- 6 months ago
Upon the death of Krook, Smallweed examines the personal effects, including letters reviewed by Tulkinghorn. Later, Esther becomes seriously ill with the pox. Finally, Tulkinghorn has a frank conversation with Lady Dedlock.
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01:41A fever has a tight grip here.
01:44It has indeed, sir.
01:47If you're ready, sir.
01:55Keep back.
01:57Give us room.
01:59Inspector Bucket, sir.
02:00Don't touch any of a turd.
02:02Sir!
02:05Sir!
02:06I hear you.
02:11He's been staying here, sir.
02:13She says he went off two days ago.
02:15Off on a tramp.
02:16Did he go alone?
02:18No, sir.
02:18We went with two women.
02:20From the Brickfields, she says.
02:22What Brickfields?
02:24You hear?
02:25The Brickfields.
02:27Where?
02:29Stalbans, Brickfields.
02:31Stalbans.
02:33Where?
02:34Come on, where?
02:35All right, Derby.
02:38Leave her.
02:41Stalbans, sir.
02:43County of Hertfordshire.
02:45Famous in his time for his brick-making business.
02:48A little in the doldrums of late.
02:50Oh, the tramp for work!
02:54These two women have gone back home.
02:56And they've taken the boy with them.
02:58For what reason remains to be seen.
03:01It means the boy is out of London, Mr. Tolkien-Horne.
03:05I want him to hold his tongue.
03:06I want him to know that he must.
03:08He needs a warning, Mr. Bucket.
03:11He can't be allowed to gossip about my affairs,
03:14however insignificant a part of my affairs.
03:18He must not meddle.
03:22I hope you can see to it, Inspector.
03:29Derby, sir.
03:30Light the way here, sir.
03:33Troublesome, these small matters.
03:35But the law must guard itself against impertinence.
03:41With you all the way, sir.
04:20Crook, it's time.
04:22It's the appointed time, crook.
04:25Time to do business.
04:30Time for the letters, crook.
04:33Letters.
04:36Are you there, crook?
04:42Oh, my God.
04:48Oh, my God.
05:02Oh, my God.
05:03Oh, my God.
05:46Oh, my God.
06:04What?
06:28Oh, my God.
06:31Hola! Hola! Hola!
07:14Here is a man, gentleman of the jury, proved to be in the habit of consuming spiritus liquors
07:23in exceptionally large quantities.
07:30A man of advanced years, and doubtful health, and very secretive about his circumstances,
07:37even to the point of shunning his neighbours in the matters of their enquiries as to his well-being.
07:45The deceased, in short, was in a state of mind only to be guessed at,
07:49which is of little assistance to this inquest, except insofar as the witness, Mr William Guppy,
07:58who lodges at the house, offered the observation that, in his opinion,
08:04the deceased crook appeared to be more active in his business concerns of late,
08:09although the witness, Mr Guppy, was unable to say in what particular.
08:15So, members of the jury, we have no reason for supposing that the deceased crook
08:22had decided to consign his business and his life to the flames.
08:27And, as to an accidental verdict, the medical evidence questions how he could accidentally come to burn himself.
08:38Although, learning medical evidence divides yes and no on the proposition of spontaneous combustion,
08:50by which the deceased was set on fire from within, without the assistance of external fuel.
08:59Now, here is a mystery that we cannot account for.
09:04And if you find the deceased died by misadventure unknown, then that is how you should so return.
09:15Gentlemen of the jury, consider your verdict.
09:24I've come to look after the property. Crook was my wife's brother. He had no other relations but her.
09:31We shall make good our title. It's in the hands of my solicitor.
09:38Judy, shake me up. Shake me up, you old parrot.
09:44Order!
09:46I've succeeded. I shall take it to go. It's my property!
09:52Transportation or the gallows for anybody who touches a property!
09:57My property! My property! My property! My property!
10:03My property! My property!
10:15I have to beg your ladyship's pardon. I've called at an inconvenient time.
