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00:00:13Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will
00:00:18be held by anybody else, this story must show.
00:00:35To begin my life at the very beginning, I was a posthumous child.
00:00:41My father left this world three months before I entered it.
00:00:45To begin my life at the very beginning, I was a posthumous child, and I was a posthumous child.
00:01:28I was born in the small village of Blunderstone on a Friday at 12 o'clock at night, though
00:01:34not before my mother received another somewhat less expected visitor.
00:01:43Peckety?
00:01:54Can I help you, ma'am?
00:01:59Mrs David Copperfield, I think.
00:02:01And who wants her, I'd like to know?
00:02:03Miss Betsy Trotwood.
00:02:04You've heard of her, I dare say.
00:02:05My poor husband's aunt.
00:02:06Yeah, well, now you see her.
00:02:10You're nothing but a baby yourself.
00:02:12My nephew spoiled you, I suppose.
00:02:14Mr Copperfield was very good.
00:02:16Oh, no!
00:02:17Don't do that!
00:02:18Don't do that!
00:02:19Come, come!
00:02:20Oh!
00:02:22You know, I was opposed to my nephew's marriage.
00:02:24I told him you were too young.
00:02:25You are too young.
00:02:26He ignored me.
00:02:28Fancied himself in love, I suppose, or some such foolishness.
00:02:31My husband is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me...
00:02:34You may, you may leave us.
00:02:39Now, when do you expect?
00:02:41Soon.
00:02:42I feel so frightened I'm sure I shall die.
00:02:45Die?
00:02:46Certainly not.
00:02:47Have some tea.
00:02:49You're always a girl of yours.
00:02:52What does she call herself?
00:02:54Peggy.
00:02:56Peggy.
00:02:58Do you mean to say any human being has gone into a Christian church and had herself named Peggy?
00:03:05It's her surname.
00:03:06My husband called her by it because her Christian name is Clara, the same as mine.
00:03:12Your mistress needs some tea.
00:03:16She's feeling a little unwell.
00:03:18Unwell?
00:03:19She's having a baby!
00:03:20Shall I say for the doctor, ma'am?
00:03:25Now, from the moment of the birth of your girl...
00:03:28Perhaps, boy.
00:03:29It'll be a girl.
00:03:30Don't contradict.
00:03:32I shall be her godmother, and you shall call her Betsy Trotwood Copperfield.
00:03:37Now, this Betsy Trotwood must make no mistakes in life.
00:03:40There will be no worthless man trifling with her affections.
00:03:43Oh, stop that now.
00:03:50You'll make yourself ill, and that will do neither you nor my goddaughter any good at all.
00:03:54Oh!
00:04:00Ah!
00:04:04Ah!
00:04:04Ah!
00:04:10Oh!
00:04:11My hair!
00:04:14Ah!
00:04:17Ah!
00:04:19Ah!
00:04:22Ah!
00:04:31Well?
00:04:32Well, we are progressive, ma'am, but slowly.
00:04:36Bah!
00:04:52My congratulations, ma'am.
00:04:55All is now over and the baby is safely delivered.
00:04:58Oh, good. How is she?
00:05:00Mrs Copperfield is quite comfortable.
00:05:02Yes, yes, but how is she?
00:05:05Who?
00:05:06The baby, for heaven's sake.
00:05:09Oh, she is a he, Miss Dropwood.
00:05:13What?
00:05:14The baby is a boy.
00:05:17A boy?
00:05:24Boy!
00:05:26A boy!
00:05:32My great-aunt's experience of men had not been a happy one,
00:05:36and the arrival of one more into the family was the final straw.
00:05:39She vanished from our lives like a discontented fairy,
00:05:43seemingly never to return.
00:05:53My early childhood was blissfully happy.
00:05:56The days and years slipped by in a warm glow of contentment.
00:06:02I grew up secure in the certainty that my beautiful mother loved only me,
00:06:07while Peggoty's loyalty and devotion were as constant as the tides.
00:06:12And all my cargo safe on shore.
00:06:14My next work was to view the country
00:06:16and seek a proper place for my habita...
00:06:20Habita...
00:06:21Habitation, Davy.
00:06:23Habitation.
00:06:24Where I was, I yet knew not, whether or not...
00:06:35Oh!
00:06:37Davy should be in bed now, ma'am.
00:06:39Oh, please, Peggoty, just a little longer.
00:06:42Oh, go on.
00:06:43But only five minutes, mind.
00:06:50Put a bulb in there.
00:06:53That's it.
00:06:54Nope, upside down.
00:06:56That way.
00:06:58Put some rest over it.
00:06:59You should go up.
00:07:00But a chill wind was already rising,
00:07:03and the golden summer of my innocence was about to be blown away.
00:07:07Davy, say good morning to Mr. Merston.
00:07:12Davy?
00:07:12He doesn't wish to share you.
00:07:14I understand his devotion.
00:07:18Come, David.
00:07:19Let us shake hands and be the best friends in the world.
00:07:24I like his spirit.
00:07:27Until tomorrow, Mrs. Copperfield.
00:07:33Davy, I'm disappointed in you.
00:07:35What are your manners?
00:07:41A stranger or a soul makes an agreeable change, I suppose, ma'am?
00:07:46Very agreeable change, indeed.
00:07:57I was only thinking on what's best for our David.
00:08:00Am I to be told that because I receive a compliment or two,
00:08:03which I can't help,
00:08:04that I'm wanting an affection for my own precious boy?
00:08:07Nobody ever said such a thing.
00:08:08Yes, you did.
00:08:09You know you did, you unkind creature.
00:08:13Am I a cruel, selfish, bad mama?
00:08:16I don't love you at all, do I, Davy?
00:08:21Of course your mama loves you, master Davy.
00:08:23I only said that...
00:08:50Master Davy,
00:08:51how should you like to go along with me
00:08:54and spend a fortnight at my brothers at Yarmouth?
00:08:57Wouldn't that be a treat?
00:08:59But won't my mama mind?
00:09:01She can't live by herself, you know.
00:09:03Why, I'll bet a guinea she'll let us go.
00:09:07You'll love the seaside, Davy.
00:09:10There's the beach and the boats
00:09:12and all sorts of wonderful things.
00:09:15Let's ask her.
00:09:16It touches me deeply now
00:09:18to think how eager I was to leave my happy home
00:09:21and to remember how little I suspected
00:09:23what I was leaving behind forever.
00:09:35Another poem, Mr. Barclays?
00:10:01Did she make them kites and pastries?
00:10:03Peggy teeth is a lot cooking, Mr. Barclays.
00:10:05Do she, though?
00:10:09No sweet hearts, I believe.
00:10:11Oh, no, she never had a sweet heart.
00:10:15Here's my hat!
00:10:17Come on, then, six foot.
00:10:36Jan's our house, Master Davy.
00:10:39You don't live in a boat, huh?
00:10:42In a manner of speaking.
00:10:55You're most welcome, Master Copperfield.
00:10:58You'll find us rough, sir,
00:10:59but you'll find us ready.
00:11:02There you go.
00:11:06Mr. Peckety,
00:11:07did you give your son the name of Ham
00:11:09because you live in a kind of ark
00:11:11like Noah and his son did?
00:11:13Well, sir,
00:11:14I couldn't rightly say how he came by it.
00:11:16You see,
00:11:17his father gave him that name.
00:11:19But I thought that you were his father.
00:11:23My brother Joe was his father.
