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S1.E2 ∙ Mary Anne
Disraeli begins his early career as a Conservative and marries the widow of his friend and mentor, 13 years his senior. Starring: Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach.
S1.E2 ∙ Mary Anne
Disraeli begins his early career as a Conservative and marries the widow of his friend and mentor, 13 years his senior. Starring: Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach.
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00:00:34What on earth that with Wyndham Lewis?
00:00:37Oh that's the Oriental adventurer, the Israeli, the novelist.
00:00:40What here in Parliament?
00:00:42Lewis's fellow MP for Maidstorpe.
00:00:44You mean he's one of ours?
00:00:46He's over to him.
00:00:47Oh so he says.
00:00:48With radical ideas.
00:00:53He's fought five elections in five years to get here.
00:00:56Nothing it seems could keep him out.
00:01:18In Parliament one minute and the black benches aren't good enough for him.
00:01:23Flashy upstart.
00:01:24Flashy upstart.
00:01:25Oh my God.
00:01:35I'msterсь.
00:01:35Oh my Lord.
00:01:37Yeah.
00:01:40Oh.
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00:02:33To be part of such a scene in real life after waiting so long...
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00:02:41Perhaps you...
00:02:42Perhaps you are the only one who knows how I felt.
00:02:46Oh I'm so proud.
00:02:49Who's going to form the new government? Peel?
00:02:52No. Unfortunately.
00:02:55We outnumber the Liberals in Parliament but the Irish and Radicals will vote with them and keep them in office.
00:03:00Then you must attack. Split them up.
00:03:02I intend to as quickly as possible.
00:03:06Your maiden speech. I wish I could be there.
00:03:10I've composed it already.
00:03:12Is that possible?
00:03:13There is due to be a debate on the reforms in the Irish electoral system.
00:03:17Daniel O'Connell is bound to speak and I shall follow him.
00:03:20But he's your bitterest enemy is that wise?
00:03:22The whole house knows that. It's very important I make a successful speech as quickly as possible.
00:03:28The impact of this one will be tremendous.
00:03:32I stand here tonight, not formally sir, but to some degree as a representative of all, of all new members.
00:03:44Why laugh? Why envy me?
00:03:48About that time sir, when the bell of our cathedral announced the death of our monarch...
00:03:54Nothing is so easy as to learn.
00:03:59We remember well the amateur cloak between the noble titanus of the treasury bench and the learned daftness of Liske.
00:04:06Leave me trouble!
00:04:14Now, Mr. Speaker, we see the philosophical prejudices of men.
00:04:21I'm not surprised at the reception.
00:04:23Go home!
00:04:25Go home!
00:04:26Go home!
00:04:26Go home!
00:04:27Go home!
00:04:28I must say.
00:04:29Go home!
00:04:33I have succeeded.
00:04:40I have begun several things many times and I have succeeded at last.
00:04:46Although many predicted I must fail as they had done before me.
00:04:50Aye, I sit down now.
00:04:52But there will come a time when you will hear me.
00:05:02Finally, in the observations I am about to make,
00:05:06I shall strictly confine myself to the question it is you.
00:05:10Which is not to say that I will not refer...
00:05:12I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
00:05:14Really?
00:05:15It was just a speech.
00:05:17He must have made hundreds.
00:05:18Yes, never one so important.
00:05:19In what way, Mr. Blasey?
00:05:20Well, you see, ma'am, one may speak well on many occasions and in many places,
00:05:24yet fail when one tries to speak in Parliament.
00:05:28That's why a new member's first speech is so important.
00:05:31Well, it ensures that when he rises again, he'll be listened to.
00:05:34Oh, no wonder it is he's so disappointed.
00:05:38No, my boy.
00:05:39Peel said some of the party were disappointed but not him.
00:05:43He said he thought you did the best you could in the circumstances.
00:05:46Yes.
00:05:46He was being kind.
00:05:49Good God.
00:05:52I can't believe it.
00:05:55Oh, my stars.
00:05:58What is it?
00:06:03Shield?
00:06:06R.L. Shield, O'Connor's right-hand man.
00:06:09You cannot have invited him.
00:06:13I didn't think Pups had such a sense of humor.
00:06:26I don't... I don't believe you two know each other.
00:06:30Only by sight.
00:06:31I told Mr. Bulwer I was longing to meet you.
00:06:34I wanted to congratulate you in your speech today.
00:06:37Oh, you are pleased to be ironic, sir.
00:06:39Not at all, young man, I'm quite sincere.
00:06:41And I wanted to apologize for the disgraceful behavior of my fellow countrymen.
00:06:48And my pardon, sir, it is I who should apologize.
00:06:52No doubt you've been going around in despair.
00:06:57I say that your reception today was fortunate.
00:07:01Well, how so?
00:07:03Well, you must know that many of the members have misgivings about you.
00:07:08And not only amongst your opponents.
00:07:10I am aware that there might be a certain amount of prejudice.
00:07:13No, no, no. It is not just a matter of race.
00:07:15They are suspicious of your reputation for wit and brilliance.
00:07:19No speech that you could have made today would have been listened to properly.
00:07:23Do you believe so?
00:07:25I know it.
00:07:26At the best you would have been received coldly and your speech forgotten the next day.
00:07:30But the disgraceful behavior on my side of the house has made the house ashamed.
00:07:34So the next time you rise to speak you will be listened to with politeness.
00:07:38Now mark me, young man. You must surprise them.
00:07:43You must not be brilliant but very short and simple.
00:07:47Well, you've already shown us that you have a fine voice and a good temper.
00:07:51Now try to get rid of your genius for a while.
00:07:54Speak often.
00:07:55But try to be dull.
00:07:58Stick to practical matters.
