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Seeking Persephone - Season 1 - Episode 01: Part 1 Eng Sub
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00:19ORGAN PLAYS
00:37Will you put that up, Artemis?
00:38I don't know why we have to do this.
00:41Because we like to eat.
00:43But we only pay pennies.
00:45Pennies that keep our family from dire straits.
00:47I do not enjoy washing the neighbourhood's laundry any more than you do,
00:50but being upset about it won't change our situation.
00:53Ah.
01:08Open the door, sweetheart.
01:09I have had an atrocious day. Now I have to open the door.
01:13I'm sorry you have suffered so much.
01:16I fear you will simply have to continue in your wretched state a bit longer.
01:19I will open the door, but do not be surprised if I lie in the foreign die.
01:24I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis.
01:27But above all, I will not be surprised.
01:32She has died for far less than this in the past.
01:34She has died for far less than this.
02:04She was wandering again.
02:15Daphne.
02:16What's Daphne? You're home.
02:19Was Father wandering again?
02:21Until a letter came.
02:22Then he went back up to his study.
02:24Did he say whom the letter was from?
02:26You know Father doesn't usually talk to me.
02:28Well, once I've cleared the clatter he spread, sorted the laundry and started our meal,
02:34then I very much wish to talk with you about whatever you've learned today.
02:37It's ever so interesting and terribly useful.
02:41Cannot wait.
02:42Thank you, Persephone.
02:44Of course, Daphne.
02:55You did say this might happen.
02:57Yes, I did.
02:58And what has brought you to such a horrible end this time?
03:01My suffering is too great. No words can possibly describe it.
03:05Is this because I could not buy you a suite from the confectionery shop?
03:08That was tragic.
03:09But not the reason you're expiring on the floor.
03:11I didn't see my friend. I watched for him.
03:15And he didn't come. He hasn't ever so long and it's deeply devastating.
03:20Is this the friend I can't see?
03:21The friend you don't see.
03:23Ah.
03:25Do you think your friend would visit you again if we had bread pudding tonight?
03:30Bread pudding?
03:31I have a bit of stale bread and Mrs. Sanford gave me some cream.
03:35I think we should have bread pudding tonight.
03:37It's not even my birthday. Bread pudding is quite possibly my favourite thing in all the world.
03:43Of course. If you are dead on the floor you won't be able to have any.
03:47I'm all better.
03:49It is a miracle.
03:51Thank you, thank you, thank you.
03:53You're very welcome my darling little otteress.
04:01How do you like the latest fashions?
04:04These are not the latest.
04:05Mrs. Upton gave me these because she received the most recent version.
04:08But they are very nearly the latest.
04:13That is gorgeous.
04:14That is gorgeous.
04:14Isn't it?
04:15I've added it to my list of dreams.
04:17That must be quite the list by now.
04:19Isn't that what dreaming is for?
04:21Believing in those things you fear you'll never have but want to continue hoping are possible.
04:25Like, having money enough and happiness.
04:29Falling in love.
04:31I want you to have all of those things, Athena.
04:34You must have dreams too.
04:35Certainly, I do.
04:38Artemis' spirits not being dampened by the heaviness of life.
04:42Daphne finding a friend who helps to feel seen and cared about.
04:46Evander and Linus returning home to us whole.
04:50Far from guarantee for two midshipmen in the Navy during all time.
04:54I should have done more to keep them home and safe.
04:56There's nothing more you could have done.
04:57I could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtimes.
05:01I could have gone without fires in my room.
05:03And it likely still would not have been enough.
05:06I suppose that is my version of hoping for impossible things.
05:12None of the hopes that you've mentioned have been of dreams for yourself.
05:16Seeing this family happy is dream enough for me.
05:21Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen.
05:24I do not know how frustrating he might be this time.
05:32Have you received a letter?
05:37We...
05:38Have a very significant problem.
05:41What has happened, Papa?
05:44Evander? Linus?
05:45Oh no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers.
05:47Oh.
05:52I have, however, received the most befuddling letter.
06:02You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage.
06:06A what?
06:07An offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman with an old and prestigious title.
06:24Good heavens.
06:26Yeah.
06:29What I cannot fathom is why the Duke has settled on you.
06:35They cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family.
06:39The Duke?
06:39Of course, dear.
06:41The Duke of Kilda.
06:43The Duke of Kilda has asked for my hand in marriage.
