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Lark Rise To Candleford By Flora Thompson Drama Romance Tv Series 2008 S01 E01 - Video
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00:06There are always skylarks, their songs hanging over the fields of dark gold.
00:15As a child it felt as though this quiet old country life had always been so.
00:22And would always be so.
00:31My father used to say that nobody ever came to Lark-Rice and nobody ever left.
00:41But he was wrong on both Celts.
00:50Not lost. Not lost.
00:53Take your little rest. Take your little rest.
00:55They're so close.
01:00Ah!
01:12There we are, boys girls!
01:14The girl I was couldn't see how quickly the world was moving away from those slow summer days.
01:27Yes!
01:29There we go!
01:39Yes!
01:48This is Annie.
01:50Annie, this is Ethel, and Frank, and Edmund, and Laura.
02:00We'll have to get out of this left-behind place.
02:02No room for so many of us, not when another one comes.
02:06I could only half sense that my own life was about to be forever changed.
02:38No room for so many of us.
02:49Bees! Bees! I'm back again!
02:58Don't you ever get tired of sitting there, Queenie?
03:00Never.
03:02Tending bees in work, that's a treat.
03:06You keep your brother close, young Laura. Brothers can get lost if you don't keep a careful eye on them.
03:15Be warned.
03:18Ethel, stop that now. Ethel, Frank!
03:22Stop that fighting!
03:23I want to see if my teddy's close!
03:26Laura!
03:27You're not tend to the baby!
03:33I'm so excited to everything myself.
03:35How can you have your head stuck in a book when there's so much to do?
03:39If you're no help to me, it is when I have found a place for you.
03:45I was intending to tell you when the moment was right, Laura.
03:49Cousin Dorcas has kindly agreed to take you on in the post office. In Candleford.
03:56Cousin Dorcas has kindly agreed to take you on in the post office with her.
04:07Cousin Dorcas
04:08Before you read it, Laura.
04:08Before you read it, Laura.
04:23Cousin Dorcas has kindly agreed to talk to her, D.
04:24been inside of the post office. It's decided, Laura. I'll help you. I'll look after the baby, I promise.
04:32It's good work. You'll learn from Dorcas. She's made something of her life. A woman running a
04:41post office on her own. And a forge. Imagine it. Mark, please don't make me leave, Laura cries. Oh, shh.
04:53Come here. Shush, shush, shush. When I was about your age, Laura, some relatives came to visit us
05:03from Australia and they persuaded me to go back with them. I was so excited.
05:11It was going to be a whole new life. It was all arranged till the night before I was due
05:19to go, they began to talk about snakes that infested their garden. So I said I shan't
05:25go. And I wouldn't. But the truth of it is, Laura, it was more than snakes I was afraid
05:35of. And I still find myself wondering what if. Do you see, my flower?
05:52I've got a potato cake in a bag for you. A little bit of sugar can always be spared. No
06:01child
06:01of mine shall go out into this world without a good outfit.
06:15I'm not.
06:17I'm not.
06:24You're going to get rich, little Laura.
06:26Grab every penny stamp in your best-lark rice mind.
06:31And don't take any nonsense from that oity-toity lot over there.
06:35And don't ever forget where you come from!
07:15To my eyes, a Hamlet girl's eyes.
07:18It all seems so new and so different to the life I'd known.
07:24Walk on.
07:25Did I sense, then, that this was what I wanted?
07:30Perhaps I did.
07:41Thomas, I believe we have a parcel for Mr Norbert.
07:45Yes, ma'am.
07:45I'm sorry, Mrs Flubber, we have nothing for you today.
07:49Mrs Macy will cash your postal order, Mr Peel.
07:53Talkless?
07:55You remember our Laura?
07:58I picked these for email.
08:00Thank you, Laura.
08:02You've arrived at just the right time.
08:03You've had the most terrible rush.
08:05But it's all over now, so we can have a little something to eat.
08:11I can't say we lay on such a spread every day.
08:14It's a feast.
08:15We thought it would be a warm welcome for Laura.
08:18Didn't we, Zilla?
08:20Hmph!
08:26Are you a Christian, Missy?
08:29Even if that were any of your business, Thomas Brown, we should not discuss such lofty matters at my table.
