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00:00Sit you down, Mr. Venus. I shall just finish putting these away.
00:12Well, all those Mr. Parkins books.
00:13They are. The old monsters always are bringing up them.
00:16Well, why doesn't he take a moment? Don't you go and read to him there?
00:19Oh, no, I don't go there no more.
00:21No, he has to come here, if you please, at all hours.
00:23No consideration for others.
00:25Well, Mr. Venus, what about our friendly move?
00:27Let us pledge one another in the flowing cup.
00:30What, says the poet, and you needn't, Mr. Venus, be your own black bottle?
00:35For surely I'll be mine, and we'll take a glass with a slice of lemon in it,
00:43to which you are partial, for the sake of old Lang Syne.
00:47That to a friendly move, brother.
00:50Trouble with our friendly move is that it doesn't move. I think I must give up.
00:53No, sir. Charge, Chester, charge. On, Mr. Venus, on.
00:58Never say die.
00:59I do say die. I can't afford to waste my life raking about in cinders and no encouragement to go on.
01:04What were them mounds looking down upon us?
01:06They're too big. A scratch here and a poke there, and what have we found?
01:10Oh, nothing yet, comrade, but what made we find? Anything.
01:12Oh, nothing. I don't like it. I came into this without enough consideration.
01:16Your Mr. Buffen knows his own dust mounds well enough,
01:18and he never shows any signs of expecting to find anything there.
01:21Buffen. I didn't think so ill of him as I suppose he would be capable of us coming as late as this.
01:26Whey! Hello there!
01:28Keep a seat, Mr. Venus. He might not stop.
01:30Whey!
01:30Come here, sir. Come in. Fast as my wig will carry me.
01:34Give me there. I've got a cab full of volumes.
01:37Fetch an old fool.
01:39There we are.
01:41That's it. Put them down, wig.
01:42I've got Caulfield's characters, Kirby's wonderful museum, and the animal register.
01:49Do you know him, wig?
01:50Do I know the animal register? I think I'd find any animal in him so blindfolded.
01:56Hello, sis.
01:57Oh, a friend of mine, sir.
01:58Glad to meet you. You're fond of reading. Wig reads to me.
02:01Oh, thank you very much, sir.
02:02Not at all. Come along, wig. What should it be?
02:04Well, how to turn a penny, the treasures of a dunghill, a daniel dancer.
02:11Hey, give us dawn, sir. He was a goodin' at all, didn't you?
02:14Ah, that's it.
02:15Ah, that's it.
02:16Yeah, give us a gist, wig.
02:21Ah, then.
02:23Oh, avarice and dirt.
02:26Warms dinner by sitting on it, ah.
02:29Dies naked in a sack.
02:31Come to the part where his money was found.
02:34Ah, now, 2,500 pounds found in a dungheap.
02:38Ah, banknotes of gold in an old jacket, carefully tied.
02:42Yeah.
02:42The guineas and half-guineas, stuffed into the crevices of a, of a wall.
02:46Ha, ha, ha, ha.
02:47Bundles in cushions and jugs, and in 19 different holes in the chimblee.
02:51Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
02:52Oh, it's wonderful what's been here at one time or another.
02:55Ha, ha, ha, ha.
02:56Truly wonderful.
02:57Ah, meaning, sir, in the, in the way of money?
02:59Yeah.
03:00Money and papers.
03:02Ah, papers.
03:03Now, shall I read the one about the will that was hid for 50 years?
03:05No.
03:06That'll keep for another time.
03:08I would mind to take a turn about the yard, wig.
03:12I sure want you.
03:14Me and this lantern have taken hundreds.
03:16No, thousands of such turns in our time.
03:19Well, I couldn't allow you to go out there alone, sir.
03:20Not on no account.
03:21I told you, I don't want you, wig.
03:26He must be followed.
03:27He mustn't be allowed to get out of our sight, not for a moment.
03:29Why mustn't he?
03:30Because I think he's gone to look for something I'm already fa...
03:32What have you found?
03:33Well, there's, there's no time today.
03:34Now, come quickly.
03:35Come quickly.
03:36Hey, don't make a sound.
03:41Oh, he knows the place by heart.
