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Seeking Persephone - Season 1 - Episode 01: Part 1 EngSub Hot
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00:36Will you put that up, Artemis?
00:38I don't know why we have to do this.
00:41Because we like to eat.
00:43But we only pay pennies.
00:45Pennies that keep our family from dire straits.
00:47I do not enjoy washing the neighbourhood's laundry any more than you do,
00:50but being upset about it won't change our situation.
01:07Open the door, sweetheart.
01:09I have had an atrocious day.
01:11Now I have to open the door.
01:13I'm sorry you have suffered so much.
01:15I fear you will simply have to continue in your wretched state a bit longer.
01:19I will open the door, but do not be surprised if I lie in the floor and die.
01:24I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis,
01:27but above all, I will not be surprised.
01:32She has died for far less than this in the past.
01:34Yes.
02:03Was father wandering again?
02:15Daphne.
02:16Was Daphne, you're home.
02:18Was father wandering again?
02:21Until the letter came.
02:22Then he went back up to his study.
02:24Did he say from the letter was from?
02:26You know father doesn't usually talk to me.
02:29Well, once I cleared the clatter he spread, sorted the laundry and started our meal,
02:34then I very much wish to talk with you about whatever you've learned today.
02:37It's ever so interesting and terribly useful.
02:41Cannot wait.
02:42Thank you, Persephone.
02:44Of course, Daphne.
02:55You did say this might happen.
02:57Yes, I did.
02:58And what has brought you to such a horrible end this time?
03:01My suffering is too great.
03:03No words can possibly describe it.
03:05Is this because I could not buy you a suite from the confectionery shop?
03:08That was tragic.
03:09But not the reason you're expiring on the floor.
03:11I didn't see my friend.
03:13I watched for him.
03:15And he didn't come.
03:16He hasn't ever so long and it's deeply devastating.
03:20Is this the friend I can't see?
03:21The friend you don't see.
03:23Ah.
03:25Do you think your friend would visit you again if we had bread pudding tonight?
03:29Bread pudding?
03:30I have a bit of stale bread and Mrs. Sanford gave me some cream.
03:35I think we should have bread pudding tonight.
03:37It's not even my birthday.
03:38Bread pudding is quite possibly my favourite thing in all the world.
03:43Of course.
03:44If you are dead on the floor, you won't be able to have any.
03:47I'm all better.
03:48It is a miracle.
03:51Thank you, thank you, thank you.
03:54You're very welcome, my darling little Artemis.
04:01How do you like the latest fashions?
04:04These are not the latest.
04:05Mrs. Upton gave me these because she received the most recent version.
04:08But they are very nearly the latest.
04:13That is gorgeous.
04:14Isn't it?
04:15I've added it to my list of dreams.
04:17That must be quite the list by now.
04:19Isn't that what dreaming is for?
04:21Believing in those things you feel you'll never have.
04:23One to continue hoping are possible.
04:25Like having money enough and happiness.
04:29Falling in love.
04:31I want you to have all of those things, Athena.
04:33You must have dreams too.
04:35Certainly, I do.
04:38Artemis's spirits not being dampened by the heaviness of life.
04:41Daphne finding a friend who helps to feel seen and cared about.
04:46Evander and Linus returning home to us whole.
04:50Far from guarantee for two midshipmen in the Navy during all time.
04:54I should have done more to keep them home and safe.
04:56There's nothing more you could have done.
04:58I could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtimes.
05:01I could have gone without fires in my room.
05:03And it likely still would not have been enough.
05:06I suppose that is my version of hoping for impossible things.
05:12None of the hopes that you've mentioned have been of dreams for yourself.
05:16Seeing this family happy is dream enough for me.
05:21Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen.
05:24I do not know how frustrating he might be this time.
05:32Have you received a letter?
05:37We have a very significant problem.
05:41What has happened, Papa?
05:43Evander? Linus?
05:45Oh no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers.
05:48Oh.
05:52I have, however, received the most befuddling letter.
06:02You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage.
06:06A what?
06:07An offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman with an old and prestigious title.
06:24Good heavens.
06:26Yeah.
06:29What I cannot fathom is why the Duke has settled on you.
06:35They cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family.
06:38The Duke?
06:39Of course, dear.
06:41The Duke of Kilda.
06:43The Duke of Kilda has asked for my hand in marriage.
06:47Quite specifically.
06:51I do not believe a word of it.
06:54After all, I do not know his grace.
06:56Or any grace, for that matter.
07:07Mr. Lancaster, I am requesting the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage.