00:11:25Is your brother dead, Mr. Peggy?
00:11:29I'm dead.
00:11:32But little Emily,
00:11:33she is your daughter, isn't she?
00:11:36My brother-in-law Tom was her father.
00:11:40Dead, Mr. Peckety?
00:11:43I'm dead.
00:11:45Haven't you any children of your own?
00:11:47Not him, Davy.
00:11:48He ain't married.
00:11:50Why?
00:11:50Isn't Mrs. Gummidge your wife?
00:11:56Mrs. Gummidge lost her husband
00:11:58the olden a few year back.
00:12:00Grounded, Mr. Peggy.
00:12:05She gets low when she thinks, aren't it?
00:12:07And she do think, aren't it?
00:12:08Pretty often.
00:12:09I'm a lone lawn creature, Danil.
00:12:13I'd better go into the workhouse
00:12:14and die and be a riddance.
00:12:17Come on now, old girl, cheer up.
00:12:18My troubles make me contrary, Danil.
00:12:21I wish I could be hardened to them,
00:12:23but I ain't.
00:12:24I make the house uncomfortable.
00:12:27I'm certain you don't, Mrs. Gummidge.
00:12:29I don't.
00:12:31She's thinking of you.
00:12:33Don't you worry about Mrs. Gummidge, Davy.
00:12:36I never knowed anyone
00:12:37who so much enjoyed being miserable.
00:12:45My father is dead, too.
00:12:48I knowed.
00:12:49Do you mind?
00:12:51I never met him.
00:12:54Mr. Peggy must be a very good man.
00:12:57He's better than good.
00:12:59If I was a lady,
00:13:00I'd give him a waistcoat,
00:13:01a diamond buttons,
00:13:02a large gold watch
00:13:04and a bag full of money.
00:13:09Emily!
00:13:13Emily, take care!
00:13:20I'm only fighting when the wind blows.
00:13:22Then I lie awake,
00:13:24thinking I can do it to Dan and Ham
00:13:26out at sea,
00:13:27crying for help.
00:13:29That's why I want to be a lady.
00:13:31I'll keep safe on land
00:13:33on stormy weather, Kane.
00:13:35The words echo to me down the years.
00:13:39They haunt me still.
00:13:46The days sped by,
00:13:48as if time had not grown up himself yet,
00:13:51but were a child, too,
00:13:52and always at play.
00:13:58I was delighted with my new friends.
00:14:01Dan Peggy treated me
00:14:02as one of his family,
00:14:03and I quickly grew to love
00:14:05his open-hearted kindness.
00:14:09Ham was like the best
00:14:10and most heroic of older brothers.
00:14:13And of course,
00:14:13in my childish way,
00:14:15I was completely in love
00:14:17for the little Emily.
00:14:21When the day came
00:14:23to leave Yarmouth,
00:14:24I realised that for two weeks
00:14:26I had scarcely thought
00:14:27of my own home at all.
00:14:29Let's always be friends, Emily.
00:14:32I'd like that,
00:14:33but you'll be a gentleman one day.
00:14:35Come now, Davy.
00:14:36Mr. Barks is waiting.
00:14:38I'll write as often as I can.
00:15:06No sweethearts, you say?
00:15:09When you get home,
00:15:10tell her Barkers is willing.
00:15:12She'll be awake in a moment,
00:15:14Mr. Barkers.
00:15:15You could tell her yourself.
00:15:19Barkers is willing.
00:15:22That's the message.
00:15:24Barkers is willing.
00:15:32Master Davy, wait.
00:15:33What's the matter, Peggy?
00:15:36I should have told you
00:15:38before, ma'am.
00:15:38Mama, where is she?
00:15:40Not dead too?
00:15:41She's not dead, Peggy.
00:15:44No matter, Davy.
00:15:49Davy.
00:15:52I have a surprise for you.
00:15:54Can you guess what it is?
00:15:56You have a new father.
00:16:05Well, Davy boy,
00:16:07how do you do?
00:16:14This is your doing, Peggy.
00:16:15Look, you've prejudiced
00:16:16my own boy against me.
00:16:18What do you mean by it?
00:16:19Lord, forgive you
00:16:20for what you have just said,
00:16:21Mrs. Cupfield.
00:16:22Davy, you naughty boy.
00:16:23It's enough to distract me.
00:16:25I'll come to my mind.
00:16:26Clara, my love.
00:16:27Have you forgotten?
00:16:28Firmness, my dear.
00:16:29Shh.
00:16:30What name did you just
00:16:32call your mistress?
00:16:35Mrs. Cupfield.
00:16:37Same as always.
00:16:38Sir?
00:16:39But she has a new name now.
00:16:42Murdston.
00:16:43Oblige me by remembering
00:16:44that in future.
00:16:47You may go.
00:16:54Go you below, my love.
00:16:56David and I will be down
00:16:57together presently.
00:17:10David.
00:17:12If I have an obstinate dog
00:17:14or horse to deal with,
00:17:16what do you think I do?
00:17:19I beat him.
00:17:22I make him wince
00:17:24and smart.
00:17:27I say to myself,
00:17:28I'll conquer that fellow.
00:17:30And even if it costs him
00:17:31every drop of blood he has,
00:17:35I'll do it.
00:17:39Do we understand each other?
00:17:43Good.
00:17:47Now wash your face
00:17:50and come downstairs directly.
00:18:11Miss Jane,
00:18:13Murdstone, sir?
00:18:16My dear Jane.
00:18:18Edward.
00:18:20Well?
00:18:23And how are you,
00:18:24sister-in-law?
00:18:24Quite well, thank you.
00:18:26Is this your boy?
00:18:27It is.
00:18:29Generally speaking,
00:18:29I don't like boys.
00:18:32Now, Clara, my dear,
00:18:33you're much too pretty
00:18:35and thoughtless
00:18:35to have any duties
00:18:36imposed on you
00:18:37that can be undertaken
00:18:38by me
00:18:38if you'll be so good
00:18:40as to give me your keys.
00:18:41I will attend
00:18:42to the housekeeping
00:18:43in future.
00:18:54I could have copies,
00:18:55No one asked for copies.
00:18:56Kindly give me the keys.
00:19:18My dear,
00:19:20I returned for my walk
00:19:21this afternoon
00:19:22to find that the collar
00:19:22has been rearranged.
00:19:24My sister considered
00:19:25that it'd be too much
00:19:25clutter and frippery.
00:19:27I agreed.
00:19:28Perhaps so, Edward,
00:19:29but I do think
00:19:29that I might have been
00:19:30consulted before
00:19:31any change was made.
00:19:35Well, it is very hard
00:19:36in my own house.
00:19:37My own house, Clara?
00:19:39Our own house.
00:19:40I mean,
00:19:41it is very hard
00:19:42that in our own house
00:19:43I may not have a word
00:19:43to say about domestic matters.
00:19:45I'm sure I managed
00:19:46very well before
00:19:47I was interfered with.
00:19:48Edward,
00:19:49I go tomorrow.
00:19:50Jane Murdstone,
00:19:50be silent.
00:19:59I'm sure I do not
00:20:00want anybody to go.
00:20:02I'm very much obliged
00:20:03to anyone who assists me.
00:20:04Only I do think
00:20:05that I should be consulted.
00:20:06Let there be an end
00:20:07to this.
00:20:08I go tomorrow.
00:20:08Will you be silent?