06:47Quite specifically.
06:51I do not believe a word of it.
06:54After all, I do not know his grace.
06:56Or any grace for that matter.
07:07Mr. Lancaster, I am requesting the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage.
07:13I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters,
07:16twenty thousand each for their dowries,
07:19and fifty thousand upon yourself for the sake of your sons.
07:23The ceremony will take place October the 1st at the Fulston Chapel.
07:28Please reply as to your intentions.
07:32Yours, etc.
07:35Kilda.
07:38It is certainly not the most romantic nor flattering of her proposals, to be sure.
07:43The ceremony will take place.
07:45There is not the slightest acknowledgement the unforeseen offer might be declined.
07:51This offer amounts to more than a hundred thousand pounds.
08:05What is the Duke of Kilda like?
08:08Like?
08:11Well...
08:12Couldn't say. I have not met the current Duke.
08:15What was his father like?
08:18Hmm?
08:21Dull as dishwater.
08:21He had a...
08:25But his mother is an active soul.
08:45£100,000
08:46I can hardly comprehend such a sum
08:51It is more than 500 years worth our current income
08:55It is more than five times the income of the Duke of Sussex
08:58And he is son of the king
08:59Good heavens, we would have food enough to eat
09:03We would not need to wash laundry for pennies
09:07The boys could soon leave the navy and return home
09:11All of your impossible dreams would suddenly be entirely possible
09:15This would not merely save our family
09:17It would save generations of our family
09:19The Duke of Kilda
09:22You might be prone to anger or unkindness
09:25What if he mistreats you?
09:26What if being married to him makes you miserable for the rest of your life?
09:29It is also possible he will be kind and considerate
09:33You don't know anything about him?
09:36Only that he clearly has a tremendous amount of money
09:39And wishes to marry me
09:40He gave no indication why
09:41You needn't simply accept this offer
09:43One may yet come from someone that you at least know
09:46Won't treat you abominably
09:47There will be no other offers
09:50If I do not accept this one
09:52Our family will sink further
09:54Even the simple hopes we currently have will be out of reach
09:57Then all of your hopes will be snatched away
09:59This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice
10:02Isn't your happiness worth something as well?
10:05Artemis has always told the tale of Hades and Persephone quite accurately
10:10Persephone doesn't get to be happy
10:13And you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
10:37Who invited all of these people?
10:40I did
10:41It is not every day my poor boy takes a bride
10:45This was supposed to be a quiet ceremony
10:49I do not believe Miss Lancaster has invited anyone beyond her own immediate family
10:53I did not intend to cause awkwardness, Adam
10:57I only wish to celebrate
11:12I wonder if the chit will actually turn up
11:15Try to resist the urge to run through any of the wedding guests
11:19Who the devil is she?
11:28Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve her myself
11:45When is this going to stop?
11:47I'm hungry
11:48I'm hungry
11:49I'm hungry
11:50I'm hungry
11:50Oh my God, it'll be fine
11:59It's starting to come after all
12:01I'm hungry
12:04I'm hungry
12:17I'm hungry
12:42Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of God and the face of this
12:48congregation to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, an honorable
12:55estate instituted of God in the time of man's innocence, signifying unto us the mystical
13:02union betwixt Christ and his church.
13:05Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they should not lawfully be joined together,
13:13let him speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
13:25Go on.
13:28Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
13:42Apparently I giveth myself.
13:48Take her right hand in yours.
13:57I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Fauston, Earl of Fauston, Vicampinus,
14:01Baron Fauston, Baron Whiteley, take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from
14:05this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,
14:09to love and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto
14:13I plight thee my troth.
14:22I, Persephone, I...
14:23I, Persephone, I...
14:23Ridiculous.
14:30Lancaster...
14:32Do...
14:36Do take thee to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for
14:43better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, to love and to cherish,
14:50till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto I give thee my troth.
14:59He had everything?
15:00Not usually.
15:02Can it be?
15:03I suppose all the truly essential bits have been seen to.
15:08Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
15:14To the castle, then.
15:38Zereto...
15:41I'm Ba- вся.
15:46Okay?
15:50Oh, my God.
15:53I'll let you see you in the front seven or three minutes.
15:53It's all right.
15:54You areAND capita.
16:01Do you think you are good?
16:03Oh, families, please.
