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A Hazard of Hearts (1987) British Romantic Period Drama
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00:02:56Please let you win.
00:02:58Please.
00:02:59Just for once let Papa win.
00:03:08Trump.
00:03:10And Trump.
00:03:11Again.
00:03:13My trick, I think.
00:03:14And my game.
00:03:16The cards love you tonight, squire.
00:03:19Another game?
00:03:21Uncle, you have won back all you have lost and more.
00:03:24Now is the time to quit.
00:03:25On the contrary, dear boy.
00:03:26Now is the time to ride my luck.
00:03:28With respect, sir, that has never failed to bring you disaster.
00:03:31Oh, just one more game, sir.
00:03:32Just one more game.
00:03:33Uncle, if you will not think of yourself, think of your daughter, Serena.
00:03:43Oh, gentlemen, I know that discretion is death to a gamester, but prudence has been urged
00:03:51upon me.
00:03:53And I must confess, I do see the sense of it.
00:03:57I will play no more.
00:03:59You've paid your dues to Lady Luck in the past, Sir Giles.
00:04:02We will excuse you.
00:04:05Yes, Evans.
00:04:06I'll be right back.
00:04:11Lovely.
00:04:12Going so soon?
00:04:13I thought you might like to take revenge on me for lightening your pockets the last time
00:04:18we met.
00:04:20Joseph's where he has an impatient mistress waiting for him.
00:04:30I'm at your disposal
00:04:32my lord
00:04:33Rutum
00:04:39Uncle you know his lacquer's always topped yours
00:04:42Tonight he'll learn his lesson
00:04:47Would I suit you?
00:04:49As you please
00:04:52Yes would you
00:04:53Certainly
00:04:55Quick and simple
00:04:56High score wins
00:04:57No limit on stakes
00:04:59Agreed
00:05:39Thank you
00:06:01Good show, Uncle.
00:06:02This could turn the game.
00:06:26It's just some hot chocolate.
00:06:28Do drink it, please, Miss Serena.
00:06:29You've had nothing all day.
00:06:36All will be well, I'm sure.
00:06:54Watch out here.
00:07:01Well, there's always your house down there, is there not?
00:07:04A rather fine house, I've always thought of it.
00:07:07Oh, brilliant.
00:07:09But, of course, if you don't care to, well, we'll all perfectly understand.
00:07:19He's baiting him.
00:07:20I'd rather face a drawn sword than a rutum charm.
00:07:40Vulcan is here.
00:07:41Just in Vulcan.
00:07:47Well?
00:07:49Well, if you don't care, you're going to die.
00:07:57Well, that's right.
00:08:05You're not, man.
00:08:08Well, if you don't care, I'll talk to you.
00:08:13I'm sorry.
00:08:14I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:08:29not leaving stabbing my dear fellow
00:08:35there's nothing left to wager
00:08:40you've taken everything i possess
00:08:45well not quite everything that pretty daughter of yours
00:08:53she's a touch high and mighty with me i have to say
00:08:56but girl of great spirit
00:09:00they tell me that she inherits 80 000 guineas
00:09:03from a trust on her marriage
00:09:07i'll tell you what
00:09:10let me be fair with you
00:09:12i'll wager everything that you've lost so far
00:09:16against your daughter's hand in marriage
00:09:27uncle is baiting you
00:09:31well sir
00:09:33yes or no
00:09:44for god's sake man not your own daughter
00:09:46and root them of all people
00:09:48what would you have me do
00:09:49go back
00:09:50and tell serena that i gambled away the roof over her head
00:09:53better that than
00:09:54by all the laws of chance
00:09:56i have to win
00:09:59just once
00:10:00against this root
00:10:02it's my only opportunity
00:10:04now is the time
00:10:06now
00:10:06oh nicholas
00:10:10can't you see
00:10:12i can retain
00:10:14everything
00:10:16and serena
00:10:18we'll never know
00:10:45my daughter's hand
00:10:48and her inheritance
00:10:53against
00:10:54everything
00:10:56i have lost
00:11:24so
00:11:26lady luck
00:11:27has her little ways
00:11:30i hope it will be convenient
00:11:32if i call on you tomorrow
00:11:35do ask the adorable serena
00:11:37to expect me
00:11:49poor devil
00:11:50never did know when to stop
00:11:52that should never have been allowed
00:12:00my lord
00:12:01root him
00:12:11i will throw you
00:12:13for a hundred thousand guineas
00:12:14against the house
00:12:15and the girl
00:12:23done
00:12:24tonight i'm unbeatable
00:12:26even by you
00:12:28my dear
00:12:28vulcan
00:12:46devil take me
00:12:48ive
00:12:49ive
00:12:49ive
00:12:49ive
00:12:49ive
00:13:16Oh, my God.
