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Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the North. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby befriends Bessy Higgins and her father Nicholas, poor local mill workers, she becomes aware of the social inequalities. On seeing John Thornton, a cotton-mill owner, badly treating one of his workers, Margaret's prejudices are reinforced, Thornton, on the other hand, forms a more positive opinion of Margaret.
Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the North. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby befriends Bessy Higgins and her father Nicholas, poor local mill workers, she becomes aware of the social inequalities. On seeing John Thornton, a cotton-mill owner, badly treating one of his workers, Margaret's prejudices are reinforced, Thornton, on the other hand, forms a more positive opinion of Margaret.
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00:00To be continued
01:30What a business this wedding has been. What an expense.
01:35You know, sometimes, my dear sister, I envy you, your little country parsonage.
01:42You two married for love, I know.
01:46Now, of course, Edith can afford to do that.
01:50Go on, Captain, dance. Dance with your bride.
01:54You are bored, Miss Margaret.
02:11No.
02:13I'm tired.
02:16I'm exhausted and a little too grown up for ornaments like this.
02:23When I get married, I want to wake up on a sunny day, put on my favourite dress and just walk to the church.
02:30There.
02:34There. Is that better?
02:37I think you look very well.
02:40You would look very well whatever you want.
02:43I love my cousin dearly.
02:47I've been very happy in this house.
02:50So I'll be even more happy to go home to Helston tomorrow.
02:52Ah, the wonderful Helston.
02:54You cannot be kept away.
02:56No, I cannot.
02:59It's the best place on earth.
03:00Margaret, is that you?
03:28Margaret, is that you?
03:30Mr. Lennox?
03:36What's happened?
03:37Is it Edith?
03:38Some accident?
03:39No, no, no, no.
03:40Calm yourself.
03:41No such calamity.
03:43I have come to visit Paradise.
03:46As you suggested.
03:50Oh, help.
03:52Mr. Lennox.
03:56You'd better sit down.
03:57I...
03:59I could walk this route with my eyes closed.
04:13I've been visiting Father's parishioners since I was a very small girl.
04:16Did you hear what I just said?
04:22Sorry.
04:22I was just remembering your prescription for a perfect wedding.
04:27I should like to walk to church on a sunny morning.
04:31Was this the path you were describing?
04:32Why, yes, I suppose so.
04:36I wasn't actually thinking of my wedding, you understand.
04:42I was wondering, Margaret, whether...
04:45Please, don't want...
04:46Whether you might consider making that walk, sharing that morning with one who...
04:51Please, listen, Margaret.
04:54Please, don't continue.
04:57I'm sorry.
05:02Excuse me, Ed.
05:04You led me to believe that such an offer would not be unwelcome.
05:09A London girl would have known not to talk of wedding days in such ambiguous terms.
05:13Excuse me, I said nothing I am ashamed of.
05:17I'm sorry if you have been mistaken in my affections for you.
05:20Is there someone else?
05:22Someone else you prefer?
05:23No.
05:24I do like you, Henry.
05:29But I'm not ready to marry anyone.
05:32You must believe that I mean what I say.
05:41We'll be on the streets.
05:44In a strange place.
05:46Mama, I told you, we'll stay at a hotel until we find a house.
05:49It won't take long.
05:51Perhaps Dixon and I could stay on the coast while you look.
05:55Yes.
05:56As the missus is so delicate...
05:58No, Maria, your place is with us.
06:01It will not take us long to find a house.
06:03My old college friend, Mr Bell, has agreed to help.
06:07He's already organised a list of potential pupils.
06:10There'll be plenty of teaching for me.
06:12We will manage, Mother.
06:13It's not another planet.
06:17Outward, Milton!
06:20Outward, Milton!
06:21Outward, Milton!
06:23All games!
06:25All games!
06:27Stay to the store!
06:28I see him!
06:31Hold up!
06:35Take these, please.
06:36Get in.
06:50I see him!
06:51I see him!
06:52Go, please!
06:52Get in!
06:53I'll be...
06:54Get in!
06:54I'll be...
06:55I'll be...
06:55I'll be...
06:55Get in!
06:56I'll be...
06:57Get in!
06:58Get in!
06:59Let's go.
07:29How are you?
07:59The living room's quite spacious, as you can see.
