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Part 7 of 9 of the period drama. After collapsing in the street, Nell and her grandfather are given a ride by school teacher Mr Marton, where he lets them stay at the vicarage, where he is the parish clerk. Quilp returns home, angry at having not found them and fearful of what would happen if Nell married Kit, who he knows is fond of the girl. Anxious not to lose her to him, he plots with Solomon and Sally Brass as to how to be rid of him...
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Annabelle Lanyon, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Christopher Fairbank, Wensley Pithey, Brian Oulton, Freda Jackson, Sandra Payne, Sid Golder and Ken Halliwell. The last two episodes will hopefully be uploaded tomorrow. Enjoy this rarely repeated 1979-80 period classic.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Annabelle Lanyon, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Christopher Fairbank, Wensley Pithey, Brian Oulton, Freda Jackson, Sandra Payne, Sid Golder and Ken Halliwell. The last two episodes will hopefully be uploaded tomorrow. Enjoy this rarely repeated 1979-80 period classic.
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00:34Who knows what he may be looking down upon us now, contemplating us with a watchful eye.
00:40When shall we look upon his life again? Never, never.
00:44Oh, to think that I should be drinking his very rum.
00:47You're sure you're certain?
00:49If he comes up anywhere, a bit of morrow at Greenwich.
00:52He's not floating nowhere, mister. Not today, Yank.
00:54Nothing for it but resignation.
00:56Would have been a comfort to have had his body, a dreary comfort.
01:00Yes, but if we did have it, we should be certain.
01:03It's quite so.
01:05Now, regarding his description for our advertisement.
01:09A melancholy pleasure to recall his traits.
01:12Respecting his legs.
01:14Crooked.
01:15But do you think they were crooked?
01:17Oh.
01:17I seem to see them now, coming up the street.
01:21Very wide apart.
01:23But crooked?
01:25Yes, perhaps they were.
01:28A little.
01:28Hmm.
01:29Um, large head.
01:32Yes.
01:33Short body.
01:34That's right.
01:35Legs crooked.
01:36Very crooked.
01:37We'll not say very crooked, ma'am.
01:39Let us not seem hard upon the weaknesses of the deceased.
01:43He's gone, ma'am, to where his legs will never come into question.
01:47We'll content ourselves with crooked.
01:50Well, I thought all you wanted was the truth.
01:51Oh, he comes before my eyes like the ghost of Hamlet's father.
01:56His coat, his waistcoat, his shoes, his stockings, his trousers and his hat, his wit and his humour, his pathos
02:04and his umbrella.
02:06All come before me like visions from my youth.
02:10I think you'd better get on, sir, or else we shall be here all night.
02:14A most agreeable gentleman he was, sirs.
02:16Most, most charming.
02:19Still, our faculties must not freeze with grief.
02:23His nose.
02:25Flat.
02:26Aquiline!
02:27Aquiline, you hag!
02:28Do you see this?
02:29To call that flat to you!
02:30Daniel!
02:31Is this the drown pie?
02:32Oh, Mr Quilp, how relieved we are!
02:35Oh, such amazing powers of taking people by surprise!
02:39So whimsical!
02:40Oh, how relieved!
02:42How relieved!
02:43Well, I wouldn't exactly say relieved myself.
02:45I wouldn't use that exact term.
02:49Confused, you might say.
02:51Oh, then again, interrupted!
02:53Oh, Christ!
02:53Joy, what a joyful moment!
02:56Oh, isn't he remarkable in every way?
02:59Gone today and here tomorrow, last seen standing on the edge of the wharf
03:02and the next thing he's here, delighting us all!
03:04I've not gone yet, Brass.
03:06Not just yet.
03:07Five days out on business and I'm floating into Greenwich, am I?
03:10But, my dear, we thought...
03:12I mean, what?
03:13You didn't say...
03:14Why did I say I'm not obliged to say?
03:17So you've been dragging the river all day, have you?
03:19My dear, what a deal of trouble you've had!
03:22Didn't I tell you I was going away on business, Brass?
03:24Didn't I say it?
03:25Didn't I speak those very words?
03:27Certainly, sir, to be sure, a day or two, you said, sir.
03:29A day or two, five days passed.
03:32What else do days do, you fool?
03:34You were last seen standing on the edge of the wharf, sir, highly precarious,
03:37with a sharp wind behind you.
03:39We feared the worst, sir.
03:40But, oh, how delightful it is!
03:43Does she look delighted?
03:45Does she?
03:46Do they?
03:48Pray consider everything yours that you find on the body.
03:51Thank you, sir.
