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With the death of his uncle, Fred Vincy had hoped to inherit enough money to pay off all of his debts. The last will and testament of the deceased doesn't provide what he had hoped for. Dr. Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy are married and move into a beautiful, large home. They are very happy together even if the new bride is a bit extravagant. Dorothea is unhappy in her marriage and her husband continues to shut out of his work. When she tries to speak to him about their financial situation, he shuts her out completely. When he hears that his cousin, Will Ladislaw had stooped at their house to visit, he writes to him forbidding him ever to come again. Mr. Ladislaw has taken a position working for Dorothea's uncle Arthur Brooke who has decided to enter politics.
With the death of his uncle, Fred Vincy had hoped to inherit enough money to pay off all of his debts. The last will and testament of the deceased doesn't provide what he had hoped for. Dr. Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy are married and move into a beautiful, large home. They are very happy together even if the new bride is a bit extravagant. Dorothea is unhappy in her marriage and her husband continues to shut out of his work. When she tries to speak to him about their financial situation, he shuts her out completely. When he hears that his cousin, Will Ladislaw had stooped at their house to visit, he writes to him forbidding him ever to come again. Mr. Ladislaw has taken a position working for Dorothea's uncle Arthur Brooke who has decided to enter politics.
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01:28I know, I do. Very well indeed.
01:30But you're a little pale, Casabond, you know, a little pale.
01:33Oh, nothing to alarm you, my dear.
01:35Little English beef and mutton will make a difference.
01:38It's all very well to look pale when you're sitting for a portrait of Aquinas.
01:42We had your letter, you see.
01:44But this Aquinas, now, he was a little too subtle, wasn't he?
01:46Did anybody read, Aquinas?
01:48He's not, indeed, sir, an author adapted for superficial minds.
01:54Ah-ha.
01:56Perhaps you should rest.
01:58Perhaps you're right, my love.
02:00Miss Brooke, gentlemen, you're very welcome here.
02:03I appreciate your kind intention.
02:06But you will excuse me now.
02:08Yes, yes, of course, my dear man.
02:18My wife, I'm sure, will entertain you in the proper manner.
02:26He's very tired.
02:27Well, take her back to the stables now, sir.
02:30It was an arduous journey.
02:31Welcome, ma'am.
02:36Dodo.
02:38I can't wait to tell you any longer.
02:40Sir James and I are engaged to be married.
02:44Oh, see.
02:50Kitty.
02:51Oh, Dodo.
02:52It was because you went away.
02:54There was nobody but me for Sir James to talk to.
02:56That's wonderful.
03:00I've gone on with the cottages, Mrs. Casaball.
03:02I never doubted that you would.
03:04Right.
03:04I look forward to inspecting how they progress.
03:06I know the ones here are well-managed.
03:11Roberts, leave that one here, would you?
03:13Goes on.
03:13I've brought some cameras for you, Kitty.
03:16I wasn't sure about them, but Mr. Ladislaw advised me.
03:21Do you remember him?
03:22Yes.
03:23He's an artist in Rome now.
03:25Not anymore.
03:26He says he intends to return to this part of the country and end his living with a pen.
03:31Does he now?
03:33Excellent.
03:34That's just what we need now, do you see?
03:36Young men with bold-eyed ears.
03:38Oh, dodo, they are exquisite.
03:44Good.
03:44I do.
03:47Well, welcome again.
04:08No, please.
04:22Don't let me disturb you.
04:27How did you find poor Fred today?
04:31He's still in a high fever, but he's coming through it well, I believe.
04:36I'm almost more anxious for your mother.
04:39Oh, yes, poor Mama.
04:40I shall go to her.
04:42I'll take her a little beef tea.
04:43No, I've put that in hand.
04:47Will you not let me hear you play a little more?
04:50No.
04:51You have heard the best musicians in London and Paris.
04:54I've heard nothing that charmed me so much as the music you were just playing.
05:02Will you not play it again for me?
05:06Oh, very well.
05:10Oh, God.
05:40I must go and see Mama.
06:10The rain stopped, ma'am.
06:17Why don't you take the air while you have the chance?
06:23That person could go mad, shut up here all day.
06:27Thank you, Tantra, but I have too much to do.
06:32I may go for a walk later.
06:36Very well, ma'am.
07:10I've finished the copy and you sent me, Edward.
07:11Is there anything I could do for you?
07:12Could I read for you, perhaps?
07:14I've finished the copy and you sent me, Edward.
07:15Is there anything I could do for you?
07:16Could I read for you, perhaps?
07:17Thank you, Nero.
07:18Thank you, Nero.
07:19The weather's a little better.
07:20The weather's a little better.
07:21We could go for a walk.
07:22Or we could drive towards Tipton.
07:23I'm sure the air would do you good.
07:24I'm sure the air would do you good.
07:25I'm glad that you have the time, my dear.
07:26I fear that I do not.
07:27I'm glad that you have the time, my dear.
