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00:24The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as my
00:45mother's companion?
00:48What other choice did I have?
00:54I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:59The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared was a rare thing.
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
01:10Who is that?
01:11I do not know, Mama.
01:14What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:21Charlotte!
01:24I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:29Understandably.
01:30We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would need time
01:36as a family to-
01:36To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hmm.
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:57You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:01Two weeks.
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:06But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
02:08Hmm.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:15Hmm.
02:17Oh!
02:26Mama.
02:28You must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and Knight Netherfield.
02:32We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:37Oh, Jane.
02:39I would be delighted.
02:41It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:46disposal.
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:59Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:13Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked me to send you to stay with them
03:18until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21There is going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:28I have already accepted their offer.
03:32They're sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama...
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:55If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined for
04:02misery.
04:10Mrs. Bennet is...
04:13Indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:16Of course.
04:19Thank you, Hill.
04:20Mm-hmm.
04:27Um...
04:28What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likable soul.
04:39I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:42Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:48It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:52Meet some other people that live in it.
04:54I think it'll do you good.
04:57Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:59Oh, no, I'm not.
05:00I'm not...
05:01No, I'm just, um...
05:07I'm not quite kidding.
05:08You're a little bit alone.
05:19Are you good?
05:24I'm yes.
05:25He's all in the room.
05:27I don't...
05:32I'm not a girl.
05:33No, you're all in the room.
05:33They're not a girl.
05:33No, that there's not a girl.
05:33No, that's not a girl.
06:03Thank you, Jack.
06:04Good night, Jack.
06:34Oh, Mary! Welcome!
06:36Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
06:38Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:40But first, we'll show you your room.
06:41Come in, come in!
06:44It's right at the top of the house,
06:46so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:48Come in.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10Mother, she's had a most trying time of late.
07:12Well, you all have.
07:15Mother as well.
07:16Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:22It must have been a terrible shock.
07:27Oh, it was.
07:29Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here,
07:35especially with the children,
07:36so if you don't mind that,
07:38you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings
07:41will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do.
08:00Which mountain range is found
08:02at the end of your home?
08:03Follow me.
08:04Oh.
08:06The Andes.
08:21That's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27Thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Mary Ann, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Mary Ann Gardner,
08:52and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Mary Ann.
08:59George!
09:02Yes, thank you, George.
09:05And this is...
09:09This is Rebecca.
09:12Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:15And if an organised body
09:18is not in the situation
09:20and circumstances
09:22best adapted
09:24to its sustenance
09:25and propagation,
09:27then, in conceiving
09:29an indefinite variety
09:30among the individuals
09:32of that species,
09:34we must be assured
09:36that, on the one hand,
09:38those which depart most
09:39from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish.
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:58Now, in 1492,
10:01Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:05Ah, yes, America.
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly
10:16three of you in this room
10:17when I began looking at the globe,
10:19and now there are two of you.
10:20She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing
10:25but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:26Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh.
10:30Tom, you're here.
10:31Tom, can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:34Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you
10:37that dinner is served,
10:38and you must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I, I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:45Er, Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly,
10:59but I was looking at America,
11:03and when I looked back, it was...
11:10Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:13For if you do,
11:14might I suggest you do not
11:16keep them in the toy trunk?
11:19Well, I, I wasn't sure.
11:21I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there,
11:26they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's a fallacy
11:30that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial
11:35to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes, indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:43Mr. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward,
11:48I am keeping a rabbit
11:50in the toy trunk
11:52because...
11:54I...
11:57Because...
11:57rabbits are not at all
11:58social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:05Well,
12:06why exactly do you have
12:07a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:17Tom helped Edward
12:18with the legal matter
12:19some years ago
12:20and we've been friends
12:21ever since.
12:22Do you know
12:22there are four of my lodgers?
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary
12:29Republican?
12:33Well,
12:34as discussed
12:35during the lesson,
12:37they're often associated
12:39with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:41Sounds like you had
12:42a very interesting
12:43first day, Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, uh...
12:46Have you read
12:46Catherine Macaulay,
12:47Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:50Yes.
12:52Mary told us
12:53about smallpox
12:54and I shall never
12:55sleep again.
12:56Well, you asked me
12:58to be truthful.
12:59What's a deadly rash?
13:00She said it can
13:01leave one blind
13:02or dead.
13:04That is not quite
13:05how I put it.
13:06Blind or dead,
13:07she said.
13:07Well, that is true.
13:08There's a mortality rate
13:09of about...
13:1030%.
13:13Exactly.
13:15George cried
13:16three times.
13:19There was something
13:19in my eye.
13:20We held hands
13:21until Mary had
13:22finished talking.
13:24Well, you're never
13:25too young to learn
13:26about life.
13:28I think our game
13:29is in order,
13:29don't you?
13:30I think that's
13:31a very good idea.
13:32Yes!
13:33Yes!
13:33I'm first!
13:34But what should we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Ah!
13:38Let's show Mary
13:39how to play graces!
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well called, Mary.
13:44Bravo!
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo!
13:46You also back up.
13:48Woo!
13:49Oh!
13:49Oh!
13:51That counts!
13:52It does indeed.
13:53Well done.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
13:56You'll need to get
13:57someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe,
14:00he'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay!
14:04Well done.
