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A family facing financial hardship and a child's illness. Amidst these challenges, a parliamentary election and personal conflicts with neighbors create further turmoil. Unexpected financial news and a new baby arrive, adding complexity to their lives. Starring: Robert Coleby – John Halifax, Gwen Taylor – Ursula March, Tony Calvin – Phineas Fletcher.
A family facing financial hardship and a child's illness. Amidst these challenges, a parliamentary election and personal conflicts with neighbors create further turmoil. Unexpected financial news and a new baby arrive, adding complexity to their lives. Starring: Robert Coleby – John Halifax, Gwen Taylor – Ursula March, Tony Calvin – Phineas Fletcher.
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00:00Father, Father!
00:29Father!
00:30Father!
00:31Why aren't you in bed, anyway?
00:32We're better!
00:33We're better!
00:34The doctor came today, yes!
00:36Come and see this!
00:38Hello, my love.
00:40How's my Muriel?
00:41Well, Father.
00:42You're late.
00:43Yes, I've been doing that count, so Dr. Jessup called.
00:45This afternoon, and he pronounced us all clear of scarlet fever.
00:48Oh, thank God it's over.
00:50Now, we must see about a holiday for you.
00:51Nonsense.
00:52I'm perfectly well.
00:53Dr. Jessup said I looked younger than ever.
00:56Do I look 30, Phineas, the mother of three?
00:58A most graceful settee.
01:00Love, for the children's sake, see Phineas, she is yielding now.
01:05What do you say, all of you, to three months at Rose Cottage?
01:07Oh, John!
01:08Father!
01:09Did you hear that, Edwin Guy?
01:11Three whole months.
01:13I shall fish and I shall ride horses.
01:14And I'll look after the ducks and watch the fishing and winnowing.
01:15And Muriel?
01:16What'll Muriel do at Rose Cottage?
01:17I shall sit all day and hear the birds sing.
01:18So you shall, my blessing.
01:19Now, come along, boys.
01:20It really is time for bed.
01:21Oh, what about Muriel?
01:22Well, she's older than you.
01:23And she didn't get old, you know that.
01:24Good night, Uncle Phineas.
01:25Good night, boys.
01:26John, how can we afford it?
01:27Well, you just have to do without one or two things.
01:28I'd give up anything for the children.
01:29Oh, I wish we always lived in the country.
01:30Do you?
01:31Well, someday, perhaps.
01:32Are you sorry you had to give up the tanyard?
01:33No, the flour mill's more wholesome.
01:34We will make do.
01:35Oh, a newspaper man called.
01:36I sent him down to the mill.
01:37Yes, I saw him.
01:38He wanted a copy of my speech at the meeting.
01:39Last night?
01:40Yes.
01:41Yes.
01:42Yes.
01:43What did you say, Father?
01:44I was talking about some people called luddites who are breaking machinery.
01:45Why?
01:46I was taking away their work and their wages.
01:47They were in prison, Muriel.
01:48And your father spoke up for them.
01:49You could have heard of tin drop.
01:50And the shouts at the end.
01:51And the shouts at the end.
01:52And the shouts at the end.
01:53And the shouts at the end.
01:54And the shouts at the end.
01:55And the shouts at the end.
01:56And the shouts at the end.
01:57Well, some day, perhaps.
01:58Are you sorry you had to give up the tanyard?
01:59No, the flour mill's more wholesome.
02:00We will make do.
02:01Oh, a newspaper man called.
02:02I sent him down to the mill.
02:03Yes, I saw him.
02:04Not just taking away their work and their wages.
02:05They were in prison, Muriel.
02:07And your father spoke up for them.
02:09You could have heard of tin drop.
02:11And the shouts at the end.
02:13I was so proud.
02:16Of the shouts?
02:17Of the cause of it.
02:21I saw one of those new instruments today.
02:23Piano forte.
02:24I looked at the mechanism.
02:26I wish I could buy one of my things.
02:28She's improving no end.
02:30An organ would be better.
02:32better. You should have seen her face
02:34in the Abbey Church this morning.
02:43Good evening.
02:44Lord Luxmore. Good evening.
02:47It's so long since I had
02:48the happiness of meeting Miss Marge.
02:50I had presumed that Mrs. Halifax
02:51must have forgotten me.
02:53Oh, no, my lord. May I introduce
02:56my husband, Lord Luxmore, John?
02:58Mr. Halifax, I've long wished
03:00to know you. Hello.
03:02To what are we indebted for this visit?
03:05It was prompted, sir, by my daughter.
03:07Lady Caroline, how is she?
03:08Well, I thank you well. She and
03:10Mr. Brithwood have just returned from abroad.
03:13She's entertaining me at my height.
03:15Oh, and her brother, too, of course.
03:16May I introduce my son,
03:18Lord Ravenel? How do you do?
03:21Please do come in.
03:26William has just completed his
03:28education.
03:29That's Saint-Omer, wasn't it, William?
03:32The Catholic College of Saint-Omer.
03:34What does that matter?
03:36A great deal to me.
03:41Do you play the harpsichord?
03:43Yes.
03:44Please don't imagine, Mr. Halifax,
03:45that we are a Catholic family.
03:48Please play.
03:49I very much hope that the next Earl of Luxmore will be able to take the oath.
03:54And if you see, whether or no, we get a Catholic emancipation.
04:00By the by, you uphold the bill.
04:03I do.
04:04Everyone's conscience is free.
