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."Jane Eyre" 1963 mini series (E2 and E3 were believed lost and were found after 60 years) - starring Ann Bell, Richard Leech, William Russell, Stephanie Bidmead, Elsie Arnold, Hira Talfrey, Nan Marriott-Watson, Elaine Pratt, Justine Lord, Sonia Dresdel, Anthony Jacobs, Betty Hardy. Directed by Rex Tucker.
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00:16Mr. Rochester! Mr. Rochester! Get back! Get back onto the roof!
00:22This staircase is on!
00:54Anna! Bring some more holly!
00:58I'm glad she left the Christmas decorations until we got home.
01:01Oh, Diana, isn't it wonderful to think that we can keep this house and live here all the time?
01:07It's what we've always dreamed of.
01:10Ah, thank you. Is everything ready for Miss Eyre?
01:12Yes, Miss. I've unpacked the new dress and put it in the room.
01:16Oh, I do hope she'll like it. It seems so little after all she's done for us.
01:20Mary, I've been wondering, do you think we ought to let her share her legacy with us?
01:26Oh, but it means so much to us.
01:28All the same, I think we ought to ask her again.
01:30Oh, but, St. John, haven't you gone for Jane yet? It's almost five.
01:34I was just going. I thought I'd give her a few minutes to say goodbye to the children.
01:38Oh, I collected the Christmas post.
01:41We'll never get so good a teacher for them.
01:44There are other school teachers to be found, Mary.
01:46For you, Mary? Oh, thank you.
01:48Oh, here's one for Jane.
01:50Jane? Yes.
01:51Are you sure?
01:52See for yourself.
01:53Who's it from?
01:54How should I know?
01:55You'd better ask her if you're so curious.
01:58St. John, it's her letter.
02:02Has she had other letters?
02:03Mary?
02:04I don't know.
02:05We only got home this morning.
02:07You should know better than us.
02:08What business is it of ours if Jane receives the letter or not?
02:12What's the matter, St. John?
02:14St. John?
02:45You said goodbye to the children?
02:47Yes.
02:48It was harder than I thought.
02:50They love you.
02:52I think they do.
02:54The best kind of love, Jane.
02:56The love that comes with service to others.
02:59You have served them well.
03:02How kind you can be sometimes.
03:04Only sometimes.
03:07You drive yourself so hard.
03:09It makes you drive others too.
03:11I seem to have many faults.
03:13You must correct them for me, Jane.
03:14Aye.
03:16Have you thought over what I asked you?
03:18Oh, please, St. John, you said you wouldn't speak of that again.
03:21I have waited.
03:22Not now, St. John, please.
03:25Very well.
03:29Are your sisters home yet?
03:31Yes, and longing to see you.
03:33And I to see them.
03:35Do you wish to take a last look at the cottage?
03:37No, I told the carrier to bring away all my things.
03:40That chapter of my life's finished now.
03:42I must look forward to my good fortune.
03:46Are you beginning to realize how hollow and empty are the things of this world?
03:50We're very alike, Jane, you and I.
03:53No.
03:54I think we are.
04:01Come.
04:03Let us go home.
04:10I'm sorry, sir.
04:11Mr. Rochester won't see you.
04:13Did you tell him it was important?
04:15I told him what you said, sir.
04:17But it's no use.
04:17He's quite determined.
04:19It is nobody now, sir.
04:21Not since we came here after the fire.
04:23I see.
04:24Well, I shall just have to write to him.
04:25That's all.
04:27Yeah.
04:28Who is that you have with you?
04:30He told me to tell you to leave.
04:35Well?
04:36Who?
04:36Mr. Briggs, sir.
04:38I was just telling him that-
04:39Much more than you need, I'll warrant.
04:41Well, bring him in.
04:43Yes, sir.
04:48Mr. Rochester...
04:54I had no idea that-
04:57Well, now that you've seen me, what's the matter that's brought you here?
05:00It concerns Miss Eyre.
05:02Jane?
05:04Do you know where she is?
05:05Yes, I do know where she is.
05:07I found out quite by accident, by means of a will.
05:10She is an heiress.
05:15An heiress?
05:17Yes.
05:18Her uncle died and left her his estate.
05:21My little Jane.
05:24No one could have deserved it better.
05:28Why do you come here to tell me this?
05:30I thought you would be interested to know of her good fortune.
05:34Interested?
05:35You lawyers don't overstate your cases, do you?
05:38No.
05:39Nor, as in the case of our previous meeting, do we always enjoy the tasks we have to do.
05:45Would you like me to give you Miss Eyre's address?
05:51Mr. Rochester?
05:54No.
05:56No, you told me what you came to tell me.
05:59There's a bell, someone ring it.
06:00Lee, I will show you out.
06:01I can find my own way, sir.
06:13Jane.
06:17Jane.
06:19Jane!
06:40I've decanted that port that Mr. Oliver sent over, sir.
06:43Will you have a glass now?
06:45No, thank you.
06:46Oh, come on, sir.
06:47It's good stuff from Mr. Oliver's own cellar.
