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00:00Thank you for listening.
00:46Thank you for listening.
01:39Now, of course, Edith can afford to do that.
01:43Go on, Captain. Dance. Dance with your bride.
02:01You are bored, Miss Margaret.
02:03No. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. And a little too grown up for ornaments like this.
02:15When I get married, I want to wake up on a sunny day, put on my favourite dress and just
02:19walk to the church.
02:24There. There. Is that better?
02:28I think you look very well.
02:31You would look very well, whatever you want.
02:35I love my cousin dearly.
02:37I've been very happy in this house.
02:40So I'll be even more happy to go home to Helston tomorrow.
02:43Ah, the wonderful Helston.
02:45You cannot be kept away.
02:46No, I cannot.
02:49It's the best place on earth.
03:16Mum, is that you?
03:22Mr. Lennox?
03:25What's happened?
03:26Is it heeded? Some accident?
03:28No, no, no, no, no. Calm yourself.
03:29No such calamity.
03:31I have come to visit Paradise.
03:35As you suggested.
03:38Well, Mr. Lennox.
03:43You'd better sit down.
04:01This is her.
04:02Come on.
04:25Mama, do you remember Mr. Lennox?
04:29Oh, yes.
04:30Yes, yes, of course.
04:32I...
04:33I can walk this route with my eyes closed.
04:36I've been visiting Father's parishioners since I was a very small girl.
04:41Did you hear what I just said?
04:45Sorry.
04:47I was just remembering your prescription for a perfect wedding.
04:50I should like to walk to church on a Sunday morning.
04:54Was this the path you were describing?
04:56Why, yes, I suppose so.
04:59I wasn't actually thinking of my wedding.
05:02You understand?
05:04I was wondering, Margaret, whether...
05:07Please, don't...
05:08Whether you might consider making that walk,
05:11sharing that morning with one who...
05:13Please, listen, Margaret...
05:16Please, don't continue.
05:19I'm sorry.
05:23Excuse me, Edna.
05:25You led me to believe that such an offer would not be unwelcome.
05:30A London girl would have known not to talk of wedding days in such ambiguous terms.
05:34Excuse me, I said nothing I am ashamed of.
05:38I'm sorry if you have been mistaken in my affections for you.
05:41Is there someone else?
05:43Someone else you prefer?
05:44No.
05:47I do like you, Henry.
05:49But I'm not ready to marry anyone.
05:52You must believe that I mean what I say.
06:05Henry, I'm...
06:10I'm sorry.
06:12I'm sorry.
06:31You'll be on the streets.
06:33In a strange place.
06:35Mama, I told you, we'll stay at a hotel until we find a house.
06:38It won't take long.
06:40Perhaps Dixon and I could stay on the coast while you look.
06:44Yes.
06:45As the missus is so delicate.
06:47No, Maria, your place is with us.
06:49It will not take us long to find a house.
06:52My old college friend, Mr. Bell, has agreed to help.
06:55He's already organised a list of potential pupils.
06:58There'll be plenty of teaching for me.
07:04There will be no people there like us.
07:07Walter.
07:08How can there be?
07:09We will manage, Mother.
07:11It's not another planet.
07:15Alphorn, Milton.
07:18Alphorn, Milton.
07:21Alphorn, Milton.
07:23Alphorn, Milton.
07:26Why have we come here, Dixon?
07:30It's going to be awful.
07:33I know it is.
07:35Shh.
07:36Alphorn, Milton.
07:37Dixon.
07:38Dixon, take care and find a porter.
07:41He has arrived.
07:51Porter!
07:53Take these, please.
08:10We'll find a house fast if we go separately.
08:12Are you sure?
08:14Of course.
08:15You, no peace.
08:21Go, please.
08:26Don't worry.
08:27No.
08:27Let's go.
08:28Huh?
08:30Oh.
08:35Oh.
08:38Oh.
08:39Oh.
08:39Oh.
08:41Oh.
08:41Oh.
08:42Oh.
08:43Oh.
08:44Oh.
08:58Hello, how are you?
09:30The living room is quite spacious, as you can see, abruptly not for me, I'm making inquiries on behalf of
09:36one of your master's business acquaintances.