04:06I entirely agree.
04:08A wise man esteems all faiths to be worthless.
04:12That, my lord, was the last thing I meant to say.
04:14I regard every man's faith so highly
04:17that no man has the right to interfere with it or to question it.
04:21Exactly.
04:23I've heard, Mr. Halifax, that you're a very fine public speaker.
04:27I have no pretensions, my lord.
04:29I merely now and then try to put plain truths
04:31on what I believe to be such before the people
04:34in such a way as they are able to understand.
04:36That's it, my dear sir.
04:38The people have no more brains than the head of my cane.
04:42His royal highness's gift, Mrs. Halifax.
04:46They must be led or driven like a flock of sheep.
04:49We are their shepherds.
04:52But, Mr. Halifax, we want a middle class.
04:56Or at least an occasional voice from it.
04:58A shepherd's dog?
05:00In the house or out of it, sir?
05:02Well, may you ask, Mr. Halifax.
05:04Certainly in the house.
05:07But, before we go into that delicate subject,
05:10there is another I wish to sound you on.
05:13My steward, Brown, tells me
05:15that you've long wished to take the lease
05:17of my cloth mills at Enderley.
05:20Mr. Halifax,
05:22I'd be most happy to have you as my tenant.
05:26My lord, it is impossible.
05:29May I ask why?
05:30I have no capital.
05:32Surely.
05:32I had the honor of knowing the late Mr. Mark.
05:36Surely your wife's fortune.
05:38His wife's fortune.
05:39No, I will say it, John.
05:40I must.
05:42Of his wife's fortune, Lord Luxmore,
05:44he has not received one farthing.
05:47Mr. Richard Brithwood keeps it back.
05:49John would rather work all day and all night
05:51for me and the children than go to law.
05:53Unprincipled?
05:55Do you agree with him?
05:57I would rather live poor
05:58than that John should wear out his life
06:00squabbling with a contemptible man over money.
06:03Love, perhaps another subject
06:05rather than our own affairs
06:06would be more interesting to Lord Luxmore.
06:08Not at all.
06:11Extraordinary conduct.
06:13Very unwise, Brithwood.
06:15It's a matter we're caught up in the newspapers.
06:18I'll have a word with him.
06:21In the meantime, Mr. Halifax,
06:23we can proceed with the other matter.
06:26I've had some bad news about an hour ago.
06:30The Prime Minister, Mr. Percival,
06:33has been assassinated.
06:34He was shot in the House of Commons.
06:39I've just been reading his speech
06:41against the Emancipation Bill.
06:42You will oppose it no longer.
06:45Requiescat in patria.
06:49There'll be an immediate election.
06:52Mr. Halifax,
06:53you'll be of great use to us in Parliament.
06:55Sure, darling.
06:57I assure you, nothing could be easier.
07:00I could bring you in at once for my family, Barad.
07:02Of which you would like to be held
07:04by some convenient person
07:05until Lord Ravenel comes of age.
07:09Please play some more.
07:13Will you take some?
07:14No, thank you.
07:15Not the Prince of the East.
07:16So mixed up.
07:20As it happens,
07:21my son has not yet decided
07:23between the church,
07:25priesthood,
07:26and politics.
07:27What do you say, Mrs. Halifax?
07:35Can't you persuade him?
07:37We can easily remove
07:38all difficulties as to qualification
07:40and so on.
07:42Wouldn't you like to see your husband
07:44member for Kingswell?
07:47Kingswell?
07:48It was the only landed property
07:50my poor father had.
07:52But there can't be more than
07:53a dozen houses there.
07:54The fewer houses,
07:56the better, madam.
07:57The election would cost me
07:58scarcely any trouble.
08:02Of course,
08:02you'll have to give up to,
08:03I forget what your business is
08:06at present,
08:07and live independent.
08:09He will shine as a politician.
08:12And I shall have happiness
08:13and honor in contributing
08:14to that end.
08:19Mr. Halifax,
08:21will you accept my borough?
08:22Not on any consideration
08:26that your lordship
08:27could offer me.
08:29Yes, sir.
08:30You are most extraordinary.
08:34May I again inquire
08:35your reasons?
08:36One will suffice.
08:39Though I wish to have influence,
08:40of course I do.
08:42The last thing I want
08:43is political influence.
08:44You might possibly escape
08:46that unwelcome possession.
08:49Half the House of Commons
08:50is made up of harmless dummies
08:51who vote as we bid them.
08:54I am not suited for that,
08:55my lord.
08:56Until political conscience
08:58ceases to be a thing of traffic,
09:00I must decline
09:00to being of that number.
09:04Shall we dismiss the subject?
09:05It was pleasure, sir.
09:07Good day to you.
09:09Ralph Noor?
09:14What's your name?
09:16Muriel.
09:17Goodbye, Muriel.
09:18Yes, sir.
09:39Well, Muriel.
09:43Children all in bed?
09:44Of course.
09:46They've been talking
09:46half the day of Rose Cottage.
09:48You've never seen them
09:49so excited.
09:51Are they?
09:53John, you look tired?
09:54Yes.
09:56You've been very busy.
09:57Yes, very busy.
10:00You're still patching.
10:02I have too.
10:04Only the clothes
10:04didn't wear out so fast.
10:07These will do for the country.
10:08My love,
10:12would you be very disappointed
10:13if we did not go
10:16to Rose Cottage after all?
10:18Not go?