06:50Help you keep the cold out.
06:52You heard what I said.
07:17Jane's trying on her new dress now, Syngin.
07:19And she looks lovely.
07:20She'll be down in a minute.
07:21And Syngin?
07:22She insists that we share the money.
07:24She was terribly upset when she thought we were going to refuse.
07:28Did she...
07:29Did she say anything to you about me?
07:31In what way?
07:33Did she tell you I'd asked her to marry me?
07:36No.
07:38Oh, Syngin, I'm delighted.
07:40If that's what you want, has she accepted you?
07:44I think she will.
07:46Then that means that you won't be going to India after all.
07:49Oh, Syngin, I'm so glad.
07:51Of course I shall still be going to India.
07:54What possible difference could my marriage make?
07:56Oh, but the climate, the fever, the heat.
07:59You can't mean to take Jane with you.
08:01I do.
08:02How could she stand it?
08:04You're going of your own free will.
08:06But Jane, it would kill her.
08:10It's wrong of you to do this.
08:11It's wicked and cruel.
08:14Jane!
08:16Syngin says that...
08:17Is it true that you promised to...
08:19What Jane has promised is a matter between her and me, Diana.
08:22I wish to talk to her alone.
08:25Come, Mary.
08:30Couldn't you even notice her new dress?
08:37A letter has come for you.
08:39A letter?
08:41Where is it?
08:49Well?
08:50Aren't you going to open it?
09:04It's only from the solicitor about my uncle's estate.
09:10You see, it isn't from Mr. Rochester as you thought.
09:13Nor as you hoped.
09:15You've been writing to him, haven't you?
09:16Haven't you?
09:17No.
09:17I don't believe you.
09:18You're lying to me.
09:19I could tell from your face you thought that was an answer to a letter you wrote.
09:22I never wrote to him.
09:24I only wrote to Mrs. Fairfax.
09:26Why should you write to Thornfield at all?
09:27I wanted to know what had happened to him.
09:29I hurt him so badly.
09:33How often have you written?
09:34Only twice before this.
09:37I can't understand it.
09:38Why hadn't I heard?
09:40You lack perception, Jane.
09:43I'm surprised at you.
09:44You're generally so acute.
09:47Surely what's happened is plain enough.
09:49Your Mr. Rochester has consoled himself elsewhere.
09:52I don't believe you.
09:53You don't know him.
09:54He loved me.
09:56He loved other women before.
09:57And will love them again.
10:01That's not true.
10:03You've no right to speak like that.
10:05You don't know him.
10:07You could never know or understand him.
10:10You're hard and cold.
10:11All you know is duty.
10:13Duty.
10:15You see yourself as a saint, don't you, St. John?
10:18That's your ambition and you don't care whom you sacrifice to it.
10:21Well, my life was given me to you, not to throw away.
10:25Your abuse of me matters little.
10:27Those of us who live Christian lives are bound to be misunderstood.
10:32That is our cross and we must bear it.
10:35But what does matter, Jane?
10:38Is your arrogant assumption that your life was given you to do with as you please?
10:43How dare you say that?
10:45Have you no gratitude for God's mercy in saving you from death the night you came here?
10:49Do you think he had no purpose for you?
10:51I am grateful.
10:52I've tried to show you how much.
10:54No.
10:55If you were, then you would allow me to direct.
10:58Use your life to a higher purpose.
11:00I can't go to India with you.
11:02Jane, I offer you a life of service to the poor and the suffering.
11:07Not happiness, not content, but glory.
11:11The glory of God, Jane.
11:12Don't.
11:13I dare listen to you.
11:15Because you know that I am right.
11:16St. John.
11:17Jane, if you reject this call, it is not me you deny, but God.
11:21Give me a little time.
11:23No, Jane.
11:24That is weak.
11:25You must decide.
11:26I don't know what to do.
11:28If only I could be shown the way.
11:30Jane.
11:32Jane, believe me, I know.
11:34Let me talk to you again.
11:35Let me urge you to call.
11:38What is it?
11:40What's the matter?
11:43What is it? I hear nothing.
11:47What's happening?
11:49I pray.
11:51It's answered.
11:53Rochester.
11:54Jane!
12:06I'm coming.
12:07I'm coming.
12:08Wait for me.
12:09Wait for me.
12:10I'm coming.
12:11Wait.
12:20There.
12:21It's a wild day.
12:23Don't you worry, ma'am.
12:24There won't be any delay tomorrow.
12:26You get away first thing.
12:27You'll be the better of the rest.
12:30I've got some hot punch here.
12:33It'll warm the cockles of your heart.
12:38You all right, ma'am?
12:41Yes, thank you.
12:42It's just...
12:43Oh, it's so cold.
12:49Do you know Thornfield Hall?
12:51That I do.
12:52I used to work there.
12:54You did?
12:54I was the late Mr. Rochester's butler.
12:57The late?
12:58Is he dead?
12:59Oh, I mean Mr. Edward's father.
13:06Is Mr. Rochester at Thornfield now?
13:08Oh, no.
13:09No one lives there now.