08:05The property's not for me.
08:07I'm making inquiries on behalf of one of my master's business acquaintances.
08:10The man is to live here as a clergyman, or rather a former clergyman.
08:19He's used to living simply.
08:21I don't think he's ever been a man of great property or fortune.
08:23A matter of conscience.
08:34Ah, conscience.
08:36Well, that never put bread on the table.
08:38South, eh?
08:39A little indiscretion to a place, maybe?
08:43Well, they do, you say, the devil mates work for idle hands, don't they?
08:46Maybe his hands weren't so idle.
08:50Well, they'd certainly find things quite different, I don't know.
08:53Oh, aye.
08:55Well, make good the repairs, but the decoration's good enough.
08:58Hey, what a business, eh?
08:59For a man to uproot his wife and child to come all the way to Milton.
09:02Conscience or no conscience, that's strange behaviour.
09:05Excuse me, madam, can I help you?
09:08My name is Margaret Hale.
09:11Who are you?
09:12I'm Williams, Mr Thornton's overseer.
09:14He asked me to look out properties for your father.
09:19How much is the rent of the year?
09:21These are details Mr Thornton will discuss with your father.
09:24There's no need to concern yourself with money matters, ma'am.
09:26I've no idea who you, Mr Thornton, is.
09:29I thank him for his trouble.
09:31But my father and I are sharing the task of securing a property.
09:35I've spent two days viewing what Milton has to offer.
09:38So I have a fairly good idea of price.
09:41Mr Thornton thinks this will do very well for your father.
09:43Where is Mr Thornton?
09:45Excuse me.
09:47Take me to see this Mr Thornton.
09:50If you won't deal with me, I'll have to deal with him.
10:05Does Mr Thornton live here?
10:20Aye.
10:20He'll be at work.
10:26Stay here, miss.
10:27I'll find mustard.
10:28I'll find mustard.
10:58Oh, my God.
11:11I'll find mustard.
11:13Come on.
11:16It's better!
11:18Come on.
11:19Come on.
11:20Come on.
11:21Come on.
11:22Come on.
11:24Yes.
11:25Come on.
11:25Oh, my God.
11:55Oh, my God.
12:25Oh, my God.
12:27Oh, my God.
12:29Oh, my God.
12:31Oh, my God.
12:33Oh, my God.
12:37Stevens!
12:39Put that pipe out!
12:43I saw you!
12:49Steven!
12:53Steven!
12:55Come here!
12:59Smoking again?
13:05I wasn't.
13:06Where is it?
13:07I wasn't smoking, I swear.
13:09Still warm.
13:10I warned you.
13:11No!
13:12No, no!
13:13Please, sir!
13:14Please!
13:15Please!
13:16Please!
13:17Please, sir!
13:20Please!
13:21Look at me!
13:24Look at me!
13:25Stop!
13:26Stop!
13:27Please!
13:28Stop!
13:29Who are you?
13:30What are you doing in here?
13:31My name is Margaret Hayes.
13:32Miss there!
13:33I'm sorry, sir, Mr. Thornton.
13:34I've told her to stay in the office.
13:35Get her out of here.
13:36All right, crawl away in your belly and don't come back.
13:39Please, sir.
13:40I have little ones.
13:42You know the rules!
13:44My children starve to death.
13:46Better they starve and burn to death.
13:48Get out before I call the police!
13:52Get that woman out of here!
13:54Please, miss.
13:59Miss.
14:00Miss, please!
14:02Miss, please, miss!
14:05Please!
14:10Miss, jeez.
14:11Miss, is Count.
14:14Miss, Miss...
14:15Miss.
14:28Miss...
14:29Miss.
14:31Miss..
14:33Miss.
14:34Does she stink?
14:35Miss.
14:36Miss.
14:37Miss.
14:38Miss.
14:39Miss.
14:40My darling Margaret, we are back at last from our honeymoon in Corfu.
14:53We've been away so long I'm almost fluent in Greek, or so the captain says.
14:59But you know, everything he says is always so agreeable.
15:03Oh, dear Margaret.
15:04Now I'm going to say something that will make you very angry, but I can't help it.
15:08What was Uncle thinking of?
15:10Taking you all so far away from home.