10:20I'm afraid it's hard,
10:22but I'm afraid
10:23we can't manage it.
10:25Are you very sorry?
10:27For the children, yes.
10:29What has happened?
10:31Oh, it's quite an ordinary thing.
10:34All the milling I did for Cabin,
10:35well, I heard today
10:37that they can't pay me.
10:39Now the Tsar has broken
10:40the blockade,
10:41corn's coming into the country
10:42from all over.
10:43People are being fed,
10:44but the price of corn
10:46has collapsed.
10:47All the farmers
10:48are going bankrupt.
10:49Well, we will find
10:50other pleasures
10:51for the children.
10:53We have so many pleasures,
10:54all of us,
10:54it will not be hard
10:55to give up this one.
11:00I don't give up anything
11:01in the world
11:01but them and you.
11:04John, are you all right?
11:05Yes.
11:07Only my head aches so.
11:10It's a bit like that.
11:15I'll go.
11:28Who is it?
11:30Can we come down?
11:31No, go back to bed.
11:32But who is it?
11:33Go back to sleep.
11:35What is it?
11:38A letter for you.
11:41Oh, you read it, Phineas.
11:42John.
11:55John.
11:58Mr. John Halifax.
12:00Sir, your wife,
12:01Ursula Halifax,
12:02having some time since
12:03attained the age
12:04fixed by her late father
12:05as her majority,
12:06I, Richard Brithwood,
12:08will, within a month
12:09after date,
12:10pay over to your order
12:11all monies,
12:13principal and interest,
12:14accruing to her,
12:15and hitherto left in my hands
12:16as trustees,
12:17according to the will
12:18of the late Henry March,
12:20Esquire.
12:20Oh, love.
12:32Love.
12:38What's that?
12:40Some weed.
12:42Has Guy caught any fish yet?
12:46Not yet, dear.
12:47There's someone at the cottage
13:04to see you.
13:05Who is it?
13:06Lady Caroline Brithwood.
13:07She's just arrived.
13:08Hello, Mrs. Phineas.
13:16Come and paddle.
13:18Now, take my boots off.
13:22Oh, it is a long time
13:24since I was here.
13:26Wasn't there a Mrs.
13:28Dear Mrs. Todd,
13:29she's dead.
13:31Ah, plus I change.
13:33We have both changed,
13:34cousin Caroline.
13:35Oh, yes.
13:36You have two great boys.
13:38And the girl.
13:39My brother William told me.
13:41Poor little thing.
13:42Muriel is a very great
13:44treasure to us.
13:45Oh, of course.
13:47John has gone to Enderley
13:48on some business.
13:49He will be home soon.
13:50The business of signing
13:51the lease for the cloth mill,
13:52I believe.
13:53That is so.
13:53My father mentioned it.
13:56Sir, you do not regret
13:58having married
13:59John Halifax the Tanner.
14:01Regret?
14:01Oh, I say.
14:03Well, I always said
14:04he was a noble fellow.
14:05So does my father,
14:06the Earl, now.
14:08My brother William
14:08thinks he's a hero.
14:10Why so?
14:11Oh, I suppose
14:12because your husband
14:12speaks for Catholic
14:13emancipation.
14:15And how is cousin Richard?
14:16Is he well?
14:17Oh, seldom sober,
14:19but well enough.
14:22Although settling
14:23your business
14:23with Mr. Halifax
14:24has bought on
14:25a fit of the gout.
14:26Gout?
14:27I believe
14:28all his past dishonesty
14:29is suddenly coming out
14:30of his blood.
14:31The gout and boils.
14:33Though I hope
14:34when he meets
14:35with your husband
14:35all will be smooth
14:36between them.
14:37My husband never
14:38had any ill feeling
14:39towards Mr. Brithwood.
14:40I would not bear him
14:41an undying enmity
14:43if he had.
14:44But it is election time.
14:47Mr. Halifax
14:48owns some cottages
14:49at Kingswell,
14:50does he not?
14:51He transects
14:52some kind of business
14:53there, yes.
14:54I do not understand it.
14:56I only know
14:57that until my father's
14:58nominee is elected,
14:59they wish your husband
15:01to be friendly
15:02with mine.
15:03Ah.
15:04So that is the reason
15:06for your visit.
15:08Oh, my dear.
15:12What would become
15:13of us if we were
15:14all as straightforward
15:15as you,
15:16Mistress Ursula?
15:17I am sorry.
15:19Who is your father's nominee?
15:21A very fine gentleman.
15:23His name is
15:23Mr. Gerard Vermily.
15:25He came back
15:26with us from Naples.
15:27He would like him
15:29if you met him.
15:30And I hope you shall.
15:32Oh, there's John.
15:33Is your husband
15:34much older?
15:35He must be
15:36quite a young man still.
15:38Oh, what it is
15:39to be young.
15:43All rightly settled, John.
15:44Quite settled.
15:45I'm glad.
15:46We have a visitor today.
15:50You did not expect me,
15:51Mr. Halifax.
15:53Am I welcome?
15:54Any welcome
15:55that Mrs. Halifax
15:55has given
15:56is also mine.
15:57And I did expect you.
15:58Oh, how's that?
16:00I met your coach
16:00at the end of the lane
16:01turning into the road.
16:02What was he doing there?
16:04That is exactly
16:04what I inquired
16:05of the coachman.
16:06He said that he had brought
16:07Lady Caroline Brithwood
16:08and added that he felt
16:10he'd waited long enough
16:11and was going back
16:12to his master
16:12at my house.
