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Clarissa Harlowe is a young 18th-century Englishwoman. Her family have aspirations to move into the aristocracy and want her to marry the repellent Mr. Soames as part of their plan. Clarissa manages to escape from them with the help of the handsome Lovelace, whose intentions towards her prove to be less than entirely honorable.
Clarissa Harlowe is a young 18th-century Englishwoman. Her family have aspirations to move into the aristocracy and want her to marry the repellent Mr. Soames as part of their plan. Clarissa manages to escape from them with the help of the handsome Lovelace, whose intentions towards her prove to be less than entirely honorable.
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00:25No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:27She is not coming here.
00:29Mother!
00:30No!
00:31I will not have my house made a sanctuary for young girls who defy their parents will.
00:35I thought she was forbidden to write.
00:38Even prisoners in a condemned cell are allowed the use of pen and paper.
00:42Prisoner?
00:43Is it such a mighty matter for a young girl to give up her amorous fancies to oblige your family?
00:49You might well say so at 40 mother.
00:52But what would you have said at 20 I wonder?
00:55The caterpillar soles.
00:57Or the butterfly lovelace.
01:01I never yet knew a handsome man make a good husband.
01:05They imagine that every woman should have as high opinion of them as they have themselves.
01:11Parents must look further than a young girl's fancy.
01:15Oh, and I suppose it's mere fancy to wish to have a mind of one's own.
01:21Men are all such nasty schoolboys.
01:24What a choice.
01:26What a choice.
01:27Soames, the grubby little sneak thief.
01:30Or lovelace, the schoolyard bully.
01:33Anna.
01:35Not forgetting my own brave fellow.
01:38Just look at him.
01:40Kicked and punched by all the rest.
01:43And running home to mother with his fingers in his eyes.
01:45Now, Anna.
01:48Now, mother.
01:50The man is rash enough to woo me.
01:52He must take me as I am.
01:54What workman throws away a sharp tool because it may prick his fingers?
01:58Mr. Hickman.
02:00Madam.
02:02Your servant, madam.
02:04Miss Howe.
02:08Why you'll leave, madam?
02:12Pray, Mr. Hickman, sit down.
02:15Aye, sir.
02:16Sit down.
02:18But by my mamari, if you please.
02:21I desire my hoop may have its form to come from us.
02:25All their good for that I know of is...
02:28To clean dirty shoes.
02:31And keep fellows at a distance.
02:49Sir.
02:56Mr. Harlow.
03:00I believe my sister wishes...
03:02Tell your sister, sir.
03:05That if she persists in her defiance, she will have not only a brother's wounding on her conscience,
03:10but a father's death.
03:15Are you answered, sister?
03:18I am silenced, sir.
03:21Tell her we want none of her dumb insolence, neither.
03:24Be so good, sir, if you think his health will bear it.
03:28To inform my father that I wish only to know whether it is intended Mr. Soames should visit me further.
03:36Did your sister know, sir, that her father will see what company he chooses in his own house?
03:41Nor does he require his daughter's instruction in the choice of another son?
03:59Always writing, miss.
04:01It's a marvel to me how you manage to smuggle them away.
04:05But the fairies, they say, are always at hand to help lovers.
04:09Now, Betty.
04:10No one would ever take you for a fairy.
04:13There.
04:15Take these to my parents and my uncle.
04:17Only to them, mind.
04:19Into their own hands.
04:48And for those who don't even walk away.
04:51Oh, my God.
05:21Like it?
05:23You should see me creeping about the walls there, like a mole.
05:27Hey, more wine here.
05:29I have become intimate with all the back entries to her pop.
05:34Now and then I let up a couple of rounds, making think I have the place surrounded.
05:39My brother James, you know, is kind enough to serve me as a ghillie.
05:43The more he beats about my pretty bird, the more I know she'll end up in my net.
05:57I'm sorry, miss.
05:58What are you doing now?
05:59Orders, miss.
06:01Put that down.
06:03How dare you?
06:04How now, Clary?
06:05Inciting mutiny amongst the servants.
06:08What is this?
06:10Just a little rearrangement.
06:11Sit down, sister.
06:13Sit down.
06:15Little higher, girl.
06:16Tell me, how old are you, my beauty?
06:19Seventeen, sir.
06:20Oh, seventeen, Jack.
06:23Observe the slender stem, the delicate bloom.
06:26The soft, soft petals.