10:22If you would wish me to call on another occasion, I'll...
10:28What have you come to tell me?
10:33The fact is, your ladyship, I... I haven't brought the letters.
10:39I won't be able to bring them.
10:43The person I was to have had them from...
10:52There was a fire, your ladyship.
11:00That is all you have to say?
11:02You had better be sure.
11:04Because this is the last time you will be given the opportunity.
11:08Oh, that's all, your ladyship.
11:10Except I regret any inconvenience or disturbance my previous visit might unnecessarily have caused.
11:19Then good evening to you.
11:21If you don't mind your ladyship, I, er...
11:23I would prefer to see myself out.
11:31I beg your pardon, Lady Deadlock, a thousand times.
11:34It is so very unusual to find you here at this hour.
11:37I thought the room was empty.
11:40I do beg your pardon.
11:41Please stay, Mr. Dowkinghorne.
11:43I'm going out to dinner.
11:45I have nothing further to say to this young man.
12:09You are to be congratulated, Mr. Guppy.
12:13You're a fortunate young man.
12:15Oh.
12:16I don't complain, Mr. Dowkinghorne.
12:18Complain?
12:20High friends.
12:21Free admission to great houses.
12:24Access to elegant ladies.
12:27Mr. Guppy, there are people in London who would give their ears to be you.
12:34If I attend to my profession, sir,
12:37and do what is right by my employers, Kenjin Carboys,
12:41my friends and acquaintances are of no consequence to them.
12:44Not any other member of the legal profession.
12:47Not excepting yourself, sir.
12:51I am under no obligation to explain myself further.
12:56And with all respect for you, sir,
12:59and without offence, I repeat,
13:02without offence,
13:05I do not intend to do it.
13:07I do not intend to do it.
13:10Quite so.
13:12Very good.
13:34Well, Sergeant,
13:37George, isn't it?
13:38Well, sir?
13:39Well, George, what do you say?
13:44you don't mind sir i'd like to know what you say do you mean in terms of reward
13:51in terms of everything sir i thought mr smallweed had sufficiently explained the matter it's simple
13:57enough you served under captain horton didn't you and were rather in his confidence i think
14:04i served many years with the captain sir therefore you may happen to have in your
14:09possession something in his handwriting a letter an order accounts anything will do
14:15whatever you have i wish to compare the writing with something i have
14:21you shall be rewarded for your trouble free for five guineas you would consider that handsome
14:30wouldn't you
14:35will you tell me why you want to compare his writing
14:39no sergeant if you are a man of business you would not need to be informed that there
14:44are confidential reasons very harmless in themselves for many such wants in the profession to which
14:51i belong
14:54if the sum of it is not enough then say how much more in your conscience as a soldier
15:07if you'll excuse me sir i'd rather have nothing to do with this
15:13why not because i am not a man of business and when i get into things of this kind i
15:20have the feeling
15:20i'm being smothered take care you do no harm by this you are the best judge of your own interest
15:29of course
15:31i think i'll have nothing to do with it
15:35please yourself sergeant you blue stone beast i'll twist you i'll smash you i'll crumble you george
15:44i'll powder you i'll put you out in the gutter i can do it i will
15:52shake me up
16:05good day to you sir
16:07you owe my client money
16:13i pay the interest monthly the sum as agreed
16:16the principal loan is 97 pounds mr smallweed is within his rights to call in that sum at any time
16:25let him call sir i don't have it as well he knows
16:35does your friend
16:38bagnet have it
16:40he went shorty for you
16:42he'd better have it
16:51he gave reference of character
16:53bagnet is your guarantor sergeant
16:58one of you had better have the money
16:59if uh mr smallweed should want to call it in
17:04i'll smash you george
17:08pity you're not a man of business
17:10is your friend bagnet a man of business
17:15he's a very respectable man
17:18used to be royal artillery
17:19my friend i don't care a pinch of snuff for the whole of the royal artillery
17:23officers men horses wagons guns does this respectable man have the money
17:30he has a wife and three children but not 97 pounds
17:37he mustn't be injured on my account
