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00:00The End
00:30That's a M, O, and next R, that's him, Mortimer Lightwood.
01:00Good morning.
01:29Morning, morning, morning.
01:31It's Governor in.
01:32Well, Mr Lightwood gave you an appointment, I think, sir.
01:35I don't want him to give it me, you know.
01:36I'll pay my way.
01:38Well, Mr Lightwood isn't in at the moment, sir.
01:40I expect him very shortly.
01:42Will you take a seat, sir, while I enter your name in the caller's book, sir?
01:49Mr Alley, Mr Bally, Mr Calley, Mr Fally, Mr Dally, Mr Boffin.
01:55Thank you, sir.
01:55Sick system here, eminent head.
01:57Oh, yes, sir.
01:58Couldn't get on without it.
01:59How long have you been in the law now?
02:01Oh, about three years, sir.
02:02And how long will it take, at an average rate of going, to become a judge?
02:06A judge?
02:08Well, I haven't really worked it out, sir.
02:09I suppose there's nothing to stop you from becoming a judge?
02:12No, I suppose not, sir.
02:13With a couple of sovereign help?
02:15Sir!
02:15Oh, is this Mr Lightwood coming now?
02:17Well, I don't know, sir.
02:18I'll go and have a look.
02:18Well, thank you ever so much, sir.
02:20Good morning, Mr Boffin.
02:21Sorry to have kept you waiting.
02:22Came early, always do.
02:23Been talking to this young shaver here.
02:26Blythe, step down to the law writers and see whether those deeds are engrossed.
02:29Eh?
02:29Oh, sit down, Mr Boffin, please.
02:33Now, Mr Lightwood, about this money...
02:36At your service, sir.
02:37I don't know what to say about it.
02:39It's a great deal to take care of.
02:40Then don't take care of it, my dear Mr Boffin.
02:42You said?
02:44If I may speak, my dear sir, with the irresponsible imbecility of a private individual, and not
02:48with the profundity of a professional advisor, I would say that if the money weighs in your
02:52mind, then you could easily make the weight less.
02:54I don't quite see it.
02:55Any number of people would be any too willing to take some of the weight off you.
02:58Oh, that wouldn't be satisfactory, would it?
03:00Exactly.
03:01All the same, it don't seem right for me to have all this money.
03:03It belongs by rights to poor John Armand.
03:06But now he's dead, Mr Boffin, surely.
03:07Me and Mrs Boffin grieve for him, Mr Lightwood.
03:10But it's years since you've seen him.
03:11He was seven years old.
03:12He'd come to say goodbye to me and Mrs Boffin before he went away to that foreign school.
03:17I remember how he looked, lonely and frightened.
03:20And the moment when all that's passed and done and he should come into a fortune, he gets
03:23made away with.
03:24Sad business.
03:25It's been a wicked, cruel murder.
03:27And by that murder, me and Mrs Boffin profit.
03:30Well, we talked it over and what we come around to is this.
03:33We'll offer ten thousand pounds for the catching and conviction of the murderer.
03:37Ten thousand pounds.
03:39Mr Boffin, it's too much.
03:39Me and Mrs Boffin's fixed a sum and we stand to it.
03:42Mr Boffin, the offer of such an immense reward is a temptation to forced suspicion,
03:46forced construction of circumstance.
03:48In fact, a whole toolbox of edge tools.
03:50Well, that's the sum we set aside for the purpose.
03:53That's the first instruction that I, as owner of the property, give to my lawyer.
03:57Here's another instruction.
03:58Make me as compact a little will, as can be reconciled with tightness,
04:03leaving the old of the property to my beloved wife, Henriette Boffin.
04:06Sole executrix, in those words.
04:08Make it tight.
04:09When you say tight...
04:10I mean tight.
04:12Is the tightness to bind Mrs Boffin in anywhere?
04:14Bind Mrs Boffin?
04:16I should think not.
04:17What I want is to make it all hers so tight that her old and it can't be loosed.
04:21Bind Mrs Boffin?
04:22It'd be answering me to begin a bind Mrs Boffin this time of day.
04:27Will you do it?
04:27Of course, Mr Boffin.
04:28I should be delighted.
04:29There's another thing, Mr Lightwood.
04:31Me and Mrs Boffin think to make some offer to the poor girl who was to marry John Armand.
04:36Cruel art it is on her, too.
04:37Then let me draw up some sort of contract between you and Miss Wilford, Mr Boffin.