03:42You don't need to turn his lantern on.
03:43Confound him.
03:44Oh, he's warm.
03:45Now, that's his mound.
04:02Here, we'd better get back in.
04:03Quick.
04:04Yeah, look out.
04:05Oh, good.
04:06Here.
04:07Here.
04:08He'll be in a minute.
04:09Pull yourself together.
04:10Get up there.
04:11We'll be back.
04:12Oh, my.
04:13I don't seem to be quite myself.
04:14Well, come to your senses.
04:15You don't want him asking questions, do you?
04:16Oh, good guy.
04:17Oh, hello, Wig.
04:18What's the matter with you?
04:19Oh, you're as pale as a candle.
04:20Oh, I've just had a bit of a turn, sir.
04:21Here, well, I'll just say, phyzzick yourself to morrow.
04:22Yeah, yes.
04:23By the way, them manns are going to be cartered away soon.
04:25Why have you parted with them, sir?
04:26Yep, they're going.
04:27Mine's as good as gone already.
04:28What do you mean, that little one with the polo top, sir?
04:29Yeah, it's just a penny in its time.
04:30It'll begin to be carted off tomorrow.
04:31It was suppose you'd been out to take your leave of an old friend, haven't you?
04:33Yeah.
04:34I suppose you've been out to take your leave of an old friend have.
04:35Oh, come on.
04:36are going to be carted away soon have you parted with them sir yep they're going mine's as good
04:41as gone already you mean that little one with the polar top sir yeah it's first a penny in its time
04:47it'll begin to be carted off tomorrow i suppose you've been out to take your leave of an old
04:50friend don't you sir why the devil put that in your head oh nothing sir nothing no no no offense
04:54sir oh you hope not well good night to you well let myself out yeah we must have let him go he's
05:02got that bottle on him somewhere we must have it well you wouldn't take it by force would you
05:06wouldn't i you so afraid of one old man is hopeless to let him go you coward i'm so afraid of you as
05:11not to let you no you weren't him so he's gonna have them mounds cleared away didn't you oh no
05:17you so not got the guts to stand up for your own rights i have oh no let me go you were right
05:21rather i was wrong ah i'm very glad to hear you say so but you haven't told me yet just what it was
05:26you found i wanted to give you a surprise what was it a cash box and what was it all in good time
05:33brother all in good time oh money or papers a paper the box was locked tied and sealed on the outside
05:42a parchment label with the words my will john armand temporarily deposited here but i opened the box
05:47that coming to me oh well now all in good time brother all in good time it was short properly executed
05:53a witness boffin still keeps his will but all the rest goes to the crown what about the date oh hear
05:57me out brother hear me out well i paid a sitting to look at the other wheel never mind about your
06:02sixpence of it brother that will's dated months before this one let's have a look at this box and
06:07this will well i don't like to open it now he might come back sounds quiet enough
06:13there now brother yeah have i carried up my labor of love to your complete satisfaction and are you
06:21surprised what was i correct you about count of it partner partner you were now the question is who's
06:29going to take care of this paper oh i am oh no you're wrong partner that's a mistake i am i don't want
06:35any disputes with you partner because it's hardly possible for a man to feel more amiable to another
06:41than i do to you at this moment but i'd remind you partner that i know how to practice my art
06:49and i don't happen to need any more trophies just now my shop's fairly crammed but i could do with
06:55another pair of arms well what's your art got to do with this will partner you've kept this paper
07:00from me once you never shall do so again i offer you the box and the label to take care of but i'll
07:05take care of this oh well you're welcome to it partner for what is a life without swastfulness now the
07:11next question is what's the mode of procedure i think you will find me a man of ideas now boffin
07:16will pay a handsome sum for our silence and we'll go halves halves oh hear me out partner halves as i
07:22say now and you see if he comes right round at night sniffing around we shall he shall be set upon him
07:30by his betters and we shall be keeping him in a state of abject moral slavery and bondage until such
07:35times as we shall think fit to allow him to purchase his freedom for the price of half his