16:09is your name really Persephone it is do you not think to ask what were your parents thinking
16:20choosing a name like that my father is a scholar he's particularly fond of Greek mythology entirely
16:28too fond don't seem are the rest of your siblings similarly afflicted in what way afflicted
16:35what absurd names did your parents assign the other members of your family Athena is just
16:41younger than I Vander is 14 Linus 13 Daphne will be 12 toward the end of the year the youngest
16:47is
16:47Artemis fate save us from short-sighted scholars do you have a middle name I do I suppose it is
16:56entirely too much to hope that it is something common if a genia Persephone if a genia did no
17:07one ever call you anything else only miss Lancaster I cannot call you that I suppose I will have to
17:14consign myself to Persephone it would seem so you of course will call me killed her I will not call
17:24you killed everyone calls me killed her killed her it sounds as I am accusing you of a crime
17:32you would no doubt prefer Agamemnon or Apollo or something along that vein my papa certainly would
17:40would you propose to call me then Adam no one calls me Adam no one certainly your family and closest
17:48friends would Harry does who is Harry a friend one who allows himself far too much freedom
18:18parents are they they are they they are they are they won't they are they are we they are that
18:48way to
19:05Calling me Adam will be fine, Persephone.
19:23Mrs. Barton, the butler, Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper, Duchess of Kilda.
19:52Mrs. Smithson will see to whatever you need.
20:17I am likely meant to be shown all of the castle, but I would very much like to rest.
20:23Perhaps you could simply point out the rooms I need to know today and save the rest for tomorrow?
20:27Of course, Your Grace.
20:36The Drawn Room. A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, when she stayed at Fauston Castle in 1580.
20:47Do members of the royal family still visit Fauston?
20:51Heavens no! They wouldn't dare!
20:56This is the Grand Banquet Hall, which has hosted feasts for some of the most significant and influential people in
21:04the kingdom over the past 500 years.
21:08I believe your family will be dining in here this evening.
21:14Is that a gibbet?
21:18Unstocks.
21:19Was there no room in the dark-forboding dungeon?
21:22There's ample room, Your Grace.
21:25There's ample room, Your Grace.
21:25But the Duke says displaying weapons makes them more effective.
21:34All of the family bedchambers are on this floor.
21:39This is your bedchamber, Your Grace.
21:43Is there anything else you wish for me to do, Your Grace?
21:46Not at the moment.
21:47The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything.
21:59The Queen is our very dear, your Grace.
22:07And here is the Queen of the Queen.
22:21The Queen of the Queen of the Queen.
22:42This is never going to work.
23:02I just saw your man of business leaving the castle.
23:06What did you do to him?
23:08I fired him.
23:10Again.
23:12How many times have you fired the poor man?
23:15Six.
23:16Seven.
23:18Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward.
23:24You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you?
23:26I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones.
23:30I may have held an epee to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
23:36Well, perhaps his fear has something to do with your less than pristine reputation, Adam.
23:40Rumor has it you've run through a few men in your time.
23:43Rumor has it I've done quite a few things.
23:47And you wonder why Jones thinks the worst whenever you're angry with him.
23:51I always reinstate his employment and he never makes the same mistake twice.
24:02So, what was his transgression this time?
24:05No.
24:06No, no.
24:06Don't tell me.
24:08Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
24:12No.
24:14Did not include enough threats in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf.
24:18He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin from one day inheriting Fauston.
24:24Ah.
24:26Jones was the one who suggested you marry.
24:29He knew of a penniless family in Shropshire with an eldest daughter of the appropriate age who had no other
24:36prospects.
24:37His enthusiastic recommendation has proven intolerably stupid.
24:43The stupid is sitting in one's book room with one's friend on one's wedding night.
24:49Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy far and above ordinary stupidity.
24:54I stood through the wedding and just spent an interminable dinner with my flock of new sisters-in-law.
25:03Did they stare at you?
25:06It would have been understandable, you know, having not been warned.
25:08I ought to have written then.
25:10Hm?
25:11Perhaps I could have included a postscript with a proposal.
25:14By the way, I have a mutilated face you'll be forced to look at day in and day out for
25:20the rest of your life.
25:22Hope that's not a problem.
25:25Hm.
25:27Perhaps not those precise words.
25:30She wasn't exactly forthcoming either.
25:32I will have you know.
25:34I forgot to mention something important.
25:36Another husband, perhaps.
25:39Extraneous limb.
25:41Her name is Persephone.