06:29Forbidden fruit, Jack.
06:31I gave her grandmother my word.
06:33The old lady came and begged me to be merciful.
06:35Can you agree?
06:37Word of a gentleman, Jack.
06:39Now, if you wouldn't mind raising your arms.
06:49Oh, God.
06:52My conscience is clear.
06:53Stop that!
06:55Such nice inquiries belong to your beloved husband.
06:58He loves you all the better for your cruelty.
07:03Positively unratious.
07:04He won't hear of you pining for his love for a moment longer.
07:08As usual, you're to have your will in everything.
07:10But Clarissa Harlow, to have her on her knees begging me for mercy.
07:15And you're for a little bit more.
07:16To seduce a woman renowned for her piety, purity and prudence.
07:21What could be a greater triumph?
07:24There.
07:25Now, in either regular blackguard.
07:28Spare as a shilling, squire.
07:30Spare as a shilling for an old soldier.
07:31Yeah.
07:32The marriage license is already ordered.
07:35The ceremony is to be held here, in your own chamber, on Tuesday.
07:39Oh, and Clarie.
07:40Mr. Soames has set aside a special room in his new house.
07:45For the nursery.
07:59I'll see you all at home.
08:25Dear Mr. Lovelace,
08:27my forced marriage to this odious Soames
08:30is now to be executed here.
08:32It is intended that Tuesday
08:34shall be the day of my sacrifice.
08:36I neither can nor will bear this.
08:39In short, I have come to a resolution
08:42to throw myself upon the protection of your family.
08:45If you are in earnest to assist me,
08:47come to the Garden Gate on Monday evening
08:49after nightfall.
09:00I don't know if I'm going to be
09:02at the Garden Gate,
09:02you're right.
09:02Let me go at the Garden Gate.
09:12Let me go.
09:14Let's go.
09:19Let's go.
09:44Let's go.
09:57Betty.
09:59Been out, miss.
10:01I...
10:01And I thought the door was locked.
10:04You forgot to lock it.
10:05Did I, miss?
10:07Careless of me.
10:09Will there be anything else, miss?
10:12No, Betty.
10:14That will be all.
10:16Not quite, miss.
10:18What?
10:20Inky fingers.
10:22How to do with your new Zeme.
10:37You saw me, my father's guide.
10:39I'm going to leave.
10:40I'm going to leave.
10:40Thomas is going to have to leave.
10:42I'll leave.
10:42I'll leave.
10:43I'll leave.
10:45You're not going to leave.
10:49You're not going to leave.
10:51I'll leave.
10:51Mmm.
10:57Mmm.
11:00Mmm.
15:23With your brother's compliments.
15:25To put the colour back in your cheeks.
15:28Take it away.
15:49My dear Anna.
15:52Think not to save me from Mr. Soames.
15:55This man.
15:56This man shall never have my vow.
15:59And I will say no.
16:00And I will say nothing but no so long as I am able to speak.
16:04I have, how reluctantly I need not tell you, agreed to meet Mr. Lovelace tonight.
16:11The time of meeting is at hand.
16:13Oh, that he may not come.
16:16Dear friend.
16:18Dear friend, I beg that you will burn this letter.
17:19No, no.
17:21There you are.
17:22Let me go.
17:25Would you see murder done?
17:26I would rather die than go with you.
17:28Good God.
17:29If you still doubt me, the choice is yours.
17:33If you wish to go back to Mr. Soames, trust me.
17:37Quick!
17:38Run!
17:39Or they will break down the door.
18:07There it is.
18:08You don't have to be scared.
18:10I see the other door.
18:12I'm trying.
18:19Is this right?
18:23I'm not you?
18:25Tina!
18:31I'm sorry.
18:33I'm sorry.
18:36I got a new little room for you.
20:13I trust you slept well?
20:15I did not sleep.
20:17Hmm, scribbling. Is that wise? Letters can be traced.
20:20As you should know.
20:21I hope at least you used an alias.
20:23I leave all such subterfuge to you.
20:26How dare you tell these people I'm your sister?
20:28What should I have said, my mistress?
20:32I was only thinking of your reputation.
20:35Let me pass.
20:37One kiss.
20:38Let go.
20:39One kiss, that's all I ask.
20:41One chaste, modest, sisterly kiss.
20:45Is this my reward?
20:46Is this what I get for waiting on you like a slave?
