00:09If London was to be a new start for me, I would push all sorts of poetry and love aside.
00:20Mother warned me of the dirt, disease and despair that could be found here.
00:26She failed to mention the breadth of humanity and the anonymity of the city suited me well.
00:35I had taken to walking the city's beautiful parks.
00:39It seemed that all life was in London and here I could be anything I wanted.
00:52Surely I would find something I could succeed at in this vast, inspiring city.
01:00Where is it? I've got it.
01:03She breaks my arms a little. She seems so awkward in herself.
01:07I worry my sister's caused some harm to poor Mary.
01:10Oh, I wonder. She's perhaps not the most natural governess.
01:15But what else could she do in life? Be her mother's companion?
01:18I thought Tom brought her out of herself. Cunt-hearted man that he is.
01:22And she seemed to get on well with Anne Baxter the other evening. She has so little confidence.
01:27Yes. It can't have been easy growing up in the shadow of her sisters.
01:32Found it.
01:33Ah, there it is.
01:35Well, I'm happy she's with us. She has an interesting and lovely mind.
01:42Oh, it's Bennet.
01:45Mr. Hayward.
01:48How are you?
01:49Eager to hear how you've been getting on with the poetry?
01:51Oh, well, I'm not sure I have the mind to appreciate it completely.
01:55I keep hoping Mr. Coleridge will explain himself or that Mr. Wordsworth will say what he really means.
02:01But they seem to enjoy keeping their secrets.
02:05Well, do not blame yourself. I think some poets enjoy being difficult to understand.
02:19Miss Bennet, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
02:23Moving to the city without your family. You not having your mother to confide in.
02:28What is this?
02:28Oh, it's a relief to be without her. In fact, it's something of a relief to be without any of
02:32them.
02:38I'm sorry you're not feeling yourself.
02:43I'm afraid I'm not.
02:45I'm just not finding my place here as easily as I thought.
02:49Sorry, please excuse me.
02:50Oh, Mary!
02:51Tom, how lovely to see you!
02:53Quietly, my dear, you'll summon the children who I fear have begun to associate Tom's name with.
02:58With a worryingly large bag of sugar plums.
03:00Please excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry.
03:02Please excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry.
03:24My dear Mary, I fear your correspondence has not been reaching me. I have heard nothing from you at all.
03:34How are you managing your duties?
03:36You never were good with children, even when you were one yourself.
03:41I may require you to return to Pemberley, where I will be spending the summer.
03:49Lizzie has expressed a wish to see you, but more urgently, my new puppy has a nervous air and requires
03:56near constant companionship.
04:02I had come to London to see the world outside of my family, and that is what I would do.
04:13Oh, Mary, your painting!
04:16To teach the children.
04:17Oh, how marvellous to see your imagination at play!
04:23It's terrible.
04:25No! No, it's...
04:27It's very neat.
04:30Did you see the letter from your mother?
04:34Is she well?
04:35Between several complaints about the damp, the unseasonable pollen, and an unpleasant exchange with a rude shopkeeper, I understand that
04:43she is.
04:43Yes.
04:44I honestly think she enjoys such encounters.
04:46It makes her feel more alive.
04:50Oh, now, speaking of encounters, I think this might be of interest to you.
04:55Tom made a strange request to Mr Gardiner and I, and extended the invitation to you too, Mary.
05:01Oh?
05:01Yes, he was most mysterious.
05:03He wants us to meet him tomorrow morning, where he says he plans to break through our rational reserve and
05:10move our hearts as well as our heads.
05:13He does?
05:14Yes, whatever that might entail.
05:18I must work on my lesson plans.
05:20Mary, you must join us.
05:22For my sake?
05:24Please consider it.
05:42Yes, father of God.
05:44I have no choice, Father.
05:57I will do the matter that everyone is coming.
05:58No.
05:58I am not here!
05:59Come on, we are just here.
06:00May it be done, we are here.
06:02You can find the place.
06:02You can find the place.
06:02I will leave it in this house.
06:19Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Ms. Bennett, thank you for humoring me.
06:24Are we allowed to know the purpose of our visit?
06:26I have conspired with the City of London and William Wordsworth himself for a morning recital unlike any other.
06:33In a hidden garden.
