A Hazard of Hearts (1987) British Romantic Period Drama

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00:02:56Please let you win. Please, just for once, let Papa win.

00:03:09Trump. And Trump again. My trick, I think, and my game. The cards love you tonight, squire.

00:03:19Another game? Until you have won back all you have lost and more, now is the time to quit.

00:03:25On the contrary, dear boy, now is the time to ride my luck.

00:03:27With respect, sir, that has never failed to bring you disaster.

00:03:31Oh, just one more game, sir, just one more game.

00:03:33Uncle, if you will not think of yourself, think of your daughter, Serena.

00:03:45Gentlemen, I know that discretion is death to a gamester, but prudence has been urged upon me.

00:03:53And I must confess, I do see the sense of it.

00:03:57I will play no more.

00:03:59You paid your dues to Lady Luck in the past, Sir Giles.

00:04:02We will excuse you.

00:04:05Yes, Evans.

00:04:11Lovely. Going so soon?

00:04:14I thought you might like to take revenge on me for lightening your pockets the last time we met.

00:04:20Joes, I'll swear he has an impatient mistress waiting for him.

00:04:30I'm at your disposal, my lord, Rutum.

00:04:39Uncle, you know his luck has always topped yours.

00:04:42Tonight, he'll learn his lesson.

00:04:47Do I suit you?

00:04:49As you please.

00:04:52Yes, would you?

00:04:54Certainly.

00:04:55Quick and simple.

00:04:56High score wins.

00:04:57No limit on stakes.

00:04:59Agreed.

00:05:15That's it.

00:06:01Good show, Uncle. This could turn the game.

00:06:26It's just some hot chocolate. Don't drink it, please, Miss Serena. You've had nothing

00:06:30all day. All will be well, I'm sure.

00:06:53Watch out here.

00:07:01Well, there's always your house down there, is there not? A rather fine house, I've always

00:07:07thought it would be. But, of course, if you don't care to, well, we'll all perfectly understand.

00:07:18Oh, he's baiting him. I'd rather face a drawn sword than a root and charm.

00:07:40Vulcan is here. Justin Vulcan.

00:07:47Well?

00:07:49Well, let's go.

00:08:28Not leaving Stabling, my dear fellow. There's nothing left.

00:08:37To wager. You've taken everything I possess.

00:08:45Well, not quite everything. That pretty daughter of yours, she's a touch high and mighty with

00:08:54me, I have to say, but girl of great spirit. They tell me that she inherits 80,000 guineas

00:09:04from a trust on her marriage. I'll tell you what. Let me be fair with you. I'll wager everything

00:09:13that you've lost so far against your daughter's hand in marriage.

00:09:27Uncle, he's baiting you.

00:09:31Well, sir? Yes or no?

00:09:44For God's sake, man, not your own daughter. And root him of all people.

00:09:48What would you have me do? Go back and tell Serena that I gambled away the roof over her

00:09:53head. Better that than by all the laws of chance. I have to win just once against this

00:10:02root. It's my only opportunity. Now is the time. Now. Oh, Nicholas. Can't you see? I can

00:10:14retain everything. And Serena will never know.

00:10:46My daughter's hand and her inheritance.

00:10:54Against everything I have lost.

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00:11:25so lady luck has her little ways i hope it will be convenient if i call on you tomorrow

00:11:35do ask the adorable serena to expect me

00:11:49poor devil never did know when to stop that should never have been allowed

00:12:00my lord rootham

00:12:11i will throw you for a hundred thousand guineas against the house and the girl

00:12:23i will throw you for a hundred thousand guineas

00:12:23done tonight i'm unbeatable even by you my dear valken

00:12:47devil take me

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00:15:06I couldn't let you make that sacrifice

00:15:10We could never make each other happy

00:15:12You have no choice

00:15:14I have a choice

00:15:16The Stabilies have always paid their debts

00:15:18They have never run away

00:15:19And I will not be the first to do so

00:15:21Even if it means marriage to the devil himself

00:15:26Justin, darling

00:15:28You wouldn't really consider marrying a girl you won in a bet

00:15:31It's not as if you need the 80,000

00:15:33My dear Isabel

00:15:34I confess I've given it very little thought

00:15:37To be honest

00:15:38Until your brother, my good Lord Gillingham here, brought the matter up

00:15:41It had completely slipped my mind

00:15:43Slipped your mind?

00:15:45Justin, I'll be damned

00:15:47Now me, I'd have been out there next day

00:15:49On the fastest horse I could clap a saddle to

00:15:51I dare say

00:15:52But you must have some curiosity

00:15:54About the house, about the girl, damn it

00:15:57After all, it's ten days since you lifted them from Rutum

00:16:01Tell you what

00:16:02Why not go there now?

00:16:03Now

00:16:04All of us

00:16:05Stabley Court's just north of London

00:16:07Splendid idea, Burley

00:16:09Let's make a race of it

00:16:10Thousand guineas?