00:20:12Clara,
00:20:14I took satisfaction
00:20:15when we married
00:20:16and the thought
00:20:17of infusing your character
00:20:18with the firmness
00:20:19it needed.
00:20:20Jane Murdstone
00:20:21is good enough
00:20:22to help me
00:20:22in this endeavor
00:20:23and yet now
00:20:23her kindness
00:20:24is met with
00:20:24base ingratitude.
00:20:26Please don't accuse me
00:20:27of that.
00:20:27I have many faults
00:20:28I'm sure
00:20:29but no one has ever
00:20:30accused me of ingratitude.
00:20:32I warn you, Clara.
00:20:34This shabby response
00:20:36chills and alters
00:20:37my feeling for you.
00:20:39Pray don't be cold, Edward.
00:20:41I can't live with coldness.
00:20:43I have so many defects
00:20:44I know
00:20:45and it is very good
00:20:46of you with your strength
00:20:46of mind
00:20:47to try to correct them
00:20:48for me.
00:20:51Jane,
00:20:51I make no objection
00:20:52to anything.
00:20:56Let us hear
00:20:57no more of it.
00:21:01David,
00:21:03go to bed.
00:21:24I observe you have
00:21:26an attachment
00:21:26to low and common
00:21:27company, David.
00:21:28You are not
00:21:29to associate
00:21:30with servants.
00:21:31Mistress Peggy
00:21:32will not help you
00:21:33in the many respects
00:21:34in which you need
00:21:35improvement.
00:21:44Have you learned
00:21:45your lessons daily?
00:21:45I think so, Mama.
00:21:47I fear the Greeks
00:21:49even when they
00:21:50bring gifts.
00:21:54Timio
00:21:54Danaos
00:21:56et
00:21:58et
00:22:03well?
00:22:05Timio
00:22:14Danaos
00:22:15lessons
00:22:16or he does
00:22:16not know them.
00:22:17He does
00:22:17not know them.
00:22:18Then give him
00:22:18his book back
00:22:19and send him
00:22:19away until he does.
00:22:47He does.
00:22:50I tell you, Clara, I've often been flogged myself, it didn't be no harm.
00:22:55To be sure, of course not.
00:22:58No, David, you must be more careful today.
00:23:10Suppose I go into a cheesemonger's shop and buy 5,000 double Gloucester cheeses at fourpence halfpenny each.
00:23:17How much do I spend?
00:23:20Come, you know arithmetic, don't you?
00:23:22Yes, sir.
00:23:25You see how your laziness grieves your mother?
00:23:28No, no, only I think I'm not quite well, my dear Edward.
00:23:34Come, David. Your answer, please.
00:23:45How much do I spend?
00:23:54You won't defy me no more, sir! You will learn!
00:23:57Please don't hurt me, Mr. Mudstone! I've tried to learn!
00:24:02Please don't help me, Mr. Mudstone!
00:24:04Keep still!
00:24:05Ah!
00:24:06Ah!
00:24:07Ah!
00:24:08Ah!
00:24:21Ah!
00:24:23Ah!
00:24:24Ah!
00:24:25Ah!
00:24:27Ah!
00:24:28Ah!
00:24:31Ah!
00:24:31Ah!
00:24:32Ah!
00:24:33Ah!
00:24:33Ah!
00:25:02THE END
00:25:14I was left alone for seven days and nights. I believe I might have gone mad, but for the small
00:25:22collection of books my father had left me.
00:25:25In their pages at least, I was freed from the prison and in my solitude I grew to love their
00:25:32characters as I loved those nearest and dearest to me.
00:25:49Davey? Davey?
00:25:52Peckety?
00:25:53Oh Peckety!
00:25:56Hush now dear. Be as quiet as a mouse as the cats will hear us.
00:26:02What is to become of me Peckety?
00:26:05School. Near London.
00:26:07When?
00:26:09Tomorrow.
00:26:12Listen to me my darling boy. Don't lose heart and never forget how much your Peckety loves you.
00:26:21Is Mama very angry with me Peckety?
00:26:28No. No, not very.
00:26:31ChantƩ see her?
00:26:32Tomorrow. I'll take care of your Mama Davey dear, I promise. I won't leave at night ever.
00:26:42As long as Clara Peckety draws breath, you and your Mama will always have a friend in this world.
00:26:50Don't cry, Peckety.
00:26:52I ain't cryin'.
00:26:55I ain't cryin'.
00:26:56I ain't cryin'.
00:26:59I ain't cryin'.
00:26:59Your Mama gave me these things, honey.
00:27:11Goodbye, my darling boy.
00:27:17Goodbye.
00:27:19Goodbye.
00:27:19Goodbye.
00:27:19I've been looking for now!
00:27:30Come on then!
00:27:36Please, Mama, they're too cramped!
00:27:38Nonsense!
00:27:39If you didn't fidget so much, there'd be plenty of room.
00:27:44Come on!
00:27:45I can't hear you!
00:27:54Foul, madam.
00:28:21Excuse me, sir. Where are the other boys?
00:28:23There ain't no other boys for a month.
00:28:25You're sent early as a punishment.
00:28:34This is the young gentleman whose teeth are to be filed.
00:28:37This is the boy.
00:28:47I have the happiness of knowing Mr. Murdstone.
00:28:50He knows me and I know him.
00:28:53Do you know me, sir?
00:28:56Not yet, sir.
00:28:57Not yet, but you will soon.
00:28:59You will soon!
00:29:01I'll tell you what I am.
00:29:03I'm a tartar.
00:29:05What am I?
00:29:06A tartar, sir.
00:29:07When I say I'll do a thing, I'll do it.
00:29:09And when I say I'll have a thing done, I will have it done.
00:29:13He will have it done!
00:29:16What do you think of this?
00:29:19Young snapper.
00:29:21Is there a dog, sir?
00:29:23A dog?
00:29:24It's not a dog!
00:29:27It's a boy!
00:29:28A boy!
00:29:30You say this bitch conspicuous or you'll catch it all right?
00:29:34I don't take kindly to bite us!
00:29:39Now you begin to know me, my young friend.
00:29:42You may go.
00:30:09You may go.
00:30:18Leave him alone!
00:30:21Leave him alone!
00:30:23Leave him alone!
00:30:25How did this come about?
00:30:27I bit my stepfather, sir.
00:30:29I think it's a damn shame.
00:30:38Now, boys, this is new term.
00:30:40New term!
00:30:42Come fresh up to your studying, I advise you,
00:30:45while I come fresh up to the punishment.
00:30:52This boy prefers biting to studying.
00:30:56What shall I do with it?
00:31:00No answer?
00:31:02Then I'll show you.
00:31:04Put your hands up, I can't feel it.
00:31:06Hands out!
00:31:08So you like biting, do you?
00:31:11How do you like this for a tooth?
00:31:16Is it a sharp tooth?
00:31:19Is it my teeth?
00:31:24Is it cut?
00:31:43It stings a bit, don't it?
00:31:44A bit.
00:31:45You'll survive.
00:31:47I don't think so, sir.
00:31:48You're as fresh as a daisy, aren't you?
00:31:50My name is Steerforth, by the way.
00:31:51There's no need to sir me.
00:31:54What money have you got, Daisy?
00:31:56About seven shillings, sir.
00:31:58I mean, Steerforth.
00:31:59You'd better give it to me to take care of.
00:32:01At least you can, if you like.
00:32:07Do you want to spend anything now?
00:32:09No, thank you.
00:32:10What about a feast?
