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Part 2 of 9 of the period drama. Having repossessed the Old Curiosity Shop and all it's content to get back his money, Quilp is stunned to discover that Nell and her grandfather have fled during the night without paying all their debts. Most people are surprised by their flight, including Kit, who is unaware that Quilp has blackened his name to Nell's grandfather by suggesting he revealed his gambling addiction and sets out to find them. A mysterious gentleman also turns up at the shop looking for them and Quilp, his curiosity piqued, persuades Dick Swiveller to keep an eye on him.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Trevor Peacock, Sebastian Shaw, Christopher Fairbank, Granville Saxton, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wesley Pithey, Laurence Hardy, Sandra Payne, Donald Bisset, Pauline Winter and Keith Hazemore.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Trevor Peacock, Sebastian Shaw, Christopher Fairbank, Granville Saxton, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wesley Pithey, Laurence Hardy, Sandra Payne, Donald Bisset, Pauline Winter and Keith Hazemore.
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00:45Yes, yes, that's the key, the door key. I haven't got it, sir. What kind of a lawyer are you?
00:54All right, all right. Quilp, it's me. Oh, it's you, is it? Push hard, Mrs Quilp. The door's stiff.
01:08Charge!
01:11Charge!
01:29Come on, don't!
01:34Any more, sir?
01:35I want any more, plenty more from the same shop.
01:38Catch the orders, promptly executed.
01:41I thought it was only her, sir. Why didn't you say?
01:44It was the lady who walked first. Too gently.
01:48Don't look at her, sir. Keep your eyes away from her, sir.
01:53Who are you?
01:54Richard Swivel, your servant.
01:57You left the door unlocked, you fool.
01:59We could have been murdered in our beds.
02:02Mrs Quilp, go upstairs. Tell the girl she's wanted.
02:10You seem to have made yourself at home here, sir.
02:13I am at home, young gentleman.
02:15Oh. Are you all right, Mr Quilp?
02:18This here's Mr Blass, my legal advisor.
02:20I'm Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill and Quilp's Wharf.
02:25They're not there. The room's empty.
02:29Empty, you fool?
02:30There's no one upstairs at all.
02:32The key. It explains the key.
02:36But there's money owed.
02:38There's a small fortune still to come back,
02:41honestly loaned at a modest interest.
02:44Oh, no. They wouldn't go, they wouldn't run.
02:48The old man will write to me.
02:51Nellie will bring me a note telling me where they've gone.
02:53She's very fond of me.
02:56We knew they were going this morning, sir,
02:57but not so early or so quietly.
03:02Needn't affect the removal of the goods.
03:06Removal?
03:07The goods are mine, sir.
03:09You seem bewildered, sir.
03:11Faced with a baffler, sir.
03:13You fail to comprehend, Mr Swiveller.
03:16Oh, very good, sir. Beautifully put.
03:20And disappointed.
03:21You look disappointed, sir.
03:24I am disappointed, sir.
03:26But that's another matter.
03:29There stands before you one of the most disappointed men
03:32you are ever likely to encounter.
03:35Well, no use in my staying here.
03:37No use in the world.
03:38Mention that I call when you see them.
03:40Be so good as to say that that is my address
03:42and I've been found at home every evening.
03:44Mention the ring, if you would.
03:46Say I'm a disappointed man and have no use for it now.
03:49And will wish to return it for Miss Nell's future adornment.
03:51Ring, ring, disappointed return, adornment?
03:53Look, two distinct knocks at my door say
03:55will produce a slavery at any time
03:57and my particular friends say
03:59are accustomed to sneeze when the door is opened.
04:01To give to understand that they are my friends
04:03and have no interested motives in asking if I am at home.
04:07I beg your pardon.
04:09Will you allow me to look at that card again?
04:13May a slight but not unnatural error
04:15I have handed you the pass ticket
04:17to a select convivial circle
04:18called the Glorious Apollars
04:20to which I have the honor to be perpetual chairman.
04:24Now we're right.
04:28Your servant, ma'am.
04:32A word, sir.
04:43You have an interest in these people, sir.
04:46You're disappointed because all is not well with them.
04:48Well, I'm disappointed myself out of mere friendly feeling.
04:51But you're interested in the girl, eh?
04:53She's a nice enough girl.
04:54Yes, and soon to be a nice young lady.