00:13:19Oh, my God.
00:14:16Oh, my God.
00:14:30Oh, my God.
00:14:47Oh, my God.
00:14:53Oh, my God.
00:15:18Oh, my God.
00:15:30Oh, my God.
00:15:37Oh, my God.
00:15:41Oh, my God.
00:15:51Oh, my God.
00:16:21Oh, my God.
00:16:27Oh, my God.
00:16:27Oh, my God.
00:16:54Oh, my God.
00:16:56Oh, my God.
00:17:03Oh, my Lord Vulcan is here to see her.
00:17:04Oh, my God.
00:17:07Oh, my God.
00:17:10No.
00:17:26Oh, my God.
00:17:28Oh, my God.
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. I'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 up some wine?
00:18:13Miss Stabley,
00:18:15perhaps 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
00:18:49and those who receive pensions from my father.
00:18:51You would wish to continue to pay those?
00:18:54Of course.
00:18:56There'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?
00:19:08Naturally.
00:19:09Since you can't live here and
00:19:10I have no use for it.
00:19:14I suppose so.
00:19:16I hadn't considered that...
00:19:17which leaves you.
00:19:21What 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,
00:19:33I 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
00:19:52a little less strange for you.
00:19:58It's a long journey.
00:19:59Therefore, you yourself will travel
00:20:01in my most comfortable coach.
00:20:04You are most kind.
00:20:06I shall write to my mother,
00:20:07telling 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
00:20:19by a game of chance.
00:20:27Ah.
00:20:30Try not to be afraid of my mother.
00:20:32Why?
00:20:56Miss Serena?
00:21:01I know little of men.
00:21:03I'm aware of what they say about him.
00:21:06I've never been more baffled
00:21:07by a man in my life.
00:21:18Let us remain as we are,
00:21:20two strangers brought together
00:21:21by a game of chance.
00:21:23You are smart.
00:21:24You are smart.
00:21:36I want to die.
00:21:41You are smart.
00:21:42You are smart.
00:21:43I am smart.
00:21:48You are smart.
00:22:12I will inform her, ladies.
00:22:26Out of my way.
00:22:27Bring 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, and 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.
00:23:12Take Miss Stavely to her room.
00:23:42Miss Stavely to her room.