00:08:00Quote figures and dates until you've earned a reputation for soundness.
00:08:05And in a short time the members on both sides of the house will sigh for the wit and eloquence
00:08:10they know is in you.
00:08:11And then you can pour them forth and soon you'll become a favorite speaker.
00:08:20I'm deeply grateful.
00:08:24It's probably the truest piece of advice I've ever had.
00:08:39Mind you if you give me half a chance I'd tear you to pieces in the house.
00:08:56Oh, Windham and I so enjoyed our visit down to your family.
00:09:00You know, it's a pity you can't visit them more often.
00:09:04It's like an oasis of calm down there.
00:09:06I always come away feeling refreshed.
00:09:09Last time I was there I rediscovered the works of Milton.
00:09:11Milton?
00:09:12I wandered through the woods reading Paradise Lost aloud.
00:09:16What language, what a sublime concept.
00:09:18Paradise Lost, is that a poem?
00:09:21I must make a note of it.
00:09:23And now you're plunged back to the prose world of politics.
00:09:27Headlong.
00:09:28I'm so grateful for you taking over the constituency work from Wyndham.
00:09:33It cannot be neglected but he's all his business affairs to attend to and you know he's far from strong.
00:09:38I'm only too happy to do it.
00:09:40Besides, I owe you both an unpayable debt.
00:09:44There's no question of debt.
00:09:46I'm more than content with my protégé.
00:09:49As usual, Marianne.
00:09:51You overwhelm me.
00:09:53If you will excuse me now, I must have work to do.
00:09:55Thank you for tea.
00:09:56Yes, of course.
00:09:57Oh, by the way, do you happen to have Mr Milton's address?
00:10:01Milton?
00:10:01Yes, I'd like to invite him to dinner.
00:10:05He's been dead for some time.
00:10:07Oh.
00:10:08Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that.
00:10:11Was it expected?
00:10:13Old age, I expect.
00:10:16There you are.
00:10:17Hello, my dear.
00:10:18Dizzy and I have been having such an interesting chat about his friend Mr Milton.
00:10:21Ah.
00:10:22Well, you can finish your gossip later.
00:10:23We have work to do.
00:10:32Marianne had never heard of Milton.
00:10:34I've certainly never heard her mention him.
00:10:36Do I know him?
00:10:38Probably not.
00:10:38He lived in a country.
00:10:40Ah.
00:10:43It's alright, come and rescue you.
00:10:44Marianne can be such a chatterbox.
00:10:46I must confess I once thought so, but a more mature acquaintance, sir,
00:10:50I find her not only delightful but surprisingly shrewd.
00:10:52You're perceptive, Mr Disraeli.
00:10:54Most people see her as an empty-headed flirtatious rattle,
00:10:57which of course she is.
00:10:58And I wouldn't change her.
00:11:01But behind it all, there is a fund of common sense which is invaluable to me.
00:11:05I told her I owe you both an unbearable debt.
00:11:10I'm already seeing a handsome return on my investment.
00:11:14I couldn't cope with all this constituency business.
00:11:18And now there's twice as much of it and you do it all in half the time.
00:11:20Well, this is work I've longed to do.
00:11:23Besides, I met my promises at the election.
00:11:25I intend to work for the people who voted for me.
00:11:28And you only wish that some of our colleagues were as convinced of your sincerity
00:11:31as your constituents and I?
00:11:34Well, I shall convince them sooner by not protesting too loudly.
00:11:37Oh, but you must be heard.
00:11:38The radicals think they've silenced you for good.
00:11:40They will soon learn the mistake.
00:11:42I intend to speak in the debate on the author's copyright bill.
00:11:47Last time there were complaints that even some of our friends couldn't understand you.
00:11:54Reassure yourself I shall be concise and simple.
00:12:00My point, sir, is that the author's copyright, the only legacy he may leave his heirs, should be protected for
00:12:08at least 50 years after his death.
00:12:11Yeah.
00:12:12Now it has been the boast of the Liberal Party that during the many brilliant periods of our literary annals
00:12:18they have been the patrons of letters.
00:12:20Yeah.
00:12:20And it would be very honourable for the present government if under its auspices it is succeeded by legislative protection.
00:12:37Now he's back in the saddle, he can ride on.
00:12:57So, Beale has not taken office after all.
00:12:59But why?
00:13:01Pride, Count Dorsey.
00:13:02No other reason than because Queen Victoria would not change the ladies of her court for the wives of those
00:13:07husbands who support him.
00:13:08Neither he nor she would give way.
00:13:10And so Dizzy has lost his chance of her position.
00:13:12Oh, depend on it, Count Dorsey.
00:13:14If Dizzy keeps up his new reputation as a serious practical thinker, he must be given office when we next
00:13:19form a government.
00:13:19Tell me, Dizzy, do you not find all this praise turning your head?
00:13:24Or do you take it with a pinch of salt?
00:13:26My dear Selina, to me it is like water in a desert where salt is the last thing one needs.
00:13:38Why is it that you are so amusing outside the party and so dark inside?
00:13:42That's because I'm never more serious than when I'm joking.
00:13:45Oh dear, well, now that the secret is out I shall have to take you very seriously all the time.
00:13:52That I say will be far too dangerous.
00:14:05Ravessant.
00:14:07You are in love with her?
00:14:10Of course.
00:14:10And with half a dozen others.
00:14:13But you are not about to propose.
00:14:16Nothing's further from my mind.
00:14:18To tie oneself perpetually to one room.
00:14:21Besides, it takes money to support a wife.
00:14:23Half a dozen I have less than none.
00:14:24Each year I borrow money to pay the interest on last year's debts.
00:14:27And each year the mountain grows bigger.
00:14:30For all of us, my friend.
