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Clarissa Harlowe is a young 18th-century Englishwoman. Her family have aspirations to move into the aristocracy and want her to marry the repellent Mr. Soames as part of their plan. Clarissa manages to escape from them with the help of the handsome Lovelace, whose intentions towards her prove to be less than entirely honorable.
Clarissa Harlowe is a young 18th-century Englishwoman. Her family have aspirations to move into the aristocracy and want her to marry the repellent Mr. Soames as part of their plan. Clarissa manages to escape from them with the help of the handsome Lovelace, whose intentions towards her prove to be less than entirely honorable.
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00:00Piano music
03:14Clarissa Harlow.
03:16Mr. Lovelace.
03:34Again.
03:36He seems keen.
03:40Pinch your cheeks, Bella.
03:43Your face must be your fortune now.
03:46Miss Arabella?
03:56Mr. Lovelace.
03:58Miss Arabella?
04:09Mr. Lofnace, do you care to walk, sir?
04:28Mr. Harlow, Mr. Closell.
04:46Heir to a peerage.
04:56A splendid paternal estate, two unmarried aunts, mark that.
05:02And an army of whores and bastards, mark that.
05:07Father, you can manage the estate far better than I can.
05:10Yes. Property is always safest in men's hands.
05:15Since I have no desire to marry...
05:17Where is the man who could deserve you?
05:20Just let me have enough to tend my charities.
05:23I have no desire for wealth.
05:25If she had the money, she'd give it all away.
05:30No.
05:33Okay.
05:35I am not in a man who is.
05:38I have no desire to make it.
05:39I have no desire to make it.
05:42It is nothing I have to do now...
05:44It's nothing I have to do now.
05:47I have to do that about my family.
05:48I have to do everything I have to do.
05:49It's nothing I have to do.
05:51There is nothing I have to do now.
05:53I will just share the table.
05:55Yours, I believe.
06:25I know, I know, Jack. I have boasted I was in love before.
06:36But what about the Matthews girl? Wasn't that the real thing?
06:39At the time, I thought so.
06:41And the one in Richmond, Miss Betterton.
06:43But they were never like this, truly.
06:46When I remember what I felt then and compare it with how I feel now...
06:49Yes, I'm sure.
06:52But first I had to find a way to rid myself of a confounded sister.
06:56Well?
06:59There are so many stimulus to such a spirit as mine in this affair.
07:03Such opportunities for stratagems and contrivances.
07:07And fatigue.
07:08Look, Bob, why go into all the trouble, hmm?
07:11And expect virgins in season are as plentiful as ripe figs.
07:17The exhilaration of it.
07:19To carry off such a girl as this Clarissa Harlow in spite of all her purity and virtue.
07:24Oh, so tantalising.
07:27And what a triumph over all the sex.
07:30Well, have it your way.
07:32But remember, I want all the juicy details.
07:37Just now, my charming Frostpiece is with her friend Miss Howe.
07:40Well, how cruel of you to rob poor Bella of the only lover she ever had.
07:48Me?
07:49It wasn't me.
07:50She refused him.
07:52Most reluctantly, though.
07:53The man works her up into such a rage.
07:57And then puts the question.
08:00What could she do?
08:01She was practically speechless.
08:04Just managed to stutter something about her disinclination to change her state.
08:09What you might call a consenting negative.
08:12Poor Bella.
08:13Such a handsome man.
08:18A bit wild.
08:20Very wild.
08:21But do you never mean to marry?
08:47Sacrifice my independence?
08:49Love, honour and obey.
08:52Could you honestly promise that?
08:54Promising is not the problem.
08:56I could not promise what I would not practice.
09:00For me, it's just the opposite.
09:01That little reptile word, obey, doesn't bother me a bit.
09:04Happy to pronounce it as meekly as you please.
09:08But afterwards...
09:09I have everything I need.
09:13My books.
09:15My friends.
09:16Your grandfather's estate.
09:18I told you, I gave it to my father.
09:21How very obedient.
09:24But was that entirely wise?
09:26Such glaring displays of virtue you don't tend to look a little like policy.
09:30To Miss Clarissa Harlow, your swains pursue you everywhere.
09:41Imagine leaving all the family paintings to her just because she used to tittle with them
09:47and wipe and clean them with her own dainty fingers.