00:23:50this is you thank you if you need anything you've only to ask
00:23:57eudora oh miss
00:24:08the ladyship has put you in the oldest dampest part of the house
00:24:12i've had bricks in the bed but the file wouldn't draw never mind we're all together again and
00:24:16that's all that matters then serena there is evil in this house eudora
00:24:28serena you know i've always sensed when something's wrong eudora aren't you being
00:24:32a bit over imaginative i mean certainly her ladyship does not want me here i tell you
00:24:37there is evil i feel it his lordship's valet told me the house is haunted and i will believe it
00:24:45but it's haunted by the living as well as the god stop it you give me the horrors
00:24:54bat goes to the stables to sleep yes most other times he will stay with me
00:25:00that is what we're both used to you may leave us take 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 eighty thousand guineas oh my marriage mom it is in trust it is not large fortune
00:25:32as fortunes go 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 it would be a convenient sum
00:26:00for
00:26:00your needs were you to be able to unlock your trust i'm afraid that is quite out of the question
00:26:07these things are so of course still nothing is ever quite out of the question something might be done
00:26:15mom i shall not keep you you must be tired after your journey and require rest i shall have some
00:26:21food sent up thank you tomorrow you will join us for dinner downstairs i have some guests for dinner
00:26:29and a number coming in as usual afterwards for the entertainment the entertainment that's what i said girl
00:26:48is
00:26:48oh you dora it's you i thought she was back
00:26:56be careful of her miss serena
00:27:00she doesn't like me she lacks my money well enough don't worry i may be afraid of her but she
00:27:05can't
00:27:05actually harm me she is dangerous
00:27:10oh
00:27:43so
00:27:48so
00:27:51so
00:27:59I don't know.
00:28:40This quaint little girl you sent down here, why on earth did you wager for her?
00:28:45To prevent her falling into the hands of that man Routem.
00:28:48Oh, for shame, Justin. You're becoming a sentimentalist.
00:28:50Not in the least. I merely wanted the pleasure of frustrating him.
00:28:55And you really do not intend to marry her?
00:28:58You know well that I do not. In the circumstances, I marry no one.
00:29:02Love boy, but you frightened me. I thought you were interested.
00:29:06One day, Mother, there will have to be an heir for Mandrake.
00:29:11One day, of course. But not yet.
00:29:15I couldn't bear to be a grandmother yet.
00:29:17Until she's married, I am responsible for her.
00:29:20Now there, I can be of help to you.
00:29:23The girl is not entirely without possibilities.
00:29:25I can put my dressmaker and hairdresser to work on her.
00:29:28Then trail her through the shark pool, see who bites.
00:29:32Something of that sort.
00:29:34Miss Stavely has stronger mettle than she shows.
00:29:37And if you do succeed, what will you get out of it?
00:29:41Rely upon me to work that out.
00:29:44Rely upon me to work that out.
00:30:40Rely upon me to work that out.
00:30:48Rely upon me to work that out.
00:30:48Our little heiress.
00:30:56Ladies are forbidden this room.
00:30:58But you shall be the exception.
00:31:01Come, child.
00:31:04Introduce you to my guests.
00:31:11Lord John, may I present Miss Stavely?
00:31:16Charming to meet you.
00:31:23She is to have 80,000 when she marries.
00:31:26Lord Blount, may I present.
00:31:27Pretty little thing.
00:31:28Sir William.
00:31:30And such a pretty.
00:31:31Quite a cat.
00:31:32Throw the dice, say sir.
00:31:3380,000.
00:31:34Sir John.
00:31:44And now, you must meet your dinner companion.
00:31:53I am well acquainted with Lord Routem.
00:31:56Among other things, he murdered my father.
00:32:21I was just remarking how quick the journey is from London these days.
00:32:27I swear that over-road gets busier by the month.
00:32:29That my Lord Routem.
00:32:31I 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.
00:32:40May I retire?
00:32:41And 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.
00:32:54How stunning you look, Miss Stavely.
00:33:02Oh, 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 how to play Faru.
00:33:17Nick!
00:33:20Nick!
00:33:22Nick!
00:33:35We all love you.
00:33:37I knew you!
00:33:47Thank you!
00:33:51Thank you!
00:34:19A little livelier than Stavely Court, Miss Stavely.
00:34:21I must say, it has quite taken my breath away. I mean, all that out there.
00:34:25I didn't Justin tell you. His mother's a gambler, too. Fanatical.
00:34:29When London became too hot for her, she turned this place into the biggest gaming house in Europe.
00:34:33She collects 2.5% of the stakes. It's illegal, of course.
00:34:37But if Bo Nash got away with it in Bath half a century ago, why shouldn't she?