04:56Soon to be the marrying age, eh, sir?
04:58That's crossed your mind, no doubt.
05:00The old man is not a long-liver.
05:01His wealth could be yours, you've argued.
05:03His wealth could have come your way, eh, sir?
05:05Not so at all, sir.
05:08My disappointment, Mr Culp.
05:10The disappointment that lowers and bars me before you
05:14emanates from another source.
05:16Is Sophie Whackrells a name that rings a chord with you, sir?
05:20Never heard of her.
05:21Being of beauty and brightness.
05:24I've been crossed, Mr Culp.
05:26Crossed and double-crossed.
05:28A beautiful Miss Sophie Whackrells
05:30is to marry a market gunner by the name of Cheggs.
05:33To be sacrificed at Cheggs's altar.
05:35To be the wife of Cheggs.
05:36To mother little Cheggs's.
05:39I stand before you wretched
05:41while she immolates herself on the shrine of Cheggs.
05:45Oh, poison Cheggs.
05:46Cut Cheggs' ears off.
05:48Perfidious Whackrells, eh?
05:50Perfidious...
05:50Not perfidious.
05:52A king of beauty and brightness.
05:55You should have seen her eyes, Mr Culp.
05:58A flower of her hair.
06:00A little turn in her nose.
06:02A day or two ago.
06:04A week or two.
06:04Who knows?
06:05I purchased from this very shop this jewel
06:09for her most delicate of fingers.
06:11To bind Mr Culp.
06:12To bind Miss Sophie Whackrells.
06:15To Richard Swiveller Esquire.
06:17To have him to hold Mr Culp.
06:20Most interesting, little Gugor.
06:22Most interesting indeed.
06:24Alas, not to be.
06:27You purchased it, you say, sir, from the old gentleman here?
06:30I came here to return it.
06:31If I paid next to nothing for it,
06:33then they're welcome to have it back.
06:36It was little Nell's mother's.
06:37One day to be hers.
06:39Sure.
06:40Just to sell it.
06:41It puzzled me, too.
06:42Now, when I first came...
06:43Mr Swiveller, we may do business.
06:46Business?
06:47Investments.
06:47A modest investment.
06:49I've no money, modest or otherwise.
06:50No.
06:51Nor work neither.
06:52I'm as disappointed in money matters as I am in matters of the heart.
06:56Disappointed?
06:57I had expectations once.
06:58An aunt was chosen to look the other way.
07:02Rebecca Swiveller.
07:03Whose legacy I counted on in my folly.
07:06Unfortunately, in the role of heir, she sees me as unsuitable.
07:09So you are penniless.
07:11I enter in this little book.
07:13The names of the streets I can't go down when the shops are open.
07:16Today, Long Acre.
07:18Tomorrow, Great Queen Street,
07:20where I purchased a pair of boots a month ago
07:22and had them entered up.
07:25Ah!
07:26There's one avenue with a strand that's still left open to me.
07:29I fear I shall have to close that up, too, if I need a pair of gloves.
07:33To tell you the truth, Mr Coop,
07:34the roads are closing so fast in every direction
07:36I shall soon have to go three or four miles out of town to make a purchase.
07:39Unless, of course, the aunt chooses to send me a remittance.
07:43Unlikely.
07:44Most.
07:44Most.
07:45Well,
07:46I must progress on my weary way.
07:49Bow down with a weight of sorrow.
07:52Swiveller.
07:53Solus.
07:54Swiveller.
07:58I meant, sir, I might invest in you.
08:02In me.
08:09But first, let's have it again.
08:11You're certain, Mr Swiveller, you have no interest in little Rosie Nelly?
08:15Gone forever, Sophie Wackle.
08:17Step onto the stage, little Nell.
08:18Not a case of that, sir.
08:19Not a case of sniffing out wealth that isn't there.
08:22A faulty cent, sir.
08:23A faulty cent.
08:23I have no interest.
08:25I tell you, she's no more than a child.
08:27Yes, quite so, sir.
08:28Quite so.
08:28It would be a faulty cent indeed.
08:30But there's no wealth left, sir.
08:32No bottom to the bottom drawer.
08:34I own the lot.
08:35And the girl.
08:36And the dear old gentleman, too.
08:38Oh.
08:38I had hoped to return the ring.
08:40Ah, yes.