03:57Brass, why didn't you inquire of your clerk?
04:01Oh, heavens, it never occurred to me.
04:03Nothing ever does, if you ask me.
04:04Oh, isn't he sharp?
04:07Such a flow of wit, such humour.
04:08There's not another man alive who could carry it off.
04:12Out.
04:12Out, Brass, out, out, out, out, out.
04:15You, madam, out.
04:19And the next time you persuade a daughter of yours to marry a man for his money,
04:22make sure you know what you're doing.
04:32So you thought I was dead and gone, eh?
04:35You thought you were a widow, eh?
04:38I...
04:40I...
04:41I'm very sorry.
04:42You're sorry or not.
04:43I'm sure you're very sorry.
04:45Oh, no, no, I'm glad to see you.
04:47Indeed, indeed, I am.
04:49Oh, Quilp, how could you go away so long without saying a word to me
04:52or letting me hear from you or know anything about you?
04:56How could you be so cruel?
04:57Cruel?
04:58Well, I shall be cruel if I feel like it.
04:59Yes.
05:00If that's what I feel like it, that's what I'll be.
05:01I'm going away again.
05:02Oh, not again.
05:04You were a widow in anticipation, you jade.
05:08I'll be a bachelor in earnest.
05:11I live in the counting house.
05:12See how you like it when there's not a penny rolling in through the door.
05:16You'll starve, the pair of you.
05:18They can look and leer at you till they drop down dead for all I can care.
05:21But, Quilp, nobody wants to look and I promise you, dear.
05:25I have better plans for myself.
05:27Cherry-cheeked plans, rosy little plans.
05:31You can't be serious, Quilp.
05:33You're never leaving me.
05:34Me that's never done your morsel of harm.
05:36She's a lady.
05:38I always said she was a lady.
05:41A rosy-pozy little lady.
05:44What does a lady have, madam?
05:47I don't know what you're talking about, Quilp.
05:51Inheritance.
05:53An inheritance is what a lady has.
05:56What you've never had and never will have.
06:00They're on their way back, I tell you.
06:02On their way back to a well-to-do stranger
06:04who's eager to see them right as rain.
06:07I tell you, she's an heiress.
06:09I tell you, she's Quilp.
06:11Quilp!
06:12Ah, Mrs. Quilp, the second.
06:14For she loves him.
06:15She's fond of him.
06:16She adores him.
06:20And if she doesn't,
06:22there's so much owing,
06:24she'll change her mind.
06:27But what's it become of us?
06:30You might starve.
06:32Or then again, you might take poison.
06:37Or then again,
06:40the pair of you might float into Greenwich.
06:42Oh!
06:44Oh, my God!
06:51This way.
06:55Oh, Grandpa!
07:00This will be your room.
07:05Oh, look now.
07:09The 17th century.
07:13There's another room beyond.
07:16Come.
07:45We've come to the end.
07:48If there is work for us to do we shall be happy here.
07:52There's work for your grandfather now.
07:55But you must rest.
07:57You've been so kind to us.
08:00Thank you sir.
08:20Well.
08:22I could ask him where he's been.
08:24What sights he's seen.
08:26What news he brings.
08:30You're out of spirits.
08:32What news then Mr Quilp?
08:34Yours first. The lodger.
08:35You've kept a watch. He's got money for them.
08:37Do you know how much?
08:39I don't know anything about any money.
08:41All I know is he's on their track one minute and the next minute he's lost them.
08:44How's that so?
08:45He found a man who'd seen him dancing dogs man.
08:48Then the track went cold.
08:49Back to where he started.
08:50Making inquiries of the boy.
08:52The boy?
08:55The boy nubbles.
08:57Never the boy nubbles.
08:59Didn't I tell you that boy was no good to hang on?
09:03Didn't I tell you?
09:05An honest man would have to look out for that boy.
09:08Insolent, loud-mouthed boy.
09:12So what's he been telling the lodger, eh?
09:15Shhh.
09:16Everything he knows by the sound of it.
09:18All their affairs and transactions in case there's any sort of...
09:23Dose I mention Daniel Quilp.
09:25The devil he did.
09:28That boy will upset everything before he goes much further.
09:38They'll never be found now if you want my opinion.
09:42They won't need looking for her if you want mine.
09:44What's that?
09:46It's private.
09:48That's how it is.
09:51I'd say there's something owing.
09:54Owing?
09:55We had a bargain.
09:58You and the employer of the good Samson Brass
10:00and his beauteous sister.
10:02Poor Quilp to get his little fee.
10:0450% first month.
10:06We had a second bargain.