07:39possessions half nay two-thirds or five-fourths there were all such questions of this i'm open
07:45to correct shy on well you may have a look at this whenever you care to but meantime i'll take care
07:50of it and now i'll bid you good night oh may a fellow man ask a question well what is it now when we
07:55first spoke of this happy relationship you were floating your powerful mind in tea but you were very low
08:00mr venus sir how's your state of mind now is things looking up no she does not wish to be
08:05regarded in that particular light that's all is to be said oh you didn't mention her name i think
08:10pleasant riderhood
08:14i saw her first down by the waterside that very night that her father saw that john armand whose
08:19fortune we're now discussing brought in by his partner hexam oh well such as coincided yes ever since
08:26then i've never been the same man my very bones have been rendered flabby by it if they was to be
08:32brought to me now loose to sort i'd hardly have the face to call them mine oh well perhaps your fortunes
08:37will change they've got mr boffin you sure wouldn't like me to take care of that will quite sure good night
08:45yeah mistrustful cur friendly move indeed but i'll get even with him him and mr boffin i will
08:55he'll have to give me that bottle or i'll screw every penny out of him that'll hurt him
09:01time was when he wouldn't have minded being poor again but not now
09:04he's grown too fond of money for that far too fond of money
09:08oh are you feeling better now mother have i been ill you came over paint like
09:23oh it is the numbness it comes over me at times rest a bit my head's a bit light and my feet feel a bit
09:30heavy but they they'll come natural in a minute ask her who belongs to her there's plenty belongs to
09:36me don't you be a feared for me are they near you're not fit to travel mother where are you going
09:42i'm going to london i've got good friends in london i want for nothing she oughtn't to be let go
09:49that the lord's love don't meddle with me i'm well enough now to get on my way thank you for looking
09:57after me my dears but i must go you ought to see the parish doctor no no
10:12so
10:42Now, missus, where do you come wrong?
10:55Where is this place?
10:57Who are you?
10:58On the lock.
10:59The lock?
11:00On the lockkeeper.
11:02This way I'm the deputy lock with the other men's in the hospital.
11:05Where are you going?
11:06What's your parish?
11:07Parish?
11:08I'll not have anything to do with them.
11:09I've got friends.
11:13I should recommend you looking them up.
11:15You got any money?
11:16Just a morsel of money, sir.
11:18You want to keep it?
11:19Yes, sir, I do.
11:20Well, if you go on there, the parish will have it off you.
11:22You can take your Alfred David.
11:24Oh, I'm not going near them.
11:26Thank you kindly for the warning, mister.
11:28Just let me sit a minute and I'll be ready to go.
11:33I don't have a so old to let you go on.
11:36Suppose you was too keen again on that new road.
11:38And they say as I ought to have handed you over safe to the parish.
11:43Oh, master.
11:43Master.
11:45I fought the parish and fled from it all my life.
11:49And I want to die free of it.
11:52If I was to let you go on,
11:54instead of handing you over safe to the parish,
11:56says I'll,
11:58might it be your own free wish
12:00to leave that near most of the money behind you?
12:03Oh, take it, master.
12:04Take it and welcomed and thankful.
12:11I'm a honest man.
12:12This gets me livid by the sweat of me brow.
12:15I won't stand in your way.
12:17Yes, you can go where you like.
12:19Come on.
12:39Come on, lean against me.
12:41Is that better?
12:43Oh, how am I not dead?
12:48Your voice is so low and broken I can hardly hear you.
12:51Can you hear me?
12:53Yes.
12:54How dare I lift you?
12:55Not yet.
12:57Paper.
12:58Letter.
13:00In my dress.
13:02This letter?
13:04Yes.
13:05Well, am I to open it and read it?
13:07Yes, you can.
13:07But I know this name, Mr. Boffin.
13:12I've heard it often.
13:14Will you send letter, my dear?
13:18To them?
13:19Yes.
13:20You won't give it to anyone but them.
13:23Well, not to anyone.
13:25As you grow old in time
13:27and come to your dying hour,
13:32you'll not give it to anyone but them.
13:36Never to the parish.
13:39Never, most solemnly.
13:42No, no, let the parish touch me.
13:45No, yet so much as look at me.
13:48No, no, no, no, no.
13:49I promise faithfully.
13:52I must be so disfigured.
13:56Are you afraid to kiss me?
