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After Esther recovers from her illness, Jarndyce proposes marriage to her. Later, Lady Dedlock confesses to Esther and asks for forgiveness. Young Jo expires, and Tulkinghorn is surprised and shot in his study.
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01:11Will you open the curtains now, Charlie, please?
01:57It's not what I expected.
02:00I thought I might not be able to recognise myself.
02:05But I am still me.
02:09For those who care to know...
02:12Miss...
02:13Don't cry, Charlie.
02:16I never thought I was a great beauty.
02:19It's because you're better, Miss.
02:22And everyone wants to see her.
02:24Everyone.
02:28Mr. John Dice and Miss Ada.
02:30And Mr. Richard's here now.
02:35And everyone on this stage keep asking.
02:39And Jenny and Lucy from the Brickfields wave at me at the gate nearly every day now.
02:46And Jenny says there was a lady coming who she'd never seen before.
02:53I decided to ask someone to see you, Miss.
02:58Please let her come in.
03:00Oh.
03:04Thank you, dear little Charlie.
03:06I think we'll see in a day or two.
03:36We'll see in a day or two.
03:57Esther.
04:01Oh, Esther.
04:04At last.
04:07Oh, Esther.
04:15Esther.
04:20You had no right to hide yourself away.
04:23I had a mind to bring the regiment down and put the whole house under siege.
04:34I wish Cousin John and Richard could be friends again.
04:36And especially today.
04:39Richard was so worried about you.
04:42Not now.
04:44He sees a strength in you as I do.
04:47Oh, I wish you had more of that strength, Esther.
04:51I mean, strong enough to be patient and to accept that things are as they are.
04:55Richard lives on hopes and dreams.
04:58Oh, I'm sorry.
04:59I meant to talk about you and no one else and nothing else.
05:05But I love him so much.
05:07Being with you again, I find I have to talk about him because I know you'll understand.
05:12I'm sorry.
05:14I mustn't tire you.
05:17I'm not ill now.
05:19That's a sad time.
05:20Over and done with.
05:22Tell me what worries you about Richard.
05:26I want to be his wife.
05:30I don't mind if he's never rich.
05:35I know he wants the money for my sake.
05:37But it seems to be the only thing that's on his mind.
05:45I don't want it to change him.
05:48You go to new lawyers who teach you to mistrust and suspect me.
05:52They tell you, I gather, that my interests conflict with yours.
05:55Our claims clash, is that it?
05:58You know the truth well enough.
05:59I've tried to keep out of Jandice and Jandice as far as I possibly could.
06:03And I've tried to keep you out.
06:04The case is poison, Rick.
06:06We are interested parties.
06:09It may be very well for you if I take no interest in the case,
06:11but that may not be as well for me.
06:13You see, poison.
06:15Only for me.
06:16Of course not.
06:16It taints everybody.
06:18But not you, sir.
06:19Well, it would if I let it.
06:21There might be an advantage to be gained from an outward show of indifference to the case.
06:25It could persuade others to be lax about their own interests.
06:27That might be convenient for you.
06:31Is that an accusation?
06:38I don't make any underhand charge against you, sir.
06:41What then?
06:44Whether it pleases you or displeases you, I must maintain my rights.
06:49And aiders.
06:50The fact is that you and I are at issue.
06:53Under one of the wills in dispute, I stand to receive much more than you.
06:56Now, it may not be the will that's upheld in the end, but it has its chance.
06:59Therefore, I shall pursue the case in my own way with my own lawyers.
07:03Good God, boy.
07:07Rick.
07:07As you well know, sir, I'm now of age.
07:13And the case can't last forever.
07:17There is truth and justice in it somewhere.
07:26Harold Skimpole introduced him to this new lawyer.
07:30Some favor from a family friend.
07:32Skimpole, of course, met the man of the usual manner.
07:35More unpaid bills which someone settled for him.
07:38Skimpole was impressed by the man's civil and agreeable manner.
07:43Do you think the man set out to make a client of Richard?
07:46Oh, yes, clearly.
07:47Yet another leak sucking away at the case.
07:49He bribed Skimpole to introduce him to Richard.
07:52Five pounds.
07:53Skimpole told me in his last letter.