00:32:11A bottle of currant wine?
00:32:12A few cakes?
00:32:13If you think of he's the best idea, Steerforth.
00:32:17I thought I had never met anyone so noble and generous as Steerforth.
00:32:21I was bound to him ever afterwards for the kindness he showed me things.
00:32:26Your health, Copperfield.
00:32:27Copperfield!
00:32:44Future imperative.
00:32:46Future imperative.
00:32:48Let them be about to be unwilling.
00:32:54Visitors for Copperfield!
00:33:00Davy boy!
00:33:02Your Peggy heard we were sailing up to Gravesend and said most particularly we were coming and
00:33:06inquired for Master Davy.
00:33:07She said to tell you specially that your mama sends you her deepest love.
00:33:11Those were the exact words.
00:33:13Deepest love.
00:33:14Is my mama well, Mr Peggy?
00:33:15Pretty well, I believe.
00:33:17If my mama is still angry, tell her I'm truly sorry I hurt her.
00:33:22Your mama ain't angry, Davy boy.
00:33:24And there ain't nothing to forgive.
00:33:26Steerforth!
00:33:26Here's Mr Peggy and Ham come up from Yama.
00:33:29I am glad to see you.
00:33:30How are you?
00:33:32You must let them know at home that Steerforth is very kind to me.
00:33:35I'll tell them all right.
00:33:37It'll do them a world of good hair, eh?
00:33:39Goodbye.
00:33:47The rest of that long, tedious half year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife
00:33:53and struggle of our lives.
00:33:57I had countless nightmares that the Murdstons would keep me at school for the holidays, but
00:34:03finally I learned I was sent for, and it was time at last to go home.
00:34:21Anyway, still here in one minute you will be thrashed!
00:34:26Threshed!
00:34:39I gave you a message to Peggity, Mr Barkas.
00:34:43Nothing came of it. No answer.
00:34:46Was there an answer expected?
00:34:48When a man says he's willing, there's as much to say as waiting for an answer.
00:34:52Have you told her so, Mr Barkas?
00:34:55Would you like me to do it?
00:34:58What's the name? Christian name or me?
00:35:02Clara. Her Christian name is Clara.
00:35:11You tell Clara Peggity, Barkas is waiting for his answer.
00:35:23I'll be sleeping now, so close your eyes and eyes.
00:35:34Angels keep their watch on you, my darling.
00:35:45Davy. My own boy.
00:35:50It's your brother.
00:35:55Let's see, Troutwood wouldn't be pleased to see another little boy.
00:35:59What can you put that peculiar person in your head?
00:36:02Anyone might think you wanted a second visit from her.
00:36:05Lord forbid.
00:36:07Peggity, Barkas asked me especially to tell you that he was waiting for your answer.
00:36:13What isn't it?
00:36:15Oh, crap, the man.
00:36:17He wants to marry me.
00:36:20Well, it would be a good match for you, wouldn't it?
00:36:22I don't know.
00:36:23Don't ask me.
00:36:24He's never said a word to me about it himself.
00:36:34Stay with me, Peggity.
00:36:37It will not be for long, perhaps.
00:36:41Me?
00:36:42Leave you?
00:36:44Not for all the world.
00:36:47Though it would make someone happy if I were to do it.
00:36:50How unkind you are.
00:36:52Don't be so hard on Miss Madston.
00:36:53You know she only does things out of the best intentions.
00:36:58Don't let us fall out, Peggity.
00:37:01I couldn't bear it.
00:37:03Or my true friend if I have any in this world.
00:37:14Do you see?
00:37:16He's got it.
00:37:17He's got the baby.
00:37:22Davy.
00:37:23Go on.
00:37:27I beg your pardon, sir.
00:37:29I'm very sorry for what I did, and I hope you will forgive me.
00:37:33I forgive you, David.
00:37:36Whether there is forgiveness in a higher place, I cannot say.
00:37:42The holidays lagged away.
00:37:45What a blank space, I seemed.
00:37:48Sit up straight.
00:37:48Which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's way.
00:37:54Elbows.
00:37:56The manners of this boy.
00:38:04Davy.
00:38:06Davy.
00:38:06Wait.
00:38:07Davy.
00:38:09Go.
00:38:12Let me look at you once more.
00:38:17Go on now.
00:38:18After all, we shall see each other before long, shall we?
00:38:28So I lost her.
00:38:31So I saw her afterwards in my sleep.
00:38:34A silent presence near my bed, looking at me with the same intent face, holding up her baby in her
00:38:43arms.
00:39:02Copperfield is to report to Mr. Creakle.
00:39:27I have something to tell you.
00:39:41You are too young to know how the world changes every day, and how the people in it pass away.
00:39:54But we all have to learn it eventually.
00:40:05When you left home to Calvary, was everyone well?
00:40:12Was your mother well?
00:40:15Was she?
00:40:17Was she well?
00:40:19Yes, sir.
00:40:22Because it, um, grieves me to tell you the day this morning that your mother is very ill.
00:40:30She's very dangerously ill.
00:40:37In fact, she's dead.
00:40:48She was never well for a long time.
00:40:54She sank a little every day.
00:40:57Until she knew she was dying and a little boy too.
00:41:03On the last night, she kissed me and said,
00:41:09Let them lay my baby in my arms and bury us together.
00:41:18The sun was rising when she turned and said,
00:41:25Peggy,
00:41:27Put me nearer to you, for your face seems far off.
00:41:33And I put my earl under her head to hold her up.
00:41:41And she smiled then.
00:41:45Closed her eyes.
00:41:50And never woke again.
00:41:56You must be measured for morning clothes.
00:41:58Yes, ma'am.
00:41:59Have you brought your shirts home?
00:42:01Yes, ma'am.
00:42:01I brought all my clothes home.
00:42:04Your services are no longer required, Mistress Peggy.
00:42:08You may take a month's warning.
00:42:38I'll be back to you.
00:42:44Don't drag your feet, David.
00:42:45You will walk with me.
00:42:49Family only.
00:43:24You should be dead, not them.
00:43:28Why didn't he take you instead?
00:43:36With Pegatty's imminent departure, there would be no one in the house to love me anymore.
00:43:42But for her sake, when the day came, I did the best I could to hide my loneliness and fear.
00:43:48What should you think, if I were to get married?
00:43:51To Mr. Barker's, Pegatty.
00:43:53Yes.
00:43:54I should think it a very good thing, for then you would always have the horse and cart to bring
00:43:58you over to see me.
00:43:59You could come for nothing.
00:44:01The sense of the deer.
00:44:03What name did I write up in the cart?
00:44:06Clara Pegatty.
00:44:07And what name would it be, as I should write it up the next time?
00:44:11Clara Pegatty again?
00:44:13Clara Pegatty Barkis!
00:44:30David.
00:44:33This is a world for action, not for moping and droning in.
00:44:37As you do.
00:44:38Jane Mertz, then leave it to me, if you please.
00:44:41I say, David, this is a world for action, especially so for a young boy of your disposition, which requires
00:44:48a good deal of correcting.
00:44:49Stubbornness won't do.
00:44:51Stubbornness must be crushed, and crushed it shall be.
00:44:54Education is costly, and even if it were not, and I could afford it, I am of the opinion that
00:44:59it would not be at all advantageous to you to be kept in school.
00:45:04What is before you is a fight with the world, and the sooner you begin it, the better.
00:45:10You are going to London, David, to begin life on your own account.
