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In the early 19th century, a young married woman is stricken with a mysterious malady and searching for a cure leads her in to mysteries and tragedy.
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00:30THE END
01:00How that poor boy stared at me
01:09He's one of the village I suppose
01:11One of the neighbourhood
01:12I think he lives with his mother a mile or two off
01:15You must expect to be stared at at first my dear picture
01:18I think the poor lad looked to us in the hope that we might relieve him of his heavy load
01:23Rather than from curiosity
01:25Oh these country lads would carry a hundred weight on their backs
01:27Besides his pack had more size than the weight in it
01:30Another mile and I'll be able to show you our house in the distance
01:34Farmer Lodge do bring home his wife this evening they say
01:45They come as far as Angleberry yesterday
01:47Have anybody seen her?
01:50They say she's a tasty little body enough
01:52Years younger than he they say
01:54How old do you call him then?
01:56Thirty or so
01:57More like forty
01:59Now then what the Turks that matter to us about Farmer Lodge's age or Farmer Lodge's new missus
02:05Why you'll still have to pay him nine pound a year for the rent of every one of these milchers
02:09Get on with your work or it'll be dark before we're done
02:12Tis hard for she
02:14Oh no
02:15He hasn't spoken to Rhoda Brooke for years
02:18You leave Rhoda alone
02:22She has enough to bear without being teased by you
02:25Some do say she's a witch
02:32Jamie
02:37Jamie
02:39Well
02:42Did you see her?
02:45Yes
02:45Quite plain
02:47Is she ladylike?
02:49Yes and more
02:50A lady complete
02:52Is she young?
02:55Well
02:56She's grown up
02:57And her ways be quite a woman's
02:59What colour is her hair?
03:02Her hair is
03:02Lightish
03:04Her face?
03:05As comely as a live doll
03:07Her eyes are not like mine then
03:10No
03:11Of a bluish turn
03:12And her mouth is very nice and red
03:15How tall is she?
03:20I couldn't see
03:21She was sitting down
03:22Then go you to Olmstead Church tomorrow morning
03:25She's sure to be there
03:26Go early
03:27And you come home and tell me if she'd be taller than I
03:29Very well mother
03:31But why can't you go and see for yourself?
03:36I go to see her
03:37If I wouldn't look up at her
03:39If she were to pass my window this instant
03:41And what did your father say or do?
03:48Same as usual
03:48Took no notice of you
03:53None
03:56I'll see you then
03:57I'll see you then
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04:53Oh, that poor boy stared at me again today.
04:56The one we passed on the road with a heavy load.
04:59I really feel I should do something for him.
05:02But it is best to keep your distance, not to become too familiar.
05:06His gaze was so intense.
05:09You have a lot to learn about country people, my dear.
05:14But she's very pretty.
05:16Very.
05:17That'll do.
05:19In fact, she's lovely.
05:20The air you wired this morning is very tender.
05:29But my nobody catches you.
05:31They'll be troubled if they do.
05:36You never told me what sort of hand she has.
05:38I've never seen them.
05:39She never took off her gloves.
05:40What was she wearing this morning?
05:44A white bonnet and a silver-coloured gown.
05:49Mr Large, he seemed pleased.
05:52His waistcoat stuck out and his great golden seals hung like a lord's.
05:58Her gown, it...
05:59It wooed and whistled so loud when it rubbed against the pews
06:03that the lady coloured up more than ever for very shame at the noise.
06:08She's very shy.
06:10Not shy.
06:15However,
06:17that'll do.
06:20It's time you were asleep.
06:21It's time for a while.
06:51It's time for a while.
06:52It's time for you to go.
06:54It was a time for a while.
06:59It's time for a while.
07:00Thanks so much.
07:02Okay.
07:10And now...
07:12But...
07:13I...
07:15I...
07:16I...
07:17I...
07:17I...
07:18I...
07:18I...
07:19I...
07:19I...
07:19I...
07:19I...
07:20I...
07:20I...
07:20I...