16:13What?
16:16Oh, I will have him
16:17whipped.
16:19His master.
16:20This is Brithwood's way.
16:22He humiliates me.
16:23Caroline, I'm sure
16:24John will take you home.
16:25Home?
16:26Ursula, I will tell you
16:30what my husband
16:30said to me
16:31before I left.
16:33He said he gave me
16:34no permission
16:34to come here.
16:36I said I would come
16:37nevertheless.
16:38He said,
16:39very well,
16:39you may come and go
16:40when and how you please.
16:43Well, that is the last
16:44and easiest obedience.
16:45Caroline.
16:45Oh, Richard and I
16:46are at my house
16:47what the Prince Regent
16:48or the Princess of Wales
16:49are to the country at large.
16:50We divide our people
16:53between us.
16:54I fascinate.
16:57He bribes.
16:59Well done,
17:00Richard Brithwood.
17:01I shall come home
17:03when and how I please.
17:06Ursula,
17:07I shall be thrown
17:08upon your hospitality
17:08for no more than an hour.
17:10Will you send a letter
17:11for me?
17:12To your husband?
17:13My husband.
17:16What is a husband?
17:18A drunken brute?
17:20A tyrant sanctioned
17:21by the law?
17:23Or should he have sympathy?
17:26Kindness?
17:27Devotion?
17:30Everything that constitutes
17:32happiness.
17:33Everything that makes
17:35life beautiful.
17:37Lady Caroline,
17:38I feel a wife is bound
17:40to obey.
17:41In all things,
17:41not absolutely wrong.
17:42Her husband's will.
17:44I'm glad you're writing
17:45to Mr. Brithwood.
17:47Not to him.
17:49May I ask then,
17:50since I'm descended,
17:51to whom is this letter
17:52to be addressed?
17:55To a friend in Kingswell.
17:57Whom can you know
17:58in Kingswell?
17:58They are but poor villagers
17:59there.
18:00A friend who is there
18:01for the election.
18:03The nominee,
18:04Mr. Gerard Vermeer.
18:06Friends are at all times
18:08dangerous to a lady.
18:09To a lady who hates
18:09her husband.
18:10Especially male friends.
18:15Especially male friends.
18:20Very well, then.
18:23Ursula,
18:24will you take me in
18:25for the night?
18:26Lady Caroline,
18:26you should willingly stay.
18:28In your position,
18:29you should be most careful
18:30to leave the world
18:31and your husband
18:31no single-handled
18:32against you.
18:32Mr. Halifax,
18:34what right have you
18:34to do?
18:35No.
18:36Save that of an honest man
18:37who sees a woman
18:39cruelly wronged
18:40and desperate
18:41with her wrong.
18:43I would thankfully
18:44save you if I could.
18:46Save me?
18:47From what?
18:48From whom?
18:50From Mr. Gerard Vermeer.
18:51Caroline,
18:52is it true?
18:56Is what true?
18:57That you would write
18:58to this man,
18:58that you could meet him.
19:03Yes,
19:03yes,
19:04it is true.
19:06And now it shall be true.
19:08Oh,
19:09I will break these bonds
19:11and lead the life
19:12I was made for.
19:15Yes,
19:15you know.
19:18Gerard adores me.
19:19He is young
19:21and handsome
19:23and he adores me.
19:27He will give me back
19:28my youth.
19:30He will.
19:31He will.
19:32La liberté
19:33c'est plaisir
19:35L'amour
19:38et la jeunesse
19:40Tout doucement
19:43for you.
19:46You are
19:46for me.
19:48Oh,
19:49my dear,
19:49my dear.
19:52Let me go to him.
19:54Go to him.
19:57Lady Caroline,
19:58I cannot let my wife's
19:59king's woman
19:59elope from my house
20:00without trying to prevent it.
20:04Sir,
20:05Mrs. Hallibax,
20:06do you forget
20:07who you are
20:07and who I am?
20:12Daughter of
20:12the Earl of Luxemore.
20:14Were you the king's daughter,
20:15it would make no difference.
20:18I will save you
20:19in spite of yourself
20:20if I can.
20:21Mr. Vermily
20:22is not in Kingsville.
20:24You suppose him
20:25to be there
20:25for the election,
20:26but he has gone away.
20:29Gone away?
20:32The only soul
20:33who loves me
20:34is gone.
20:36I was in Kingsville
20:37this morning.
20:38The story
20:39was being passed around.
20:40I did not pay
20:41much heed to it.
20:42What story?
20:44About you
20:44and the nominee.
20:46Mr. Vermily
20:47must be miles away
20:48by now.
20:49He was afraid,
20:50so I was told
20:51that it would be
20:52on all lips tomorrow
20:53and spoil his election.
20:56To be a member
20:56of Parliament
20:56matters more
20:57to Mr. Vermily
20:58than any other
20:59consideration.
21:02Maybe Caroline,
21:02let me go back
21:04with you to my house.
21:05I shall come with you.
21:08Caroline,
21:09please let us
21:10take you home.
21:17Before I
21:18go back,
21:21may I see your children?
21:25in this election,
21:37in this election
21:40for the borough of Kingswell,
21:42I call upon
21:43Richard Brithwell,
21:44the squire of the Mize
21:45to nominate a candidate.
21:47I nominate,
21:48Gerard Vermily.
21:54I nominate Gerard Vermily.