25:45A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
25:49Persephone Iphigenia.
25:52Oh, what an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child.
26:05I had the chance to speak briefly with your new bride, Adam.
26:10She was... delightful.
26:15Perhaps a little quiet, but that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
26:21I'll confess, I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
26:28Rather long in the face, in all honesty.
26:32So had I.
26:34But she's a fetching thing.
26:37Young and quite pretty.
26:43Oh.
26:47You expected someone desperate.
26:52And ugly.
26:54And undesirable.
26:57Instead, your bride turned out to be a vast deal more than possible.
27:03Not quite what you'd bargain for, I guess.
27:07A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options would be content with a curmudgeon
27:12in a draughty castle in the wilds of Northumberland.
27:15And now, because she is young and fine-looking, seems to be good-natured and potentially enjoyable company,
27:25the poor girl is upstairs.
27:28Alone.
27:29Probably wondering what she's done wrong.
27:31While you are down here brooding.
27:38Adam, you are completely bacon brained.
27:41I should call you out for that.
27:43I do.
27:45But not tonight.
27:47I'm tired.
27:52Call me out tomorrow, would you?
27:53I ought to lock you in the dungeon.
27:55You should.
27:57No point having a dungeon if no one's ever consigned to suffering it.
28:01Goodnight, Adam.
28:03Goodnight.
28:05Presumptuous loud.
28:09And Adam?
28:10What?
28:12Give the poor girl a chance.
28:15It's not her fault you've ended up with every man's idea of a perfect wife.
28:31How long?
28:32No.
28:33Oh.
28:33Oh.
28:38Oh.
28:39Oh.
28:39Oh, that's...
29:12Are you going to be lonely without us, Persephone?
29:15I will miss you terribly.
29:19But you will have each other, so you are unlikely to be lonely.
29:24I do not know that anyone will remember to talk to me when you're not here.
29:30I'm certain everything will be fine.
29:33You don't need to worry about us.
29:38Write and tell me about all the things you're reading.
29:48I love you.
29:49Me too.
29:52Make haste.
29:54I do not want to go.
29:56Let me speak with her.
30:03Oh my dear girl, you're crying.
30:05He cannot make you stay here.
30:08No one is making me stay here dearest.
30:10Forsten Castle is my home now.
30:13I will send you letters.
30:15Perhaps with a gimme under the seal.
30:18You could come here.
30:19We could explore the castle together.
30:22He won't let me.
30:23Of course he will.
30:25We will have grand adventures.
30:29Perhaps there is a tower room where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories the way we always did
30:35at home.
30:36Do you promise?
30:37I promise.
30:39Who will take care of me when you're gone?
30:43Papa will engage a governess for both you and Daphne.
30:47A companion for Athena when you're all in town.
30:51Will you visit us there?
30:53Of course.
30:54Stephanie.
30:55Yes, my dear?
30:57We will take care of you.
30:59We will be happy even though we're gone.
31:07I will win.
31:11When have you known me to be unhappy?
31:14Then I will be happy too but if I don't leave now I will cry again and I do not
31:18want to cry anymore.
31:20Then let us promise each other.
31:22Never.
31:22Not to cry.
31:24Yes.
31:26Good.
31:27I will see you soon.
31:29Be good for Papa.
31:30I will.
31:31I love you dearest.
31:33I love you too, Stephanie.
31:35You're the best mama I've ever had.
32:14I thought you weren't supposed to cry.
32:19Artemis is crying as well, I'm certain of it.
32:22Then why make the promise?
32:25To lessen her pain.
32:28If my sister knew I was crying it would break her heart.
32:33But you know she is crying.
32:38I know her better than she knows me.
32:47The best mama she ever had.
32:55Is he?
33:08Maybe he was crying.
33:10Maybe he could wake her out.
33:10This is her only one.
33:17But that's what she was crying.
33:17When I was crying.
33:19I knew she could be crying.
33:19Maybe she was crying.
33:19I don't know.
34:00Twenty-four hours into this ill-conceived marriage, and my wife is already in the back of a garden sobbing.
34:19How long into your marriage did Mother start crying?
34:29And when did that stop making you feel like a monster?
34:37Mother.
34:39Mother.
34:43Mother.
34:44Mother.
34:45Mother.
34:54Mother.
34:56Mother.
34:57Mother.
34:59Mother.
35:01Mother.
35:02Mother.
35:03Mother.
