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00:24THE LOSS OF MY FATHER
00:26was a leap into the unknown. Longborn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles
00:33here, it was all I had ever known. From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of
00:41my sisters, destined to spend my days as my mother's companion? What other choice did
00:50I have? I do not expect any of you to understand my pain. The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared
01:02was a rare thing. I do not know that I shall ever eat again. Who is that? I do not
01:13know,
01:13Mama. What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:21Charlotte! I'm afraid you find us in a state of some disarray. Understandably. We've been
01:31wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would need time as a family
01:36to gather your things. Yourselves. Together. I want to make it quite clear. No.
01:50Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longborn. Hmm. Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:58You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks. Two weeks.
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave. But I have arranged
02:07you some help with the packing. Hmm. So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult
02:13task during your hour of need. Hmm.
02:17Oh!
02:28Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Beanley and I at Netherfield. We have a number of cooks
02:33and more servants than we know what to do with. Oh, Jane. I would be delighted. It would bring
02:42me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my disposal.
02:47Ha ha! Ha ha!
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too. Thank you. But if you're worried about company, Caroline
02:57Bingley stays with us often. Well, yes, but, um, I have not yet thought through my future
03:05prospects. Hmm. Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother
03:11and his wife in London. Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked
03:17me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21Ha ha! Mary's going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary. I-I would very much like to help, but, um, you will need me, Mama. I-I have
03:31already
03:31accepted their offer. Ha! They're sending a carriage. But, Mama, do not worry about me,
03:38Mary. I shall have Jane by my side. Ha ha!
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was
04:02destined for misery.
04:10Mrs Bennet is indisposed. Oh. Of course. Thank you, Hill.
04:28Um...
04:29What if the children don't like me? Why should they not like you? You're a perfectly likable
04:36soul. I have nothing ready to teach them. Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything
04:46than you. It's time for you to get out and see the world. Meet some other people that live
04:53in it. I think it'll do you good. Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:59Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not. No, I'm just, um...
05:20It's time for you to live in the sea.
05:22It doesn't matter, Miss Mary.
05:22Well, it's all about you, too.
05:23I was going to be feeling with the People's Doors.
05:23Come on. You would be feeling with the people who are
05:23gonna pass the people who are famed, and you would be feeling with the people who
05:24are they. You are so beautiful.
05:24Well, I-I-I-I-I-I-Is.
05:42I don't know.
06:26I don't know.
06:34Oh, Mary! Welcome!
06:36Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
06:38Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:40But first, we'll show you your room.
06:41Come in, come in!
06:44It's right at the top of the house,
06:46so you won't be disturbed by the children.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10She's had a most trying time of late.
07:12Well, you all have.
07:15Mother as well.
07:16Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:20Mary, it must have been a terrible shock.
07:27It was.
07:29Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here,
07:35especially with the children,
07:36so if you don't mind that,
07:38you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings
07:41will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do.
08:00Which mountain range
08:01has found the end of your armies?
08:05Oh, hi.
08:07The Andes.
08:15The Andes.
08:16The Andes.
08:18The Andes.
08:18The Andes.
08:19Hi!
08:20Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27No, sir, thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Marianne, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet,
08:48it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner,
08:52and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:59George!
09:02Yes, thank you, George.
09:04And this is...
09:09This is Rebecca.
09:12Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:15And if an organised body
09:18is not in the situation and circumstances
09:22best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:27then in conceiving an indefinite variety
09:30among the individuals of that species,
09:34we must be assured that, on the one hand,
09:38those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish.
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:57Now, in 1492,
10:01Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:06Ah, yes, America.
10:09Uh...
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room
10:17when I began looking at the globe,
10:19and now there are two of you.
10:20She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:30Tom!
10:31You're here!
10:31Tom!
10:32Can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:34Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you that dinner is served,
10:38and...
10:39You must be Miss Bennet.
10:42I...
10:42I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:45Er, er, Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:51Hmm.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly,
10:59but I was looking at America,
11:03and when I looked back, it was...
11:10Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:13For if you do,
11:14might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:19Well, I...
11:20I wasn't sure.
11:22I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there,
11:26they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes.
11:38Indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:44Mr. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward,
11:48I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
11:53because...
11:54I...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:08Is it that you keep eating them?
12:13Oh.
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago,
12:20and we've been friends ever since.
12:22You're another of our former lodgers.
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:33Well, as discussed during the lesson,
12:38they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:42Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, er...
12:46Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:50Yes.
12:52Mary told us about smallpox,
12:54and I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, you asked me to be truthful.
12:59What's a deadly rash?
13:01She said it can leave one blind or dead.
13:04That is not quite how I put it.
13:06Blind or dead, she said.
13:07Well, that is true.
13:08There's a mortality rate of about...
13:1030%.
13:14Exactly.
13:15George cried three times.
13:19There was something in my eye.
13:20We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
13:24Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
13:28I think a game is in order, don't you?
13:30I think that's a very good idea.
13:32Yes!
13:33Yes!
13:33I'm first!
13:34But what should we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Ah.
13:38Let's show Mary how to play Graces.
13:40Yes!