09:43I've managed to live here as a clergyman, or rather a former clergyman. He's used to live here simply, I
09:48don't think he's ever been a man of great property or fortune.
09:59A matter of conscience.
10:00Ah, conscience, ah, well I've never put bread on the table.
10:04Oh, I think it's sad, eh?
10:05A little, uh, indiscretion little place, maybe?
10:09Well, they do, you say, the devil makes work for idle hands, don't they?
10:12Maybe his hands weren't so idle.
10:16Well, they would certainly find things, er, quite different, don't they?
10:19Oh, aye.
10:20Well, make good repairs, but the decoration's good enough.
10:23Hey, what a business, eh?
10:24For a man to uproot his wife and child to come all the way to Milton.
10:28Conscience or no conscience, that's strange behaviour.
10:31Excuse me, madam, can I help you?
10:33My name is Margaret Hale.
10:35Who are you?
10:37I'm Williams, Mr Thornton's overseer.
10:39He asked me to look out properties for your father.
10:44How much is the rent of the year?
10:46These are the details Mr Thornton will discuss with your father.
10:49There's no need to concern yourself with money matters, ma'am.
10:50I've no idea who your Mr Thornton is.
10:53I thank him for his trouble.
10:55But my father and I are sharing the task of securing a property.
10:59I have spent two days viewing what Milton has to offer.
11:02So I have a fairly good idea of price.
11:04Mr Thornton thinks this will do very well for your father.
11:07Where is Mr Thornton?
11:08Excuse me.
11:11Take me to see if it's Mr Thornton.
11:13If you won't deal with me, I'll have to deal with him.
11:40Is Mr Thornton over here?
11:42Aye.
11:43He'll be at work.
11:48Stay here, miss.
11:49I'll find master.
11:58Get home.
12:07Let's go.
12:09Let's go.
12:39Let's go.
13:10Let's go.
13:45Let's go.
13:46Let's go.
13:56Let's go.
13:57Let's go.
14:01Let's go.
14:03Let's go.
14:10Let's go.
14:20Let's go.
14:23Let's go.
14:32Let's go.
14:59Let's go.
15:02Let's go.
15:02Get that woman out of here.
15:04Get that woman out of here.
15:05Please, miss.
15:09Miss.
15:10Miss, please.
15:11Please.
15:12Please.
15:13Please.
15:14Please.
15:15Please.
15:22Let's go.
15:24Let's go.
15:26Let's go.
15:56My darling Margaret,
15:58we are back at last from our honeymoon in Corfu.
16:01We've been away so long I'm almost fluent in Greek,
16:04or so the captain says.
16:06But you know, everything he says is always so agreeable.
16:10Oh, dear Margaret.
16:11Now I'm going to say something that will make you very angry,
16:14but I can't help it.
16:15What was Uncle thinking of?
16:17Taking you all so far away from home?
16:20What on earth are you doing in that awful place,
16:22where they make cotton,
16:24when no one who is anyone wishes to buy it?
16:26And I'm sure we'll always wear linen.
16:31Dear Edith,
16:33I'm pleased to report that we've replaced the horrible wallpapers
16:36with altogether more agreeable colours.
16:39Dixon has only, if you think this possible, grown in energy.
16:43She has set herself the task of engaging an undermaid,
16:46but as yet there isn't anyone within a radius of at least 50 miles
16:50who is remotely suitable to wait on us hand and foot.
16:53Now sit if you don't mind.
16:58You'll be expected to be well up before the family to light the fires.
17:02I'm sorry, I'm not getting up at five in the morning.
17:05And I'm not working for those wages.
17:08I can get four shillings, there's a piece there up at Ampers.
17:12Anyway, if you don't mind me asking,
17:15where's money coming from to pay for me?
17:17This house must be costing £30 a year,
17:20and there's not much coming in from what I've heard.
17:24Oh, come and go as I please.
17:26I don't need no gossip.
17:28Jumped up servant to tell me what's what and how to think and how to be it.
17:32We'll keep your rotten job.
17:44You, me, a servant indeed.
17:48I don't know what the master was thinking of,
17:50subjecting us to all this gossip.
17:55Margaret.
18:07What's the matter?
18:14There is some talk.
18:18Margaret?