08:36Laura, meet Matthew, who runs the forge for me.
08:42Perhaps tomorrow morning, Mrs Macy and Thomas Brown here can show you how we sort the mail when it arrives
08:47from the head office.
08:49Food is my one weakness.
08:55Walk-up.
09:21So, Laura, it shall we begin.
09:25Form AB35, the Savings Bank form, K21, the Postal Order Abstract, XY13, the Cash Account Sheet.
09:32Don't worry, you'll soon get used to them.
09:35And the stamps here, the one penny and the half penny, Postal Orders, we will come to
09:41you later.
09:53Thomas, telegram for Mrs. Arliss over in Larkrise.
10:02So it began.
10:06One little telegram bearing a few words of good news was about to set Hamlet against town,
10:13rich against poor, Larkrise against Candleford.
10:18Wouldn't it be splendid to have your very own nine-gallon cask of good ale in your pantry?
10:24Turn on the tap and fetch a glass for your husband.
10:27Well, better still, he can fetch one from me.
10:31And you'll have plenty of time to pay for it, just put your instalment by each week for me
10:35to come and collect.
10:36Now, who's going to be the very first in Larkrise to own their own cask of best foaming beer?
11:06Who sleeps here?
11:08You do.
11:10Who else?
11:11No one else tells your room.
11:14My own room?
11:15This is a home, not a farmyard.
11:19You're in Candleford now, Gil.
11:41Saucas.
11:42Timothy.
11:44Oh, how sweet of you.
11:46Are they from the manor gardens?
11:48Ah, this is rather difficult.
11:50You see, I promised these to Zilla.
11:52She dropped the most enormous hint the other day.
11:55Yes.
11:56There's no missing Zilla's intimations.
12:00I saw Thomas setting off just now with a scowl from ear to ear.
12:04He has a telegram to deliver to Larkrise.
12:06You know how he loves to suffer.
12:08Hmm.
12:09I take it from your dress that you're not riding out with me today.
12:12The new girl has arrived.
12:13Laura.
12:14Emma Timmons' eldest child.
12:16She's very spirited and rather lovely with it.
12:19I'd like to see her properly settled in.
12:22I've left her to get acquainted with Zilla's brand of welcome.
12:25Hmm.
12:27Well, tomorrow then.
12:29Yes, I'd love to.
12:39Telegram for Mrs. Arliss.
12:41Telegram?
12:42Who are you from?
12:44Three and six for the hire of man and horse carriage.
12:48Well, I can see the horse carriage, but I can't see no man.
12:52I see you've not found Christ yet.
12:55No.
12:56And I've not found three and six neither.
12:58In which case, in accordance with post office regulations,
13:00I cannot deliver this telegram.
13:02Oh.
13:03Don't be so heartless, man.
13:06It might be from my daughter, who's pregnant.
13:10When the young'uns begin, it's about time the old'uns stopped.
13:13Well, it's a bit late for that now, isn't it, Thomas?
13:16Oh, that might be about my Walter.
13:19That might be news of his ship.
13:20That might indeed.
13:23And if you hadn't wittered away the earnings he sent you on vices such as ale,
13:27you might have the means to find out.
13:29You stay here a while.
13:31I'll get your money for you.
13:32Ma, what are you doing?
13:34Well, we have to know what's in that telegram, don't we?
13:37Well, that's well enough me lending it, you.
13:39How are you going to find it to pay me back?
13:41Please, Mr Paxton.
13:43They wouldn't be sending me no telegram unless it was terrible bad news, would they?
13:47Go on.
13:49Please.
13:51This is the last time.
13:52Well, I mean it.
13:54They're charging amulet folk what amounts to a day and a half's wages
13:57for a few words on a piece of paper.
14:04They're charging for the distance.
14:07Candleford post office say we're outside of their eight mile limit.
14:11Well, that's them getting paid for it twice.
14:13They're as good as taking the food off our table and the clothes off our backs.
14:16They want to take us for no more than country fools.
14:18Somebody ought to ruffle their feathers and let them know they've been ruffled and all.
14:23We should write a letter.
14:25To the postmaster general itself.
14:29What do you think, Robert?