00:45:17We'll have six shillings a week, right in the seven, if you prove yourself useful.
00:45:22Rick here, I'll show you the ropes.
00:45:24Quietly ungendered, ain't ya?
00:45:26We'll have none of your ears round here, or I'll throw you down in the cellar with the rats.
00:45:54You have to be quicker than that, little gent.
00:45:58You have to be quicker than that, little gent.
00:46:18Copperfield?
00:46:23Do I have the honour of addressing the bearer of the name of Copperfield?
00:46:27Yes, sir.
00:46:29Wilkins McCauver.
00:46:31At your service.
00:46:37I hope I see you well.
00:46:39Your esteemed stepfather, a man of business like myself,
00:46:42has charged me with the honour of providing you with tutable quarters while in town.
00:46:47You mean I am to stay with you, sir?
00:46:49In short, yes.
00:46:54Under the impression that your peregrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive,
00:46:59and that you might have difficulty penetrating the mysteries of the modern Babylon
00:47:03in the direction of the city road,
00:47:06I place myself at your disposal.
00:47:09In short, in case you get lost,
00:47:12I've come to take you home.
00:47:15Would you care to join me?
00:47:23We found the city!
00:47:25Come on.
00:47:27Let's help.
00:47:32Oh!
00:47:38Let's help.liav
00:47:40live! In short,
00:47:47yeah. Let's help.
00:48:01Come on, open up the coppers!
00:48:07Pay me now!
00:48:09I'll keep coming back until you pay me!
00:48:12You swindling old...
00:48:24I'll be back!
00:48:39Here's young Copperfield, my dear. Come to share our familial habitation.
00:48:44You're very welcome, Mr Copperfield.
00:48:47Though when I was living at home with my late mama and papa,
00:48:51I never thought the day would come when I should have to take in a lodger.
00:48:54All considerations of private feelings must give way in times of pecuniary embarrassment.
00:49:00At least until something turns up.
00:49:13Mr Copperfield's difficulties are almost overwhelming at present.
00:49:18Whether it's possible to bring him through them, I don't know.
00:49:22But I never shall desert him.
00:49:28Open up, Macawber!
00:49:30Stand aside and let me do it!
00:49:33I can stand it no longer!
00:49:35My penitent will not relent!
00:49:37It is inhuman!
00:49:38Let me do the fatal deed and forget the wretch once known as Wilkins Macawber ever lived.
00:49:47Are you okay with himself? I know it! The father of my children!
00:49:54I think it is only a scratch, Mrs Macawber.
00:49:57Has he gone?
00:50:00Not dead!
00:50:02My darling!
00:50:03I'll be back!
00:50:05He's gone!
00:50:09Come O'Neil, my brush with mortality makes me hungry.
00:50:14A bag of muffins, if you please.
00:50:16And pray, join us for a modest repast.
00:50:25What shall I do with these, Mr Macawber?
00:50:28Negotiate, my dear Copperfield.
00:50:31Negotiate.
00:50:35There's not much call for this type of thing.
00:50:37I am to ask five shillings for them.
00:50:39Five shilling?
00:50:40I'd be robbing me own family if I was to offer two.
00:50:47It ain't plate, is it?
00:50:48The best, sir.
00:50:49Silver.
00:50:50I'll give you three and six.
00:50:53I can't go lower than four shillings.
00:50:56We're trade!
00:50:58Are you a sporting man?
00:51:03Musical!
00:51:04Stand firm, Copperfield.
00:51:13I'll put myself in the broad house if I go on like this.
00:51:16All right, four shillings then.
00:51:32Ah!
00:51:34My dear young Copperfield,
00:51:36until something turns up, which I am, I may say, hourly expecting,
00:51:41I have nothing to bestow on you but advice.
00:51:44And my advice is never do tomorrow what you can do today.
00:51:50Procrastination is the thief of time.
00:51:53Colleen!
00:51:59I do not deny that at times,
00:52:01Macawber has kept me in the dark as to his liabilities.
00:52:04But I never will desert him.
00:52:07No, I never will do it.
00:52:08It's no use asking me.
00:52:09I'm not Mrs Macawber.
00:52:11He is the father of my children,
00:52:14the husband of my affections,
00:52:15and I never will desert Mr Macawber.
00:52:19What's the matter?
00:52:20I never will desert you, Macawber.
00:52:22My life, I'm perfectly aware of it.
00:52:25Be calm, Emma.
00:52:27Be calm.
00:52:34I propose a toast.
00:52:37A brown new guest.
00:52:40Copperfield, you have shown a precocious grasp of commerce.
00:52:45And I am convinced, under my tuition, of course,
00:52:49that you will, in short, go far.
00:52:53To Copperfield.
00:52:54Not just a lodger.
00:52:57A friend.
00:53:07As the long, tedious days in the factory passed,
00:53:11no words could express the agony of my soul.
00:53:15My father's books had inspired me with the ambition to write stories of my own one day.
00:53:21But now, I felt that all my dreams had been crushed.
00:53:26The Macawber's friendship was my only respite.
00:53:29But even that was soon brought to an end by their increasing misfortunes.
00:53:34Something will turn up.
00:53:37I'm quite certain of it.
00:53:50Where are you taking him?
00:53:52King's bench prison.
00:53:53And he'll stay there until he pays his debts.
00:53:56But how can he pay his creditors when he's locked up and can't earn anything?
00:54:00The sun is setting.
00:54:02I shall not live to see another dawn.
00:54:04Think kindly of me.
00:54:05I never will deserve you, Macawber.
00:54:08You will not be overcome.
00:54:11Don't worry.
00:54:12I'll look after them.
00:54:13God bless you, Copperfield.
00:54:20I resolved to visit Mr. Macawber as soon as I could.
00:54:24My heart raced as I approached the gate of the infamous King's bench for the first time.
00:54:33I think I expected to find Mr. Macawber clapped in irons in some dreadful dungeon.
00:54:40The shabby reality of a debtor's prison was rather different, though no less terrible in its own way.
00:54:59Let the fate of this miserable rat you see before you be a warning, Copperfield.
00:55:04Result.
00:55:05Annual income, twenty pounds.
00:55:08Annual expenditure, nineteen, nineteen and six.
00:55:12Result.
00:55:13Happiness.
00:55:15Annual income, twenty pounds.
00:55:18Annual expenditure, twenty pounds, nothing and six.
00:55:23Result.
00:55:24Misery.
00:55:25The blossom is blighted.
00:55:27The leaf is withered.
00:55:29You are, in short, flattened.
00:55:47Months passed with no sign of a release for Mr. Macawber.
00:55:51I went to the prison every day and did what I could for him and his family.
00:55:55But I had barely enough to feed myself.
00:56:03I thought you might be hungry.
00:56:18You have no close family of your own, Copperfield?
00:56:23Beyond Mr. Murdstone, I mean?
00:56:25Mr. Murdstone hates me.
00:56:27I have no one else.
00:56:29Well, there is an aunt who lives in Dover.
00:56:32She hasn't seen me since I was a baby.
00:56:34And I don't think she'd want to meet me now.
00:56:37My advice is seek her out.
00:56:41She may be overjoyed to reacquaint herself with you.
00:56:44Wilkins! Wilkins!
00:56:45My dear.
00:56:46Our debts are settled!
00:56:47You are a free man again!
00:56:51I knew it.
00:56:53The Lord Chancellor has finally acknowledged a grave miscarriage of justice.
