it not
23:46oh yes it is indeed very excellent
23:48yes Colonel are they not a talented pair the Miss Dashwoods
23:52I don't know when I've come across two young ladies with so much natural genius
23:57don't you agree ma'am
23:59er yes they have a number of accomplishments certainly
24:02what is this
24:03oh we are just admiring this screen ma'am
24:08is it not a pretty thing done by Miss Dashwood
24:11by whom
24:12by Miss Eleanor Dashwood
24:15oh yes
24:16oh no
24:17there
24:18oh
24:21is it not a mighty fine thing
24:24very pretty
24:24there is not so much detail perhaps
24:27as in the work of Miss Morton
24:29I suppose
24:29Miss Morton indeed there is not
24:32but then she does everything well
24:34who cares about the work of Miss Morton
24:36it is Eleanor we're discussing
24:38who is this Miss Morton anyway
24:41well who is Miss Morton
24:43Miss Morton is Lord Morton's daughter
24:47yes
24:48Lady Robinson are you quite comfortable Fanny dear do look after Lady Robinson
24:56dinner will not be many more moments I'm sure
24:59take no notice of them Eleanor
25:01don't let them hurt you
25:02I don't mind what they say
25:03one hair of your head is worth all of them put together
25:06oh
25:07oh
25:09oh
25:10oh
25:11oh
25:12oh
25:13there there there there
25:14the poor poor sakes
25:15oh we know what is the trouble do we not
25:17my dear my dear try this dear dear dear dear dear dear dear
25:21really your sisters
25:23no my dearest but what can I do
25:25well make them hurry up with dinner for heaven's sake
25:27yes
25:28good morning room miss
25:41thank you
25:42Eleanor
25:43my dearest friend
25:46I just felt I had to come and see you
25:48oh but before I speak
25:50how is she
25:51poor dear
25:52Marianne I mean
25:53perfectly recovered thank you
25:54oh I'm so glad
25:56I'm sure I felt for her dreadfully
25:58one feels so foolish afterwards doesn't one
26:01Marianne fortunately doesn't seem to suffer in this way
26:04well Eleanor what did you think of last night
26:07could anything have been more marked than Mrs Ferrer's treatment of me
26:11I must confess I was quite astonished
26:13she was certainly most civil to you
26:16civil?
26:17did you see nothing more than mere civility in her manner?
26:20oh Eleanor come now
26:22if she had known of your engagement
26:24then her treatment of you would have been most significant certainly
26:27but as she does not
26:28I guessed you would say that
26:29but there is no reason in the world
26:31why Mrs Ferrer's should appear to like me
26:33if she didn't
26:34and the fact that she did is everything is it not?
26:37yes it is most important I agree you are most fortunate
26:40but Eleanor
26:42that is not all
26:44Fanny has invited us to stay
26:49Fanny?
26:50your sister-in-law
26:51we are to go immediately
26:53in fact Nancy should be already there
26:55so I shall not be leaving London yet a while after all
27:00and better still
27:01I shall have many opportunities of meeting my dearest Edward
27:06in his own sister's house
27:09oh I'm so delighted
27:11I scarcely know what to do with myself
27:13and that's the truth
27:15why Eleanor dear what is the matter?
27:17you're not unwell I hope
27:19not in the least thank you
27:21she is so charming is she not
27:24Fanny
27:25and has such elegance
27:27I wonder I had not heard you say so
27:29and Mrs Ferrer's
27:33I must confess
27:34I should not like to get the rough side of her tongue as you did
27:37Eleanor dear
27:39but you must admit she has great distinction of bearing
27:42I don't know when I've ever seen such a distinct...
27:44here we are sir
27:48Edward
27:49I came to see you because I was unable to be at Fanny's
27:52oh
27:55I'm sorry I...
27:56I didn't know
27:59please
28:03Lucy and you know each other of course
28:05er
28:08yes
28:09you may speak quite freely Edward
28:12Eleanor is my very good friend
28:14oh
28:16er
28:19won't you sit down?
28:21yes
28:28well
28:30this is a great pleasure
28:45my sister and I often talk of you on your visit to us in Devonshire Edward
28:49they didn't tell me below that you had company
28:50perhaps it would be more convenient if I were to return later
28:51no no you must stay now that you are here
28:52Lucy and I have quite finished our conversation have we not?
28:53oh quite
28:54I was just telling Eleanor
28:55that your sister Mrs Dashwood has invited Nancy and me for a visit
28:57indeed
28:58is that not mighty civil of her?