04:41All in good time, Mr Lightwood.
04:43All in good time.
04:44Poor Lavi's getting the worst of it.
04:57Pardon me, not poor Lavinia, poor Bella.
05:01Lavinia has not known the trial poor Bella has known.
05:04When you see your daughter Bella in her black dress, which she alone of all the family wears,
05:09you might well say, poor Bella.
05:12I don't want to be poor. It's by Pa or anyone else.
05:15Well, I do.
05:16I'm the most unfortunate girl that ever lived.
05:19I'm a kind of widow who was never married.
05:21You're no worse off than you were before, my dear.
05:24No worse off?
05:25They'd only left me alone and told me nothing about it.
05:28But that wretched Mr Lightwood must feel it's his duty to tell me what's in store for me.
05:33Well, I feel obliged to get rid of George Samson.
05:37You be quiet, Miss.
05:39I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't so ridiculous.
05:42To be left to each other in a will.
05:44Like a dozen spoons.
05:48There.
05:50There yourself.
05:51My dear, my dear.
05:52You're not children.
05:53Oh.
05:54Who is it?
05:56Enter.
05:57The servant girl directed me to this room, telling me I was expected.
06:00You are expected, sir.
06:02Allow me to present my daughter, Lavinia, my daughter, Bella, and my husband.
06:11R.W., this gentleman proposes to take the apartments, your apartments, from the quarter with a quarter's notice on either side.
06:18Of course, I know, my dear.
06:20However, it is usual, I believe, to exchange a reference or two.
06:25Oh, I hope you will not think that necessary.
06:28To tell you the truth, I am a stranger in London.
06:31I ask no reference from you, and I hope you will not from me, as I will pay whatever advance you please, and I propose to trust you with my furniture.
06:37Well, money and goods are the best reference.
06:39Shall we sign the contract?
06:41What name shall I write in?
06:44Rokesmith.
06:45John Rokesmith.
06:46Roke-smith.
06:48Will you sign here, please, Mr. Rokesmith?
06:56And Bella.
06:58You can witness it.
07:00Where?
07:02Here?
07:07I am much obliged to you, Miss Wilfer.
07:11Obliged?
07:12I have given you so much trouble.
07:15In signing my name?
07:18When will you be coming, Mr. Rokesmith?
07:20In a day or two.
07:21The furniture tomorrow, perhaps.
07:23Thank you very much, Mr. Wilfer.
07:27Your servant, madam.
07:27No, please don't bother.
07:29I can see myself out.
07:31Good evening.
07:34Par with a murderous lieutenant.
07:36Well, a robber, at least.
07:37He doesn't seem able to look anyone in the face.
07:39My dear, he was shy.
07:40I've never seen a man I dislike more.
07:45Between Mr. Rokesmith and me, there's a natural distrust.
07:51My friends.
07:53Boy, my friends.
07:54Oh, boy, my, my friends.
07:56My friends.
07:58My friends.
07:58My friends.
07:59My friends.
07:59My friends.
08:00Oh, good morning.
08:01Good morning.
08:01Good day, sir.
08:11And a good day to you.
08:13Ever seen me before?
08:15Well, I've seen you walking up and down the street a few times, sir.
08:17Ever hear the name of Boffin?
08:19I can't say I did.
08:20Do you like it?
08:21I know.
08:22I can't say I do.
08:23Why don't you like it?
08:24Well, I can't say what I just done.
08:25My name's Boffin.
08:28Nicodemus Nick or Noddy Boffin.
08:30That's me.
08:31What's your name?
08:32Silas Wake.
08:34And how'd you get your wooden leg?
08:35In an accident.
08:36Do you like it?
08:37Well, I don't have to keep it warm.
08:39Don't have to keep it warm.
08:42Did you want it?
08:43Were you thinking of buying anything, sir?
08:45Well, I perhaps...
08:46Not exactly.
08:47I've got a sort of offer to make.
08:49You haven't got another stool, have you?
08:51A bit short, Brett.
08:52Take this one.
08:54I haven't got another.
08:55It's quite a treat for me to stand.
08:58This is a pleasant way to get a living.
09:01You can read, can't you?
09:02Oh, I can, sir.
09:03A literary man with a wooden leg.
09:05All print out into him.
09:08And you're a man without a wooden leg.
09:09Yet all prints closed to me.
09:11Indeed, sir.
09:12Education neglected.
09:13Neglected?