15:13What on earth are you doing in that awful place, where they make cotton,
15:17when no one who is anyone wishes to buy it?
15:20I'm sure we'll always wear linen.
15:25Dear Edith, I'm pleased to report that we've replaced the horrible wallpapers
15:30with altogether more agreeable colours.
15:33Dixon has only, if you think this possible, grown in energy.
15:36She has set herself the task of engaging an undermaid.
15:41But as yet there isn't anyone within a radius of at least 50 miles
15:44who is remotely suitable to wait on us hand and foot.
15:48Now sit if you don't mind.
15:50You'll be expected to be well up before the family to light the fires.
15:57I'm sorry, I'm not getting up at five in the morning.
16:00And I'm not working for those wages.
16:03I can get four shillings as a piece are up at Ampers.
16:07Anyway, if you don't mind me asking,
16:10where's money coming from to pay for me?
16:13This house must be costing £30 a year.
16:16And there's not much coming in from what I've heard.
16:20Oh, come and go as I please!
16:22And I don't need no gossip, jumped-up servant
16:25to tell me what's what and how to think and how to behave.
16:28And keep your rotten job!
16:30Me! A servant indeed!
16:44I don't know what the master was thinking of
16:47subjecting us to all this gossip!
16:52Margaret?
17:00What's the matter?
17:12There is some talk.
17:17Margaret?
17:19Margaret?
17:20What does she mean, talk?
17:22I did hear some people talking
17:24when we were house hunting
17:26about why we moved to Milton
17:29so abruptly, why you left the church.
17:34People aren't talking.
17:37Well, it's only natural, after all,
17:38that people should wonder.
17:41It's not usual for clergymen
17:44to leave their parish,
17:45travel hundreds of miles,
17:46as if to escape something.
17:50Just because we follow you,
17:52without question.
17:56It's from the bishop.
18:07It's not about Frederick.
18:08No, no.
18:09I keep that letter with me at all times
18:11to reassure me
18:13that I made the right decision.
18:23Is this all?
18:24I ask that all rectors
18:28in the diocese of the New Forest
18:30reaffirm their belief
18:33in the Book of Common Prayer.
18:35Yes, there, exactly.
18:36The effrontery.
18:37The man's ten years, our junior.
18:39He tries to treat us all like children.
18:43But this is a formality, surely,
18:46to reaffirm.
18:47My conscience
18:48will not let me.
18:50I can and have lived quietly
18:53with my doubts
18:54for some years now.
18:57But I cannot swear publicly
19:00to doctrines
19:01I am no longer sure of.
19:05Well, we men of conscience
19:06have to make a stand.
19:09We?
19:10Yes, there are others
19:11who have doubts.
19:12We all agreed.
19:13We could not reaffirm.
19:15Are you telling me
19:18that all the rectors
19:21of the New Forest
19:22have decamped
19:23to industrial towns?
19:27Well,
19:28some
19:29thought it possible
19:31to yield,
19:33but
19:33I did not.
19:36How many?
19:37How many refused?
19:38I could not avoid this.
19:39I was forced into it.
19:41You must understand.
19:47I understand.
19:53I understood
19:55that the very worst
19:58must have happened.
20:02That you had lost your faith.
20:04or that you felt
20:07that God wished you
20:08to preach His word
20:10in these new places.
20:14That some
20:15very great matter
20:17must have happened
20:18to make you
20:19uproot us
20:20or dragging us
20:21up to this
20:22God-forsaken place.
20:24Maria.
20:25You gave up
20:26your livelihood.
20:27our source of income
20:34on a formality.
20:39It was not like that,
20:40Maria.
20:42Really.
20:43It is not like that.
20:46I already have work
20:48teaching
20:49and I will find more
20:53and maybe
20:56I will discover
20:58that is my real vocation
21:01after all.
21:03The people here
21:05don't want learning.
21:08They don't want books
21:10and culture.
21:14It's all money
21:16and smoke.
21:19That's what they eat
21:20and breathe.
21:26They don't wantúc
21:28but they're not
21:29good.
21:30They lose.
21:33They don't want
21:52or they're not
21:52good.
21:53Oh, he's up there!
22:03Watch out, boss.
22:10Please.
22:12Please, please, dear.
22:16Just stop.
22:20Please, please, stop.