09:51Dainty?
09:52Whose fingers could be daintier than these?
09:56He might just as well have left them to the maid.
10:02Which of your heartbroken suitors is this from, I wonder?
10:06You've rejected so many.
10:09Poor Mr Wiley.
10:11Mr Mullins.
10:12Or do you have a new one?
10:16Mr Lovelace?
10:18Throw it away.
10:20I don't want it.
10:21Nonsense.
10:23Dearest Miss Harlow.
10:24It is Lovelace.
10:27Believe me when I profess...
10:28I'm not listening.
10:29In the sincerity of my soul, there is nothing I so much desire
10:33as the chance to prove myself worthy of your esteem.
10:37That insinuating way of hers of stealing in when anyone else is talking.
10:42With her bewitching meekness and humility.
10:46Until everyone else is forced to listen to Miss Clary's superior opinion.
10:53Don't you like him at all?
10:55Not just a teeny bit.
10:58He's so handsome.
11:00So wild.
11:01So vain.
11:05I cannot admire a man with no morals.
11:08Clary.
11:09Men put on their morals like we put on our stays.
11:13He has no heart.
11:15No true feelings.
11:17Mr Lovelace does not know how to love.
11:20And you do.
11:29If I thought...
11:30If?
11:31Were you love upon condition?
11:32Who said anything about love?
11:35I speak only of liking.
11:37If I thought he were a moral man,
11:40I might admit a conditional kind of liking.
11:43Clary, if I didn't know you better,
11:47I might almost mistake that for a consenting negative.
11:50If I thought it was Bella,
11:56I thought it was Bella, Mr Lovelace, was intent on.
12:15But from the point of view of the estate,
12:18so long as Bella don't object...
12:20Me?
12:22Why should I object?
12:24She's welcome to my leavings.
12:28Suppose she were to resume her grandfather's estate.
12:31I wish to seem...
12:32Worried about his morals?
12:33I shouldn't worry.
12:35I'm sure Clary will cure his morals if any woman can.
12:39Besides, the man's a thoroughbred,
12:42cultivated, well-traveled...
12:44Rather too well-traveled, from what I hear.
12:48Noblesse oblige and so on.
12:50Not some vulgar lecher.
12:52Just suppose,
12:54with her grandfather's estate,
12:56Mr Lovelace's inheritance,
12:58and just suppose I were to throw in the revenues from mine,
13:02you will live to see your daughter a peeress of the realm.
13:05Sister, Bella.
13:09You see how it is?
13:11This little siren is in a fair way to out-uncle us,
13:14as she has already out-grandfathered us.
13:17We must find a way to clip her wings.
13:24So, not satisfied with one, sister.
13:26You want to bag them both?
13:28No.
13:29Only the one that struggles.
13:30Bella might do for some men.
13:32Yours, I think.
13:35Damn it.
13:38Birds are like women, Jack.
13:41Patience.
13:42That's the thing.
13:44Observe the lie of the land,
13:45the shift of the wind,
13:47the rival predators.
13:49Article 1 of the Rake's Creed,
13:51importunity and opportunity
13:53no woman can withstand.
13:55The artful fowler marks his prey,
13:57spreads his snares,
13:59sets up his stalking horse,
14:01plants his decoys,
14:02ends up with a crow.
14:06But the sport, Jack.
14:08The sport.
14:09Well, she is the hollow heiress.
14:11Pox on their money.
14:13Girls, not gold, Jack.
14:15Hollow places sprung up from a dunk hill.
14:18Trade.
14:19I'd trade the lot of them for one sweet kiss.
14:22And tomorrow I mean to have it.
14:24There's nothing sweeter than a virgin humbled.
14:26Article 2 of the Rake's Creed.
14:30Keep them guessing.
14:31Mr. Lovelace has honoured us with another visit.
14:44The honour is all mine.
14:47I'll leave you.
14:48Tunko.
14:49I'm sure Mr. Lovelace wouldn't want me to monopolise
14:52the honour that he pays us.
14:53Indeed, madam.
14:55Stay.
14:56A conversation of two such charming ladies as yourselves
14:58is a double delight.
14:59I had always heard you preferred not to confine your pleasure
15:03to one lady entirely.