28:59so we shall be seeing quite a lot of each other in the near future no doubt
29:00no doubt
29:01no doubt
29:02my mother will be most delighted to learn of your visit when next I write Edward
29:03oh
29:04your mother
29:05mother
29:06of course
29:07is she quite well?
29:08extremely well
29:09extremely well
29:10not quite
29:11I was just telling Eleanor
29:12that your sister Mrs Dashwood has invited Nancy and me for a visit
29:13indeed
29:14is that not mighty civil of her?
29:16so we shall be seeing quite a lot of each other in the near future no doubt
29:21no doubt
29:22my mother will be most delighted to learn of your visit when next I write Edward
29:28oh
29:29your
29:30mother
29:31of course
29:33is she quite well?
29:34extremely thank you
29:37Edward
29:38dearest Edward
29:40this makes up for everything
29:42I saw you coming from my window
29:45this is the only good thing that has happened since we came to London
29:49you look a little pale Marianne
29:52London is not agreeing with you I fear
29:54don't think of me
29:55think of Eleanor
29:56she is well as you can see
29:58and that should be enough for both of us
30:01now come and sit by me
30:03oh Edward
30:04why were you not at Fanny's house last night? such an agonizing party
30:09if you'd been there it would at least have been tolerable
30:11perhaps he was already committed elsewhere
30:13not all young men you know are so quick to break off an engagement
30:16Edward
30:18Edward has the most delicate conscience
30:20and is the most fearful of giving pain of anybody I ever knew
30:23oh ma'am
30:24yes Edward it is so and I will say it
30:26if you're prepared to accept my love and friendship then you must also be prepared to submit to my praises too
30:32they're not lightly given
30:33not lightly given
30:34no indeed
30:35you can scarcely realize how highly you've just been on it
30:40I came
30:41merely to make my apologies for my absence last night
30:45I won't interrupt your tate our tate any longer I'm sure you young ladies have
30:49much you wish to discuss
30:51what going so soon Edward?
30:53we can't have this can we sister?
30:55I'm sure he is quite free to go when he wishes
31:00take no notice of Miss Steele
31:03she surely cannot stay much longer
31:05oh I really must be gone I'm afraid
31:07if you will forgive me
31:09of course
31:10I think that I too must be going Eleanor dear
31:14perhaps you'd be good enough to walk me round to your sister's house
31:17if you're going that way
31:19to my sisters?
31:21yes
31:22Nancy and I are to be her guests
31:24I've just told you
31:26I beg your pardon
31:28Nancy should be there already
31:30but I just had to come and see my dearest Eleanor first
31:35we have so much in common
31:37have we not?
31:39eh? you and I
31:41but I hope that we shall be meeting many times in the next few days
31:46goodbye
31:47goodbye
32:01Eleanor
32:02how you can stand by and let poor Edward be carried off by such a creature
32:08I do not know
32:10poor Edward as you call him
32:12is quite capable of fighting his own battles
32:14I cannot fight them for him
32:18la Mrs Dashwood
32:20I take it most kind of you that you should treat Lucy and I so civil
32:24I do really
32:26oh and as for your mother
32:28there
32:29what presence
32:30what dignity
32:31and her manner to my sister was most marked I thought
32:34didn't you ma'am?
32:35my mother appears to regard Miss Lucy with some favour certainly
32:39but why should she not?
32:41oh no indeed
32:42and I must say it is most fortunate is it not
32:45since they are soon to be so closely related
32:47oh
32:49oh Lorx
32:50well what have I said
32:53related Miss Steele?
32:54in what way?
32:55oh there
32:56Lucy would pinch me for that if she knew
32:59but since your mother took to her so clearly
33:01well where's the harm eh?
33:03you spoke just now of some relationship
33:05what pray?
33:07oh the minute your brother first came to our house
33:09I could see he had no eyes for anyone else
33:12lor Lucy I said
33:14you're a lucky girl to have got yourself such a smart bow as Mr Edward I said
33:18for of course I could soon see the way things were going
33:21Miss Steele are you trying to suggest
33:24there is some
33:25some understanding between your sister and my brother?
33:28oh lor Mrs Dashwood yes
33:30and has been these four years at least
33:32what?
33:33but Lucy forbade me to speak of it
33:35well she's very nice in such matters
33:37I always think a young lady should be don't you?
33:40but since your mother give it her approval
33:42well I mean to say
33:43out of my house
33:45what?