10:08Stout party to be watched. Information passed on.
10:10Precisely.
10:10Nothing denied in that line.
10:13Not in a way of business for Quilp to issue denials.
10:15Ask anyone, Mr Swiveller.
10:17Ask anyone if Quilp isn't one to stick to the rules.
10:20I've watched, sister.
10:21I've passed on the information.
10:22The stout party is the lodger.
10:25One of the same.
10:27I'm aware of that.
10:29Of course the stout party's the lodger.
10:30Why ever shouldn't he be?
10:31No reason.
10:32I'm not saying the contrary.
10:33We're in agreement.
10:34We made an agreement.
10:35We're in an agreement.
10:35And there's money, Owing.
10:37But you said...
10:39We both said...
10:40I said...
10:42Information.
10:43I'm saying now, where is it?
10:46It's been passed, aren't you, Mr Quilp?
10:49He's on their track.
10:51Then again, he isn't as a track not being the right one.
10:53There's the dancing dogs, man.
10:54There's the boy novels.
10:55Transactions with ditto.
10:56All facts, Mr Quilp.
10:57All facts gleaned with the hard labour and sharp eye of yours truly, our Swiveller Esquire.
11:04Facts.
11:06Rubbish.
11:09Do you know what I think, Mr Swiveller?
11:12The stout party's here to serve rich on them.
11:14Where's that in your facts?
11:17What's the good of a dancing dog, man?
11:19What's the good of the boy novels if they don't lead us to the quarry?
11:22No.
11:22No, no, no, no.
11:23Say nothing.
11:24Answer the question.
11:25Where's the quarry, Mr Swiveller?
11:27No, no, no, no.
11:28How should I know?
11:31In that case, there's money, Owen.
11:35I did what I could.
11:37I did what you asked.
11:38It's not my fault if he's got...
11:40Of course it isn't.
11:42Who's saying it is?
11:45But that don't deprive us of the awkwardness that there's money, Owen.
11:51Fair's fair, Mr Swiveller.
11:53Ask yourself, what do I owe to Daniel Quilp?
11:56Examine your present circumstances.
11:59Say to yourself, present circumstances including knowledge of the law,
12:03acquaintanceship of Miss Hallibras,
12:06warm office, monthly stipend,
12:09all owed to...
12:11Daniel Quilp.
12:14Philanthropist of Quilp's Wharf and Tower Hill.
12:16The ring was worthless, you know.
12:28A blow to part with it, is it?
12:31Do you feel a pain, eh, Dick?
12:32A mortal blow.
12:35Hardly...
12:35Hardly a crusher?
12:37Hardly a staggerer?
12:38Not of the magnitude of Sophie Wackle,
12:40sacrificed at Chegg's altar.
12:42Or yet a Rebecca Swiveler closing her pecuniary doors on me.
12:47Still there, your disappointment servant, Dick.
12:51It was ever thus.
12:53From childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay.
12:56I never loved a tree nor flower, but was the first to fade away.
13:01I never nursed a dear gazelle to glad me with its soft black eye.
13:06But when it came to know me well and love me,
13:08it was sure to marry a market gardener,
13:11out of to which the law don't agree with me.
13:13Not moist enough for a spirit like my friend's, eh?
13:18Bordering on cheesiness, I've heard it said.
13:20Too much confirmation.
13:22A spirit like yours, you know, might run away.
13:26I was thinking that, you know, I was saying to myself.
13:29A lively spirit like Richard Swiveler's might seek his fortune.
13:34Elsewhere.
13:36Elsewhere?
13:39Some new city.
13:41Scatter the dust of this one from behind your heels.
13:44Walk out, my dear friend, into life's great vale.
13:48Where disappointment may turn to triumph.
13:52You think so?
13:53Ah!
13:54Towards Highgate.
13:55The bells might ring out.
13:57Turn again, Swiveler.
13:59Lord Mayor of London.
14:01Whittington's name was Dick, you know.
14:03Wish cats were scarcer.
14:07Try the north.
14:09Or the east.
14:12Both excellent directions.
14:18There's nothing here,
14:20but more wackles and cheques.
14:33Good evening, sir.
14:36You recall the face, I trust.
14:39You're Quilp.
14:41Daniel Quilp!
14:43I put you in the way of lodging, sir.
14:46Comfortable, I trust.
14:47Satisfactory in every particular.
14:49Quite satisfactory, thank you.
14:51They are splendid people, the brasses.
14:54Meals to your liking, are they?
14:56Mattress. Cozy.
14:57Now, look here.
14:58Don't say it, I beg you.