14:40That's something about our Lucy.
14:43It won't cost me another three and six for you to read it, will it?
14:54Your daughter did give birth today to a fine baby girl.
14:59Mother and child are both in good health.
15:06Oh, Thomas Brown.
15:08We should raise a drop of ale in the blessedness of it.
15:12If you ask me, the blessed thing to do would be to abstain.
15:18Well, the beer's there.
15:20And this is certainly something worth celebrating.
15:29May take a little while, but she'll settle.
15:32We'll settle too.
15:35We're not the first family to send our daughter out into the world.
15:38It's done, Robert.
15:45It is done, isn't it, Robert?
15:47I suppose it is.
15:49If you say it is.
15:58I wrote it all down.
16:00Everything I saw and heard.
16:03My mother always said even small things never passed unnoticed by me.
16:07Are you all settled in, Laura?
16:09Yes, I am. Thank you.
16:11Good.
16:12Then you need your sleep.
16:13You have a big day tomorrow.
16:16Was that Lady Adelaide we saw today, ma'am?
16:19It was, yes.
16:21And impossibly beautiful, don't you think?
16:23Yes.
16:25I heard she was from London.
16:27Yes.
16:28But now she's married to Sir Timothy,
16:31whose family have given us our squire for hundreds of years.
16:35And tomorrow you may meet her.
16:38You will go along to the manor.
16:40You must go to see Sir Timothy and be sworn in.
16:44No one can work for the post office until they have signed the declaration.
16:55It wasn't so much the word she spoke about, Lady Adelaide,
16:59as a look in Miss Lane's eyes as she said them.
17:14I'm joining you today, Miss Lane.
17:16I'm curious what it is you two gossip about.
17:20If only it was so diverting.
17:23Timothy has engaged me in the same conversation since we were ten years old.
17:28I am no rider, but I promised Timothy that I would make an effort after all this time.
17:34The poor horse knows when there's a city girl in the saddle.
17:38Timothy, you talk such backward nonsense.
17:41You ride so well, Dorcas.
17:43I've watched you many times.
17:46Walk up.
17:48Walk up.
18:16How about a juicy little kiss then?
18:19I will not!
18:20All we did was trot around the countryside saying hello to your tenants.
18:24Yet you came back from those jaunts so much sunnier.
18:26Well, at least now you know you're not missing anything.
18:33What have you been up to, young lady?
18:35Poaching? Rick burning? Or is it petty larceny?
18:39I look gravely upon petty larceny.
18:45Forgive me, Laura, I couldn't resist. You look so full of dread standing there.
18:48Come in.
18:51Dorcas's, um, Miss Lane has told me all about you. Please.
18:58I do solemnly promise and declare that I will not open or delay
19:03or cause or suffer to be opened or delayed
19:05any letter or anything sent by post.
19:10And do you?
19:13Solemnly promise to be a servant of Her Majesty's post office,
19:16bound by its many codes and statutes?
19:21I do, sir.
19:23Then now you may sign it.
19:27Very well read it was, too.
19:34You should do well with Miss Lane. She is an excellent woman.
19:38Uh, efficient, I mean.
19:43And respected.
19:45And kind to those of whom she proves.
19:52Your eyes are young, Laura.
19:56Let's hope they will never be dimmed
19:59by crying.
20:18You tell him that letter is from all of Lark Rice.
20:22Mr Paxton, I'm afraid there are regulations that govern
20:25even what the Postmaster General can do.
20:27You ask him.
20:29How are folks supposed to afford it, eh?
20:31On ten shillings foreign wages.
20:34Right's right and wrong ain't right.
20:38How can you be so sure Lark Rice is inside of the eight mile limit?
20:41First folk in the Hamlet understands these things.
20:45It's in their feet, you might say.
20:49And that's for certain that ain't no eight mile.
20:53Well, I will certainly forward this to the Postmaster General for you.
20:57We're being treated as poor relations to Candleford's jumped up ways.
21:02And that ain't right.
21:05But no one can ever say that Lark Rice is against Her Majesty.
21:09God bless her.
21:11Can they, Laura?
21:21Well, it ain't Candleford's fault those country savages send each other telegrams
21:26about every silly something or nothing without so much as a thought
21:28about how it's going to be paid for.