06:34Good Lord.
06:35Will Miss Baxter be joining us?
06:36I'm afraid Miss Baxter has a variety of excuses that she skillfully deploys to avoid such events.
06:42Well, remind me to ask her what they are.
06:44Yes, I am afraid that my petitions for Goodwether have been in vain.
06:48No matter.
06:49We will not be dissuaded by a little drizzle.
06:54A little drizzle?
06:58Just down there.
07:04This way?
07:06Yes.
07:18Wow.
07:22That's magical.
07:24Wow.
07:30Please forgive the theatrics.
07:33I had given Miss Bennett the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of how to feel it.
07:42Sometimes, with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand.
07:49Don't.
07:55Earth
07:56Earth
07:56There's not anything to show more fair.
08:00Dole would it be of soul who could pass by
08:03A sight so touching in its majesty.
08:08This city
08:09Now
08:10Doth
08:11Like a garment
08:13Wear the beauty of the morning
08:16Silent
08:16There, ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto the fields and to the
08:30sky.
08:33All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, never did sun more beautifully steep
08:40in his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill, nurse or I, never felt a calm so deep.
08:52The river blideth at his own sweet will, dear God, the very houses seem asleep, and all
09:03that mighty heart is lying still.
09:17Well done, Tom.
09:19A moving rendition.
09:21Tom, I confess, I felt entirely transported by the force of your words, and what a beautiful
09:27place.
09:28Our wisteria never flowers like this.
09:31Yes, your ability to kill our plants seems to be second to none.
09:35Come, let's take a turn.
09:37Indeed.
09:39But instead, this place is magical.
09:42It's a simple problem.
09:43Yes, it is.
09:47Well, Miss Bennett, how do you feel?
10:02Well, for once I have nothing to say.
10:04I am sorry to hear that.
10:05No, I wish to say something inspiring, but I do not know how.
10:16You have such varied ways to express your feelings.
10:21Mine feel frozen or feeble or entirely unknowable.
10:30I do not know, Miss Bennett.
10:33Well, I use the words of others to puzzle through things I do not understand.
10:39But I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions.
10:52Forgive me.
10:55Oh, um...
10:56Sorry, Miss Bennett, I...
10:57Oh.
10:58It was just a petal.
11:00Mr. Hayward, I think I must leave London.
11:04Well, you've only just arrived.
11:06It's no great event.
11:07My mother needs a companion.
11:09I see.
11:10And, well, you will likely be very busy soon.
11:14What with, uh, social engagements and, uh, Miss Baxter.
11:22I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone.
11:26Well, I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit.
11:29Oh, indeed it did.
11:31It did.
11:33I shall never forget it.
11:48I shall travel to Pemberley on the 18th.
11:51Good heavens!
11:53Mary, this is quite unexpected.
11:55Well, is anything the matter?
11:56My mother needs me.
11:59It's my sister Borde.
12:01I know that she's more likely than anyone in England to summon the troops on account of her loneliness.
12:06But must you answer the call?
12:10I think I must.
12:12Well, we so enjoy having you here.
12:14The children will be disappointed.
12:17Yes, it's kind of you to say.
12:20It is the truth.
12:24I must plan today's lessons.
12:29Yes.
12:30Indeed.
12:34Yes.
12:35Well, I will be by your side for a summer.
12:44I must be
12:49here to my aunt and uncle.