00:34:41Her trouble is that as fast as she collects it, she gambles it away herself.
00:34:46I'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. She probably hasn't even seen you.
00:35:09What the deuce do you mean, hasn't seen me? I'm around her the whole time.
00:35:12You 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.
00:35:36Miss Stavely?
00:35:38Miss 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, and 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.
00:36:24Isabel.
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, the 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?
00:37:12I do not know the half of what does he do to pass by?
00:37:13I do not know the half o'clock, but I am seeing it with my men that I felt happy.
00:37:31All right.
00:37:31I love you to be and cùng.
00:37:40If I have fallen by one side, I do not know the past.
00:38:31You are interested in panelling.
00:38:34Yes.
00:38:35Well, that is...
00:38:37We had something like it in the library at Stabley Court.
00:38:42In this house, it really does not pay to be curious.
00:38:47You must have heard Mandrake is haunted.
00:38:50Well, you never know what ghost you may meet.
00:38:54Well, if Mandrake is haunted, I cannot blame the ghosts.
00:38:58The house is so beautiful.
00:39:03I like to hear you say that.
00:39:06I love Mandrake.
00:39:15The party is Saxon.
00:39:17Then there is Norman, Edward the Confessor, Elizabethan, Restoration, Queen Anne.
00:39:23Each generation has added to and improved that house.
00:39:26It's a great house and a gracious one.
00:39:33Are you happy here?
00:39:36There's so many strangers.
00:39:38You were happy when I placed you next to your cousin Nicholas at dinner.
00:39:40I'm very fond of Nicholas.
00:39:42You contemplate marrying him?
00:39:44I do not.
00:39:45Any more than he wishes to marry me.
00:39:47He's in love with Lady Isabel.
00:39:49And you?
00:39:51I'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?
00:40:08Or merely of me?
00:40:43It's true.
00:40:44This part of the coast is alive with smugglers.
00:40:46It's not truly your naval patrols.
00:40:47There are so many uninhabited sections.
00:40:49We couldn't hope to cover them all.
00:40:50And all the time more fastboats are being built in France.
00:40:53Fastboats?
00:40:53They can do nine knots.
00:40:55They simply outrun us.
00:40:56And the customs men.
00:40:58And what do they smuggle?
00:40:59Paris' finest velvets, brandy, tobacco, silks and satins.
00:41:04And the damnable thing is, the gold they get for them goes straight back to France.
00:41:15Devil take you, Rutum.
00:41:16Oh, Harriet, I do hope he does.
00:41:19I couldn't bear to be partied from you.
00:41:22You shall pay for that.
00:41:24Do you challenge me again?
00:41:25To eternity.
00:41:27Fifty guineas?
00:41:28A hundred.
00:41:30Oh, reckless lady.
00:41:37My apologies, Harry.
00:41:39The challenge will have to wait.
00:41:41Shall we be back?
00:42:00They weren't supposed to be here for four days yet.
00:42:04Oh, I should have foreseen it.
00:42:06You have the money.
00:42:08Okay.
00:42:09Okay.
00:42:11Okay.
00:42:11Feels a wee bit light to me.
00:42:14Give me that.
00:42:15You have not been dipping into it.
00:42:20A few guineas here, a few guineas there.
00:42:22I thought I'd have time to win the money back.
00:42:25Oh, what will you do?
00:42:26You can hardly offer those beauties double or quits.
00:42:29Hold your tongue!
00:42:31Give me that sticker.
00:42:35I shall be back directly.
00:42:36I shall be back directly.
00:42:58I shall be back directly.