22:23Oh!
22:25Oh, I want you to stay!
22:27Please, stop me!
22:29Leave the lads alone!
22:31Yeah!
22:32Please, leave the lads alone.
22:34You shouldn't take on, sir.
22:36We're all having a bit of fun.
22:43Come on, miss.
22:48Be careful where you walk when the whistle sounds for the break.
22:52Don't worry, they won't harm you.
22:55Just like a bonny face.
22:57And yours is off picture.
22:59Come on.
23:06I'm at home of life to you.
23:08Thank you, sir.
23:10You're welcome, miss.
23:12No charge, miss.
23:13No charge, miss.
23:14No charge, miss.
23:15No charge, miss.
23:16No charge, miss.
23:17No charge, miss.
23:18No charge, miss.
23:38So this century was probably the most productive, simply in terms of the number of churches...
23:43Father is working hard.
23:44Father is working hard.
23:45He teaches students and also lectures.
23:47So that brings us to the end of this afternoon.
23:49Though some of it is unpaid, and I fear, unwanted.
23:54Very soon for the next lecture.
23:55Very soon for the next lecture.
23:56But he keeps happy.
24:04Until next Sunday.
24:06He entertains his private pupils at home.
24:10You have to make a choice, John.
24:13It's difficult, I know.
24:15Margaret?
24:16Is that you?
24:18Oh, Margaret.
24:19Come in, Margaret.
24:20Come in.
24:21Meet my new friend and first proper pupil, Mr Thornton.
24:26This is my daughter, Margaret.
24:29I believe your daughter and I have already met.
24:34Ah.
24:35Mr Thornton can't decide between Aristotle and Plato.
24:40I suggest we start with Plato and then move on.
24:44What do you think?
24:46I'm afraid Miss Hale and I met under less than pleasant circumstances.
24:49I had to dismiss a worker for smoking in the sorting room.
24:52I saw you beat a defenceless man who was not your equal.
24:55Margaret.
24:56Margaret.
24:57No.
24:58She's right.
24:59I was angry I have a temper.
25:01Fire is the greatest danger at my mill, to be strict.
25:04A gentleman wouldn't use his fists on such a pathetic creature.
25:09Or shout at children.
25:11I dare say a gentleman has now had to see 300 corpses laid out on a Yorkshire hillside as I did last May.
25:17And many of them were children and that was an accidental flame.
25:20The whole mill destroyed in 20 minutes.
25:23I should go.
25:28You'll join us for dinner next week.
25:32Oh yes, of course.
25:33Um, thank you.
25:35Um, we'll start with Plato next Tuesday.
25:38Oh God.
25:39I will ask my mother to call when you're settled.
25:42Of course.
25:43Um, not by all means.
25:45We're always here, aren't we, Margaret?
25:46I'll admit that Milton doesn't have any grand palaces or works of art.
26:04But it does have some pleasant parks, where we take our daily walk and meet our friends.
26:11While the weather holds.
26:13Are you following me?
26:23No.
26:24Well, yes.
26:25I didn't mean any offence.
26:27I recognised you from Barbara Mills.
26:29Well, I recognise you.
26:31Giving Thornton back as good as he gave.
26:34I don't see that every day.
26:37Well, I don't want to keep you.
26:40What important appointments might I have?
26:43Now, I'm going to meet my father.
26:47He works at Hampers, a mile across town.
26:49But you work at Marlborough Mills?
26:51Yes.
26:52It's nearer home.
26:55And the work's easier.
26:57Here's father now.
27:00Father.
27:01Young woman I told you about.
27:04The day Thornton beat up Stephen, sent him packing.
27:07He deserved it.
27:09Fool put everyone at risk.
27:11You're not from this part of the world, are you?
27:14No.
27:15I'm from the south.
27:17From Hampshire.
27:18That's beyond London, I reckon.
27:21Hmm.
27:26Where do you live?
27:28We put up Francis Street in Princeton.
27:31Behind Golden Dragon.
27:33And your name?
27:36My name is Margaret Hale.
27:38My name is Nicholas Higgins.
27:40This is my daughter, Bessie Higgins.
27:41Why do you ask?
27:43Well, I...
27:44I thought that I might come and bring a basket.
27:48Excuse me.
27:49At home.