07:55Well, he would tell me, wouldn't he?
07:56What harm would he see in it?
07:58Has he been seeing a great deal of Richard?
08:01It seems so.
08:04Richard, of course, doesn't talk to me anymore as a friend.
08:07And he needs one.
08:09Oh, is that pity?
08:12Esther.
08:13This is most unfair of me.
08:17Forgive me.
08:18The moment you're back amongst us,
08:20we start burdening you with our troubles.
08:24But we've missed you so much.
08:27Well, I've missed you.
08:30I've come to depend on you.
08:32I hadn't realized how much.
08:36When you were ill,
08:39the thought of losing you,
08:41I'm sorry, but the doctor warned me it was possible.
08:46The thought frightened me.
08:50I had to imagine life without you.
08:55It was a dreadful,
08:57a really dreadful thought.
09:27I want you to understand
09:29that you were ill,
09:30owe me nothing if there is any debt between us it's all on my side you
09:37brought a happiness into my life at an age when I can hardly expect it age is
09:42of course a factor between us and I don't want to play it down you may feel
09:48that such a difference is too great for anything more than the very dear
09:52friendship we have now and if you do feel that I shall respect it and of
09:57course there would be no reason at all why we wouldn't continue as far as
10:01possible as we are now I'm not trying to persuade you but I have to tell you the
10:06changes in our life are on the way Richard has already left home it can
10:14only be a matter of time before he and Ada marry so we will be alone here our old
10:21mode of life broken up if there are just the two of us will you let me be your
10:27protector in the fullest sense I'm asking you to marry me understanding as you do
10:35that I'll never change from the man I am now for better or ill there's nothing
10:39more to me than the man you know I'm sure you'll want some time to consider
10:43please don't think you need to hurry your answer perhaps when you come back from
10:47your convalescence when you have had the privacy in which to think if you have not
10:54decided then I shall not press you I I know that your answer either way will be
10:59unequivocal I'm prepared to wait Esther
11:05what if you were to marry someone else how would I feel then what would I do no one
11:16else yes my answer is yes
11:35if you projected my invitation I would have found no further use for this out of mine until my dying
11:40day
11:41oh I tell you Miss Somersom I swear I would have pulled it down brick by brick
11:49now don't keep looking at that place do you think that's mine that mausoleum
11:54Sir Lester Deadhead lives there if that arrogant lump of base metal can be said to be alive now I
12:02tell you Miss Somersom I will see you properly settle in then I leave you to run about
12:09I make a present I make a present of it to you see that you look after your mistress
12:15yes sir
12:17yes sir
12:20yes
12:21yes
12:21yes
12:22yes
12:22yes
12:22yes
12:22yes
12:22yes
12:22yes
12:24yes
12:26yes
12:26yes
12:29yes
12:29yes
12:29quite a bit
12:32yes
12:35yes
12:37yes
12:55no
13:00please don't hide your face from me I know you've been very ill but you're much better now thank
13:09god I want to talk privately to you Charlie we're going back to the house I'll follow later yes miss
13:38Esther I am your mother
13:48forgive me
13:52forgive
14:00and when you were ill I was frantic with worry I went to where you live I didn't dare approach
14:07the
14:08house I could have called on your guardian because of our old friendship but I couldn't trust myself
14:15not to break down not to say that it was my daughter my only child who was so desperately sick
14:26I didn't have the courage for that honesty I still don't
14:30there are so many things to think of when we keep a secret like this for so many years
14:36my husband you your life I'm not sure now I should have told you but I had to
14:46I had to meet you as your mother just this once to say thank god you're alive
14:55and have a proper life and future ahead of you
15:08Esther
15:12it was thought I was stillborn and I was simply laid aside
15:15but my mother's sister found signs of life in me and took it upon herself to bring me up
15:19in rigid secrecy my aunt my aunt never saw my mother again never wrote to her
15:30deliberately set herself and me apart from everyone she'd ever known
15:36that was the woman Lawrence Boythorne loved would have married but for me
15:43but you had no part in what happened not a knowing part no I understand now why my aunt's behavior
15:51was
15:51so harsh there must have been many times when she wondered what her life might have been
15:55done with Esther
16:00what of the present we have to protect your mother as best we can
16:06what can we do
16:09she had no idea I was alive
16:13she was safe so she thought until the visit from the young man
16:15Mr. Guppy
16:17there is something I can do there I think
16:20but the lawyer
16:22Tulkinghorn
16:23she said
16:25no one can ever be safe from such a man as long as he lives
16:32I have had a great deal of trouble to find you sir
16:35have you?