08:41Well, now, where the ring's concerned, Mr Swiveller,
08:43we might still do business.
08:44Let me say it again, sir.
08:46I see you as an investment.
08:48You may say it as many times as you like, sir.
08:51But I doubt if I'll follow you.
08:52I like to help people.
08:54I'm called a philanthropist, Mr Swiveller.
08:57Great talent in people excites me.
08:59You could clerk, could you?
09:00Clerk to a lawyer suit you?
09:04Clerk?
09:06I've never clerked.
09:07What I'm saying to you is this.
09:09Payment on account,
09:11with a little trifle in your pocket,
09:13and then 50% of the first month's wages,
09:16and the bargain's complete.
09:18You mean you'll find me a position
09:20in return for this ring?
09:22And 50% of them agreed between us.
09:25We're gentlemen, Mr Swiveller.
09:26No note of the debt necessary.
09:28The ring isn't worth very much,
09:30and I'm investing in a quantity unknown,
09:32but that's the way I am, Mr Swiveller,
09:34and always have been.
09:35I don't think I'd be suitable for lawyers' work.
09:38Oh, ideal, I would say.
09:40You're a thrifty man, Mr Swiveller.
09:41You could save a little week by week
09:43for Mr Quilp's little fee, eh?
09:45Oh, what a future!
09:47I see for you.
09:48Whackles, what's Whackles to you now?
09:51You'll bless the name of Cheggs one day, Mr Swiveller.
09:54You'll bless the name of Quilp as thousands do already.
09:57She had a little freckle on her cheek.
10:01Well, never trust a freckled woman.
10:07Brass!
10:09Brass, you need a clerk.
10:11Yesterday you remarked you needed a clerk.
10:13You and your first sister, both of you together,
10:15almost definitely stated your desire for a clerk.
10:18Well, no, sir, not really at all, sir.
10:21You may perhaps have misheard, sir.
10:22Mr Richard Swiveller.
10:24But I...
10:26Mr Quilp, there's been some confusion...
10:28Don't waste time thanking me, Brass.
10:30The gentleman is yours.
10:34It's in beach.
10:54It's such a great fact.
10:55How White Alls
10:59You've been a good friends.
10:59What is that?
11:03I can actually do some research in a way to practice the household
11:16excuse me sir nothing left to sell no no I came to see the two who live here no longer
11:21they've
11:21gone away and pray can you tell me where to unfortunately no sir
11:31but they'll be back they'll be about they've not gone far afield that I promise you sir
11:37they've had ill fortune poor souls
11:51this way you have an interest in them sir
11:56you might say that yeah so have I and here's a villain who may help us hey you you you
12:03come here
12:10your old master and young mistress have gone done where they gone come on let's have no more of this
12:17you mean to say you don't know they went away as soon as it was light this morning
12:23Foxy mill and this sir you offered them lodgings didn't you if they come to take them up you let
12:28me know do you hear I want to do them a kindness can't do them a kindness unless I know
12:33where they
12:34are who knows perhaps this gentleman here may wish to do them a kindness also so you let me know
12:43I'll give you something for it we're friends
12:48here just a moment one of your honest people prying hound how may I be in touch with you in
12:59this matter sir well that's not easy I've just arrived in the neighborhood I take lodgings nearby since you say
13:06that it's likely they'll return or aren't far off oh without a doubt we'll find them sir I'll take lodgings
13:11if I knew some maybe I could help you in this matter I am a single gentleman
13:15nothing fussy you understand a Roman board in the locality yes brass brass and his most delightful
13:23sister legal people sir yeah my very own legal advisors is a matter of truth they have a room to
13:29let
13:30yes only yesterday brass was remarking they needed a crack they mentioned a room well they've got their
13:36clerk maybe they wouldn't want to oh for Daniel quillp they would oh for a client like Daniel quillp they
13:44wouldn't hesitate extremely kind of you oh I'm known for it sir ask my wife or my mother-in-law
13:50walk the length and
13:52breadth of the city ask anyone you meet because I'm a man of business as well sir these things take
14:01time time
14:02that might otherwise be used attracting further business see if you follow me no I'm not certain
14:09look I do entirely well a small fee so reluctant though I am I would have to make charge of
14:15a small fee
14:15say a sovereign oh yes well I suppose so yes I dare say that's fair
14:30why I thought it was a thriving business yeah oh it was so it was indeed thriving was no name
14:35for it
14:36sad end a desolate end so indeed it seems
14:41I only hope that I am not too late
14:43accident
15:08I don't know
15:11why is it
15:11Ow
15:39What's done is done, I say.