27:50When my father was a clergyman, of course.
27:52A basket.
27:54What would we want?
27:55The basket.
27:56We've little enough to put in it.
28:01I don't much like strangers in my house.
28:04I dare say in the south where you come from, a young lady such as yourself feels she can wander into anyone's house whenever they feel like it.
28:11But up here, we wait to be asked into someone's parlour before we go charging in.
28:15Excuse me, Mr Higgins.
28:17Bessie, I didn't mean any offence.
28:19Also, I reckon you can come if you want.
28:22But you'll not remember us.
28:24I'll bet on that.
28:25I'll bet on that.
28:40Margaret!
28:41What's the matter?
28:42Are you unwell?
28:43It must be Mr Thornton's mother.
28:44There's no mistaking that, Sternbrow.
28:45There must be the sister.
28:46What a deal of starch.
28:47It would take someone all day to iron that petticoat.
28:48Where will you put them, Mama?
28:49I don't think the two of them will fit in here.
28:50Oh, no!
28:52There's no mistaking that, Sternbrow.
28:55There must be the sister.
28:57What a deal of starch.
28:58It would take someone all day to iron that petticoat.
29:02Where will you put them, Mama?
29:04I don't think the two of them will fit in here.
29:06SHE CHILDREN
29:11How exquisite.
29:35I haven't seen English point work quite like that for years.
29:41Our Milton craftsmanship can compare with the very best.
29:50I suppose you are not musical, assassino, piano.
29:54I am fond of music, but I cannot play well myself.
30:00As you can see, this house would hardly bear a grand instrument.
30:05We sold ours when we moved.
30:07Yes, these rooms are far too small for entertaining.
30:11Our staircases are wider than the whole width of this room.
30:15I wonder how you can exist without a piano.
30:30It almost seems to me a necessity of life.
30:36There are concerts here, I believe.
30:38Oh, yes, rather crowded. They're letting anybody.
30:42But we have whatever is the fashion in London.
30:44A little later, unfortunately.
30:47But it's a very easy journey to London and not half so far.
30:51Yes, but Mama has never been to London.
30:55She cannot understand why I longed to go.
30:58She's very proud of Milton.
31:01Dirty, smoky place that it is. I can't wait to leave.
31:05May I ask why you chose to come and live in Milton?
31:11I mean, why did you leave?
31:14Wherever it was.
31:15Helston.
31:17Well, it...
31:20It was my husband's decision.
31:23It was a matter of conscience.
31:26But Mr Hale is no longer a clergyman, I thought.
31:29My husband very much enjoys his lessons with Mr Thornton.
31:36I think it makes him feel young again.
31:39Classics are all very well for men who light their lives away in the country.
31:43Or in colleges.
31:45But Milton may not have all their energies absorbed by today's work.
31:49They should have one aim only.
31:51Which is to hold and maintain an honourable place amongst the merchants of this country.
31:58Go away, Will.
32:00The name of John Thornton in Milton.
32:03Manufacturer and magistrate.
32:06Is known and respected amongst all men of business.
32:10And sought after by all the young women in Milton.
32:14Not all of them, surely.
32:16If you had a son like mine, Mrs Hale, you would have been embarrassed to sing his praises.
32:32If you can bear to visit our dirty, smoky home, we shall receive you next week.
32:46What did I tell you, Thornton, about the prices of raw cotton I found in Lahab?
33:05I believe you did.
33:06Come on, Thornton.
33:07Even you can spot a bargain when you see it.
33:09Cotton's a great deal cheaper from the Caribbean than from America.
33:12That's nonsense.
33:13I bet your Egyptian cotton is still much cheaper.
33:15I don't believe they can offer at those prices for long.
33:18They'll be bankrupt in a year and we'll have our supply interrupted.
33:21I'd rather pay more and have a steady supply through Liverpool.
33:24Others can do as they wish, we'll all lose in the end.
33:26Thornton's as straight as they come.
33:28It won't risk Marlborough milling any risky enterprise.
33:31Even if it means passing up the chance to speculate.
33:33But that's the best way, surely.
33:35With so many lives depending on the factory's continued success.
33:38Well then, that would be the Christian way.
33:42By the way everyone, we owe the latest over clamouring for a new wheel.