16:36I have been here many times
16:37and every time I am told Mr. Tulkinghorn is not at home
16:41he's engaged he is this and he is that and I am not to see him
16:44quite right
16:45quite true
16:46but now you sent for me
16:48you sent him to bring me
16:51I do not like to be ordered
16:53I wait a long time
16:54you had better have something good for me
16:57something better than last time
16:58I have nothing for you
17:01you have treated me
17:03mean and shabby
17:05you tricked me to give you information
17:08you get me to come here in the dress my lady wore on the night she was with that boy
17:12and you promised me something
17:14I paid you
17:15paid you well wench
17:18two sovereigns
17:19I never spend them
17:21I despise them
17:23I refuse them
17:24now you will pay me what you promise
17:29what would that be?
17:34a new place
17:37new employment
17:40a high place
17:41with
17:42someone of importance
17:45you have influence
17:47with many people
17:50and you must keep your promise
17:54I've brought you here to warn you
17:56and I shall not warn you twice
17:58you must not come here
17:59or try to speak to me ever again
18:01and you must not go to Mr. Snagsby's house
18:02or try to speak to him ever again
18:05yes
18:05again and again
18:06forever
18:07you've made yourself a nuisance wench
18:09and it will stop
18:15in this city there are houses of correction
18:17they have treadmills for women there
18:23a wench of your spirit would not enjoy being shot up in there under hard discipline
18:29you cannot
18:30the law takes action to protect good English citizens
18:34from unwelcome visits by troublesome ladies
18:38so much I do indeed promise you
18:47would you like the police to strap you down on a board
18:50and carry you through the streets to jail
19:06why don't you pick up your money before you do
19:22why don't you pick up your money before you do
19:37thank you sir
19:41I wouldn't have put you to the bother but
19:44my little woman being so given to jealousy
19:47and seeing that French lady hovering about the shop
19:55I'm sure I don't wish the lady in prison sir
19:59any more than you I'm sure
20:06what I say I mean
20:09what I threaten
20:10I will do
20:30are you mrs guppy
20:32I sent a note round two days ago
20:35I wanted to call on your son mr. William guppy
20:38miss summerson
20:39oh welcome to my home miss summerson
20:42oh please come in do
20:46my william is waiting
21:10miss summerson this is the greatest of honors and delights
21:13mr. guppy thank you
21:24mr. guppy may I talk to you alone
21:36for a moment please
21:40mother
21:43mother
21:44mother
21:46mother
21:46Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:24I asked to see you here rather than at Mr. Kendra's office because I did not wish to cause you
22:29any embarrassment.
22:34You will remember an occasion at Mr. Jarndyce's house when you spoke to me in confidence.
22:38You made a declaration.
22:40You turned me down.
22:41There were no witnesses but you must admit it.
22:43Oh, you proposed to me, Mr. Guppy, and I declined without any reservation, whatever.
22:48And the proposal on my part was final and they're terminated.
22:51Will you admit to that?
22:54Most fully and freely, Mr. Guppy.
23:01Ha, ha, ha, ha.
23:07Very honourable of you, I'm sure.
23:12I regret that my arrangements in life will put it out of my power to ever renew that offer in
23:20any shape or form.
23:22But I assure you, Miss Summerson, it will ever be a memory entwined with friendship's powers.
23:32Do you wish my professional assistance?
23:36You said on that occasion...
23:38I've now repudiated on both sides.
23:40You thought you might be able to advance my interests by looking for information about my background.
23:46I want you to understand that there is nothing you could discover which would do me the least service or
23:52give me the slightest pleasure.
23:54You may have already abandoned the project.
23:57If not, I am here to beg you to lay it aside.
24:03Mr. Guppy, I know my personal history.
24:07I assure you there is nothing to be gained from any more inquiry.
24:15I have come to you as privately as possible.