18:20Margaret?
18:22What does she mean, talk?
18:24I did hear some people talking when we were house hunting.
18:29About why we moved to Milton.
18:32So abruptly, why you left the church.
18:35People are talking.
18:37Well, it's only natural, after all, that people should wonder.
18:42It's not usual for clergymen to leave their parish,
18:46travel hundreds of miles,
18:47as if to escape something.
18:51just because we follow you, without question.
19:04It's from the bishop.
19:06It's not about Frederick.
19:08I keep that letter with me at all times,
19:11to reassure me that I made the right decision.
19:22Is this all?
19:25I ask that all rectors in the diocese of the New Forest
19:30reaffirm their belief in the Book of Common Prayer.
19:33Yes, sir, exactly.
19:35The effrontery.
19:36The man's ten years are junior.
19:38He tries to treat us all like children.
19:40But this is a formality, surely, to reaffirm.
19:45My conscience will not let me.
19:49I can and have lived quietly with my doubts for some years now.
19:54But I cannot swear publicly to doctrines I am no longer sure of.
20:02We men of conscience have to make a stand.
20:06We?
20:07Yes, there are others who have doubts.
20:08Yes, we all agreed.
20:10We could not reaffirm.
20:13Are you telling me
20:15that all the rectors of the New Forest
20:18have decamped to industrial towns?
20:23Well,
20:25some
20:26thought it possible to yield,
20:28but
20:30I did not.
20:32How many?
20:33How many refused?
20:34I could not avoid this.
20:35I was forced into it.
20:37You must understand.
20:42You must understand.
20:43I understand.
20:48I understood
20:51that the very worst must have happened.
20:56That you had lost your faith
21:01or that you felt that God wished you to preach his word
21:04in these new places.
21:08That some very great matter
21:11must have happened to make you uproot us
21:14or dragging us up to this God-forsaken place.
21:18You came up with your livelihood.
21:25Our source of income
21:30on a formality.
21:32It was not like that, Maria.
21:35Really,
21:36it is not like that.
21:40I already have work,
21:42teaching,
21:43and I will find more.
21:47And maybe
21:49I will discover
21:52that is my real vocation after all.
21:55The people here
21:57don't want learning.
22:00They don't want books
22:03and culture.
22:06It's all money
22:07and smoke.
22:10That's what they eat
22:12and breathe.
22:20And you're right, Edith.
22:22Melton is very far from home,
22:24but it is quite an interesting,
22:26a modern sort of place.
22:28There are at least 20 mills,
22:30all very prosperous,
22:31in and around the town,
22:32and it's full of new industry
22:34of one sort or the other.
22:36It is, of course,
22:37not remotely green like Halston,
22:40and so large
22:41that I often lose my way.
22:43But the people are friendly enough,
22:45and there is nearly always someone
22:46to point me in the right direction.
23:17What are they there?
23:23Watch out, Halston.
23:36It's a stock.
23:52Come on, Miss.
23:52Well, that's a lot of people.
23:54It's a fun show.
23:55We're all having a bit of fun.
24:02Come on, Miss.
24:06Be careful where you walk
24:07when the whistle starts on a break
24:10Don't worry, they won't harm you
24:13Just like a bonny face
24:15Yours is the picture
24:17Come on
24:24I'm obliged to you
24:26Thank you, sir
24:27You're welcome
24:34No charge, miss
24:53So this century
24:55was probably the most productive
24:58simply in terms of the number
24:59Father is working hard
25:01He teaches students and also lectures
25:03Though some of it is unpaid
25:07and I fear unwanted
25:11But he keeps happy
25:23He understands his private pupils at home
25:25You have to make a choice, John
25:27Now, it's difficult, I know
25:29Margaret, is that you?
25:32Oh, Margaret
25:33Come in, Margaret, come in
25:35Meet my new friend and first proper pupil
25:39Mr Thornton
25:40This is my daughter, Margaret
25:47I believe your daughter and I have already met
25:49Ah, Mr Thornton can't decide between Aristotle and Plato
25:54I suggest we start with Plato
25:56and then move on
25:58What do you think?