14:00Now, now, lift me, my love.
14:09No, no, no, you rest quietly.
14:11Then I'll fetch someone to take you to my lodging.
14:13Stay quiet.
14:14What is to happen now?
14:25I've never seen any money in this house
14:27except my annuity, that I'll swear.
14:28You needn't take the trouble of swearing, my dear.
14:30You haven't done so badly.
14:31We've managed to get credit on it
14:32and live fairly well after now.
14:34But what is to happen next?
14:35Smash is to happen next.
14:37Is that all you have to say?
14:38Listen to me, Sir Fleury.
14:39I have given a Jew a bill of sale on this furniture.
14:41He could take it a day if he wished.
14:42He probably would have done
14:43had not Fledgby stayed him.
14:44What has Fledgby to do with it?
14:46Well, he knows him.
14:46He cautioned me against him.
14:48At any rate, he takes the credit
14:49for having persuaded him to stay his hand.
14:50Do you believe Fledgby?
14:51Ah, I never believe anybody, my dear.
14:54If only we could have pushed that book off
14:57onto Georgiana, but still that spilled book.
15:00If we could borrow the money.
15:01Sure, big borrow or steal money is all one to us.
15:04Could we weather this if we did?
15:05We might, yes.
15:06Who are the richest people we know?
15:09The Boffins.
15:09Yes, I've often thought of them.
15:11Still, that infernal secretary
15:13always comes between them and people of merit.
15:15We have noticed lately, Alfred,
15:17that the old man is becoming very suspicious.
15:19Yes, Sir Fleury now?
15:22Suppose my conscience should oblige me
15:24to tell Mr. Boffin
15:26that his paid secretary
15:28is making overtures to his precious want.
15:30Ah, I like that, Sir Fleury.
15:33And suppose Mr. Boffin
15:34should therefore discharge this treacherous secretary?
15:37Go on, Saffronia, I like this more and more.
15:39Do you think it impossible
15:40that you might replace the secretary?
15:41We might get rid of the girl, too.
15:43No, no, they'd never part with her.
15:44No?
15:45Leave it to me, Alfred.
15:46I will speak to Mr. Boffin.
15:47The sooner the better, my dear.
15:49Oh, here's Fledgby.
15:50I must disappear.
15:51Now, my dear,
15:51do what you can with him, won't you?
15:53He adnows you.
15:54Get him to use his influence with the Jew.
15:56Ria's the name
15:57of Pubsy and Co.
15:59Oh, yes.
16:03Ah, dear Mr. Fledgby,
16:05delighted to see you.
16:06Do sit down, won't you?
16:08Alfred's not in at the moment, I'm afraid.
16:12I know that he is rather worried
16:14about his affairs at the moment
16:15because, well, he told me
16:17how much you'd helped him.
16:18Oh, did he?
16:18I thought he might be rather reserved
16:20on that subject.
16:20Well, not to me, Mr. Fledgby.
16:22He would be furious with me
16:24for asking you this
16:25without his knowledge or consent,
16:26but do you think
16:28you could ask Mr. Ria
16:29for just a little more indulgence?
16:31I only wish it rested
16:32with myself, Mrs. Lammel,
16:34but this Ria is a nasty one.
16:36Upon my soul and body, he is.
16:38Not if you were to speak to him,
16:39Mr. Fledgby.
16:40What is there you cannot do,
16:41if you will?
16:42You're very kind to say so.
16:44I don't mind trying him, of course,
16:45but I can't answer
16:46for the consequences.
16:47I know you well enough
16:48to take heart.
16:49Indeed, you are so much
16:51Alfred's friend
16:51that I don't think
16:53he would mind my telling you
16:54that he has great hopes
16:55of certain prospects
16:56which would entirely
16:57end our present troubles.
16:58What's that?
16:59You who study the human heart,
17:01Mr. Fledgby,
17:02and who know the world,
17:03you must realise
17:04how distressing it would be
17:05to lose credit and position
17:06when an easement of the situation
17:08for a very short time
17:09would save all.
17:10You mean that if Lammel got time,
17:12he wouldn't burst up
17:13if he was a money market expression?
17:14Indeed, truly.
17:15Well, then,
17:16that makes all the difference.