24:20You will do me the kindness, I hope, of respecting my confidences.
24:23I have respected yours.
24:28Since my illness, I think I have no need for delicacy in asking for your help.
24:43Upon my word and honour.
24:48Upon my life, Miss Summerson.
24:51As I am a living man.
24:53I'll take my oath to it.
24:54I'll never go another step in opposition to your will.
24:57In what I promise at the present time, touching the matters now in question, I speak the truth.
25:01The old truth and nothing but the truth.
25:04Miss Summerson, upon my honour and soul.
25:12You may depend upon me.
25:25Thank you, Mr. Guppy.
25:28I do.
25:52I do.
25:55Stop him!
25:57Stop him!
26:01Hold him!
26:05Stop him!
26:09Hold him, sir! Hold him!
26:16Joe!
26:18You!
26:20You!
26:24It was your illness the young lady caught you, Joe.
26:29That was your way of thanking her for all her kindness.
26:33You don't know what you've done.
26:38She was a lovely lady, sir.
26:41You wouldn't know her for the same now,
26:43except for her voice and her kind ways with people.
26:47Who was ever kinder to you, Joe?
26:51And all you could do was run away.
26:58What you've done!
27:03I didn't mean to.
27:05I didn't know she got ill.
27:07I was took away that night.
27:10Who took you?
27:13Who was it?
27:14I mustn't say.
27:16I mustn't say.
27:16Who took you?
27:20He put me in a hospital.
27:23And then I had four half-crowns off him.
27:26Then he said I had to go on the train.
27:32Move on.
27:34And keep moving on.
27:37And never come nearer to London at 40 miles.
27:41Or else he made me wish I was dead.
27:45And that will be if he sees me.
27:49But I'm ill again.
27:51And I've got no money.
27:54So I come back here.
27:57Somewhere to hide.
28:02I couldn't think of anywhere else.
28:10He's named Inspector Bucket, if you want to know.
28:15And it's Mr. Tolkien on that's sitting on to me.
28:19Ask him what I found wrong, cos I don't know.
28:27No.
28:29No.
28:29Don't be frightened of me.
28:31No-one's going to hurt you now.
28:36Come on.
28:38Let's walk, hmm?
28:40That's right.
28:41Let's walk.
28:43My dear physician.
28:45Most meritorious distinguished honourable officer.
28:49What a joy and a privilege.
28:53To be consulted by my Prince of the Medical Arts.
28:59Advise you?
29:00Well, of course I can advise you.
29:03I know the very place for the little creature.
29:07You shall be lodged in the safest of hands.
29:11In the care of the staunchest of men.
29:15How wise of you to come to me, Dr. Woodcourt.
29:19But your healer's wisdom would guide you here.
29:23I have a friend who is heart, soul and brain.
29:28The perfect protector.
29:31We must go immediately.
29:33Welcome home, sir.
29:35Welcome, indeed.
29:37A thousand welcomes.
29:40Come along.
29:42Come along.
29:43The general keeps early hours.
29:46Come along.
30:20I take it for granted there's no present infection about the boy.
30:25No, I'm quite sure of that.
30:27But he's very low.
30:30In years he's a child, but physically he's a starved old man.
30:34There's nothing we can do except...
30:37Let him rest and take what food he can.
30:45He...
30:47He may not recover.
30:51I can't say.
30:54If you'll excuse my curiosity, sir.
30:58Am I right in thinking that you take more than a common interest in the lad?
31:03Because Miss Summerson did before you.
31:05Yes.
31:07That's...
31:07That's quite right.
31:11I think he tried to run away from a hospital or a workhouse.
31:14Which anyway is not a place that I take kindly to as a doctor.
31:18Nor does any decent man.
31:30I'm bound to tell you that I'm likely to be turned out of here, neck and crop, at a moment's
31:35notice,
31:36if certain gentlemen have their whim to do it.
31:41But until then, such as the place is, and as long as it lasts, it's at your service.
31:52This...
31:53Mr. Tulkinghorn of Lincoln's Inn.
31:57A highly respected gentleman.
32:00Too high and mighty a man to hound a boy like that, wouldn't you think?
32:06Do you know the man, sir?
32:08I've seen him once or twice.