25:59I'm afraid Miss Hale and I met under less than pleasant circumstances
26:02I had to dismiss a work of her smoking in the sorting room
26:05I saw you beat a defenceless man who was not your equal
26:08Margaret
26:09No, she's right
26:12I was angry I have a temper
26:15Fire is the greatest danger at my mill
26:16I love to be strict
26:17Why a gentleman wouldn't use his fists on such a
26:20pathetic creature
26:21or shout at children
26:24I dare say a gentleman has now had to see 300 corpses
26:27laid out on a Yorkshire hillside as I did last May
26:30And many of them were children
26:31and that was an accidental flame
26:33The whole mill destroyed in 20 minutes
26:39I should go
26:41You'll join us for dinner next week
26:43Oh yes, of course
26:45Thank you
26:47We'll start with Plato next Tuesday
26:49I will ask my mother to call when you're settled
26:53Of course
26:55Not by all means
26:56We're always here, aren't we, Margaret?
27:10I'll admit that Milton doesn't have any grand palaces or works of art
27:15But it does have some pleasant parks
27:17Where we take our daily walk
27:19And meet our friends
27:21While the weather holds
27:31Are you following me?
27:32No
27:33Well, yes
27:34I didn't mean any offence
27:36I recognised you from Albra Mills
27:38Well, I recognise you
27:41Giving Thornton back as good as he gave
27:44I don't see that every day
27:47Well, I don't want to keep you
27:49What important appointments might I have?
27:54No, I'm going to meet my father
27:55He works at Hampers a mile across town
27:58But you work at Marlborough Mills?
28:00Yes
28:02It's near her home
28:04And the work's easier
28:06Here's father now
28:08Father
28:10Young woman I told you about
28:13Dave Thornton beat up Stephen
28:14Yes
28:14Sent him packing
28:15He deserved it
28:16Fool put everyone at risk
28:20You're not from this part of the world, are you?
28:22No
28:22I'm from the south
28:24From Hampshire
28:26That's beyond London, I reckon
28:28Hmm
28:33Where do you live?
28:35We put up Francis Street in Princeton
28:37Behind Golden Dragon
28:40And your name?
28:43My name is Margaret Hale
28:44My name is Nicholas Higgins
28:46This is my daughter, Bessie Higgins
28:48Where do you ask?
28:49Well, I
28:50I thought that I might come and bring a basket
28:54Excuse me
28:55At home
28:56When my father was a clergyman, of course
28:57A basket?
29:00What would we want?
29:00The basket
29:02We've little enough to put in it
29:07I don't much like strangers in my house
29:10I dare say in the south
29:11Where you come from
29:12A young lady such as yourself
29:13Feels she can wander into anyone's house
29:15Whenever they feel like it
29:16But up here
29:17We wait to be asked
29:18Into someone's parlour
29:19Before we go charging you
29:20Excuse me, Mr Higgins
29:22Bessie
29:23I didn't mean any offence
29:24Also, I reckon
29:25You can come if you want
29:27But you'll not remember us
29:29I'll bet on that
29:44Margaret
29:47What's the matter?
29:48Are you on well?
29:50It must be Mr Thornton's mother
29:54There's no mistaking that stern brow
29:57And there must be the sister
29:59What a deal of starch
30:01It would take someone all day
30:02To iron that petticoat
30:05Where will you put them, Mama?
30:07I don't think the two of them
30:08Will fit in here
30:10Oh
30:36How exquisite
30:38I haven't seen English point work
30:41Quite like that for years
30:42Our Milton craftsman
30:44Shit can compare with the very best
30:52I suppose you are not musical
30:54As I see no piano
30:55I am fond of music
30:57But I cannot play well myself
31:01As you can see
31:02This house would hardly bear
31:04A grand instrument
31:06We sold ours when we moved
31:08Yes
31:09These rooms are far too small
31:10For entertaining
31:12Our staircases are wider
31:13Than the whole width of this room
31:26I wonder how you can exist without a piano
31:29It almost seems to me a necessity of life
31:35There are concerts here, I believe
31:37Oh, yes, rather crowded
31:39They're letting anybody
31:41But we have whatever is the fashion in London
31:43A little later, unfortunately
31:47You know London, of course
31:49Oh, yes
31:50I lived there with my aunt and cousin for a while
31:54Oh
31:55London and the Alhambra
31:57They are the two places I long to see
31:59The Alhambra?
