00:01In the weeks that followed the disastrous Meriton Assembly, I buried myself in my books,
00:07hoping to stave off the pangs of shame and humiliation.
00:11It was all part of my plan for a new Meriton.
00:15I needed a clear mind, unclouded by strong emotion.
00:19I was working on gravitas.
00:23From now on, I would be a steady, informed, and rational woman.
00:28Books would be my guide.
00:31I would think more and feel less.
00:39What could possibly go wrong?
00:49Well?
01:00I hope you've ordered a good dinner this evening. We shall have a guest.
01:05I knew it would be so.
01:07It's not Mr Bingley.
01:11It's my cousin.
01:12Mr Collins?
01:13So very same.
01:14The man next in the entail.
01:15Who?
01:16The man who, once I am dead, will turn you out of the house as soon as he pleases.
01:21He proposes himself as a guest here at Longboard.
01:23In point of composition, his letter does not seem entirely defective.
01:27Entirely defective?
01:29Mary, are you quite all right?
01:30I regret deeply the breach which has existed between us for so long.
01:35As a clergyman, I feel it my duty to promote the blessings of peace in all families within my influence.
01:41Blessings of peace in this house?
01:44He must be an oddity.
01:46I cannot make him out.
01:48Can he be a sensible man, sir?
01:49He is a very sensible man.
01:51Thank you, Elizabeth.
01:53Very sensible indeed.
01:55Oh, can you not all see?
01:57He is looking for a wife.
01:59Do you really think so?
02:01Lizzie, you must prepare yourself.
02:03But, Mama...
02:04We shall find out just what kind of man he is this afternoon.
02:07I have great hopes of his being extremely foolish.
02:11He sounds insufferably boring.
02:13A clergyman.
02:15It's a right to condemn him before we've even met him.
02:17Oh, please, Mary.
02:19I was agreeing with you.
02:20It's the way you say things.
02:28I am looking forward to meeting Mr. Collins this afternoon.
02:37What should he keep under your hat?
02:46Who's got any ribbons?
02:47We have...
02:47We do not sparkle as they do you and I.
02:53Oh, I hope my honesty did not affect her.
02:55My goodness.
02:55No.
02:56No.
02:58Your sisters seem most agitated this morning.
03:01My father's cousin, Mr. Collins, is to visit Longbourn and they've all decided he's a terrible
03:05bore.
03:06Mother believes he comes looking for a wife.
03:08A wife, apparently.
03:10What is your cousin's profession?
03:12A clergyman.
03:13Oh.
03:14A more disincombe, then, I imagine.
03:18Do you know what my advice would be to you?
03:20If my father's cousin was coming to stay, and I knew he was looking for a wife,
03:24I would do everything, within the bounds of propriety, to attract him.
03:30Well, I have decided none of this is for me.
03:32I will live alone with knowledge.
03:35But Mary cannot seriously believe the life of an old maid is to be preferred.
03:41I do not think my wife has me in mind.
03:43Jane and Lizzie won't settle so low.
03:45Anyway, Jane is nearly taken.
03:46So that leaves you.
03:50You speak nothing of love.
03:54What has love to do with anything?
03:56Of course, of course, you're right, of course.
03:58For an educated woman, raised to be genteel as we have been,
04:01the future holds no other prospect than marriage.
04:05Marriage or misery, Mary?
04:08Marriage or misery?
04:12I should know.
04:39Mr. Collin!
04:40I'm here!
04:41Leave it lost.
04:53This is Jane, our eldest.
04:57Well, I have no idea.
05:01She is soon to be engaged, but the others are not.
05:05Oh, this is Elizabeth.
05:09Oh.
05:11A pleasure.
05:16And Mary, Mrs. Kitty, and our youngest, Lydia.
05:21Ah.
05:22Well now, I don't know that I will be able to tell the difference between you two.
05:25Ha ha ha.
05:27Yeah.
05:28Ha ha ha ha.
05:29Hmm.
05:30Hmm.
05:32The good looks of my fair cousins far exceed even the most enthusiastic of reports.
05:39Oh.
05:41No.