07:28I fear that I do not.
07:29I have begun work on a new pamphlet.
07:30I have begun work on a new pamphlet.
07:31I'm glad that you have the time, my dear.
07:32I've finished the copy and you sent me, Edward.
07:33Is there anything I could do for you?
07:34Could I read for you, perhaps?
07:35Thank you, Nero.
07:36The weather's a little better.
07:37We could go for a walk.
07:38Or we could drive towards Tipton.
07:39I'm sure the air would do you good.
07:40I'm glad that you have the time, my dear.
07:41I fear that I do not.
07:42I have begun work on a new pamphlet.
08:10Edward, do you not think that perhaps today we could begin to work together on your book?
08:23Dorothea.
08:24What if I were first to copy selected passages from your notebooks?
08:29My dear, I have told you I am busy with this article.
08:34Have you received any comments on the last one yet?
08:41Oh, by the way, Dorothea, here is a letter for you.
08:55It was enclosed in one address to me.
08:59That's from Mr. Ludislaw.
09:02What can he have to say?
09:03You may read the letter, if you please.
09:05Though I may as well say it once I shall decline the proposal it contains to pay a visit here.
09:11I trust I may be excused for desiring an interval of complete freedom from such distractions,
09:16as have hitherto been inevitable,
09:18especially from guests whose desultory vivacity makes their presence a fatigue.
09:23Edward, why do you think I should wish for anything that would annoy you?
09:27When have I ever consulted my own pleasure before yours?
09:31Oh, Dorothea, you are hasty.
09:32No, it is you who are hasty in your false suppositions about my feelings!
09:36Well, let us say no more upon this subject.
09:38I have neither the leisure nor the energy for this kind of debate!
09:41You are, Dorothea, you are devoirs, not the satraini, but one of HRB epic,
09:42I've not constantly logged in there!
09:43Before you get there,IO
10:01What happened?
10:17Clean on the water.
10:25What is that?
10:28What's happened?
10:31I don't know what it is.
10:33I don't know what it is.
10:34I don't know what it is.
10:45You should not distress yourself unduly.
10:49He's breathing very comfortably.
10:52He should sleep for some hours.
10:56But will the illness return?
10:58I'm afraid it's very difficult to say in these cases.
11:14It is essential now that he should not strain his nervous powers in any way.
11:18In particular, I would advise you not to tell him of the seriousness of his condition.
11:25Increased anxiety can exacerbate disease of the heart.
11:30Please speak plainly, Dr. Lucane.
11:32I cannot bear to think there might be something I didn't know which might make me act differently.
11:36I shall speak absolutely plainly.
11:39I shall speak absolutely plainly.
11:41He may have another attack within days.
11:57Or weeks.
11:58It could result in death.
12:01It could result in death.
12:07On the other hand, he may live for five, ten, even fifteen years.
12:12You mean if we are very careful?
12:25He should try to moderate and vary his occupations.
12:29He would be miserable if he had to give up his work.
12:35He's been laboring all his life and looking forward.
12:40He minds about nothing else.
12:46And I mind about nothing else.
12:48Help me, please.
12:57Tell me what I can do.
13:03I wish I could have spared you this pain.
13:08It was right of you to tell me.
13:13Thank you for telling me the truth.
13:18To be sure, my dear, of course you cannot possibly receive young Ladislaw now.
13:34I shall be happy to write to him.
13:36Interesting young man.
13:39I could possibly help him myself.
13:41I have heard that the Middlemarch pioneers in need of a new editor.
13:45Uncle, I don't think that Mr. Ladislaw should come to Middlemarch at all.
13:49Whatever you say, my dear.
13:51Well, who are we to forbid him if he really wants to come?
13:55However, I shall write as you suggest.
13:57Seems a shame, though.
13:59Young men, you know, with new ideas.
14:01I like them most commonly well.
14:03Uncle, did you understand what I said?
14:04I don't think he should come here.
14:06Yes, yes, my dear.
14:07Yes, of course, you're absolutely right.
14:09A doctor...
14:10Tell Mr. Fairbrother I've no need of...
14:14He says he don't see you.
14:16How delightful.
14:18Then I shall be able to spend more time with you, Mary.
14:21If you have any to spare for me.
14:23You know I have.
14:25Please sit down.
14:26I've just come from visiting your old playfellow.
14:34Fred.
14:36Oh, tell me.
14:38How did you find him?
14:40He's very weak.
14:42And very sorry for himself.
14:44But he's out of his delirium now and Lydgate is confident he's turned the corner.
14:48So he'll sue me back to his billiards and his horses and his cards and his gambling, I suppose.
14:54Rather like me, Mary.
14:56Yes.
14:58You're two very bad characters.
15:00The only difference between you is that Fred always loses.
15:03And you always win.
15:05At every game, so I hear.
15:08Except one, perhaps.
15:09No, I'm... I'm glad Fred's on the mend.
15:19Thank you, Mr. Fairbrother.