00:16:12It would be something to do

00:16:13Oh, it's ridiculous

00:16:15The girl will turn out to be a bald freak with a wooden leg

00:16:19And the house a ruin

00:16:20Then you may stay here

00:16:22No, no, I shall, uh, I shall come

00:16:25That is, if I may ride with you

00:16:51She's taking her time, I must say

00:16:53Probably screwing on her wooden leg

00:17:02Tell your mistress Lord Vulcan is here to see her

00:17:06Why not go there now?

00:17:12What should I do sit here?

00:17:15I shall say

00:17:15I shall go there

00:17:15Yeah, I shallchez

00:17:30Okay, all you can stay here

00:17:39My Lord Vulcan?

00:17:40At your service, Miss Stabley.

00:17:45May I present Lady Isabel Gillingham,

00:17:47her brother, Lord Peter Gillingham,

00:17:49and Lord John Burley.

00:17:52We must be hungry.

00:17:54I'll send to the kitchen.

00:17:54Miss Stabley, we will not hear of it.

00:17:58A glass of wine, then?

00:18:01Eudora, show our guests into the drawing room.

00:18:03Anne Meadows, will you bring out some wine?

00:18:13Miss Stabley, perhaps you and I might talk.

00:18:19It hadn't occurred to me you would be so young.

00:18:22I was a late child.

00:18:24My mother died giving birth to me.

00:18:27It puts a different complexion on matters.

00:18:30Why?

00:18:33To begin with,

00:18:35you can't possibly go on living in this house.

00:18:37Since it now belongs to me,

00:18:39people would assume you were mine.

00:18:40And I understand from Nicholas

00:18:41that the dancer La Flamme already fills that position.

00:18:46I have readied the deeds of the estate,

00:18:49a list of the tenants and those who receive pensions from my father.

00:18:51You would wish to continue to pay those?

00:18:54Of course.

00:18:57There's also a list of the livestock on the home farm.

00:19:00Now, I'm afraid the accounts are not in very good order.

00:19:02My estate manager will sort them out before the house is sold.

00:19:06Sold?

00:19:07Naturally.

00:19:09Since you can't live here and...

00:19:11I have no use for it.

00:19:14Suppose so.

00:19:16I hadn't considered that...

00:19:17Which leaves you.

00:19:22What am I to do with you, Miss Stavely?

00:19:25I'm in your hands, sir.

00:19:27I must honour my father's debt.

00:19:30And I cannot, for my reputation, cancel it.

00:19:32Knowing something of your reputation,

00:19:34I well understand that.

00:19:38I believe the best answer would be for you to stay

00:19:40for the time being with my mother at Mandrake,

00:19:42the family home.

00:19:45May I bring my maid, Eudora, and my dog?

00:19:48Naturally.

00:19:50I will send them on ahead

00:19:51to make your arrival a little less strange for you.

00:19:58It's a long journey.

00:19:59Therefore, you yourself will travel in my most comfortable coach.

00:20:05You are most kind.

00:20:06I shall write to my mother, telling her to expect you.

00:20:08I will come on later.

00:20:12Until some solution suggests itself, Miss Stavely,

00:20:16let us remain as we are,

00:20:18two strangers brought together by a game of chance.

00:20:27Ah.

00:20:30Try not to be afraid of my mother.

00:20:32Why?

00:21:00I know little of men.

00:21:03I'm aware of what they say about him.

00:21:06I've never been more baffled by a man in my life.

00:21:18Let us remain as we are,

00:21:20two strangers brought together by a game of chance.

00:21:22Let us be afraid of this game of chance.

00:21:35Come on.

00:21:38Why?

00:22:12I will inform her ladyship.

00:22:26Out of my way. Bring it here.

00:22:29No, I said here.

00:22:31Why, in God's name, am I surrounded by idiots?

00:22:34Here, girl.

00:22:36Attend to your duties.

00:22:39You will be whipped if my orders are not carried out instantly.

00:22:54I am informed you are my son's fiancée.

00:23:00Who are you?

00:23:01And where did he make your acquaintance?

00:23:04Your son will doubtless explain everything to you, ma'am.

00:23:07The situation is not of my making.

00:23:13Take Miss Stavely to her room.

00:23:17Come on, ma'am.

00:23:19I'm with you, ma'am.

00:23:29For help to see what they can find and be in.

00:23:29Come on, ma'am.

00:23:30What are you doing, ma'am?

00:23:31How on did he make your acquaintance?

00:23:32Come on?

00:23:34Yes, babe.

00:23:40Come on, ma'am.

00:23:50this is you thank you if you need anything you've only to ask

00:23:57eudora oh miss

00:23:58the ladyship has put you in the oldest dampest part of the house

00:24:12bricks in the bed but the fire wouldn't draw never mind we're all together again and that's

00:24:16what matters and serena there is evil in this house eudora

00:24:28serena you know i've always sensed when something's wrong

00:24:31eudora aren't you being a bit over imaginative i mean certainly her ladyship does not want me here

00:24:37i tell you there is evil i feel it his lordship's valet told me the house is haunted and i

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00:24:43believe it but it's haunted by the living as well as the garden stop it you'll give me the horrors

00:24:54bat goes to the stables sleep yes most other times he will stay with me

00:25:00that is what we're both used to you may leave us

00:25:07take the animal with you

00:25:18i trust you are comfortable here thank you mom it appears from my son's letter