15:05That, madam, would depend upon the lady.
15:09Mr. Harlow.
15:11Mr. Lovelace.
15:13Again.
15:14If you were hoping to see my sister,
15:17then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
15:19She's indisposed.
15:20I'm sorry to hear it.
15:23Perhaps you might like to leave a message.
15:25I'm sure Clary would be happy to take it.
15:27I'm sure Clary wouldn't wish to deprive our guest
15:30of both your sister's company.
15:32I very much doubt whether Bella's indisposition is infectious.
15:38May I?
15:38Such fine detail.
15:47It's easy to see where your daughter gets her own exquisite taste.
15:50Which daughter might that be?
15:52Or is the compliment general?
15:54You must mean Bella.
15:56She was always far handier with a needle than me.
15:58In a family like this, all praise must be general.
16:03I have the profoundest admiration for a family
16:05that has raised itself so high by its own conspicuous merits.
16:09We have prospered, sir.
16:10Deservedly.
16:11We have prospered by knowing our own worth.
16:14What we have, we hold.
16:16We owe no man a debt.
16:18You are fortunate.
16:19We, sir, are prudent.
16:22No man whose soul is mortgaged
16:25should ever presume to take a Harlow on lease for life.
16:35We are not a family for rent.
16:45This incident, Blooby Squire, is my instrument.
16:49I play upon him as I please.
16:51There is one thing I am resolved upon.
16:56If I have not the sister,
16:58I will have him.
17:21Yours, I believe.
17:29Have a care, Mr. Harlow.
17:35For your sister's sake, I warn you.
17:37No one.
17:56No!
17:57No!
17:58No!
17:59No!
17:59Ah!
18:01Ah!
18:09Ah!
18:10Ah!
18:11Ah!
18:29No kneeling to me, Clarissa Harlow, but with the knee of duty and compliance.
18:44Your heart, not your knee, must bend.
18:47You are aware of the outrage committed against your brother.
18:50I am aware of a rash dispute.
18:52Do you deny you have received this fellow's letters?
18:55I deny I have either responded or encouraged.
18:58Do you not equivocate with us, girl?
19:01Do you understand that you are never to see or write to this man again?
19:07I understand, sir, that you are my brother and only my brother.
19:12And not the one to instruct me in my duty.
19:15It is not your brother but I, your father, who instruct you.
19:18It would be a very shameless sister who encouraged a man
19:21to wade into her favour through her brother's blood.
19:24Sir, what have I done to deserve these accusations?
19:27Clarissa Harlow, you have always been a dutiful daughter.
19:32And if you remain so, we will continue your rightful place in the affections of all your family.
19:39Mr. Roger Soames will wait upon you tomorrow.
19:41And it is our wish that you should prepare to receive his proposals of marriage.
19:45His generous proposals.
19:49Mr. Soames.
19:54Come in.
19:57Bella, come in.
19:59I have nearly finished.
20:00Still writing.
20:02Poor Clary.
20:05Such a pity.
20:06What will you do to amuse yourself now?
20:13Bella.
20:15Naughty, naughty.
20:17You know the rules.
20:18No letters.
20:19Even to Anna.
20:21Your go-between to Lovelace.
20:25Bella.
20:27What will you do?
20:28Run to Mama?
20:30Or why not write her a letter?
20:33The servants have been warned.
20:36Your letters will be stopped.
20:42I wonder how Mr. Soames will take to such a literary wife.
21:02Well, let's go.
21:03Thank you, Laura.
21:04I'm sorry.
21:05Thank you for that.
21:06You're just so happy.
21:07I can't leave.
21:09Maybe, too.
21:11Oh, no, there's a story.
21:12I'll make tea.
21:13Perhaps we should...
21:14Sit down.
21:15Betty will make the tea.
21:20That's all, I'm sorry.
21:21You're sorry.
21:22What's going to be there?
21:24I'll do this.
21:27I'll do it.
21:29No, I'll do it.
21:30You don't do it.
21:31Sir. Clarissa Harlow. Remember that I will have no child, but an obedient one.
21:42Hey, Mr. Soames.
21:46Mr. Soames. Your servants, sir. And Mr. Harlow.
21:53Madam. And Miss Harlow. Sir. And Miss Clarissa.