21:56Who will second
22:05Gerard Vermily,
22:06Esquire?
22:06My steward.
22:08Brown?
22:10I second Gerard Vermily.
22:13Let's give back
22:13the dinner.
22:16Gentlemen and electors,
22:18there being no other
22:19candidate proposed,
22:21I declare
22:22Gerard Vermily...
22:24Pardon my interruption.
22:25May I speak a few words?
22:26By God,
22:27Sir Ralph,
22:27you shan't hear him.
22:28I shall if he has
22:29a right to be heard.
22:31Mr. Halifax,
22:32are you a freeman
22:33of Kingswell?
22:33He doesn't even belong here.
22:34Picked up in the street
22:37in Nortonbury.
22:38He's a beggar,
22:40a thief,
22:40all I know.
22:41You do know very well,
22:42Mr. Brithwell.
22:44I was a working lad
22:45until Abel Fletcher
22:46took me into his tenure.
22:47Sir, I have always understood.
22:49And next to the man
22:50who can boast a noble origin,
22:52I respect the man
22:53who can rise above
22:54an ignoble one.
22:55That is not exactly
22:56my position either.
22:58But to the question,
22:58gentlemen,
22:59I do claim to be
23:00a freeman of this borough.
23:01Upon what grounds?
23:02There is a clause
23:03in the charter
23:04which states
23:04that the daughter
23:05of a freeman
23:06can confer the freedom
23:07on her husband.
23:08My wife's late father,
23:10Mr. Henry March,
23:11was a Burgess of Kingswell.
23:12I claim my rights
23:13and registered this year.
23:14Ask her clerks or other.
23:15Is that right?
23:16What's this, neighbouring?
23:18We are quite satisfied.
23:22My dear sir,
23:23may I request
23:24so useful a vote
23:26and so powerful
23:26an interest as yours
23:28in support of our friend,
23:29Mr. Vermily?
23:30My lord,
23:32please do not
23:33misapprehend me.
23:33It is not my intention
23:35to vote at all.
23:36And if I did,
23:37it certainly could not be
23:38for Mr. Brithwood's nominee.
23:40Sir Ralph,
23:41if Mr. Vermily is elected,
23:43I doubt if he can keep his seat.
23:46I thought,
23:47Mr. Halifax,
23:48that you avoided politics.
23:51Mere politics, I do.
23:53But not justice,
23:55honesty, morality.
23:56I feel Mr. Vermily's election
23:58would be an insult to all three.
24:00Therefore, I oppose it.
24:02Quiet!
24:04Scoundrels!
24:04My dear sir,
24:06it seems, Sir Ralph,
24:08that democracy is rife
24:09in your neighbourhood.
24:11I was not aware
24:12that the people
24:13choose the Member of Parliament.
24:15They do not,
24:16Lord Luxmore.
24:16But we always hear the people.
24:19Now, Mr. Halifax,
24:21be brief.
24:22What do you allege
24:22against Mr. Brithwood's nominee?
24:25First, his qualification.
24:27He has not 300,
24:28nor yet 100 a year.
24:30He is deeply in debt.
24:32Warrants are out against him.
24:34And only as a Member of Parliament
24:35can Mr. Vermily
24:36be safe from arrest.
24:38To this,
24:39an offence which is common enough,
24:40but which the law
24:41cannot wink at,
24:42he has bribed
24:43every one of the 15 electors
24:44of Kingsworth.
24:46Mr. Vermily is not fit
24:47to represent us in Parliament.
24:48Mr. Brithwood,
24:52I presume you were ignorant
24:53of all this.
24:55Herbert,
24:56are you acquainted
24:56with any of this?
24:57Mr. Herbert Oldtower,
24:58he was a member for Colton.
24:59Answer, answer my friends.
25:01Would you hear
25:01Mr. Herbert Oldtower,
25:02whom you know?
25:03Now, Herbert,
25:04are these accusations true?
25:07I'm afraid, sir.
25:11Well, Mr. Brithwood,
25:12what do you propose doing?
25:14By the law
25:15that made me nothing!
25:17I could nominate
25:19Satan himself
25:19if I chose!
25:21My man shall stand!
25:23I think it would be better
25:24for all parties
25:25that Mr. Vermily
25:27should stand.
25:29Sir Ralph,
25:30being a landholder
25:31and also a freeman
25:32of this borough,
25:34I claim the right
25:34to nominate
25:35a second candidate.
25:37Silence, silence, silence.
25:39I'm bound to say
25:40that they're very uncommon.
25:42This is by no means
25:43illegal.
25:44Not illegal!
25:45Not illegal!
25:48I wait to hear
25:49Mr. Halifax's nominee.
25:51One whom I myself
25:52and I'm sure
25:53all my neighbours
25:54will be glad
25:54once more
25:55to see him in Parliament.
25:56I beg to nominate
25:57Mr. Herbert Oldtower.
25:59Hooray!
26:00Well, I was wholly unaware
26:03of Mr. Halifax's intention.
26:05My son must speak for himself.
26:07I am personally unacquainted
26:09with both Lord Luxmore
26:10and Mr. Brithwood,
26:12so I feel no hesitation
26:14in accepting the honour
26:15offered to me.
26:16Hooray!
26:18Gentlemen,
26:19the poll will be held
26:20this afternoon.
26:21Hooray!
26:23Fifteen voters.
26:24Six voted for
26:25Gerard Vermily, Esquire,
26:26and nine for
26:27Herbert Oldtower.