15:28Good.
15:32Good.
15:34Truly.
15:35On the mend.
15:36If I can only see my boy strong again.
15:40Perhaps master of stone court.
15:42And he can marry...
15:43Yes, indeed.
15:45Though I'm afraid she often has notions of her own.
15:49But then she was raised in such a thoughtless manner.
15:52Her mother has that levity about her, which makes me anxious for her children.
15:57Oh, it is pride in Miss Vinci, for sure.
16:00There's no young man in Middlemarch is good enough for her, it seems.
16:03I think the Honourable Mrs. Stevens is something like you.
16:07Do you think so?
16:11Her back is very large, I should have thought.
16:14Ah.
16:16But I didn't say she was as beautiful as you are.
16:20Oh, Mr. Plimdale.
16:22I suspect you of being an accomplished flatterer.
16:25No.
16:27Indeed, Miss Vinci.
16:29In fact...
16:31What a latecomer you are.
16:34I'd almost given you up.
16:36I'm glad that Fred is feeling better.
16:38Yes, sir.
16:40He's going on well, but slowly.
16:42Good evening.
16:44How are you?
16:45Oh, I never very.
16:47We have looked at Dr. Lydgate as our guardian angel during Fred's illness.
16:49Bridget, could we have a couple of punch for Dr. Lydgate, please?
16:52Oh, good God.
16:54And what are you laughing at so profanely?
16:55I don't know which is the sillier.
16:56This engraving here, all the writing that accompanies it.
16:59That's really splendidly idiotic.
17:02There are a great many celebrated people writing in that keepsake at all events, sir.
17:06This is the first time I've ever heard it called.
17:09Silly.
17:10Excuse me.
17:12Fancy?
17:13Oh.
17:14Fancy, you paid the case, sir?
17:15Thank you, sir.
17:16I'm sorry.
17:17I'm sorry.
17:18I'm sorry, sir.
17:20I'm sorry.
17:22I'm sorry, sir.
17:24I'm sorry, sir.
17:26I'm sorry.
17:28I'm sorry.
17:30I'm sorry, sir.
17:31I'm sorry.
17:33I'm sorry, sir.
17:35Unc-ing, sir.
17:36Uh, Vince, he played the game.
17:38I was distracted for a moment, eh?
17:41That's, uh...
17:44I need to just go home.
17:46All right, all right.
17:50Do you not see that you have given offence?
17:53What?
17:54Did it Mr. Plymdale's book? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think.
17:59You're like a bear. You don't know your own strength.
18:03Or your power to hurt.
18:06Do you remember when you first came here, you said you were a bear?
18:11And that you wanted teaching by the birds?
18:14There's one bird I'd very willingly be taught by.
18:21Untamed?
18:27Ah, well, I can't see you. I could nearly miss that.
18:31Rosalind, your aunt Balstrode is here.
18:34Good morning, aunt.
18:39Rosalind,
18:39Mr. Balstrode and I have heard something about you
18:43which has surprised us very much indeed.
18:46That you are secretly engaged to Dr. Lydgate.
18:49No, I'm not engaged, aunt.
18:55Well, how is it that everyone says so, then?
18:57It's the town's talk.
18:59The town's talk is for very little consequence.
19:02Dr. Lydgate is very clever, and your uncle finds him useful.
19:07But it's a poor profession.
19:11He's not paid for his work at the hospital.
19:15And you are not in a position to marry a poor man.
19:18You've no fortune of your own, my dear.
19:21Now, Rosalind, Mr. Plimdale is a nice young man, I've always thought.
19:27And an only son, and the heir to a great business.
19:33Surely you would not think of giving your heart to a man without a decided prospect.
19:37I shall never give my heart to Mr. Ned Plimdale.
19:41And Dr. Lydgate is not a poor man.
19:44He has very high connections.
19:46I see how it is, my dear.
19:49You have allowed your affections to become engaged without return.
19:54No.
19:55Indeed, aunt, I have not.
19:58Rosalind, Rosalind.
20:00Rosalind, mother.
20:07How's your new hospital?
20:10Everything I hope for, near enough.
20:12You must come and see for yourself.
20:14I wouldn't want to put Tyke's nose out of joint so soon after his appointment.
20:19But I might take you up on it one day.
20:23I was thinking of looking in on Vinci later.
20:25What about you?
20:26Not tonight.
20:27I think my patient can survive a night without me.
20:30I've been neglecting my studies lately.
20:33Ah, you're going to get yourself lashed to the mast and stop up your ears.
20:36Well, if you don't want to be won by the sirens, you're wise to take precautions.
20:40I'm in no danger there, I assure you.
20:45Rosalind Vinci is an enchanting girl.
20:47Sweet, docile.
20:50Everything about her full of grace and delicacy.
20:53If I were thinking of marriage, I believe I'd snap her up this instant, but I'm not.
20:57Not for a long while yet.
20:59I mean to establish myself properly before I look for her eye.
