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Bookish Lady Caroline Lennox descends from high nobility, the eldest unmarried daughter. When she falls for a commoner with political aspirations, her parents disapprove and disown her. Her younger sister learns from her experience.
Bookish Lady Caroline Lennox descends from high nobility, the eldest unmarried daughter. When she falls for a commoner with political aspirations, her parents disapprove and disown her. Her younger sister learns from her experience.
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00:00Transcribed by ESO, translated by —
00:30A new age has been born, out of rebellion and bloodshed.
00:38I am of another time.
00:49I was raised in a different world.
00:53How could I know how unusual we were?
00:56I was the much-pampered Lady Emily Lennox.
01:01I and my sisters knew nothing of the world beyond our own.
01:05Nurse?
01:06We barely acknowledged that there was a world beyond our own.
01:10Take Lady Louisa and make her quiet.
01:14Mama, does not the pink do well enough?
01:18It's amazingly insipid.
01:20I cannot be prettier than God made me.
01:24Sea-green taffeta will not alter the case.
01:27Do you want to look like a dowdy?
01:28Caroline couldn't look like a dowdy.
01:30The centre of my world was my sister Caroline.
01:35May I wear these when I'm of age?
01:37Emily, those are Caroline's for the season.
01:40Must I go to this ball?
01:41Yes, you must.
01:43It's Lord Harvey's.
01:44I wish I could go.
01:46Don't you want to get married?
01:48What objection do you have to Lord Beaufield?
01:50I have no feeling for him.
01:52Feelings will follow.
01:53They always do.
01:54Mother!
01:55You have the pick of London.
01:56Who do you want?
01:57Someone who loves me.
02:00Someone I love.
02:02We were the great-granddaughters of King Charles II.
02:05Our grandfather was the first Duke of Richmond.
02:08Our father, the second Duke.
02:10Our mother was Lady of the Bedchamber.
02:13We were of royal blood and we mixed with royalty.
02:17Does your daughter not take?
02:20She has had offers, your royal hands.
02:23A dowry of £10,000 and your rank.
02:26It would be strange if she had not.
02:28Particularly as her appearance is in no way disgusting.
02:34She is slow to decide.
02:37She is permitted to decide.
02:40She is permitted to postpone.
02:42The Duke of Richmond is an indulgent father.
02:46Caroline herself had expectations which our closed, arranged world could not satisfy.
02:53At her third season, much to my parents' dismay, she had still not found a husband.
03:02Excellent ball.
03:04Indeed, Lord Bearfield.
03:09Shall we go into supper?
03:10I believe they have lobster.
03:12Uh, perhaps they have...
03:13Shellfish don't attract me.
03:15An excellent speech today, Mr. Fox.
03:17Ah, thank you, Prime Minister.
03:20We could do with your brain in the Treasury.
03:22Positions such as those are yours to dispense, Prime Minister.
03:26The royal veto runs.
03:28The King has his favourites.
03:29I'll deal with that.
03:32Ah, Lord Harby.
03:34Mr. Fox.
03:35Splendour occasion.
03:37Oh, they have an excellent pork and a lamb ragout.
03:40I wondered if I might presume on your good nature.
03:46His Majesty is wax in your hands.
03:48Me?
03:49I'm a spent force.
03:51Your force will be spent when the Thames runs dry, Lord Harby.
03:54You mean that?
03:56Mr. Fox.
03:58Your Grace.
04:00These occasions are more business than pleasure.
04:03Oh, I find them full of possibility.
04:05You're not an old married man.
04:09Always bending people's ears, that fox fellow.
04:13Can't stand still for a minute.
04:14Do you know him?
04:16Well, I've played him at cards occasionally.
04:19How do you amuse yourself, Lady Caroline?
04:21I like to read books.
04:23Oh, books?
04:24I've just finished A Tragedy by Voltaire.
04:28Voltaire?
04:29Henry Fox, Lady Caroline.
04:31And what did you make of Voltaire?
04:33I find him wicked.
04:34You mean he has independent thought?
04:37Well, independence of thought is not wicked.
04:39Most people think it is.
04:40Most people do not think.
04:42No?
04:43They just agree with the current fashion.
04:45Voltaire thinks.
04:47He doesn't accept anything without examination.
04:50You're right.
04:51Perhaps that's why his books are so diverting.
04:53Who's Voltaire?
04:57Your taste surprises me, Lady Caroline.
05:00What else do you read?
05:01Novels, scandal, philosophy, history.
05:07Are you influenced by your reading?
05:09Well, I suppose I must be.