07:21I...
07:21All right.
07:51All right.
08:21All right.
08:51All right.
09:21All right.
09:51At what time?
09:53Just when the clock struck two.
09:57You were nothing more?
10:00No.
10:01Oh, it's Mrs. Lodge.
10:04She said she would come.
10:05I said so.
10:09Gwen.
10:12Gwen.
10:13Gwen!
10:15How does she know us?
10:17I have seen and spoken to her.
10:18I talked to her yesterday.
10:20I told you never to speak to anyone in the house or go near the place.
10:23I did not speak to her until she spoke to me and I did not speak to her until she spoke to me and I didn't go near the place.
10:28I met her in the road.
10:30What did you tell her?
10:31What did you tell her?
10:33Nothing.
10:33She looked at my boots and said they would not keep my feet dry if it come on wet.
10:38I told her I lived with my mother and we had enough to do to keep ourselves and that's how it was.
10:44Then she said she'd bring me some better boots and see my mother.
10:47She gives away things to other folks in the Meads.
10:53You see, I have come to the right house, though I was not sure until I caught sight of you.
10:58May I come in?
11:04I am Gertrude Lodge.
11:07You are Rhoda Brook.
11:13Jamie.
11:15Go to the well and fetch me some water.
11:17I hope you don't mind, but I bought your son a pair of boots.
11:25Poor boy.
11:26Those he had would surely not hold water.
11:29I do the best I can for him.
11:31Of course you do.
11:36His father.
11:37He's not here.
11:41If I may, I will call again.
11:44You were lucky to have such a son.
11:46He is a handsome boy.
11:48Goodbye, Rhoda.
11:51Goodbye, Mrs Lodge.
11:54Thank you for the boots.
11:55Took me back.
11:56Honey, you're at the police.
11:56Black, what a sport is.
11:57Regel, Weber.
11:57Oh, nice.
12:06Well, it's we're good.
12:10stones for the love.
12:10Hello, thanks.
12:17And would you pay for the loss and stuff?
12:18Most of the money then see if somebody else is doing your job.
12:21If you want to see you work on something you can possibly happen.
12:21Wait a while to stay.
12:22Here's summer.
12:22I will see you, boss.
12:23Hope you are welcome.
12:24Thanks.
12:24Thank you, Sarah.
12:54Where is Jamie today?
13:11He's in the fields, working.
13:14I hope the boots fitted him.
13:17He spends half his time waxing and he's very proud of them.
13:22And he thanks you.
13:24I hope you are now enjoying country life, Mrs. Lodge.
13:30Living on a farm has its distractions.
13:34But, yes, I am enjoying it.
13:39Though it does get a bit lonely at times.
13:42What with my husband away so much.
13:45Well, there are the other farms.
13:49Rhoda, are you well?
13:54You look paler than when I last saw you.
13:57My sleep has been disturbed lately.
13:59It is nothing.
14:00I get up early for the dairy and when I'm here, there is much to do.
14:08I'm sorry.
14:09I would have lit a fire.
14:12The cider is warming me.
14:13It is unusually cold at this time of year.
14:18It is the damp of the water, Meads.
14:21I hope you will not suffer from it.
14:24I have never felt so well before.
14:30Though now you remind me.
14:33There is one small ailment which puzzles me.
14:36No, it is nothing serious.
14:40I cannot make it out.
14:42How did it happen?
14:44I cannot tell.
14:47One night, when I was sound asleep, dreaming I was in some strange place,
14:53a pain suddenly shot through my arm there and was so keen as to waken me.
14:58I must have struck it in the daytime, I suppose.
15:04Though I can't remember doing so.
15:08I tell my dear husband, it looks as though he had flown into a rage and struck me there.
15:16I expect it will soon disappear.
15:18On what night did it come?
15:23It would be four weeks ago, on the morrow.
15:27When I awoke, I could not remember where I was
15:31until the clock striking two reminded me.
15:43It pains me dreadfully sometimes.
15:46Perhaps you should see a doctor.