17:18I shall make a point
17:19of seeing Ria at once.
17:21Blessings on you,
17:22dearest Mr. Fledgby.
17:23Not at all.
17:24The hand of a lovely
17:26and superior-minded female
17:27is the repayment
17:29of a...
17:29Noble action.
17:30Well, it wasn't
17:31what I was going to say,
17:32but you're very kind
17:33to say so.
17:35May I imprint
17:35a one upon it?
17:40Goodbye.
17:44I may count on you,
17:45dear Mr. Fledgby?
17:46You may,
17:47dear Mrs. Lammel.
17:49You may.
17:50Well, Mr. Venus,
17:54this is a pretty story
17:55you've told me.
17:56Well, I opened this business
17:56to you, sir,
17:57relying upon your honour
17:58not to do anything in it
17:59nor to mention my name
18:00in it without my consent.
18:01Well, it sounds fair enough.
18:03My heart was never in it,
18:04Mr. Boffin.
18:05I deeply regret
18:06having deserted
18:06the paths of science
18:07to follow the paths
18:08of, er,
18:09wiggery.
18:10Quite so, Venus.
18:11I think you should know, sir,
18:12that after we'd seen you
18:12dig up that black bottle,
18:14now Silas Wigg
18:14means to have that bottle
18:16out of you
18:16at his own price.
18:17Now, whether it's worth
18:18your while
18:19to buy his silence
18:20at any price,
18:21that I leave
18:22to your own judgement, sir.
18:23Thank you, Venus.
18:25What about yourself?
18:26It was to have been
18:27share and share alike,
18:28I suppose.
18:29Well, it was to have been
18:30after, sir, yes.
18:30Well, now he'll have it all.
18:32Don't you think
18:33now you might pretend
18:33still to be in it
18:34until Wigg was paid
18:35and then ease your mind
18:37by handing over to me
18:38what you made believe
18:39to pocket?
18:39No, sir, I do not.
18:41And I might have lived
18:42if I'm to go
18:42buying fellas up
18:43out of the little I've got.
18:45I suppose there's no doubt
18:46about the genuineness
18:48of this willy's phone.
18:48No, not ever.
18:50But where might
18:50that will be now?
18:51In my possession, sir.
18:52Venus, for a liberal
18:53sum of money
18:54would you throw it
18:54in the far?
18:55No, sir, I would not.
18:56Nor pass it over to me?
18:58Oh, well, that'd come
18:59to the same thing,
18:59wouldn't it, sir?
19:00No, sir.
19:02Yes, we're coming now.
19:03Get out of sight.
19:04Get behind that alligator,
19:05Mr. Hoffman.
19:07That's right.
19:08Before I can still see you.
19:10Here.
19:13Oh, well, partner.
19:15How's yourself?
19:16Oh, uh, not, uh,
19:17nothing much to boast of.
19:18Oh, I'm sorry
19:19you're not picking up faster.
19:21How's our stock in trade?
19:22Well, would you, uh,
19:23care to have a look at it?
19:25Oh, if you please, partner.
19:26Enjoy it with yourself.
19:28Yeah.
19:29There's, uh,
19:31nothing fresh, I suppose.
19:32Oh, yes, there is,
19:33that foxy old grasper.
19:35What, uh,
19:36Mr. Buffen, do you mean?
19:37Mr. Big Blone.
19:38What's he mean,
19:38sending an half-wit boy
19:39round to dig up
19:40them mouths
19:40morning, noon and midnight?
19:42So the man has
19:42entitled to his money,
19:43mind you've got
19:44in a wink of sleep.
19:45Things has got to come
19:46to an end, Mr. Venus.
19:47I can't contain my sort
19:48no longer.
19:49It was your own idea,
19:50Mr. Wegg,
19:50that he should not
19:51be exploded upon
19:52until after them
19:52dust mounts was
19:53cleared away.
19:54And it was likewise
19:54my idea that
19:55if he came sniffing
19:56around,
19:57he should be threatened.
19:58And I consider
19:58putting one of his
19:59manuals in my yard
20:00is sniffing around.
20:02I'm mean to put
20:02his nose to the
20:03grindstone, Mr. Venus.
