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.

00:04:11Darling, going so soon?

00:04:13Well, I thought you might like to take revenge on me for lightening your pockets the last

00:04:17time we met.

00:04:20Joseph, I'll swear 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

00:05:39At one point on stakes

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

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

00:07:05A rather fine house, I've always thought. Very brilliant.

00:07:09But, of course, if you don't care to, well, we'll all perfectly understand.

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

00:07:40Lord Vulcan is here. Just in Vulcan.

00:07:47Well?

00:08:28Not leaving, Stanley, 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.

00:08:49That pretty daughter of yours, she's a touch high and mighty with me, I have to say, but...

00:08:57...girl of great spirit.

00:09:00They tell me that she inherits 80,000 guineas from a trust on her marriage.

00:09:08I'll tell you what.

00:09:10Let me be fair with you.

00:09:12I'll wager everything that you've lost so far

00:09:16...against 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. And root him 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...

00:09:55By all the laws of chance.

00:09:56I have to win!

00:09:59Just once!

00:10:01Against this root.

00:10:03It's my only opportunity.

00:10:05Now is the time!

00:10:06Now!

00:10:08Oh, Nicholas.

00:10:11Can't you see?

00:10:13I can retain...

00:10:15...everything.

00:10:17And Serena...

00:10:20...will never know.

00:10:45My daughter's hand...

00:10:49...and her inheritance...

00:10:53...against...

00:10:55...everything I have lost.

00:11:00Oh, my God.

00:11:25So, Lady Luck has her little ways.

00:11:30I hope it will be convenient if I call on you tomorrow.

00:11:35Do ask the adorable Serena to expect me.

00:11:49Poor devil. Never did know when to stop.

00:11:52That should never have been allowed.

00:12:00My lord, root him.

00:12:12I will throw you for 100,000 guineas against the house and the girl.

00:12:24Done. Tonight I'm unbeatable. Even by you, my dear Vulcan.

00:12:47Devil, take me.

00:12:48Everyone is hurting.

00:12:50No.

00:12:50Let's go.

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

00:16:53Probably screwing on her wooden legs.

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

00:17:39My lord Vulcan?

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

00:17:45May I present Lady Isabel Gillingham, her brother Lord Peter Gillingham, and Lord John Burley.

00:17:52We must be hungry. I'll send to the kitchen.

00:17:54Miss Stabley.

00:17:55We will not hear of it.

00:17:58A glass of wine then.

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

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

00:18:13Miss Stabley.

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, people would assume you were mine.

00:18:40And I understand from Nicholas that the Dancer La Flamme already fills that position.

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

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

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

00:18:54Of course.

00:18:56There'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.

00:19:08Yes, Miss Stabley.

00:19:09Since you can't live here and I have no use for it.

00:19:14I suppose so.

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

00:19:17Which leaves you.

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

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, I well understand that.

00:19:38I believe the best answer would be for you to stay for 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 to make your arrival a little less strange for you.

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

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

00:20:04You are most kind.

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

00:20:08I will come on later.

00:20:12Until some solution suggests itself, Miss Stabley.

00:20:16Let us remain as we are.

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

00:20:27Ah.

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

00:20:32Why?

00:20:57Miss 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 by a man in my life.

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

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

00:21:31Nice Lord.

00:21:43There it is.

00:21:47Meet Me

00:21:49Let us come inside.

00:21:52How did you love it?

00:22:12I will inform the ladies.

00:22:26Out of my way! Bring it here! No, I said here! Why, in God's name, am I so out of

00:22:33my idiot?

00:22:34Here, girl! Attend 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. The situation is not of my making.

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

00:23:17Come on.

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00:27:47I don't know.

00:28:40This quaint little girl you sent down here.

00:28:43What on earth did you wager for her?

00:28:45To prevent her falling into the hands of that man root him.

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?

00:28:57You 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.

00:30:04What?

00:30:05All right.

00:30:46Ah, our little heiress.

00:30:56Ladies are forbidden this room, but you shall be the exception.

00:31:01Come, child.

00:31:03Let me introduce you to my guests.

00:31:11Lord John, may I present Miss Stabley?

00:31:16Charming to meet you.

00:31:22She is to have 80,000 when she marries.

00:31:26Lord Blount, may I present.

00:31:27Pretty little thing.

00:31:28Sir William, and such a pretty, quite a girl.

00:31:32Drove the dice, they say.

00:31:3380,000.

00:31:34So young.

00:31:35And such a pretty.

00:31:3680,000.