33:47I thought you had agreed to the wheel.
33:49Well I had.
33:50First the men threatened to turn out if I didn't install the infernal wheel.
33:53Which would have cost me £600.
33:54The wheel blows away the strands of cotton that flies off in the sorting rooms.
33:58It helps keep the fluff off the worker's lungs.
34:00It doesn't stop it, but it does help.
34:01So, what was the problem?
34:03Well some of the workers started claiming they'd need more money to work in a place with a wheel.
34:07What?
34:08Yes.
34:09Believe me.
34:10They let it make them hungry.
34:11Yes.
34:12Even hungrier than they claim they always are.
34:13The wheel would make them hungry?
34:14Yes, I swear.
34:15Some of them said that if I put the wheel in there wouldn't be so much fluff to swallow so their bellies would be emptier.
34:20Yes.
34:21So, and this is the beautiful part.
34:25They were saying, I'd have to pay them more.
34:28And now the men are split amongst themselves and can't agree to what they want.
34:31So, I've been spurred £600.
34:33And the men have only themselves to thank for the carding rooms being like Christmas every day with all that sneezing.
34:40Oh come on Thornton, surely you wouldn't approve of your workers telling you what to pay them?
34:45I've had a wheel in all my sheds for these past two years.
34:47I will fool you. I can't see profit in it.
34:50There is no immediate profit.
34:52None that you can count in pounds, shillings and pence.
34:54But?
34:55Well there is a but in there.
34:57But?
34:58My workers are healthier.
35:01Their lungs don't clog so easily.
35:03They work for me longer.
35:04Their children work for me longer.
35:06Even you can see the profit in that.
35:07But surely it's the right part also.
35:10Sound business sense Mr Hale and I cannot operate under any other moral law.
35:15I do not run a charitable institution.
35:18My workers expect me to be hard.
35:21But truthful.
35:23I always tell them how things are and they either take it or they leave it.
35:27Harkness has always tried little tricks with his workers.
35:29You've got to keep them on their toes.
35:31It's a war.
35:32And we masters have to win it or go under.
35:36Here are you.
35:37Excuse me. I'm looking for Bessie Higgins.
35:50I must have come in the wrong direction.
35:52She lives along the way, just round corner.
35:55It's all right. She's not frightened of you.
35:58She's hungry, that's why she cries.
36:00Bessie's just round corner.
36:05I'm Droic.
36:06There's no permit.
36:07You can't do it, shall we?
36:08Every time or no.
36:09Come in.
36:10Come in.
36:11Come in.
36:12Come in.
36:13Come in.
36:14Come in.
36:15Come in.
36:16Come in.
36:19Come in.
36:22Come in.
36:28That's my heart.
36:31Come in.
36:32Excuse me, I thought Bessie Higgins lived here.
36:52I'm sorry I didn't come earlier.
36:55To tell you the truth, I didn't know that I would be welcome.
36:59I thought the groceries would be offensive.
37:01But then if I'd come without anything...
37:03There's a remote possibility of us finding a fence.
37:07You can be sure we will.
37:09We're very good at that in Milton.
37:13I feel I've lived in Milton for quite some time now.
37:17But I still find myself constantly at fault whichever way I turn.
37:21How long do you think it will take for that to change?
37:23Oh, a couple of years at least, in your case.
37:30I'm sorry.
37:44It's just a bitter cold.
37:46I can't seem to shift.
37:47She was right.
38:05She said you'd come.
38:07How was the meeting, Father?
38:08Oh, do not worry on my account.
38:15I have no one to tell any secrets to.
38:18Well, your father, the parson, has been seen supping with the bosses.
38:22Mr Thornton is his pupil.
38:24He's certainly not my friend.
38:26And Boucher?
38:28He's our neighbour down the way.
38:30He's holding up, just.
38:34But he'll be with us when the fire goes up right enough.
38:36If he knows what's good for him.
38:39Miss Margaret, your father teaches at the Lyceum Hall, doesn't he?
38:42Yes, he does.
38:44Sunday afternoons.
38:53Mother.
38:54Remember I go to the Hales this evening.
38:57I will be home to Jasper, then out all late.
39:00Dress.
39:02Why should you dress up to take tea with an old parson?
39:05An ex-parson?