33:46I'm sorry I'm afraid I don't understand
33:48I said get out of my house the pair of you
33:51I won't have you here I won't have it
33:54oh the shame
33:56the humiliation
33:58go away get out of my sight
34:01I said get out of my sight
34:03oh no Mrs Dashwood please
34:04oh no
34:05oh
34:07Sally my love what has happened
34:09send them away both of them
34:11I won't have them here I won't have it
34:14oh
34:15what have you been and said?
34:17oh dear someone sent your doctor
34:20someone sent your doctor at once
34:22Edward and Lucy Steele
34:25Edward and Lucy Steele
34:26it's false it's a lie
34:28shh
34:30it's not true don't listen to her
34:31it is perfectly true
34:32I had the whole story directly
34:34from the doctor who was attending my Charlotte
34:36after her confinement
34:38it was he who was called in to attend to poor Fanny
34:40and revive her
34:41and he said himself my dears that never in his life
34:44has he seen a house in such an uproar never
34:46the carriage was already at the door when he arrived
34:48and your brother was at that very moment seeing the two young ladies off with their baggage
34:53and my dear by all accounts Miss Nancy was in such a state she could scarcely stand unaided
34:58and Miss Lucy little better
34:59oh no
35:00why should you of all people feel pity?
35:02I'm sure I feel numb
35:03and my dears that's not all not by a great deal
35:06for no sooner had the news reached Mrs Ferrars
35:08then she sends for poor Edward and cuts him off with a shilling of a piece
35:12Madame how can you?
35:14every penny of his portion to go to the brother Robert every penny
35:18I just can't believe it
35:21and how long have you known all this?
35:23oh about four months
35:25since she first came to stay at Barton
35:28four months?
35:29and how did you find out?
35:30she told me herself
35:32with all possible speed and at great length
35:35you've been so calm
35:38so outwardly cheerful
35:40oh Elena how could you not tell me?
35:42how could you let me go on behaving as I did?
35:44because she made me promise I would tell no one
35:47many many times have I longed to undeceive you
35:50and mother
35:52but I could not
35:57and you still love him
36:10I acquit him of all misconduct in the affair
36:19beyond the original mistake
36:21of allowing himself to become contracted
36:23before his judgment was properly formed
36:28in fact I wish him very happy
36:30and hope that he may be so
36:32Lucy for all her faults is superior to many in her understanding
36:37well if that is what you truly feel
36:40then
36:41I've nothing more to say on the subject
36:44you think do you not that I have no strong feelings?
36:49believe me Marianne I have
36:53I assure you
36:55it has not been easy to learn all this from
36:58her who is responsible for taking Edward from me
37:01to have to witness her look of triumph as she told me
37:07yet not give her the satisfaction of displaying the extent of hurt she'd inflicted
37:13believe me I have suffered
37:16I have suffered
37:20but it's my pride I suppose that will not allow me to show how much
37:23oh Eleanor
37:25dear as sweet as Eleanor
37:28you've made me hate myself forever
37:30how barbarous I've been to you
37:32you who've been my only comfort
37:35what can I ever do to make it up to you?
37:37do you really want to know?
37:38yes yes I do
37:40set me some punishment
37:41some impossible task anything
37:43then I'd charge you not to speak of this to anyone
37:46but of course I will not
37:48is that all you ask?
37:50no Marianne it is not
37:53I should like to see you more agreeable in your manner towards Mrs Jennings from now on
37:58well why should I pretend to... Marianne?
38:03I will try
38:04I will really try
38:06good
38:08Colonel Brandon
38:11oh
38:12oh Colonel how mighty civil of you
38:14you've come for news of my Charlotte and her babe I have no doubt
38:17well that was not my only reason
38:19she's remarkably well thank you
38:20oh remarkably well
38:22do sit down
38:23in fact her chief concern now is with the full recovery of her figure
38:29as I tell her she cannot expect miracles
38:31but there you know what these young creatures are eh?