17:44you have the means to prevent that
17:49i can give you a written undertaking
17:51that this man bagnet
17:53shall never be troubled in any way in the matter of the loan
17:57until you have been proceeded against to the utmost
18:00that your means shall be exhausted
18:02before my client looks to bagnet
18:05this in fact all but frees him
18:07aye
18:09all but frees him
18:13this is an exceptional offer sergeant
18:16but it is conditional upon your assisting me in the matter of captain horden's handwriting
18:22make up your mind i've no more time to waste
18:28you give me no choice
18:32of course you have a choice sergeant
18:43we can still be friends george
19:08this is very kind of you miss
19:10and i hope you don't mind me sending the message
19:13i know we shouldn't have done it
19:14but when i saw your little maid in the town
19:17i remembered your goodness to us
19:19before
19:20and i didn't know who else i could turn to
19:22it's quite all right jenny
19:24i'll help if i can
19:26but charlie didn't properly understand you
19:28who is this boy
19:29where is he now
19:32oh miss he's that sick
19:40he helped lizzie and me in london
19:43showed us her way
19:44and where to lodge
19:46it was worse than here
19:49all the boys ever known
19:53i thought we might as well bring him
19:56he took bed on the way
20:01is he no better lizzie
20:02he looks bad
20:04very bad
20:15joe
20:16do you know me
20:24joe
20:29i'm being frozen
20:31then i'll burn up
20:34then it's frozen again
20:39oh he needs a doctor
20:42i tried
20:43no one will listen
20:45he don't belong
20:46he can't pay
20:49who's to care
20:51can he stay here
20:55your master won't have that jenny
20:57he won't have joe in the state he's in
20:59there's no money to feed another mouth
21:02you know that
21:03and mine will say the same
21:05we thought we'd earn something in london
21:08joe's all we brought back
21:09more trouble for our men
21:12don't shame by his going in the first place
21:15there'll be blows for this jenny
21:21miss
21:24he's so very sick
21:53there'll be something
21:54must be something
22:00judy
22:01you brimstone cell
22:03will you stir yourself
22:05all right
22:06i'm coming
22:07every scrap
22:09do you hear me
22:09all right
22:10you found me nothing yet
22:11get on you
22:12witch's brew of em
22:13all right
22:14must be something
22:18broomstick chatterer
22:20all right
22:21there'll be something
22:21must be something
22:26crook
22:27never threw anything away
22:31close man was crook
22:32cunning
22:37couldn't read
22:38but he knew better
22:39than to throw his fortune away
22:40there'll be something
22:44oh yes
22:47every square inch
22:49mind that judy
22:50twelve inches a foot
22:52three foot a yard
22:53what you black beetle
22:57judy
22:58shake me up
22:59oh my poor bones
23:01oh dear me
23:04oh my dear look
23:06oh
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23:44you had better turn him out what do you mean put him out in the road my dear John Dice
23:50you know
23:51what a child I am be cross with me if I deserve it but you know I have a constitutional
23:57objection
23:58to this sort of thing I always had when I was a medical man the boy's not safe you know
24:05there's a very bad sort of fever about him so what happens to him if I put him out I
24:11haven't the least
24:11idea but he'll be no worse off than he was before if you wish make him better off give him
24:19sixpence
24:19or five shillings or a pound in the meantime remembering that you were once a medical man
24:23is there any sort of treatment that you can recommend for him
24:30you might tell them to sprinkle a little vinegar about the place where he's sleeping otherwise
24:36well no I I'd leave any further detail to Miss Somersen she doesn't mind these things
24:44I'm afraid I don't have the will for them
25:02excuse me sir may I talk to you a moment from the bailiff no sir that's not my office
25:08don't be afraid I won't keep you long
25:23this boy that's been brought to the house when better judgment might have prevailed don't you
25:28think sir if I was to know exactly where he's been put
25:36I don't want to disturb the family
26:00Joe
26:04Joe that's all we have is it all he has
26:11he keeps saying move on move on
26:16I oh my god
26:19I
26:22DEVOLES
26:24Who
26:25Who
26:30Who
26:40Who
26:41Who
26:44Who
26:46Wh
26:46Who
26:52I propose a toast to our young friend.