05:12But what one enjoys in books one may not practice in life.
05:17Is that not the pleasure of books?
05:19Books have many pleasures.
05:21As has life.
05:28Supper, Lady Caroline.
05:31Caroline became intrigued by a Mr. Henry Fox, a politician, who was quite unlike anyone any of us had met before.
05:40Caroline must choose now, before the season ends.
05:49Why doesn't she take Bowfield?
05:52He's handsome, charming.
05:54He's very sober.
05:55Will you speak to her?
05:57She's hard to persuade.
05:58Persuade?
05:59You must demand.
06:00I wish to tell you all of an event that took place when I was 18 years of age.
06:06I was bound for France.
06:07My father would regularly recount to us the story of his own arranged marriage, the moral of which was clear.
06:14I thought I still dreamt when I heard what he said.
06:17Marriage, my son.
06:18Get dressed for your wedding.
06:20I said, well, how can I marry?
06:21I'm going to France.
06:22What has France to do with the matter?
06:24He said, I found you a capital wife.
06:26Of course, I didn't know then how he'd find her.
06:29But he was a man of honor, my father.
06:31He would never have reneged on a gambling debt.
06:33So there we were.
06:34My father, myself, my bride.
06:37One sentence passed my lips and only one.
06:39Will you marry me to that?
06:41Doubtly, I said.
06:42Well, I took that girl for my wedded wife and was off to France the following day.
06:45The bride went back to the schoolroom.
06:47I was in no hurry to return from my tour.
06:50One year turned into two, two stretched to three.
06:53And when I did get back, I was slow to claim her.
06:55What did I do?
06:56I went to the theatre with a group of my friends and there I saw a woman.
07:02A splendid woman in the box across.
07:04I couldn't wait to know who she was.
07:06And what did I discover?
07:08She was my own dear wife.
07:10The humiliation to be wagered in a hand and whisked.
07:14Oh, my love.
07:16My father lost the game, but it was I who won the prize.
07:19What if she hadn't been beautiful, father?
07:21You might have been miserable.
07:24Your mother and I are happy because I obeyed my father.
07:27And we are not merely happy.
07:29We are the happiest couple in London.
07:31London is not full of happy couples.
07:33I do everything for your good.
07:34I always have.
07:35I'm the most indulgent parent in England.
07:37The affection within our family was considered unusual.
07:41But much as he adored us all, my father's indulgence had its limits.
07:46Lady Caroline.
07:49This is my sister, Emily.
07:51Mr. Fox.
07:52Lady Emily.
07:54Do we delay you?
07:56No, the commons can wait for a while.
07:59And how are you enjoying the season, Lady Caroline?
08:02It is more duty than delight.
08:04Dancing, entertainment, flirtation.
08:07You don't like them?
08:08I enjoy solitude more than company.
08:11Hello, Henry.
08:11Peace more than bustle.
08:14Modesty more than vanity.
08:15You are too young for such preferences.
08:18It has aged.
08:18It takes preference.
08:20You are older, Mr. Fox.
08:23Yet you are no friend to solitude.
08:25I plan to take what the world has to offer.
08:28Ah, your grace.
08:30What am I to do with my daughter, Mr. Fox?
08:32She refuses all her suitors.
08:34Lady Caroline is a prize that all men would desire.
08:36If she continues in her present manner, she will end her days unwed.
08:39Ah, I cannot believe that.
08:42She has her mother's charm.
08:45Your grace, if you will excuse me, Lady.
08:56The truffle hog.
08:57God has so organised the universe that within the animal kingdom there are degrees and hierarchies,
09:12just as there are in the human world.
09:14If we consider the lion, the monarch of the plains, the lion is given his strength and his power so that he may rule over lesser...
09:27Oh, you're not bored with the universe, Lady Caroline.
09:30Not in the least, Mr. Fox.
09:32But it is also their destiny to become the lion's food.
09:38Consider...
09:38Such a studious young lady.
09:41Should the cow hunt?
09:43The notion is ridiculous.
09:46The cow was designed to graze and to milk.
09:50And also permitted to move.
09:52The precise position of a creature in his creation may at times be obscure.
10:00If we take time to consider our own English countryside, what may we discover there?
10:06The otter, the badger, the voe, the mouse, the frog.
10:14Does a frog have teeth?
10:16Does a frog require teeth?
10:19Whereas the weasel has a mouth full of influence, is I.
10:26We must not expect to...
10:29Mr. Fox.
10:32We should not be alone together.
10:37I thought I might find you in the library.
10:41Soon you will say I am bookish, which I know is a term of abuse.