00:14:32But you know, you could solve your problem so easily.
00:14:38You could take the inevitable step.
00:14:41By marrying an heiress.
00:14:43Someone like Selina.
00:14:45She is obviously attracted to you.
00:14:50What about Lady Charlotte Bertay?
00:14:52Clever.
00:14:5325,000 pounds.
00:14:55And home loving.
00:14:56She'd have you.
00:14:57I'm not yet up for auction.
00:15:01As for love.
00:15:03All my friends who married for that or beauty either beat their wives or live apart from them.
00:15:09Like Bulwer and his wife.
00:15:10Exactly.
00:15:18I may commit many follies.
00:15:21But I never intend to marry for love.
00:15:23Which I am sure is a guarantee of unhappiness.
00:15:46I was terribly sorry to hear this.
00:15:50What about?
00:15:52Don't you know?
00:15:54Wyndham Lewis.
00:15:56Wyndham?
00:15:58He is dead.
00:16:03When?
00:16:05This morning.
00:16:07Heart attack.
00:16:14We were married for 17 years.
00:16:19I was in the room with him when he died.
00:16:27He was so close.
00:16:31All I can see ahead is loneliness.
00:16:36Emptiness.
00:16:39Marianne.
00:16:42You are too young to feel that life is over.
00:16:45That all happiness died with him.
00:16:50I assure you that in myself and my family you have sincere friends who have loved you since our first
00:16:57acquaintance.
00:16:58I'm so grateful.
00:17:00So was Wyndham for your attention to me.
00:17:02It's not just gratitude on my part.
00:17:05It's an appreciation of the qualities I've come to see in you.
00:17:08The kindness and sweet temper that will make me always your friend.
00:17:15That will make me easy.
00:17:16Do you see?
00:17:18Oh
00:17:41Marianne is bearing up
00:17:46from her letters I'd say she had recovered her spirits wonderfully
00:17:52where is she now? oh she's in Wales attending to all Wyndham's business affairs
00:18:00well at least he left her well provided for
00:18:07and so my friend your prayers are answered
00:18:13in prayers and then to your financial problem the answer all along was to find a rich widow
00:18:20Mary Ange she's 45 or 46 13 years older than I am
00:18:25yes but she's very rich and pretty and young for her age and you like her
00:18:32yes I do I admire her to an extent but well then
00:18:35oh it's ridiculous Alfred she's never showed me that she would expect anything more
00:18:40oh no how many years she tell you she'll be married 17 by my reckoning it must be at least
00:18:5022
00:18:52you don't need me to tell you that a woman who had such a time is careful still to conceal
00:18:58her real age
00:19:17I should have let you be my first visitor on my return
00:19:20how could you doubt it
00:19:25I wrote as often as I could and such letters
00:19:32well I thought a little gossip might amuse you
00:19:34it was kind of you to think of me
00:19:36this guy's still been a moment when you've been out of my thoughts
00:19:40you know if I'd been a young girl I feel my head would have been turned
00:19:46why well I mean at first I read your letters out loud they were so amusing and charming but
00:19:51later I could not
00:19:53why's that
00:19:56well I they were more the letters of a lover than a friend
00:20:05perhaps because that is what I wish to be and not only a lover but a husband
00:20:11but you cannot mean I do surely you cannot be surprised you must know I have the most profound
00:20:17admiration for you oh yes as a as a friend but you never thought but I have long and deeply
00:20:25Marianne
00:20:28your heart is made to seek another with which it may beat in time and so is mine
00:20:35please now we could spend months years of needless thoroughness unless I speak now now I offer you
00:20:43constant companionship and unchanging devotion if you will marry me
00:20:48what can I say
00:20:51oh no no it's too soon love is always unexpected
00:20:58you know my feelings for you have always been
00:21:02I'm confused
00:21:05I need time
00:21:07I beg you for an answer
00:21:14now I couldn't possibly think of marrying again so soon
00:21:25I... I... I need time
00:21:30but to consider your offer to learn your true feelings
00:21:33but they will not change my heart is pledged
00:21:36but I must have a sign
00:21:40if you can wait a year
00:21:43you are to visit my parents of Bradenham next month you will still come
00:21:55and listen only to your own heart
00:21:59and if you find you can love me
00:22:03leave off the glove from your left hand so that I may clasp it
00:22:06and feel the soft warmth of it in mine and no one but ourselves shall know what it means
00:22:19you
00:22:20they're here
00:22:21leave the stars
00:22:45How lovely to see you.
00:22:47I'm so happy to be here.
00:22:49Come.
00:22:52Hello, you're welcome.
00:22:55We didn't know what train would be on.
00:22:58I'll get Tita to help your maid with the baggage.
00:23:00I can't tell you how much I've been longing to see you all again.
00:23:03Oh, you're so welcome.
00:23:06I'll go and call Tita.
00:23:08Tita!
00:23:41Oh, I got through so much when Mrs. Lewis was here.
00:23:46Every morning she read to me.
00:23:50Doesn't your magnifying glass help?
00:23:52No, no, no.
00:23:55Lettos.
00:23:57They blur and dance.
00:24:02Oh bless me though.
00:24:04My memory is as good as ever it was.
00:24:09What was the trouble with your committee?
00:24:12It made some money.
00:24:13Oh, the usual money but I raised it.
00:24:15I see.
00:24:17From Mrs. Lewis?
00:24:20Yes.
00:24:20It's a pity.
00:24:23I hope you're not committing a great folly Ben.
00:24:27There is no fiercer hell on earth than a loveless marriage.
00:24:30I know exactly what I'm doing father.
00:24:33I know.
00:24:35But it's not you who I am concerned about.
00:24:39It's Mary Anne.
00:24:41She's gentle.
00:24:42She's vulnerable.