00:25:24you are to have 80 000 guineas oh my marriage mom it is in trust it is not large fortune

00:25:32as fortunes go

00:25:33so still you're sure it can only be unlocked by marriage quite sure

00:25:42you cannot marry my son of course that is an absurdity besides he will never marry i am his life

00:25:5180 000 it is modest enough heaven knows guineas you say so i'm told

00:25:58it would be a convenient sum for your needs were you to be able to unlock your trust i'm afraid

00:26:05that

00:26:05is quite out of the question these things are so of course still nothing is ever quite out of the

00:26:12question something might be done mom i shall not keep you you must be tired after your journey and

00:26:20require rest i shall have some food sent up thank you tomorrow you will join us for dinner downstairs

00:26:28i have some guests for dinner and a number coming in as usual afterwards for the entertainment

00:26:35the entertainment that's what i said girl

00:26:47oh you dora it's you i thought she was back

00:26:56be careful of her miss serena she doesn't like me she likes my money well enough don't worry i may

00:27:04be

00:27:04afraid of her but she can't actually harm me she is dangerous

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00:31:2480,000

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00:31:58murdered

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00:31:58father

00:32:21I was just remarking

00:32:23how quick the journey is from London

00:32:25these days

00:32:26I swear that overrode gets

00:32:28busier by the month

00:32:29that my lord Rutten

00:32:30I can't bear to be near him

00:32:32his eyes they

00:32:35I've been put next to him at dinner

00:32:38you will not be

00:32:40am I retiring

00:32:40and run away

00:32:43you're right

00:32:44he should be the one to run away

00:32:48Justin my dearest

00:32:50Miss Stavely

00:32:52Miss Gillingham

00:32:53how stunning you look Miss Stavely

00:33:03oh Justin

00:33:05Isabel

00:33:08I brought Nicholas for you

00:33:10I knew you'd be pleased

00:33:12Justin you promised to show me

00:33:14how to play Faru

00:33:17Nick

00:33:17going

00:33:21to be

00:33:23I saw it

00:33:25I saw it

00:33:41I saw it

00:33:47let me see

00:34:19A little livelier than Stavely Court, Miss Stavely.

00:34:21I must say, it has quite taken my breath away.

00:34:24I mean, all that out there.

00:34:25I didn't Justin tell you.

00:34:27His mother's a gambler, too.

00:34:28Fanatical.

00:34:29When London became too hot for her,

00:34:31she turned this place into the biggest gaming house in Europe.

00:34:33She collects 2.5% of the stakes.

00:34:35It's illegal, of course.

00:34:37But if Bo Nash got away with it in Bath half a century ago,

00:34:40why shouldn't she?

00:34:41Her trouble is that as fast as she collects it,

00:34:44she gambles it away herself.

00:34:45Oh, I've seen her wager 1,000 guineas on the turn of a card.

00:34:58I guess, for heaven's sake, you look like a lovesick calf.

00:35:01If you want her, go out and get her.

00:35:03She has eyes for no one but that confounded Vulcan.

00:35:05You've got to let a girl know you're there.

00:35:07She probably hasn't even seen you.

00:35:09What the deuce do you mean, hasn't seen me?

00:35:10I'm around her the whole time.

00:35:12If you don't understand that, you understand nothing.

00:35:27No little scrap of a girl is going to defy me.

00:35:31I must think.

00:35:35Miss Stavely, I would appreciate a word.

00:35:51What is between you and Justin?

00:35:54There is nothing between me and Justin.

00:35:56I do not wish to wed him, and he certainly does not wish to wed me.

00:36:00I hardly know what I'm doing here.

00:36:01I've never met people like this before,

00:36:02and I would not care if I were never to meet them again.

00:36:04And her ladyship holds me up like a slave to the hopeful bidder.

00:36:08That, as best as I can explain it, is my situation.

00:36:12Oh, Miss Stavely, but I like you for that.

00:36:16I should hate you, but it seems we must be friends.

00:36:21Serena?

00:36:23Friends.

00:36:24Isabelle.

00:36:26Do you love him very much?

00:36:31More than life.

00:36:33But he'll have none of me.

00:36:36And that is part of his deadly attraction.

00:36:38I know it is absurd, but I cannot help it.

00:36:41The colder he is to me, the more he makes me suffer,

00:36:44the more I love him.

00:36:47I do like my men to be men.

00:36:49Do you know that Justin once beat England's champion prizefighter for a bet?

00:36:54What do you think of that?

00:36:56I don't know what to think.

00:36:58No.

00:36:59I had forgotten you were a little country mouse.

00:37:02I will wager you do not know the half of what goes on in this house.

00:37:06I have eyes.

00:37:07I can see.

00:37:09What about what you cannot see?

00:37:36What about what you cannot see?

00:38:12What about what you cannot see?