26:57Better health to Joe.
27:05I have a poetic notion concerning Joe.
27:10Suppose now that fate has reserved a place for him in history.
27:15I really do fancy that Joe may emulate another ragged urchin thrown on his own devices.
27:22Remember Dick Whittington.
27:27There. Now I've said it. I'm convinced of it.
27:31Joe is to become Lord Mayor of London.
27:35Isn't that a happy thought?
27:40I can see all manner of most admirable works of charity
27:44arising from his gratitude to this household.
27:48Lord Mayor Joe will establish the John Dice Institution for Orphans
27:53and the Esther Summerson Arms Houses.
27:58And there will be the City of London Corporation
28:00annual pilgrimage to Bleak House
28:03with lemonade and spiced buns consumed in the tent on the lawn.
28:13in all sincerity
28:16I'm sure our young friend is an excellent...
28:18Excuse me. I must find out.
28:20In his way.
28:27Lanterns.
28:33Charlie, what is it?
28:36It's Jomis. He's gone.
28:39Well, speak up, child. What's happened?
28:42The men are looking for the boy, sir.
28:45Joe, sir.
28:46He's gone.
28:47We've looked everywhere.
28:49They're taking the dogs round the fields now.
28:52He wasn't fit to move.
28:54Although, if delirious, could he get far?
28:57Really, John Dice.
28:58How can I say?
29:00We must go and help.
29:05Will he die, miss?
29:07He's gone to meet his destiny.
29:11We can't delay him.
29:17Man of the future, you know.
29:28Man of the future andbert that's in crown Donna.
29:29Doesn't he look like Miss Winter?
29:31No, I boughtggingση.
29:33He's gone.
29:34Let's go.
29:34Good quick.
29:41He's done.
29:45Hey, This is the 하는 mina,
29:54Oh, my God.
30:44Oh, my God.
30:51Oh, my God.
31:37Oh, my God.
31:59Oh, my God.
32:11Oh, my God.
32:28Oh, my God.
32:43Oh, my God.
33:04Oh, my God.
33:30Oh, my God.
33:43Oh, my God.
33:53Oh, my God.
34:01Oh, my God.
34:13Oh, my God.
34:14Oh, my God.
34:14Oh, my God.
34:40Oh, my God.
34:41Oh, my God.
34:41Oh, my God.
34:47Oh, my God.
34:49Oh, my God.
34:51Oh, my God.
35:01Oh, my God.
35:07Oh, good.
35:11Not really.
35:23I'm fine.
35:27I'm fine.
35:41Are you expecting a visitor today, Rosa?
35:48I don't know, milady.
35:50Don't know?
35:52I mean, I'm not sure, milady.
35:58I'm not sure whether what...
36:01Whether young Mr. Watt Ranswell will be arriving with his father or not.
36:06Yes, milady.
36:08Do you know why Mr. Watt Ranswell Senior has asked to speak to Celeste?
36:15Partly, milady.
36:17I also know.
36:19Partly.
36:27Are you in love with him?
36:32I don't know, milady.
36:44I know this house as well as I know my own.
36:47Best place any boy ever had for playing hide-and-seek.
36:49Most of it empty after the year.
36:54Then I'd jump out on the servants doing the cleaning.
36:56Find them out of their boots.
36:58Then I'd find a footman of a chambermaid passing the time of day in a place where there's no right
37:02to be.
37:03And I'd be under a bed or behind a curtain, you know, squeaking like a mouse.