10:46It is only applied to ladies who, like the truffle hog, are unfortunate in appearance.
10:51You may read from dawn to sunset and attract no criticism.
10:59It is a strange world.
11:02One wonders why God created the truffle hog.
11:06If God exists.
11:08Surely you believe in God.
11:10Why?
11:11But you must admit there is a divine order.
11:14I would quarrel with it if I did.
11:16On what grounds would you quarrel?
11:17On the obscure position of the fox.
11:25Are you never serious, Mr. Fox?
11:27Oh, I am extremely serious.
11:29Have you not seen me being serious?
11:32I have seen you flatter people for advancement.
11:43Prime Minister.
11:44Lord Harvey.
11:46My father.
11:47Of course, I was far too young to understand then that my sister might see in Mr. Fox qualities more significant than those of mere appearance.
12:05To me, he seemed only unhandsome and excessively old.
12:11Lady Caroline.
12:15Excuse me.
12:21You were fond of Lord Harvey?
12:22I'm always melancholy at funerals, even when the connection is not close.
12:26It may be a funeral, but at least it's not yours.
12:29Do you not miss your protector?
12:39Indeed, I do.
12:40Indeed, I do.
12:41His company, his kindness, his wisdom.
12:46Lord Harvey had many to mourn him.
12:49Friends, toadies, creditors, a wife, eight children, lovers of both varieties, including my brother.
12:56Oh, I approve frankness.
13:00Because you are young and fair, it does not follow that you are foolish.
13:06And so you approve Lord Harvey's way of life?
13:09I do not judge how another man should live.
13:14How do you live yourself?
13:16I believe I told you.
13:18I live to the full.
13:19You will excuse me, Lady Caroline.
13:23I must attend to some business.
13:33My position in the treasury is granted.
13:35Your father has told me.
13:36Is it not undignified to scramble for position at a funeral?
13:40It is easy to scorn position when it comes to one by birth.
13:44I'm a greedy man.
13:46You admit you are greedy?
13:47I'm also industrious and wise.
13:51But not modest.
13:53Of course.
13:54You value modesty.
13:56I'll try for it.
13:59It may do as you wish.
14:01It has nothing to do with me.
14:04I would like it if it had.
14:05There's Mr. Fox.
14:18Don't wait!
14:19No, please, listen.
14:21Will you excuse me?
14:23What are you gazing at so intentionally?
14:28Mr. Fox.
14:29Is that the actress?
14:35The one who carries his most recent child?
14:39I saw him the other day with Lady Glen Harvey.
14:42And it's not long ago that Lady Coleman was hanging on his arm.
14:48He's entertaining enough.
14:50But his behavior is unconscionable.
14:52But then?
14:54What else can one expect from an unbeliever?
15:02Did you know about it?
15:03Him and the actress?
15:05He must be loved by many women.
15:07He must be loved by many women.
15:24He must be loved by many women.
15:26He must be loved by many women.
15:30My parents were happy enough to include Mr. Fox in their circle as an amusing acquaintance.
15:48That he should be anything more than an acquaintance was simply inconceivable.
15:53Lady Caroline, I will speak with you.
16:00I would prefer to make a speech asking the Commons to increase duties than say what I must say now.
16:12On the outcome of the next few minutes depends the happiness of the rest of my life.
16:21You must be aware of your beauty of person.
16:25You must have been told many times by others more worthy than I.
16:28I think you compliment me.
16:31Oh, it is no compliment.
16:33It is the sober truth.
16:37But it is your character that I value.
16:41Perhaps because it is so very much more worthy than my own.
16:45What are you saying, Mr. Fox?
16:48I love you.
16:53I'm asking for your hand in marriage.
16:58Can you allow me to hold you?
17:03Forgive my surprise, Mr. Fox.
17:06I had not thought of you as a man who would wish to marry anyone.
17:09You are the first I have ever asked.
17:12And Lady Glenarvie and Lady Coleman?
17:15They are both married already.
17:17You are flippant.
17:18I have never been more serious about anything in my entire life.
17:23Those women are my past.
17:26My future rests only with you, if you will have me.
17:30And the actress?
17:31And your child?
17:32It is over.
17:34They are provided for.
17:36You know I cannot consider your offer without the blessing of my parents.
17:41If I may have permission to approach your father.
17:45You have my permission.
17:48But I warn you, my father is not an easy man.
17:51I do not think they dislike me.
17:54I wish you every success.
17:55Who does he think he is?
18:07How dare he address her?
18:10He thinks to rise in the world.
