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The Other веNnеT Sister S01e01
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00:16It is a sad fact of life that if a young woman is unlucky enough to come into the world
00:21without expectations,
00:22she had better do all she can to ensure that she is beautiful.
00:30To be poor and handsome is misfortune enough, but to be penniless and plain is a hard fate indeed.
00:39Or so my mother taught us.
00:42Mr. Bennet, have you heard? Netherfield Park is lit at last.
00:47I have not.
00:51Do you want to know who has taken it?
00:54You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
00:57I would like to know.
01:00It has been lent to a Mr. Bingley, a single man of large fortune, four or five thousand a year.
01:10I heard someone came down on Monday in a chaise and four.
01:13From whom did you hear this?
01:15Girls, you must prepare yourselves.
01:18Mrs. Long told me he is from the north of England.
01:21He saw Netherfield Park, fell in love with it, and snapped it up straight away.
01:25In order to understand my mother's enthusiasm for this stranger's arrival, we must start at the beginning.
01:33With cake.
01:36In Meriton, England.
01:41Where a wealthy boy met beautiful girl.
01:45Father, meet mother.
01:47Sadly, the happiness of this union was to be undone by an archaic entail that meant only a male heir
01:53could inherit my father's estate.
01:54And what followed was girl, after girl, after girl, after girl, after girl.
02:05That's his fortune, and her beauty were worthless.
02:10Mother spent her days trying to involve father in how to overcome their dire situation.
02:14But father hid in his newspaper, indifferent to the cause.
02:17Why should he engage?
02:19When the time comes...
02:20I'll be dead anyway.
02:23Our mother, not known for giving up easily, found a chink of light.
02:28A saving grace.
02:30Each of her children possessed a certain je ne sais quoi.
02:33Be it Jane's beauty.
02:37Lizzie's wit.
02:39Kitty's good humour.
02:41Or Lydia's spirit.
02:45If she could secure advantageous marriages for each of us girls, it would be enough to save us all from
02:51destitution.
02:53Although I had not found my own best quality, I was quite sure that I would.
03:00My fault, Mary.
03:02Until the day my mother's true opinion of me was confirmed.
03:05Mary has an awfully ruddy complexion.
03:08She does not have the complexion of her sisters, that is true.
03:11And she is clumsy, ungainly, maladroite, as they say.
03:17Four good marriages will have to do.
03:20I only hope she does not ruin her sister's chances.
03:42What kind of battle cry?
03:44You mean, please?
03:47Don't hurt your wounded, is it okay?
03:49I have an advantage to her sister, Brittany?
03:51Do not let you see.
03:52What do you see?
03:58If you're not the beautiful one, the quick-witted one, or the ones that are good at games and full
04:04of youthful energy, then who are you?
04:08And what can you do if you're the odd one out?
04:12Is it possible you'll ever find a way to fit in?
04:19Worse, I think.
04:32Worse still.
04:33Do not fret, Miss Bennet.
04:45Have we found it?
04:48I think we have, Mr Sparrow.
04:50Thank goodness for that.
04:58You see, the lenses here correct your vision by bending light rays.
05:02Well, I never.
05:17You really do look very well in your spectacles.
05:21Especially when you smile.
05:25Ah, I do not think my mother will agree, but I have a great passion for reading, and I would
05:31have been sad to stop.
05:34I hope they will help you better enjoy the upcoming Meryton Assembly.
05:37An Assembly?
05:38Yes.
05:38In a month.
05:39I heard this morning.
05:41My sisters will be pleased.
05:45Perhaps I shall see you there.
05:47Hmm.
05:52Miss Mary, you ought to get on.
05:54Of course, he'll.
05:55I'll settle affairs here.
05:57Of course.
05:57Um, thank you.
05:58And thank you, Mrs Sparrow.
06:07I have news.
06:10There's going to be an Assembly in Meryton in a month.
06:13We know.
06:13Oh.
06:14I'm going to be the one to tell Mama.
06:16This will mark my first Assembly.
06:19My first venture into society.
06:22So it will?
06:26How am I to secure a partner for dancing?
06:28I've always wondered.
06:29Oh, Mary, I'm sure your clever mind can work out something as simple as dance partners.
06:33Do not fret.
06:34Not.
06:35Not fretting.
06:38I'm not fretting.
06:57Jane, do you think I shall be allowed to dance?
07:03Mary, move.
07:04Do you hope you're not going to stand this close at the Assembly?
07:07Oh, we should have taken the long route.
07:09Oh, these are my good boots.
07:12Oh, I'm all for you for wearing them.
07:15Dan.
07:20Do you think russet would be too harsh for my complexion?
07:23I don't see why it should.
07:25It would match my eyes, I suppose.
07:27Your eyes are green.
07:29You are so inattentive.
07:34Mr Thompson told me himself I was the first to know that the ball is confirmed.
07:38We were the first.
07:39I was the first.
07:40He was stood a little behind me.
07:41It is wonderful.
07:42What will I wear?
07:43Are Kitty and Lydia allowed to attend the ball, Father?
07:46Why would we not be?
07:46I was the one that found out about it.
07:47Am I allowed?