15:01I know what you're going to say.
15:04You've been listening to Tattle.
15:06You've heard hard words about poor Quilp.
15:09Let me advise you in reply, sir.
15:12Examine your source, sir.
15:15My source?
15:16Nubbles.
15:18Nubbles is the source, if I'm not far mistaken.
15:22Christopher Nubbles, the boy Nubbles.
15:24Known as Kit for convenience.
15:28Perfody itself, sir.
15:29You'd naturally be obliged to take that line, Mr Cook.
15:32In view of the accusations.
15:35A rogue and a villain, sir.
15:37False of his trade.
15:39When his nimble fingers aren't up to
15:41prizing pennies from the poor.
15:43Sell his mother to a zoo, would Nubbles?
15:46Blackening the boy's name,
15:47because in reply to my questions
15:49he was obliged to blacken yours.
15:52When you know him better, sir,
15:53you'll see Nubbles for what he is.
15:56That old man was my friend, sir.
16:00Would be the first to say so.
16:04In his hour of need, who stood by him?
16:07Tided him over till his boat came in?
16:10Was it my fault if the boat failed to moor?
16:13Or even appear on the horizon?
16:15He owes me a great deal, sir.
16:17But do I press?
16:18Do I clamor?
16:19Am I out on the streets in a rage?
16:22When the couple return, who'll be the first to greet them?
16:25You believe they'll return?
16:28I know they'll return.
16:30I know that even now as I speak, they're on their way.
16:33I think not.
16:37I was reliably informed.
16:40And I, that they're still journeying away from us.
16:43Won't you hear this?
16:44And those who've travelled with them,
16:46within a day or two,
16:47I'll be able to hear their present whereabouts.
16:52I was assured by an honest man.
16:55Or one who sought, perhaps, to protect them from you.
17:02Poor man.
17:04To make such an error.
17:05Mm-hmm.
17:07So you're...
17:08On their tail at last, sir.
17:12That's good news.
17:14That's splendid news!
17:15Of course, the old man...
17:18Wandering in his head a bit, he says...
17:22This and that.
17:23He confuses fact with fantasy.
17:27Poor old fellow.
17:28But let me tell you this, sir.
17:31That if Daniel Quilp can be of assistance to that misfortunate pair,
17:36in the way of supplying new furniture,
17:38making their premises more habitable and warm,
17:42Daniel Quilp will do so,
17:44to the final breath in his body.
17:45Can I say fairer, sir?
17:47Can any man say fairer?
17:48I bid you good night, Mr. Quilp.
18:21Mr. Quilp?
18:22It's me, Brass.
18:23My sister and I have taken up your kind invitation to call on you.
18:28Come in, you fool.
18:38Don't stand there shaking your head and showing your teeth.
18:42My Sally!
18:43My Sally Brass!
18:45Why don't you melt it down and take another name?
18:47Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
18:50Hold your nonsense, Mr. Quilp, too.
18:52And what, may I ask, is this?
18:55You know it, do you see the likeness?
18:57Oh, I fancy I do see, eh...
18:59Well, there's certainly something in the smile that reminds me...
19:03I bought the dog yesterday.
19:04I've been screwing gimlets into him ever since.
19:08It's the boy.
19:09The boy Nubbles. Kid Nubbles.
19:11Oh!
19:11Isn't it his image, his picture this very self, isn't it?
19:14Hey, isn't it?
19:14Oh, excellent, sir.
19:15Yes, of course. Oh, very good, sir. Couldn't be better.
19:19Sit down. Fair, Sally.
19:22Sit down. Sit down, brass.
19:27Isn't it nice? Isn't it snug?
19:30Do you like it here, my angel? Does she like quilts above?
19:33She'll like it better when she's offered tea. Tea is what we were invited for.
19:38Sweet, charming, gentle, overwhelming Sally.
19:43He's quite the troubadour, you know. Quite the troubadour.
19:49Better than tea, eh? Stronger than tea, healthier than tea.
19:54Tea could kill a man.
19:56So could that. You've forgotten the water. It's burning hot.
20:01Fire and brimstone.
20:06Drink up. Moisten your clay.
20:11Now, you took on a clerk to oblige me. Yes, indeed, sir.
20:15You may now discharge him. Yes, indeed, sir.
20:17Discharge Mr Richards. You have more than one clerk? No.
20:20I want him away.
20:22I want him out of the city a thousand miles away.
20:26Oh, my word, I wasn't prepared for this. Oh, be quiet.
20:29It shall be done. Charming. Charming.
20:32Charming.