13:41Yay!
13:42Mary-Anne?
13:43Well called, Mary-Anne.
13:45Bravo!
13:46You're Zeretta.
13:48Woo!
13:49Oh!
13:50Oh!
13:51That counts!
13:52It does indeed.
13:53Well done.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
13:56Oh, no, Tom!
13:57You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay!
14:04Mary-Anne.
14:05Yes!
14:06Well done!
14:07Flare play.
14:08You look like a wizard.
14:10Yes!
14:17Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
14:19Oh, uh, no.
14:20I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes!
14:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Ready?
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh!
14:52Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:13mary oh do not look so grave my dear you're not in trouble with the weather getting warmer
15:22we're about to become more sociable oh oh please do not feel any obligation to involve
15:26me i should be quite content to stay upstairs with the children mary we want you to join us
15:33but i do not sparkle at dinners in our house no one is obliged to sparkle
15:42then of course but we need to get you properly dressed oh i thought perhaps tomorrow we could
15:49go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics i do not really care for dresses
15:54that's a shame but very well perhaps think about it mary there is a dress allowance as part of your
16:03governess wages i have thought about it and i would very much like to accept your kind offer
16:10that's excellent news
16:14well good night mary and thank you for today
16:26this must be such a change for merit it most certainly is
16:41what do you think of the deep greens we have a soiree coming up now i think deep green would
16:48be
16:48perfect well mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion
16:54really well perhaps your complexions change because i can see many colors here which would work well
16:59on you but the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like
17:06but mother says that mother isn't here
17:12mr gardner
17:14oh miss bennett
17:16home
17:17mr hayward have you brought your jacket to be mended
17:20i have just this minute dropped it off well now that you're here you can make yourself useful
17:25miss bennett needs to choose some dress fabric i find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice
17:31well i should be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited
17:36to say the least but i shall try
17:41have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh
17:48corbeau or flamme de bonche anyone
17:51um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of none key
17:56anyone for gaboge oh well i mean that's just yellow that one yes yes
18:04i think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel most like oneself
18:10and i am sorry not to be of more use i should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting
18:16land
18:16negotiation good day good day oh poor tom he worked so hard really underneath that light-hearted manner
18:33carries the weight of the world on his shoulders now have you decided
18:41i have chosen very well mary
18:47the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim
18:54lovely but you will need two dresses so perhaps china blue
19:05do you think addressing the spring green alone would be garish
19:10what do you think mary
19:14some people may think it is wild but i like it then i think you should please yourself and not
19:22worry what others may think thank you you've done a very good job now
19:49uh
20:01The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready?
20:20Yes.
20:28I did it.
20:30You did. Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:34Right.
20:36Ready?
20:37Oh.
20:40Oh.
20:41Oh, come on.
20:41Oh.
20:42Oh.
20:47Oh.
20:54Oh.
20:58Oh.
20:59Oh.
21:01Oh.
21:20Ready?
21:21Yes.
21:24Oh.
21:25Oh, oh, oh, oh!
21:27Oh!
21:28Um, uh...
21:30Yeah, um...
21:31That's probably enough, Graces, for today.
21:36Oh, yes, uh...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Byron.
21:41Oh, of course, yes.
21:43Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden.
21:59But, um...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:10Uh, no.
22:12I'm a barrister, junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:18What do you like to read?
22:21Uh, works of non-fiction.
22:23Um, histories and, uh, and geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:31That is reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:40Well, just some poems are mercifully short.
22:46Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
22:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of poetry.
22:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:05Oh.
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Uh, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Uh, well, yes.
23:14Uh, I have a...
23:16Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49It must be very strange without your family here.
23:54Well, there was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:02Mary, you look lovely.
24:06I'm not sure.
24:10I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
24:13No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:20Here.
24:22Here.
25:01Um, I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:17Um, I am Miss Bennet. I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:23Ah.
25:24Fenshaw, Mr Fenshaw.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He was quite dead in minutes.
25:43Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence.
25:46That was marvellous.
25:47Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
25:51Forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
25:55I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58As do I.
25:59I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.
26:07Your dress is striking. It looks very well on you.
26:10You really think so? I feel a little bold in it.
26:13Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
26:15If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
26:20Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
26:23Perhaps it will.
26:23Well, and if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
26:37London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching.
26:43A place of trying new things.
26:47And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
26:54Much about me felt different after just one week.
26:59Being here had lifted my spirits.
27:02I felt something long forgotten.
27:06Hope.
27:08Are you looking for someone?
27:12You must tell me all about it in a moment.
27:16Meg, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
27:19We have something of an understanding.
27:22Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
27:29We've, we've already met.
27:32Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train.
27:38Uh, it's, um, spring green.
27:40It's quite different to Pomona.
27:42Well, it suits you very well.
27:46Tom!
27:47Excuse us, ladies.
27:48You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
27:52Mr. May.
27:55Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:58We are hoping to be married next year.
28:01Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:04Come on, Becca.
28:06Oh, please excuse us.
28:08Come, Mary, it'll be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15But I had made friends, and that was enough.
28:25I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
28:29But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
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