00:38:31you are interested in panelling yes well that is we had something like it in the library at

00:38:42in this house it really does not pay to be curious you must have heard mandrake is

00:38:49haunted well you never know what ghost you may meet well if mandrake is haunted i cannot blame

00:38:56the ghosts the house is so beautiful i like to hear you say that i love mandrake

00:39:15part is saxon and then there is norman edward confessor elizabethan restoration queen anne

00:39:23each generation has added to and improved that house it's a great house and a gracious one

00:39:33are you happy here the semi-strangers you are happy when i place you next to your

00:39:39cousin nicholas at dinner i'm very fond of nicholas you contemplate marrying him i do not any more

00:39:45than he wishes to marry me he's in love with lady isabel and you i'm in love with no one

00:39:54least of all the man to whom you are betrothed

00:40:00shall i make you fall in love with me serena

00:40:06are you afraid of love or merely of me

00:40:11are you afraid of love or merely of me

00:40:43it's true this part of the coast is alive with smugglers that's really your naval patrols

00:40:47there are so many uninhabited sections we couldn't hope to cover them all

00:40:50and all the time more fast boats are being built in france bath boats they can do nine knots they

00:40:55simply

00:40:55outrun us and the customs men and what do they smuggle harris's finest velvets brandy tobacco silks

00:41:03and satins and the damnable thing is the gold they get for them goes straight back to france

00:41:15the devil take you rootin oh harriet i do hope he does i couldn't bear to be partied from you

00:41:22you shall pay for that you challenge me again to eternity 50 guineas a hundred oh reckless lady

00:41:38my apologies harry challenge we'll have to wait should we be back

00:42:00they weren't supposed to be here for four days yet

00:42:04oh i should have foreseen it you have the money

00:42:11feels a wee bit light to me give me that you have not been dipping into it

00:42:20a few guineas here a few guineas there i thought i'd have time to win the money back oh what

00:42:25will you

00:42:25do you do you can hardly offer those beauties double or quit hold your tongue give me that sticker

00:42:35i shall be back directly

00:42:36i shall be back directly

00:42:37i shall be back directly

00:43:16Are you mad, coming on a night for the moon?

00:43:19Black as they are on a hell's waistcoat when we left Calais.

00:43:22Give me the paper.

00:43:27Brandy.

00:43:29Wine.

00:43:31Where's the silk?

00:43:42I'm gonna take a little.

00:43:44It's a good time.

00:43:52It's a good time.

00:44:05my dear miss stately how charming you look i trust you're enjoying yourself

00:44:09warn my mother that the coast guards are here get through the door behind the paddling

00:44:18you fought me unawares i was not expecting you until next week this week next week

00:44:22with what you make out of us you try and tell us you're short with your gold you shall have

00:44:26your

00:44:26gold five guineas a man as usual and it'll have to be two now and three

00:44:34did you filthy ungrateful rabble who paid for your vote who made the connections

00:44:41where would you be if it were not for me

00:44:48the lady ships never let us down before and it's right we are four days early

00:45:11it's a tidy living for all of us let's not spoil it i say we take the two guineas now

00:45:17and the rest

00:45:17next week that's the best we can do right then there's no right then by me i'll have my five

00:45:23now take your four off me keep your distance your stench sickens me

00:45:33what do you say that don't listen to him he'll spoil everything we're agreed rad the excisemen

00:45:38they're upstairs and soldiers quickly back to the boat not till we get our five guineas

00:45:43i'll show you you fool there is no more right lads we'll have that necklace then

00:45:59i will send word when i have the rest of your gold

00:46:02see that that is removed

00:46:07stitch yourself together girl have you never seen a wild boar speared before

00:46:14come let us rejoin our guests

00:46:20move

00:46:27mother may i introduce captain jackson who's searching the area for smugglers

00:46:32lord how exciting have you found any yet no your ladyship but we have had news of a fast boat

00:46:39in the area and we wondered if we might search your shoreline

00:46:42well of course perhaps you would care to take a stroll through my guests there are some desperate fellows among

00:46:48them

00:46:48that won't be necessary your ladyship just the shoreline if you catch any i want first sight of them i

00:46:55hear they're vastly terrifying

00:46:58they're less terrifying after a touch of cold steel

00:47:03so i've heard

00:47:05your ladyship

00:47:07shoulder

00:47:08high

00:47:10quick

00:47:11march

00:47:14my dear i've heard many ways of running from a losing streak but aren't you dramatizing rather my breaking off

00:47:21our game had nothing to do with this military intrusion

00:47:24you may recall i left some time before they arrived indeed i do

00:47:29it also occurs to me that the silk

00:47:32that my little fancy there is wearing so charmingly

00:47:37and she seems to have had rather startling experience recently

00:47:42that that silk could have come only from paris

00:47:47as indeed

00:47:49with this

00:47:50unhand me sir

00:47:52you are too sharp

00:47:53good gracious no harriet you know me

00:47:56dim as a poor man's candle

00:47:57no i simply see the puzzle

00:48:01piecing together

00:48:02you do

00:48:03hmm

00:48:03it is not something that preoccupies me

00:48:06i should probably forget the whole thing

00:48:08were i to find myself united with the deliciously silken creature

00:48:13who's standing just behind us

00:48:16your ladyship

00:48:19i'm tired

00:48:20and would ask to be excused

00:48:22you may go

00:48:27harriet my dear

00:48:29i have a proposition for you

00:48:37what is it

00:48:38what's happened

00:48:56what's happened

00:49:06what's happened

00:49:08right

00:49:09when before

00:49:09on

00:49:09or

00:49:10Come on, warrior. Let us go.