21:03Hmm.
21:03In my experience, when a man's seen a woman, he likes as much as that.
21:08His remaining bachelor will depend on her resolution rather than his.
21:12Very good.
21:13But not true in this case.
21:14No?
21:15Absolutely not.
21:17In five years' time, I might be looking for a wife.
21:19But do you know my real passion?
21:21Are you guys?
21:21What?
21:22Medicine.
21:23Science.
21:24Knowledge.
21:25If I could reveal something of the primitive tissue that underlies all life.
21:30You, me, the song thrush, Rosalind Vinci, that's what excites me, fair brother.
21:36Have you told her this?
21:37No, of course not.
21:38She's a woman.
21:40You don't talk about primitive tissue when you're talking to a woman.
21:42I very much regret these circumstances, Mr. Ladislaw, as I was looking forward myself to making your closer acquaintance.
21:56I have been thinking of taking a more active part in the political life of the county.
22:05And to that end, acquiring one of the local newspapers, I should have welcomed the opportunity of consulting you in this matter.
22:16If you are anywhere near the county, I would be most happy to welcome you as my guest when we might discuss matters very much to our mutual advantage.
22:33Ah, Dr. Lydgate.
22:35Sorry, I'm late.
22:37Not at all.
22:39It's good for you to spare the time.
22:42May we talk as we walk?
22:44Sir.
22:44Here you are.
22:46What are your intentions towards my niece, Miss Rosalind Vinci?
22:51My intentions?
22:54I suppose that my intentions are to continue a very pleasant acquaintanceship.
22:58And nothing more?
23:01Nothing more.
23:03May I suggest to you, with the very greatest respect, that a man of your exceptional abilities should hesitate before engrossing the whole attention and endangering the marriage prospects of a vulnerable woman.
23:16May I, with utmost humility, suggest that you moderate your attendance upon Miss Vinci, and allow her other admirers a little more opportunity of engaging her attention.
23:32You may suggest that, sir, if you feel it is your place to do so, sir, if you feel it is your place to do so.
23:37I do, Dr. Lydgate. Please, do not take offence. You know I think highly of you and wish you to prosper here. I think you will concede I have already been of some assistance to you.
23:49Yes.
23:50Yes.
23:51Yes, of course.
23:52I wish only to help you avoid a painful misunderstanding.
23:56You should go fishing, Cazabon. Or have a turning room, make toys and table legs, that kind of thing, you know? Or get Dorothea to read to you something light.
24:17Now, she may read anything she likes now she's married. Smollett, for instance, he made me laugh uncommonly once, bit about a postillion's pritches.
24:30In short, sir, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood.
24:44You heard Dr. Lydgate himself say that fresh air and exercise will help you mend all the more quickly.
24:50Don't that, Mother.
24:51And the sooner you're well enough to go to Stone Court again, the better. And you too, Rosamond. Your poor uncle's weaker by the minute.
24:57Dr. Lydgate. You have become quite a stranger recently.
25:07Yes. Fred, as you see, is well on the mend. And there have been other calls upon my time.
25:15Do you find Mrs. Cazabon very handsome?
25:21I suppose she is very handsome. But I have not thought about it.
25:25No.
25:29How your practice is growing. First the Chetthams, now the Cazabons.
25:34It's no wonder that you have no time for us.
25:36You mistake me. I would rather attend to the poor at the hospital.
25:40There's more chance of doing good, and one has to listen to less nonsense.
25:43You must excuse me now. I'm bitten to Stone Court and then to the hospital, I think.
25:56Goodbye.
25:57Goodbye.
26:04Oh.
26:05Oh.
26:16Will you get out?
26:17There are things you might repent of, brother. The almighty Lord...
26:21He knows better than I do. Out you go, both of you. Out.
26:24Well, brother, when you lie speechless, you may be tired of having strangers about you, and you may think of me and my children.
26:32I shan't. I shan't think of any of you. I've made my will. I shan't think of any of you. Out you go. Out.
26:38Some people would be ashamed to fill up a place belonging by rights to others.
26:41Oh, no, sister. We must be humble, and let smart folk punch themselves before us.
26:47Shall my mother and I leave, sir?
26:49Oh, no. No. Sit down and stop where you are. Now, you two out. Out. Out.
26:55I shall be downstairs, brother. I shall do my duty, and I pray that the almighty will...
27:01Out. Out. Down the stairs with you.
27:03Out.
27:04Out.
27:05Out.
27:06Out.
27:07Out.
27:08Out.
27:09Out.
27:10Out.
27:11Out.
27:26Out.
27:28You call yourself a raw country girl.
27:29Dr. DeGatey's very clever.
27:31I've certainly found some charms in Middlemarch which are much greater than that.
27:34It's a poor profession.
27:36You've no fortune in your own, my dear.
27:39Surely you will not think of giving your heart to a man without a desire to prosper.
27:44I've made up my mind to take Middlemarch as it comes.
