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The Other Bennet Sister Ep 1 (2026)
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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
00:23without expectations,
00:25she had better do all she can to ensure that she is beautiful.
00:32To be poor and handsome is misfortune enough, but to be penniless and plain is a hard fate
00:40indeed, for so my mother taught us.
00:46Mr. 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.
01:02I would like to know.
01:04It has been lent to a Mr. Bingley, a single man of large fortune, four or five thousand a year.
01:15I heard someone came down on Monday in a chaise and four.
01:19From 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 at the beginning.
01:40With cake in Meriton, England.
01:48Where a wealthy boy met beautiful girl.
01:52Father, meet mother.
01:55Sadly, the happiness of this union was to be undone by an archaic entail that meant only a male heir
02:00could inherit my father's estate.
02:02And what followed was girl, after girl, after girl, after girl, after girl.
02:14That'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.
02:27Why should he engage?
02:28When the time comes, I'll be dead anyway.
02:33Our mother, not known for giving up easily, found a chink of light, a saving grace.
02:40Each 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.
02:56If she could secure advantageous marriages for each of us girls, it would be enough to save us all from
03:02destitution.
03:05Although I had not found my own best quality, I was quite sure that I would.
03:12My fault, Mary.
03:13Until the day my mother's true opinion of me was confirmed.
03:17Mary has an awfully ruddy complexion.
03:20She does not have the complexion of her sisters.
03:23That is true.
03:24And she is clumsy, ungainly, maladroite, as they say.
03:30Four good marriages will have to do.
03:33I only hope she does not ruin her sister's chances.
03:56I 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
04:20of youthful energy, then who are you?
04:23And what can you do if you're the odd one out?
04:28Is it possible you'll ever find a way to fit in?
04:50Do not fret, Miss Bennet.
04:59Do not fret, Miss Bennet.
05:03Have we found it?
05:05I think we have, Mr. Sparrow.
05:07Oh, thank goodness for that.
05:16You see, the lenses here correct your vision by bending light rays.
05:20Well, I never.
05:37You really do look very well in your spectacles.
05:41Especially when you smile.
05:45Ah, I do not think my mother will agree.
05:48But I have a great passion for reading, and I would have been sad to stop.
05:54I hope they will help you better enjoy the upcoming Meritan assembly.
05:57An assembly?
05:58Yes, in a month.
06:00I heard this morning.
06:02My sisters will be pleased.
06:06Perhaps I shall see you there.
06:14Miss Mary, you ought to get on.
06:16Of course, you'll.
06:17I'll settle affairs here.
06:20And thank you, Mrs. Sparrow.
06:29I have news!
06:33There's going to be an assembly in Meritan in a month.
06:35We know.
06:36Oh.
06:36I'm going to be the one to tell Mama.
06:39This will mark my first assembly.
06:42My first venture into society.
06:45So it will?
06:49How am I to secure a partner for dancing?
06:51I've always wondered.
06:53Oh, Mary, I'm sure your clever mind can work out something as simple as dance partners.
06:57Do not fret.
06:58Not, we're not fretting.
07:24I'm going to fill my cards with dances.
07:27Jane, do you think I shall be allowed to dance?
07:28Mary, move!
07:30Do you hope you're not going to stand this close at the assembly?
07:33Oh, we should have taken the long route.
07:35Oh, these are my good boots.
07:38Oh, more for you for wearing them.
07:42Jane.
07:46Do you think russet would be too harsh for my complexion?
07:50I don't see why it should.
07:51It would match my eyes, I suppose.
07:53Your eyes are green.
07:56You are so inattentive.
08:01Mr. Thompson told me himself.
08:03I 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.
08:10What 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?
08:18Jane, Lizzie, you'll of course go.
08:20And Mary.
08:21Father, I shall die if I do not go.
08:23I'll probably die too.
08:24I very much doubt that.
08:25Mr. Bennet, 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.