00:43:14a bunch of teary mates are you mad coming on a night for the moon black as they are
00:43:20on a hell's waistcoat when we left calais give me the paper
00:43:27brandy wine where's the silk
00:44:05my dear miss stately how charming you look i trust you're enjoying yourself
00:44:09warn my mother that the coastguards are here get through the door behind the paddling
00:44:18you brought me unawares i was not expecting you until next week
00:44:21this week next week with what you make out of us you try and tell us you're short with
00:44:25your gold you shall have your gold five guineas a man as usual and it'll have to be two now
00:44:30and three
00:44:35you filthy ungrateful rabble who paid for your vote who made the connections where would you
00:44:42be if it were not for me
00:44:44then it was someone who pays
00:44:48the ladyship's 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 next week
00:45:18that's the best we can do right then there's no right then by me i'll have my five now
00:45:24take your four off me and keep your distance your stench sickens me
00:45:34what do you say that don't listen to him he'll spoil everything we're agreed rad
00:45:37the excisemen they're upstairs and soldiers quickly back to the boat not till we get our five guineas
00:45:43i'll show you you fool
00:45:45there is no more
00:45:47right 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
00:46:09have you never seen a wild boar speared before
00:46:13come
00:46:15let us rejoin our guests
00:46:20move
00:46:27mother may i introduce captain jackson who's searching the area for smugglers
00:46:32love how exciting
00:46:34have you found any yet
00:46:35no your ladyship
00:46:37but we have had news of a fast boat in the area
00:46:40and we wondered if we might search your shoreline
00:46:42well of course
00:46:43perhaps you would care to take a stroll through my guests
00:46:46there are some desperate fellows among them
00:46:48that won't be necessary your ladyship
00:46:51just the shoreline
00:46:52if you catch any
00:46:53i want first sight of them
00:46:55i hear they're vastly terrifying
00:46:58they're less terrifying after a touch of cold steel
00:47:03so i've heard
00:47:06your ladyship
00:47:08shoulder
00:47:08high
00:47:10quick
00:47:11march
00:47:14my dear
00:47:15i've heard many ways of running from a losing streak
00:47:18but aren't you dramatizing rather
00:47:20my breaking off our game had nothing to do with this military intrusion
00:47:24you may recall i left some time before they arrived
00:47:27indeed i do
00:47:29it also occurs to me that the silk
00:47:33that my little fancy there is wearing so charmingly
00:47:36and she seems to have had rather startling experience recently
00:47:41that that silk
00:47:43could have come only from paris
00:47:48as indeed
00:47:49with this
00:47:50unhand me sir
00:47:52you are too sharp
00:47:53good gracious
00:47:54no harriet
00:47:55you know me
00:47:56dim as a poor man's candle
00:47:57now i seem to 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
00:48:14who is standing just behind us
00:48:16your ladyship
00:48:19i am tired
00:48:20and would ask to be excused
00:48:22you may go
00:48:27harriet
00:48:27my dear
00:48:30i have a proposition for you
00:48:37what is it
00:48:38what what's happened
00:48:39what's happened
00:48:40what's happened
00:48:40what's happened
00:48:45what's happened
00:48:46what's happened
00:48:47what's happened
00:48:48what's happened
00:48:49what's happened
00:48:50what's happened
00:48:54what's happened
00:48:59what's happened
00:49:10Come on, warrior. Let us go.
00:49:30Come on, warrior. Come on.
00:49:47Let us go.
00:50:16My dear, how nice of you to visit me.
00:50:20Do you know I saw you the first night through 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, and 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?
00:50:40Really? Oh, what a rogue the fellow must be.
00:50:46I heard voices, my Lord Vulcan.
00:50:49It's all right, Stanton. We have a charming guest.
00:50:53Get some tea. There's a good fellow.
00:50:55Just so, my lord.
00:50:58Poor Stanton. He 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, is he?
00:51:08You are.
00:51:09No, no, no.
00:51:11I am dead.
00:51:16Ah, yes. It's the old story.
00:51:19Extravagant younger wife.
00:51:21Ruins.
00:51:22Quiet, scholastic.
00:51:24Older husband.
00:51:25Well, 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, and then I died.
00:51:44And he became Lord Vulcan and a very rich man.