27:46If you mistake me, I would rather attend to the poor at the hostel.
27:50Perfections to become rich.
27:52There's more chance of being good than anything for the flesh.
27:59You did well to send for me, Mary.
28:16He's a good deal weaker.
28:19Dr. DeGate, if he were to die now without his loved ones at his side,
28:26Mr. Vincey must come to him, but how can he be fetched?
28:30What are we to do?
28:31Nothing easier, Mrs. Vincey. I'm returning directly to Middlemarch.
28:34I can take word to Mr. Vincey.
28:36Oh, Dr. DeGate, that is good of you.
28:42He's sleeping very comfortably now.
28:44Oh, Dr. DeGate. Come in. Let me take you over.
29:01It's Dr. DeGate, ma'am.
29:05I'm coming.
29:08I'm coming with a message for Mr. Vincey.
29:11He is at the warehouse.
29:15Yes, of course. What a fool I am.
29:22I shall go there directly.
29:30What's the matter?
29:34Please.
29:35Please tell me.
29:40Oh, I'm so unhappy.
29:45I've tried not to be, but if I am never to see you,
29:52if you do not care about me at all,
29:55then there is nothing in my life that is worth living for.
29:59I...
30:02And then, Jan, you don't...
30:05You don't care about me at all.
30:12My girl...
30:14I...
30:15It's Lindsay.
30:17Rosamund, I...
30:19Please don't cry.
30:21Please.
30:25It's me.
30:26Please.
30:40And you do.
30:42And you do care about me after all.
30:45More than anyone.
30:48I want you to be my wife.
30:49Oh.
31:02Oh, I'm so...
31:04I'm so happy.
31:06I'm so happy.
31:10Oh, God.
31:19Missy.
31:21Missy.
31:22Do you hear?
31:23It's three o'clock in the morning,
31:24and I've got all my faculties.
31:25Do you hear?
31:26Yes, sir.
31:27I've made two wills,
31:28and I want you to burn one of them.
31:29I want you to burn one of them.
31:31It's three o'clock in the morning,
31:33and I've got all my faculties.
31:35Do you hear?
31:36Yes, sir.
31:38I've made two wills,
31:39and I want you to burn one of them.
31:40It's in the chest in the closet.
31:41I want you to take that one out and burn it.
31:45No, sir.
31:46I cannot do that.
31:47You cannot do it?
31:48You cannot do it.
31:49You must.
31:50No, I can't.
31:51No, I can't.
31:52I can't.
31:54You can't.
31:55I can't.
31:56You must.
31:57No, I can't.
31:59I can't.
32:01I can't.
32:02I can't.
32:04I can't.
32:05I can't.
32:06You can't.
32:07you must no I can't it would lay me open to suspicion wait till morning sir till
32:15your brother and sister come again no no look here missy take this money all of
32:24it or don't send the gold you shall have it all only do as I say no I won't sir
32:30I won't touch the will or the money please don't ask me again you'll never
32:36have a chance to get look it's pretty high 200 and there's more in the box and
32:41nobody will know how much there was take it and do as I tell you put away your
32:47money sir I won't touch it I will do anything else you ask me I want let me
32:58give you some cordial
33:06so
33:09so
33:11so
33:15Here we go.
33:45Here we go.
34:15Here we go.
34:45Oh, there's Lydgate, his doctor, I suppose.
34:50Oh, that's a really fine-looking young woman with that fair young man.
34:55Who are they, Sir James? Do you know them?
34:57I see Vincy, the new mayor.
35:02They're probably his son and daughter.
35:05They're a very decent family.
35:06You've seen Vincy at my house.
35:08He's a very good fellow.
35:09Oh, one of your secret political committee, I hear.
35:14Oh, ho, ho, ho.
35:15And one of those who sucks the life out of those wretched handloom weavers at Tipton and Freshett.
35:21That's how his family looks so fair and sleek.
35:24Well, well.
35:26He's a sound man, Vincy.
35:30Who's that man that's wandered into the garden?
35:32Oh, he looks happy enough.
35:34Well, it's time the old man died.
35:38No one there seems to be sorry.
35:41Why?
35:42Toadie, you've never told me Mr Ladislaw has come again.
35:45Ah, yes, he came with me.
35:50He's my guest.
35:51He puts up at Tipton, you know.
35:53He's an excellent young man.
35:55He writes well, talks well.
35:57I'd be glad to give him an opportunity at the Pioneer, you know.
36:01I see.
36:03Writes political speeches, does he?
36:05Did I not mention him before, Casbon?
36:10I asked him some time ago when you were ill
36:12and Dorothea said you couldn't have anybody in the house, you know.
36:17And she asked me to write to him.
36:21And he and I have brought the portrait on top of the carriage.
36:25Yourself in the semblance of Thomas Aquinas.
36:28I knew you'd be pleased by the surprise.
36:35Ladislaw!
36:37Here!
36:39Here he comes.
36:39He wouldn't come in, you know, till I'd announced him.