00:49:30Come on, warrior. Come on.

00:50:09Come on, warrior.

00:50:09Come on.

00:50:16My dear.

00:50:17How nice of you to visit me.

00:50:20Do you know I saw you the first night?

00:50:22Through the door from the turret room.

00:50:24There hasn't been anybody there for a long, long time.

00:50:28Who are you?

00:50:30Well, my name's Serena Stavely.

00:50:32And I fear my story is a bit of a strange one.

00:50:34I was won in a wager by the Lord Vulcan.

00:50:36By the Lord Vulcan?

00:50:39You were really?

00:50:40Oh, what a rogue the fellow must be.

00:50:46I heard voices, my Lord Vulcan.

00:50:49It's all right, Stanton.

00:50:51We have a charming guest.

00:50:53Get some tea. There's a good fellow.

00:50:55Just so, my lord.

00:50:58Poor Stanton.

00:51:00He knows nobody should be here.

00:51:02He probably thinks you came down the chimney.

00:51:04But he called you the Lord Vulcan.

00:51:05That means Justin isn't the real lord.

00:51:07Is he? You are.

00:51:09No, no, no.

00:51:11I am dead.

00:51:16Ah, yes.

00:51:17It's the old story.

00:51:19Extravagant, younger wife.

00:51:21Ruins.

00:51:22Quiet, scholastic.

00:51:24Older husband.

00:51:26Well, Harriet eventually bankrupted my whole family with her gambling.

00:51:32But there was a huge fortune waiting in trust for my son, Justin, on my death.

00:51:38So we waited until he went on the grand tour of Europe.

00:51:42And then I died.

00:51:44And he became Lord Vulcan and a very rich man.

00:51:48The family was saved.

00:51:50And I retired down here.

00:51:52But that's dreadful.

00:51:54For poor Justin, not for me.

00:51:56You see, my dear, I've always been a scholar.

00:51:58So here I could complete my life's work, which was the history of Mandrake.

00:52:04From the very beginning until the present day.

00:52:07But why poor Justin?

00:52:10My son is the most honorable man I know.

00:52:15When he found out what had happened, he was like a crazy man.

00:52:18And then he realized there was nothing he could do about it without disgracing both me and his mother.

00:52:24So finally, he accepted it.

00:52:26But it changed him.

00:52:28He used to be such a laughing, open, joyous young man.

00:52:33He became embittered, cynical.

00:52:37He was like a locked door, detesting the fact that he was living a lie.

00:52:43A locked door?

00:52:46Oh dear, you know, I shouldn't really be telling you all this.

00:52:49Except you'd already guessed the important part.

00:52:52And I'm still vulnerable to a pretty face.

00:52:55You do realize I put myself in your hands?

00:52:58They're safe hands.

00:53:03Do you love my son?

00:53:06No.

00:53:08Mm-hmm.

00:53:10And does he love you?

00:53:11Why should he?

00:53:16Oh, what I would give to be in his shoes.

00:53:25I didn't mind the occasional case of brandy.

00:53:28Everyone does that.

00:53:28It was only occasional, I swear.

00:53:31Stop lying to me.

00:53:33I know everything.

00:53:34You're now running a huge criminal conspiracy.

00:53:36Oh, what an exaggeration.

00:53:39I've let you use me.

00:53:43I've always detested gambling.

00:53:44Yet I've allowed myself to gain a cruel and sinister reputation by using my good luck against any fool who'd

00:53:50take me on.

00:53:50I thought the money was going on Mandrake.

00:53:53Oh, I knew you were squandering somebody.

00:53:55The merest amount.

00:53:58I didn't mind that too much.

00:54:00But now I find that what it was really for was to finance crime, to pay for the contraband you

00:54:05bought in from France.

00:54:06How much did you make for it in London?

00:54:08Double?

00:54:08Triple?

00:54:11And still it's not enough, is it?

00:54:13It's not enough for you.

00:54:15My money, your gambling, the smuggling.

00:54:18It's not enough.

00:54:19You want more.

00:54:21More.

00:54:22You're insane with greed.

00:54:28You disgust me.

00:54:32It's got to stop.

00:54:34For the honor of the family, it's going to stop.

00:54:38And if I refuse?

00:54:40I shall have the underground caverns and the passages from the sea blocked up.

00:54:44You could not do that to Mandrake.

00:54:46It's been part of the house for centuries.

00:54:48I will do it.

00:54:53And have you considered what I will do?

00:54:56I would reveal your father is still alive.

00:54:58And that you are an imposter.

00:55:01It will bring the world crashing about your ears.

00:55:03You've used that threat once too often, Mother.

00:55:07I'm close to the point where you may tell and be damned.

00:55:10Try me.

00:55:11You will obey me.

00:55:13It stops here.

00:55:34Where's Justin?

00:55:35He was supposed to be joining us.

00:55:37It will not be long.

00:55:38He's on Thunderbolts, his new stallion.

00:55:40Fearsome brute.

00:55:41Only Justin can ride him.

00:55:42Oh, that's so like Justin.