32:10Do you know what kind of man he is?
32:13No.
32:13Well, I can tell you that.
32:16He's a very bad kind of man.
32:20He's a slow, torturing kind of man.
32:23He's no more flesh and blood than a rusty old car vine is.
32:28He's one of the men I spoke of just now who could have me out of here the minute he
32:32had a mind to.
32:36He's caused me more trouble in my life than all other men I've known put together.
32:43He goads me, that man.
32:46He goads me.
32:48And chafes me.
32:50Until I feel that I could...
32:57He's that kind of man.
33:12Rosa, I'm going to send you away.
33:16I mean today.
33:18A few hours from now.
33:22What have I done wrong?
33:26Nothing.
33:28Nothing at all.
33:31Come here.
33:34I'll try to explain.
33:38Remember, you are not to tell anyone what I'm going to say to you now.
33:46Do you think I'm a different person to you from the one I appear to everyone else?
33:52Yes.
33:54But I think I know you as you really are.
33:58Do you?
34:00You know I like to have you near me because you're young and have a natural way with you and
34:06you're fond of me and grateful.
34:10And I know that to lose you will be painful to me and make me lonely.
34:16You know that, Rosa.
34:20But I want to make you happy.
34:22I promised you that.
34:24And I know there is only one way I can keep my promise.
34:28You must go away.
34:30Away from me.
34:34You cannot understand now, but one day you will.
34:41I want you to remember me as I am now.
34:45And not as the woman people will talk of in a little while.
34:47My maid.
34:49Remember, whatever happens next, it is for your happiness.
34:58For your sake.
35:17I asked you to call Mr. Rouncewell because I wish to know whether anything has passed between you and your
35:23son concerning his fancy for my young attendant.
35:26I advise my son to conquer that fancy.
35:28And has he?
35:30Probably not. Not yet, Lady Dedlock.
35:32The subject has been on my mind.
35:35And I find it tiresome.
35:38I'm sorry.
35:40If you cannot give me an assurance that this fancy is at an end, then the girl had better go.
35:44I can give no such assurance.
35:48Then that ends the matter.
35:50Lady Dedlock, I hope this young woman is not being dealt an injury she doesn't merit.
35:58Deprived of her present advantages on account of being noticed by a factory owner's son.
36:07Would that not be harsh?
36:09The girl is a very good girl. I have nothing to say against her.
36:13But she is so insensible to her privilege and good fortune that she is in love.
36:18Or supposes she is.
36:20And is unable to appreciate my patronage.
36:35It seems you're misplaced here, Rosa.
36:38Shall I have her sent back to the village?
36:41Or would you prefer to take her with you?
36:43I prefer the course which will soonest relieve you of the encumbrance.
36:48I'll take you home, child.
36:56Sir Lester?
37:24I intended calling on you as soon as I got myself decently settled somewhere.
37:28I'm very unsettled, as you understand.
37:32I didn't expect to see England again for some time.
37:36Instead, in a mere few months, I'm thrown back here again.
37:40On dry land, but all to sea.
37:42Yeah.
37:45But, of course, I knew you'd want to hear immediately about the boy and what he told me.
37:52And because of Miss Summerson's illness.
37:56I do hope... I'm sure she has the best medical attention.
38:01Is she quite recovered?
38:04With some people, the effects linger.
38:07You've no cause to worry about her, Woodcourt.
38:10She's accepted what has happened.
38:12Well, you'll see for yourself.
38:15She hasn't lost her spirit.
38:17No, I'm sure not.
38:20As a doctor, you'll be used to the consequences of such an illness.
38:25It is different with someone you feel close to.
38:43Mr Woodcourt, you've taken us by surprise.
38:46You are supposed to be in East India.
38:49Miss Summerson.
38:52Mr Woodcourt's journey turned out to be short and dramatic as to...
38:58This is a shipwrecked mariner returned to us.
39:11You're not injured, Mr Woodcourt.
39:13I'm quite well.
39:16Thank you, Miss Summerson.
39:18Miss Summerson.
39:19He's a hero from the side of things.
39:24We...
39:25helped each other as best we could.
39:34I'm sure you're...
39:37quite well again.
39:39Oh, yes.
39:41Quite myself.