36:44Here he comes.
36:47Excellent, excellent.
36:48Here he comes.
36:55There you are, you see.
36:57To the life.
36:59A deep, subtle sort of thinker.
37:01Drawing attention to our ultimate destination.
37:04It's, uh, symbolic, you see, the higher style of art.
37:08What do you think, Casbon?
37:11I went into all that a great deal at one time.
37:15Solidarity, transparency, everything of that sort.
37:17I like all that up to a point, but not too far.
37:19It's straining to keep up with.
37:23The flesh is good.
37:26The flesh is good.
37:27There, there.
37:39The flesh is good.
37:52That's him.
37:54Bye, bloke.
37:55Love, child.
37:56Now, the will I hold here in my hand was drawn up by myself on the 9th of August, 1825.
38:13But I find there is a subsequent will, hitherto unknown to me, executed in March, 1828.
38:21Dear, dear.
38:22I shall begin by reading the essential elements of the earlier will, as such appears to be the intentions of the deceased.
38:35To each of my brothers and sisters who shall survive me, I give and bequeath the sum of 200 pounds.
38:41And to my nephews and nieces, 100 pounds.
38:44To Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, 50 pounds.
38:47And my gold-headed cane.
38:49To Mr. Frederick Vinci, 10,000 pounds.
38:59And the whole of the residue of the estate, including the house known as Stone Court, and all the lands and buildings appertaining, go to Mr. Joshua Rigg, who will take henceforth the name of Featherstone.
39:14But there's a second will.
39:15That's right.
39:16There's a further document.
39:18Yes.
39:18We have not yet heard the final wishes of the deceased.
39:21The deceased.
39:22The second, most recent document, revokes all the bequests of the earlier will.
39:33It leaves Stone Court and all the land in the parish of Loic to Joshua Rigg, with the former conditions.
39:42But the remainder of the estate is to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's almshouses.
39:53There are no other bequests whatsoever.
39:59The most unaccountable will I ever heard.
40:16If I'd known, a wagon and sex wouldn't have drawn me from brashing.
40:21Well, it'll do him no good where he's gone.
40:24He was a bad man, and almshouses won't cover it.
40:33I'm a hypocritical old man!
40:36Don't give way to them, see, don't make a fool of yourself, my dear, before these people.
40:44Fred?
40:45Fred?
40:46Come on.
40:51Be brave, Fred.
41:04I do believe he'd better without the money.
41:06That's all very well, Mary, but what's a fellow to do?
41:09I thought I'd be able to pay your father back at once and make everything right.
41:13Mandy's left you nothing, too.
41:14What shall you do now?
41:16Find another situation.
41:20I'm sorry, Fred.
41:21Fred?
41:23Fred?
41:23Oh, my God, he's a little boy.
41:26Fred!
41:27His sister's a little man who was least.
41:30Oh, my God, that voice, and he's mine.
41:32And sat in church with him when he felt like it.
41:35Damn bad day's work.
41:39Walter, I hope you've made your mind up now to go up and pass that examination.
41:44You built too much on your expectations.
41:47Now you must face the consequences.
41:48Would that be too hard on the poor boy?
41:50No, it weren't his fault that wicked old man deceived him.
41:58Fred will turn out well yet.
42:00I know.
42:02And where's there a girl like Rosamund?
42:05Dr. Lydgate, who could have had the highest in the land, he fell in love with her at once.
42:08The sooner that engagement's off, the better.
42:10Oh, Betsy, she's started buying in all the best linen and cotton.
42:15I don't care.
42:16I shall have enough to do with this idle scamp without paying for wedding clothes.
42:20Times are as bad as can be.
42:23Machine-breaking, and I know not what election coming, and revolution, for all I know.
42:29Everybody's ruined.
42:30I don't believe young Lydgate's got a father to his name for all his grand connections.
42:36If he wants my daughter, he can damn well make his own way first.
42:40Oh, Betsy.
42:42What's this, Crabson?
43:05Abdominal tumour, Dr. Lydgate.
43:07Her name's Nancy Nash, patient of Dr. Minchin.
43:09Good morning, Nancy.
43:10How do you feel?
43:11Bad, sir.
43:12Dr. Minchin wants me to open her up and cut it out this morning.
43:17May I take a look, Nancy?
43:21I'll be as gentle as I can.
43:26Tell me when you feel it.
43:30There.
43:33There.
43:37And when I do this?
43:38It's not a tumour, it's a crumb.
43:54Give her a blister and some steel mixture.
43:56Send her home to rest.
43:57What's Dr. Minchin going to say about that?
43:59Cut her open, Crabson.
44:01All right, I'll speak to Dr. Minchin.
44:13I was as tactful as I know how to be, but Minchin took offence.
44:16He's refused to give his services to the new hospital.
44:20Well, we're managed well enough in spite of him.
44:22I should just have to spend more time there myself, that's all.
44:26The devil of these, the work's unpaid.