00:55:45I think Nicholas has a fine seat on a horse too.

00:55:48Oh, Nicholas rides well enough.

00:55:49But not like Justin.

00:55:51Thank you kindly, madam.

00:55:54I, uh, I overheard a curious exchange between Harriet and Lord Rutten.

00:56:00He was guaranteeing her 10,000 guineas on delivery of the goods.

00:56:04They seem to be looking in your direction.

00:56:07It's probably one of their gambling plots.

00:56:14Heavens!

00:56:15What a magnificent beast!

00:56:21He and Justin go so well together.

00:56:34My apologies for keeping you waiting.

00:56:54Go away!

00:56:56Go five, on the boat, Ryan.

00:56:58Janet всех.

00:57:11Aha!

00:57:34Good evening, my lord.

00:57:36Oh.

00:57:38I came to see your father.

00:57:39My father?

00:57:43Is there any secret that can be kept from you in this house?

00:57:47I found it by accident.

00:57:49The devil you did?

00:57:51I just came to bring him these.

00:57:54Ah, strawberries.

00:57:56It was so early.

00:57:57Where did they come from?

00:57:59From your own gardens, my lord.

00:58:03My father has a frail heart.

00:58:05He's resting at the moment.

00:58:08Well, will you please see that he gets these, with my love?

00:58:13I'm glad that you have found someone to love at Mandrake.

00:58:17In the short time you've been here, you know all our most guarded secrets.

00:58:22You can trust me.

00:58:23Can I?

00:58:25You have a hand of Stavely on it.

00:58:33Such a little hand to hold the honour of Mandrake in its power.

00:58:50I confess I find Justin's silence ominous.

00:58:53Since that hideous onslaught last night, he's hardly addressed a single word to me.

00:58:57You have more to worry about than that.

00:58:59Your laddies are still waiting for the rest of their money.

00:59:02And I would not say that waiting is what they are best at.

00:59:05They shall have theirs as soon as I have mine.

00:59:10I'm expecting gold.

00:59:13I'm expecting it very soon.

00:59:19I beg you, Miss Serena, not to go down tonight.

00:59:22The evil I've always felt here is stronger than ever.

00:59:25I'm never wrong.

00:59:27Please don't go down.

00:59:28Oh, Eudora, don't be upset.

00:59:30I confess this house quite grows on me.

00:59:44Excuse me, Miss Stavely.

00:59:45Hmm?

00:59:46A ladyship has sent me to tell you that your dog has been hurt.

00:59:49Warrior?

00:59:51Injured?

00:59:52For where?

00:59:53Come this way, Miss.

00:59:59They will take you to him, Miss.

01:00:16And when we return, it will be his man and wife.

01:00:19Don't be mad.

01:00:20I loathe you.

01:00:21You make me shudder.

01:00:22Oh, how exciting.

01:00:23I long to make you shudder.

01:00:29Let me go.

01:00:30Repend my soul, Serena.

01:00:32I offer you married.

01:00:33Position, title, the finest house in Wilshire.

01:00:35What are you making yourself fat about?

01:00:37Now, listen to me.

01:00:38It's only out of good nature that I offer you anything.

01:00:40I could take you without marrying you.

01:00:44Suppose I made that fat note.

01:00:47Hmm?

01:00:48Gossip, perhaps, about your enthusiasm for the sport.

01:00:51Where would you be then, eh?

01:00:53This will kill you.

01:00:55Myself!

01:00:59Cunt!

01:01:02Drag your little bird!

01:01:05Ah!

01:01:06Mother of the news!

01:01:12Ah!

01:01:12After, Cunt!

01:01:14Come on.

01:01:15Hurry up.

01:01:18I'll have your neck for this.

01:01:20No doubt. Meanwhile, have your money, your watch, your jewels,

01:01:23and all the other flash you dandies dole yourselves up in.

01:01:27Come on.

01:01:29Take it and be damned.

01:01:32No, miss, I don't take from pretty young ladies.

01:01:37So, would you help me?

01:01:39You look as if somebody could.

01:01:42So this man was carrying me off.

01:01:44Would you take me back to Mandrake House?

01:01:47God bless me soul.

01:01:49If I'd have known it, I'd have come out of me white charger.

01:01:56Up you come, then.

01:01:59You're insane, going with a man like that.

01:02:02It should be sane staying with a man like you.

01:02:08Here!

01:02:20I'll see you hang.

01:02:42They call me Joker.

01:02:44That's because I'm always laughing to stop them crying.

01:02:47Innkeeper I were, doing well.

01:02:49Then the wife ran off with this villain, taking all my savings.

01:02:53I caught up with him.

01:02:55He laughed at me.

01:02:57I hit him when he died.

01:03:00That's been me on the run ever since.

01:03:03There's Mandrake, miss, up yonder.

01:03:06I don't come no closer.

01:03:08Well, I'll never be able to thank you enough.

01:03:11A good deed and a wicked world and all that.

01:03:13Easy, boy.

01:03:13Easy.

01:03:16Easy.

01:03:18There we are, miss.

01:03:22Come on, boy.

01:03:24Be lucky.

01:03:25Come on.

01:04:02What happened?