09:14Well, there ain't no word for it.
09:15Oh, don't say as if you was to show me a B.
09:17I wouldn't know it stood for Boffin.
09:18But you did mention a little offer, sir.
09:19I'm coming to that.
09:20Look here, I'm retired from business and I want some reading.
09:24But it's too late for me to go shoveling into grammar books and alphabets.
09:27Oh, well, can I help, sir?
09:29Suppose I was to offer a literary man so much an hour to come and read to me.
09:33Say, Tuttons an hour.
09:34What did you say?
09:35You're flattered, sir, I'm sure.
09:36But is this the offer you mentioned?
09:38It is.
09:39Do you like it?
09:40Well, I'm a-considering of it.
09:42I don't want to tie a literary man with a wooden leg down too tight.
09:45An eight-nian arse aren't part us.
09:47Choose your own arse.
09:49Say, five pence a night, six nights a week.
09:51Call it half a crown.
09:53Half a crown?
09:54It ain't much.
09:54I mean, half a crown.
09:56Per week, yeah.
09:57Oh, but the strain upon the intellect.
09:59Were you, er...
09:59You weren't thinking of poetry at all, were you?
10:01Would it come dearer?
10:02Oh, it would come dearer.
10:04When a person comes to grind off poetry night after night,
10:07he should be paid extra for its weakening effect upon the mind.
10:10Well, I wouldn't really think in a poetry, Wig.
10:13What do you think of the terms?
10:15Mr. Boffin, I'll never bargain.
10:16Just what I would have thought of you.
10:17No, sir, I never did aggle and I never will aggle.
10:20I'll meet you at once, sir, free and square.
10:22Free and square, sir, I'll meet you.
10:24Done.
10:25For double the money and poetry thrown in.
10:27Well, all right, done.
10:29You know better what it ought to be than I do, Wig.
10:31Could you begin tonight?
10:32Ah, I see no difficulties, sir.
10:35You are provided with a needful implement, sir.
10:38A book?
10:39Yes, brought him at a sale.
10:40Eight volumes of him.
10:42Red and gold with a purple ribbon in every one to mark a place for your leave off.
10:45Do you know him?
10:46The book's name, sir?
10:48Oh, I thought you might have known that.
10:50His name's Decline and Fall of the Russian Empire.
10:53Ah, Decline and Fall, yes, sir.
10:55Oh, decline and fall!
10:58You know him?
10:59Do I know him?
10:59Of course, I know him.
11:01I have been right through him, sir, not very lately, not slap-bang through him, but I've
11:05known him ever since I was not so high as your sticks, sir.
11:07Good.
11:08Eight o'clock?
11:09That will be convenient, sir.
11:11Well, where I live's called the Bower, Boffin's Bower, up Maiden Lane.
11:14It's what used to be called Harmony Jail.
11:16I shall find it, Mr. Boffin.
11:18You rely off on me.
11:19I shan't have no peace nor patience till you come.
11:22It'll be like a new life for me.
11:24Yeah, shake hands in it again, wig.
11:26That's it.
11:26Good day to you.
11:27And a good day to you, sir.
11:29Good day.
11:31Good day.
11:31Good day.
11:32Oh, beg my pardon.
11:33It's my fault, not looking.
11:34Oh, my fault, Mr. Boffin.
11:37How did it come by my name?
11:39I don't know you.
11:40No, sir, you don't know me.
11:41I'm nobody but a gentleman of Mr. Boffin's wealth.
11:44Ah, sure it's good or bad, is it?
11:46He was pointed out to me the other day.
11:48And what might you want with me?
11:50Not in the law, are you?
11:51No, sir.
11:52No information to give for a reward?
11:54No, sir.
11:55You knocked into me on purpose, didn't you?
11:58Yes.
11:59Why?
12:00Well, if you'll allow me to walk along with you, Mr. Boffin, I will tell you all.
12:03Or perhaps you might turn into this courtyard here.
12:05There's a seat there.
12:06We can talk quietly.
12:14I'm afraid my object is a bold one, Mr. Boffin.
12:17I venture to think, sir, that you may be changing your style of living.
12:22You have inherited a vast fortune and will doubtless have a great deal of business to do in the administration of it.
12:26Come to the point, young man.
12:28How much do you want?
12:30It's not money I'm asking for, Mr. Boffin.
12:32Then what are you asking for?
12:34I want you to try me as your secretary.
12:37As my what?