44:29Still, things can't last as they are.
44:34We'll have all sorts of reforms soon.
44:36Then all the young fellows will be glad to come and study here.
44:39Tertius?
44:39Yes, my darling.
44:43Papa has been saying that our engagement must be given up.
44:47But why?
44:49You don't want to give it up.
44:52Oh, I never give up anything that I choose to do.
44:57Good.
45:00This is the house.
45:02It belonged to Mrs. Bratton.
45:03Oh, I thought it was long to live here.
45:07And it's so near the hospital.
45:11Papa says it's too expensive for a doctor.
45:15Say no more, I'll take it.
45:17Oh!
45:18It's absolutely the right thing.
45:19I wouldn't have you like Dr. Minchin's wife
45:21in a pokey little, ill-proportioned place.
45:23No.
45:24Damn the expense.
45:27I'll use my patrimony.
45:30You shall have everything that is proper for a lady to have.
45:33It's degrading to be mean about such things.
45:36And, Rosie,
45:38rather than defer our marriage,
45:39why not hasten it?
45:41Oh, Tertius.
45:42You wouldn't mind about new clothes.
45:43Those can be bought afterwards.
45:44I've never heard of wedding clothes
45:46being bought after the marriage.
45:47You wouldn't deny me for the sake of a few clothes.
45:51No.
45:53I shall be happy.
45:55I've made you altogether mine.
46:03I shall be happy.
46:05Congratulations.
46:06Oh, that's so easy.
46:07It's hard to enjoy ourselves.
46:11There's no way you're going to...
46:12Handsome couple, though.
46:14No, you're not.
46:15Handsome is as handsome does.
46:17I wouldn't wed a girl of mine to that one.
46:20It's a well-known fact
46:20he tried to cut up Mrs. Gobey
46:22after she was dead.
46:24No, he never did, he?
46:26Poised over her with a knife
46:27when her brevis burst in, I heard.
46:29No.
46:31Handsome, no.
46:32Very handsome.
46:33Very smart.
46:34Hair of a hypocrite.
46:36Come and congratulate
46:38the bride and groom.
46:40Not that I'm not thankful
46:42for my Ned's sake,
46:43though he could afford
46:44to keep such a wife
46:45better than Dr. Lydgate
46:46for all his grand ways.
46:49I've never liked it
46:50when strangers come into a town
46:52putting on airs.
46:53My Nicholas was a stranger here once.
46:56Abraham and Moses
46:57were strangers in the land.
46:59And we are told
47:00to entertain strangers,
47:01are we not?
47:02I wasn't speaking
47:03in a religious sense, Harriet.
47:08He tried to cut up Mrs. Gobey
47:10after she was dead.
47:12No, he never did, he?
47:14Poised over her with a knife
47:15when her brevis burst in, I heard.
47:17No.
47:19Handsome, no.
47:20Yeah, very handsome.
47:21Very smart.
47:22Hair of a hypocrite.
47:24Come and congratulate
47:26the bride and groom.
47:27What do you do?
47:28I'll tell you.
47:28Well, not that I'm not thankful
47:30for my Ned's sake,
47:31though he could afford
47:32to keep such a wife
47:33better than Dr. Lydgate
47:34for all his grand ways.
47:37I've never liked it
47:38when strangers come into a town
47:40putting on airs.
47:41My Nicholas was a stranger
47:43here once.
47:44Abraham and Moses
47:45were strangers in the land.
47:47And we are told
47:48to entertain strangers,
47:49are we not?
47:50I wasn't speaking
47:51in a religious sense, Harriet.
47:58Mr. Brooke.
47:59Good day, Tim.
48:01Vincey's had to dig
48:02deep in his pockets
48:03over this palaver.
48:04You think he's got himself
48:05a bargain, then?
48:06With Lydgate?
48:08No better than Brooke got
48:10when he bought himself
48:10the Pioneer.
48:12And that young rogue,
48:13he's got to edit it.
48:15They say Brooke's
48:16putting up for Parliament
48:17with his protege
48:18to puff him in the Pioneer.
48:20Who is he, then,
48:21the young sprig?
48:22Some loose fish
48:23from London, I suppose.
48:25Name's Ladislaw.
48:27Some sort of foreigner,
48:28I gather.
48:30He'll begin with a flourish
48:31about the rights of man
48:32and end up murdering
48:33some poor wench.
48:35I wonder.
48:38The Pioneer considers
48:39this to be a time
48:40when the crying needs
48:41of the country
48:41might overcome
48:42the modesty
48:43and reluctance
48:44to public action
48:45on the part of men
48:45of large experience
48:46of life,
48:47men whose minds
48:48have acquired breadth
48:49as well as concentration,
48:51dispassionateness
48:52tempered by intelligence
48:53and energy.
48:54The name of Brooke
48:55of Tipton
48:56comes to mind
48:57in this connection,
48:58and the electors
48:59of Middlemarch
49:00would be fortunate,
49:01indeed,
49:01to secure the services
49:02of such a man.