18:11His impudence knows no bounds.
18:13What does he imagine he offers her?
18:15He has no birth, no breeding, no reverence for the deity,
18:19no charm of person.
18:20He looks like a toad.
18:22Henry?
18:29Henry?
18:31It is the first time he espoused a marriage, he says.
18:34I wonder what she did to provoke him.
18:40We have dismissed, Mr. Fox.
18:42Each an unfortunate incident, of which we'll quickly forget.
18:45Dismiss?
18:46Forget?
18:48Father, did you consider...
18:49As if I would give my daughter to a man who is closer in age to me.
18:53Well, age has brought him prosperity.
18:55And should we settle for mere prosperity?
18:58You're an attractive prize, my dear, but you're not for him.
19:02You must know I've forbidden him the house.
19:03What?
19:05Mr. Fox will visit us no more.
19:07No.
19:07Your Grace.
19:18Oh, excuse me.
19:19Shall we not show an appearance of civility?
19:22I will be civil in more than appearance if you will do as I wish.
19:25What does your Grace want from me?
19:28I have not spoken a word to Lady Caroline for weeks.
19:31Speak to her.
19:33My fear is that what is being decided is the happiness or misery of her whole life.
19:38Not just of a few months.
19:40She doesn't take a fancy lightly.
19:43Nor easily abandon a course once taken.
19:46She is young.
19:47What does she know of the world?
19:49Permit me to suggest she knows herself.
19:53This conversation is at an end.
19:55In future, you will address neither me nor my daughter.
19:58Car, I know you're as dull as a dead lobster.
20:09Try to look what she are for.
20:11I cannot look what I do not feel.
20:15You make no effort.
20:16My dearest, most adorable Caroline.
20:43You find me in such a jumble of misery and joy.
20:49But I'm hard put whether to dance or weep.
20:52I'm in such a situation that whatever I...
20:56He's writing to you.
21:00I would die without his letters.
21:02There is no other way he can prove his love.
21:04He is besieged from all sides because of me.
21:10Will you marry him?
21:11I should like to.
21:23Father, please.
21:25Do not believe I blame you.
21:26It pains me when we disagree.
21:28You've seen between your mother and me such examples of affection you think it common in the world.
21:32I know it is uncommon.
21:34What you cannot believe is that it can be inspired by me.
21:37Oh, if your mother's puppy should love me, would you marry him?
21:39You know who I wish to marry.
21:41Because you have no idea what he is.
21:45He's intelligent.
21:47Divertive.
21:48He's a godless libertine.
21:49What attracts you to him?
21:51He cuts a poor figure.
21:52He thinks he's clever.
21:54He was even once a Tory.
21:55He has a future.
21:57Future?
21:57Anyone has a future.
21:59Can you eat, live it and wear a future in fine style?
22:02Will a future furnish you with carriages?
22:04Or pay the servants off in your library with books?
22:06Can a future stable a horse?
22:08Father, why do you torment me?
22:11It is I am tormented.
22:14My foolish child.
22:16It is an unworthy choice.
22:21Let me abide by it.
22:25I would sooner let you sell fish in the street.
22:29He is not one of us.
22:32Your great-grandfather was a king.
22:36My dear, calm yourself.
22:39The house is in an uproar.
22:41Tell your daughter to remember her duty.
22:43Of course she must remember her duty.
22:46She has no choice.
22:50Caroline!
22:50Caroline!
22:55Oh, Charles!
22:57Not Hermione.
22:58Her nerves are in shreds.
23:00Nobody in the family had counted on Mr. Fox's ambition and determination.
23:11All on my sister's stubbornness.
23:14I have been miserable.
23:16I am more cheered by your grief than dismayed by your father's hesitation.
23:21Hesitation?
23:22He is furious.
23:23You have much to lose.
23:25And much to win.
23:26They say your proposal is based on ambition.
23:32You don't believe that.
23:33If my father becomes your enemy, he would destroy you.
23:36I shall be harder to dispose of than he thinks.
23:39Trust me.
23:40I must go.
23:45And so it was that by wishing to marry only for love, Caroline embarked on a small rebellion.
24:04I shall be harder to dispose of than he thinks.
24:34Most adorable Caroline, I hope this letter finds you well, and that the step I may ask you
24:40to take may not dismay you.
24:49And put that a lot higher.
24:52Where do you go with those peaches?
24:54The dining room, your grace.
24:55Take them back to the kitchen and place them on ice.
24:59Charles, don't break that.
25:01Have the oysters arrived yet?
25:10Not yet, your grace.