07:13I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters, 20,000 each for their dowries, and
07:2050,000 upon yourself for the sake of your sons.
07:23The ceremony will take place October the 1st at the Fulston Chapel.
07:28Please reply as to your intentions.
07:31Yours.
07:32Et cetera.
07:35Kilda.
07:38It is certainly not the most romantic nor flattering of her proposals, to be sure.
07:42The ceremony will take place.
07:45There is not the slightest acknowledgment that the unforeseen offer might be declined.
07:51This offer amounts to more than a hundred thousand pounds.
08:05What is the Duke of Kilda like?
08:08Like?
08:11Well, I couldn't say.
08:13I have not met the current Duke.
08:15What was his father like?
08:18Huh?
08:20Dull as dish water.
08:25But his mother is an actor, so.
08:44One hundred thousand pounds?
08:47I can hardly comprehend such a sound.
08:51It is more than five hundred years worth, our current income.
08:55It is more than five times the income of the Duke of Sussex, and he is son of the king.
09:00Good heavens.
09:01We would have food enough to eat.
09:03We would not need to wash laundry for pennies.
09:07The boys could soon leave the navy and return home.
09:11All of your impossible dreams would suddenly be entirely possible.
09:15This would not merely save our family.
09:17It would save generations of our family.
09:20The Duke of Kilda might be prone to anger or unkindness.
09:25What if he mistreats you?
09:26What if being married to him makes you miserable for the rest of your life?
09:29It is also possible he will be kind and considerate.
09:33You don't know anything about him?
09:36Only that he clearly has a tremendous amount of money and wishes to marry me.
09:40He gave no indication why.
09:42You needn't simply accept this offer.
09:44One may yet come from someone that you at least know won't treat you abominably.
09:47There will be no other offers.
09:50If I do not accept this one, our family will sink further.
09:54Even the simple hopes we currently have will be out of reach.
09:58Then all of your hopes will be snatched away.
09:59This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice.
10:02Isn't your happiness worth something as well?
10:05Artemis has always told the tale of Hades and Persephone quite accurately.
10:10Persephone doesn't get to be happy.
10:13Then you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
10:37Who invited all of these people?
10:40I did.
10:41It is not every day my poor boy takes a bride.
10:45This was supposed to be a quiet ceremony.
10:49I do not believe Miss Lancaster has invited anyone beyond her own immediate family.
10:53I did not intend to cause awkwardness, Adam.
10:57I only wish to celebrate.
11:12I wonder if the chit will actually turn up.
11:15Try to resist the urge to run through any of the wedding guests.
11:25Where the devil is she?
11:28Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve her myself.
11:45When is this going to stop?
11:47I'm hungry.
11:48I'm hungry.
11:49I'll do this.
11:50Oh my God, it'll be fine.
11:59It's starting to come after all.
12:01I don't know.
12:42Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of God and the face of this congregation
12:49to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, an honourable estate instituted
12:57of God in the time of man's innocence, signifying unto us the mystical union betwixt Christ and
13:04his church. Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they should not lawfully be
13:12joined together, let him speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
13:26Go on. Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
13:42Apparently I give it myself.
13:48Take her right hand in yours.
13:57I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Fauston, Earl of Fauston, Vicampinus, Baron
14:02Fauston, Baron Whiteley, take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this
14:06day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love
14:09and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto I plight
14:13thee my troth.
14:22I, Persephone, I am...
14:23Ridiculous.
14:30Lancaster, do...
14:36Do take thee to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward for better,
14:43for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, to love and to cherish till death
14:51do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto I give thee my troth.
14:59Is that everything?
15:00Not usually.
15:01Can it be?
15:02I suppose all the truly essential bits have been seen to.
15:08Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
15:14To the castle then.
15:18To the castle then.
15:19Let me...
15:21To the castle, let me...
15:23Tony...
15:26hoping...
15:27Oh!
15:30augh!
15:44absolut sesuatu!
16:08Is your name really Persephone?
16:12It is.
16:15Do you not think to ask?
16:18What were your parents thinking, choosing a name like that?
16:23My father is a scholar.
16:25He's particularly fond of Greek mythology.
16:28Entirely too fond, if you don't see him.
16:31Are the rest of your siblings similarly afflicted?
16:33In what way afflicted?
16:35What absurd names did your parents assign the other members of your family?
16:40Athena is just younger than I.
16:41Athena is 14, Linus 13.
16:44Daphne will be 12 toward the end of the year.
16:47The youngest is Artemis.