20:04I'm mean to be
20:05paid very high,
20:06I can tell you.
20:07Oh, you speak
20:07quite revengefully,
20:08Mr. Wegg.
20:09I shall be having
20:10a word to do
20:11to say about
20:11my share very shortly.
20:13Yes, well,
20:13my time is yours, sir,
20:14but I do wish
20:14it to be fully understood
20:15that I shall not
20:16neglect putting
20:17Boffin's nose
20:18to the grindstone
20:19and holding it
20:20there with his hands
20:21till the sparks
20:22flies out in showers.
20:24Grr!
20:25Well, I wish you
20:26a very good night,
20:26Mr. Venus.
20:31Here,
20:31mind that alligator,
20:32Mr. Boffin,
20:33oh.
20:33There's a treacherous
20:34fellow for you.
20:35Look here, Venus,
20:36I know how you feel
20:37and I appreciate it,
20:38but give me your word
20:39that you won't take
20:40any steps with Wegg
20:41without my knowledge,
20:42just as I've given
20:43you my word
20:43that I won't
20:44without yours.
20:45All right done,
20:46Mr. Boffin.
20:46Thank you, Venus,
20:47thank you.
20:48Now I must be going.
20:50Good night,
20:51dear.
20:51Good night, sir.
20:57Mr. Boffin.
20:59May your pardon, ma'am?
21:00It's Mrs. Lammel.
21:02May I have a word
21:03with you?
21:03Why, yes, ma'am.
21:04You must think
21:05this very strange.
21:06Are you in trouble, ma'am?
21:08Not in trouble,
21:09exactly, Mr. Boffin,
21:09but distressed.
21:11And on your account,
21:12Mr. Boffin?
21:12My account?
21:13It was Alfred
21:14who sent me to you.
21:16Really, I don't know
21:17how to begin
21:17on such a delicate matter.
21:18I wonder,
21:19would you mind
21:20taking a turn
21:20in the carriage with me?
21:21Oh, no, no.
21:22Too, ma'am.
21:25So.
21:28I cannot persuade you
21:30to dress a doll
21:30for me, Miss Wren.
21:32No.
21:33If you want one,
21:33go and get one in a shop.
21:35My poor godchild
21:36down in Hertfordshire.
21:37Some bad shame,
21:38I think.
21:38Is to derive
21:39no benefit
21:39from my acquaintance
21:40with the court dressmaker.
21:42The court dressmaker
21:43knows your tricks
21:43and your manners
21:44and you can tell us
21:45how by post
21:45with my compliments.
21:48Mr. Doll's
21:49in trouble again.
21:51He's a fab,
21:52wicked,
21:52disgraceful boy.
21:55Paid five shillings
21:56fine for you,
21:57indeed.
21:58How many hours
21:59do you suppose
21:59it cost me
22:00to earn five shillings,
22:01you impamous boy?
22:02Don't cry like that
22:05or I throw a doll at you.
22:06No, no.
22:07I can't help me.
22:09Oh, I can't bear
22:10to look at you.
22:11Go upstairs
22:12and get my bonnet and shawl.
22:14Make yourself useful,
22:15you bad boy.
22:18Yeah, I need to breathe.
22:22I'm sorry, Miss Jenny.
22:24Let me tell you
22:25once and for all
22:25that it's no use
22:27you're paying visits to me.
22:29You wouldn't get
22:30what you want.
22:31Now, not if you brought
22:32a pair of pincers
22:33to tear it out.
22:35Are you so hard-hearted
22:36on the subject
22:37of a doll's dress
22:38for my godchild?
22:40I am so hard-hearted.
22:42Not on the subject
22:43of a dress,
22:44but an address.
22:46So you may as well
22:47give up.
22:51Oh, get back
22:51to your corner.
22:52I don't want
22:53your help.
22:54Well, since you
22:55are so hard-hearted,
22:56there's nothing
22:56for me to do
22:57but to go.
22:58That's about it.
22:59I don't mean
23:00to leave you here
23:01while I'm out.
23:03Your servant, madam.
23:07Now, you prodigal
23:08old son.
23:10You sit there
23:11till I get back.