21:50Mrs. Arliss?
21:54Mrs. Arliss, see you at home.
22:16Sir, I'm looking for Mrs. Arliss.
22:19I've travelled over special from Oxford to collect a payment for the beer.
22:22Do you know where I might find Mrs. Arliss?
22:48Alfie, has old Monday paid you your wages?
22:50Yes, sir, he has.
22:52Have a thought before you hand it over to your ma.
22:55What she'd be expecting, Sam?
22:57There's a fair chance she'll spend it before the day's out.
23:01Now, isn't the easy thing to refuse her, but it might be the right thing.
23:05Yes, sir.
23:06I am your ma.
23:09Ah.
23:10You give your wages to me.
23:12But you will buy food with it.
23:14I'll buy food.
23:16Of course I'll buy food.
23:22You see if I don't.
23:28Thank you, Miss Lane.
23:31Laura, is there a letter for Miss Midwinter?
23:39There you are.
23:42Tis churning day on the farm today, Miss Lane.
23:45Thank you, Zilla.
23:46And I should like to take a bath tonight.
23:49Like I said, you're in Candleford now, girl.
23:57That young lady who came in to collect the letter, Miss Midwinter, she is a cousin of Sir Timothy's and
24:04the letter is from a handsome farmer's boy.
24:08Intoxicatingly handsome.
24:11Will never do, of course.
24:13Poor boy doesn't have so much as a penny to bless himself.
24:17Love rarely crosses the great divide of social class.
24:25So, you see, Laura, that declaration you signed before Sir Timothy, it means that you and I are the guardians
24:34of secrets that even he may not know of.
24:38Yes.
24:40Maybe under some lace.
24:58I do think this would suit your ladyship.
25:03The style is the new favourite of Princess Louise.
25:06Perhaps the green satin does so suit your ladyship's comely complexion.
25:18Could I have a reel of blue cotton for Miss Lane?
25:21Ruby, would you?
25:26Now, I know blue is not always your colour, but this one is a very special blue.
25:31Absolutely pinpoint sky for me.
25:36Aren't you the child from Lark Road?
25:39Yes, ma'am.
25:40Well, Sharon, don't touch anything in my shop, will you?
25:45You would wonder that Miss Lane could not find someone more genteel than a little country girl to assist her
25:50in her office.
25:51I can read and I can count.
25:53And I was brought up with proper manners.
25:55Which is more than can be said for some people in Candleford.
26:00Well, I can't see her lasting long under Miss Lane's standards.
26:05Yeah.
26:07So how's your new girl Laura settling in?
26:09She's bright, spirited, more afraid than she likes to show.
26:15Knows her own mind.
26:17I hear she made quite an impression with Pearl and Ruby Pratt.
26:20Yes, and for that you should give her a medal and I should raise her allowance.
26:28Timothy, you're looking at me in that disconcerting way of yours.
26:32Am I?
26:36She just reminds me of you at that age.
26:39You're no good for me, Timothy.
26:42You bring out the sentimental in me.
26:45And sentiment is as unattractive as self-pity.
26:52I fear there's trouble brewing with Larkrise.
26:55The letter to the Postmaster General.
26:57Oh, word is out I see.
27:01I have a suspicion Robert Timmons is behind it.
27:06I wish I could waive the charge, but he's in the wrong.
27:09They're in the wrong.
27:11They're outside of the limit and that's the end of it.
27:16If only life was so simple.
27:25My father would never back down, not when he felt there was an injustice against poor people.
27:30But I felt torn.
27:32I couldn't help falling in love with the luxuries of Candleford.
27:40Your bath is prepared, Miss Lane.
27:43Then I shall take my canary, dear.
27:46Thank you, Scylla.
27:48Baths are my one weakness.
27:54A quart of buttermilk, I say.
27:57A quart of buttermilk she has to wash her face on churning day.
28:02And warm rainwater for the bath.
28:14I can't wait for it.
28:18I can't wait for it.
28:19I might not wait for it.
28:26I'm sorry.
28:26Poor cranny.
28:28My brother's ill.
28:33You'd better fetch Thomas.
28:54Terrell?