22:01Yes.
22:03Closer, Harlow.
22:05Sir.
22:10Unusually cold, sir, for the time of year.
22:12Oh, yes, indeed it is, yes.
22:20Do you find it so, Miss?
22:23My sister finds it rather warm, I fancy.
22:37Inform the gentleman that we are not at home.
22:42Leave this to me.
22:44No, there's no need of that.
22:46Tell Mr. Lovelace that the Harlow family are not at home to a brawling street fighter,
22:51and that our sister is at present in the company of a gentleman.
22:55Let's go differently.
22:56Thank you, Mr. Soames.
22:57I'll wait here for you.
23:01Good well, I look for me and give that word worldwide
23:03but you'll be a little girl.
23:07No?
23:09perhaps you might prefer our grandmother's jewels reset in deference to your charitable
23:37inclinations it would look charming
24:07come in the silks are come from london they're the finest we could procure
24:16no more please send them back
24:21clary either we must give up our authority which you know we can never do
24:30or you must give up your humor which we have every reason to expect
24:34you've always been a dutiful girl much good it does me
24:39have i no duty to myself aren't they beautiful
24:44come and look
24:47and mr soames will give you jewels quite besides the very handsome allowance he has agreed to
24:56you will have more independence than a wife perhaps ought to have
24:59mother nothing will ever persuade me to marry that man
25:04but the terms child where people marry to their liking you know terms are the least things stood upon
25:10i can't see what you have against him he's an honest man
25:14virtuous
25:16virtuous what to try to force a girl against her will
25:20we have far too much about your will young lady be told your father's determined
25:24and you what about you your father i know i know determined but i asked about you
25:32or has a vow of silence been added to the other marriage vows
25:36you must not ask me
25:38oh mother
25:41i was required to fetch your letters
25:48is this all
26:03oh it's enough
26:14clary a woman there's no when to bend or else she will surely break
26:28is this all
26:41james why must you be so spiteful
26:44madam
26:46you do not know how to deal with your own daughter
26:49if she had been left to me to manage
26:51we would now be rejoicing in her happy fortunes as the wife of a wealthy man
26:55instead we're no where she off to
27:02here it is miss
27:10is it safe trying to test it miss
27:23you're not the only one with secrets
27:25in a hurry sister
27:31it may be you are unacquainted with this fellow lovelace's reputation
27:42in bath miss matthews and miss medlicott who died giving birth to his bastard at richmond miss james
27:51mrs wilson and two barmaids at the rose and crown at hammersmith miss oliver her mother and their upstairs maid you see he goes for quantity more than quality
28:06are you are you so very anxious to add the name of harlow to this list
28:13your spies are very busy sir
28:16but how come you never thought to warn my sister of his ways
28:19your sister clary had no need of warning
28:22she saw him for what he is
28:24she saw him for what he is
28:25there
28:26take it
28:27it may amuse you to see what company you keep
28:31there is stables
28:59the back walk cloister
29:02all of these
29:03here
29:04twelve hundred acres
29:06the farmhouse
29:07and grange cottage
29:09all with tenancies
29:10yes sir
29:11if i may say so sir miss clarest
29:12or is worth any amount of my
29:14icorage
29:16then we are all agreed
29:18oh good
29:19here
29:20here
29:21here
29:22oh
29:24good
29:25then i shall sign
29:27and i shall sign
29:28do
29:30there
29:31you
29:32there
29:34no
29:49you
29:50but
29:51yeah
29:52here I know how you love to scribble don't tell anybody where you got them
30:05dear uncle Clary Clary I have to talk to you I've always loved you like my own
30:14child you've always been so kind I know this is no trivial thing we ask but then
30:20you're no trivial girl you are a Harlow it is in the family's interests for you to
30:27marry mr. Soames no Clary why me why must it be me why not Bella mr. Soames has
30:36reasons for preferring you and I have reasons for disliking him does the
30:40family honor mean nothing to you how can honor be founded on falsehood a falsehood
30:44is in your heart Clarissa Harlow you reject an honest man because your heart is
30:50whoring off for a rake no sir I swear to you if there were no such man as mr.
30:56Lovelace if there were no other man in all creation I still would not have mr.