15:49I already have.
15:50My husband insisted upon it.
15:53But he didn't seem to understand the affliction at all.
15:56He told me to bathe it each day in hot water, and I have.
16:00But it only gets worse.
16:02It looks almost like finger marks.
16:05My husband says it is as if some witch or the devil himself
16:09had taken hold of me there and blasted the flesh.
16:12That's fancy.
16:13I would pay no eat to it if I were you.
16:16I wouldn't mind so much
16:17if I hadn't the notion that it makes my husband dislike me.
16:23No.
16:24Love me less.
16:26Men think so much of personal appearance.
16:29Some do.
16:31He for one.
16:34Keep your arm covered from his sight.
16:36That is not an easy thing to do.
16:39Besides, he knows the disfigurement is there.
16:46Well, ma'am, I...
16:48I do earnestly hope it will go away soon.
16:57Well, I must be going.
16:59I have one or two more calls to make.
17:03Tell Jamie I'm glad he liked the boots.
17:05I will.
17:07Thank you for the cider.
17:08I will call again, if I may.
17:18It cannot.
17:23It cannot be me.
17:26The arm doesn't seem to respond to treatment at all.
17:33It seems to be getting worse.
17:34It only seems.
17:36It gets worse by the day.
17:38Is there nothing you can do?
17:40It's a very unusual ailment.
17:42I've never come across anything like it before.
17:46But perhaps you'll be with child soon.
17:48That'll help take your mind off it.
17:50There is no child in sight.
17:52Well,
17:53I'd only suggest you keep bathing it.
17:58I'll send over some ointments,
17:59something to soothe it.
18:00Oh,
18:01and some bandages.
18:03It would be best if the arm were covered.
18:05I want it covered.
18:07It's too horrible to see.
18:09It's too horrible to see.
18:40It's too horrible to see.
18:41And why so morose?
19:12You hardly said a word during the meal.
19:17They're my oldest friends.
19:19Very useful to me in certain of my business deals.
19:22It is the arm.
19:23The arm.
19:26The arm. It is always the arm.
19:30Is the arm to become an excuse for everything?
19:41The arm is very hard.
19:53Right, sir.
19:54The pain in my arm is desperate.
20:03It is making me ugly.
20:06My dear husband, it seems to come more and more between us.
20:10I can do no more than I have done.
20:13Do you think I like the sight of it either?
20:15Do you think I don't wish it would go?
20:16I'm sure the doctor has given up the case.
20:19He has done all he can.
20:22This is something outside his knowledge.
20:25And remember, I want no one to know.
20:27The doctor I trust, he's very discreet.
20:29He's a fool.
20:30He is no fool. He is an old friend.
20:32He's no doctor.
20:33He's not cured my arm.
20:34It gets worse.
20:35Perhaps there's no cure for it.
20:38Whatever it is that ails you.
20:43I have heard...
20:44Heard?
20:45Heard what?
20:47From whom?
20:48Then I have overheard...
20:50that there are certain people who live on the heath...
20:55possessed of special gifts.
20:57Conjures.
20:57Who have special gifts.
20:59Politicians.
21:00For curing blemishes.
21:01That is no blemish.
21:02It started as one.
21:04There's no blemish now.
21:05No, I will not have people of that sort...
21:07attending upon my wife.
21:08You will stay with the doctor.
21:10You will find a cure in the end.
21:11There is to be no gossip amongst those on the heath.
21:16And you are to keep away from Rhoda Brooke.
21:19Rhoda?
21:20Rhoda.
21:21You are so familiar.
21:22I am well informed about what goes on in this parish.
21:24You've been seen visiting her cottage.
21:26I've been spied upon.
21:28You will keep away from Rhoda Brooke.
21:31And you will keep away from the boy.
21:32Okay.
21:35I wanted to help them.
21:39I am fond of the boy.
21:42There's something so strange about him.
21:46Something that is in him...
21:49that I almost recognize.
21:50In the future you will conduct your duties in a proper manner.