28:57Telegram?
29:03Thomas Brown says he ain't giving me the telegram till he's got the three and sixpence in his hands.
29:09No, I told him. I told that Dorcas Lane herself. I ain't paying, and that's a fact.
29:14Sorry, Queenie, but wrong is wrong.
29:17If that's growing name on it, then it's our telegram. Ain't no Candleford must have gonna keep it from us.
29:25Come on, lad.
29:30Gentlemen, here he is. Thomas Brown, that's our telegram.
29:35Yeah, Thomas, relax.
29:40Give us our telegram.
29:44Hey, come here.
29:47Come here. Come here.
29:48Come here.
30:06Thomas was unable to deliver it, I'm afraid.
30:09But it's for Queenie.
30:11Yes.
30:12Well, her brother's ill. She should be told.
30:15Why didn't he tell her?
30:17Because, Laura, it isn't as simple as that.
30:19The post office is built on rules and regulations.
30:23How can rules and regulations be wrong sometimes?
30:25And it is founded on these principles for very good and honourable reasons.
30:29You'll appreciate that when you're older and more experienced in the proportion of these things.
30:33I don't believe I will, Miss Lane.
30:36I don't think I'll ever appreciate what's cruel and heartless.
30:39Laura, that is enough.
30:40Your place is to work and not to question what you don't properly understand.
30:44And that's exactly what you will do now.
30:56Edmund! Ethel!
30:57Now go home.
31:10How can you afford steak and onions?
31:14Alf has his wages.
31:16And I ain't gonna squander it paying my debts.
31:18But it's all gone on one meal.
31:20Well, I shall feather the foam.
31:22I have a four and I shall again.
31:25Come and sit down, Emma.
31:27Have yourself a bite.
31:29Whoever said no to Reb, mate.
31:32Timothy, I thought we might ride our Dingleston way.
31:35What do you think?
31:36Well, to be quite frank, Dorcas, we always seem to ride out in whichever direction you take a fancy.
31:41How can you say such a thing?
31:43It's as much as I can do to keep up with you.
31:59What is it?
32:02Mrs. Turrell's brother.
32:05We had a telegram yesterday to say he was ill.
32:09But Thomas was unable to deliver it because Queenie couldn't afford to pay the three and sixpence.
32:16Now it seems he has passed away.
32:20The poor woman must have lain awake all night wondering what it was we were keeping from her.
32:29Dorcas, you're only the messenger.
32:31Don't punish yourself too much.
32:36My father always impressed upon me to put aside my feelings and do everything according to post office regulations.
32:42But it doesn't come easily when it means I have to stand by something I don't believe in.
32:49Well, perhaps you and I could ride over to Larkrise now.
32:52You could deliver the news to Mrs. Turrell yourself, offer her your apologies.
32:57I'm sure she would appreciate that.
33:13And I hear she was unmannerly to Miss Pearl and Miss Ruby on her first visit to the store.
33:19So you'd have to wonder what Miss Lane was thinking of bringing such a girl under her roof.
33:27Rain in the sky again?
33:30Better have just one more tart to see me through the second delivery.
33:41I felt I did not have a friend in Candleford.
33:44And don't you make the mistake of thinking I'm here at the beck and call of just anyone, my girl.
33:50Cos I ain't having it.
33:53And after the troubles with the telegram about Queenie's brother, I felt I didn't want one.
34:05We're all sorry at the post office.
34:08Sorry that you didn't receive the message.
34:12If I have added to you suffering...
34:18He was such a beautiful boy.
34:23My mother always said Harry would even look handsome in his coffin.
34:33Mrs. Turrell, if there's anything I can do...
34:38Such a beautiful boy.
34:54Hey, Dorcas.
34:55Something in the matter?
34:58I just called on Mrs. Turrell.
35:00Because we had a telegram to say that her brother had been taken ill.
35:04But unfortunately, Thomas wasn't able to deliver it.
35:08And now the poor man has died.
35:13I thought perhaps I should tell her myself.
35:16That's very considerate of you.
35:29But if Queenie had known he was ill, she might have gone to be with him.
35:33Thomas should have told Mrs. Turrell that she could come into the post office to collect her message.
35:38Yes.