00:31:38And such a pretty.

00:31:4380,000.

00:31:45And now, you must meet your dinner companion.

00:31:53I am well acquainted with Lord Rutum, among other things.

00:31:57He murdered my father.

00:32:21I was just remarking how quick the journey is from London these days.

00:32:27I swear that the Dover Road gets busier by the month.

00:32:29That my Lord Rutum.

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.

00:32:40I'll retire.

00:32:41I'll retire.

00:32:41Don't 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 Stabley.

00:32:52Miss Gillingham.

00:32:54How stunning you look, Miss Stabley.

00:33:02Oh, Justin.

00:33:05Isabelle

00:33:07I brought Nicholas for you.

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

00:33:12Justin, you promised to show me how to play Pharaoh.

00:33:17Nick!

00:33:18Miss Gillingham.

00:33:22Miss Gillingham.

00:33:24Whoever does that.

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

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

00:34:23I mean, all that out there.

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

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

00:34:28Fanatical.

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

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

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

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

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

00:34:40why shouldn't she?

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

00:34:44she gambles it away herself.

00:34:46I'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.

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

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

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

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

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

00:35:31I must think.

00:35:36Miss Stavely?

00:35:38I 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,

00:35:57and he certainly does not wish to wed me.

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

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

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

00:36:05And Our Ladyship holds me up like a slave to the hopeful bidder.

00:36:07That, 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.

00:36:20Serena?

00:36:22Friends.

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,

00:36:44the more I love him.

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

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

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

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

00:36:58No.

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

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

00:37:06I have eyes.

00:37:07I can see.

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

00:37:10What about what you cannot see?

00:38:07What about what you cannot see?

00:38:31Are you 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.

00:39:15I like to hear you say that.

00:39:16Part 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.

00:39:34are you happy here there's so many strangers you are happy when i place you next to your

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

00:39:44any more than he wishes to marry me he's in love with lady isabel and you i'm in love with

00:39:52no one

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:40:54they simply outrun us and the customs men and what do they smuggle paris's finest velvets

00:41:01brandy tobacco silks and satins and the damnable thing is the gold they get for them goes straight

00:41:07back to france

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

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

00:41:37my apologies harry challenge we'll have to wait shall we be back

00:42:00they weren't supposed to be here for four days yet oh i should have foreseen it you have the money

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

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

00:42:24well what will you do you can hardly offer those beauties double or quit hold your tongue

00:42:31give me that sticker

00:42:35i shall be back directly

00:43:04i shall be back

00:43:05i shall be back

00:43:05you

00:43:05i shall be back

00:43:06as

00:43:06i shall be back

00:43:16are you mad coming on a night for the moon black as they are on a hell's waistcoat when we

00:43:21left

00:43:21calais give me the paper brandy wine where's the silk

00:44:05my dear miss stagley how

00:44:06charming you look i trust you're enjoying yourself warn my mother that the coastguards are here get

00:44:12through the door behind the paddling

00:44:18you brought me unawares i was not expecting you until next week this week next week with what

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

00:44:27five guineas a man as usual only it'll have to be two now and three

00:44:35you filthy ungrateful rabble who paid for your vote who made the connections

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

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

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

00:45:17and the rest 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

00:45:33what 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 there is no more right lads we'll have that necklace then

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

00:46:02see that that is removed

00:46:07stitch yourself together girl

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 have you found any yet

00:46:35no your ladyship but we have had news for a fast boat in the area and we wondered if we

00:46:41might search

00:46:41your 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 i 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's not something that preoccupies me

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

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

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

00:48:16your ladyship

00:48:19i'm tired

00:48:20and would ask to be excused

00:48:22you may go

00:48:27harriet

00:48:27my dear

00:48:29i have a proposition for you

00:48:37what is it

00:48:38what what's happened

00:48:39what's happened

00:49:01what's happened

00:49:11Come on, warrior. Let us go.

00:49:30Come on, warrior.

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00:57:12Come on.

00:57:23Come on.

00:57:57Come on.

00:58:01Come on.

00:58:21Come on.

00:58:29Come on.

00:58:37Come on.

00:58:38Come on.

00:58:50Sometimes it's never come in.

00:58:51You've been a paining douche because you love my fuckin'案.

00:58:53That's the Bur enforcement of Horsley Marceau.

00:58:54haven't been so excited a mystery of her.

00:58:56I'm sorry, Alla and I will.

00:59:00I've dealt with my잖아, you've been so sorry.