12:39Your secretary.
12:39You will need a man of business and would I hope find me useful.
12:44As to money, that's not my concern.
12:46I would willingly serve you for a year or two, if need be, before the question need arise between us.
12:51Where do you come from?
12:54From many countries.
12:56Any particular place?
12:57From many places.
12:59Where do you have been?
13:01A student and a traveller.
13:03A general liberty, young man.
13:04What do you do for a living?
13:06Some expectations I had have not come about.
13:10If you will employ me, I may say I am about to begin a new life.
13:14Hmm.
13:14My name is Rokesmith.
13:16I have lodgings in Holloway with a Mr. Wilfer and his family.
13:19Wilfer?
13:20Has his Wilfer a daughter?
13:22He has too.
13:23Called Bella?
13:24My, yes.
13:25Oh, it's very odd.
13:28Very odd.
13:29To tell you the truth, young man, I don't quite know what to say to you.
13:32Well, say nothing.
13:34Allow me to call on you in a few days when you've had time to think about it.
13:36That's fair.
13:37I don't know as I'll ever need a secretary.
13:39However, call in a few days' time if you like.
13:42Thank you, Mr. Boffin.
13:43Perhaps I ought to mention, I have in my employment a literary man with a wooden leg,
13:47as I've no thought to parting from.
13:49Sorry that you should have already found somebody, sir, but doubtless other duties will arise.
13:54They might.
13:55As to my literary man's duties, they're clear.
13:57He declines and falls professionally, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
14:02And now, sir, I wish you good day.
14:03If you find the house ain't known by its new name, a boffin's bower,
14:07ask for old Harman's house in Maiden Lane.
14:10Harmoon or Harman, how do you spell it?
14:12Where's the spelling?
14:13That's your look at.
14:14Harman's is all you could've asked for.
14:21Nicodemus Buffett.
14:22Old Nick Buffett.
14:24We're a secretary.
14:26And a literary man with a wooden leg.
14:28Hehehe.
14:42Good evening, Mr. Venus.
14:51Don't you remember?
14:55Why, yes, of course.
14:57Hospital amputation, wasn't it?
14:58Just so.
14:59Well, how are you?
15:00Sit down by the fire and warm your, er, your other one.
15:03Oh, thank you, Mr. Venus.
15:07My, er, tea is drawing and the muffins are on the ob.
15:11Will you partake?
15:12Oh, thank you.
15:13That is uncommon kind.
15:14You keepin' well?
15:18Fair enough.
15:20Er, you haven't managed to do anything with me yet, have you?
15:23No.
15:24Not a thing.
15:27Can't fit you in anywhere.
15:28Not even in a miscellaneous.
15:29I just finished a beauty for a school of art.
15:34One leg bilge and one English and the pickings of eight other people in it.
15:37Well, couldn't I be in the English leg?
15:39No.
15:40I've got another one here, too, and you don't fit that either.
15:43Here, see.
15:48Now, this is you, see.
15:51Well, it's, er, too short and sort of twisted.
15:56Speaking quite candidly, I wish I'd never bought you off the hospital, Porter.
16:01Well, how much did you give for me?
16:02I don't know.
16:03You were one of a various lot.
16:04Well, what did you take for me?
16:06Well, now, I'm not prepared on the spur of the moment to answer that.
16:09Well, now, come, Mr. Venus.
16:11According to your own account, I'm not worth much.
16:12You haven't been so far, I grant you, but you might come invaluable yet as a monstrosity.
16:18Mr. Venus, I think you know me, and I think you know that I never do bargain.
16:21What are you driving at?
16:22Well, I have a prospect of getting on in life, of elevating myself.
16:25By my own exertions.
16:27I'm telling you frankly, I shouldn't like, I should not like, Mr. Venus, to be dispersed, as it were.
16:31Pardon me here, pardon me there.
16:33I should wish to collect myself like a, like a genteel person.
16:37It's just a prospect of prisoners, if you haven't actually got the money on you to pay.
16:42Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
16:45I'll hold you over.
16:46Now, that's a promise.
16:48Oh, I do take that kind.
16:51Oh, you seem very low tonight, Mr. Venus.
16:53Business bad?
16:54Never better.
16:55Is your hand out at all?
16:56Never so well in.
16:58I'm not only first in the trade, I'm the trade, as you might say.
17:01You may go up to the West End, if you like, and buy a skeleton and pay a fancy price for it.