13:10It's just a ruin.
13:11It was burned to the ground.
13:13There was this lunatic.
13:15She did it.
13:15She got loose and set fire to the place.
13:18Dead of night.
13:19Yeah, that's right.
13:21How do you know?
13:23She was his wife, the madwoman.
13:26She got out onto the roof and when he tried to reach her, she jumped off.
13:29Killed outright.
13:30Killed?
13:32And Mr. Rochester?
13:33He was trapped in the fire.
13:35The staircase fell on him.
13:36But they got him out.
13:37They saved his life.
13:38That's something to be thankful for.
13:40Where is he now?
13:42Fern Dean.
13:43About 30 miles from here.
13:45Could I get there tonight?
13:46Fern Dean?
13:47Well, I suppose so.
13:49But the horses are tired.
13:51You'd better wait until the morning.
13:52No, no.
13:53I must go tonight.
13:54I thought you were staying here.
13:58Women never know what they want.
14:14I hope so.
14:17I hope so.
14:28I love the horses!
14:29Yes, sir!
14:31There's the parade.
14:33I can't believe in any of these.
14:36Where you want to do it.
14:37nearly seven sir no sir I haven't sir why not well sir I lit the candle so I
14:43thought it would be... I don't for you to think bring in a lamp. Yes sir.
14:53Lea!
14:57Yes sir. Must you forget everything. What sir? The curtains. Draw them. Very good sir.
15:23That is all you may go. Yes sir. Thank you sir.
15:45May I come in? Miss Jane! Oh is it really you Miss Jane? Have you come to see them? He's
15:55here then. He's not gone away.
15:56Oh no he doesn't go away any longer. Not since the fire. Well let me take your thing. I wrote
16:04to Mrs. Fairfax but I didn't get any answer.
16:08Where is she? When they left Thornfield they must have sent her away.
16:11And Adele. Oh she's at school near London.
16:15Oh Miss. I do hope he'll see you. He's been so lonely. He won't let any but us near him.
16:22Are you taking that to him? The water. Yes I forgot it before. You'll need it.
16:26Give the tray to me Lea. I'll carry it into him.
16:29Open the door Lea. There's a good girl.
16:50Pour me a glass of water.
16:56Lea?
17:01This isn't Lea?
17:03This isn't Lea?
17:05He's in the kitchen.
17:09Who is this?
17:13Who is it?
17:15It's Jane.
17:19Her very fingers.
17:21Jane. Jane is it? Jane?
17:23She's here. I'm glad to be so near you.
17:26Jane Eyre.
17:31I'm here. This time I won't ever leave you.
17:35You'll stay with me.
17:38Unless you object.
17:42Let us sit down.
17:48It's time someone took you in hand.
17:51Your hair is all wild and unkempt and your clothes.
18:03And the fire's going out.
18:07Can you tell when there's a good fire?
18:10Yes.
18:11With my right eye I can just see the glow.
18:14And the candles?
18:18Very dimly.
18:22Can you see me?
18:26No.
18:31When do you take supper?
18:32I never take supper.
18:34You will tonight.
18:36I'm very hungry.
18:40Lea.
18:42Lea.
18:45Lea.
19:06Lea.
19:08Jane.
19:08Jane.
19:09Jane, where are you?
19:24I'm here.
19:27Oh, Jane.
19:28Jane, my darling, I thought you'd gone away.
19:31Come back to the fire.
19:44There.
19:46Now you're sitting in the light again.
19:49Can you bear to look at my face in the light, Jane?
19:51Am I hideous?
19:52Very, sir.
19:54You always were, you know.
19:58I haven't knocked the wickedness out of you whenever you've been.
20:03Oh, Jane.
20:05You mustn't go.
20:08Now that I've touched you, heard you, I can't lose you again.
20:11I shall stay, sir.
20:12I told you so.
20:14Yes, but what are you thinking of, Jane?
20:16Waiting on me.
20:18A kind little nurse about my, about my hand and chair, huh?
20:21I'm content to be only your nurse if you think it better, sir.
20:24If I think.
20:26But you're young, Jane.
20:28One day you'll get married.
20:29Someone...
20:29I don't care about marriage, sir.
20:32Good!
20:32If I was what I once was, I wouldn't make you care!
20:39No.
20:42No, it won't do.
20:43I can't ask.
20:45I will be what you want.
20:48Your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper, your servant.
20:54Your companion.
20:57I want a wife, Jane!
21:05Is that unwelcome news?
21:08That depends whom you choose, sir.
21:12You shall choose for me.
21:15I'll abide by your decision.
21:16Jane.
21:19Choose...
21:20her who loves you best.
21:26I will choose her I love best.
21:29Jane.
21:33Will you marry me?
21:35Yes.
21:37A blind man.
21:38Twenty years older than you.
21:41Whom you'll have to wait upon.
21:43Yes.
21:44Truly, Jane?
21:47Most truly.
21:55Supper's ready.
21:59Let us go in.
22:01A blind man.
22:02A blind man.
22:04A blind man.
22:20A blind man.
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