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00:18It is a sad fact of life that if a young woman is unlucky enough to come into the world
00:22without expectations,
00:24she had better do all she can to ensure that she is beautiful.
00:31To be poor and handsome is misfortune enough, but to be penniless and plain is a hard fate
00:40indeed.
00:42Or so my mother taught us.
00:45Mr. Bennet, have you heard Netherfield Park is lit at last?
00:50I have not.
00:55Do you want to know who has taken it?
00:58You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
01:01I would like to know.
01:04It has been lent to a Mr. Bingley, a single man of large fortune.
01:10Four or five thousand a year.
01:14I heard someone came down on Monday in a chaise and four.
01:18From whom did you hear this?
01:20Girls, you must prepare yourselves.
01:24Mrs. Long told me he is from the north of England.
01:27He saw Netherfield Park, fell in love with it and snapped it up straight away.
01:31In order to understand my mother's enthusiasm for this stranger's arrival, we must start
01:37at the beginning.
01:40With cake in Meriton, England, where a wealthy boy met beautiful girl.
01:52Father, meet mother.
01:54Sadly, the happiness of this union was to be undone by an archaic entail that meant only
01:59a male heir could inherit my father's estate.
02:02And what followed was girl, after girl, after girl, after girl, after girl.
02:13That's his fortune.
02:15And her beauty were worthless.
02:18Mother spent her days trying to involve father in how to overcome their dire situation.
02:23But father hid in his newspaper, indifferent to the cause.
02:26Why should he engage?
02:28When the time comes, I'll be dead anyway.
02:32Our mother, not known for giving up easily, found a chink of light, a saving grace.
02:39Each of her children possessed a certain je ne sais quoi.
02:43Be it Jane's beauty, Lizzie's wit, Kitty's good humor, or Lydia's spirit.
02:55If she could secure advantageous marriages for each of us girls, it would be enough to save
03:01us all from destitution.
03:04Although I had not found my own best quality, I was quite sure that I would.
03:11My fault, Mary.
03:13Until the day my mother's true opinion of me was confirmed.
03:16Mary has an awfully ruddy complexion.
03:20She does not have the complexion of her sisters, that is true.
03:24And she is clumsy, ungainly, maladroite, as they say.
03:29Four good marriages will have to do.
03:32I only hope she does not ruin her sister's chances.
03:54I only hope she does not ruin her sister's chances.
04:12if you're not the beautiful one the quick-witted one or the ones that are good at games and full
04:19of youthful energy then who are you and what can you do if you're the odd one out
04:27is it possible you'll ever find a way to fit in
04:34worse i think
04:48worse still do not fret miss bennett
05:02oh have we found it i think we have mr sparrow oh thank goodness for that
05:16you see the lenses here correct your vision by bending light rays well i never
05:36do you really do look very well in your spectacles especially when you smile
05:45ah i do not think my mother will agree but i have a great passion for reading and i i
05:50would have been sad to stop
05:54i hope they will help you better enjoy the upcoming merriton assembly an assembly yes in a month
06:00i heard this morning my sisters will be pleased
06:06perhaps i shall see you there
06:13miss mary you ought to get off of course i'll settle affairs here
06:17um thank you thank you thank you and thank you mr sarah
06:29i have news
06:32there's going to be an assembly in maryton in month we know oh i'm going to be the one to
06:37tell mama
06:38this will mark my first assembly my first venture into society
06:45so it will
06:49how am i to secure a partner for dancing i've always wondered
06:52oh mary i'm sure your clever mind can work out something as simple as dance partners
06:57do not fret
06:57do not fret
06:58do not fretting
07:09yes i do
07:24I'm going to fill my card for dances.
07:26Jane, do you think I shall be allowed to dance?
07:28Mary, move!
07:29Do you hope you're not going to stand this close at the assembly?
07:32We should have taken the long route.
07:35These are my good boots.
07:37Oh, I'm all for you for wearing them.
07:41Jane.
07:46Do you think russet would be too harsh for my complexion?
07:49I don't see why it should.
07:51It would match my eyes, I suppose.
07:53Your eyes are green.
07:55You are so inattentive.
08:01Mr Thompson told me himself I was the first to know that the ball is confirmed.
08:05We were the first.
08:06I was the first.
08:07He was stood a little behind me.
08:08It is wonderful.
08:09What will I wear?
08:11Are Kitty and Lydia allowed to attend the ball, Father?
08:13Why would we not be?
08:14I was the one that found out about it.
08:15Am I allowed?
08:17Jane, Lizzie, you will of course go.
08:20And Mary.
08:20Father, I shall die if I do not go.
08:23I'll probably die too.
08:24I very much doubt that.
08:25Mr Bennett, Kitty and Lydia will also need to find husbands.
08:30After Jane and Lizzie, of course.
08:34I don't see what the fuss is all about.
08:36Those horrible, sweaty affairs.
08:39Mary, you will attend.
08:42Oh.
08:43Oh, well, of course, Mother, if you wish.