14:05Yes!
14:05Well done.
14:07Flare play.
14:08You look like a wizard.
14:10Yes.
14:17Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
14:19Oh, uh, no.
14:20I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes.
14:26Well, you couldn't possibly be
14:28as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:40Ready?
14:41Oh!
14:42Oh, man.
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh!
14:53Oh!
14:54Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:14Mary. Oh, do not look so grave, my dear. You're not in trouble. With the weather getting warmer, we're about
15:22to become more sociable.
15:23Oh, oh, please do not feel any obligation to involve me. I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with
15:28the children.
15:29Mary, we want you to join us. But I do not sparkle at dinners.
15:37In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:42Then, of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed. Oh.
15:48I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:51I do not really care for dresses.
15:54Well, that's a shame, but very well.
15:59Perhaps think about it, Mary. There is a dress allowance as part of your governess' wages.
16:05I have thought about it, and I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:10That's excellent news.
16:14Well, good night, Mary.
16:15And thank you for today.
16:25This must be such a chain for Meriton.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:41What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexions change, because I can see many colours here, which would work well on you.
17:00But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:06But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:12Mrs. Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet.
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
17:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:31Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to say the least.
17:38But I shall try.
17:41Have you seen the names of these colours?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
17:52I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunquy.
17:56Anyone for Gabouche?
17:58Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:01Yes.
18:02Yes.
18:04I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:19Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28He worked so hard.
18:29Really?
18:29Underneath that light-hearted manner, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:37Now, have you decided?
18:41I have chosen.
18:43Very well, Mary.
18:47The first is this crimson.
18:50And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
18:55Yes.
18:55But you will need two dresses.
18:57So perhaps...
19:00China blue?
19:02Hmm.
19:06Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
19:10What do you think, Mary?
19:14Some people may think it is wild.
19:16But...
19:18I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:24You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:55Oh, oh, oh.
19:57Oh, gosh.
20:01The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes.
20:19Ready?
20:20Yes.
20:24Oh, oh.
20:28I did it.
20:29You did?
20:31Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:33Right, um, ready?
20:37Mm.
20:38Oh, what, um, sorry.
20:40Oh.
20:41One moment.
20:41Oh.
21:13Oh.
21:14There.
21:20Ready?
21:21Yes.
21:24Oh.
21:25Oh.
21:27Oh.
21:27Oh.
21:27Oh.
21:28Oh.
21:28Oh.
21:29Oh.
21:30Oh.
21:30Oh.
21:32Oh.
21:33That's probably enough.
21:34Enough.
21:34For today.
21:36Oh.
21:37Oh yes.
21:39I brought a book for Mrs. Byron.
21:41Of course.
21:42Yes.
21:43Poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden.
21:59But, um, well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:10Uh, no.
22:11I'm a barrister, junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:18What do you like to read?
22:21Uh, works of non-fiction.
22:23Um, histories and, uh, and geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:31That is reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:40Well, just some poems are mercifully short.
22:46Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
22:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of poetry.
22:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:08Oh, the garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Ah, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Uh, well, yes.
23:14Uh, I have a coat, Tom.
23:17Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Chongley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49It must be very strange without your family here.
23:54Well, there was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:02Mary, you look lovely.
24:06I'm not sure.
24:10I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
24:13No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:20Here.
24:22Here.
24:36Here.
24:39Here.
25:01Um, I mean that's, that's basically it, but they're, awfully fun then.
25:10good evening i do not believe we have met i'm miss baxter delighted to meet you miss baxter
25:17um i am miss bennett i have not long moved to london from hertfordshire
25:30a friend of my mother's died eating those nuts one got stuck in his throat and that and that was
25:37it
25:37he was quite dead in minutes
25:44oh i hope i didn't cause any offense that was marvelous oh i shall keep that story in mind
25:49for when i want to be rid of someone but forgive me it wasn't deliberate
25:54i hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings as do i i never know who to talk to and
26:00i often
26:00find myself saying the wrong things your dress is striking it looks very well on you you really
26:10think so feel a little bold in it well you're in london miss bennett if you're going to be bold
26:16here is the place to do it perhaps london will be the start of something new for you
26:23perhaps it will and if you want to be shown around town i could call on you
26:38london it turned out was a place of learning as much as teaching a place of trying new things
26:46and though i had never liked change i seemed to be enjoying myself
26:54much about me felt different after just one week
26:59being here had lifted my spirits i felt something long forgotten
27:11you must tell me all about it in a moment
27:16next there's a gentleman i'd like you to meet
27:19we have something of an understanding
27:22please may i introduce mr tom hayward
27:29uh we've we've already met
27:31miss bennett oh of course you must have
27:35oh i see you went for the pomona trim
27:37uh it's um spring green it's quite different to pomona
27:42well it suits you very well
27:45tom
27:47excuse us ladies
27:48you must come and meet my colleague mr may
27:54mr hayward and i met three years ago this spring
27:58we are hoping to be married next year
28:01not everything went exactly as i would have liked
28:04come on oh please excuse us
28:08come mary it'll be fun
28:09of course a man such as mr hayward would have secured a match
28:15but i had made friends and that was enough
28:25i did not know what tomorrow would bring
28:29but for now at least i had someone to dance with
29:03i had someone to dance with me
29:03You
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