05:43I'm terribly sorry.
05:44I certainly didn't mean to cause any offence.
05:47Oh, you caused no offence, Mr. Collins?
05:50Of course you didn't.
05:52Allow me to show you the house.
05:54Hmm.
05:55Oh.
05:55Splendid.
05:57Splendid.
05:57Ah.
05:58Much smaller than one imagined, but with a few minor modifications will suffice my main
06:03needs.
06:04Ha ha ha.
06:04In case you think so.
06:07Ha ha ha.
06:07Shit.
06:12I am not worthy of the crumbs which fall from my table.
06:19Oh, man.
06:19And yet that gives unto me the bread of life.
06:23Evermore, give me that bread that I may eat thereof and not die deadly.
06:33Yes, exactly.
06:34Oh, man.
06:36Mr. Benny, hear it?
06:37What a magnificent dining table.
06:39Even with the heavy curtains and the lack of natural light in here, one can still see its
06:44quantity.
06:44How generous of you.
06:45Hmm.
06:49Shall we?
06:50Hmm.
06:57Mr. Collins?
07:04Mr. Benny, it?
07:05I expect your daughters will be quickly and advantageously disposed of in marriage.
07:09Disposed?
07:10It is very good of you to say so.
07:12Oh, I am happy on every occasion to offer those delicate little compliments that are
07:16available to ladies.
07:18Thank you, Mr. Collins.
07:20Hmm.
07:20And may I commend your reading of grace?
07:23It has very much stayed with me.
07:26It is most unfortunate that our girls have no proper portion to bring to their husbands.
07:31Please excuse me.
07:32You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate?
07:36It is a most vexing situation.
07:38If only there was some satisfactory way to amend it.
07:43Hmm.
07:44Hmm.
07:46Hmm.
07:46I could say much on the subject.
07:48But I am cautious of appearing forward and, um, precipitate.
07:52Hmm.
07:53I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.
08:02Have you read Dr. Fordyce, sir?
08:07Hmm.
08:07I certainly have.
08:08Uh, Cousin Elizabeth.
08:09What make you the sermons?
08:12I'm sure I haven't had time to read them, sir.
08:14So busy have I been merely being a woman, I haven't had a moment to read up on how I
08:19should
08:19go about it.
08:20Ha!
08:20Ha!
08:21I think I'm the only one who's truly interested in Fordyce's sermons.
08:26Yeah.
08:27More wine, Mr. Collins.
08:29Hmm.
08:33I will let women adorn themselves with sobriety.
08:38Let your speech be always, be always, with grace, seasoned with salt.
08:52This has been wonderful.
08:55But now you must let us entertain you, Mr. Collins.
08:59Lizzie, won't you play for us?
09:01Uh-huh.
09:09Ugh.
09:10Uhh.
09:24Ah!
09:49Bravo, Lizzie!
09:51Very good, Lizzie.
09:52If you were to practice properly, you really might master it.
09:54It seems a great shame to bring all the pleasure out of music.
09:56A few false notes seems a small price to pay in exchange.
10:00A great shame to waste a gift, that is all.
10:02Hmm, quite right.
10:04Why don't you show us how she's done, Mary?
10:14Oh, Lord.
10:32What's the most?
10:33Oh, yeah.
11:02My congratulations, cousin. You play with such exactness.
11:08I imagine you practice a great deal.
11:10I practice often, which is true.
11:12Yes, it is.
11:15Is it only through hard work that anything have any value, spirit chief?
11:18Yes, um, yes, I, Mr. Collins, perhaps Elizabeth.
11:24Could take you on a walk around the gardens.
11:34Mary.
11:35Mother.
11:38I do not want any confusion regarding Mr. Collins and future prospects.
11:45I'm not sure I understand.
11:46It is Lizzie in whom Mr. Collins has expressed an interest. Are we clear?
11:51Don't you worry, Mama, that Lizzie won't accept Mr. Collins.
11:55I have no particular feelings for him, but he and I have similar interests, and I am at
12:01least prepared to seek out the good in him.
12:04Mary, I cannot pass the man around the family like a sherry trifle.