15:41I say it should never have been done. I never said we should keep a clerk.
15:45Am I going to keep a clerk for my own pleasure?
15:48If every one of your clients is to force us to keep a clerk,
15:50whether we want to or not, we'd better leave off business.
15:54I never said we should keep a lodger either.
15:56But there's an empty room, old chap.
15:58If every one of your clients is to force us to take in lodgers just because there's a room...
16:02Have we got another client like him? Answer me that, have we?
16:05Do you mean in the face?
16:06What do I mean in the face? Look here.
16:09Daniel Kilpysquire, Daniel Kilpysquire, Daniel Kilpysquire, Daniel Kilpysquire.
16:12All the way through, wherever you look, Daniel Kilpysquire.
16:15Who's got a client like him? I'd like to know.
16:17Phew, I grant you.
16:19Listen, old chap.
16:20I have been doing so for three hours.
16:23Taunting me for three hours, you mean?
16:25So you'd have me turn away his clerks, would you?
16:28You'd have me turn away his lodgers, eh?
16:30And lose all this?
16:33I don't quite fancy it somehow.
16:35It's just a little thing.
16:36But somehow I don't quite fancy being owned by a dwarf.
16:43Owned?
16:46Owned.
16:57Owned.
16:59Owned.
17:02Owned.
17:10Owned.
17:13Owned.
17:14Owned.
17:21Real Madrid.
17:23Owned Amber.
17:23Oh, my disciples.
17:28What?
18:32Will you go on, sir?
18:34Or I'll be to wait here for you
18:35until it's too late for our appointment.
18:38Fie upon you, whiskers.
18:40Fie!
18:42He's...
18:49I beg your pardon, sir,
18:51but I think it's my fault.
18:52Come on.
18:54Down the next street, please.
18:56To the right.
19:06Here, please,
19:08by the brass plate.
19:09Let's...
19:10Come on.
19:11Come on.
19:12Come on.
19:14Come on.
19:15Come on.
19:28Come on.
19:41In honour of the occasion, sir.
19:43Oh, delicious.
19:45Oh, fragrant indeed.
19:47And how right to honour the occasion.
19:49An occasion it is indeed,
19:50and one that does honour to me, ma'am.
19:52Pray be seated.
19:54Pray be seated.
19:55I've had many gentlemen article to me, ma'am.
19:58Many a one.
19:59Some of them are now rolling in riches,
20:01unmindful of their old companion and friend.
20:04Others are in the habit of calling upon me to this day.
20:07But there was never one among the number
20:09of whom I augured such bright things
20:11as I do of your only son.
20:14Oh, dear.
20:14How happy you make us when you tell us that.
20:17I tell you, ma'am,
20:17as an honest man,
20:19which, as the poet observes,
20:20is the noblest work of God,
20:22I agree with the poet in every particular, ma'am.
20:24The mountainous alps on the one hand
20:26or the hummingbird on the other
20:27is nothing in point of workmanship
20:30to an honest man
20:31or woman
20:32or woman.
20:34Anything Mr. Witherden can say of me,
20:36I can say with interest of him, I'm sure.
20:39I think, Mr. Garland,
20:41we must all congratulate each other.
20:44My dear.
20:49Well done.
20:51Mr. Chuckstar,
20:52you may now bring in Mr. Abel's articles.
20:54Marrying as his mother and I did late in life
20:56and being blessed with one child
20:58who was always dutiful and affectionate,
21:01why, it's a source of great happiness to us both.
21:04Of course it is.
21:05I've no doubt of it.
21:06It's the contemplation of this sort of thing
21:08that makes me deplore my state in being a bachelor.
21:11There was a young lady once,
21:12the daughter of an outfitting warehouse
21:13of the finest respectability.
21:15But that's a weakness.
21:16That's a weakness.
21:16I'm sure not.
21:17I'm sure.
21:18You see, Mr. Witherden,
21:19Abel has not been brought up in the run of young men.
21:22He's always taken pleasure in our society,
21:25always been with us,
21:26has never been absent from us,
21:28not even for a day, has he, my dear?