00:51:48The family was saved, and I retired down here.
00:51:52That's dreadful.
00:51:53Oh, for poor Justin, not for me.
00:51:56You see, my dear, I've always been a scholar.
00:51:59So 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?
00:52:11My 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, but 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, and 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.
00:53:09And 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.
00:53:29It 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.
00:53:37Oh, what an exaggeration.
00:53:40I've let you use me.
00:53:43I've always detested gambling, yet I've allowed myself to gain a cruel and sinister reputation
00:53:47by using my good luck against any fool who'd take me on.
00:53:50I thought the money was going on Mandrake.
00:53:53Oh, I knew you were squandering somebody.
00:53:54The 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
00:54:04you brought in from France.
00:54:06How much did you make for it in London?
00:54:08Double?
00:54:09Triple?
00:54:11And still it's not enough, is it?
00:54:14It'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.
00:54:21More.
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 and 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 Thunderbolt, his new stallion.
00:55:40Fersome 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.
00:55:48Nicholas rides well enough, but not like Justin.
00:55:51Thank you kindly, madam.
00:55:54I, uh, I overheard a curious exchange between Harriet and Lord Reuton.
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.
00:56:34My apologies for keeping you waiting.
00:57:34Good evening, my lord.
00:57:36Oh.
00:57:38I came to see your father.
00:57:40My 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 he'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 in the short time you've been here
00:58:19you know all our most guarded secrets you can trust me can i you have the hand of stavely on
00:58:27it
00:58:33such a little hand to hold the honor of mandrake in its power
00:58:50i confess i find justin silence ominous since that hideous onslaught last night he's hardly
00:58:55addressed a single word to me you have more to worry about than that your ladders are still
00:59:00waiting for the rest of their money and 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 the evil i've always felt here is stronger than ever
00:59:25i'm never wrong please don't go down
00:59:28oh you dora don't be upset i confess this has quite groans on me
00:59:44excuse me miss stavely
00:59:46her ladyship has sent me to tell you that your dog has been hurt
00:59:50warrior injured
00:59:53where come this way miss
00:59:59they will take you to him miss
01:00:16and when we return it will be as man and wife
01:00:18be mad
01:00:19i loathe you
01:00:20you 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 i offer you married
01:00:33position title the finest house in wilshire
01:00:35what are you making us a fuss 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 nose
01:00:46hmm
01:00:47gossip perhaps about your enthusiasm for the sport
01:00:51where would you be then
01:00:52where would you be then eh
01:00:53this would i kill you myself
01:01:01drag your little bird
01:01:14come on hurry 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 a bit down
01:01:31thank you
01:01:32no miss
01:01:33i 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
01:01:48if i'd have known or they'd come out on me white charger
01:01:56up you come then
01:01:59you're insane going with a man like that
01:02:01well she'd be sane staying with a man like you
01:02:20i'll see you hanged
01:02:32i'll see you hanged
01:02:42they call me joker
01:02:44that's because i'm always laughing to stop them crying
01:02:47innkeeper i were
01:02:48doing well
01:02:49then the wife run off with this villain
01:02:51taking all my savings
01:02:53i caught up with him
01:02:55he laughed at me
01:02:57i hit him when he died
01:02:59that'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 in 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
01:03:25give one
01:03:26give one
01:03:27give
01:03:27give
01:03:29uh
01:03:29uh
01:03:31uh
01:03:31uh
01:03:32uh
01:03:32uh
01:03:32uh
01:03:32uh
01:03:47uh
01:04:02what happened i can't tell you you wouldn't believe let me be the judge of that tell me
01:04:07i can't i see you're just like all the rest taking the moonlight i believe it's called