20:49Thank you, Lucy.
20:50At all hours and in all weathers, suffering the insults of your family, rescuing you from
20:57your father's persecution.
20:59No words against my father.
21:01Oh, only words against Lovelace.
21:03You seem to prefer your persecutors to the man who set you free.
21:07Free?
21:08Oh, Mr. Lovelace, you've missed your vocation.
21:11You should have been a politician.
21:14Now leave me.
21:14Your wish is my command.
21:20Don't forget to bolt the door.
21:35Our landlady has a most promising daughter.
21:38I have admired her in her dairy work.
21:43But one man cannot have every woman worth having.
21:47Pity, though, when you're such a very clever fellow.
21:49Not hungry, sir.
22:06Here.
22:07This former conquest.
22:08Medlicott, Betterton, Matthews.
22:10I want details.
22:11Names, places, dates, letters.
22:14The more intimate, the better.
22:15Anything to impress a jury.
22:18And quickly.
22:22She'll not escape for long.
22:29Little Miss Modesty.
22:32Oh, we'll find them.
22:33And when we do, we'll be revenged on the pair of them.
22:48Madam, please, believe me.
22:50I cannot live if you avoid me in this way.
22:53All I desire is a little of your company.
22:56And all I desire, sir, is your absence.
22:59I do not find you are a man who improves upon acquaintance.
23:10Anna!
23:13Anna!
23:15Anna!
23:17Anna, come here.
23:31Oh, my dear friend.
23:32How I wish that I had never met him.
23:34The man has a perfect genius for deception.
23:38Open this door.
23:39Open this door.
23:40This minute.
23:42I can't find the key.
23:45Give me that.
23:48Give it here.
23:56There.
23:57Let her look after her own affairs.
24:04Mr. Hickman is very patient.
24:06But no man will wait forever.
24:17I hope you found it entertaining, Jo, delving into my past.
24:21Mr. James' orders.
24:23All these.
24:25You must know more about me than I do myself.
24:28Miss Clarissa, sir?
24:30Yes, Jo?
24:31No harm done.
24:32No harm in the world, Jo.
24:34She is my goddess.
24:36I am her slave.
24:37Why, I try to be an honest man.
24:39It does you credit, Jo.
24:41Well, I wouldn't want no harm done.
24:42Not right, Jo.
24:43On my honour.
24:45Not like Miss Betterton.
24:47Miss...
24:47To say it was a rape.
24:50Oh, Betterton.
24:52What was she, a tradesman's daughter?
24:54She loved me, I loved her, so a little innocent contrivance was necessary to get her out.
24:59But no rape.
25:01On my honour, Jo.
25:03Rape is an ugly thing.
25:05And far less common than people imagine.
25:08Well, it's true, when I got her to the inn, I didn't ask her any questions.
25:11It's cruel to ask a modest woman for her consent.
25:14It only creates difficulties for both of you.
25:18It says here, she died in childbirth.
25:21Her family were tyrants to her.
25:24I was in mourning for a month.
25:33She died in childbirth.
25:54Oh.
25:55My clothes, my money, and my books of devotion to the post-restant.
25:59They will be called for by Hannah.
26:02A little kindness on your part may even now restore my reputation,
26:07which is dearer to me than life itself.
26:29Revenge?
26:30Dead set on it. Him and Miss Bella.
26:33What the devil they are.
26:40Joe, you're an honest fellow.
26:43Naturally, your dearest wish is to help your master in any honest way you can.
26:48James Harlow is such a muttonhead he needs all the help that we do give him.
27:08You desire my absence?
27:11I thought my wishes were your commands, not your jests.
27:21Madam, however low I stand in your opinion, believe me, all I desire is a chance to learn by your
27:27example.
27:31If you will only have the goodness to undertake my reformation.
27:36But for that I shall need your constant guidance.
27:40Your reformation might begin by keeping your word.
27:43You promised you would leave me alone.
27:45And so I will.
27:46Mr Lovelace, just because you have contrived to trick me from my father's house,
27:50do not imagine I have lost all power of judgment.
27:53Trick?
27:55How have I tricked you?
27:57Neither.
27:58Not till you say how I've tricked you.
28:01Was Mr Soames my trick?
28:03Let me go.
28:03Your brother my trick.
28:05I see the kind of man I have to deal with.
28:07Your rattle warns me of the snake.
28:14Is that how I appear to you?