12:10Your name has not come up.
12:21Cousins?
12:22Come on.
12:23Ready?
12:23Come on, hit it.
12:24I'll bring yous.
12:26There is to me.
12:28There is to your ball next week at Neverfield.
12:31Oh!
12:32Then you, Mr. Bingley, would find the perfect excuse to see Jane again, and my brother and
12:36his wife shall be visiting.
12:37They might even be here when the engagement is announced.
12:40We have some way off that.
12:43Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner shall be joining us.
12:46They're coming down from London.
12:47Up.
12:50They're coming up from London.
12:52That is what I said.
12:54Spend it.
12:55Spend it!
12:56A real family affair.
12:58I will need new ribbons.
12:59Perhaps, Miss Bennet, you would take the first dance with me?
13:05Oh, how wonderful.
13:07Maybe I should play a little something on the piano?
13:11Yes, yes, you should indeed.
13:13What about you, Miss Elizabeth?
13:16Do you sing?
13:17There is nothing I admire more than a woman with a wide vocal ring.
13:39Very good, Miss Mary.
13:41Your playing is coming along nicely.
13:43Thank you, Hill.
13:45Mr. Collins thinks I'm a very good player.
13:48What?
13:48I'm planning to play at the Assembly.
13:51At Netherfield?
13:52Yes.
13:52I was even thinking
13:54I might sing
13:56Sing? Miss Mary?
13:58It will be a surprise to them all
14:02Short and sweet
14:04That would be my advice
14:08And uh
14:09Maybe don't sing
14:16Help! I love my shoes!
14:20Help!
14:22Help!
14:23Mmm-ga!
14:26Mmm-ga!
14:28Mmm-ga!
14:30Mmm-ga!
14:38Mmm-ga!
14:42Oh, shit!
14:43The earlier we arrive
14:44the earlier we leave
14:47Oh!
14:49Oh!
14:54Oh!
14:56Oh!
15:07Okay, that's what she does
15:11So, Lady Lucas, Charlotte, please meet my brother and his dear wife, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner.
15:18They're down from London.
15:20Up.
15:21What?
15:21Up from London.
15:23And this is my very distant cousin, Mr. Collins.
15:29Shall we do?
15:30Well, something of a challenge to find a husband's wife.
15:38This is a beautiful diary, but if Jane were to get a proposal...
15:43Come on, please.
15:48As I say, if Jane...
15:50Lizzie seems very keen to distance herself from your cousin.
15:53She's not at all happy about his interest.
15:57What is he like?
15:59Tolerable forearms, I noticed.
16:02Have you made your interest in him clearly?
16:04I am trying, but...
16:08Your mother seems terribly keen for Lizzie to match with a man of a modest income.
16:12I cannot think why.
16:13He is the cousin.
16:16The one from the Entail.
16:17It's Mr. Collins who stands to inherit Lombard.
16:19The house, the estate, the income, all right.
16:23So, my father cannot stand the man, while my mother wants Lizzie to marry him.
16:32Oh, perhaps I will not play tonight.
16:35Mary, you must.
16:38I had prepared a little something, but...
16:42Now this time it's here, I'm not sure I have the stomach writ.
16:44Nonsense, Mary.
16:46Mr. Collins is sure to be impressed.
16:48I think it is time you get yourself noticed.
16:54I think it is time you get yourself noticed.
17:07I beg you to not make it long.
17:23Be gone, don't care.
17:29I pray thee be gone from me.
17:36Be gone, don't care.
17:42You and I shall never agree.
17:48Be gone, don't care.
17:52I thought this is not too.
18:20Thou wouldst me kill.
18:24Please, I will thank you.
18:25Faith, don't care.
18:30Thou never shall have my will.
18:42I, um, I have another piece, father.
18:45One that's more lively.
18:47Mary, you delight in us.
18:49Oh, enough.
18:57Oh, Miss Bennett, that was truly unforgettable.
19:08It was a beautiful rendition of a difficult song.
19:13Everybody saw me.
19:15There's a console.
19:17Take a breath in.
19:19No nobody noticed but you.