01:04:03I can't tell you.

01:04:04You wouldn't believe.

01:04:05Let me be the judge of that.

01:04:07Tell me.

01:04:08I can't.

01:04:09I see.

01:04:10You're just like all the rest.

01:04:12Taking the Moonlight, I believe it's called.

01:04:14It was Nicholas, I suppose, or Peter Dillingham.

01:04:17Was he your fancy?

01:04:18How dare you?

01:04:19If you must know, I was lured outside in your mother's name by one of your servants.

01:04:23My mother?

01:04:23Yes.

01:04:24Then I was seized and carried off by the man I hate more than anyone else in the world.

01:04:28Then he tried to force himself on me.

01:04:35Lord Root.

01:04:40It didn't work.

01:04:42What?

01:04:43Root and Miss Stavely, your nasty little plot, it failed.

01:04:48Have you lost your wits?

01:04:50You arranged to have him abduct her.

01:04:52What an absurd fancy.

01:04:54She's escaped.

01:04:55She's back in the house.

01:04:57I've spoken to her.

01:05:00Whatever happened, I played no part in it.

01:05:03What did he offer you?

01:05:04I don't know what you mean.

01:05:05Your price.

01:05:06Heavens above.

01:05:07That simpering creature.

01:05:09Where else would she find such a good match?

01:05:11One day she would have thanked me for it.

01:05:13How much?

01:05:14I declare your question is indecent.

01:05:16If Harry Root and felt pleased to give me a modest present for the introduction.

01:05:26I want the truth.

01:05:31Very well, then, devil take you.

01:05:33He was giving me ten thousand guineas.

01:05:35Little enough when you consider she was bringing him a dowry of eighty.

01:05:38Besides, I will not have that chit marrying you and usurping my place.

01:05:43Ten thousand.

01:05:45That is your price for selling one of my guests out of my house to a lecher.

01:05:50It was not like that.

01:05:52It's a stain on the honor of the Vulcans of Mandrake.

01:05:56That we will never live down.

01:05:58That is all life means to you.

01:06:01The Vulcans of Mandrake.

01:06:03Ah, the tedium of listening to it all my life.

01:06:06First from my husband and now from my son.

01:06:09Your father married me to set a duel in Mandrake.

01:06:12He didn't want flesh and blood.

01:06:14Well, my desires far surpass bricks and stone.

01:06:19Mandrake may be your mistress, but it is not my master.

01:06:27Well, have I silenced you at last?

01:06:30The house will be closed.

01:06:32The tunnels will be blocked.

01:06:34You will be sent abroad.

01:06:35You cannot mean to banish me.

01:06:38Justin, you cannot.

01:06:41But first, there is something I must do.

01:06:49Back to back, if you please, gentlemen.

01:06:52On the word commence, you will each take ten paces.

01:06:57On my timing, turn and fire.

01:07:02Commence.

01:07:03One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

01:07:09Justin!

01:07:28And his lordship said beforehand that if anything was to happen to him,

01:07:31I was to ride and tell your ladyship immediate.

01:07:39You, you killed him.

01:07:43He fought this duel for you.

01:07:46A paltry scrap of a thing.

01:07:50His blood is on your hands.

01:07:52You killed him.

01:08:08Saddle Thunderbolt.

01:08:09Only his lordship can handle him, miss.

01:08:10He's not properly broken.

01:08:12He's a killer.

01:08:12He's the fastest horse in the stables, and I must get to London.

01:08:15Saddle him.

01:08:17I said saddle him!

01:08:19Saddle him!

01:08:19Saddle!

01:08:22Saddle!

01:08:26Saddle!

01:08:31Saddle!

01:08:57Do you love my son?

01:08:59Does he love you?

01:09:00Shall I make you fall in love?

01:09:02Yes, sir.

01:09:05Such a little hand to hold the honor of a man, drink in its mouth.

01:09:10You cannot marry my son, of course.

01:09:12His blood is on your hands.

01:09:15He will never marry.

01:09:16He fought this and he will for you.

01:09:18You killed him.

01:09:20Do not die, Justin.

01:09:22Please, do not die.

01:09:24Please.

01:09:32Thank you, Lord Vulcan.

01:09:33The Lord Vulcan cannot receive Miss...

01:09:35Stabley.

01:09:49Laflamme, I swear you are the most amusing woman in London.

01:09:52Justin.

01:09:53Miss Stabley, the Lord.

01:09:56Miss Stabley, the Lord.

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01:14:34We shall be married in the private chapel of Mandrake.

01:14:37You can go back there and make your arrangements.

01:14:40I will stay here and arrange for a special license, then follow you.

01:14:45I've sent for your maid, Eudora, to bring you fresh clothes and travel back with you.

01:14:58Why did I cancel this evening's entertainment?

01:15:02It would be easy to rearrange it, ma'am.

01:15:04Yet what do I want for those half-wits, grasping, ill-bred scavengers got in heaven?

01:15:09You're still upset from yesterday, ma'am.

01:15:12Now that we know dear Justin is safe, why not go and rest?

01:15:14I cannot rest.

01:15:16I must be alone.

01:15:19Alone with my thoughts.

01:15:24Oh, I am mad as fire with myself.