39:47Where was this shipwreck?
39:49We were entering...
39:51the South Atlantic.
39:56Will you go back to sea?
40:00I think there's plenty to keep me in my own country.
40:08Mr Woodcourt's already back in the thick of things, Esther.
40:12It seems our affairs won't let him alone.
40:15Let him come here.
40:20Eh?
40:29Sure...
40:30Give it up.
40:33...
40:41It's the house.
40:44you something. Yes Jo. What is it? I've been thinking. What I've been thinking is this.
41:00When I've been moved on as far as I ever can and I can't be moved no further
41:14perhaps when I'm gone perhaps you could write a notice
41:27only write it very big so anyone can see it anywhere
41:39and it could say I never meant to do it and that I was truly sorry for what happened to
41:52the lady
41:58only write it very big
42:13and the other lady
42:18I don't know who she is
42:25but I told her at the burying ground
42:31he was very good to me
42:37he was very good to me
42:41but I don't know nothing
42:59you run a considerable risk harboring this boy
43:03should mr. tulkinghorn find out
43:05out I go
43:08I've no doubt of it
43:11but I can't be ruled by worries mr. jarndyce
43:16I have them
43:18but I'm not commanded by them
43:25I wonder if
43:27mr. tulkinghorn knows the risks he runs
43:35a man of his kind
43:39stores up trouble for himself
43:42he's a lawyer George
43:44he lives by trouble
43:46he feeds it
43:47so that it may feed him
43:53was there ever anything more troublesome in this world than the law
44:01our father
44:02the giant in heaven
44:05hallowed be by me
44:08like a look
44:09like a look
44:11like a look
44:11on earth as it is in heaven
44:16give us this day our daily bread
44:19and forgive us our trespasses
44:22as we forgive them that trespass against us
44:26lead us not into temptation
44:30but deliver us from evil
44:33for thine is the kingdom
44:36fire and the glory
44:37forever and ever
44:46dead
44:48your majesty
44:53dead
44:54my lords
44:57and gentlemen
44:58dead
45:00men and women
45:03born with heavenly
45:06compassion in your hearts
45:08and dying thus
45:10around us every day
45:21I am surprised by the course you have taken
45:26I was not prepared for it
45:31I consider it a departure from our agreement
45:35from your promise
45:39it puts us in a new position
45:41lady deadlock
45:44I don't approve of it
45:45I don't understand you
45:49oh I think you do
45:51we must not fence and parry now
45:56you know you like this girl
45:57this Rosa
45:58you know you haven't sent her away
46:00for the reasons that you pretended to Lester
46:02and the factory owner
46:03you know you did it in order to separate her from any
46:06scandal
46:08exposure
46:10impending over yourself
46:13well
46:16well lady deadlock
46:17I object to that
46:19I consider it a dangerous proceeding
46:22because it will awaken speculation
46:24and rumor in the house
46:28also it is a violation of our agreement
46:31your conduct was to be exactly as it was before
46:34you were to be exactly as before
46:36but you're not
46:38you have made a change
46:43I have done what I can
46:45to spare an innocent girl
46:46from the taint
46:47of my impending shame
46:49that is all
46:50quite lady deadlock
46:52you are not to be trusted
46:56the letter and spirit of our arrangement
46:58altogether precluded any such action on your part
47:04spare the girl
47:06of what value or importance is she
47:08her family name has been compromised
47:13spare this girl
47:16no one can be spared
47:28since you are not to be trusted
47:31I must declare our agreement void
47:35and take my own course
47:41are you prepared for that
48:03that is all then
48:04lady deadlock
48:06good night
48:12is this my final notice
48:19I wish to be quite clear on that
48:22no further notice
48:25do you intend undeceiving my husband tonight
48:29regarding my secret
48:35it's not your secret
48:38it's mine
48:41I hold it in trust for sir leicester and the family
48:45will you tell him tonight
48:47will you tell him tonight
48:49no
48:53tomorrow
48:54tomorrow
48:56perhaps
48:59it may be tomorrow
49:01tomorrow
50:19What are you doing here?
50:22Didn't I make it plain to you?
50:27You'll gain nothing by this.
50:56What are you doing here?
50:58What are you doing here?
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