21:54What is proper to you and what is proper to me.
21:56You are to keep away from Rhoda Brooke.
22:01And you are to keep away from the boy.
22:03Okay.
22:13Okay.
22:13I don't know.
22:43Good morning, Roderick.
22:53Morning, ma'am.
22:55How's Jamie?
22:57Keeping out of mischief, I hope.
23:00I trust your arm improves, ma'am.
23:03It gets worse.
23:05It troubles me, so I begin to think it is incurable.
23:13Have you seen the doctor again?
23:15He does not know the cause, so therefore cannot find a cure.
23:19Perhaps time will be the healer.
23:21I doubt it very much.
23:27Roderick.
23:27I spoke to the mother of one of our stable lads, and she told me that there is possibly one way I might be able to find the cause, so therefore a cure of it.
23:40And that is by going to some clever man over in Egdon Heath.
23:47She thought that you knew more about his movements than anyone else, and so could tell me if he was still to be consulted.
23:56But I've forgotten his name.
23:57Not conjurer, Trendel, ma'am.
24:01Yes, Trendel.
24:02Is he still alive?
24:07I believe so.
24:09Why do they call him conjurer?
24:11Well, they say, they used to say, he had powers, other folk had not.
24:19I thought she meant some medical man.
24:23It is so long now since I saw him.
24:26He's not a doctor, then?
24:30No.
24:34Then it is just superstition.
24:38Yes.
24:39I don't really believe in such man.
24:43It would not do to go to conjurer, Trendel, ma'am.
24:47But I am desperate enough to try anything.
24:50Is it far to where he lives?
24:52Oh, yes.
24:53Five miles.
24:54Right in the heart of Egdon.
24:56Could you not go with me?
24:58To show me the way?
24:59Say, tomorrow?
25:01It would not do to go to Trendel.
25:04Please.
25:06Not I.
25:07I need your friendship.
25:09It wrote it.
25:09It would be much against my will, ma'am.
25:11Oh, please.
25:13I am in desperate need of your help.
25:20Very well.
25:24Where shall we meet?
25:26We must not meet at the house.
25:28Over there.
25:32At the edge of the heath.
25:37This time tomorrow.
25:41But...
25:41I know I can't...
25:43I would have no cause to speak with Farmer Lodge, ma'am.
25:51Nor are you with me.
25:54Dear Odin.
26:00I do thank you.
26:02Shall we rest a while?
26:29Well, we've come so far.
26:32It would be best if we hurry, ma'am.
26:34It will be dark when we return.
26:36Of course.
26:37Yes.
27:00Contra Trendel, I...
27:01I have brought someone to visit you.
27:09Addison cannot care of that.
27:12It is the work of an enemy.
27:14An enemy?
27:16What enemy?
27:17That is best known to you.
27:19I think I have not a single enemy.
27:22I could try to show the person to you, if you wish.
27:25Though I shall not myself be there, of course.
27:27No worry, Tis.
27:29I don't care to.
27:31I can do no more.
27:33I don't wish even to do that.
27:37She's a...
27:38Sing you there, a permish.
27:40She's not like a wart.
27:42People do come to me with their complaints, of course.
27:45In faith of the powers, that's how I have, see.
27:47They show me a wart, and it disappears.
27:50As if my miracle.
27:52Would it have gone on its own, or would it be Trendel?
27:56Perhaps it'd be all chance in the end.
27:58Now, I look hard on the mixture.
28:14Do you catch a likeness of any face or figure as you look?
28:18Goodbye, Kendra Trendel.
28:40I don't know that I should thank you.
28:42I don't know that I should say.
28:43I don't know that I should say.
28:44I don't know that I should say.
28:45I don't know that I should say.
28:46I don't know that I should say.
28:47Goodbye.
28:48Did he charge much?
28:51No.
28:52Nothing.
28:53He would not take a farthing.
28:54What did you say?
28:55Say.
28:56Nothing.
28:58I care to speak of.
29:01How very odd.