32:00Yes, ever since I read the tales of the Alhambra
32:04Do you know them?
32:06I don't think so
32:10But it's a very easy journey to London
32:12And not half so far
32:13Yes
32:14But Mama has never been to London
32:16She cannot understand why I long to go
32:20She's very proud of Milton
32:23Dirty, smoky place that it is
32:25I can't wait to leave
32:29May I ask why you chose to come and live in Milton?
32:32I mean, why did you leave?
32:34Wherever it was
32:35Helston
32:38Well, it was my husband's decision
32:44It was a matter of conscience
32:46But Mr Hale is no longer a clergyman, I thought
32:52My husband very much enjoys his lessons with Mr Thornton
32:55I think it makes him feel young again
32:59Classics are all very well for men
33:01And light of their lives away in the country
33:02Or in colleges
33:04But Milton may not have all their energies absorbed by today's work
33:08They should have one aim only
33:12Which is to hold and maintain an honourable place
33:14Amongst the merchants of this country
33:17Go where you will
33:19The name of John Thornton in Milton
33:22Manufacturer and magistrate
33:24Is known and respected amongst all men of business
33:30And sought after by all the young women in Milton
33:33Not all of them, surely
33:37If you had a son like mine, Mrs Hale
33:39You would not be embarrassed to sing his praises
33:50If you can bear to visit our dirty, smoky home
33:55We shall receive you next week
34:08To be continued...
34:10To be continued...
34:14To be continued...
34:44Mrs. Thorpe, what a splendid house.
34:50But do you not find the proximity to the mill a little, um,
34:55of 90?
34:57Never.
34:59I've not become so fine as to forget the source of my son's power and wealth.
35:05The mill is everything.
35:08There is no other factory like it than nothing.
35:13This house is my son's achievement.
35:23Can I tell you, Thornton, about the price of raw cotton I found in Le Havre?
35:27I believe you did.
35:28Come on, Thornton. Even you can spot a bargain when you see it.
35:32Cotton's a great deal cheaper from the Caribbean than from America.
35:35I bet your Egyptian cotton is still much cheaper.
35:37I don't believe they can offer at those prices for long.
35:40They'll be bankrupt in a year and we'll have our supply interrupted.
35:43I'd rather pay more than have a steady supply through Liverpool.
35:46Others can do as they wish we'll all lose in the end.
35:48Thornton's as straight as they come.
35:50He won't risk Marlborough Mill in any risky enterprise,
35:52even if it means passing up the chance to speculate.
35:54But that's the best way, surely.
35:56With so many lives depending on the factory's continued success.
36:00Well, um, that would be the Christian way.
36:04By the way, everyone,
36:06you're the latest over clamoring for a new wheel.
36:08I thought you would agree to the wheel.
36:09Well, I had.
36:10First, the men threatened to turn out if I didn't install the infernal wheel,
36:13which would have cost me £600.
36:15The wheel blows away the strands of cotton that flies off in the sorting rooms.
36:18It helps keep the fluff off the workers' lungs.
36:20It doesn't stop it, but it does help.
36:22So, what was the problem?
36:23Well, some of the workers started claiming they'd need more money
36:25to work in a place with a wheel.
36:27What?
36:27Yes, believe me.
36:29They let it make them hungry.
36:30Yes.
36:31Even hungrier than they claim they always are.
36:32The wheel would make them hungry?
36:34Yes, I swear.
36:35Some of them said that if I put the wheel in,
36:37there wouldn't be so much fluff to swallow,
36:38so their bellies would be emptier.
36:40Yes.
36:42And this is the beautiful part.
36:44They were saying,
36:45I'd have to pay them more.
36:47And now the men are split amongst themselves
36:48and can't agree to what they want.
36:50So, I've been spurred £600,
36:52and the men have only themselves to thank
36:54for the carding rooms being like Christmas every day
36:56with all that sneezing.
36:58Oh, come on, Thornton.
37:00I'm sure you wouldn't approve of your workers telling you what to pay them.
37:03I've had a wheel in all my sheds for these past two years.
37:06I won't fool you.