07:50Jane, Lizzie, you'll of course go.
07:52And Mary.
07:53Father, I shall die if I do not go.
07:55I'll probably die too.
07:56I very much doubt that.
07:57Mr Bennett, Kitty and Lydia will also need to find husbands.
08:01After Jane and Lizzie, of course.
08:05I don't see what the fuss is all about.
08:07Those horrible, sweaty affairs.
08:10Mary, you will attend.
08:13Oh.
08:14Oh, well, of course, Mother, if you wish.
08:18Lady Lucas and I will need someone to fetch us our drinks.
08:20As long as I am not expected to attend.
08:22Mr Bennett.
08:23I told you, I will not attend another of those insufferable, muddy little dancers.
08:28I wonder if Mr Bingley will be going to the Meriton Assembly.
08:31Oh, he must be.
08:33Who would admit it?
08:34Me, apparently.
08:36You shall all go to the ball, as long as I am obliged to hear no more about it.
08:41I shall never be rid of you otherwise.
08:44Perhaps I shall dance with Bingley too.
08:45I'm me.
08:46What's excitement over a man you've never set eyes on?
08:48Quite ridiculous.
08:48Oh, Mary, we're only indulging ourselves.
08:57Mary is wearing spectacles.
08:59What on earth?
09:01Very good.
09:02I hope you find them most useful, Mary.
09:04I do, Father.
09:05Mr Bennett, did you know about this?
09:07We discussed this at length.
09:10Mary was to visit the optician.
09:11Yes, but I did not know that she would actually need to wear glasses.
09:15You seem to forget, my dear, that I wear spectacles myself.
09:18But she is a woman.
09:21Nevertheless, she ought to be able to see.
09:23I think they look very well.
09:27Potatoes, Mary.
09:31In case you couldn't see them.
09:34I think you're very brave to be prepared to look so ugly.
09:37Did you?
09:37But Papa, who is going to dance with Mary with those things on her face?
09:40Pleased to be able to read.
09:43Oh, I do hope you are to meet him.
09:45Surely we must.
09:47Spectacles, indeed.
09:49I wonder if it is a handsome restaurant.
09:50It's a shame that you're not being a tailor.
09:52It is a shame.
09:54Mama, Kitty and I will need new dresses for the ball.
09:56I hope you are too late for me.
10:01I know.
10:01Bye.
10:04Bye.
10:07Bye.
10:10Bye.
10:16Bye.
10:17Bye.
10:18Bye.
10:20Bye.
10:22Bye.
10:40Maybe I could help you pick out a dress for the Meryton Assembly, Miss Mary.
10:44Oh, hell.
10:47What am I to do as a dance?
10:50Dance?
10:50Dance. But what if no one wants to dance with me?
10:56And you'll eat lots of ices.
10:58Such fripperies are not for me.
11:00I wonder, Miss Mary, if you don't see yourself clearly.
11:03If you're saying I don't bear comparison to my sisters, I've known that for years.
11:07A daffodil might look plain next to a lily, but on its own there is much to be admired.
11:12Now I am tall and yellow.
11:14Miss Mary, I wonder if you wouldn't be a little happier if you went out in the world
11:21and saw yourself how other people see you, outside of your family.
11:28Well, that's decided.
11:30I am picking you out a new dress for the Assembly.
11:34And I will not hear another word on the subject.
11:48Help! I've lost my ribbon!
11:52Found us!
11:59Madam, please remain still, if you can.
12:08Does the gold make me look like?
12:12A little.
12:15Kitty!
12:16What is it?
12:17Those are my books, Lydia.
12:18I cannot reach my children's box.
12:20I need something to stand on.
12:21This is important, Mary.
12:23We need to start getting ready, Miss Mary.
12:32Jane is first.
12:34That's not fair, I'm always last.
12:36Mary, we're last.
12:40Do you think I'll be able to dance on it?
12:43Does it still hurt?
12:44Yes.
12:44It was two weeks ago.
12:45I know.
12:47Should we eat beforehand?
12:49Perhaps a very small meal.
12:51And don't drink too much.
12:51What if I'm thirsty?
12:53Lydia, I don't suppose you want to relieve yourself behind a screen in front of everyone.
12:57Listen.
12:58No.
13:01No.
13:30Is it too fine for me?
13:31do you think? You look very handsome in it.
13:45Katie, we have taken my party!
13:47We have, we are.
13:48Miss Lydia, you can't come to your party.
13:50What in that scent?
14:28I have to get the
14:57I like your dress, Mary.
14:59Oh, Charlotte.
15:02What's that about?
15:03I swear, the crowd gets bigger every season.
15:05We should limit entry to those young ladies fortunate enough to have secured partners.
15:09I thought the very same thing.
15:23Oh, yes.
15:42Mr. Bingley, welcome.
15:43These are my sisters, Louisa, and this is Caroline.
15:47This is Mr. Hurst and Mr. Darcy.
15:50And if I may present, Mrs. Bennet.
15:55Miss Jane Bennet.
15:57Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
16:01Kitty and Lydia.
16:05Oh, and this is Miss Mary Bennet.
16:11Who's the compass girl in the whole neighborhood.