29:02Your reluctance at wanting to fetch me here.
29:05How very odd.
29:06No.
29:07Not odd at all.
29:36You're in.
29:37Ha.
30:06I don't know.
30:36I don't know.
31:06Come in.
31:18You weren't at dinner.
31:20I wasn't hungry.
31:23You rarely leave the house.
31:25I don't like going out in this condition.
31:28I always feel I'm being stared at.
31:29What more can I do?
31:31Believe me, I would do anything to comfort you.
31:37Perhaps I should get you a companion.
31:42Now, you need someone to restore you.
31:44I see so little of you.
31:51Gertrude.
31:52Yes.
31:53Oh, it is nothing.
32:02The farms.
32:05Well, it has always been the tradition.
32:09Handed down always.
32:11Father to son.
32:12What possibility has there been?
32:18Except for those first few months.
32:21I cannot be blamed.
32:23I did think of adopting a boy once.
32:28But it is too late now.
32:29You've surely not come into my room to tell me that.
32:31I'm sorry.
32:32It was thoughtless.
32:33I did not mean to hurt you.
32:35I shall be away for a few days.
32:40I have some land to see some 30 miles from here.
32:44You are away so much of the time.
32:46I am used to it.
32:51Good night, Gertrude.
32:52Good night.
33:16Please, can you help me?
33:28I am looking for the cottage of a man called Trendle.
33:46Conjure Trendle, do you remember me?
34:09I came here once before with Rhoda Brooke.
34:13I remember you well.
34:16But I never knew your name.
34:19Larm.
34:20I expect it has worsened.
34:23Yes.
34:26Oh, can't you send it away?
34:28You think too much of my powers.
34:31You can send away warts and other blemishes.
34:34Oh, no.
34:35Waking old now.
34:37There's too much to attempt in my own person.
34:40What have you tried?
34:42Anything that anyone has suggested to me.
34:48There's not much that can work for such as this.
34:51Tis of the nature of a blight, not a wound.
34:53But if ever you do throw it off, it will be all at once.
34:58Oh, if only I could.
35:04If only I could be again as I was when my husband first saw me.
35:09There's only one chance of doing it as known to me.
35:13Never failed in kindred afflictions that I can declare.
35:18It is hard to carry out.
35:21Especially for a woman, you see.
35:23Please tell me.
35:26You must touch for the limb, the neck of a man who's just been hangered.
35:30Before he's cold.
35:31Just after he's cut down.
35:34But how will that do good?
35:36To turn the blood.
35:38Change the constitution.
35:40As I said, to do it is hard.
35:43I know many have done it.
35:44Perhaps not such pretty women as you.
35:46Oh, I sent many with skin complaints.
35:51But that was in former times, near 12 years ago.
35:56But when is there to be a hanging?
35:59There is to be one.
36:02Where?
36:03Caster Bridge.
36:05When?
36:06The day after tomorrow.
36:08They just tell the assizes.
36:10Some young fellow caught and set him fire to a rick.
36:13Here you go.
36:14Here you go.
36:15Well, you'll have to go now.
36:19I'm tired and getting old.
36:23The conjurer cannot find a cure for his own ailments.
36:26But how do I do it?
36:29You left it late.
36:31It must be now.
36:34You must come to a private arrangement with a man called Davies.
36:39He's the young man, see.
36:41But how do I find him?
36:43Go to Caster Bridge.
36:46Go to the jail.
36:47Find Eastbury Road.
36:50Go past the wicket gate.
36:52The first cottage past the jail.
36:55You'll find him there.
36:57I should be at home tomorrow for certain.
36:59Yes, ma'am.
37:00You'll find a plan you have.
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37:01He'll be at home tomorrow for certain years.
37:03Go to the jail.
37:09There you go.
37:12Okay.
37:15Go to the jail.
37:15Go to the jail.
37:22Go to the jail.
37:22Good girl.
37:23Of course.
37:25Go to the jail.
37:25Go to the jail.
37:26Go to the jail.