21:30Except when he went to Margate
21:32on a Saturday with Mr. Tom Kandy
21:34and came back on the Monday.
21:35But he wasn't well after that.
21:37It was quite a dissipation.
21:38Not used to it.
21:39Not used to it, you see.
21:41He couldn't bear it,
21:42and that's the truth.
21:43There was no comfort in being there without us.
21:46Quite desolate.
21:47Very natural in the circumstances.
21:48Mr. Abel's feelings did credit to his nature,
21:51and to your nature, ma'am,
21:52and his father's nature,
21:53and human nature.
21:54I trace the same current now
21:56flowing through all his quiet
21:58and unobtrusive proceedings.
22:01I'm about to sign my name, you see,
22:05at the foot of the articles
22:06which Mr. Chuckster will witness.
22:14Now, placing my finger on this blue wafer,
22:18I'm constrained to observe in distinct tones.
22:21Don't be alarmed, ma'am.
22:22It's merely a form of law
22:23that I deliver this as my act and deed.
22:28Now, Mr. Abel will place his name
22:31against the other wafer,
22:33repeating the same Kabbalistic words,
22:36and the business is over.
22:46Yeah.
22:48Oh, good boy, yeah.
23:00Mr. Chuckster,
23:01you'd better go out and see to the pony.
23:10Ah, boy, come in.
23:17Sir?
23:18Name, boy?
23:19Kit, sir.
23:21Christopher Nubbles, sir.
23:22Father alive?
23:23No, sir.
23:24Mother?
23:24Yes, sir.
23:25Married again, eh?
23:26Oh, no, sir.
23:28Good.
23:29Excellent.
23:31Well, Christopher,
23:32you'll need a sixpence, eh,
23:33for minding that pony.
23:34Oh, thank you, sir.
23:35My dear, a sixpence?
23:38I, uh,
23:39have only a shilling,
23:40Abel, uh,
23:42a sixpence?
23:44Hmm?
23:46Well,
23:46it'll have to be a shilling, then.
23:48Mind you, work it out, my lad.
23:50I shall be here again on Monday
23:52at the same time in the morning.
23:53I'll be waiting in the street, sir.
23:57You're in a good place,
23:59Christopher.
24:01I was, sir.
24:03Dismissed.
24:03Oh, no, sir.
24:05Well,
24:06not exactly, sir.
24:07Well, I mean...
24:08Yes, boy?
24:10My master's gone, sir.
24:12He's been driven out.
24:14I was looking for him
24:15when you come by.
24:16Him and Miss Nell.
24:17And he's old,
24:18and he's ill,
24:18and...
24:19And you're worried.
24:20That's it.
24:20Yes, I am, ma'am.
24:22This Miss Nell...
24:23Oh, I shouldn't want anything
24:24to befall her, sir.
24:25She was teaching me
24:26how to read.
24:27I can read now.
24:29What I meant was
24:30she taught me how.
24:31How very kind.
24:32And what a nice young lady
24:34she sounds to be.
24:35Oh, she is, ma'am.
24:36She is.
24:37I'd do anything in the world
24:38for Miss Nell
24:38and her grandfather.
24:40Words like spectator
24:42and N-A-R-R-O-W
24:45Narrow.
24:46I shouldn't have read
24:47Narrow in a year
24:48if it hadn't been
24:48for Miss Nell.
24:52Driven out, you say?
24:54By quilp, sir.
24:56I don't know how or why,
24:57but driven out they were.
24:59Quilp.
25:01Quilp.
25:03He's a kind of dwarf, sir.
25:05He's like the very devil.
25:06Oh, dear me, dear me.
25:08Likely, oof.
25:09How distressing.
25:10What an extraordinary story.
25:12Oh, it's true, ma'am.
25:13Every single word of it.
25:14So, what it all amounts to
25:15is that you're not
25:16in a good place.
25:18Afraid not, sir.
25:19So you learn what you can
25:20holding ponies and the like?
25:22Yes, ma'am.
25:23Which is a very good reason
25:24for remembering our engagement
25:25on Monday, eh?
25:26Oh, I won't forget, sir.
25:27I'm sure your friends are safe.
25:31Yeah.
25:55Oh, you're welcome.
25:56Oh, I won't need it to be a good chance.
25:56Oh, I won't need it.
25:56Oh, I won't need it.
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