37:09The girl would be up and away.
37:12I never understood why it made the footman so angry.
37:15Got my ears box once or twice.
37:20Chesney Ward.
37:22One of the noblest houses in the land.
37:25A playground.
37:27One of the noblest houses in the door.
38:05Mother?
38:07You look in grand health grand!
38:14What?
38:16Oh you young rascal!
38:24Do I understand?
38:26Is my lady to understand that you consider this young woman too good for this house?
38:33And likely to be injured by remaining here?
38:37You had better explain what you mean.
38:39Willingly, Lady Deadlock. Simply this.
38:42Your housekeeper, my mother, has lived here for half a century.
38:46And please don't suppose I'm ashamed of her position here.
38:50Although I would have much preferred her to retire some years ago and spend the rest of her days with
38:53me.
38:53But I know it would break her heart to sever the bond she has with this house and this family.
39:02I appreciate the attachment there can be between high and low station.
39:06But when it comes to talking about my son's future wife, there are other things to consider.
39:11In my world, unequal marriages are common enough.
39:14The son of a factory owner may tell his father he's fallen in love with one of the girls that
39:18works there.
39:18The father may say very well.
39:20I shall place this girl for two years in the same school with your sisters.
39:24And if at the end of that time...
39:25Mr. Ranswell, are you making a parallel between Chesney Wolde and a factory?
39:33Two very different places, I grant you.
39:35But the circumstances are much the same.
39:37Are you aware that this young woman was taught at the village school just outside these gates?
39:43I know that, Sir Lester.
39:44And I'm bound to say I don't regard your village school as providing an adequate education for a daughter-in
39:49-law of mine.
39:52You said you would be candid.
39:56Lady Deadlock, we are discussing my son's future.
40:00People should not be educated out of their stations.
40:04Are you one of that breed?
40:05You want to level the nation, do you?
40:08Guillotines, the rabble, wild in the streets, is that what you want?
40:12I'm concerned with my son and this pretty girl, Rosa.
40:18Sir Lester feels that his views and yours are in a general sense probably strongly opposed.
40:24You would be unlikely to agree on whatever you were to discuss.
40:33If this young woman wishes to withdraw herself from my lady's notice and favor
40:36and place herself under someone else's influence, she is at liberty to do so at any time.
40:42What you have said will not, of itself, have any effect on her position here meanwhile.
40:55Sir Lester, Lady Deadlock.
41:00Thank you for your attention.
41:16Rosa.
41:19You don't want to leave me just yet, do you?
41:25No.
41:25No, my lady.
41:27Not if you think...
41:32I'll do what you say, my lady.
41:36Don't be frightened.
41:41I want you to be happy.
41:43And I will make you happy.
41:47If it is in my power to make anyone happy.
41:52He loves you.
41:54Trust me.
42:09Do you want to know where I found them?
42:11I found them.
42:12Quiet!
42:14Want to know?
42:18Lady Jane's bed.
42:23Croc's old cat.
42:26The letters were hidden in her box where she sleeps.
42:36I knew there'd be something.
42:41Hidden, you see, like valuable should be.
42:48What's a fair sum?
42:50Five hundred?
42:58You want them? There's a price!
43:04Of course.
43:07There's a price for everything.
43:14No, a close.
43:28All right.
43:29I'll see you.
43:30No, no, no, no.
43:30I'll see you up.
43:31A hover.
43:32No, no.
43:34What?
43:34That's a sight.
43:35I do.
43:43I'm not even a mile.
43:43I'll get in the moment.
44:00I should like to tell you a story to illustrate the pride of the new men like Mr. Rouncewell.
44:07It's of real flesh and blood.
44:10I hope Lady Deadlock won't think me ill, Brad.
44:15It concerns a townsman of your Mr. Rouncewell, a man in exactly those circumstances, I'm told.
44:22He had the good fortune to have a daughter who attracted the notice of a great lady.