23:13You dare to stir
23:14out of that corner
23:14for a single instant
23:15while I'm gone.
23:18And I'll have
23:18a reason why.
23:26dress.
23:32Don't fret too much.
23:34She wouldn't
23:35have wanted you to.
23:36She was glad to go.
23:37She wouldn't want
23:37you to be unhappy.
23:39If I took it
23:39into my head
23:40that I might have
23:40turned a little
23:41out of her at times.
23:42She didn't think so.
23:43She went through
23:44with whatever
23:45she had to do.
23:46Oh, Mrs. Higdon.
23:48Dear Mrs. Higdon.
23:49You was a woman
23:50and a mother
23:50and a Magda
23:51and a million,
23:52millions.
23:52Oh, Sloppy,
23:54don't cry.
23:55He'll be better
23:56as well.
23:59You must find
24:00an opportunity
24:00to talk to
24:01Lizzie Hickson.
24:02I suppose you'll
24:03know Mrs. Buffin
24:04asked me to see her
24:04and find out
24:05if she needed help.
24:06Mr. Buffin
24:06asked me to come
24:07for the same purpose.
24:08Yes, but in her
24:09letter to Mrs. Buffin
24:10she stipulated
24:11that her name
24:11and her address
24:12must be kept a secret.
24:14Yes, but why?
24:15I'm anxious to know
24:16whether that retracted
24:17accusation against her
24:18father has left
24:18any stain on her.
24:21Could you,
24:22do you think,
24:22find out?
24:23Oh, I'd be glad
24:24to be of any use,
24:25Mr. Oaksman.
24:27I'll ask her now.
24:30Lizzie,
24:31let's sit in the porch
24:32for a while.
24:34Mrs. Buffin's
24:35asked me to speak to you.
24:36I expect I shall
24:37get it all wrong,
24:37but I won't
24:38if I can help it.
24:39What is it?
24:41I dare say you know
24:42that I am the
24:42wildaway girl
24:43who was to have
24:44married the man
24:45who was found
24:45in the river.
24:46For which my
24:47poor father was blamed.
24:49Who was the
24:50unknown friend
24:51that cleared
24:51my father's name?
24:52I've no idea,
24:53don't you, though?
24:54No, I wish I did.
24:54I'd like to thank him.
24:55He's done a great deal
24:56for me.
24:57Well, then it wasn't
24:58because of that
24:58that you left your
24:59friends and came
25:00to live here.
25:01No.
25:04Lizzie,
25:05I'd like to make
25:06a friend of you.
25:08Do you think
25:08you would?
25:09I'm sure I could.
25:12Then tell me,
25:13what is the matter?
25:14Why do you live
25:16down here so secretly?
25:18Miss Bella,
25:19there is a certain man,
25:21a passionate and angry
25:22man who says he loves me.
25:24He's a friend of my brother's.
25:25And the last time I saw him,
25:27he terrified me more
25:28than I can say.
25:29Did you come here
25:29to escape from him?
25:30In a way, yes.
25:32I keep remembering
25:32the words he spoke.
25:35I hope I may never kill him.
25:37Kill him?
25:39Is this man jealous of someone?
25:41I'm a gentleman.
25:43Far above me
25:44in my way of life.
25:45This gentleman loves you.
25:47Admires you, then.
25:49Did he help you
25:50to come here?
25:51Oh, no.
25:52I wouldn't have him
25:52know where I was
25:53for all the world.
25:54But, Lizzie, dear,
25:55why?
25:57Oh, no.
25:58No, that was
25:59a foolish question of mine.
26:00Don't answer it.
26:02I understand.
26:04Well, Miss Bella,
26:04you know everything now.
26:06That is the reason
26:06that I live
26:07as I do in secret.
26:08Oh, Lizzie,
26:09are you not weary
26:10of bestowing
26:11your affections
26:11on one who's
26:12not worthy of them?
26:14I don't want to believe
26:15nor do I believe
26:15that he's not worthy of it.
26:16What would I gain by that
26:17and how much would I lose?
26:18What would you lose?
26:19Oh, the belief
26:20that if I'd been his equal
26:21and he had loved me
26:21I'd have tried
26:22with all my might
26:22to make him better
26:23and happier
26:24as he would have made me.