17:05But be my putting together.
17:07No.
17:07If you were to be brought in here now, loose in a bag to be articulated, I'd pick out all your smallest bones blindfold and name every one of them, all your vertebrae in the right order.
17:18Well, that ain't a state of things to be low about, Mr. Venus.
17:22No, I know it ain't, but...
17:24Well, you'd be so good as to take and read what's on this card, Mr. Wegg.
17:30Well, Mr. Venus, a preserver of birds and animals.
17:34Go on.
17:35Er, er, articulator of human bones.
17:38That's it.
17:39She don't like it.
17:40Oh, Mr. Wegg, I'm 32 and I'm a bachelor and I'm in love and she objects to the business.
17:48But does she know they'll profit from it?
17:49Oh, she knows.
17:51She don't appreciate the art of it.
17:53I do not wish, she says, in her own handwriting, I do not wish, she says, to regard myself, nor yet be regarded in that bony light.
18:01Oh, well, perhaps you would change her mind.
18:04Not she.
18:05The man works his way up to the top of the tree.
18:08When he gets there, he finds there's no lookout.
18:11It lowers me.
18:12Aye, well.
18:13Here, sir, let me keep you, Mr. Wegg.
18:14I'm no company for anybody.
18:17Yeah, because of that.
18:17It's because I've got an appointment.
18:18It's time I was up at Armand's.
18:20Armand's, eh?
18:20Oh.
18:21They're on to a good thing if you've worked your way in there.
18:24Plenty of money there.
18:26Why, do you know Armand's, then?
18:28Many and many's the time I've been up to Armand's, Mr. Wegg.
18:31The old gentleman used to want to know the value of every single thing that was found in them dustbounds of his.
18:36And many's the bone or feather or whatnot he's brought to me.
18:39Really, now?
18:40Hmm.
18:42The old gentleman was well known round here.
18:44There used to be stories about him having eaten all kinds of property in them mounds of his.
18:50Ah.
18:50Well, what time's your appointment, Mr. Wegg?
18:53I mustn't keep him.
18:53I won't hurt the old chap to wait a little while.
18:56But what sort of treasure is supposed to be buried under them mounds?
19:00Now, old lady, what are we to do?
19:16I'll tell you what I want, Nick.
19:18I want society.
19:20A fashionable society, my dear?
19:22Yes.
19:22Yes.
19:23It's no good me being kept here like a waxwork, is it, now?
19:26Ha, ha, ha, ha.
19:27People have to pay to see waxwork, my dear.
19:30But our neighbours are welcome to see you for nothing.
19:32Ah, but it don't answer, Nick.
19:34We've come into a fortune and we must do what's right by our fortune.
19:37We must act up to it.
19:38I suppose so.
19:40What do you want, old lady?
19:41I say a good house in a good neighbourhood, good things about us and good society.
19:46I say live like our means without extravagance and be happy.
19:50Well, I say be happy too, my dear.
19:52Lord, I must say when I think of me in a light yellow chariot and pair with silver boxes to the wheels.
19:58Oh, you were thinking of that, was you, my dear?
20:00Yes, with a footman up behind and a coachman in front, all covered with upholstery and green and white
20:06and a pair of bay horses tossing their heads and you and me leaning back inside as grand as nice things.
20:11Oh, my.
20:14And what are your views, me old lady, on the subject of the bower?
20:17Shut it up. Don't part with it. Put somebody in it to look after it.
20:20Any other views?
20:21Nick, I keep on thinking about that disappointed girl who thought she was going to get both husband and riches.
20:27Don't you think we might do something for her? Have her to live with us or something?
20:31What a thinking steam engine the old lady is. I'd never have thought of it.
20:35And, Nick, there's something else. You remember poor little John Armand that time before he went to school?
20:41I'll never forget the look in his eyes when he said goodbye.
20:44And clung to you and kissed you and wouldn't let you go.
20:46Now that his money's come to us, I should like to find some little orphan boy and adopt him
20:51and give him John's name and bring him up. Somehow it would make me feel easier.
20:55Now, say it's only a whim.
20:57I don't say so.
20:58No, but suppose you did.
20:59I'd be a beast if I did.
21:01Oh, Nicky, dear, kind Nicky, what a generous man you are.
21:05Think of a child in the house.
21:07What a pleasant thought that a child will be made happier and better
21:10because of that poor, sad child that day.
21:13And isn't it pleasant to know that the good will be done with the poor, sad child's money?