31:01Soames look to your conscience girl the serpent has you in its coils
31:20events for us to do not know the location we haven't been to part of the
31:22earth was past
31:25might be more than what to do for you could you see
31:26you mean yes I will have to do please
31:27you mean no sir I do not risk to your thoughts
31:29not for you I will be in luck I will not be in luck I will not be in luck I will not be in luck
31:31but I will not be in luck I am willing to believe in luck I will not be in luck I will not be in luck I'm a
31:35I don't know.
32:09Hand it over.
32:30Now get out.
32:32Get out of this house.
32:34You're dismissed!
32:36And you needn't apply to your mistress for a reference.
32:39You shan't be seeing her again.
32:40Perhaps you might try Miss Howe.
32:46Which dress shall I lay out, Miss?
32:48That's all right, Betty. Hannah will see to it.
32:50Oh, not Hannah, Miss. Hannah's gone.
32:53What do you mean?
32:54Back to her bags and left last night, Miss.
32:57I'm to be your servant now.
32:59The blue dress, Miss.
33:01Or would you prefer the grey?
33:03Without a word. I don't believe it.
33:06This is my brother's doing.
33:09No, the grey. I'm going to church.
33:12Church?
33:14Are you to be my jailer, Betty?
33:16No, Miss. Only...
33:18Have I to ask your leave when I'm disposed to walk into the garden or feed my hens?
33:23No, Miss.
33:24Oh, I see.
33:25Your authority only extends to the care of my soul, not to the care of my chickens.
33:30Lay out my grey dress.
33:32Yes.
33:33No, leave it.
33:34Leave me.
33:35I'll do it myself.
33:39myself.
33:59Dearest sister, it seems odd that a girl who lays so much stress on churchgoing should
34:08obstinately persist in defying... which commandment is it? The one about the mother and the father?
34:18This.
34:20Dearest fellow, so devout.
34:26We recommend you to your solitary devotions in the hopes that you may acquire a more...
34:38Humble?
34:41A more humble spirit.
34:44We are well aware upon what saviour your pious hopes are pinned.
34:50The end.
34:51The end.
34:55Yours.
35:24Yours, I believe.
35:54You must have cooked it up between you.
36:01He says it's a wonder there wasn't a murder done.
36:06If you want my advice, miss...
36:08Which I don't, Betty.
36:10No, miss.
36:11But all the same, miss, if you don't mind me saying,
36:15all this fine outed-do of yours don't signify that.
36:20They mean to make you have, Mr. Soames.
36:25And that's that.
36:29And that's that.
36:36And that's it.
36:49And that's it.
36:55And that's it.
36:59And that's it.
37:06And that's it.
37:11And that's it.
37:17And that's it.
37:20Don't cry out.
37:28Mr. Morris.
37:29Forgive me.
37:30Let me go.
37:31Let me go.
37:32Go where?
37:33Back to your pretty cage?
37:35Back to being spied on and searched and prepared for sacrifice to the charming Mr. Soames?
37:41Go on, then.
37:44Go.
37:45I'm not stopping you.
37:48I thought you had more spirit.
37:51Don't you know the danger you're in?
37:54And if I am, whose fault is that?
37:56Would you prefer me to do nothing?
37:58When I see you insulted, wire-drawn and ensnared like one of those silly birds?
38:03Nothing?
38:04The dangers that I suffer are not lessened by your making them the occasion for your spot.
38:09Save your gallantries for your admirers.
38:12Madam, you may, if you choose, compel me to ignore your brother's insults to your dignity.
38:18But I cannot overlook the affronts to mine.
38:20My brother's fault, sir.
38:22Do not blot out your own.
38:24Tell me, how is Miss Matthews and Miss Medlicott?
38:27Madam, whichever enemy I sought to poison your regard for me deserves my endless gratitude.
38:36Sir.
38:37I have been much to blame, I confess it.
38:40I have committed crimes against your sex.
38:42Lies, betrayals, things it makes me sick at heart to think of.
38:47Dearest creature, I would hide nothing from you.
38:51I insist that you should know the very worst of me.
38:55The blackest sins that taint my soul.
38:58Only then will you begin to see how much I am transformed, inspired by my love for you.
39:11Until now, all I have ever known is lust.
39:14But love, this is the first time.