26:29The news was
26:30that Vermily
26:31would fly the country.
26:33He'll have to
26:34to avoid arrest.
26:35Then Caroline is saved.
26:36Indeed, I hope so.
26:38Brithwood was furious.
26:41And Sir Ralph
26:41called John a gentleman,
26:43which made him
26:44very proud.
26:45And you're both
26:46invited to dine
26:47at the manor house.
26:48And Lady Oldtower
26:49will have the honour
26:50of calling on
26:52Mrs. Halifax.
26:53And pray tell me,
26:54Mr. Fletcher,
26:55to which of his mills
26:56has Mr. John Halifax gone?
26:58From one to the other,
27:00I believe.
27:01He has some plans
27:02of bringing
27:02all his people together.
27:03Why do you think so,
27:33Muriel?
27:33Because they'll work
27:34from love.
27:41Old Thomas Brown.
27:42I come from Kingswell
27:43to inform you
27:44there's been a
27:45distraint for rent
27:46which none of the
27:46tenants has paid.
27:48You told us
27:49there would be
27:49no rent to pay.
27:50If his lordship
27:51chose to keep
27:52looking the other way,
27:53well, he hasn't,
27:54then you're all out.
27:56Why, because the election
27:57wasn't to his lordship's
27:57liking.
27:58Nothing to say to that,
27:59Mr. Halifax.
27:59I'm only the steward.
28:01What will these people do?
28:02And the ones
28:03that are not here
28:03because they're old
28:04or ill,
28:05what of them?
28:06Now, say to the
28:06selves,
28:07won't they?
28:11Stop, all of you.
28:13Put that down,
28:13Jacob.
28:16Tom,
28:17settle the mayor
28:17quick.
28:17All right.
28:18I'll ride to Kingswell
28:19and then to Sir Ralph.
28:21Trust me.
28:22I went to Kingswell.
28:43They'd all been put out.
28:45The nine that had voted for
28:47Old Tower.
28:48So I went to fetch
28:49the sheriff's to Ralph,
28:50but he'd been called away
28:51on urgent business
28:53to Luxmore Hall.
28:54Yes.
28:55So I rode there.
28:57I signed that I would
28:58pay their rent
28:59and I got their goods back.
29:01And from tomorrow,
29:02they'll be my tenants
29:02and not Lord Luxmore's.
29:04Take her up now.
29:06What was the urgent business
29:11the sheriff had
29:11at Luxmore Hall?
29:14Love, we're so happy.
29:16We must not condemn.
29:18Caroline,
29:19what has she done?
29:22She's gone away.
29:24With him?
29:25Yes.
29:26When did she go?
29:28Only hours ago.
29:30They took,
29:31or at least Mr. Vermily did,
29:33everything they could
29:34get hold of.
29:35The elves pursuing him now
29:37as a seducer and a thief.
29:39And Brithwood?
29:41He just drinks and drinks.
29:45You are a little lady.
29:47You're not such a little lady
29:48anymore, are you?
29:50Muriel, get down and walk,
29:51you lazy girl.
29:52No, no.
29:53Oh, let her be.
29:55I'm glad we got you
29:56out in the open, though.
29:57All you do all day
29:58is sit and play
29:59your harpsichord.
30:00That's what I like doing.
30:02Your music's so soft
30:04and dreamy.
30:06The others
30:06say you're talking
30:07to the angels.
30:09They'll soon be at the mill,
30:10then I'll show you
30:11what I mean to do.
30:12There you are.
30:14Oh!
30:18Come on, lady.
30:28Do you see the stream?
30:29Are you drawing off the water?
30:33I didn't think he'd dare
30:34to do it.
30:36Lord Luxmore.
30:38He's turned my millstream
30:39off its course.
30:40But that's impossible.
30:41It's against the law.
30:43Not the law of the great
30:44against the little.
30:46Oh, I've seen it coming.
30:48Threats of using the millstream
30:49three days a week
30:50to make fountains
30:50at Luxmore Hall.
30:51He's determined
30:52to ruin me.
30:53Oh,
30:53he's determined
30:53to ruin me.
30:53Do you remember me,
31:08Mrs. Halifax?
31:09Lord Rathenor.
31:10The Earl of Luxmore's son.
31:14Please.
31:16I hate the very sound
31:17of that name.
31:19Mr. Halifax,
31:20I am deeply sorry
31:21for what has happened to you.
31:24Lord Rathenor,
31:25might I ask a favor of you?
31:27Of course.
31:28Would you see Mrs. Halifax
31:29and my daughter safely home?
31:31I think it would give me
31:31greater pleasure.
31:35I must see what's to be done.
31:40But who gave instructions
31:48to divert the millstream?
31:50My father sent word
31:51to Brown from Italy.
31:53He's left you alone
31:54at Luxmore Hall.
31:55Yes.
31:57He despises me
31:58because I'm a Catholic
31:59and wish to be a monk.
32:02I would hide myself
32:03away from the whole world
32:04if he would let me.
32:06Please don't betray me.
32:08Public opinion
32:09does not favor Catholics.
32:10Why do you want
32:11to leave the world?
32:13I'm sick of it.
32:15There was only ever one
32:16that I cared for
32:17and she.
32:19Your sister.
32:24In spite of the evil
32:25that my father has done
32:27to Mr. Halifax,
32:28to all of you,
32:30might I ask a favor?
32:31Of course.
32:33May I come and visit
32:34you and the children?