25:11Send them on to the...
25:12My dear, I want plum puddings, apple pie, soused fig and syllabum.
25:16Everything goes wrong.
25:18The oysters don't arrive and the flortus has ague.
25:22It's going to be the worst ball of the season.
25:24Our ball?
25:25What nonsense.
25:27It's always the best.
25:29The flowers at least will be chaves.
25:31Chaves.
25:32It'll all be perfection.
25:33Perfection?
25:34With the oyster still at Billingsgate and the flortus threatening to die?
25:38The oysters have arrived.
25:40Don't fret about the flortus.
25:41The flortus has been replaced.
25:43Ah, you've found another flortus.
25:45Oh, I don't believe it.
25:46What luck.
25:47There is no need for excessive foliage.
25:49Father?
25:50A foliage always looks penny-pinching in an arrangement.
25:53I've told you.
25:54Mama.
25:54Those chairs are to stay here.
25:56Easy, my...
25:57Will nobody listen?
26:02I don't know how to tell you this.
26:05What is it?
26:09I'm married.
26:11To Mr. Fox.
26:13You will never enter this house
26:17or speak to any member of this family again.
26:23I will not be disobeyed!
26:27My sister's departure from my life taught me
26:30that there could be cruelty
26:31even in our comfortable world.
26:34Caroline!
26:36Caroline!
26:37Caroline!
26:37Caroline!
26:43Emily, you must go back inside.
26:46Why do you wait?
26:47Go on!
26:47Stay with me!
26:48Emily, I'm sorry.
26:50Please!
26:52Caroline, don't leave me!
26:57All London spoke of the affair
27:00and my father did not hide his fury.
27:02I could not foresee the long consequences
27:13of Caroline's elopement.
27:16I only knew
27:17that her rebellion
27:18had torn our family apart.
27:21She might have been
27:22a thousand miles away.
27:26I pined for her.
27:28I was anxious for her.
27:29I wondered
27:31what would happen
27:33when my turn came.
27:35What would my parents
27:36require of me?
27:41Emily?
27:48Mama?
27:49What are you reading?
27:51Voltaire.
27:53Books can be overrated
27:54as part of a young woman's education.
27:56Father would not agree with you.
27:58You're too pretty for books.
28:01Come and see
28:02what I brought you.
28:14The sapphires!
28:17Oh!
28:20To go with
28:21your lovely blue eyes.
28:23Oh!
28:23Oh!
28:28Mama, you are so kind.
28:31You shall wear them in London.
28:36I so look forward to the season.
28:39So you should.
28:40You're going to be a great success.
28:42I hope so.
28:44I know so.
28:45You'll have an abundance of admirers.
28:49Admirers?
28:51Mercifully, in your case,
28:52we have the luxury of time
28:53before we consider
28:54whom you might marry.
28:55Mama!
28:56Anyway, you're
28:59still too young
29:00to consider such things.
29:02Mm-hmm.
29:04But if in the fullness of time
29:06you discover
29:07that you favour
29:07someone
29:08in particular,
29:11you will tell me
29:12who it is,
29:13won't you, my dear?
29:15Of course.
29:16Lady Emily,
29:23will you make me
29:24the happiest man
29:25on this earth?
29:28I have 67,000 acres
29:29in hand.
29:30I have a town
29:31and a country house.
29:33I can assure you
29:34my feelings of...
29:35When I entered society
29:45and was of an age
29:46to attract suitors,
29:47I was altogether
29:48more fortunate.
29:50I could not see
29:51that my parents
29:52would have any objection
29:53to Lord Kildare.
29:55He was, after all,
29:56not only handsome
29:57and young,
29:58but a lord
29:59and very rich.
30:01I thought you were
30:02in London.
30:03London was bleak
30:04in your absence,
30:05so I came here
30:06to the country.
30:08I missed you, my lady.
30:10All my pleasure
30:11in the city
30:11departed with your family.
30:13I had no ease
30:15or enjoyment
30:15in anything.
30:16We had much
30:17enjoyment together.
30:20Lady Emily,
30:21I have come here
30:22for a purpose.
30:23Lord Kildare,
30:24I feel like walking.
30:28Will you help me dismount?
30:31I cannot bear it.
30:41My lord?
30:45That is the most
30:46beautiful foot
30:47I have seen
30:48in my life.
30:54Is not the buckle
30:55on the shoe
30:56vastly pretty?
30:57Barely worthy
30:58of that it adorns.
30:59Lord Kildare,
31:02it is a ruinously
31:02expensive buckle.