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

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

00:59:10I'm expecting gold.

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

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

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

00:59:25I'm never wrong.

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

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

00:59:30I confess this has quite gross on me.

00:59:44Excuse me, Miss Stavely.

00:59:45Mm?

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

00:59:49Warrior?

00:59:51Injured?

00:59:52Or where?

00:59:53Come this way, Miss.

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

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

01:00:19Don't be mad.

01:00:20I loan to you.

01:00:21You make me shudder.

01:00:21Oh, how exciting.

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

01:00:29Let me go.

01:00:30Repend my soul, Serena.

01:00:32I offer you married.

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

01:00:35What are you making this enough 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 note.

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

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

01:00:53This will kill you myself.

01:00:59Come on.

01:01:02Drag a little bird.

01:01:06Come on.

01:01:06I don't want to do better than that.

01:01:12Help!

01:01:14Help!

01:01:15Help!

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

01:01:20No doubt.

01:01:21Meanwhile, have your money, your watch, your jewels, and all the other flash you dandies dole yourselves up in.

01:01:27Come on.

01:01:29Take it and be damned.

01:01:32No, miss.

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.

01:01:42I saw this man was carrying me off.

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

01:01:47God bless me soul.

01:01:49I'd have known as I'd come out of me white charger.

01:01:56Up you come, then.

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

01:02:02But you'd be sane staying with a man like you.

01:02:21I'll see you hanged.

01:02:33I'll see you hanged.

01:02:42You're insane.

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 ran off with this villain, taking all my savings.

01:02:53I caught up with him.

01:02:55He laughed at me.

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

01:02:59That's been me on the run ever since.

01:03:03there's mandrake miss up yonder i don't come no closer i'll never be able to thank you enough

01:03:11a good deed in a wicked world and all that easy boy easy easy there we are miss

01:03:22come on boy be lucky

01:03:37so

01:04:02What happened?

01:04:03I can't tell you. You wouldn't believe it.

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

01:04:08I can't.

01:04:09I see. You're just like all the rest.

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

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

01:04:17Was he your fancy?

01:04:18Dare you!

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

01:04:23My mother?

01:04:23Yes.

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

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

01:04:34Oh, Lord Root.

01:04:40It didn't work.

01:04:42What?

01:04:43Rootam and Miss Stavely, your nasty little plot. It failed.

01:04:48Have you lost your wits?

01:04:49You arranged to have him ducked her.

01:04:52What an absurd fancy.

01:04:54She's escaped. She's back in the house.

01:04:56I've spoken to her.

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

01:05:03What did he offer you?

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

01:05:05Your price.

01:05:06Heavens above.

01:05:07That simpering creature.

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

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

01:05:13How much?

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

01:05:16If Harry Rootam 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.

01:05:35Little enough when you consider she was bringing him a dowry of 80.

01:05:37Besides, I will not have that chit marrying you and usurping my place.

01:05:4410,000.

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

01:05:50It was not like that.

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

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

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

01:06:01The Vulcans of Mandrake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:06:28Well, have I silenced you at last?

01:06:30The house will be closed.

01:06:32The tunnels will be blocked.

01:06:34You will be sent abroad.

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

01:06:38Justin, you cannot.

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

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

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

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

01:07:02Commence.

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

01:07:09Justin!

01:07:28And his lordship said beforehand

01:07:30that if anything was to happen to him,

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

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

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

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

01:07:53You killed him.

01:08:08Saddle Thunderbolt.

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

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

01:08:12He's a killer.

01:08:12He's the fastest horse in the stables

01:08:14and I must get to London.

01:08:15Saddle him.

01:08:17I said saddle him!

01:08:19Saddle him!

01:08:20Saddle him!

01:08:24Saddle him!

01:08:27Saddle him!

01:08:34Saddle him!

01:08:36Saddle him!

01:08:40Saddle him!

01:08:42Saddle him!

01:08:44Saddle him!

01:08:46Saddle him!

01:08:47Saddle him!

01:08:48Saddle him!

01:08:50Saddle him!

01:08:52Saddle him!

01:08:53Saddle him!

01:08:54Saddle him!