37:07I can't see profit in it.
37:08There is no immediate profit.
37:10None that you can count in pounds, shillings and pence.
37:12And buts.
37:14Well, there is a but, isn't there?
37:15Buts.
37:17My workers are healthier.
37:19The lungs don't clog so easily.
37:21They work for me longer.
37:22The children work for me longer.
37:23Even you can see the profit in that.
37:25But surely it's the right part, also.
37:28Sound business sense, Mr Hale,
37:29and I cannot operate under any other moral law.
37:32I do not run a charitable institution.
37:35My workers expect me to be hard, but truthful.
37:40I always tell them how things are, and they either take it or they leave it.
37:44Harknessy has always tried little tricks with his workers.
37:46You've got to keep them on their toes.
37:48It's a war.
37:49Are we masters at the win it?
37:51Or go under.
37:53I hear you.
37:55Oh, my, I have a letter from Edith.
38:05Would you like me to read it to you?
38:08She sends love from Hans Shaw.
38:10I wonder that your father prefers the company of Milton trades.
38:13There's wasn't enough to do already.
38:15We've got no help to speak of.
38:18I have to do everything.
38:21It's all the master's fault.
38:24He took leave of his senses when he brought us here.
38:30He is not the vicar of Helston any more.
38:34He has thrown away his position in society
38:36and brought us all down with him.
38:39He'll be the death of us all.
38:52I know you love my mother, but you forget yourself.
38:55Please don't talk about my father in that way.
38:57It's not for you to question his motives or judgment.
39:01You are a servant in this house.
39:03If you have such thoughts, keep them to yourself
39:05or you are free to leave and go back to Helston whenever you choose.
39:11Like it or not, we are here.
39:17I will help you.
39:19You, Miss Margaret?
39:21In the kitchen?
39:23Yes.
39:24Me.
39:25I can learn to starch and iron and I will until we find suitable help.
39:31You'll do as I say, Texan.
39:41Excuse me.
39:42I'm looking for Bessie Higgins.
39:44I must have come in the wrong direction.
39:45She lives along the way, just around corner.
39:49It's all right.
39:50She's not frightened of you.
39:52She's hungry, that's why she cries.
39:57Bessie's just around corner.
39:59Oh.
40:05Oh.
40:19Wait.
40:19That's it?
40:19My daughter come out in the house.
40:20Fancy.
40:25That's just a small Enterprise.
40:26This is no matter of coins..
40:28It's gone.
40:30Let's go.
40:36Excuse me, I thought Bessie Higgins looked here.
40:43I'm sorry I didn't come earlier.
40:45To tell you the truth, I didn't know that I wouldn't be welcome.
40:49I thought the groceries would be offensive.
40:52But then if I'd come without anything...
40:53There's a remote possibility of us finding a fence.
40:57You can be sure we will.
40:59We're very good at that in Milton.
41:03I feel I've lived in Milton for quite some time now.
41:06But I still find myself constantly at fault whichever way I turn.
41:10How long do you think it will take for that to change?
41:13Oh, a couple of years at least, in your case.
41:33It's just a bit of cold. I can't seem to shift.
41:52She was right. She said you'd come.
41:54How was the meeting, Father?
41:59Oh, do not worry on my account.
42:02I have no-one to tell any secrets to.
42:05Well, your father, the parson, has been seen supping with the bosses.
42:09Mr Thornton is his pupil.
42:11He's certainly not my friend.
42:12And Boucher?
42:15He's our neighbour down the way.
42:17He's holding up just.
42:20But he'll be with us when the fire goes up right enough, if he knows what's good for him.
42:25Miss Margaret, your father teaches at the Lyceum Hall, doesn't he?
42:28Yes, he does.
42:30Sunday afternoons.
42:39Mother, remember I'll go to the Hales this evening.
42:43I will be home to dress for the house all late.
42:46Dress?
42:47Why should you dress up to take tea with an old parson, an ex-parson?
42:51Mr Hale is a gentleman, and his daughter is an accomplished young lady.
42:58Don't worry, Mother.
42:59I'm in no danger for Miss Hale.
43:02She's very unlikely to consider me a catch.
43:05She's from the South.
43:06She doesn't care for our northern way.