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39:37You're not from Casterbridge.
39:39No.
39:41I thought not.
39:42If you want me to undertake country work, I can't come, for I never leave Casterbridge
39:49for gentle or simple.
39:51My real calling is officer of justice.
39:54That is why I am here.
39:56Because of tomorrow.
39:58I thought so.
40:00It is no use to come here about the knot.
40:02I could sell a dozen after a hand, and not one of them genuine.
40:07One knot is as merciful as another if you keep it behind the ear.
40:11Is the unfortunate man known to you?
40:13No.
40:14I thought he might be.
40:17What time is the execution?
40:19The usual time.
40:2011 o'clock, or as near after as the London mail coach gets in.
40:23We always wait for that in case of a reprieve.
40:26A reprieve?
40:27Oh, I do hope not.
40:30Well, as a matter of business, so do I.
40:34But still, if ever a young fellow deserves to be let off, this one does.
40:37Just turned 18.
40:39Only present by chance when the Rick was fired.
40:42But there's not much risk of it.
40:43They are obliged to make an example of him.
40:45There haven't been so much destruction of property in the district lately.
40:48It is very difficult for me to explain my errand.
40:55That would be.
40:56I need to touch him.
41:01For a charm.
41:02For the cure of an affliction.
41:05On the advice of someone who has proved the virtue of the remedy.
41:08Oh, yes, miss, I understand.
41:10I have had such people in the past.
41:13But it didn't strike me you looked the sort to require bloodletting.
41:16What is the complaint?
41:19The wrong kind for this sort of cure, I'm sure.
41:24Ah, it is bad.
41:27Well, it is the class of the subject, I must admit.
41:30I like the look of the wound.
41:33It is truly as suitable for the cure as any I ever saw.
41:37It was a knowing man who sent you, whoever he was.
41:40Can you contrive for me all that is necessary?
41:44Well, you should really have gone to the governor of the jail
41:46and your husband, will you?
41:47And given your name and address, as I recollect, that's how it used to be.
41:52Still, perhaps I can manage it for a trifling fee.
41:56I would rather do it this way, as I should like it kept private.
42:00Love her or not to know?
42:02No.
42:04Husband.
42:05Very well.
42:07I'll get you a touch of the corpse.
42:09How am I to proceed?
42:11Now, do you be waiting by the wicket in the jail gate
42:14that you'll find at the top of the lane, not later than twelve o'clock?
42:18And you'll have to be quick.
42:20Tis rumored the relatives do come to claim the body for burial.
42:27After it be done.
42:27Lord, let there be no reprieve.
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46:34How long was she in the coma?
46:35Three days.
46:37I doubt if I could have helped.
46:38Oh.
46:40There was nothing anyone could do.
46:42But the end would have been painless.
46:43And I'm having her buried here at Casterbridge.
46:49I shall return to the farm, I shall return to the farm only briefly, but what's the point?
46:53There is no heir, and I have no wish to return to that way of life.
46:59Not now.
47:00You have seen the new owner, he has told you, he has told you, he has told you you are free to continue on the same terms.
47:13I have not, I have not, I have not, but I believe he sees himself as something of a gentleman.
47:23Well, I'm sorry to see you, Mr. Lodz, I'm sorry to see you, Mr. Lodz, I'm sorry to see you go, Mr. Lodz.
47:25Well, I'm sorry to see you go, Mr. Lodz.
47:25Well, I'm sorry to see you go, Mr. Lodz.
47:26You being a fair landlord.
47:28There is one thing you can do for me.
47:32The woman, she has suffered greatly.
47:37If she wishes, she is free to return to her cottage.
47:41It is hers, and now in her name.
47:43I will also arrange with the agent to refurnish the cottage.
47:47Where will I find her?
47:49At the Pinney's Farm near Casterbridge.
47:51Well, I'll do what I can, Mr. Lodz.
47:58Goodbye.
48:00Goodbye, Mr. Lodz.
48:02Goodbye, Mr. Lodz.
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