39:06Mr Hale is a gentleman.
39:08And his daughter is an accomplished young lady.
39:13Don't worry, Mother.
39:15I'm in no danger for Miss Hale.
39:18She's very unlikely to consider me a catch.
39:21She's from the South.
39:22She doesn't care for our northern ways.
39:24Heirs and graces.
39:27What business is she?
39:28A renegade clergyman's daughter.
39:32Who's now only fit to play at giving useless lectures
39:34to those who do not wish to hear them.
39:37What right is she to turn up on those at you?
39:41Board up the windows.
39:43Be a storm later.
39:44All motion and energy, but truly a thing of beauty.
39:47All motion and energy, but truly a thing of beauty.
39:49Classics will have to be rewritten to include it.
39:51All motion and energy, but truly a thing of beauty.
39:55Classics will have to be rewritten to include it.
40:01I'm afraid we're boring as hell with our enthusiasm for Arkwright's invention.
40:18No.
40:19Indeed, I'm sure it's fascinating that I'm a little tired, that's all.
40:30Mr. Thornton has been admiring...
40:32Mr. Thornton has been admiring...
40:33Mr. Thornton has been admiring...
40:34our newly redecorated rooms, Maria.
40:37Oh, yes.
40:38Mr. Thornton has been admiring our newly redecorated rooms, Maria.
40:43Oh, yes.
40:44Mr. Thornton has been admiring our newly redecorated rooms, Maria.
40:51Oh, yes, Mr. Thornton.
41:05And, well, there wasn't a great deal of choice.
41:09But these papers are of a similar shade to our drawing room in Helston.
41:14But not quite.
41:15Well, on behalf of Milton Tastes, I'm glad we've almost passed muster.
41:21Yes.
41:22Yes, well, very clearly you're very proud of Milton.
41:28My husband admires its energy and its...
41:35Its people are very busy making their businesses successful.
41:39I won't deny it.
41:41I'd rather be toiling here, success or failure, than leading a dull, prosperous life in the South.
41:46But there's slow, careless days of ease.
41:48You were mistaken.
41:50You don't know anything about the South.
41:52It...
41:53It may be a little less energetic in its pursuit of competitive trade, but then there is less
41:58suffering than I've seen in your mills.
42:00And all for what?
42:01We make cotton.
42:02Which no one wants to wear.
42:07I think that I might say that you do not know the North.
42:11We masters are not all the same, whatever your prejudice against Milton men and their ways.
42:15I've seen the way you treat your men.
42:17You treat them as you wish because they are beneath you.
42:20No, I do not.
42:21You've been blessed with good luck and fortune, but others have not.
42:25I do know something of hardship.
42:32Sixteen years ago, my father died in very miserable circumstances.
42:37I became the head of the family very quickly.
42:39I was taken out of school.
42:40I think that I might say that my only good luck was to have a mother of such strong will
42:47and integrity.
42:50I went to work in a draper's shop and my mother managed so that I could put three shillings
42:53aside a week.
42:54I taught myself denial.
42:59Now I'm able to keep my mother in such comfort as her age requires and I thank her every day
43:04for that early training.
43:07So Miss Hale, I do not think that I was especially blessed with good fortune or luck.
43:14Well, I'll stay my welcome.
43:23Oh, no, John.
43:25Come, Miss Hale, let us part of friends despite our differences.
43:30If we become more familiar with each other's traditions, we may learn to be more tolerant,
43:33I think.
43:34I'll see myself out.
43:46Please, please come in.
43:51Margaret, the handshake is used up here in all forms of society.
44:03I think you gave Mr. Thornton real offence by refusing to take his hand.
44:07I'm sorry, Father.
44:11I'm sorry I'm so slow to learn the rules of civility in Melton.
44:16But I'm tired.
44:19I've spent the whole day washing curtains that Mr. Thornton should feel at home.
44:24So please, excuse me if I misunderstood the handshake.
44:30I'm sure in London a gentleman would never expect a lady to take his hand like that.
44:35All unexpectedly.
44:37And I'm sure I didn't know where to look when he talked about his past.
44:41His father might have died in the workhouse.
44:45I think it might have been worse than that.
44:52According to my friend, Mr. Bell, his father speculated wildly and lost.
44:59He, um, he was swindled by a business partner in London.