32:36You are most heartily welcome,
32:38Lord Rathenor.
32:38Please.
32:40Not that name.
32:42My name is William.
32:43William.
33:00No, no.
33:01Try it like this.
33:24What they can do
33:24in the Manchester mills,
33:25I can do in mine.
33:26But I'm sorry for the way
33:28their workers have been treated.
33:29I'm determined
33:30it shall not happen to mine.
33:32Since my water wheel
33:33has only been turning
33:34two days a week,
33:35I've had to cut
33:35my people's wages by half.
33:37It barely keeps them alive.
33:39We must convert to steam.
33:41But we must keep the secret
33:42of what we're doing
33:43to ourselves.
33:44And that is why
33:44I've had to get mechanics
33:45from Manchester.
33:46Why must it be a secret?
33:49My people wouldn't understand.
33:51And if it gets out,
33:52I'll have the whole country
33:53down on me
33:54for destroying hand labor.
33:56A new set of Luddites
33:56will come and burn down
33:58the mill,
33:58break the machinery.
34:00It will please
34:00Lord Luxmore.
34:02Ruin me.
34:06Are you asleep?
34:07No, just tired.
34:09Father isn't here.
34:10No.
34:11Still only ten minutes
34:13to noon.
34:13No.
34:13No.
34:13No.
34:16What do you do
34:21every day
34:22when he takes you
34:22to the mill?
34:23Father carries me
34:24everywhere
34:25and I listen
34:26and the people say
34:27there's master
34:27and blinds the miss.
34:29The machinery
34:30is nearly ready.
34:31I know,
34:31he's told us.
34:36Are you getting up then?
34:37Do I have to?
34:39Do you not want
34:40to go with Father?
34:40He does love taking you.
34:42Yes.
34:45Why is it
34:46Uncle Phineas going?
34:48Because I have
34:49something to tell you.
34:50A secret?
34:52It's a kind of a secret,
34:53yes,
34:54but I'd like you
34:54to know it.
34:56It's something
34:56we've all got
34:57to look forward to.
34:58To do with me
35:00and somebody new.
35:02Can you guess?
35:03A baby?
35:04Yes.
35:04Will it be a boy
35:05or a girl?
35:06We shall have
35:06to wait and see.
35:07I'd much rather
35:08have a little sister.
35:09I know you would.
35:10Only will she be like me?
35:12I expect she will.
35:13Sisters are often alike.
35:14No,
35:15I don't mean that,
35:16but you know.
35:17I can't tell.
35:19Pray God
35:19she's like you
35:20in all other things,
35:21Muriel,
35:21my darling.
35:22Does Uncle Phineas know?
35:24Uncle Phineas
35:25seems to know
35:25most things.
35:26I expect he's guessed.
35:27Can I tell him?
35:28Yes.
35:29Uncle Phineas!
35:31A new baby girl.
35:33Do not be
35:34too certain
35:34about that.
35:35And your name's
35:36going to be
35:37Maud.
35:38Little Maud.
35:39Thank you,
35:43Uncle Phineas.
35:45What are you
35:45going to knit?
35:47A shawl.
35:48Nearly noon.
35:51What's this?
35:52A secret.
35:53Oh.
35:54You are coming
35:54with me.
35:55Would you mind
35:56very much
35:57if I stayed
35:57behind today?
35:59Everyone will
36:00ask where you are.
36:01Tell them
36:01I'm doing
36:02something else.
36:03Very well.
36:04You mustn't
36:05sit inside
36:05all day,
36:06though.
36:06Perhaps I'll
36:07go out
36:07after dinner.
36:08Uncle Phineas
36:09could take
36:09me to the church.
36:10I could do.
36:12You must
36:12come tomorrow,
36:13though.
36:14That's a very
36:14big day
36:15for everyone.
36:16The machinery?
36:17Yes.
36:17We're going
36:17to work it
36:17for the first
36:18time tomorrow.
36:18Yes,
36:19I'll come.
36:20Uncle Phineas
36:21and Guy
36:21and Edwin
36:22and Mother.
36:23I only hope
36:24it works.
36:24Of course
36:25it will work.
36:25We'll see.
36:27I think
36:27having Muriel
36:28with me
36:29every day
36:29has quietened
36:30everyone's fears
36:30about the engine.
36:32Elsewhere,
36:32steamers and
36:33outrage,
36:33they lose
36:33their jobs,
36:34but tomorrow
36:35at Endley Mill
36:35we're having
36:36a festival.
36:37Imagine
36:38when
36:39we일
37:05we'll be
37:05up here.
37:05Muriel?
37:25Shall I come up?
37:27Yes.
38:05Play one of the masses.
38:33That's Handel.
38:34I know that my Redeemer liveth.
38:47Here we are.
38:48Time to say goodnight.
38:49Put me down.
38:54Goodnight, Uncle Phineas.
38:56Goodnight, Muriel.
38:57Goodnight, Mother.
39:03Goodnight, my darling.
39:06And William.
39:07It's not just goodnight, I'm afraid.
39:09It's goodbye for a while.
39:10Why?
39:11My father's coming back to Luxmore Hall,
39:14so I shall be going away.
39:16I wish I weren't leaving you.
39:18Will you remember me, Muriel?
39:20Stoop down.
39:21I want to see you.
39:32Yes, I shall remember you.
39:35And love me.
39:37And love you, William.
39:39Goodbye.
39:45Goodbye.