35:38And if she'd walked the distance, she'd know it wasn't eight miles.
35:42Emma, I would hope that you know...
35:43It shouldn't be at Candleford's favour that Queenie finds out whether her brother's living or not.
35:49Folk in Candleford don't pay no three and six for a man and horse, do they?
35:53No, Emma, they don't. But they don't live outside...
35:55It is an eight mile.
35:57Ladies, if I might suggest there does seem to be a fair and simple way to resolve the dispute about
36:02the distance,
36:04we'll measure it.
36:06And I'll oversee the operation to guarantee impartiality.
36:09That might be a fitting way to put this thing to rest.
36:13How does next Sunday sound?
36:16Measuring.
36:16Yes, to settle a dispute. I had to do something. It was my idea.
36:21You're measuring the distance between Candleford and Larcries.
36:24And that is why we will miss the most stunning ball of the summer.
36:29Adelaide, I am the squire. I'm sorry, but I must attend to this. This is what I do.
36:33As far as I can see, this is a post office dispute.
36:36It doesn't really call for the squire to resolve it.
36:38Yes, I suppose it is a post office matter, but these are my tenants, so it is my duty to
36:43see that justice is done.
36:44You can see that, can't you?
36:48Adelaide, the more I give myself to my obligation, the more I enjoy it.
36:54You could join me. We could do this together.
37:04Thomas, I think that perhaps on this one Sunday you might show a little pliancy.
37:08You may call it pliancy, ma'am. The Lord calls it dereliction.
37:12And dereliction leads to degradation. Keep holy the Sabbath day.
37:19We will have two penny stamps.
37:21We just wanted to let you know, Miss Lane, that we will be there to stand behind you come Sunday.
37:27I'm not sure that will be necessary, ladies.
37:28Well, but it's our duty to defend the town's good name.
37:31It's a wonder you allowed such a challenge to your authority and integrity, Miss Lane.
37:35To the integrity of all of us.
37:37It is a slight on the standards of the whole of Candleford.
37:41Really, we mustn't let this thing blow. We will be there.
37:44And we have encouraged all our friends and customers to come to the cause.
37:48We will ensure that the whole of Candleford stands behind you, Miss Lane.
38:10What are you doing here?
38:12Enjoying the sights.
38:15My, don't you look the part, then.
38:18How is it for you, Laura?
38:20I like having my own room. And the meals. And the baths. And there's books everywhere.
38:27You would tell me if you couldn't settle it, would you?
38:30Of course I would.
38:32Well, it's all for the best.
38:34Here's to you and your new home.
38:37What is that part?
38:40I've walked that road a thousand times.
38:43Why is it today it seems further than eight miles?
38:46I feel as if I'm making a fool of myself, Laura.
38:50Said I knew things I didn't know, made others believe me, and now I just don't know.
38:54We'll all be fools. All a lot rise.
38:58But don't you worry, though.
39:00If I'm wrong, it might dent my pride, but that's not what matters.
39:03There's a chance we're right and we have to take it so that what happened to Queenie never happens again.
39:16Hopefully they'll be there next week.
39:19Tick, tick, tick, tick.
39:23Tick, tick, tick.
39:26Tick, tick, tick.
39:28Laura?
39:32I have some clothes from when I was your age.
39:37I thought you might like to have them to wear in the post office.
39:42I don't think I'll be needing them, ma'am.
39:49Do you feel that Candleford is not right for you?
39:53I feel as though I am not right for Candleford.
39:58I know it can be difficult to settle into a new home.
40:02A new town.
40:04But I must admit I thought you were doing rather well.
40:08And there must be some things about Candleford that you quite like.
40:17So what is it that's really troubling you?
40:22I saw my pa today.
40:25He walked back from Larkrise.
40:27And he's convinced that the Hamlet is outside the eight mile limit.
40:32That the measuring will certainly prove Larkrise to be wrong.
40:39Don't be despondent.
40:42My father used to say that we should work with the regulations.
40:46But I have always rather enjoyed looking for ways to work around them.
40:55Are we ready, Matthew?
40:57Sir.
40:58Then lead on.
41:00William?
41:16So as the church bells rang that Sunday morning, we sat off to walk to Larkrise.