28:21Have I no redeeming features?
28:24Is there no hope?
28:27Look at me.
28:29Help me.
28:31I need your help.
28:34You're shaking.
28:36What is it you're afraid of?
28:39Oh, my good angel.
28:41Have mercy on me.
28:43Mold me as you wish.
28:44I am waxing your hands.
28:45Put a chain about my heart.
28:48Lead me to the holy altar and save my soul.
28:58What could I say?
29:00He looked as if he would look right through me.
29:03I thought he would devour my hand.
29:17I begin to stagger in my resolutions.
29:21Ever averse as I was to matrimonial shackles, I could almost wish to be honest.
29:27Almost.
29:30What a triumph for the Harlow family were I now to marry her.
29:34How they'd love to paint your coronet on her carriages.
29:37But they did the blood of the lovelaces.
29:39That I should thus creep, thus fawn, thus lick the dust for a wife.
29:46Now, Jack.
29:48I have a new plan to engage my Clarissa.
30:00I'm ready.
30:03Ready?
30:03To begin my reformation.
30:14Where shall we start?
30:20I...
30:20Only please remember one thing.
30:23Reformation cannot be a sudden thing.
30:26I fear I have a prodigious journey to make before a virtuous person like yourself will think me even tolerable.
30:34Still, there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-nine good people who need
30:41no repentance.
30:42Perhaps we could begin.
30:44I've always liked the story of the prodigal son.
30:47One day, when I am settled and reformed, I mean to write a play about it.
30:54But probably I am not reformed enough yet.
30:57No.
30:58Probably not.
30:59I love to read the Bible.
31:01Such wonderful stories.
31:04But I cannot take it neat as you do.
31:07The morals are too strong for me.
31:10Sometimes I have come across a verse that makes me so uneasy.
31:13I have to run to the tavern to dilute it.
31:16Am I quite hopeless?
31:19Are you in earnest?
31:20Oh, cross my heart.
31:23Well, then.
31:25From what I've heard, perhaps we could start with Sodom and Gomorrah.
31:41If his pretenses to reformation are but pretenses, what must be his aim?
31:48Can he?
31:50Dare he mock the Almighty?
31:53Damn it, Jack.
31:54I'm obliged to run to the pious a little sooner than I intended.
31:57Who knows? I may be reforming after all.
32:00Who knew?
32:02I could have had another dozen women in the time I spent on this one.
32:05Then she tells me that I am not a man who improves upon acquaintance.
32:09Yes, it's cruel.
32:10You should praise her for it, though. They love to be called ruthless.
32:14What I love is an implacable virtue.
32:17Like ice.
32:19A virtuous Miss Harlow.
32:29Take care, Clary.
32:31Your brother has some hints where you are lodged.
32:34God knows what he means to do.
32:37There is talk of prosecuting Mr. Lovelace.
32:40London, I'm told, is the best hiding place in the world.
32:46Your brother.
32:48But you do not ask my protection, do you?
32:51You know my family's estates are all at your disposal.
32:54Lady Betty, my cousin Charlotte.
32:56You have only to take your pick.
32:58How?
32:59I have no clothes. I have no money.
33:02I'm not fit to be seen by anyone.
33:04You, of all women, will hardly make a scruple about clothes.
33:08Self-respect is not a scruple.
33:10You would look beautiful in rags.
33:12How is it you make every compliment sound like an insult?
33:17My cousin has a superfluity of clothes.
33:20Perhaps a little fuller in the figure.
33:23What?
33:23Visit her in her own cast-offs.
33:26Then we will buy you clothes.
33:27Not at your expense.
33:35You would prefer some private lodging?
33:38The more private the better.
33:42Windsor.
33:43A private lodging near the chapel.
33:46A clergyman's house.
33:48Your old maid Hannah could come.
33:50Hannah is ill. She cannot come.
33:53Oh.
33:55I've heard London is the best place to be private in.
34:00London.
34:12I have the perfect place to snare her, Jack.
34:16Mm-hmm.
34:17Where?
34:17Guess.
34:21Not the Sinclair House in Dover Street.
34:24Where better?
34:25I'll give Clarissa Harlow a taste for the city.
34:36I'll give her a drink.
34:39Imagine her.
34:40Sliding her immaculate body between the sheets of a whore's bed.
34:47You'll never get her to agree.
34:50I'll use the old villain Dolman.