00:24:43Father will you believe me when I tell you that my only fear is that I might not make her
00:24:48happy.
00:24:48Well said.
00:24:49Yes.
00:24:50But there are those who will think that your main interest is her money.
00:24:54It's not as much as I suppose nor as the world imagines.
00:24:57I see.
00:24:58And yet you still continue as her suitor.
00:25:01Even more.
00:25:05Yes?
00:25:06In these last few months since her visit
00:25:12I find I cannot live without her.
00:25:15Now I know she's silly frivolous.
00:25:20I don't care.
00:25:23It's a strange kind of love Ben.
00:25:27Strange.
00:25:31You're an enigma.
00:25:34Even to me.
00:25:36Even to myself?
00:25:39Father.
00:25:48Is he all right?
00:25:52Uncomplaining as usual.
00:25:53Still it.
00:25:55It is a cruel irony for someone who's lived for books all his life not to be able to read
00:26:00anymore.
00:26:01Yes.
00:26:02And you?
00:26:04Hmm?
00:26:06I hear you pacing your room at night.
00:26:09I know it is not only father's health which troubles you.
00:26:15Oh sir.
00:26:17Oh dear sir.
00:26:18I should know better than to try and hide anything from you.
00:26:22What is wrong?
00:26:23Something to do with Marianne?
00:26:25The last letters are informal and distant.
00:26:27I don't know why.
00:26:33The letters to me are the same as ever.
00:26:35There is one thing.
00:26:36The what?
00:26:37She seems to be seeing a great deal of Mrs. Bulwer.
00:26:41Rosina?
00:26:42Since she and her husband parted Marianne has often mentioned how cruelly he treated her.
00:26:48But everyone knows Rosina is mentally disturbed.
00:26:53She even appeared on the election platform to accuse him of infidelities everyone knew were untrue.
00:26:58Well she has succeeded in convincing Marianne that she is a martyr.
00:27:02And her husband a callous monster.
00:27:05Me being one of Bulwer's closest friends.
00:27:11I've been a fool.
00:27:15I must go back to London.
00:27:20But his letters have been so...
00:27:22Well so ardent.
00:27:23So loving.
00:27:24He longs for your four thousand a year.
00:27:28Yes but he knows that that in this house is all I've got.
00:27:31And that it could never come to him.
00:27:32I mean he knows that.
00:27:35Has he not told everyone you're to be his wife?
00:27:37Well.
00:27:38Well that proves that he's serious.
00:27:40All our friends now expect it.
00:27:42Oh yes.
00:27:43And so do the debt collectors.
00:27:45He's made sure to tell them too.
00:27:46They would not press him so hard knowing he's to marry into money.
00:27:52Is it your custom to walk in unannounced?
00:27:59Since when do I need to be announced in this house?
00:28:02And since when are my actions accountable to you madam?
00:28:07Are you going to let him speak to you like that under your own roof?
00:28:09Signor.
00:28:10Now.
00:28:11Signor please.
00:28:12Please.
00:28:15Very well.
00:28:16I shall not call again until you send for me.
00:28:20I only hope that by then you may have learned whom you may depend on.
00:28:53Well I trust by the silence you are not displeased with me.
00:28:57How could you think that?
00:28:59I've written over and over again telling you of my feelings but from you nothing.
00:29:03Now have you discarded me or do you wish merely to show your power over me?
00:29:08Believe me I'd never put you to so mean a test.
00:29:11No.
00:29:12Well you know I can't express myself on paper the way you can.
00:29:16Oh I've been sorely troubled.
00:29:18How?
00:29:18The thought of the way Rosina has suffered.
00:29:21One can only feel sorry for her.
00:29:23If only the world knew how cruelly she'd been treated.
00:29:27Her husband brings his mistresses into her very home.
00:29:30Well everyone knows Rosina's stories are all lies.
00:29:33But...
00:29:34How can you say that?
00:29:35Because I have seen Bulwer's despair.
00:29:38And I have watched her change from a gentle girl into a poor creature.
00:29:42Driven by hysterical jealousy until she's not only a danger to herself but others.
00:29:49Yes.
00:29:51Yes you know she said that you'd take his side.
00:29:54That you were no better than he was.
00:29:56Oh and you believed her?
00:29:57Not the time.
00:29:58But now because you wish to.
00:30:00Look I'm not blind.
00:30:02You may think that I'm a...
00:30:04A stupid woman and laugh at me behind my back but I know a fraud when I see one.
00:30:10A fraud?
00:30:13I'm not vain enough to think it's my beauty that draws you here.
00:30:16You've no scruples when you see something that you want.
00:30:20Seat in parliament, house,
00:30:22fortune to give you respectability.
00:30:24Very well madam since you would have it.
00:30:27When I first proposed to you I was prompted by no romantic feelings.
00:30:32A wife would have been convenient to me.
00:30:35Without the tortures of romantic passion so I was not blind to the advantages of our alliance.
00:30:40But I found you in despair and I was touched.
00:30:44I...
00:30:46I find you amiable.
00:30:49Gifted.
00:30:50One whom I can look on with pride as the partner of my life.
00:30:53Who can console me in defeats.
00:30:55Share with me in my triumphs.
00:30:58My happiness.
00:31:02I will not be made a fool of.
00:31:06How could I have believed that you'd love a woman so much older than yourself?
00:31:14Apparently.
00:31:16All you wish to believe is what jealous friends tell you.
00:31:21Now hear the truth.
00:31:24This so-called fortune of yours is only enough to maintain you and this house.
00:31:28Now for me to eat and sleep here is that sufficient reason for me to give up my liberty?
00:31:32Would I sell myself so cheap?
00:31:36I wouldn't consent to be...