08:47Lady Lucas and I will need someone to fetch us our drinks.
08:50As long as I am not expected to attend.
08:52Mr Bennett.
08:52I told you, I will not attend another of those insufferable muddy little dancers.
08:58I wonder if Mr Bingley will be going to the Meryton Assembly.
09:01Oh, he must be.
09:03Who would miss it?
09:04Me, apparently.
09:06You shall all go to the ball.
09:07As long as I am obliged to hear no more about it.
09:11I shall never be rid of you otherwise.
09:14Perhaps I shall dance with Bingley too.
09:16I'm me.
09:16What's excitement over a man you've never set eyes on?
09:18Quite ridiculous.
09:19Oh, Mary, we're only indulging ourselves.
09:22Oh.
09:28Mary is wearing spectacles.
09:30What on earth?
09:32Very good.
09:33I hope you find them most useful, Mary.
09:36Oh, do, Father.
09:37Mr Bennett, did you know about this?
09:40We discussed this at length.
09:42Mary was to visit the optician.
09:43Yes, but I did not know that she would actually need to wear glasses.
09:47You seem to forget, my dear, that I wear spectacles myself.
09:51But she is a woman.
09:54Nevertheless, she ought to be able to see.
09:56I think they look very well.
10:01Potatoes, Mary.
10:05In case you couldn't see them.
10:07I think you're very brave to be prepared to look so ugly.
10:10Lydia.
10:11But Papa, who is going to dance with Mary with those things on her face?
10:14Pleased to be able to read.
10:17Oh, I do hope you are to meet him.
10:19Surely we must.
10:21Spectacles indeed.
10:29Mama, Giddy and I will need new dresses for the ball.
10:31But for the first time, she'll be married.
10:39Bye.
10:42Bye.
10:46Bye.
11:12Oh, that was...
11:17Maybe I could help you pick out a dress at the Meryton Assembly, Miss Mary.
11:22Oh, hell.
11:25What am I to do at a dance?
11:28Dance?
11:29But what if no one wants to dance with me?
11:34Then you'll eat lots of ices.
11:37Such fripperies are not for me.
11:39I wonder, Miss Mary, if you don't see yourself clearly.
11:42If you're saying I don't bear comparison to my sisters, I've known that for years.
11:45A daffodil might look plain next to a lily, but on its own there is much to be admired.
11:51Now I am tall and yellow.
11:54Miss Mary, I wonder if you wouldn't be a little happier if you went out in the world
12:01and saw yourself how other people see you, outside of your family.
12:09Well, that's decided.
12:11I am picking you out a new dress for the Assembly.
12:15And I will not hear another word on the subject.
12:29Madam, please remain still if you can.
12:34Madam, please remain still if you can.
12:50What does the gold make me look like?
12:55A little.
12:58Pity.
12:59What is it?
13:00Those are my books, Lydia.
13:01I cannot treat my children's box.
13:03I need something to stand on.
13:04This is important, Mary.
13:06You need to start getting ready, Miss Mary.
13:09Miss Mary.
13:16Jane is first.
13:18That's not fair.
13:19I'm always last.
13:20Mary will last.
13:25Do you think I'll be able to dance on it?
13:27Does it still hurt?
13:28Yes.
13:29Two weeks ago.
13:30I know.
13:32Should we eat beforehand?
13:34Perhaps a very small meal.
13:36And don't drink too much.
13:37But what if I'm thirsty?
13:38Lydia, I don't suppose you want to relieve yourself behind a screen in front of everyone?
13:42Miss Mary.
13:43I don't think I'll be able to dance on it.
13:49I don't know.
13:50I don't know.
13:52I don't know.
13:53I don't know.
13:53I don't know.
13:59I don't know.
14:01I don't know.
14:03I don't know.
14:17Is it too fine for me, do you think?
14:19You look very handsome in it.
14:33Hattie, we have taken my perfume.
14:35I have, I have.
14:36Miss Lydia, you can't have Hattie a perfume.
14:38What in that scent?
14:58I don't know.
15:49I don't know.
15:50What's your dress, Mary?
15:51Oh, Charlotte.
15:54What's it about?
15:55I swear, the crowd gets bigger every season.
15:57We should limit entry to those young ladies fortunate enough with secured partners.
16:01I thought the very same thing.
16:36Mr. Bingley, welcome.
16:38These are my sisters, Louisa, and this is Caroline.
16:42This is Mr. Hurst and Mr. Darcy.
16:45And if I may present, Mrs. Bennet.
16:50Mrs. Jane Bennet.
16:52Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet.
16:55Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet.
16:57And Kitty and Lydia.
17:01Oh, and this is Miss Mary Bennet.
17:07Who's the compass girl in the whole neighborhood?
17:10That is a great achievement, to be sure.
17:14Study clearly trumps all other considerations in your mind.
17:17I've got an example to us all.
17:27I've got an example to us all.
18:09You will not believe the insufferable company that Mr. Bingley keeps.