16:49Fate save us from short-sighted scholars.
16:52Do you have a middle name?
16:54I do.
16:55I suppose it is entirely too much to hope that it is something common.
17:00Iphigenia.
17:03Persephone Iphigenia.
17:06Did no one ever call you anything else?
17:09Only Miss Lancaster.
17:11I cannot call you that.
17:13I suppose I will have to consign myself to Persephone.
17:17It would seem so.
17:21You, of course, will call me Kilda.
17:23I will not call you Kilda.
17:24Everyone calls me Kilda.
17:26Kilda?
17:27It sounds as if I am accusing you of a crime.
17:32You would no doubt prefer Agamemnon, or Apollo, or something along that vein.
17:38My good past certainly would.
17:40Would you propose to call me then?
17:43Adam?
17:43No one calls me Adam.
17:45No one?
17:47Certainly your family and closest friends would.
17:51Harry does.
17:53Who is Harry?
17:54A friend.
17:56One who allows himself far too much freedom.
18:05A friend.
18:25A friend.
19:05Calling me Adam will be fine, Persephone.
19:23This is Barton, the butler.
19:26Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper.
19:30Duchess of Kilda.
19:52Mrs. Smithson, we'll see you to whatever you need.
20:17I'm likely meant to be shown all of the castle.
20:20But I would very much like to rest.
20:23Perhaps you could simply point out the rooms I need to know today and save the rest for tomorrow.
20:27Of course, Your Grace.
20:36The Drawing Room.
20:38A favourite of Queen Elizabeth when she stayed at Fauston Castle in 1580.
20:47Do members of the royal family still visit Fauston?
20:51Heavens no!
20:53They wouldn't dare.
20:56This is the Grand Banquet Hall, which has hosted feasts for some of the most significant and influential people in
21:04the kingdom over the past 500 years.
21:07Yes.
21:08I believe your family will be dining in here this evening.
21:14Is that a gibbet?
21:18Unstocks.
21:19Was there no room in the dark, foreboding dungeon?
21:22There's ample room, Your Grace, but the Duke says displaying weapons makes them more effective.
21:34All of the family bedchambers are on this floor.
21:39This is your bedchamber, Your Grace.
21:43Is there anything else you wish for me to do, Your Grace?
21:46Not at the moment.
21:47The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything.
22:28Let's feel your grace to the place.
22:28We're so glad you're supposed to be.
22:32Who's still alive?
22:36We're so glad you're supposed to.
22:37We're so glad you're supposed to.
22:42This is never going to work.
22:52This is never going to work.
23:02I just saw your man of business leaving the castle.
23:06What did you do to him?
23:08I fired him.
23:10Again.
23:12How many times have you fired the poor man?
23:14Six.
23:16Seven.
23:17Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward.
23:24You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you?
23:26I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones.
23:30I may have held an epee to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
23:36Well, perhaps his fear has something to do with your less than pristine reputation, Adam.
23:40Rumour has it you've run through a few men in your time.
23:43Rumour has it I've done quite a few things.
23:47And you wonder why Jones thinks the worst whenever you're angry with him?
23:50I always reinstate his employment and he never makes the same mistake twice.
24:02So, what was his transgression this time?
24:05No, no, don't tell me.
24:08Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
24:12No.
24:14Did not include enough threats in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf.
24:18He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin from one day inheriting Fauston.
24:24Ah.
24:26Jones was the one who suggested you marry.
24:29He knew of a penniless family in Shropshire with an eldest daughter of the appropriate age who had no other
24:36prospects.
24:37His enthusiastic recommendation has proven intolerably stupid.
24:43As stupid as sitting in one's book room with one's friend on one's wedding night.
24:48Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy far and above ordinary stupidity.
24:54I stood through the wedding and just spent an interminable dinner with my flock of new sisters-in-law.
25:02Did they stare at you?
25:06It would have been understandable, you know, having not been warned.
25:08I ought to have written then.
25:10Hm?
25:11Perhaps I could have included a postscript with the proposal.
25:14By the way, I have a mutilated face you'll be forced to look at day in and day out for
25:20the rest of your life.
25:22Hope that's not a problem.
25:26Hm.
25:27Perhaps not those precise words.
25:30She wasn't exactly forthcoming either, I will have you know.
25:33I forgot to mention something important.
25:36Another husband perhaps.
25:39Extraneous limb.
25:40Her name is Persephone.
25:45A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
25:49Persephone Iphigenia.
25:51What an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child.
26:05I had the chance to speak briefly with your new bride, Adam.