00:31:39I wouldn't consent to be kept by a princess if it were not for love but I can't expect you
00:31:42to understand that.
00:31:43I thought that our hearts were inextricably linked.
00:31:45Well I can only blame myself.
00:31:48As for your behavior towards me I make no comment.
00:31:52Oh no doubt you will flutter in frivolous circles for a while.
00:31:56But there will come a day when you will sigh for a heart that can be fond and despair of
00:32:01one that can be faithful.
00:32:02And then perhaps you may think of me.
00:32:07I cannot pretend to wish you happiness.
00:32:12Lizzie!
00:32:13Lizzie.
00:32:15Lizzie don't please me.
00:32:18Please don't leave me.
00:32:21I didn't mean any. None of it.
00:32:24I'll be everything to you.
00:32:28Everything you could wish for me.
00:32:31I love you.
00:32:35I love you.
00:32:36I love you beyond anything in the world.
00:33:01I love you.
00:33:03I love you.
00:33:08I love you.
00:33:13I love you.
00:33:20I love you.
00:33:23I love you.
00:33:25I love you.
00:33:26I love you.
00:33:26I love you.
00:33:27I love you.
00:33:28I love you.
00:33:29I love you.
00:33:30I love you.
00:33:30I love you.
00:33:37So Melbourne is out.
00:33:38Finally.
00:33:40And now Peel has agreed to form a government.
00:33:43Has he sent for you yet?
00:33:45No not as yet but I did hear that you are once again to be Lord Chancellor.
00:33:50Yes I hope to show there's still some life in the old dog yet.
00:33:54I couldn't be more pleased.
00:33:55And you Mr. Glaston?
00:33:57Vice-President of the Board of Trade has been mentioned.
00:34:00Nothing definite as yet.
00:34:02Oh Catherine will be proud.
00:34:04It's my sincere congratulations.
00:34:08Well we just looked in to see if you had been sent for Dizzy.
00:34:13Your servant Mrs. Disraeli.
00:34:17Patience eh.
00:34:19There are still some posts to be filled.
00:34:20Oh many I fancy.
00:34:21Oh don't bother. We'll see ourselves out.
00:34:30Oh isn't that exciting?
00:34:32Sir Robert sitting in Downing Street choosing his team.
00:34:35Waiting to hear what he'll be offered.
00:34:38But Lyndhurst is uneasy. I could tell.
00:34:41Now what's the matter?
00:34:44I should have heard by now.
00:34:45Come on.
00:34:51Not to be chosen when Peel himself has often praised your ability.
00:34:56Oh no it's unthinkable.
00:35:02I have only been able to bear the struggle.
00:35:04The prejudice in the hope that one day I would be given official recognition by my own party.
00:35:08To be passed over now would be overwhelming.
00:35:09Oh no it's too unjust my darling. Peel must know that.
00:35:13I wish I was so sure.
00:35:16What can you do?
00:35:20Humiliate myself by writing to him and asking him not to destroy my career.
00:35:26You must write.
00:35:29I've been fighting against it all day.
00:35:32What does pride matter?
00:35:34There's no one else to speak for you.
00:35:41Colonial secretary.
00:35:43I'd have offered you the foreign office but the Queen
00:35:45or rather Prince Albert insists on Lord Aberdeen.
00:35:49I'm honored of course but
00:35:52I do have reservations.
00:35:54Reservations?
00:35:55What is this?
00:35:57Others have said the same. Young Gladstone.
00:35:59He may be hesitating for the same reason as myself.
00:36:01What reasons?
00:36:02Our first duty is to our party and our country.
00:36:07Sir Robert I will not serve in a government which contains that scoundrelled Israeli.
00:36:12He's an adventurer who only ran to us because the radicals were not having him.
00:36:15Does Gladstone feel the same?
00:36:16Well for some reason he admires Disraeli's talents
00:36:20but disapproves chiefly of his moral character.
00:36:23I see.
00:36:25Well that does not decide anything in haste.
00:36:32We'll talk again later.
00:36:40Very difficult.
00:36:42I've had a letter from Disraeli.
00:36:44Surprisingly humble.
00:36:45And another in secret from Mrs. Dizzy.
00:36:50Urging me not to destroy her husband's hopes.
00:36:54There's here.
00:36:56Really she'll be given some recognition.
00:36:59This has just come by a special messenger from Peel.
00:37:04I nearly opened it myself.
00:37:13My dear sir.
00:37:15I must in the first place observe.
00:37:18I should have been very happy.
00:37:22Had it been within my power.
00:37:25To avail myself of your offer of service.
00:37:29And your letter is one of many I receive which to forcibly impress upon me.
00:37:34How painful.
00:37:35And invidious.
00:37:36I should have done anything.
00:38:03I'll be very happy.
00:38:03I will.
00:38:03I will be very happy.
00:38:04Yay!
00:38:20Enjoying the pageant, Penting?
00:38:21Not particularly.
00:38:24I'm told that Ben Dizzy was tempted to enter the lists.
00:38:27Can you see him as a knight in shining armour?
00:38:29Not really.
00:38:31What device is he going to use?
00:38:34Three golden balls.
00:38:42Oh, well hit!
00:38:45Do you approve of this mocked medievalism, Dizzy?
00:38:49We lament the passing of chivalry.
00:38:50Why not attempt to revive the ideal?
00:38:52Oh, if only it doesn't rain.
00:38:54It's amusing enough, I suppose, but of no real value.
00:38:58Oh, not in practical terms, no.
00:39:00Not in terms of the price of bread or a pound of sausages,
00:39:02but it reminds us of the principle the property has its duties as well as its rights.
00:39:08The protection of the weak but strong.
00:39:09I might have known you take the poetical view.
00:39:12It certainly appeals to our friends, young England.