19:38It was you that told father to stop me playing, wasn't it?
19:41I didn't want you to over-exalt yourself.
19:43You insult me.
19:45Mary, we both know that it's not true.
19:51Mary, I have had a terrible evening, and yet you always appear to handle everything with
19:55such ease.
19:56What do you mean?
19:57You always get what you want, without needing to try, whereas I try so hard, and it's always
20:09for nothing.
20:10Mary.
20:10Don't say that.
20:12There is much you have achieved.
20:19I'm sorry.
20:22I'm truly sorry.
20:36No!
20:37No!
20:38No!
20:38No!
20:39No!
20:39No!
20:41Mary!
20:42You must get dressed and come downstairs.
20:44There has been such an upset you won't believe it.
20:45You can't imagine what's happened.
20:49Well, Mr. Collins has made Lizzie an offer, and she has refused him.
20:55Can you imagine?
20:56Mama is furious and says Lizzie will have him, but Papa told Lizzie that her choice was
21:00a sad one because Mother will never see her again if she doesn't marry Collins, and Papa
21:04will never see her again if she does!
21:06And now everyone is so utterly cross.
21:07Mr. Collins has stormed off, Lizzie won't say anything at all, Mama is beside herself, and Papa has shut himself
21:12in the library!
21:13He must come!
21:14So, so what happens now? What if Mr. Collins...
21:17Papa thinks he would choose someone else!
21:19I don't know!
21:20Well, it's more likely to be me than you!
21:25No, I am resigned, Mr. Bennett, I shall take my leave.
21:28As you wish.
21:29Oh, Mr. Collins!
21:30I am resigned, Madam Mr. Collins, this is just a misunderstanding!
21:38Mr. Collins has withdrawn his pretensions to Lizzie's favour.
21:43I am very glad to hear it. I don't think I could have borne much more of his good opinion.
21:48He says he's resigned and will not renew his pursuit.
22:08Thank you, Hill.
22:17I have been thinking, Mary, since Lizzie was so selfish as to refuse Mr. Collins, I have turned my mind
22:26towards you.
22:30I think you understand me.
22:32Mama, less than a week ago you were adamant...
22:35Mary, please!
22:36He will not ask me now.
22:39I need to be sure that you will accept him when he offers.
22:42He will not choose me, Mama.
22:45Oh, Mary, he will!
22:48Who else will marry him?
22:53What are you reading?
22:56A theory of the Earth.
22:58It's about rocks.
22:59Types of...
23:01rocks.
23:07...
23:18...
23:18...
23:19...
23:19...
23:27Mr. Benic?
23:29Mr. Collins has made Miss Charlotte Lucas an offer of marriage
23:34and she has accepted
23:37We wish you joy
23:39Yes, so much joy
23:40I wish you joy
23:41Thank you all
23:43Did you know he is a clergyman?
23:45Yes
24:04I wish you joy
24:15It's the right thing
24:16They vanished when I told my family of his offer
24:19I am too old to be generous, I'm afraid
24:24Mr. Charlotte
24:27Come out, let me smoke
24:33Good night, James
24:34Good night, Lizzie
24:35Good night, Lisa
24:36Good night, my mum
24:36Good night, Kitty
24:38I told you no one would marry you if you wore spectacles
24:57It wouldn't be for much longer
24:59Wait
25:00That we Bennett sisters lived together
25:06As each of my sisters left home
25:10My future felt increasingly uncertain
25:17I often thought back to the events in that period of my life
25:20And wondered if I could have done anything differently
25:26Hmm
25:28But I was trapped
25:32Unable to escape the loveless world of my parents
25:35But I kept in doors
25:36Thank you
25:38Thank you
25:38Thank you
25:39Thank you
25:43My options were limited
25:48And I found my books offered me no instruction
25:53And little comfort
25:55I searched desperately for answers.
25:59I clung on to hope.
26:09But in a moment, my life was upturned.
26:14Mr. Bennett, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Bennett.
26:19They're running the carriage route, girl.
26:21Yes, ma'am, go away.
26:28Father had found a way out, leaving Mother and I with nothing except each other.
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