34:55If you want a lady to do one thing, you must always propose something else.
35:14Dolman!
35:17We are happy to propose for your consideration the following accommodation.
35:22A first floor elegantly furnished at a Mercer's in Covent Garden.
35:26An upper floor in Norfolk Street with agreeable prospects towards the Thames and Surrey Hills.
35:32You may have good accommodation in Dover Street with the widow of an officer of the guards.
35:39The previous tenants were a clergyman, his wife and maiden daughter,
35:44who took the lodgings for three months but liked them so well they continued there for two years.
35:52The previous tenants were a clergyman, his wife and maiden daughter,
35:56who took the lodgings for three months but liked them so well they continued there two years.
36:03If none of these are suitable.
36:07These at Norfolk Street seem quite convenient.
36:10Norfolk Street.
36:12You have some objection?
36:14Not the slightest.
36:17Then Norfolk Street it is.
36:21Unless...
36:22Unless Dover Street.
36:25The widow?
36:27Much given to piety I understand.
36:45I hereby renounce her forever.
36:48The most ungrateful and undutiful of daughters.
36:57Tell her she has nothing but my hate.
37:00That she may meet her punishment both here and hereafter
37:03by means of the wretch in whom she has placed her wicked confidence.
37:11Your clothes will not be sent to you.
37:15Your books, for they have not taught you what belonged to your family.
37:22Your sex and your education will not be sent to you.
37:27Your money neither.
37:28For it is wished you be seen a beggar along London's streets.
37:34Your father wishes you had never been born
37:38and he has placed on you a curse that you meet with punishment both here and hereafter.
38:07What is it?
38:09Do this.
38:10Tell me.
38:11No.
38:18Oh, most unnatural fathers.
38:21A curse upon the curse's heart.
38:25Oh, my angel.
38:27Would that his curse had stuck in his own throat and choked him.
38:31My love, be mine.
38:34I will be more than a father to you.
38:37Be mine.
38:38And no one in the world, brother, sister, uncle, father, can harm you.
38:54Was there devil in me?
38:56If a parson had been there, I'd have been a gone man.
39:02Oh, this woman, she has such power over me.
39:07And can I be a villain to such an angel?
39:13All hands at work in preparation for London.
39:17The Sinclair brothel becomes a temple of pious virtue.
39:22And yet, what makes my heart beat so strong?
39:27What rises it to my throat in such half-choking flutters when I think of what this removal may do?
39:33I don't like...
39:34I am.
39:48I am not a word, son, in such a long line.
39:54To the edge of the throne, brother, I need some help.
39:55To the other people, brother, I do not go next to my house and see him.
39:55To the other people, brother, brother, pay for me.
39:55I have a dog, brother.
39:55Here I go.
40:01My love, brother, brother.
40:02To the other people.
41:59Dorcas, ma'am.
42:02Sally.
42:08Deborah.
42:12Mrs. Sinclair.
42:17An honour, Mrs. Lovelace.
42:28Mrs. Lovelace?
42:29Our landlady is a very moral woman.
42:31And so of course she must be deceived.
42:33I have told her we were married secretly.
42:35Wait!
42:36But that you have bound me under a solemn vow
42:39which I am most religiously resolved to keep.
42:41To be contented with a separate chamber
42:44until a reconciliation with your family can take place.
42:49What more can I do?
42:55I would rather you did less, Mr. Lovelace, not more.
42:59Let's go.
43:24Let's go.
43:39Oh, my God.
43:57Oh, my God.
43:58So kind.
44:20My wife is comely bred and cares not for novelties.
44:52I hope, madam, that you're rested.
44:53Such a trying time that you have had.
45:00I hope the apartment is to your liking.
45:03Perfectly.
45:27I wish, Mrs. Lovelace, you may never know the loss of a husband as dear to you as the colonel
45:33was to me.
45:42I'm sorry.
45:46I'm sorry.
45:47I'm sorry.
45:50I'm sorry.
46:06I'm sorry.
46:09I'm sorry.
46:23Oh, my dear friend, take care.
46:25Your cruel family still hope to seize you.
46:29Your brother was just now with me, pretending his good service.
46:34Do not despair.
46:36God is just.
46:42No, no, no, no, no.
46:45I'll see you later on.
46:46Amen.
46:53Thank you, Mrs. Lovelace.
46:53And now I'll have my friend.
46:58Mr. Lovelace.
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