38:33oh she will be delighted that you inquired
38:36please convey to her my best wishes
38:38oh I will Colonel I will indeed yes
38:40we are to leave for Somerset all of us
38:42as soon as she is strong enough to travel
38:44for Somerset and the Miss Dashwoods
38:45and the Miss Dashwoods
38:46oh goodness Colonel
38:47I wouldn't think of going anywhere without the Miss Dashwoods
38:50such fine brave girls are they not
38:52in that case
38:53the arrangement was made only this morning
38:55and I've not spoken of it yet
38:57to tell the truth we have been much occupied with
39:00other matters of a somewhat more personal kind
39:03but there you'll hear all about that soon enough I have no doubt
39:06the Dashwoods are leaving London as you say
39:07well no they wouldn't go anywhere without me Colonel
39:09for they treat me as their own mother
39:12no our chief concern now is with the babe
39:17oh this morning Charlotte was in a great fuss
39:21he'd had a fretful night and this morning he'd broken out in a number of pimples
39:25she was sure it was some dreadful malady
39:28it was in a high old state
39:29Lord child I said that's nothing but the red gum that don't signify
39:33of course the nurse bore me out
39:35as I was about to say ma'am
39:36if you are all shortly leaving London
39:37perhaps I might be permitted to speak to one of the young ladies a moment
39:41foolish of me of course Colonel
39:43I fetch Miss Marianne for you
39:45Miss Eleanor ma'am if I may
39:47Miss Eleanor?
39:48yes I have something of a rather
39:50a delicate nature to discuss with her
39:51if you would not think it discourteous ma'am
39:53I...
39:56no
39:58no not at all Colonel
40:01no not the least little bit in the world I assure you
40:05I'll fetch her for you
40:07and I'll see that you're not disturbed
40:09I'd be greatly obliged ma'am
40:11you're a good kind man Colonel
40:15and she's the dearest little girl in all the world
40:17Eleanor
40:23Eleanor?
40:24don't let her in
40:25one moment Mrs Jennings
40:26oh
40:33Eleanor my love
40:34oh
40:35oh those stairs
40:36the Colonel
40:38oh does have no breath dear
40:39he insists upon seeing you
40:41oh Mrs Jennings
40:42yes dear
40:43oh that's better
40:45he has something of the utmost importance he wishes to say to you
40:49oh my dear
40:50oh my dear
40:52oh let me kiss you
40:53he's down there now at this minute
40:55oh forgive me
40:56oh forgive me dear
40:57but I'm so happy for you run along
40:59yes Mrs Jennings
41:02oh Marianne Marianne
41:05your sister is surely the most delightful of creatures
41:07yes ma'am I'm aware of that
41:09did I not say that this would happen if you came to stay with me
41:13oh
41:15well
41:16well we mustn't disturb them must we
41:21oh I wish I were to fly downstairs on the wall at this very moment don't you
41:26oh
41:31oh Miss Dashwood
41:33I have only just heard of the great injustice your friend Mr Ferris has suffered at the hands of his mother
41:37I understand he is to be entirely cast off by her
41:39so I believe Colonel Brandon
41:41and all because he insisted upon sticking to the engagement he had contracted to this girl Miss Lucy Steele
41:45is that not right
41:46yes that is right
41:48I believe Mr Ferris hopes to take orders
41:50while I have a living vacant at Delaford
41:53Colonel Brandon
41:54oh it's not a rich one I can assure you anything but
41:56the vicarage is small and scarcely commodious but there it is
42:00a young couple might well do worse for the first few years of their married life together
42:03I take him to be a modest young man in the worldly sense
42:07but then you know his character far better than I of course
42:09so you are offering this living
42:11and the house that goes with it to Mr Ferris and his wife
42:15yes
42:16Colonel Brandon I hardly know what to say
42:18oh I scarcely know the young man myself of course
42:20though I formed a very favorable opinion on the short acquaintance I've had with him
42:23that's why I should be most grateful if you would act on my behalf
42:29so you want me to convey this generous offer?
42:33if you would Miss Dashwood
42:35Colonel Brandon
42:36please don't think that I'm not sensible of the honor you do me in asking me to speak on your behalf
42:41but really I'm afraid that this is something I cannot do
42:44I mean of course that the generosity is yours
42:50and that the credit and thanks should be yours also
42:52but that is precisely what I prefer to avoid Miss Dashwood
42:55I was hoping you would see your way to help me
42:57and be my friend as you have done before on several occasions
43:01however if you would prefer not then I
43:03I quite understand
43:05goodbye Miss Dashwood
43:08wait
43:10I will speak if you wish me to
43:13I'm sure no one would do it with more tact and good sense than yourself
43:17I'm a poor hand of these matters I'm afraid
43:19when would you wish me to speak to him?
43:21well as soon as possible I should say wouldn't you?
43:23so that he may plan his future and marry whenever he so wishes
43:27well goodbye Miss Dashwood
43:29thank you
43:31goodbye Colonel Brandon
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