21:17And isn't it pleasant to know that you're Mrs. Boffin?
21:20And that's been a pleasant thing to know for many and many a long year.
21:24My dear, dear old boy.
21:26How'd you sit about getting this little orphan, my dear?
21:29An advertisement in the papers, do you think?
21:31No, we'd have hundreds swarming all over the street if we was to give this address.
21:35What about a clergyman, Mr. Milby?
21:37Oh, that's a better idea.
21:39We'll think it all out and go and see him tomorrow.
21:42What age boy had you in mind, my love?
21:44Oh, a little boy younger than John was.
21:47So we can watch him grow and enjoy every minute of him.
21:50And Mr. Milby may know of some poor girl who's had a part with her baby.
21:54It was always a sadness to me, Nick, that we never had children.
21:57I know, my dear, I know.
21:59Now, when can we go and see this poor girl, Wilfer? Now?
22:01Er, not just now. I've got a man coming with a wooden leg.
22:05I've hired the man to come and read to me, old lady.
22:08There's silliness for you.
22:09Will he teach you to read, too?
22:11I don't know about that. He might.
22:13But I've got another idea. I might be going to hire a secretary.
22:16A secretary, Nicky? Whatever for?
22:17Well, where's a lot of money, is a lot of business.
22:19Listen, I ain't no hand at writing, my dear.
22:21I met somebody who might do.
22:23Nicky, it's somebody you want to do good to. I know you.
22:27No, it ain't that.
22:28He don't mind working for nothing at first.
22:32It's a run-go, but there's something about that chap I seem to know, but can't quite make out.
22:38What's his name?
22:39Rokesmith.
22:40Do we ever know anybody of that name?
22:42Not that I know of.
22:43That'll be the literary man with the wooden leg.
22:46And what's his name?
22:48Wig.
22:48Silas Wig.
22:51Wish we could have gone round to see Bella Wilford tonight, Nick.
22:54How long will Mr. Wig stay?
22:55Well, I don't rightly know, my dear.
22:58But you shall go and see Bella Wilford.
23:00First in tomorrow morning.
23:02Oh, there's a coach stopper.
23:22Two people getting up.
23:24Why, ma, they're coming here.
23:26Where can it be?
23:28Mr. and Mrs. Boffin are coming up the park.
23:30It's Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, ma.
23:43Pray be seated.
23:49You may leave us.
23:56To what pray am I indebted for this honour?
23:58To make it short, ma'am, perhaps you may be acquainted with the names of Mrs. Boffin and me as having come into a certain property.
24:05I have heard, sir, of such being the case.
24:07And I dare say, ma'am, that you're not very much inclined to take kindly to us.
24:10Pardon me to be unjust to Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, to inflict upon them a calamity which was doubtless a suspicion.
24:18Well, that's fairly meant, I'm sure.
24:21Me and Mrs. Boffin, ma'am, are playing people.
24:23We make this call to say we'll be glad to have the honour and pleasure of your daughter's acquaintance.
24:27Oh, no, let's be comfortable.
24:29We want to cheer her up.
24:30Let her feel she's as much at home in our house as she is in this.
24:33Pardon me, I have two daughters.
24:35Which is to be favoured?
24:36Why, Miss Bella, of course.
24:38What do you say?
24:39My daughter Bella shall speak for herself.
24:43Send Miss Bella to me.
24:44I regret my husband is not here, or he would have had the pleasure of participating in your reception under our humble roof.
24:52Very pleasant premises.
24:54Pardon me, Mr. Boffin.
24:56It is the abode of conscience, though independent, of poverty.
25:00My daughter Bella, Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, my dear, have been so good as to invite you to their house.
25:05Well, I'm much obliged to Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, but I have no inclination to go out at all.
25:08You must control your feelings, Bella.
25:10Yes, my dear, you do what your ma says and control your feelings.
25:14Because we'll be so glad to have you.
25:16And besides, you're much too pretty to keep yourself shut in.
25:19Well, it's very kind of you, Mr. Boffin, but I...
25:21And we're going to adopt a dear little boy and call him John.
25:24And move into a nice house.
25:26We're going to set up a nice carriage and we'll go everywhere and see everything.
25:30And you mustn't feel a dislike for us, my dear.
25:33Because we couldn't help it, you know.
25:36My youngest daughter Lavinia, Mrs. Boffin.
25:39Mr. George Sampson, a friend of the family.