20:33And the lodger? The latest of the lodger.
20:35He still seeks the missing couple.
20:38They're not poor.
20:39They can't be poor.
20:41How can they be poor and have a man like your lodger scouring the countryside for them?
20:45My very words... They're clearly not poor.
20:49But they do not know that they are not poor.
20:54Miss Sally, you are composed of wisdom.
20:56Beneath that stern exterior...
20:59There he is. Delightfully, yes.
21:02The clerk will have to work out his time.
21:04We'll finish the clerks now. We're under business. Real business. Private business.
21:09I'll take down notes, Mr Quill.
21:11Put away your notes. The boy nubbles. Hmm?
21:15I need him put out of my way.
21:17And out of everyone's way.
21:19I need to put a stop to his chattering mouth.
21:22And there's a happy end for all of us.
21:24There's a golden end just round the corner.
21:27Shall it be done?
21:30Difficult.
21:31He's a slander, I say. Hmm?
21:33Dishonest, say. A thief, say!
21:36Sounds a trifle in judiciary. Oh!
21:38Just a trifle. Nothing in all.
21:41Of course, it's injudicious.
21:43But shall it be done?
21:46Shall you lay your two legal heads together and arrange the matter?
21:53It would be better not to discharge the clerk.
21:56Not discharge Swiveller?
21:57Not to discharge the clerk until after the event.
22:02A witness, you understand, sir.
22:05Miss Sally would retain the clerk a day or two as an independent witness.
22:10You catch our meaning, sir.
22:20Oh, you legal devils, sir. You wicked naughty pair. Whatever next?
22:35Oh, Mum! Mum! My most humble of apologies. My most abject of apologies. My saddest, most sorrowful...
22:43Oh, really, Mr Swiveller. You are a winner.
22:46Oh, Mum! Your heart. You're wounded. Come, take a comfortable seat.
22:48Take the finest second-hand stool ever together, darling.
22:52What?
22:52Whatever are you doing with all these vittles?
22:54What?
22:56Oh, those vittles.
22:58Well, to tell you the truth, Marshalness, I was feeling a bit sharpish down here.
23:02An unpleasant kind of sharpishness.
23:05Hunger, as it's known in the trade.
23:07But there's two places, sir.
23:09What is there, Marshalness?
23:11Well, the table, sir, it's set for two.
23:14So it is.
23:16So what's the logical deduction, Marshalness?
23:20That you was expecting company?
23:22Company, I have.
23:24So let the banquet commence!
23:26Oh, sir!
23:28Oh, darsons!
23:29Our respectable employees are chilling the cockles of their hearts
23:32and their delightful company, Mr Quilp.
23:50Oh, you are kept short.
23:52A little more!
23:53A morsel of beef!
23:55Thank you, sir!
23:59Are they sitting down to a banquet, do you think?
24:01Well, I doubt Mr Quilp will be giving a banquet, sir.
24:03Oh, so do I doubt Mr Quilp.
24:04Huh!
24:04He'd offer them maybe a wooden leg to the other side of a boat.
24:07Huh!
24:08I'll tell you this, Marshalness.
24:09They're a trio.
24:10They are that, sir.
24:11Not what you call an anthem trio.
24:13The ugliest, most ungainly, most pernicious trio to be found the length of the river.
24:17Best be looking at the bottom of it.
24:20I doubt you've ever said a truer word, Marshalness.
24:25I've been cheated by Mr Quilp.
24:28He's an oily customer.
24:30The fact that, unfortunately, evaded my notice when first we met.
24:35They're up to something.
24:37Even as we sit here, they're up to something.
24:40I'll wager at this very moment they're bringing someone low.
24:43Who would that be, sir?
24:45Anyone.
24:46Anyone who'd done them no harm.
24:49There's a girl I know.
24:50You wouldn't have met a Marshalness.
24:53A happy girl she was.
24:55A laughing, merry girl.
24:57And an old man.
24:59Whose single weakness was played upon, if I'm not mistaken.
25:02And now, if I'm not mistaken, also,
25:05our jolly trio of planning their grand finale.
25:09Oh, Mr Swivey, sir.
25:12Well...
25:13Whatever's gonna happen then?
25:17Nothing good, Marshalness.
25:20Nothing good.
25:23Nothing good!
25:24Nothing good!
25:42Nothing good!
25:42Nothing good!
25:43Nothing good!
25:45Pleinence!
25:49When I'm stopped building...
25:50I'm not in pain!
25:50Oh, there's nothing good!
25:51Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough.
26:48Sous-titrage MFP.
26:51Sous-titrage MFP.
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