01:08:57do you love my son does he love you shall i make you fall in love with me

01:09:02such a little hand to hold the honor of mandrake

01:09:10you cannot marry my son of course his blood is on your hands he will never marry

01:09:16he fought this and he will for you you killed him do not die justin please do

01:09:32please

01:09:32can i see lord vulcan the lord vulcan cannot receive miss stavely

01:09:49laflamme i swear you are the most amusing woman in london

01:10:20justin miss stavely

01:10:52lordship awaits you in the drawing room 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 yes thank you i did well that is i sorry i slept so late do

01:11:41sit down

01:11:49but when a young lady has been brave enough to do what you did she's entitled to sleep late

01:11:53unfortunately 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 i 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 and the talk of the clubs a young lady

01:12:17arriving in that dramatic fashion unaccompanied into the house of the bachelor

01:12:23you must see that you've compromised yourself oh is that all you have to say

01:12:30well actually it was for your

01:12:33yes yes go on my nothing my lord

01:12:42what it amounts to that a decision in my affairs has been thrust upon us

01:12:47we can no longer go on drifting no i suppose not

01:12:56i therefore have the very great honor to ask you to be my wife

01:13:10no no i'm sorry i can't i mean i will not allow you to marry me out of a sense

01:13:15of duty

01:13:26come here serena no

01:13:31you're going to have to swear to obey me when we marry you may as well start now come 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 burleigh 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 no she 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 you can go back there and make your

01:14:39arrangements i 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 it would be easy to rearrange it mom yet what do i

01:15:05want for those half-wits grasping ill-bred scavengers god in heaven you're still upset from yesterday

01:15:11ma'am now that we know dear justin is safe why not go and rest i cannot rest i must

01:15:17be 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

01:15:30on thunderbolt sister dear you would never have got out of the stable yard

01:15:34the coach and four is more your style i would have taken something faster than that nicholas would have

01:15:39driven me no i would not as it is i'm surprised my cousin's indiscretion and i should be obliged if

01:15:45it went no further i 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 something somewhere is monstrously wrong

01:15:57oh it is just fancy mom come and sit down do

01:16:02i knew it

01:16:06it is from justin

01:16:13they are to be married who why justin and that sly-faced maggot serena

01:16:19serena serena what more does he say i have matters to write

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 she could betray me

01:16:38i'm sure she did nothing and you probably helped her yes that was it it was a plot between you

01:16:44and that

01:16:44that stupid child isabel i swear you can swear your head off and i'll not believe you the lying

01:16:50cheating conniving judas face little man i beg of you yes go on beg that is all i have ever

01:16:56heard you

01:16:56do i'm sick of you all whining after me like a whipped dog i have lost a real man and

01:17:02all you

01:17:03can do is beg you are pathetic

01:17:05stop 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 really

01:17:18care well i've had enough i'm leaving you will never see me again before i go let's just say this

01:17:26for

01:17:26old time's sake

01:17:41make it us

01:18:02her ladyship regrets that she's indisposed

01:18:05but 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

01:19:21it is exquisite you look like a princess

01:19:25his lordship will be so proud of his bride

01:19:29but you have a big day tomorrow you need your bed you dora i'm so excited i know

01:19:34i shouldn't sleep a wink this will help

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

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

01:19:54oh well waste not what not

01:20:11you 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.

01:22:18Let's go.

01:22:18Where is Miss Stavely?

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

01:22:22Let's go.

01:22:24Let's go.

01:22:32Let's go.

01:22:34Let's go.

01:22:35Let's go.

01:22:36Let's go.

01:22:38Let's go.

01:22:39Let's go.

01:22:42Let's go.

01:22:43Let's go.

01:22:45Let's go.

01:22:52Let's go.

01:22:58Let's go.

01:23:12Let's go.

01:23:21Let's go.

01:23:37Let's go.

01:23:47Let's go.

01:23:58Let's go.

01:24:03Let's go.

01:24:22Let's go.

01:24:25Let's go.

01:24:27Let's go.

01:24:32Let's go.

01:24:33Let's go.

01:24:59Let's go.

01:25:02Let's go.

01:25:06Let's go.

01:25:27Let's go.

01:25:30Let's go.

01:25:35Let's go.

01:25:43Let's go.

01:25:46Let's go.

01:25:55Let's go.

01:26:01Let's go.

01:26:06Let's go.

01:26:13Oh, my God.

01:26:42Your choice, Vulcan.

01:26:50Just better.

01:26:52Come along, now, Serena.

01:26:53The long boat is waiting.

01:26:56The long boat is waiting.

01:27:21The long boat is waiting.

01:27:35The long boat is waiting.

01:27:37The long boat is waiting.

01:27:57The long boat is waiting.

01:28:24The long boat is waiting.

01:28:27The long boat is waiting.

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01:28:46The long boat is waiting.

01:28:47The long boat is waiting.

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