43:08Heirs and graces.
43:11What business is she?
43:13A renegade clergyman's daughter.
43:15She's now only fit to play at giving useless lectures to those who do not wish to hear them.
43:21What right is she to turn up her nose at you?
43:24Pour up the windows.
43:26It'll be a storm later.
43:28Alright.
43:32Alright.
43:41Alright.
44:07Oh, motion and energy, but truly a thing of beauty.
44:10Classics will have to be rewritten to include it.
44:15I'm afraid we're boring as hell with our enthusiasm for arc-rights invention.
44:19No. Indeed, I'm sure it's fascinating.
44:24I'm a little tithe, that's all.
44:53Mr. Thornton has been admiring our newly redecorated rooms, Maria.
44:57Oh, yes, Mr. Thornton.
45:00Well, there wasn't a great deal of choice,
45:03but these papers are of a similar shade to our drawing room in Helston.
45:08But not quite.
45:09Well, on behalf of Milton Toste, I'm glad we've almost passed muster.
45:14Yes.
45:15Yes, well...
45:17Clearly, you're very proud of Milton.
45:20My husband admires its energy and its...
45:27Its people are very busy making their businesses successful.
45:32I won't deny it.
45:34I'd rather be toiling here, success or failure,
45:36than leading a dull, prosperous life in the South.
45:38But there's slow, careless days of ease.
45:41You were mistaken.
45:42You don't know anything about the South.
45:45It may be a little less energetic in its pursuit of competitive trade,
45:49but then there is less suffering than I've seen in your mills.
45:52And all for what?
45:55Well, you make cotton.
45:56Which no one wants to wear.
45:58I think that I might say that you do not know the North.
46:02We masters are not all the same,
46:04whatever your prejudice against Milton men and their ways.
46:06I've seen the way you treat your men.
46:08You treat them as you wish, because they are beneath you.
46:11No, I do not.
46:12You've been blessed with good luck and fortune,
46:15but others have not.
46:16I do know something of hardship.
46:22Sixteen years ago, my father died.
46:25Very miserable circumstances.
46:27I became the head of the family very quickly.
46:29I was taken out of school.
46:32I think that I might say that my only good luck
46:35was to have a mother of such strong will and integrity.
46:39I went to work in a draper's shop,
46:41and my mother managed so that I could put three shillings aside a week.
46:45I taught me self-denial.
46:48Now I'm able to keep my mother in such comfort
46:51as her age requires,
46:52and I thank her every day for that early training.
46:56So, Miss Hale,
46:57I do not think that I was especially blessed with
47:01good fortune or luck.
47:11I'll stay my welcome.
47:12Oh, no joke.
47:14Come, Miss Hale,
47:15let us part with friends despite our differences.
47:18If we become more familiar with each other's traditions,
47:20we may learn to be more tolerant, I think.
47:31I'll see myself out.
47:32Please, please.
47:45Margaret,
47:47the handshake is used up here in all forms of society.
47:50I think you gave Mr. Thornton real offence
47:52by refusing to take his hand.
47:54I'm sorry, Father.
47:58I'm sorry I'm so slow to learn the rules of civility in Melton.
48:02But I'm tired.
48:05I've spent the whole day washing curtains
48:07that Mr. Thornton should feel at home.
48:10So, please,
48:11excuse me if I misunderstood the handshake.
48:16I'm sure in London,
48:17a gentleman would never expect a lady
48:19to take his hand like that.
48:20All unexpectedly.
48:23And I'm sure I didn't know where to look
48:25when he talked about his past.
48:27His father might have died in the workhouse.
48:31I think it might have been worse than that.
48:38According to my friend, Mr. Bell,
48:40his father speculated wildly and lost.
48:44He, um,
48:45he was swindled by a business partner in London.
48:48He, um,
48:51he killed himself
48:54because he couldn't bear the disgrace.
48:58Mother and son and daughter
49:00lived on nothing for years.
49:02So that the creditors could be repaid
49:04long after they'd given up any hope of settlement.
49:09Margaret?
49:12I think it very fine, father.
49:16I'm sorry to have offended your friend.
49:20I must go to bed.
49:32I think it's okay.
49:35I think it's okay.