35:04Mother.
35:05Mother.
35:05Mother.
35:06Mother.
35:06Mother.
35:07Mother.
35:07Mother.
35:09Mother.
35:12Mother.
35:13Mother.
35:26Your Grace
35:32Good evening
35:34Are you feeling well, child?
35:37I...
35:38Am excessively tired
35:41Do not fret yourself over dinner, dear
35:44I'll have a tray sent to your room
35:46You rest
35:48Thank you
36:36You told me you'd call me out today
36:39Never did
36:40I've decided to shoot you first thing in the morning
36:44Go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace
36:47Your mother said the new Duchess was indisposed this evening
36:52Any idea what you meant by that?
36:54As Mother said
36:56She was indisposed
36:59She wouldn't be the first person to hide from you
37:01She?
37:02You mean Persephone?
37:03Well, I certainly don't mean your mother
37:05You could shoot a man dead in the drawing room
37:06If she'd just smile indulgently and say
37:08My poor boy
37:09Yes, and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80
37:12When you're 80
37:13She'll be dead
37:14Oh, shut up, Harry
37:17Is there
37:19Any chance Persephone is locked in the dungeon?
37:22I am not a monster
37:24And she chose to accept me
37:26Ah, yes
37:26But without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night
37:31I don't think she realized
37:32You think I've made her miserable already?
37:35She took this morning's farewells particularly hard
37:39You ought to have insisted her family stay longer
37:42So I am the villain, am I?
37:46I wouldn't be surprised if you never saw the poor woman again as long as you lived
37:49In a place as enormous as this pile of rock
37:53She could avoid you for years
37:59Where are you going?
38:03My wife is indisposed
38:04I am going to see for myself that she is well
38:08Adam
38:08I am not going to hurt the blasted woman
38:14You know me better than that
38:27Hope King
38:28I am gonna be a lot worse
38:29Now let me get there
38:29You know what I want
38:32I am a man
38:32I am going to die
38:34Whatever she is
38:34I am waiting for the miracle
38:34And me
38:35How's she bigger
38:39At comes
38:39happy
39:36Oh, forgive me your grace. I'm attempting to find the breakfast room. Please tell me you
39:43know how to reach it from here. I got lost a few times when I first started working here.
39:48Fauston Castle is quite a big place. Enormous. New arrivals really ought to be provided with
39:54a map. This way your grace and I'll not tell anyone you were lost. Thank you.
40:01Mother, explain to Harry that you're not leaving Fauston Castle because I forced you to do so.
40:05He seems to think that I drive every person who ever comes here away with a scythe in one hand
40:10and a flaming torch in the other. A regular one-person blood-dusty mob. That's what you
40:16are. You really ought to think about employing pitchforks when you...
40:22Persephone. Come. Break your fast, dear. Kidneys? Eggs? Yes, please. Harry, will you please?
40:32I will prepare a plate for her mother. You need an inconvenience yourself.
40:37Please.
41:05Should I sit somewhere else? No. You can stay where you are.
41:10Will you be coming to town at Christmas time?
41:13I never go to town until absolutely necessary.
41:16You must convince my poor boy of the delights of London.
41:20I have never been to London.
41:23Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible.
41:27I should positively love taking you round town and introducing you to just everyone.
41:34I'm certain you can pack quickly, Adam, and I could delay my departure by a day or so and we
41:39could all...
41:40I shall be forced to take her in the spring as it is.
41:44Forced?
41:45The season is such fun.
41:47How can you say forced?
41:49I despise London.
41:52But the Queen will be vexed if Persephone is not presented and there is one bother I could do without.
41:56Thus, I shall be forced to town.
42:00Do not let him burden you with even the tiniest amount of guilt, Your Grace.
42:03By spring, he will have gone months without insulting members of the Cabinet or any of the Royal Family
42:08and will be itching for the opportunity.
42:13That is good to know.
42:15I suppose, as a good friend of the family, I ought to remain here indefinitely.
42:18and offer my insights into your grumbly husband.
42:21That is simply the sort of selfless person I am.
42:26Even selfless people can be thrown from the south parapet.
42:33I am beginning to suspect, Adam, that you do not like me very much.
42:37I will simply have to ponder the sorrow of this realisation.
42:42Your Grace.
42:45Your Grace.
42:50Your Grace.
42:54This could get confusing.
42:57We really ought to think of names for the three of you.
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