39:51Bed.
39:52Bed.
39:52Truly, time does fly.
40:05In five years, we shall have that young man in love with Muriel.
40:09Better not tell John.
40:10How could anyone dare to fall in love with his Muriel?
40:16I'm running back.
40:20Here it is.
40:20Come on outside.
40:21See me, can't see.
40:22Get what's inside.
40:24No, that's just the boiler in the next room.
40:26It's hissing away, boiling water into steam.
40:29And that comes from this pipe.
40:30You can touch it.
40:32It's quite warm, but it's right around to keep the heat in.
40:34And then the steam goes into here.
40:36That's the cylinder.
40:37And the steam pushes until this goes up.
40:40And the old steam escapes into there.
40:41That's the condenser.
40:42And goes back as water into the boiler.
40:44Then this beam here moves down.
40:47And the movement goes into this mechanism here.
40:50And that turns the axle here.
40:52And that turns all the wheels in the mill that used to be turned by the great water wheel.
40:56I'll be ready, do you think?
40:58Enough pressure?
40:59Yes, sir.
41:00Yes.
41:00Jacob, let in a few of them just to see.
41:02All right, master artifacts.
41:04Oh, John.
41:04No, don't.
41:05Don't speak to me now, or else you're...
41:07If this doesn't work, I'm ruining it.
41:09Keep out of the way, boys.
41:10Come on, boys.
41:11It's a good thing.
41:12A little bit won't be fine.
41:18Here's the bow.
41:19Ready?
41:20Ready?
41:20Yes.
41:20Yes.
41:20Yes.
41:21Yes.
41:21Yes.
41:21Yes.
41:22Yes.
41:22Yes.
41:22Yes.
41:22Yes.
41:23Yes.
41:24Yes.
41:25Yes.
41:26Yes.
41:27Yes.
41:28Yes.
41:29Yes.
41:30Yes.
41:31Yes.
41:32Yes.
41:33Yes.
41:34Yes.
41:35Yes.
41:36Yes.
41:36Yes.
41:37Yes.
41:38Yes.
41:39Yes.
41:40Yes.
41:41Yes.
41:42Yes.
41:43Yes.
41:44Yes.
41:45Yes.
41:46Yes.
41:47Yes.
41:48Yes.
41:49Yes.
41:50Yes.
41:51Yes.
41:52Yes.
41:53Yes.
41:54Yes.
41:55Yes.
41:56Yes.
41:57Yes.
41:58Yes.
41:59Yes.
42:00Yes.
42:01Yes.
42:02Yes.
42:03Yes.
42:04do you feel you need the others to play with boys shouldn't always run out and
42:26leave their sister alone
42:27it isn't good for you always to be quiet it grieves me
42:37that's right my darling come on now let me see you walk
42:43there you see you can do it if you try now come to me let go of the bed come on here i am
42:57i'm glad her mother was too busy today too busy to notice
43:21she should be told muriel is a sick child john very sick
43:28you understand what i'm saying phineas
43:31ursula must on no account be led to imagine or to fear anything
43:37do you realize how you were looking today phineas i'm sorry
43:41betsy's bringing in the supper will you come to the table for this right away john
43:48i think muriel was a little stronger today don't you we shall have her up and about in no time
43:53little lamb who made thee dost thou know who made thee gave thee life and bid thee feed by the stream
44:03and all the mead gave thee clothing of delight
44:09she is born she is born we don't know if it's a girl
44:13no she's come my darling little ward has come i'm very glad father i'm very rich for our two daughters now
44:22what are you thinking of
44:27that although father has another daughter i hope he'll remember the first one sometimes
44:33she's jealous already she's jealous
44:37what day is it father it's the first of december
44:39little mord's birthday will be in the same month as mine
44:43yes but you came in the snow muriel it's warm and mild now
44:46we'll have snow on my birthday we always have the snow is fond of me it would like me to lie down
44:53and be all covered over so you couldn't find me anywhere it'll be 11 years since i was born
45:02what a long time when little mord is as old as i am i shall be i mean i should have been a grown woman
45:10fancy me 20 years old wearing a gown like mother busy and talking and ordering about the house
45:18father i couldn't do it i better stay your little muriel weak and small i'm going to sleep this way
45:32you've come down at high time i'm perfectly well take care though i will but i had to see you all
45:38again i told betsy to learn another place for supper but she hasn't uh there are enough places love
45:43muriel won't be down why not uh she hasn't been down for some days now she feels the cold
45:49oh has dr jessop seen her yes every time he came to see you he also had a look at muriel
45:57what's wrong
46:00my love how am i to begin to tell you what what even i myself can't understand
46:08my mother it's my mother oh my darling there we must all be happy now yes yes please i do want to see
46:20little mord all right my darling you shall you shall there
46:28john my little sister mord uncle phineas she'll take my place and be every but his darling now
46:34hush muriel
46:44here we are
46:51so fat and her fingers so soft her hair what color is it like mine she's very like you he looks
47:02i am glad with these no my darling she's not like you there i'm very glad i wonder if you can see
47:10me let me take her now i want if she might stay with me just this one night and tomorrow is my birthday
47:21please mother may she stay yes my darling we shall both stay i shall not leave you again i'm very glad
47:29i think
47:37i think ursula seems very well and calm she is god help her god help us all he will
47:54i think
48:13you're real
48:14my darling
48:18my own little daughter
48:22come back to me
48:44come back to me
49:14come back to me
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