26:10She was...
26:12delightful.
26:15Perhaps a little quiet, but that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
26:21I'll confess, I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
26:28Rather long in the face, in all honesty.
26:32So had I.
26:34But she's a fetching thing.
26:36Young and...
26:38quite pretty.
26:43Oh.
26:48You...
26:48expected someone desperate.
26:52And...
26:53ugly.
26:54And undesirable.
26:57Instead, your bride turned out to be a vast deal more than possible.
27:03Not quite what you'd bargain for, I guess.
27:07A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options would be content with a curmudgeon in a draughty
27:13castle in the wilds of Northumberland.
27:15And now, because she is young and fine-looking, seems to be good-natured and potentially enjoyable company,
27:25the poor girl is upstairs.
27:28Alone.
27:29Probably wondering what she's done wrong.
27:31While you are down here brooding.
27:36Adam.
27:38You are completely bacon-brained.
27:41I should call you out for that.
27:43I do.
27:45But not tonight.
27:47I'm tired.
27:52Call me out tomorrow, would you?
27:53I ought to lock you in the dungeon.
27:55You should.
27:57No point having a dungeon if no one's ever consigned to suffering it.
28:01Good night, Adam.
28:03Good night.
28:05Presumptuous loud.
28:09And Adam.
28:10What?
28:12Give the poor girl a chance.
28:14It's not her fault you've ended up with every man's idea of a perfect wife.
28:23Do you want to let him get out of here?
28:27I don't know you have a good wife to you.
28:29I don't know you're doing that.
28:29Oh.
28:35I'm sorry.
28:37Yeah.
28:38I lied about you.
28:38I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't explain to you.
28:40But you had a special date on the show of the other man's idea of the movie.
28:41What's seven months ago?
28:43I'm sorry.
28:44Why are you doing that?
29:12Are you going to be lonely
29:13without us, Persephone?
29:15I will miss you terribly.
29:19But you will have each other.
29:22So you are unlikely to be lonely.
29:25I do not know that anyone will remember
29:27to talk to me when you're not here.
29:30I'm certain everything will be fine.
29:33You don't need to worry about us.
29:37Write and tell me about
29:39all the things you're reading.
29:48I love you.
29:49Me too.
29:52Make haste.
29:54I do not want to go.
29:56Let me speak with her.
30:03Oh, my dear girl, you're crying.
30:06They do not make you stay here.
30:08No one is making me stay here, dearest.
30:10Forsten Castle is my home now.
30:13I will send you letters.
30:15Perhaps with a gimme under the seal.
30:18You could come here.
30:19We could explore the castle together.
30:22He won't let me.
30:23Of course he will.
30:25We will have grand adventures.
30:28Perhaps there is a tower room
30:31where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories
30:34the way we always did at home.
30:36Do you promise?
30:37I promise.
30:39Who will take care of me when you're gone?
30:43Papa will engage a governess
30:45for both you and Daphne.
30:47A companion for Athena
30:49when you're all in town.
30:51Will you visit us there?
30:53Of course.
30:54Daphne?
30:55Yes, my dear?
30:57We will take care of you.
30:59We'll be happy even though we're gone.
31:07I will win.
31:11When have you known me to be unhappy?
31:13Then I will be happy too
31:15but if I don't leave now
31:16I will cry again
31:17and I do not want to cry anymore.
31:20Then let us promise each other
31:22not to cry.
31:24Yes.
31:26Good.
31:27I will see you soon.
31:28Be good for Papa.
31:29I will.
31:31I love you, dearest.
31:33I love you too, Persephone.
31:35You're the best mama I've ever had.
31:37You're the best mama I've ever had.
31:40Oh, my dear.
31:43I am, Meg.
31:51I am.
32:14I thought you weren't supposed to cry.
32:19Artemis is crying as well, I'm certain of it.
32:22Then why make the promise?
32:25To lessen her pain.
32:28If my sister knew I was crying, it would break her heart.
32:33But you know she is crying.
32:38I know her better than she knows me.
32:47The best mama she ever had.
33:04She knew you were crying.
33:19She's crying.
33:19Oh, my God.
34:00Twenty-four hours into this ill-conceived marriage, and my wife is already in the back of a garden sobbing.
34:19How long into your marriage did Mother start crying?
34:29And when did that stop making you feel like a monster?
34:37Mother.
34:39Mother.
34:43Mother.
34:44Mother.
34:55Mother.
34:56Mother.
35:11Mother dizem.