49:39It's okay.
49:41I think it's okay.
49:51It's okay.
49:56I don't know.
49:56I don't know.
50:03Ah, put him down.
50:04He's one of ours, isn't he?
50:06Voucher, it's Thornton's.
50:08Aren't you interested, Thornton?
50:09Whole meals together, if you please.
50:11We need to show them.
50:13We know what they're up to, and we know who they are.
50:14Love them meat.
50:16That's how they want to spend their leisure time.
50:19We're all trying to work together, Thornton.
50:21Are we?
50:23What does that mean?
50:25I overheard some of my men talking.
50:28It seems you're planning to give in to them.
50:31We agreed.
50:33We'd all be in line.
50:35So that the men would know we meant business,
50:37and know that we kept our word.
50:41Well, I...
50:58My few pros asked if they could use the hall for a special meeting.
51:03And who am I to force ecclesiastical architecture?
51:10Quiet, please.
51:12Quiet, please.
51:16Friends.
51:19Welcome.
51:21and this is the first time
51:23we have ever gathered together.
51:29Don't worry, we'll get a chance to speak as long as we take our turn.
51:33Now, I'm Nicholas Higgins.
51:35I work up at Ampers Mill.
51:37There's quite a few of us.
51:40Some men from Thornton's in Malibur Mill.
51:43Where's Indicent's?
51:45Where are Sixers?
51:50Now, up at Ampers, we've got a lot of work.
51:55Orders are floating in and cheap cotton to meet them.
51:58Now, there's those of us that know
52:00that soon bosses will be telling us
52:02although they're making a fat profit,
52:06they can't make our pay what it were five years ago.
52:10Now, they'll have a load of excuses.
52:12It's all because cotton suddenly become expensive.
52:17This or that bit of machinery's packed up.
52:20The buyers can't pay, so there's no money to pay us.
52:23You all!
52:26The bosses make the wrong rules.
52:28Henderson says one thing, Ampers another.
52:30Different from one week to the next.
52:32But what's to stop him cutting pay again?
52:35And if we quit all the wages,
52:37there's more who'll take our places than we're allowed to.
52:40That's why.
52:41We must all work together.
52:45Because next time one of our bosses plays tricks,
52:48we'll all know about it.
52:50And if we all decide on a fair wage
52:52and none of us,
52:53none of us work for less than for once,
52:55we'll have a son!
53:08It's all right, some of you talking brave.
53:12Nicholas here earns, what, 15, 16 children a week?
53:15There's only three to keep on it.
53:16My wife's sick.
53:19I have six children.
53:21None of them all are enough for factory work.
53:24If I turn out,
53:26we'll not be able to live on five shilling strike pay from unions.
53:32My children...
53:34will starve.
53:40Look, I'm not saying
53:42that we're coming out today.
53:45I'm not saying that we're coming out tomorrow.
53:48What I'm saying is
53:51when the time comes,
53:53we will be ready.
53:55And we will stick together!
54:22Margaret,
54:24I know you and your mother feel I've let you down.
54:27Father, no.
54:28No, you do.
54:30I know.
54:33But I hope you'll realize
54:34that the people up here,
54:36they aren't so very different.
54:39You know, they just have different ways.
54:52Master.
54:54What are you doing here?
54:56I beg you to take me...
54:57Get out!
54:59We're at a meeting this evening.
55:01I can tell you what we're planning.
55:03What's in their thoughts.
55:05Please, sir, I beg you.
55:06Get out and don't come near this mill again!
55:09Who's there?
55:10Your attorney, arse.
55:11Come on, get away from here!
55:13Get away from here!
55:22Couldn't you show a little mess?
55:24Mr. Hale!
55:26Please,
55:27do not try to tell me my business.
55:31Remember,
55:31they do things differently here.
55:36Come, Father.
56:01I wish I could tell you, Edith,
56:03how lonely I am.
56:06How cold and harsh it is here.
56:09Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness.
56:29I think God has forsaken this place.
56:32I think God has forsaken this place.
56:37I believe I've seen hell.
56:41And it's white.
56:44It's snow white.
56:46Yeah.
57:10I think God is alive.
57:12I think God has forsaken the floor.
57:12Iarem I believe.
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