39:19I beseech you, dearest madam, if you would let my Aunt Lady Betty offer you her protection.
39:25And will you protect me from my protection?
39:27Trust me.
39:28Shhh!
39:29Shhh!
39:30Meet me again.
39:31Here.
39:32I'll be waiting.
39:33Do not abandon me.
39:34I...
39:35I promise you this.
39:36If they do force you to be that monster's wife, you'll be the youngest and prettiest widow in all the county.
39:43Taking the night air, sister?
39:59Do I need my maid's permission?
40:01Remember this, my pretty little flighty one.
40:04Your father's living will shall control your grandfather's dead one.
40:13The pink, I think, would become you.
40:27It would be a little insipid for my complexion.
40:31Kindness Bella would suit you better.
40:34Oh, yes.
40:36And this, I think, for your wedding nightgown.
40:41To match your charming eyes.
40:44Don't Mr Lovely say you have charming eyes?
40:48Is that what he told you?
40:54How many hours do you spend in prayer?
40:57Or are your thoughts entirely devoted to love?
41:04How opportune that Mr Soames should pop up to rescue us from your romantic wimps.
41:11Is it my fault, Bella, the opportune gentlemen don't pop up for you?
41:16The fickle head attracts the feckless heart.
41:19Oh.
41:20Then I will learn prudence from you.
41:23I will do as you do, say as you say in everything.
41:29Then say, Lovelace is a villain.
41:35So I will.
41:37When I believe it.
41:39Then you don't believe it now.
41:42Did you believe it, Bella?
41:44When he kissed you.
41:45When he kissed you.
42:14Mr Harlow.
42:15Your servant, sir.
42:16Mrs Harlow.
42:17Your servant, sir.
42:18Mrs Harlow.
42:19Mrs Harlow.
42:20Miss Arabella.
42:21Mr Harlow, sir.
42:22Mrs Harlow.
42:23Miss Arabella.
42:24Miss Arabella.
42:25Mr Harlow, sir.
42:27Mr. Harlow, your servant, sir.
42:41Mrs. Harlow.
42:44Miss Arabella.
42:46Mr. Harlow, sir.
42:48Mr. James.
42:57Mr. Harlow, sir.
43:27Mr. Harlow, sir.
43:57Mr. Harlow, sir.
44:04Mr. Harlow, sir.
44:09Mr. Harlow, sir.
44:16Mr. Harlow, sir.
44:18Mr. Harlow, sir.
44:21Sir, I would, if it were in my power, have spared you this interview.
44:27Which can only be painful to us both.
44:30I fail to see how any man who has the slightest regard for his own happiness could so persist.
44:37Persist? I would persist forever. And I hope in time...
44:41Time will not change my feelings, sir.
44:45Then I shall be a miserable man.
44:46Better you were miserable by yourself, sir, than make us both so.
44:51For God's sake, dearest madam, for...
44:54For God's sake, what, sir?
44:57How came God's sake and your sake to be the same?
45:07Madam, you may have heard certain things said against me.
45:16The man is without his enemies.
45:18You have to tell me what you have heard, and I will strive to correct those faults.
45:24Then, sir, correct this fault.
45:28Do not attempt to have a woman forced against her will in the most important decision of her life
45:34for the sake of motives she despises.
45:41Okay.
45:41So, niece, sitting in state like a queen giving audience.
45:54Mr. Soames, why this distance man?
45:56I had hoped to see you on a more intimate footing.
45:59Am I to have no freedom?
46:01You have had your will in everything till now.
46:03Now is the time for obedience.
46:05You shall marry Mr. Soames.
46:07No.
46:08No.
46:09No, never.
46:10I would rather starve.
46:12I would rather die.
46:14Oh.
46:16I would rather be sealed and bricked up in the family vault.
46:20I'm not going, sister.
46:25We don't want you bricked up yet.
46:28Such a pretty little martyr's face.
46:31But such an obstinate neck.
46:34What will you do for letters in your vault, huh?
46:40Here, sir.
46:41Stop, sir.
46:42No violence.
46:43No violence.
46:43No violence.
46:43No violence.
46:44No violence.
46:45No violence.
46:46No violence.
46:47No violence.
46:48No violence.
46:49No violence.
46:50No violence.
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