31:03Were it in my power,
31:05I would make you
31:06a present of a dozen.
31:08You would spoil me.
31:10Nothing could spoil you.
31:14What kind of you
31:15to say so.
31:15Do you like this part
31:31of the country?
31:32I have barely observed it.
31:34I only came here
31:35because of you.
31:38Lady Emily,
31:39will you marry me?
31:39Yes.
31:41Since we met,
31:42I have thought
31:43only of you.
31:44My position in Ireland
31:45is of one who leads
31:46rather than follows.
31:47I can assure you
31:48of a life of eminence
31:48in a society
31:49which would...
31:50Yes!
31:51What?
31:53I would like
31:54to marry you.
31:57My dear.
32:01Emily,
32:02Ireland is a country
32:03of bogs
32:04and cottages.
32:06It would not
32:06agree with you.
32:11Is he not
32:11a wealthy man?
32:14Irish acres.
32:15Irish wealth.
32:17Now, now, now.
32:17Now, stop that.
32:19Not there.
32:20Not there.
32:20Do you not find
32:30him handsome?
32:31Maybe.
32:32But he has
32:33no exceptional qualities.
32:35None of them have.
32:37If one excludes
32:37presumption.
32:41What do you think,
32:42girls?
32:42Do you think
32:42it looks like
32:42your papa?
32:45They speak
32:45of Irish, Charles.
32:47I've never
32:47noticed it.
32:49What about you,
32:50Charles?
32:50What do you think
32:51of it?
32:51Good, papa.
32:52Well, I don't
32:53know that I agree
32:54with you.
32:54Mother, do you
32:55remember Ireland?
32:58That part of my
32:59lineage I have
32:59chosen to forget.
33:00You will not
33:01speak of it again.
33:02Oh, have no fear,
33:03my love.
33:03There's no trace
33:04of it in your
33:04demeanour.
33:05Lord Kildare
33:05is an irritating
33:06reminder.
33:08I will discuss
33:08this no longer.
33:17Lord Kildare,
33:19I believe your
33:19countryman
33:20excel when it
33:21comes to the
33:21horse.
33:22They have that
33:23reputation, yes.
33:25Horses have
33:26little intelligence.
33:27Quite true,
33:28your grace.
33:30Dumb beasts.
33:32Yet of surpassing
33:34interest for your
33:34countryman.
33:36Indeed.
33:41So, my lord,
33:42how do you
33:43occupy your time?
33:44Well, at the moment,
33:48I'm building a house
33:50in London, on the
33:52south side of Dublin.
33:53Is the south side
33:55fashionable?
33:56When I live there,
33:57it will be.
34:00You set the fashion
34:01in Dublin?
34:04Yes.
34:05Can there be fashion
34:07in Dublin?
34:07Dublin, so far from
34:09everywhere.
34:11Dublin grows into a
34:12presentable capital.
34:14It has everything one
34:15needs for a civilised
34:16life.
34:17You've surprised me.
34:19I had thought it a poor
34:20imitation of London.
34:22We imitate what is
34:24pleasing about the
34:25capital.
34:26The rest, we
34:28discard.
34:29And you presume to
34:30judge?
34:30I must.
34:32I'm asked to decide.
34:34You, then, are a
34:35person of influence
34:36over there?
34:38It is the
34:39tradition in my
34:39family.
34:41We have a duty
34:42to lead.
34:44As you have
34:45here.
34:46Is that not
34:47true, father?
34:55Oh, I will now.
34:56There's a bit
34:56straight line.
34:56I understand.
34:58Come and see.
34:59When royalty
35:05visited, I, my
35:06younger brother and
35:07my sisters, would
35:08be paraded before
35:09the king, not
35:10unlike the exotic
35:11beasts my father
35:12acquired for our
35:13education and for
35:15his entertainment.
35:18What do you do
35:19with it, Richmond?
35:21I observe him,
35:22sir.
35:24Observe him.
35:25Observe him.
35:27Pace up and
35:28observe him.
35:30Pace back.
35:31There's no
35:31entertainment in
35:32that.
35:34Well, there's
35:34education, sir.
35:35I encourage my
35:36children to become
35:37acquainted with all
35:37the wonders of the
35:38world.
35:39You don't change,
35:40Richmond.
35:41How long have you
35:42been a member of my
35:42household now?
35:44I am lord of the
35:45bedchamber for eight
35:46years now.
35:47Well, you serve us
35:48well.
35:49Is it time you
35:50moved up?
35:52We consider making
35:53you master of the
35:55horse.
35:56Would you like that,
35:57children?