01:04:14it was nicholas i suppose or peter dillingham was he your fancy dare you if you must know i was
01:04:20lured outside in your mother's name by one of your servants my mother yes then i was seized and
01:04:25carried off by the man i hate more than anyone else in the world then he tried to force himself
01:04:30on me
01:04:36lord root
01:04:40it didn't work what rootham and miss staveley your nasty little plot it failed have you lost your
01:04:49wits you arranged to have him ducked her what an absurd fancy she's escaped she's back in the house
01:04:57i've spoken to her whatever happened i played no part in it what did he offer you i don't know
01:05:05what
01:05:05you mean your price heavens above that simpering creature where else would she find such a good
01:05:10match one day she would have thanked me for it how much i declare your question is indecent
01:05:16if harry rootham 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 he was giving me 10 000 guineas
01:05:34little enough when you consider she was bringing him a dowry of 80
01:05:38besides i will not have that chit marrying you and usurping my place
01:05:4410 000 that is your price for selling one of my guests out of my house to a lecher
01:05:50it was not like that it's a stain on the honor of the vulcans of mandrake
01:05:56that we will never live down that is all life means to you the vulcans of mandrake
01:06:03ah the tedium of listening to it all my life first from my husband and now from my son
01:06:09your father married me to set a jewel in mandrake he 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
01:06:28well have i silenced you at last the house will be closed the tunnels will be blocked
01:06:33you will be sent abroad you cannot mean to banish me
01:06:38justin you cannot
01:06:40at first there is something i must do
01:06:49back to back if you please gentlemen
01:06:51on the word commence you will each take 10 paces
01:06:56on my timing turn and fire
01:07:00commence one 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 i was to ride and tell your
01:07:33ladyship immediate
01:07:39you killed him
01:07:43he fought this duel for you
01:07:45a paltry scrap of a thing his blood is on your hands
01:07:52you killed him
01:08:07saddle thunderbolt
01:08:09only his lordship can handle him miss he's not properly broken he's a killer
01:08:12he's the fastest horse in the stables and i must
01:08:14get to london saddle him
01:08:16i said saddle him
01:08:35and i said
01:08:44and i said
01:08:46and i said
01:08:57do you love my son does he love you shall i make you fall in love with me
01:09:05such a little hand i hold the honor of mandrake
01:09:07you cannot marry my son of course his blood is on your hands he will never marry
01:09:15he fought this and he will for you you killed him do not die justin please do not die please
01:09:32thank you lord vulcan the lord vulcan cannot receive miss stavely
01:09:48la flam i swear you are the most amusing woman in london
01:09:52justin miss stavely of the lord
01:09:54so
01:10:02so
01:10:06so
01:10:24so
01:10:30so
01:10:37come in
01:10:43i prepared your bath miss stavely and cleaned your habit
01:10:47no you wasn't a mess cleaned what time is it no miss noon his lordship awaits you in the drawing
01:10:53room when you're ready miss
01:10:56he isn't much injured oh lord bless you no miss just to graze they tell me
01:11:02and lord rootham fled to france he'll not show his face in england again
01:11:22come in serena
01:11:33i trust you slept well
01:11:35yes thank you i did well that is i'm sorry i slept so late
01:11:40do sit down
01:11:49when a young lady has been brave enough to do what you did she's entitled to sleep late
01:11:54unfortunately she must also be prepared to face certain consequences
01:11:59i don't understand
01:12:02are you sure you feel strong enough to face such matters
01:12:05i feel quite all right
01:12:07your epic ride to my aid on the most fearsome animal in my stables
01:12:11is already being acclaimed in every club in london
01:12:15and the talk of the clubs
01:12:16a young lady arriving in that dramatic fashion unaccompanied into the house of the bachelor
01:12:23you must see that you've compromised yourself
01:12:26oh
01:12:28is that all you have to say
01:12:30well actually it was for your
01:12:34yes go on my
01:12:38nothing my lord
01:12:41what it amounts to that a decision in our affairs has been thrust upon us
01:12:47we can no longer go on drifting
01:12:51no i suppose not