00:56:56I wrote to him personally, you understand.
00:56:58My family have at last remembered their obligations.
00:57:01Not in short before time.
00:57:03They are of the opinion that Mr. Macawber should quit London
00:57:05and exert his talents in our hometown of Plymouth.
00:57:17I shall never think of our period of difficulty without remembering you.
00:57:25Bless you.
00:57:29I never will forget you.
00:57:34Farewell, my young friend. Farewell.
00:57:44Remember Copperfield, annual income, twenty pounds.
00:57:48Annual expenditure, twenty pounds, nothing and six.
00:57:52Result? Misery!
00:58:02With my friends now gone, I understood that my fate lay in my own hands.
00:58:08And a great resolution began to form within me.
00:58:11I had decided to run away.
00:58:14I would go into the country to try and find the only relation I had in the world.
00:58:19My aunt, Betsy Trotwood.
00:58:25Fifteen shilling.
00:58:26I must have a sovereign for the coach to do over.
00:58:29I'll throw in these valuable items out of the carnage of my heart.
00:58:39They must be worth another ten shillings at least.
00:58:45Five.
00:58:47Five.
00:58:52Done.
00:59:03Excuse me, sir.
00:59:06Why can we take this to the coach station for six minutes?
00:59:15Give me my money back.
00:59:17Let go of me, boy.
00:59:18Oh, by God, I'll rip your young body open.
00:59:22Stop, Nate!
00:59:23Get out of the way!
00:59:25Stop!
00:59:25Get out of the way!
00:59:26Stop!
00:59:28Get out of the way!
00:59:28Stop!
00:59:29Get out of the way!
00:59:29Get out of the way!
00:59:38With nothing left in the world, I now had no choice but to continue my journey to Dover on foot.
00:59:46Get out of the way!
00:59:51Get out of the way!
00:59:55Get out of the way!
00:59:59Get out of the way!
01:00:02Get out of the way!
01:00:08Get out of the way!
01:00:09Get out of the way!
01:00:09Get out of the way!
01:00:09Get out of the way!
01:00:09Get out of the way!
01:00:09Get out of the way!
01:00:13Get out of the way!
01:00:14I don't know.
01:00:56Pardon me, sir, but do you know where Miss Betsy Brotswood lives?
01:01:27Go away!
01:01:29Go along, go along.
01:01:30No boys here.
01:01:31Go along.
01:01:56If you please, Mum.
01:01:59If you please, Aunt, I am your nephew, David Copperfield.
01:02:05Oh!
01:02:06I've been very unhappy since Mama died.
01:02:09And my stepfather hates me.
01:02:11And he made me work in a horrible place.
01:02:13No.
01:02:14Janet!
01:02:15Janet!
01:02:16Oh, mercy.
01:02:18Janet.
01:02:19Oh, mercy.
01:02:20Oh, mercy.
01:02:21Oh, Mr. Dick, you've heard me mention David Copperfield.
01:02:26David Copperfield.
01:02:27David Copperfield.
01:02:27David Copperfield.
01:02:28Oh, yes, certainly.
01:02:29David.
01:02:30You're cheating.
01:02:30Well, this is his boy.
01:02:32His son.
01:02:34He would be as like his father as it is possible to be if he were not so like his
01:02:37mother, too.
01:02:39He's run away.
01:02:40Run away?
01:02:41His sister Betsy Trotwood never would have run away.
01:02:44I haven't got a sister.
01:02:45I know that, of course.
01:02:46You came in her place.
01:02:47If she'd been born, none of this would have happened.
01:02:50You think not?
01:02:51Well, of course not.
01:02:52No.
01:02:52She would have lived with her godmother.
01:02:54We would have been devoted to each other.
01:02:56Oh, Mr. Dick.
01:02:57Don't stand there as though you were wool-gathering.
01:02:59Nobody has the brains you have when you choose to use them.
01:03:02Now, here you see young David Copperfield.
01:03:05And the question I put to you is, what shall I do with him?
01:03:09Here, come now.
01:03:10I want some very sound advice.
01:03:12Do with him.
01:03:13What shall you do with him?
01:03:18Why, um...
01:03:19If I were you, I should, I should, um...
01:03:22If I were you, I should wash him.
01:03:25Yes, it Mr. Dick sets us all right.
01:03:27I'll heat the water, Mum.
01:03:29Janet!
01:03:30Donk it!
01:03:31Donk it!
01:03:34Donk it!
01:03:36Get off the screen at once.
01:03:38Turn low.
01:03:39OK.
01:03:39Stop it!
01:03:40Stop it!
01:03:41I'm just kidding.
01:03:43I'm just kidding.
01:03:43I'm just kidding.
01:03:44I'm just kidding.
01:03:45I'm just kidding.
01:03:45No, no, no.
01:03:46No, no!
01:03:48No, no!
01:03:49No, no!
01:03:50No, no!
01:03:50No, no!
01:03:51No, no!
01:03:53No!
01:03:54I will have no donkeys trespassing on my grief!
01:03:58Please, Mum.
01:03:59Oh!
01:04:01Um...
01:04:02Ever possessed your poor unfortunate baby of a mother to marry again?
01:04:06I cannot conceive.
01:04:08Perhaps she fell in love.
01:04:09And what business did she have doing that?
01:04:11Look at what falling in love did for Betsy Trotwood.
01:04:14Are you married then, Aunt?
01:04:16Was.
01:04:18My husband treated me falsely.
01:04:22Ungratefully.
01:04:23And cruelly.
01:04:25That's what men do, as far as I can see.
01:04:29Mine nearly broke my fortune.
01:04:31And closed my heart for good.
01:04:34He died in India, you know.
01:04:36Troubled by an elephant.
01:04:39Mr. Dick.
01:04:41Would you please go and find this boy some kids?
01:04:47Wash your face.
01:04:50Ugh!
01:04:51Where have you been, Bob?
01:04:54Ugh!
01:05:06Now...
01:05:06We must consider what is to be done with you, David Copperfield.
01:05:11I shall have to write to your stepfather.
01:05:14Will I be given up to him, Aunt?
01:05:16I don't know anything about that.
01:05:18Perhaps.
01:05:19We shall see.
01:05:23You have committed a very reckless act.
01:05:26Running away is a serious business, you know.
01:05:31What did you mean, better coming?
01:05:35Here.
01:05:53Poor little fellow.
01:05:59The End
01:05:59The End
01:06:01The End
01:06:13The End
01:06:14The End
01:06:14The End
01:06:14The End
01:06:15Ha!
01:06:17Phoebus!
01:06:18How does the world go?
01:06:19Come.
01:06:19Sit.
01:06:20Here.
01:06:21How did you sleep?
01:06:23Were you comfortable?
01:06:24Ha!
01:06:25Don't mention this to anyone, but...
01:06:29It's a mad world.
01:06:31Ha!
01:06:31As mad as Bedlam.
01:06:38What are you writing, Mr. Dick?
01:06:41It's my life story.
01:06:43My memorial.
01:06:45But the problem is...
01:06:46That King Charles I keeps on trying to make his way in there.
01:06:51It's very unreasonable.
01:06:53Do you recollect the date that he had his head, Carter?
01:06:57I believe it was 1649, sir.
01:07:01So will the books say, but I don't see how it can.
01:07:04I mean, if it was so long ago.
01:07:06How could the people have made the mistake of putting some of the trouble out of his head after it
01:07:13had been taken off and into mine?