45:04He killed himself.
45:08Because he couldn't bear the disgrace.
45:11Mother and son and daughter lived on nothing for years.
45:17So that the creditors could be repaid long after they'd given up any hope of settlement.
45:24Margaret?
45:26I think it very fine, Father.
45:30I'm sorry to have offended your friend.
45:34I must go to bed.
45:38I'm sorry.
46:04Ah, put him down.
46:23He's one of ours, isn't he?
46:25Voucher is Thornton's.
46:27Aren't you interested, Thornton?
46:29All meals together, if you please.
46:31We need to show them.
46:32We know who they're up to and we know who they are.
46:34Let them meet.
46:35That's how they want to spend their leisure time.
46:38We're all trying to work together, Thornton.
46:41Are we?
46:43What does that mean?
46:44I overheard some of my men talking.
46:48It seems you're planning to give in to them.
46:51We agreed.
46:53We'd all be in line.
46:56So that the men would know we meant business
46:58and know that we kept our word.
47:01Well, I...
47:02Father?
47:19My pew pros asked if they could use the wall for a special meeting.
47:25Who am I to force ecclesiastical architecture?
47:28Oh, man.
47:33Quiet.
47:35Quiet, please.
47:38Friends.
47:41Welcome.
47:42And this is the first time we have ever gathered together.
47:51Don't worry.
47:52We all get a chance to speak as long as we take our turn.
47:56Now, I'm Nicholas Higgins.
47:58I woke up at Ampers Mill.
47:59Well, there's quite a few of us.
48:03There's some men from Thorntons in Marlborough Mill.
48:06Where's Anderson's?
48:08What about Slickson's?
48:12Now,
48:14up at Ampers,
48:16we've got a lot of work.
48:19Orders are flooding in
48:20and cheap cotton to meet them.
48:22Now, there's those of us that know
48:24that soon
48:25bosses will be telling us
48:27although
48:27they're making a fat profit,
48:30they can't make our pay
48:31what it were five years ago.
48:35Now, they'll have a load of excuses.
48:37It's all because cotton's suddenly become expensive.
48:42This or that bit of machinery's packed up.
48:45The buyers can't pay,
48:46so there's no money to pay us.
48:48You've all heard it before.
48:51But bosses make their own rules.
48:53Henderson says one thing,
48:54Ampers another.
48:55Different from one week to the next.
48:57But what's to stop them cutting pay again?
49:00And if we quit all the wages,
49:03there's more who'll take our places
49:04than our lifetime.
49:06That's why
49:07we must
49:08all
49:08work together.
49:11Because next time
49:12one of our bosses
49:13plays tricks,
49:14we'll all know about it.
49:16And if we all decide on a fair wage
49:18and none of us
49:19none of us work for less than for once
49:21we'll have a sale!
49:22Don't lie to that!
49:24Don't lie to that!
49:25What do we do then?
49:27What do we do then?
49:31Goulter.
49:33It's, uh,
49:35it's all right
49:36some of you talking brave.
49:39Nicholas here earns, what,
49:4015, 16 children a week?
49:42There's only three to keep on it.
49:44My wife's sick.
49:45I have six children.
49:49None of them all
49:49them are for factory work.
49:52If I turn out,
49:54we'll not be able to live
49:55on five shilling strike
49:57pay from union.
49:59My children,
50:00they'll starve.
50:04Look, I'm not saying
50:10that we're coming out today.
50:13I'm not saying
50:14that we're coming out tomorrow.
50:17What I'm saying is
50:18when the time comes
50:21we will be ready.
50:24And we will
50:25stick together!
50:27Master.
50:55Master.
50:55what are you doing here i beg you to take me out get out
51:01we're at meeting this evening i can tell you what they're planning what's in their thoughts
51:08please sir i beg get out and don't come near this mill again who's there
51:13attorney arse get away from here
51:25couldn't you show a little mercy mr hale please do not try to tell me my business
51:34remember they do things differently here
51:38come father
51:55i wish i could tell you edith how lonely i am
52:11how cold and harsh it is here
52:15everywhere there is conflict and unkindness
52:25i think god has forsaken this place
52:38i believe i've seen hell
52:46and it's white
52:50it's snow white
52:53it's white
53:13so
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