35:58Eh?
36:00Children.
36:09Now, we hear you
36:10contemplate marriage.
36:12Yes, your majesty.
36:14All young women
36:15think about marriage.
36:16Oh, what else
36:17should they think
36:17about is their lot?
36:20And you will be
36:21the third Duke of
36:22Richmond.
36:24Will you be like
36:25your father, eh?
36:26Will you collect
36:27everything that grows
36:28and moves?
36:30Every cauldron of
36:31coal leaving
36:32Newcastle will put
36:33twelve pence into
36:35your coffers.
36:37Now, what would
36:37you do with it?
36:38Eh?
36:39Will you build
36:39houses like your
36:40father?
36:41I don't know,
36:42your majesty.
36:45And you,
36:45Lady Louisa,
36:47what shall you do
36:48with your life?
36:49I shall try to be
36:50good, your majesty.
36:52Excellent.
36:53And you,
36:53little Sprout,
36:54what would you do?
36:55I want to
36:56marry you.
36:58Well, we
36:59should consider it,
37:00Lady Sarah,
37:01for you will be
37:02pretty as a plum.
37:04This one will
37:04break hearts,
37:05your grace.
37:10Master of the
37:11horse.
37:11It is an honour,
37:12your grace.
37:14Your father will
37:15be responsible for
37:16moving the royal
37:17household wherever
37:18it goes on
37:18English soil.
37:20Will there not
37:21be a trifle
37:21tedious?
37:22What's tedium
37:23where honour is
37:24concerned?
37:25Hmm.
37:28It does have the
37:29advantage of being
37:30a cabinet post.
37:32And it is in the
37:33cabinet that real
37:34power resides.
37:36If you were in
37:37the cabinet,
37:38father, you'd have
37:39to work with
37:39Mr. Fox.
37:40gentlemen,
37:47this situation
37:48is desperate.
37:49We simply
37:50cannot go on
37:51pouring more and
37:51more troops
37:52into this campaign.
37:53And I do not
37:55believe that the
37:55banks will continue
37:56to lend us this
37:57amount of money.
37:57I have seen cases
38:01like this do
38:02extremely well.
38:04When subjected to
38:05cool rooms,
38:07melipidus,
38:08fresh air,
38:09and exercise.
38:11Exercise?
38:13He's a few months
38:14old.
38:15I was still not
38:16permitted to visit
38:17Caroline.
38:18I wondered,
38:20did she miss the
38:21family when she
38:21gave birth to
38:22Stephen, whom they
38:23called Stee?
38:25I heard he was
38:26sickly.
38:27Dissolve in a
38:28pint of water.
38:30Three drops,
38:31six times a day.
38:33What is
38:34molybidus?
38:36Ground wood lice.
38:38I must speak to
38:44Mr. Fox.
38:46Mr. Fox's
38:47political career
38:48was advancing
38:49impressively.
38:50He even
38:51encouraged a
38:52cabinet rebellion
38:53against the
38:54king.
38:56Prime Minister.
38:58Prime Minister.
38:59We know why the
39:00war on the
39:00continent drags on.
39:02It's because the
39:02king listens to
39:03his friends and
39:04not to us.
39:05The cabinet is
39:06being ignored.
39:07What do you
39:08suggest?
39:09The ultimate
39:10sanction.
39:11We should
39:12resign.
39:13What are you
39:14mad, Fox?
39:16Resign?
39:17The cabinet?
39:18All of us.
39:19We must draw up
39:20a petition.
39:24We'll get a
39:25second opinion.
39:27I have come to
39:28renew my request
39:29for Lady Emmer's
39:30hand in marriage.
39:31I don't intend
39:31to discuss it.
39:32Your grace, I am
39:34sensible of the
39:34feelings of the
39:35parent.
39:36They do not
39:36appear to deter
39:37you.
39:38Look, your dad's
39:39returned and he's
39:39arguing with
39:40father.
39:49You can't marry,
39:50father won't allow
39:51it.
39:52Can't marry,
39:53can't marry.
39:55I have waited a
39:56long time, your
39:56grace, and Lady
39:57Emily's feelings
39:58have not changed.
39:59I will decide when
40:00she marries.
40:01It is my
40:02privilege.
40:03Grace!
40:03Girls, do you
40:12behave like
40:13parlor maids?
40:14Yes.
40:22Your grace, Lady
40:25Emily.
40:27Lord Kildare.
40:28Should I like
40:30your place of
40:31birth?
40:33Have you
40:34cause for
40:34complaint of
40:35it, sir?