01:07:15Mine!
01:07:16Ah!
01:07:39How long has Mr. Dick been writing his memorial, Aunt?
01:07:42Oh!
01:07:43Ten years.
01:07:44Or more.
01:07:45But that don't signify.
01:07:46It keeps him employed.
01:07:49Well.
01:07:51What do you think of him?
01:07:53Oh, come.
01:07:54Your sister, Betsy Trotwood, wouldn't hesitate.
01:07:57Be as like her as you can.
01:07:58Come on, speak out.
01:08:00Is he...
01:08:02Is he...
01:08:03Is he at all out of his mind?
01:08:05Not a morsel.
01:08:07If there's one thing Mr. Dick is not, it is mad.
01:08:10He's been called mad by his family, who would have shut him away in an asylum had I not intervened.
01:08:17Mr. Dick is the most friendly and amenable creature in existence.
01:08:22I rely on his judgment in all important matters.
01:08:26We, after the virus.
01:08:36Well done!
01:08:38Come on!
01:08:40We, after the virus.
01:08:45Before long Mr. Murdston replied to my aunt's letter, informing her that he was coming to speak to her himself
01:08:52the following day.
01:08:58Janet! Janet! Donkeys! Janet, donkeys! Donkeys! Go along with you! How dare you trespass! Go along, you bold-faced thing!
01:09:11Aunt, it is Miss Mudstone.
01:09:12I don't care who it is. I will not be trespassed upon. Lead him off, Janet! Go along with you!
01:09:19Go away!
01:09:19Lead him off, Janet!
01:09:20Go away!
01:09:23I don't allow anybody to ride over this turf. I make no exceptions.
01:09:30Your regulation is rather awkward to strangers.
01:09:35This boy, you should know, Miss Trotwood, has a sullen, rebellious spirit, a violent temper, and an intractable disposition.
01:09:45Of all the boys in the world, this is the worst boy.
01:09:50Strong, Miss Mudstone.
01:09:51But not at all too strong for the situation.
01:09:54Indeed.
01:09:57Well, sir?
01:09:58I placed this boy in a respectable business. He ran away from it.
01:10:02But the facts, I propose, speak for themselves.
01:10:06About this respectable business. A blacking factory, I believe. If he had been your own boy, you would have put
01:10:12him to it just the same, I suppose.
01:10:15I have my own opinions as to the best mode of bringing up this particular boy. I act on them.
01:10:21And I say no more about them.
01:10:23I see. What else do you have to say?
01:10:25Merely this. I have come to take my stepson back. I will deal with him as I think right and
01:10:31dispose of him as I think proper.
01:10:34If you seek to impede me in any way, if you step between us now, you do so forever.
01:10:42What does the boy say? Are you ready to go, David?
01:10:45Please don't make me leave your aunt. They made my mama very unhappy and they never cared for me. I
01:10:51want to stay here with you and Mr. Dick.
01:10:54Mr. Dick, what shall I do with this child?
01:11:01I'd have him measured for a suit of clothes directly.
01:11:04Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.
01:11:14I'll take my chance with the boy. If he is all you say he is, I can at least do
01:11:20as much for him as you have done.
01:11:22But I don't believe a word of it.
01:11:25Miss Trotwood, if you were a gentleman...
01:11:27Stuff and nonsense, don't talk to me. How exquisitely polite. Overpowering, really.
01:11:32Do you think I don't know what kind of life you had this child's mother?
01:11:35It was a woeful day when you first appeared smirking, making great eyes at her, as though you wouldn't say
01:11:41boo to a goose.
01:11:42I've never heard anything so elegant.
01:11:43And when you'd made quite sure of the poor little thing, you began to train her and break her, like
01:11:48a caged bird, wearing her life away and teaching her to sing your notes.
01:11:52It's either insanity or intoxication.
01:11:54You broke her heart, then punished the boy because of your own guilt.
01:12:00There's the truth for your comfort, and you and your instrument may make the most of it.
01:12:05May I inquire whom you're referring to as an instrument?
01:12:08Good day, sir. And goodbye.
01:12:15Good day to you, too, Mum. Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and I'll knock
01:12:22your bonnet off.
01:12:23And tread upon it!
01:12:29Oh, Mr. Dick, you'll consider yourself joint guardian with me of this boy.
01:12:35I'd be delighted.
01:12:36I think perhaps you'd take the name Trotwood.
01:12:40Trotwood Copperfield, eh?
01:12:41Trotwood Copperfield.
01:12:43Trotwood Copperfield.
01:12:45Oh, why not?
01:12:46Trotwood Copperfield.
01:12:48Hurrah!
01:13:11My aunt now proposed I should resume my education, and I happily agreed.
01:13:17You'll be the smartest boy in the school.
01:13:19You will, Mr. Dick.
01:13:21My new school was in Canterbury, and it was, she promised me, a somewhat more amiable and scholarly place than
01:13:28Mr. Creakle's academy.
01:13:37I was to board in the house of my aunt's lawyer and agent for business, her old and trusted friend,
01:13:43Mr. Whitfield.
01:14:02Is Mr. Whitfield at home, you're right, heep?
01:14:05He is expecting you, Miss Trotwood.
01:14:08If you're pleased to walk in.
01:14:09Trotwood Copperfield.
01:14:35Trot!
01:14:54I am most grateful to you, Wigfield.
01:15:00I'm sure my nephew will be very happy here.
01:15:05Now, Trot, I must go if I'm to be home before dark.
01:15:10Never be mean in anything.
01:15:14Never be false.
01:15:16Never be cruel.
01:15:19Avoid those three vices, and I can always be hopeful of you.
01:15:28There's just a little dust in my eyes.
01:15:30Nothing.
01:15:34Come and meet my little housekeeper, Trotwood.
01:15:41Trotwood, this is Agnes, my daughter.
01:15:45She looks after me in every way.
01:15:48She will show you to your room.
01:15:55You see, we lead a pretty quiet life here, Trotwood.
01:15:59Quiet and dull, I'm afraid.
01:16:02A lot more dull for me than Agnes, sir.
01:16:04Than Agnes?
01:16:08Is it dull for you, Agnes?
01:16:11Of course not, Papa.
01:16:12She must stay where I can keep her safe.
01:16:16I lost her mother.
01:16:17I lost her too young.
01:16:19You are tired, Papa.
01:16:21Yes.
01:16:23Yes?
01:16:24I should go to bed now.
01:16:28You are company for us both, Trotwood.
01:16:31It is wholesome to have you here.
01:16:44I hope you are settling in well, Master Copperfield.
01:16:53Yes, thank you, Mr. Heap.
01:16:54Oh, I should be honoured if you would call me Uriah.
01:17:14I suppose you are quite a great lawyer.
01:17:16Me, Master Copperfield, I'll know.
01:17:18I'm Millie Clark at present.
01:17:22I'm well aware that I am the umblest person going.
01:17:26My mother is likewise a very humble person.
01:17:30And my father's former calling was humble.
01:17:33He was a gravedigger.
01:17:35And what is he now?
01:17:38He's partaking of glory at present.
01:17:41But still, I have much to be grateful for
01:17:44in Mr. Wickfield's kind offer of giving me articles
01:17:47that would otherwise not lay within the humble means
01:17:49of mother and myself.
01:17:50Perhaps you'll be a partner in Mr. Wickfield's business
01:17:53one day, Uriah.
01:17:54Oh, no, Master Copperfield.