01:15:27It should have been I who wrote to darling Justin.

01:15:30On Thunderbolt, sister dear, you would never have got out of the stable yard.

01:15:34Cochin four is more your style.

01:15:36I would have taken something faster than that.

01:15:39Nicholas would have driven me.

01:15:40No, I would not.

01:15:42As it is, I'm surprised my cousin's indiscretion.

01:15:44I should be obliged if it went no further.

01:15:46I adore the child.

01:15:48I wouldn't dream of gossiping about her.

01:15:50I cannot be alone.

01:15:52It feels as though my brain were on fire.

01:15:55Something somewhere is monstrously wrong.

01:15:57Oh, it is just fancy, ma'am.

01:15:59Come and sit down, do.

01:16:02I knew it.

01:16:06It is from Justin.

01:16:13They are to be married.

01:16:15Who?

01:16:16Why, Justin and that sly-faced maggot Serena.

01:16:19Serena?

01:16:20Serena?

01:16:21What more does he say?

01:16:22I have matters to arrange.

01:16:27She is about to have the vapors.

01:16:29We'll take odds on it.

01:16:32Serena?

01:16:32The milk-faced little snake?

01:16:35She squirmed her way into my favor so that she could betray me.

01:16:38I'm sure she did nothing.

01:16:39And you probably helped her.

01:16:41Yes, that was it.

01:16:42It was a plot between you and that stupid little child.

01:16:46Isabel, I swear.

01:16:47You can swear your head off and I'll not believe you.

01:16:49The lying, cheating, conniving, Judas-faced little milk.

01:16:52Inabel, I beg of you.

01:16:53Yes, go on, beg.

01:16:55That is all I have ever heard you do.

01:16:57I'm sick of your whining after me like a whipped dog.

01:17:00I have lost a real man and all you can do is beg.

01:17:04You are pathetic.

01:17:05Stop it.

01:17:06Go hear me.

01:17:07Let go of me.

01:17:07Stop it, stop it, stop it.

01:17:09Stop it.

01:17:10You're nothing but a spoilt little brat.

01:17:13Justin never loved you.

01:17:15That's why you wanted him.

01:17:16You have no time for people who really care.

01:17:18Well, I've had enough.

01:17:20I'm leaving.

01:17:21You will never see me again.

01:17:23Before I go, let's just say this for old time's sake.

01:17:41Nicholas.

01:17:42Yes.

01:18:02Her ladyship regrets that she's indisposed, but she's instructed me befitting a new status, miss.

01:18:08That you were to be given the Queen's rule.

01:18:38I heard Yvette prepare this for you for your wedding tomorrow.

01:18:42I trust it is to your taste.

01:18:44Harriet.

01:18:45I thought she'd be ready to kill me.

01:18:47Come to her senses at last.

01:18:49She needs her son.

01:18:50And she knows her son needs you.

01:19:19Come to her son.

01:19:21it is exquisite you look like a princess his lordship will be so proud of his bride

01:19:29but you have a big day tomorrow you need your bed you dora i'm so excited i know i shouldn't

01:19:34sleep a wink this will help

01:19:46now drink this and get undressed and then i'll tuck you in

01:19:50no i've got such a wonderful feeling i don't want to lose it in sleep just yet

01:19:54oh well waste not what not

01:20:12eudora

01:20:26why could you not oblige me by being asleep like your maid

01:20:33so

01:20:41Oh, my God.

01:21:05Oh, my God.

01:21:35Oh, my God.

01:22:07Oh, my God.

01:22:18Where is Miss Stavely?

01:22:19Her ladyship with Miss Stavely and the Queen's room, my lord.

01:22:22Oh, my God.

01:22:34Oh, my God.

01:22:35Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff!

01:23:17Serena!

01:23:19You cannot have thought you could escape me.

01:23:27Serena, my dear, I was coming to fetch you.

01:23:29Several of you to meet me halfway.

01:23:31Do something.

01:23:32Well, Matt?

01:23:33I've come to take our little girl to France.

01:23:35It's arranged.

01:23:36The fast boat is waiting.

01:23:38Not before I get my 10,000 guineas.

01:23:41I know you, Harriet.

01:23:42It would be 10,000 now and another 10 next month.

01:23:47There are 10 after that.

01:23:5220.

01:24:02Now, then, Jacko.

01:24:06Go!

01:24:24Go!

01:24:26Go!

01:24:28Go!

01:24:29Go!

01:24:34Rutan face to face this time

01:25:22you're fighting above yourself Rutan

01:25:24well one tries to do one's best

01:25:44you're fighting above yourself

01:25:46you're fighting above yourself

01:25:49you're fighting above yourself

01:26:20you're fighting above yourself

01:26:25you're fighting above yourself

01:26:42you're fighting above yourself

01:26:48you're fighting above yourself

01:26:56you're fighting above yourself

01:27:05you're fighting above yourself

01:27:21you're fighting above yourself

01:27:44you're fighting above yourself

01:27:59you're fighting above yourself

01:28:14you're fighting above yourself

01:28:21I love you so much.

01:28:23And I've loved you from the first moment I saw.

01:28:50I love you so much.

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