49:03Aye, Ladislaw,
49:04that's good and to the point.
49:06Dispassionateness
49:07tempered by intelligence
49:08and energy.
49:10I like that, yes.
49:11I like that very well.
49:13I'll meet later.
49:28No, wait.
49:29I've changed my mind.
49:31I'll come with you.
49:31Oh, there's a particular
49:33sketch I wanted to take
49:34within the churchyard.
49:35Oh, I'll see you together.
49:39With pleasure, sir.
49:41Very well, Peter.
49:42Hold on, walk on.
49:54Master's out, sir,
49:56but Mrs. Cassiborne's in.
49:58She began to see,
49:59I'm sure.
49:59Oh, very well.
50:02Wouldn't want to be
50:02a nuisance, though.
50:04Gee, you're in the library, sir.
50:07I'm so glad to see you.
50:09I really just came
50:10for the chance
50:10of seeing you alone.
50:11Wanted to talk about things
50:12like we did in Rome.
50:14It seems strange
50:16how much I said to you, then.
50:17I remember it all.
50:22Can you spend all your
50:24days shut up indoors
50:25with these?
50:27Not all my days.
50:29Not all the hours
50:30in any day.
50:32And I'm happy to be here.
50:34You look so much paler
50:35than you did in Rome.
50:36Couldn't you get your
50:37husband a secretary
50:38and you could ride
50:39and get your colour back?
50:42How can you think of that?
50:43I should have no happiness
50:44if I didn't help him
50:45with his work.
50:47Did you know I was
50:48his secretary for a while?
50:49I should not have thought
50:50that person would have
50:51suited you.
50:51No.
50:52Nor did it suit
50:53Mr. Cassiborne.
50:55Perhaps you were not
50:57a steady enough worker.
51:00No.
51:01And I don't think
51:02Mr. Cassiborne likes
51:04anyone to
51:04overlook his work.
51:07I don't know too
51:08thoroughly what he's
51:08doing.
51:10Too uncertain of himself.
51:13I made the mistake
51:15of offering him
51:16my opinions.
51:17I'm afraid he dislikes
51:18me because I too often
51:19venture to disagree
51:20with him.
51:22And yet he overcame
51:23his dislike of you
51:24as far as his actions
51:25were concerned.
51:27Yes.
51:27He has shown a sense
51:29of justice in family
51:30matters.
51:32He understood what
51:33an abominable thing
51:34it was for my
51:35grandmother to be
51:35disinherited merely
51:36for falling in love
51:37with a poor man.
51:39I wonder how she bore
51:40the change from
51:41wealth to poverty.
51:43Do you know much
51:44about her?
51:45Well, she married
51:46for love, that's all.
51:48There's nothing to be
51:49said against my
51:50grandfather except
51:50that he was a
51:51Polish patriot
51:52who was forced
51:53to flee his homeland
51:54and obliged to give
51:55music lessons
51:55for his living.
51:56For this alone
51:57was she disinherited.
51:59My mother ran away
52:00from her family too
52:01to get her living.
52:03Went on the stage,
52:04in fact.
52:05See, I come from
52:06rebellious blood
52:06on both sides.
52:09And your father?
52:10I remember him
52:11very little.
52:12He died when I was
52:13very young.
52:16He inherited the
52:17musical talents.
52:20I remember him
52:21playing the violin.
52:24And I remember
52:25his slow walk.
52:30And I remember
52:31his long, thin hands.
52:34And I remember once
52:35he'd been lying in bed
52:36for a long time.
52:37I think he was very ill.
52:38And all I could think
52:40of was how hungry I was.
52:43How I only had
52:43a little piece of bread.
52:47He made himself known
52:48to Mr. Cazabon
52:49shortly before he died
52:50and that was
52:51our last hungry day.
52:55Such a different life
52:56from mine.
52:59I've always had
53:00too much of everything.
53:06Do you really think
53:07you'll be satisfied
53:08working with my uncle?
53:10Oh, for the time being,
53:11I think.
53:12There's work for me to do
53:13here and I belong to
53:14nobody anywhere else.
53:15But if you think I
53:15shouldn't stay,
53:17then I will go.
53:18Why should I think that?
53:19I should like you to stay
53:20very much.
53:23Then I will stay.
53:24Perhaps you should be guided
53:33by Mr. Cazabon.
53:36I spoke without thinking
53:38of anything but my own feelings.
53:41Can't you wait now
53:42and mention it to him?
53:43No, I can't wait today.
53:45Your uncle's expecting me.
53:46I feel the need
53:48to use my body.
53:50A five-mile walk
53:51to Tipton
53:51with the sun
53:52gleaming on the wet grass
53:54is just what I require.
53:57Goodbye.
53:59Goodbye.
53:59Goodbye.
53:59Goodbye.
54:29VIOLIN PLAYS
54:59VIOLIN PLAYS
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