08:44Oh, well, of course, Mother, if you wish.
08:48Lady Lucas and I will need someone to fetch us our drinks.
08:50As long as I am not expected to attend.
08:52Mr. Bennet.
08:53I told you, I will not attend another of those insufferable, muddy little dancers.
08:57Oh.
08:58I wonder if Mr. Bingley will be going to the Meryton Assembly.
09:01Oh, he must be.
09:03Who would miss it?
09:05Me, apparently.
09:06You shall all go to the ball, as long as I am obliged to hear no more about it.
09:12I shall never be with you otherwise.
09:15Perhaps I shall dance with Bingley, too.
09:16I'm me.
09:17What's excitement over a man you've never set eyes on?
09:19Quite ridiculous.
09:20Oh, Mary, we're only indulging ourselves.
09:28Mary is wearing spectacles.
09:31What on earth?
09:33Very good.
09:34I hope you find the most useful, Mary.
09:36You do, Father.
09:38Mr. Bennet, did you know about this?
09:40We discussed this at length.
09:42Mary was to visit the optician.
09:44Yes, but I did not know that she would actually need to wear glasses.
09:48You seem to forget, my dear, that I wear spectacles myself.
09:52But 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.
10:08I think you're very brave to be prepared to look so ugly.
10:11Lydia.
10:11But Papa, who is going to dance with Mary with those things on her face?
10:14Pleased to be able to read.
10:18Oh, I do hope you are to meet him.
10:19Surely we must.
10:22Spectacles indeed.
10:29Mama, Kitty and I will need new dresses for the walk.
10:33I don't know.
11:01No part of the walk is done.
11:18Maybe I could help you pick out a dress for the Meriton Assembly, Miss Mary.
11:22Oh, hell.
11:25What am I to do as a dance?
11:28Dance?
11:29Perhaps. But what if no one wants to dance with me?
11:35Then 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.
11:46A daffodil might look plain next to a lily, but on its own there is much to be admired.
11:52Now 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.
12:29Help! I've lost my ribbons!
12:34Found us!
12:42Madam, please remain still, if you can.
12:50Does the gold make me look like?
12:55A little.
12:58Kitty!
12:59What is it?
13:00Those are my books, Lydia.
13:02I cannot treat my jewel's box.
13:03I need something to stand on.
13:05This is important, Mary.
13:07You need to start getting ready, Miss Mary.
13:17Jane is first.
13:18That's not fair. I'm always last.
13:21Mary, you're last.
13:25Do you think I'll be able to dance on it?
13:27Does it still hurt?
13:29Yes.
13:29Two weeks ago.
13:30I know.
13:32Should we eat beforehand?
13:34Perhaps a small meal.
13:35Perhaps 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?
13:43Miss me!
13:43I know.
13:50What if I buy from a small meal?
14:04There you go.
14:04No, it doesn't happen.
14:07It's not fair.
14:07I don't know, I don't know.
14:07It doesn't matter.
14:07It's not fair.
14:09I don't know.
14:10It's like a small meal.
14:10It's like a small meal.
14:11Do you think I'll be with you?
14:12You know, all the things that are...
14:13I should be happy and your dad are missing.
14:13I don't know.
14:13If you're not even...
14:17Is it too fine for me, do you think?
14:20You look very handsome in it.
14:33Hattie, we have taken my pardon you!
14:36I have, I have!
14:36Miss Lydia, you can't make it to your pardon you!
14:38What do you have said?
15:12That means you're priceless.
15:49And I brought dress, Mary.
15:52Oh, Charlotte.
15:54What's that about?
15:56I swear, the crowd gets bigger every season.
15:58You should limit entry to those young ladies, fortunate enough, with secured partners.
16:02I 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.
16:51Miss Jane Bennet.
16:53Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
16:57Kitty and Lydia.
17:01Oh, and this is Miss Mary Bennet.
17:08Miss the compass girl in the whole neighborhood.