00:39:17Good evening!
00:39:18Oh, her nickname given to four very young, well-born MPs who were all together at Cambridge.
00:39:23Conservative?
00:39:24Unfortunately.
00:39:25They preach a romantic vision of the monarchy ruling through an enlightened aristocracy.
00:39:29That kind of thing.
00:39:30Absolute nonsense, of course.
00:39:32Well, not necessarily.
00:39:33Not if it could be achieved.
00:39:35It can't be, Dizzy.
00:39:36It's as impractical as this Gallimofra here today.
00:39:40Oh!
00:39:41Oh, that mask!
00:39:44Oh!
00:39:44Oh!
00:39:47Oh!
00:39:48Oh!
00:39:50Oh!
00:39:50Oh!
00:39:50Oh!
00:39:51Oh!
00:39:54Oh!
00:39:55Oh!
00:40:03May we?
00:40:04Oh, please!
00:40:05Oh, my dear, you remember George Smythe?
00:40:07Oh, yes, yes, of course.
00:40:09Isn't it a dreadful day?
00:40:11What a pity the tournament's been spoiled.
00:40:13It is indeed, ma'am.
00:40:14You could almost say, well, that it was a washout.
00:40:19May I present my colleague, Lord John Mannes?
00:40:22Ma'am, I've looked forward to meeting you, sir.
00:40:26I have told Johnny that we have spoken and that you agree with us.
00:40:31To an extent.
00:40:32I'm not sure our views are the same.
00:40:33Well, basically, we believe, like you, that conservatism should be progressive and dynamic.
00:40:39We are convinced that a ginger group, speaking and voting according to its beliefs,
00:40:43could help to shock our party out of its fear of progress.
00:40:48And, um, you want my husband to join you?
00:40:51No, madam.
00:40:52We want him to lead us.
00:40:55I shall abstain from voting on this futile Irish arms bill.
00:40:59But I must speak.
00:41:02There are certain measures which to introduce is disgraceful,
00:41:06and to oppose is degrading.
00:41:09The real answer to the Irish question is not the use of force,
00:41:12but to seek out the causes of the past great misgovernment,
00:41:18and to put an end to a state of things which is the bane of England,
00:41:22and earns us the condemnation of all Europe!
00:41:28That's it!
00:41:29A great speech!
00:41:40That's outrageous!
00:41:44Hope they should attack their own government.
00:41:46They must be brought to heel.
00:41:48Younger men, young England can be.
00:41:50Israel is the only dangerous one.
00:41:52He's put them up to it.
00:41:53He should be driven from the party.
00:41:54And from this club.
00:41:56He should never have been allowed into the carton in the first place.
00:41:58We must be careful not to make too much of it.
00:42:01It'll make him seem more important than he is.
00:42:07I don't know how you kept your temper, Prime Minister.
00:42:10That scoundrel in fancy dress swore to support this party.
00:42:13One thing I can't stand is a man who breaks his word.
00:42:17There's the answer to Disraeli.
00:42:19Good, honest bentinck.
00:42:21He takes more interest in his racehorses and estates than does in politics.
00:42:26The other country members respect him, follow his opinion,
00:42:30and they're the backbone of the party.
00:42:32Well, now that he's antagonized him, I imagine that's the end of the Jew d'esprit.
00:42:39No, let men stand by the principle by which they rise, right or wrong.
00:42:48Do not, because you see a great personage, give up his opinions.
00:42:56Do not cheer him on.
00:42:58Do not give so ready a reward to political turncoats.
00:43:02Hear, hear.
00:43:04Hear, hear.
00:43:06Hear, hear.
00:43:08Hear, hear.
00:43:09Hear, hear.
00:43:24I thought you would be asleep.
00:43:27Not without you.
00:43:29Not without hearing how it went.
00:43:31It's a veritable thief.
00:43:33So how did your speech go?
00:43:34Well, they started by not wanting to listen.
00:43:36They ended by cheering.
00:43:37Even some behind me.
00:43:39Oh.
00:43:40I thought you'd go to the Colton cabin.
00:43:42No, no, no, no.
00:43:43Now, sit still or I shall be cross.
00:43:49Well, what's the matter?
00:43:50You said your speech was a great success.
00:43:52Yes, but no one will follow my lead.
00:43:53I've attacked this government again and again and Peel only grows stronger.
00:43:59Our economy is based on agriculture.
00:44:02Peel became Prime Minister on a promise
00:44:05to protect the farmers, land workers and landowners
00:44:08to prevent the Liberals from lowering the price of imported grain.
00:44:11I wanted to buy popularity with Chief Brett.
00:44:14Which is exactly what Peel intends to do.
00:44:17And the devil take the farmers he swore to protect.
00:44:19Well, if the others see that, why don't they protest?
00:44:22It would mean admitting I'm right.
00:44:24Lord Stanley has already resigned from the government.
00:44:26Will not support me openly.
00:44:28Well, what about young England?
00:44:30They're too afraid.
00:44:32Even today, Lyndhurst told me that
00:44:35even the Queen and Prince Albert
00:44:38support Peel.
00:44:39They find my speeches offensive.
00:44:42Almost treason.
00:44:44Well, they're wrong.
00:44:46And whoever I see them, I shall tell them so.
00:44:49Thank you, my dear.
00:44:51If only you could convince the members of my own party.
00:44:54What do they matter?
00:44:56The young folk clustered around you and the people in the streets?
00:44:59Yes, but they do not vote in the House of Commons.
00:45:02Even their change must come sooner or later.
00:45:05I mean, they must accept new ideas.
00:45:08How long will it take?
00:45:10I am completely alone.
00:45:15Well, if you fight for something you believe in, you must fight to the finish.