01:12:56i therefore have the very great honor to ask you to be my wife
01:13:06your wife
01:13:09no
01:13:10no i'm sorry i can't
01:13:11i mean i will not allow you to marry me out of a sense of duty
01:13:26come here serena
01:13:28no
01:13:31you're going to have to swear to obey me when we marry you may as well start now
01:13:36come here
01:13:39why
01:13:46what do you see
01:13:49i see the famous dancer la flam
01:13:53you see my good friend john burley handing the flam into a coach which he bought her
01:13:57which will take her to charming little house in chelsea which he also bought her
01:14:02where later no doubt he will join her as he does most days and nights
01:14:06unless of course he happens to be taking her out to visit old friends
01:14:12but i thought she was
01:14:14no
01:14:16she has not been for some time
01:14:20not since after i met you
01:14:25now will you marry me
01:14:34we shall be married in the private chapter 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
01:14:57why did i cancel this evening's entertainment
01:15:00it would be easy to rearrange it ma'am
01:15:04yet what do i want for those half-wits
01:15:07grasping ill-bred scavengers god 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 i must be alone alone with my thoughts
01:15:24oh i am mad as fire with myself it should have been i who wrote to darling justin
01:15:30and thunderbolt sister dear you would never have got out of the stable yard
01:15:34the coach and 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
01:15:44and i should be obliged if it went no further
01:15:46i adore the child wouldn't dream of gossiping about her
01:15:50i cannot be alone it feels as though my brain were on fire
01:15:55something somewhere is monstrously wrong
01:15:57oh it is just fancy ma'am come 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 why justin and that sly-faced maggot serena serena serena what more does
01:16:22you say i have matters to arrange
01:16:27she's about to have the vapors we'll take odds on it
01:16:32serena the milk-faced little snake she squirmed her way into my favor so that
01:16:37she could betray me i'm sure she did nothing and you probably helped her yes that was it
01:16:42it was a plot between you and that that that stupid judge
01:16:45well isabel i swear you can swear your head off and i'll not believe you
01:16:49the lying cheating conniving judas-faced little minute i beg of you yes go on beg
01:16:55that is all i have ever heard you do i'm sick of your whining after me like a whipped dog
01:17:01i have lost a real man and all you can do is beg you are pathetic
01:17:06stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it you're nothing but a
01:17:11spoilt
01:17:12little brat justin never loved you that's why you wanted him you have no time for people who
01:17:17really care well i've had enough i'm leaving you will never see me again before i go let's just say
01:17:25say this for old time's sake
01:17:27say this for old time's sake
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
01:18:39i had yvette prepare this for you for your wedding tomorrow
01:18:42i trust it is to your taste harriet i thought she'd be ready to kill me
01:18:46come to her senses at last she needs her son and she knows her son needs you
01:19:20it is
01:19:22exquisite 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
01:19:32you dora i'm so excited i know i shouldn't sleep a wink
01:19:37this 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
01:20:11you dora
01:20:26Why could you not oblige me by being asleep like your maid?
01:20:43Let's go.
01:21:34Let's go.
01:21:45Let's go.
01:22:18Where is Miss Stavely?
01:22:19Her ladyship put Miss Stavely in the Queen's room, my lord.
01:23:00Let's go.
01:23:16Serena!
01:23:18You cannot have thought you could escape me.
01:23:27I was coming to fetch you a civil 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.
01:23:40I 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, dear girl.
01:24:04Go!
01:24:24Go!
01:24:26Go!
01:24:32Root him.
01:24:35Face to face this time.
01:25:22You're fighting above yourself, Root him.
01:25:25One tries to do one's best.
01:25:34One tries to do one's best.
01:26:04One tries to do one's best.
01:26:27One tries to do one's best.
01:26:50One tries to do one's best.
01:27:20One tries to do one's best.
01:27:50One tries to do one's best.
01:28:20One tries to do one's best.
01:28:52One tries to do one's best.
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