40:38Well, we'll
40:38see.
40:39It's a sole
40:40cause of
40:40complaint.
40:41You would
40:42take our
40:42daughter from
40:43these shores.
40:44That is your
40:44complaint.
40:48Then the
40:49rumors I've
40:49heard are
40:50clearly false.
40:51Rumors?
40:52That you
40:53refuse me because
40:54I'm Irish.
40:55No.
41:06No.
41:14Excuse me.
41:16I will take
41:17my leave.
41:17I will take
41:17my leave.
41:25Oh, Father,
41:30please.
41:31You were
41:32spoiled from
41:32your youth.
41:34It's your
41:34mother's fault.
41:35My fault?
41:37Who gave her
41:38the white pony?
41:39Who took her to
41:40the theater at
41:41five years old?
41:42Louisa, Sarah,
41:43leave the room
41:44at once.
41:49He is, after
41:50all, both rich
41:51and young.
41:52Are you
41:52changing your
41:53mind?
41:55Though he
41:55has a very
41:56fiery nature.
41:57And will
41:58you concede
41:58because he
41:59frightens you?
42:01Well, I'd
42:01rather have him
42:02as a son-in-law
42:02than have a
42:03bullet in my
42:03head.
42:04Oh, Father,
42:05did he threaten
42:06a duel?
42:06No, but he
42:08might.
42:21Love is
42:21accounted
42:22grief and
42:23passing.
42:25while wealth
42:25is dependable
42:28and long.
42:30Your sister,
42:30said that?
42:31No, she
42:32believes in
42:32love.
42:35Though I
42:35must admit,
42:37I like wealth
42:38too.
42:39Oh, I think
42:41I've got a pebble
42:42in my shoe.
42:43Allow me.
42:44And this one?
43:09love me.
43:31his pallor is most disturbing
43:39his breathing is shallow
43:42and he is altogether far too big for his age
43:47he must drink this oxymel of squills
43:51what is that?
43:54a combination of vinegar, extract of bulbs
43:58and mercury sulfide
44:01there, that should do it
44:23as Mr. Fox's star rose
44:26my father, quite against his preference
44:28was drawn into supporting his cause
44:31how could I not sign that petition?
44:34I don't even like most of the cabinet as you know
44:36until now I have supported his majesty in everything
44:40but he only listens to his friends
44:42I would support him still had not my duty overcome my inclination
44:46he's taken it very badly
44:49as a personal betrayal
44:50but what else could I have done?
44:51I know, my dear
44:53what else could you have done?
45:00Charles
45:01I've been thinking about Emily
45:04from my sister's impulsive behaviour
45:07I had learned to be more circumspect
45:09and patient in the achievement of my own wishes
45:12I was as determined as she had been, however
45:15to get what I wanted in the end
45:17I can do nothing for this child, Lady Caroline
45:25I don't say so
45:26I do say so, most emphatically
45:28what treatment has he had?
45:30blisters, purging with broth
45:32mercury, ground wood lice
45:36ground wood lice?
45:37that was prescribed
45:40Lady Caroline, this child is beyond the reach of my attention
45:46for the simple reason that there is nothing wrong with him
45:51nothing wrong?
45:52nothing wrong
45:53but his cough, I mean, his twitching
45:58his twitching is the natural growth of a normal infant
46:02many infants have a fidgety habit
46:06which in the fullness of time
46:08they abandon
46:09and his cough?
46:10it is widespread across the country this year
46:13and has injured none that I know
46:16I can't believe it
46:18the king has conceded
46:21we have regained authority
46:25and I have been made secretary at war
46:28are you pleased by that?
46:30I hope to bring it to a speedy end
46:32and will you?
46:33it will not be easy
46:34I shall have to do business from morning till night
46:38Henry, I must tell you about Steve
46:40later, my dear
46:41later
46:42duty is the light which has guided my life
46:46and which I recommend to all my dear children
46:50it is the quality that can sustain happiness in the face of adversity
46:55it is the rock on which our lives are built
46:58duty of subject to monarch
47:01of king to country
47:02of child to parent
47:05isn't your father Charles?
47:08you are possibly aware that Emily has received a proposal of marriage that she desires to accept
47:13yet despite her strong feelings
47:16she has been dutiful in her regard for my opinions
47:20I have gathered you to see that duty is rewarded
47:24Emily's behavior is an example to you all
47:28I shall tell Lord Kildare
47:32that your mother and I withdraw our opposition to his suit
47:36grace
47:38andешь
47:38hum
47:45and
47:45in the
47:47future
47:49of life
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