00:45:19I mean, even if the Queen's against you.
00:45:22Even if the whole of Parliament reject you.
00:45:27You are the noblest of spirits.
00:45:31The most sympathetic.
00:45:36The most understanding.
00:45:38And the most severe of critics.
00:45:41You are the perfect wife.
00:45:45Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament you have betrayed.
00:45:49And appeal to the people who, I believe, distrust you.
00:45:55But for me, there remains at least this.
00:45:59The opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief
00:46:03that a Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.
00:46:11Lord George Bentick!
00:46:17Sir, when the Honourable Gentleman who has just spoken
00:46:23predicted and denounced in the last session
00:46:25the eventual defection of the Prime Minister,
00:46:29there was no member of the Conservative Party
00:46:31who more violently condemned the attack as unfounded
00:46:36or more readily opposed the attacker.
00:46:39Now I must rise to support him.
00:46:43The trust which I held sacred has been betrayed.
00:46:48To abolish protection to which we are pledged
00:46:51is dishonourable to the Parliament
00:46:54as well as to the Government.
00:47:18You see, I own racehorses.
00:47:22I know more about pedigree than politics.
00:47:25I keep racehorses in three counties.
00:47:28They say I'll save 1,500 a year by free trade.
00:47:30Well, I don't care about that.
00:47:32One thing I can't stand is being sold.
00:47:36Hang it, I trusted Peel completely.
00:47:40Now, just as you say, he's about to go back on his word
00:47:42and that is unforgivable.
00:47:45The impact of your speech was remarkable.
00:47:4918 years in Parliament is the first time I've opened my mouth.
00:47:54I'm a plain man.
00:47:57I'll leave the talking to others.
00:47:59But when they start to become dishonest
00:48:01it's time for the rest of us to speak out.
00:48:04Will you do so again?
00:48:07Just let them try and stop me.
00:48:12I say again, this Government's deliberate dishonesty.
00:48:19May I remind the Right Honourable Baronet
00:48:23that in the past
00:48:25when someone of eminence in his own party
00:48:28changed his opinions
00:48:30he denounced him as base and dishonest
00:48:32and brought him down.
00:48:34And yet now he changes his opinions.
00:48:37Does he not stand convicted by his own verdict?
00:48:41Yes!
00:48:45Tell us!
00:48:59For one who claims to be no speaker
00:49:01you've developed a powerful command of the House.
00:49:05Now that I've started I find I quite enjoy it.
00:49:09Whatever happens
00:49:11I'm glad we've fought together.
00:49:13Sometimes I think that
00:49:15I wish I got to know you properly years ago.
00:49:29Order!
00:49:30Order!
00:49:34The Ais to the right 327
00:49:38The no's to the left 229
00:49:47The eyes to the right, 327, the nose to the left, 229.
00:49:56So the eyes have it.
00:49:58Order! Order!
00:50:05All that work for nothing.
00:50:13No. Work out the figures.
00:50:21All the liberals and radicals would go with the government for the Peel.
00:50:24But with the majority of 98, that means Peel got 112 on Conservative votes.
00:50:29Over 200 voted for us.
00:50:32By heavens, you're right.
00:50:34Peel may have won the vote, but he's lost the party.
00:50:40So, what happened?
00:50:42With most of the party against him, Peel has resigned.
00:50:47Oh, well then you've triumphed.
00:50:50A somewhat bitter triumph, ma'am.
00:50:53Yes, the party is now divided.
00:50:55The official Conservatives and those that have gone with Peel, most of the former leaders have stayed with him.
00:51:00But the split has let the Liberals back into power.
00:51:02And there will be a general election.
00:51:05Um, who will lead the Conservatives?
00:51:08Stanley and the Lords.
00:51:10And, um...
00:51:11In the Commons?
00:51:12We've had enough of leaders.
00:51:15Oh, would you excuse me?
00:51:18I've, um, I've, uh, I've some things to attend to.
00:51:25We need a focus.
00:51:27We must have a leader.
00:51:29Hmm.
00:51:30Well, we both know who it should be.
00:51:33You're the only possible...
00:51:34Oh, not me.
00:51:36The others are still not sure of me, while you they trust completely.
00:51:39I'm almost uneducated.
00:51:42I've never even thought of a political life until these last few months.
00:51:46Besides,
00:51:47Why should you consent to serve under me?
00:51:50Because you've forced Stanley to acknowledge me.
00:51:53He knows we need you to work out our strategy.
00:51:56I'm not at the risk of embarrassing you because I admire you profoundly.
00:52:01Hang it, I'm an outdoors man.
00:52:05Would mean a complete change in my way of life.
00:52:10I'd have to sell my stables.
00:52:11Oh, surely not.
00:52:12Well, I wouldn't have time for racehorses.
00:52:16There's so much to learn.
00:52:19Political business, procedures.
00:52:23I'd have to rely on you for everything.
00:52:26And I'd be proud to work with you.
00:52:30And I, you.
00:52:34Why do you wear all those, uh,
00:52:37those chains?
00:52:39Hmm?
00:52:40Are you practicing to be Lord Mayor or something?
00:52:43You know, for years I couldn't stand the sight of you
00:52:46because of your,
00:52:48your rings and your perfumes
00:52:49and your fancy way of dressing.
00:52:52Do you have to be such a cursed dandy?
00:52:55A dandy is not a mere clothes horse.
00:52:58To be a true dandy is to be self-disciplined,
00:53:00detached, even spiritual.
00:53:02It is also a gesture of individuality
00:53:04and a mask behind which the slights and sneers
00:53:06of the world cannot reach.
00:53:09Well, maybe you needed something to hide behind once,
00:53:11but hang it, that's why some of the others
00:53:14still distrust you.