44:28I'm speaking of a really great lady.
44:31One married to a man of your condition, Sir Lester.
44:35The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and she liked the girl.
44:42And she kept her not quite as a servant, and not quite as a pet, but as something of the
44:49two.
44:51Very close.
44:52Now, this lady had a secret.
44:56Early in life, she had been engaged to marry a young rake, a captain in the army.
45:02She never did marry him, but she gave birth to a child, of which this captain, a man of no
45:09reputation, was the father.
45:16The captain died in due course and in due disgrace.
45:19But that is not of such importance in the story.
45:23No, the important part is that the facts were discovered.
45:28Owing to some imprudence by the great lady.
45:34You can imagine, Lady Deadlock, the domestic turmoil that followed.
45:41As you would imagine, Sir Lester, her husband suffered a torture of grief.
45:46And then came the twist of the knife.
45:49When this townsman of Mr. Rancewell came to hear these disclosures,
45:54he immediately took his daughter away from the great lady.
45:59A lady was no longer regarded as acceptable company.
46:04As if she were the commonest of commoners.
46:11Such is the pride of the new man.
46:19I hope Lady Deadlock will excuse the painful nature of this story.
46:43Is it true concerning the girl, my attendant Rosa?
46:46Do family and friends know my secret?
46:49Is it the town talk?
46:51No, Lady Deadlock.
46:53The girl in my story represents a hypothetical case.
46:57It would be a real case if they knew what we know.
47:02How long have you known about me?
47:04I've known, fully known, for only a few days.
47:07But I suspected for quite some time.
47:10Before you knew anything, I think.
47:12I think before you knew, you didn't suspect.
47:14You hoped.
47:16I'm sure it's true that we never trusted each other.
47:19Quite.
47:21I always knew you would find out.
47:23Of course you would.
47:24That is your calling.
47:25You hunt out secrets.
47:27They give you power over people.
47:29They make people fear you.
47:31You have a passion for other people's fear.
47:34The only passion you'll ever know.
47:38What do you want me to do?
47:40Sign a confession?
47:43Don't expect remorse or repentance.
47:45That is not for your ears.
47:48There is nothing to be done.
47:49If I am to leave, I shall go tonight.
47:57What then?
48:05What do you want?
48:09I haven't yet been able to decide on what course to take.
48:13How to act next.
48:15For the meantime, I must ask you to keep your secret.
48:18As you've kept it for so long.
48:22Live with it.
48:23And with my husband.
48:25On your mercy.
48:27And your pleasure.
48:30Sir Leicester is my sole consideration.
48:34That is to say,
48:36he and the family reputation are one.
48:39Sir Leicester and the baronetcy.
48:42Sir Leicester and Chesney World.
48:44Sir Leicester and his ancestry and heritage.
48:47All this is my consideration.
48:49It's your living.
48:51I thought once.
48:53It would be easier for me
48:54to tear up the oldest tree on this estate
48:57with my own hands
48:58than to break your hold on Sir Leicester
49:01or his trust and confidence in you.
49:06Now I can break it.
49:10But I don't know what the shock
49:11of hearing the truth about you might do to him.
49:13It might send him out of his wits
49:15or put him on his deathbed.
49:17I mean,
49:18the sudden shock of it.
49:21Was that the object of your storytelling tonight?
49:24To prepare him?
49:26I have to judge whether he can be told.
49:28Whether it is in your interest.
49:31It might not break him
49:33or his love for me.
49:35Do you fear that?
49:38I would remind you, Lady Deadlock,
49:40where your past imprudence has brought you.
49:43I hope you will do nothing on impulse
49:45or by whim.
49:46I shall not.
49:48You may depend on it.
49:52I must wait
49:53for your decision.
49:56Yes,
49:57you must.
49:59Hiding my guilt.
50:01As you have for so many years.
50:03Is your secret any heavier now
50:05than it was before?
50:08Take it away.
50:36See you soon.
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