17:11That is a great achievement, to be sure.
17:14The study clearly trumps all other considerations in your mind.
17:18What an example to us all.
17:28What an example to us all.
18:09You will not believe the insufferable company that Mr. Bingley keeps.
18:14What has happened?
18:14I also heard, quite accidentally, Mr. Bingley talking to that conceited gentleman runned against the war there, a Mr. Darcy,
18:23who said of me, she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.
18:39And round we go!
18:45Excuse me, Ms. Bennet.
18:48I do not mean to intrude, but it is very bad for your eyes to screw them up in such
18:52a fashion.
18:53Mrs. Farrow?
18:54Perhaps I may be permitted to help you find what you're looking for.
18:59I was looking for, uh, my sisters.
19:04Take his hand.
19:06I'm quite exhausted from all the dancing.
19:08I just chose to sit this one out.
19:12That is a shame.
19:14I was going to ask if you would do me the honour of standing up with me for the next
19:18dance.
19:19Actually, I'm now feeling much rested.
19:21And I would be delighted.
19:23Well then, I thank you.
19:26Oh, yes.
19:27Oh, yes.
19:29Shall we remain here until the next second?
19:31Of course.
19:32That's exactly what I thought.
19:43How are your spectacles?
19:44Very well.
19:45Yes, I'm unable to study for hours without issue.
19:48I am delighted to hear that.
19:51It's my turn.
19:57Perhaps 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.
20:10Are you a scholar, sir?
20:12I like to read, but science rather than history.
20:15I have a plan to study medicine in London, baths 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 must be committed to no one before you.
21:38I'm regressing visiting the supper table so early, I should have had less oyster patties.
21:44It's fewer, it's fewer oyster patties.
21:51Here we go!
21:52Oh my god!
21:55I don't know.
22:35If you'd like a cold drink, Ms. Beness.
22:38Yes, that's an excellent idea. Thank you.
22:51It looks as though you are enjoying yourself, Mary.
22:55Your partner is the young John Sparrow, isn't he?
22:58Yes, the optician's son.
23:01And you have danced with him twice.
23:06Mary, you are very young, and 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 liking, three might imply something more.
23:19Oh, I'm very happy dancing with him.
23:37I see that you have stood up twice with the Sparrow boy.
23:42Yes, Mama.
23:44You will not dance with him again?
23:50But, Mother, he's been most attentive. He's quite a gentleman.
23:55Mary, his father, owns a shop.
23:58Yes?
24:00With a bell.
24:04Mother, 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.
24:36Would you care to dance again, Miss Bennett, once we have finished our ices?
24:42Mrs. Sparrow, I am afraid that I shall not be able to stand up with you again this evening.
24:49Oh, but I thought, I thought, I hope I have not offended you.
24:57No, no, no, not at all, sir. I've, oh, I've, I've very much enjoyed dancing with you.
25:04No, it's, um, that is to say that, um, my mother is concerned.
25:12Concerned?
25:13Uh, um, for my sisters and I, um, it's important that we make an, uh, appropriate social, um, one might
25:22say, uh, financially, um, well, a suitable matter.
25:28Yes, Bennett, there is no need for an explanation. I shall not pursue the matter.
25:32I've enjoyed, I've enjoyed my time with you. Um, good evening to you.
25:38I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
26:11James stood up with him twice. I had little time for his friend. Please do not hold that against Mr.
26:18Bingley.
26:18Do you want me to go again, Miss?
26:20Yes.
26:21I danced with two soldiers.
26:22I'm not very good with faces, so I'm not sure how many times I stood up with anyone.
26:27As my mother and sisters happily dissected every moment of the war, 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.
26:48It was time to find my own way.
26:51To look for a new version of myself, as a serious-minded woman.
26:58From now on, knowledge and reason would be my guide.
27:02No more ribbons, 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, as the other Bennett sister.
27:17The old Mary would be the only one that was a man who was a man who was a man
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