26:25And the remembrance
26:26that he's done me
26:27nothing but good
26:28since I have known him.
26:30Oh, Lizzie.
26:31Please understand me.
26:33I've never dreamt
26:34of the possibility
26:35of my ever being his wife.
26:37But I love him so much
26:38and so dearly.
26:41But I'm glad
26:42to suffer something for him
26:43even though he
26:43will never know of it.
26:45Oh, Lizzie,
26:46you shame me.
26:47I'm a mere
26:48impertinent piece of conceit.
26:50No.
26:51No, I'm a shallow,
26:52cold and worldly
26:53little brute.
26:54My heart's not as true
26:56as yours.
26:56You have a heart
26:57well worth winning.
26:58A heart once claimed
27:00that would never change.
27:01I wonder.
27:02Oh, I must be going.
27:05It's getting late.
27:07Only remember, Lizzie,
27:09if ever you should need help.
27:10Yes, I will remember.
27:12And may I come
27:12and see you sometimes?
27:14I should like that.
27:15Goodbye, dear Lizzie.
27:17Goodbye, Miss Bella.
27:18Goodbye, Miss Bella.
27:18You look very serious,
27:34Miss Wilford.
27:34I hope your talk
27:35to Lizzie Hexham
27:36was not distressing.
27:37No, not distressing,
27:38exactly.
27:39Much of what she told me
27:40was in confidence.
27:42But she assured me
27:43that her living down here
27:44had nothing to do
27:45with the charge
27:45brought against her father.
27:46That's about all I can tell you.
27:49Oh, no, there was
27:50one other thing.
27:51What was that?
27:51She was very anxious
27:52to thank the unknown friend
27:54who had cleared
27:54her father's name.
27:56She has no idea
27:57who it was.
27:58No, none.
27:59Do you know?
28:00No, no, I don't.
28:03Mr. Oaksmith,
28:03it's a long time
28:05since we spoke together
28:06naturally.
28:07May I ask you something?
28:09Please do.
28:11It's about Mr. Boffin.
28:13You know, don't you,
28:14that I'm very grateful
28:15to him and that I
28:16have a deep respect
28:17for him?
28:18Of course.
28:19That makes it very difficult
28:20to speak of it.
28:21I mean,
28:22well, Mr. Oaksmith,
28:24does he treat you well?
28:26You see how he treats me.
28:28Yes, I see it
28:29and it makes me
28:30very miserable.
28:31Not only on your account,
28:33but because I cannot bear
28:34to think that fortune
28:35is spoiling, Mr. Boffin.
28:37If you could know
28:38with what delight
28:38I discover that fortune
28:40is not spoiling you,
28:41Miss Wilfer.
28:42Me?
28:42You don't know me
28:44as well as I know myself.
28:46You admit, then,
28:47that Mr. Boffin's manner
28:48to you is not what it was.
28:49It's too plain to be denied,
28:51but I have very strong reasons
28:54for bearing with it.
28:55Yes, I've noticed
28:56that you force yourself
28:57to act a passive part.
28:58Quite right.
28:59I have a reason.
29:01A good one, I hope.
29:03A very good one,
29:05I hope.
29:07Mr. Oaksmith,
29:08I'm sorry.
29:11It hurts me
29:12to see you treated so.
29:14You're very kind.
29:17You must be tired.
29:18We've crammed a lot
29:19into the day
29:19and you were much distressed
29:21at the funeral.
29:22No, I'm not tired,
29:24but something happened to me
29:27when I was talking to Lizzie.
29:29Something good, I hope.
29:31Yes, I hope so.
29:35Oh, you're cold.
29:35Here, take my cloak.
29:36No, no, please.
29:37Now, come.
29:39There.
29:40It's better.
29:43Lizzie was very frank with me.
29:45She couldn't fail to be.
29:47Why not?
29:48Because if you were inclined
29:49to win her confidence,
29:50anybody's confidence,
29:52you'd be sure to do it.
29:56We must go.
29:57It's getting late.
30:07Beautiful stars.
30:13It's a wonderful night.
30:16Wonderful.
30:16Wonderful.
30:38True.
30:38That's good.
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