12:52but as you rightly point out
12:54I do not wish to burn them
12:56and it will of course be
12:58an honour
13:00to look after your new pup
13:20do come in
13:39there was an old woman
13:40who lived in a shoe
13:45she had so many children
13:46she didn't know what to do
13:49she gave them some broth
13:51without any bread
13:52and she whipped them all soundly
13:54and put them to bed
13:56that poem started very well
13:58and ended very badly
14:00a good observation Miss Marianne
14:02why didn't she just move into a boot
14:04when the children got too many
14:06fine suggestion Miss Rebecca
14:07it's a glorious revolution
14:08all finished then Miss Bennet
14:11this week
14:12we will write and perform a poem instead
14:15yes
14:17I want to do a poem about myself
14:19because I'm quite interested
14:21I'll do typhoid
14:22or frogs
14:24disgusting
14:28Miss Marianne
14:29love
14:40the eye
14:41cannot choose but see
14:43we cannot bid the ear be still
14:47our bodies feel where they be
14:51against or with our will
15:00a big green frog
15:01sat on a log
15:03the frog was quite full
15:05it had eaten
15:07ten flies
15:08two slugs
15:09one worm
15:10and three
15:11lily pad pies
15:16oh Miss Bennet
15:17you were obviously inspired
15:19by our morning poetry reading
15:20oh
15:21I was
15:22no
15:23I am
15:23yes
15:24I am
15:25oh no
15:26what is it Miss Rebecca
15:28I had a prop
15:29and I forgot to use it
15:32oh
15:34well
15:34fear not
15:35a prop
15:36is
15:37a cheap trick
15:38that diminishes
15:39the power of words
15:40indeed
15:44who's next
15:48I would be sad
15:49to leave London
15:51it was the first time
15:52I had ever felt
15:53a sense of
15:54belonging
15:57oh
15:57there you are
15:58I wanted to say
15:59thank you
16:00for such a wonderful day
16:02the children
16:03would be inconsolable
16:04about you leaving
16:05Marianne is stitching
16:07you a cushion
16:08with an inspirational
16:09Latin phrase
16:10I believe
16:11oh yes
16:12it's
16:12mori quam
16:13fordari
16:14death before
16:16dishonor
16:16goodness
16:17how exciting
16:19we shall miss you
16:21Mary
16:22I think
16:23we both know
16:24I'm not
16:24well suited to
16:25London's
16:27liveliness
16:27oh Mary
16:29you've barely
16:31given it a chance
16:32things change
16:35people
16:38situations
16:40over time
16:45may I venture
16:46something on that subject
16:49the other day
16:51I went to buy a bonnet
16:53and in the first shop
16:55I went into
16:56found a stunning bonnet
16:57an elegant blue
16:59quite lovely on me
17:00if I dare say such a thing
17:02when I went to purchase it
17:06it had been reserved
17:07for someone else
17:10I went into another shop
17:11and found not
17:12four other bonnets
17:14I liked just as much
17:15and in the end
17:18one
17:19a shade
17:20of dusky pink
17:21that suited me
17:22even more
17:26do you
17:26do you see
17:27what I'm saying
17:30blue is not
17:31your colour
17:33no
17:34no I'm saying that
17:34London has such
17:35a variety of choices
17:36and such quantity too
17:38you may enjoy
17:40the first thing
17:40you see well enough
17:42but often
17:43something more exciting
17:45will come along
17:47anyway
17:48I just thought
17:49I'd let you know
17:50well um
17:51yes thank you
17:52for that
17:53it was very
17:55interesting
17:55oh I was meaning
17:57to tell you
17:57we have decided
17:59to host a little
18:00entertainment tomorrow
18:01a night of games
18:02oh dear
18:04what sort of games
18:05no catching
18:06word games
18:07riddles and such
18:08and very pleasant company
18:10company I know
18:11or
18:12new company
18:13all new
18:14and very friendly
18:17we desperately desire
18:19that you remember
18:19London fondly
18:21this may be your final event
18:23with us before you leave
18:29I resolved not to send
18:30the letter to mother
18:31just yet
18:33it would be a shame
18:34to leave before the weekend
19:04I'm sorry
19:12sorry I didn't realise
19:13there was a line
19:14no please
19:15I wish more people
19:16had such a restrained
19:16relationship to punch
19:20may I?
19:20oh yes of course
19:23noble defender of the punch
19:24I surrender my post
19:29and what brings you here
19:30the word games
19:31or the company
19:32I like words
19:33I'm not much for games
19:36ah
19:37then it's the company
19:38you've come for
19:38Miss
19:39Bennet
19:40Mary Bennet
19:43William Ryder
19:44where have you come from
19:46Miss Bennet
19:46surely I would remember
19:48seeing you
19:48near punch bowls
19:49across London
19:50I am
19:53new in town
19:54well
19:56I for one
19:56am always pleased
19:57to see a new face
19:58truth
20:02now
20:02please gather
20:03I see the riddles
20:05are about to commence
20:06we are wise
20:07to begin with full glasses
20:09I see the riddles
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