01:17:56Ambition ain't for me.
01:17:58A person like myself had better not aspire.
01:18:03If he is to get on in life,
01:18:05he must get on humbly.
01:18:09I must go home.
01:18:10Mother will be getting uneasy.
01:18:12For though we are so very humble,
01:18:14we are much attached to one another.
01:18:29I suppose you'll be stopping here sometime,
01:18:32Master Copperfield.
01:18:33I have to stay here as long as I'm at school.
01:18:36Indeed.
01:18:37Then I should think that you
01:18:38would come into the business at last.
01:18:40What I should most like to do
01:18:42is write stories one day.
01:18:43The most worthy ambition.
01:18:48I bid you good evening, Master Copperfield.
01:18:59My new school was an excellent place,
01:19:02as different from Mr. Creakle's
01:19:04as good from evil.
01:19:06Before long,
01:19:08the blacking factory life
01:19:09became so strange to me
01:19:10that I began to believe
01:19:12it had never happened.
01:19:24Time steals on, unobserved.
01:19:27The years glide by silently,
01:19:30and I move from childhood to youth.
01:19:40The boy I was seems no part of me now.
01:19:44I remember him as something
01:19:46left behind upon the road of life.
01:19:55I must go and pack.
01:19:57I leave at first light.
01:19:59Trotwood.
01:20:01I have already done it for you.
01:20:08Mr. Wickfield,
01:20:09there is a matter that demands your attention.
01:20:12What?
01:20:17Oh, Uriah.
01:20:18Yes, of course.
01:20:25Do you not concern yourself?
01:20:27I will look after him.
01:20:30As you have always done.
01:20:34Dear Agnes.
01:20:36As dear to me as my own sister.
01:20:50School day is now over.
01:20:53The time had come
01:20:53to find my place in the world.
01:20:59But it was with a lingering sense
01:21:01of unease
01:21:02that I left my childhood home.
01:21:06Walker!
01:21:07Walker!
01:21:17I had never lost my dream
01:21:18of being a writer,
01:21:20but I could hardly ask my aunt
01:21:21to support me
01:21:22in such a precarious ambition.
01:21:24So when she asked me
01:21:26if I should like to be
01:21:27articled as a clerk
01:21:28in a proctor's office,
01:21:29I agreed readily enough.
01:21:32Is something wrong, aunt?
01:21:34A cold feeling
01:21:35just came over,
01:21:36me trot.
01:21:37It was a donkey
01:21:38trespassing on my green.
01:21:39I know it.
01:21:41I should never have left
01:21:42Mr. Dick on his own.
01:21:44His character
01:21:45is not suited
01:21:46to keeping donkeys off.
01:21:52The premium is
01:21:53Ā£1,000.
01:21:54I could wish it
01:21:55to be a smaller amount.
01:21:57A few men
01:21:57are less mercenary
01:21:58than I.
01:21:59But I have partners
01:22:00and they have
01:22:01their opinions
01:22:02on the subject
01:22:03and I'm bound
01:22:04to respect them.
01:22:05They are immovable
01:22:06on the issue.
01:22:07I can't let you
01:22:08spend so much.
01:22:10Trot,
01:22:10you are my adopted son.
01:22:12My one aim
01:22:13is to see you
01:22:14provided for.
01:22:17Good.
01:22:19My position
01:22:19now settled.
01:22:21It only remained
01:22:22to find somewhere
01:22:23to live.
01:22:23It's lucky
01:22:24you called on me
01:22:25this morning,
01:22:25Mrs. Trotgood.
01:22:26Yes, the trot would.
01:22:27I shan't be able
01:22:28to hold on
01:22:29to these rooms
01:22:29another day.
01:22:30My last young gentleman
01:22:32was quite delighted
01:22:33with him.
01:22:34If he'd had any choice
01:22:35he'd never have left.
01:22:38It's rather
01:22:39a steep climb,
01:22:41Mrs. Crotwood.
01:22:42Perhaps so,
01:22:43Mrs. Crotwood.
01:22:49But consider
01:22:50the benefits
01:22:51of the purity
01:22:52of the air
01:22:53so near the top
01:22:54of the house.
01:22:59Oh, well,
01:23:00it's near the fire escape.
01:23:01That's something.
01:23:03You won't find
01:23:04a sweeter set of rooms
01:23:05for the young gentleman,
01:23:06I can assure you.
01:23:11Peppermint cordial,
01:23:12all you understand,
01:23:12for my spasms.
01:23:14The furniture
01:23:15is rather faded.
01:23:16Is it the last occupants?
01:23:18It is, Mum.
01:23:19What became of him
01:23:20if he was so fond
01:23:21of the place?
01:23:22He was took ill
01:23:24and...
01:23:24Yes?
01:23:26Well,
01:23:27he died.
01:23:29Good God.
01:23:30What did he die of?
01:23:31Drink and smoke, Mum.
01:23:32Smoke?
01:23:33You don't mean
01:23:34from the chimneys?
01:23:35No, Mum.
01:23:36Cigars and pipes.
01:23:38Ah.
01:23:39That's not catching.
01:23:40I can hear it.
01:23:41Young Mr. Copperfall
01:23:43will be cared for
01:23:44as though he were
01:23:45my own son.
01:23:48Very well, Mrs. Crapp.
01:23:50We'll take the rooms.
01:23:55Your sister,
01:23:56Betsy Trotwood,
01:23:57would have been
01:23:58as hard-working
01:23:59and honest a girl
01:24:00as ever breathed.
01:24:01You'll be worthy
01:24:02of her,
01:24:02won't you, Trot?
01:24:03As long as I am
01:24:04worthy of you.
01:24:05That's enough for me.
01:24:10It was a fine thing
01:24:11to walk about the town
01:24:12with the key of my house
01:24:14in my pocket,
01:24:14coming and going
01:24:15without a word
01:24:16to anyone,
01:24:17and yet I felt
01:24:18a part of me
01:24:19had been left behind
01:24:20in Canterbury.
01:24:23I missed Agnes
01:24:24and found only a blank
01:24:27where her smiling face
01:24:28used to be.
01:24:33Alone in the city,
01:24:34I settled down
01:24:35into a state
01:24:36of equable low spirits.
01:24:38Weeks and months
01:24:39slipped away,
01:24:40and then one day
01:24:41I looked up
01:24:43and everything
01:24:44changed.
01:24:47Ah, Mr Copperfield.
01:24:50This is my daughter,
01:24:51Dora,
01:24:52and her confidential
01:24:52friend,
01:24:53Miss Julia Mills,
01:24:54recently returned
01:24:54from Paris.
01:24:56Miss Spenlow.
01:25:00Have you ever been
01:25:01in Paris,
01:25:01Mr Copperfield?
01:25:03Paris?
01:25:04In France?
01:25:08Um, no, never.
01:25:11I hope you'll go soon.
01:25:12You would like it so much.
01:25:14My daughter's holding
01:25:15a picnic
01:25:16to celebrate her birthday
01:25:17next Saturday,
01:25:18Mr Copperfield.
01:25:19Perhaps you'd care
01:25:20to join us?
01:25:21I would be delighted.
01:25:25Excellent.
01:25:28All was over
01:25:29in a moment.
01:25:30I had fulfilled
01:25:31my destiny.
01:25:32I was a captive
01:25:34and a slave.
01:25:38I loved
01:25:39Dora Spenlow
01:25:40to distraction.
01:25:43I would be
01:26:13I would be
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