18:14What has happened?
18:14I overheard quite accidentally Mr. Bingley talking to that conceited gentleman lent against the war there.
18:21A Mr. Darcy who said of me, she is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.
18:44Excuse me, Ms. Bennet.
18:47I do not mean to intrude, but it is very bad for your eyes to screw them up in such
18:51a fashion.
18:53Mr. Sparrow.
18:54Perhaps I may be permitted to help you find what you're looking for.
18:58I was looking for, uh...
19:01My sisters.
19:03Take his hand.
19:05I'm quite exhausted from all the dancing.
19:08I just chose to sit this one out.
19:11That is a shame.
19:14I was going to ask if you would do me the honour of standing up with me for the next
19:17dance.
19:19Actually, I'm now feeling much rested.
19:21And I would be delighted.
19:23Well then, I thank you.
19:29Shall we remain here until the next second?
19:31Of course.
19:32That's exactly what I thought.
19:42How are your spectacles?
19:43Very well.
19:44Yes, I'm unable to study for hours without issue.
19:48I am delighted to hear that.
19:51It's my turn.
19:56Perhaps you could recommend a book to me.
19:58What do you read with such enjoyment?
20:03Mrs. Catherine Macaulay has written a wonderful account of British history.
20:07It's a fascinating read.
20:08I will seek it out.
20:09Are you a scholar, sir?
20:11I like to read.
20:12But science rather than history.
20:14I have a plan to study medicine in London.
20:17Baths or maybe morphine.
20:20What a noble ambition.
20:22But it is not a thing widely known.
20:24I have not mentioned it to anyone before you.
20:28I shall speak of it to no one.
21:37I'm regressing visiting the supper table so early, I should have had less oyster patties.
21:44It's fewer.
21:46It's fewer oyster patties.
21:51Here we go!
21:52Here we go!
21:58Here we go!
22:04Here we go!
22:32Here we go!
22:36Here we go!
22:38Here we go!
22:39Here we go!
22:39Here we go!
22:41Here we go!
22:50It looks as though you are enjoying yourself, Mary.
22:54Your partner is the young John Sparrow, isn't he?
22:58Yes, the optician's son.
23:01And you have danced with him twice.
23:05Mary, you are very young.
23:07And perhaps do not fully appreciate how things are understood.
23:12If you are to dance with him again, it will be remarked upon.
23:15Two dances in succession suggest a liking.
23:17Three might imply something more.
23:23I'm very happy dancing with him.
23:37I see that you have stood up twice with the Sparrow boy.
23:41Yes, Mama.
23:44You will not dance with him again?
23:49But, Mother, he's been most attentive. He's quite a gentleman.
23:54Mary, his father owns a shop.
23:58Yes?
24:00With a bell.
24:03Mother, I have danced with him twice. I have no wish to marry him.
24:08You may not object to lowering yourself, but I will not have you ruin your sister's tubsies of a match.
24:35Would you care to dance again, Miss Bennett, once we have finished our ices?
24:41Mrs. Sparrow, I am afraid that I shall...
24:46I shall not be able to stand up with you again this evening.
24:49Oh.
24:50But I thought...
24:52I thought...
24:55I hope I have not offended you.
24:56No, no, no, no, not at all, sir.
24:58I've...
24:58Oh, I've...
25:00I've very much enjoyed dancing with you.
25:04It's, um...
25:06That is to say that, um...
25:09My mother is concerned.
25:12Concerned?
25:13Uh, for my sisters and I.
25:16Um, it's important that we make an appropriate social, um...
25:21One might say, uh, financially, um...
25:25Well, a suitable match.
25:27Miss Bennett, there is no need for an explanation.
25:30I shall not pursue the matter.
25:31I've enjoyed...
25:33I've enjoyed my time with you.
25:34Good evening to you.
25:38I'm sorry.
25:39I'm sorry.
25:40I'm sorry.
26:10James stood up with him twice.
26:13I have little time for his friend.
26:16Please do not hold that against Mr. Bingley.
26:18Do you feel good again, Miss?
26:19Yes.
26:20I dance with tea soldiers.
26:22I'm not very good with faces, so I'm not sure how many times I stood up with anyone.
26:26Ew!
26:27As my mother and sisters happily dissected every moment of the ball, I felt a terrible sense of shame.
26:34I had caused hurt to a man whose only crime was being kind to me.
26:41Who was I?
26:43A coward who lacked the courage to follow her own inclinations?
26:47It was time to find my own way.
26:51To look for a new version of myself.
26:54As a serious-minded woman.
26:57From now on, knowledge and reason would be my guide.
27:01No more weapons, ball gowns, or dance cards.
27:06The old Mary would be no more.
27:08I would transform into the intellectual one.
27:12That was how I would stand out.
27:14As the other Bennett sister.
27:16You're the소.
27:16You're the~!
27:17Yo!
27:17RL How are we?
27:17I!
27:17Maybe me!
27:18And the target hippie Matthew 2,
27:18the lore!
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