00:53:15They expect their leading statesmen to look the part.
00:53:18Not like some Italian dancing master,
00:53:30but the impoverable delay
00:53:33in the making of progress
00:53:35on the proposed turnlight
00:53:38between...
00:53:44Athol, uh,
00:53:45down here in Puddleton,
00:53:49and, uh,
00:53:50and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:54and, uh,
00:53:55and, uh,
00:53:57I fear that this urgent matter
00:54:00may suffer the same unhappy fate
00:54:04as has for the time of year.
00:54:08It's strange.
00:54:10Those books are all that's left of them.
00:54:14Father died so peacefully.
00:54:17I hadn't realized he was so devoted to Mama.
00:54:21After her death,
00:54:23he just slowly dwindled away.
00:54:29Oh, I wish I could keep the house on.
00:54:36but,
00:54:37I must move to a smaller one.
00:54:42Then all father's things will be scattered.
00:54:50Well,
00:54:51you mustn't leave Lord Bentig alone too long.
00:54:55No.
00:54:58No, I was touched by his coming all this way.
00:55:00He doesn't look well.
00:55:03His health has been undermined
00:55:04by his recent responsibilities.
00:55:06Makes me angry to remember how people laughed at him.
00:55:09Yes, but he's proved them wrong.
00:55:13He will be one of our greatest leaders.
00:55:23Is your sister all right?
00:55:25Yes.
00:55:28Very calm.
00:55:29She'll join us presently.
00:55:31Good.
00:55:31Yes.
00:55:33Glass of Madeira.
00:55:35No, no, no, thank you.
00:55:37Send me to sleep.
00:55:38I've still got some memoranda to look at later.
00:55:41Let it wait.
00:55:42Sleep might do you good.
00:55:43Hmm.
00:55:44I can't.
00:55:46I'm thinking about Surplus.
00:55:48Oh, yes.
00:55:49Surplus.
00:55:51Your horse won the derby.
00:55:55All my life I've wanted to achieve that, you know.
00:55:58And Surplus wins it.
00:56:00Just after I'd sold him.
00:56:02Hmm, that's unfortunate, that.
00:56:04You do know what the derby is, don't you?
00:56:07Blue Ribbon of the Turf?
00:56:08Yes.
00:56:09The Blue Ribbon of the Turf.
00:56:12What have I sacrificed it for?
00:56:14That mess at Westminster.
00:56:20You do look worn out.
00:56:22Oh, I'm tired, that's all.
00:56:25After this session, I'll go home.
00:56:28Country walks, fresh air.
00:56:30It'll set me up again.
00:56:32But what are we going to do?
00:56:34There's no real government to speak of.
00:56:37The Liberals are in a minority,
00:56:39only kept in power by the Peelites,
00:56:42who support automatically anything you and I oppose.
00:56:46It'll take a long time for their good sense
00:56:49to overcome their ill will.
00:56:54Where'd he get your patients from, eh?
00:56:57My father.
00:56:58But it was a lesson I was a long time in learning.
00:57:02I wish I'd met him, you know.
00:57:04I would have liked you.
00:57:07He said I'm glad he lived to see me a member for Buckingham,
00:57:11this county.
00:57:14You know, he always wanted me to have a place here, too.
00:57:17Have you seen one you'd like?
00:57:18Uh-huh.
00:57:19Hewenden Manor, a few miles down the road.
00:57:22Why don't you?
00:57:25Well, he did leave me 10,000 to buy it,
00:57:27and that is about a third of what it would cost.
00:57:33I've, uh, I've been thinking about that.
00:57:36You know,
00:57:37as one of the leaders of the landed gentry,
00:57:40you really ought to have your own property.
00:57:43I'll, uh,
00:57:44I'll make you a loan
00:57:45free of interest, say,
00:57:47uh, 25,000
00:57:49to complete the purchase, eh?
00:57:52I can never pay it back.
00:57:54Oh, what's money between friends?
00:57:56Pay it back when and if you can.
00:58:00What do you want me to say?
00:58:03Anything but thank you.
00:58:06Start thanking me and I'll change my mind.
00:58:09It's not only...
00:58:12Well, I owe you a lot, too.
00:58:15I'm acting politically.
00:58:18That's all I see.
00:58:19I owe you one of the money.
00:58:19I owe you a lot.
00:58:40I owe you to my daughters.
00:58:42Oh,
00:58:43I owe you 16 years ago.
00:58:52I tell you Mr. Disraeli I don't know what to do none of the men available has ever held high
00:58:59office before you yourself well quite frankly when I suggested you to the Queen and Prince Albert
00:59:08they were reluctant to have you in the government hmm I understand they were very attached appeal
00:59:14that is so then again there's the old question of your ambition many in our party still doubt your
00:59:22motives in short they distrust everything except mediocrity that may be so then let me make your
00:59:29task easier Prime Minister I am more concerned for my country than for myself more devoted to my
00:59:39party than to my own ambition if after 15 years faithful service this is still not acknowledged
00:59:46then it is better for me to retire from the struggle and make way for someone more acceptable to the
00:59:51Crown and to party oh there's no need for that no need I wish to offer you the position of
00:59:57Chancellor
00:59:57of the Exchequer next to you that will be the key post in the cabinet will you take it I
01:00:06know little
01:00:06of finance no one does to start off they give you the figures you'll soon learn well I must warn
01:00:16you
01:00:16that Peale's old followers will unite against any government that includes me I'm prepared to risk it
01:00:25for the sake of a man who's deserved far more from his country and his party than they realize and
01:00:31has
01:00:32certainly deserved more from me
01:00:46and the Queen I shall simply tell Her Majesty that without you I cannot form a government
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01:01:22Chancellor of the Exchequer so help you guard I do
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