25:41Pleased to meet you, young missus, sir.
25:43If you'd like to bring your sister with us when you come to stay with us, we should be glad, of course.
25:46The better you please yourself, Miss Bella, the better you'll please us.
25:50My consent is of no consequence at all, I suppose.
25:53Lavinia, have the goodness to be seen and not heard.
25:55I won't.
25:56I'm not a child to be taken notice of by strangers.
25:58You are a child.
25:59I'm not.
25:59And I won't be taken notice of bringing your sister in deep.
26:02Lavinia, I will not allow you to utter in my presence the absurd suspicion that Mr. and Mrs. Boffin would enter these doors in a patronising errand.
26:10Or if they did, they would be permitted to stay here while your mother yet had strength to quest them to depart.
26:17Never mind me and Mrs. Boffin, ma'am.
26:19We don't care.
26:20Pardon me, Mr. Boffin.
26:21I care.
26:23I require my audacious child to remember that her sister Bella is much sought after.
26:28And that when her sister Bella accepts an invitation, she considers herself to be conferring quite as much honour as she receives.
26:35I can speak for myself, you know, ma.
26:37You needn't bring me in.
26:38And it's all very well aiming at others through convenient meat.
26:42I should like to know what George thinks about it.
26:45I'm sure that Mr. Stamson is a friend of the family, a frequenter of this house.
26:49It's far too well-bred to interpose on such an invitation.
26:53Any friend of Miss Bella's would be most welcome to come to our house.
26:56Well, I'm much obliged to you, but I'm always engaged.
26:59Day and night.
27:00Well, my dear.
27:01It's most kind of you, Mrs. Boffin.
27:04I shall be very happy to come.
27:06Oh, where's my noble girl?
27:07Come, my dear.
27:08Miss Bella's agreed, and it's time we win.
27:11By the way, ma'am, I believe you have a lodger.
27:14It is true, a gentleman occupies our first floor.
27:17I think I may call him our mutual friend.
27:19What sort of a fellow is our mutual friend?
27:21Do you like him?
27:22Mr. Brokesmith is very quiet, very punctual, and an extremely eligible inmate.
27:27You give a good account of him.
27:28I'm not particularly well acquainted with him.
27:30In fact, I've only seen him once.
27:31Is he at home?
27:32He's standing by the gate.
27:34Waiting for me, perhaps.
27:35Or we come in, most likely.
27:36Please, Bella, attend Mr. and Mrs. Boffin to the gate.
27:41Well, I hope Bella's satisfied.
27:44She'll be rich enough now with her boffins, but she won't take me to her boffins, I can
27:48tell her.
27:49If Bella's Mr. Boffin comes any more of his nonsense to me, I only wish him to understand
27:53he does so at his price.
27:54Oh, be quiet, George.
27:56Of their manners, I say nothing.
27:58Of their appearance, I say nothing.
28:00Of their intentions towards Bella, I say nothing.
28:04But the craft, the secrecy, the deep underhand plotting written in Mrs. Boffin's countenance
28:12make me shudder.
28:14Bless you, my dear.
28:16You've made me very happy.
28:18Oh, Mr. Rokesmith.
28:21My dear, this is the gentleman I told you about.
28:24Allow me, Mrs. Boffin.
28:28Goodbye for the present, Miss Bella.
28:30We shall meet again soon.
28:32And by then, I hope we shall have my little John Armand to show you.
28:36Why, whatever's the matter, Mr. Rokesmith, you've gone quite pale.
28:39How can you show that John Armand is dead?
28:44It's only an adopted child.
28:46We're going to take a little orphan boy and call him John Armand.
28:49Oh, you must forgive me.
28:53Just for the moment, the idea of showing this lady a dead man threw me off balance.
28:57I'm so sorry.
28:58Goodbye, Mrs. Boffin.
29:00Goodbye.
29:00Goodbye.
29:01Goodbye, Miss Bella.
29:02Goodbye.
29:06Those are worthy people, Miss Wilfrin.
29:09Oh, do you know them?
29:11I know of them.
29:13Oh, yes.
29:14He said he had only seen you once.
29:17You must have thought it strange that I was affected just now.
29:22Yes.
29:23Why were you?
29:24It was just the thought of anything so horrible as a dead man being associated with anybody
29:30so gay and so beautiful.
29:32I must go in, Mr. Rokesmith.
29:39All right.
29:39In this world.
29:40Good morning.
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