16:14That is a great achievement, to be sure.
16:17Study clearly trumps all other considerations in your mind.
16:21What's an example to us all?
16:31Oh, Harry, can I get it?
16:52Come on, you ready?
17:09You will not believe the insufferable company that Mr. Bingley keeps.
17:13What has happened?
17:14I also heard, quite accidentally, Mr. Bingley talking to that conceited gentleman lent against
17:20the wall there, a Mr. Darcy, who said of me, she is tolerable, but not handsome enough
17:28to tempt me.
17:32Oh, my goodness.
17:37How round we go?
17:43Excuse me, Miss Bennet.
17:46I do not mean to intrude, but it is very bad for your eyes to screw them up in such
17:50a fashion.
17:51Mr. Sparrow.
17:52Perhaps I may be permitted to help you find what you're looking for.
17:56I was looking for, uh, my sisters.
18:01Take his hand.
18:03I'm quite exhausted from all the dancing.
18:05I just chose to sit this one out.
18:08That is a shame.
18:11I was going to ask if you would do me the honor of standing up with me for the next
18:14dance.
18:15Actually, I'm now feeling much rested.
18:17And I would be delighted.
18:19Well, then, I thank you.
18:22Oh, yes.
18:25Shall we remain here until the next set of spades?
18:27Of course, except that's exactly what I thought.
18:37How are your spectacles?
18:39Very well.
18:40Yes, I'm able to study for hours without issue.
18:43I am delighted to hear that.
18:46My turn.
18:51Perhaps you could recommend a book to me.
18:53What do you read with such enjoyment?
18:57Mrs. Catherine McCauley has written a wonderful account of British history.
19:01It's a fascinating read.
19:02I will seek it out.
19:03Oh, are you a scholar, sir?
19:05I like to read, but science rather than history.
19:08I have a plan to study medicine in London.
19:10Baths or maybe morphine's.
19:13What a noble ambition.
19:15But it is not a thing widely known.
19:17I have not mentioned it to anyone before you.
19:21I have to speak of it to no one.
20:26I'm regretting visiting the supper table so early, I should have had less oyster patties.
20:33It's fewer.
20:35It's fewer oyster patties.
20:39Here we go!
20:56Here we go!
21:15Here we go!
21:20Would you like a cold drink, Ms. Bellis?
21:24Yes, that's an excellent idea. Thank you.
21:35It looks as though you are enjoying yourself, Mary.
21:40Your partner is the young John Sparrow, isn't he?
21:43Yes, the optician's son.
21:45And you have danced with him twice.
21:50Mary, you are very young.
21:52And perhaps do not fully appreciate how things are understood.
21:56If you are to dance with him again, it will be remarked upon.
21:59Two dances in succession suggest a liking.
22:01Three might imply something more.
22:07I'm very happy dancing with him.
22:20I see that you have stood up twice with the Sparrow boy.
22:24Yes, Mama.
22:26You will not dance with him again.
22:31But, Mother, he's been most attentive. He's quite the gentleman.
22:36Mary, his father, owns a shop.
22:40Yes?
22:41With a bill.
22:45Mother, I have danced with him twice.
22:47I have no wish to marry him.
22:49You may not object to lowering yourself,
22:51but I will not have you ruin your sister's chances of a match.
23:15Would you care to dance again, Miss Bennet,
23:17once we have finished our ices?
23:20Mrs. Sparrow, I am afraid that I shall...
23:25I shall not be able to stand up with you again this evening.
23:27Oh.
23:29But I thought...
23:31I thought...
23:33I hope I have not offended you.
23:35No, no, no.
23:35Not at all, sir.
23:36I've...
23:37Oh, I've...
23:38I've very much enjoyed dancing with you.
23:41It's, um...
23:43That is to say that, um...
23:47My mother is concerned.
23:49Concerned?
23:50Um, for my sisters and I.
23:53Um, it's important that we make an appropriate social, um...
23:58One might say, uh, financially, um...
24:02Well, a suitable match.
24:04Miss Bennet, there is no need for an explanation.
24:07I shall not pursue the matter.
24:08I've enjoyed...
24:09I've enjoyed my time with, um...
24:11Good evening to you.
24:14I'm sorry.
24:15I'm sorry.
24:19I'm sorry.
24:45James stood up with him twice.
24:47I had little time for his friend.
24:50Please do not hold that against Mr. Bingley.
24:52Do you think I'll go to go against you?
24:53Yes.
24:54I dance for tea soldiers.
24:56They're not very good with faces, so I'm not sure how many times I stood up with anyone.
24:59Ew!
25:00As my mother and sisters happily dissected every moment of the ball, I felt a terrible sense of shame.
25:07I had caused hurt to a man whose only crime was being kind to me.
25:13Who was I?
25:15A coward who lacked the courage to follow her own inclinations.
25:20It was time to find my own way, to look for a new version of myself, as a serious-minded
25:27woman.
25:29From now on, knowledge and reason would be my guide.
25:33No more ribbons, ball gowns, or dance cards.
25:36Yes, the old Mary would be no more.
25:39I would transform into the intellectual one.
25:43That was how I would stand out, as the other Bennet sister.
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