35:26Your grace
35:32Good evening
35:34Are you feeling well, child?
35:37I...
35:38Am excessively tired
35:41Do not fret yourself over dinner, dear
35:44I'll have a tray sent to your room
35:46You rest
35:48Thank you
36:36You told me you'd call me out today
36:39Never did
36:40I've decided to shoot you first thing in the morning
36:44Go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace
36:47Your mother said the new Duchess was indisposed this evening
36:52Any idea what you meant by that?
36:54As mother said
36:56She was indisposed
36:59She wouldn't be the first person to hide from you
37:00She?
37:02You mean Persephone?
37:03Well, I certainly don't mean your mother
37:05You could shoot a man dead in the drawing room
37:06And she'd just smile indulgently and say
37:08My poor boy
37:09Yes, and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80
37:11When you're 80, she'll be dead
37:14Oh, shut up, Harry
37:17Is there any chance Persephone is locked in the dungeon?
37:22I am not a monster
37:24And she chose to accept me
37:26Ah, yes
37:26But without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night
37:31I don't think she realized
37:32You think I've made her miserable already?
37:35She took this morning's farewells particularly hard
37:39You ought to have insisted her family stay longer
37:42So I am the villain, am I?
37:46I wouldn't be surprised if you never saw the poor woman again as long as you lived
37:49In a place as enormous as this pile of rock
37:53She could avoid you for years
37:59Where are you going?
38:02My wife is indisposed
38:04I am going to see for myself that she is well
38:08Adam
38:08I am not going to hurt the blasted woman
38:14You know me better than that
38:31I am going to Holloway
38:32I am going to see for myself
38:32Men in an Asian Horse
38:32Time has decided to never stop
38:32I am not vide Shit
38:46My wife
38:46We miss
38:46her My wife
38:46My wife
38:46My mother
38:54My mother
39:06Oh, my God.
39:36Oh, forgive me, Your Grace.
39:39I'm attempting to find the breakfast room.
39:42Please tell me you know how to reach it from here.
39:44I got lost a few times when I first started working here.
39:48Fauston Castle is quite a big place.
39:51Enormous.
39:52New arrivals really ought to be provided with a map.
39:56This way, Your Grace, and I'll not tell anyone you were lost.
40:01Mother, explain to Harry that you're not leaving Fauston Castle because I forced you to do so.
40:05He seems to think that I drive every person who ever comes here away with a scythe in one hand
40:10and a flaming torch in the other.
40:13A regular one-person blood-dusty mob.
40:15That's what you are.
40:18You really ought to think about employing pitchforks when you...
40:22Persephone.
40:24Come.
40:25Break your fast, dear.
40:28Kidneys.
40:28Eggs.
40:29Yes, please.
40:30Harry, will you please...
40:32I will prepare a plate for her mother.
40:33You needn't inconvenience yourself.
40:37Please.
41:05Should I sit somewhere else?
41:06No, you can stay where you are.
41:10Will you be coming to town at Christmas time?
41:13I never go to town until absolutely necessary.
41:16You must convince my poor boy of the delights of London.
41:20I have never been to London.
41:22Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible.
41:27I should positively love taking you round town and introducing you to just everyone.
41:34I'm certain you can pack quickly, Adam, and I could delay my departure by a day or so and we
41:39could all...
41:40I shall be forced to take her in the spring as it is.
41:43Forced?
41:45The season is such fun.
41:47How can you say forced?
41:49I despise London.
41:52But the Queen will be vexed if Persephone is not presented and there is one bother I could do without.
41:56Thus, I shall be forced to town.
41:59Do not let him burden you with even the tiniest amount of guilt, Your Grace.
42:03By spring, he will have gone months without insulting members of the cabinet or any of the royal family.
42:08And will be itching for the opportunity.
42:13That is good to know.
42:14I suppose, as a good friend of the family, I ought to remain here indefinitely.
42:18And offer my insights into your grumbly husband.
42:21That is simply the sort of selfless person I am.
42:26Even selfless people can be thrown from the south parapet.
42:32I am beginning to suspect, Adam, that you do not like me very much.
42:37I will simply have to ponder the sorrow of this realization.
42:42Your Grace.
42:45Your Grace.
42:49Your Grace.
42:54This could get confusing.
42:57We really ought to think of names for the three of you.
43:24The goal is to take tears.
43:25But you do not look at one and for the three of you.
43:26So give us a soft word.
43:28It is not that you should have about you.
43:28What are you doing?
43:35It is a show that you have about you.
43:36What are you doing?
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