41:21I was heading homewards, but somehow...
41:23...found myself on the wrong side of this little war.
41:57Thomas!
41:59Did the Lord give you the day off after all?
42:01It's not like this is work, though, is it, ma'am?
42:03No-one can say that Thomas Brown...
42:05...did labor upon the Sabbath day.
42:09All right.
42:22Timothy, I'd like to thank you for doing this.
42:25Whatever the outcome.
42:26I'm just doing what's right by my tenants.
42:30Yes, but you have been a constant friend to me.
42:33And I cannot let that go unmentioned today.
42:46To be fair, as it continues is...
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43:47Sir Timothy, perhaps we could stop for something to eat now.
43:52Food is my one weakness.
43:56Matthew, lunch and break, I think.
43:59Lunch and break?
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44:06We've got you!
44:08You all right?
44:09Mark?
44:10Oh, it's a lovely wonderful surprise.
44:26Come and have some lunch.
44:27Your Ladyship, you've joined us just in time for the conclusion of our little odyssey.
44:32Excuse me for arriving so late.
44:34I imagined you could get along just fine without a city girl.
44:46Matthew, can you predict the result?
44:48Say, by the time we get to Lark Race, we'll be outside the eight mile limit.
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44:57What's Stalker saying to Matthew?
45:00All right, time to bend the rules.
45:06Laura, I need you to take a message to your father.
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45:30Well, have they been feeding you over there in Candleford?
45:32Oh, Alf, there's so much to tell you.
45:34I don't know where to begin.
45:35Well, you might begin by sitting down beside me.
45:37I can.
45:38I have to talk to Miss Lane.
45:39I'll find you later.
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46:26on the rise that way and into the hamlet there.
46:38Matthew, lead on. Mr. Timmins will show you the way.
46:44William?
46:56.
47:57Well, there are only a few yards in it, but a result is a result.
48:04Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we have established today that according to post office statutes, the village of Larkrise
48:13lies within, I repeat, within the eighth mile limit.
48:19Therefore is not subject to charge for the delivery of telegrams.
48:28But I won't be delivering across no field.
48:33I think they say that's right.
48:35I think the Lord would want us to be magnanimous in defeat, Thomas.
48:40Well, I think the squire could stand a beer for those who were the first after our second hour of
48:44war.
48:45I tell you, ain't no use in worrying, you see? Things always turn out somehow.
49:01You keep your brother close, young Laura.
49:05Brothers can get lost if you keep a careful eye on them.
49:09Be warned.
49:10Come on for the piddler.
49:25Miss Lane.
49:30Um, I hope you'll agree, ma'am, that what's been paid out should be returned.
49:36Right is right, Mr. Paxton, which is why I've already returned the three and sixpence to Mrs. Arliss.
49:42Mrs. Arliss?
49:45Now, now, hold hard there, Mrs. Arliss.
49:51And anyone else who has paid, if you will give your telegram to Thomas, I'll make sure that you're reimbursed.
49:57Yay!
49:59Well, this still ain't right.
50:01Canterford's still come out on top.
50:02Don't you dare start anything.
50:04Oh, I've got our Laura.
50:06I just want to tell them how lucky they are.
50:08Oh, that's what's got today.
50:09Oh, yeah.
50:12Mr. Turrell is my name.
50:15England is my nation.
50:19Larkrise is my dwelling place.
50:21And Christ is my salvation.
50:26When I am dead and in my grave.
50:29And all my bones are rotten.
50:32Sing you the song and think of me.
50:35And mine, I not forgotten.
50:40Miss Ling, I just wanted to say that I know, Laura.
50:43Post office regulations have their advantages too, hmm?
50:49Miss Ling was certainly right about that.
50:52Life was infinitely more complicated than I'd thought.
51:01The little warrior of the telegram had given me a glimpse of her love of mischief.
51:06Sir Timothy had called her an excellent woman.
51:08And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:22I felt so proud of my friends in Larkrise.
51:26Poor beyond imagining.
51:28Yet they had never lost a secret of being happy on little.
51:32And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:45And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:46And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:50And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:50And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:50And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:51And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:52And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:54And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:57And I was about to find out just what he meant.
52:01You
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