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Tulkinghorn now has Lady Dedlock in his grasp but his hardheartedness is beginning to catch up with him. Miss Flite returns to her lodgings to find that Smallweed has changed the locks on her rooms. He throws her out for non-payment of rent. Esther seeks Guppy's help but he is repulsed by her scarred face. She wants him to stop all inquiries into her background and he agrees. Esther learns the identity of the woman who raised her. John Jarndyce asks Esther to marry him and she agrees. He immediately has second thoughts. Richard Carstone is being crushed by his growing debts.Sgt. George learns that his debts are being called in.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
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04:48Rubbish.
04:51Rubbish.
04:52Good day, Mr. Smallweed.
04:53Rent!
04:55In two course.
04:56Mr. Smallweed has promised.
04:58Now, or you're out!
05:02Now we'll have some fun, Judy.
05:06Rubbish!
05:07Rubbish!
05:09Rubbish!
05:13Mr. Smallweed, I cannot make my key turn in the door.
05:17Oh, dear.
05:18And why is that, I wonder?
05:21Because I had the lock changed, that's why.
05:27Mr. Smallweed, you cannot do this to me.
05:29Damn it, all right, damn it!
05:31But my things...
05:35My poor little birds.
05:38What have you done with them?
05:39Outside, in the alley.
05:40You're lucky I didn't wring their little necks.
05:42You're lucky I didn't bite their little heads off.
05:46Well, go on then.
05:47Hook!
05:47Sling it!
05:48No come-backy!
05:50Mr. Smallweed...
05:55Where am I to go?
05:58What do I care about that?
05:59Who do you think I am, the Christmas spirit?
06:02Go on, off it!
06:03Out!
06:03One, two!
06:04One, two!
06:04Judy, take the broom, chase her out!
06:06Right you are, Grandad.
06:13There she goes!
06:15Oh!
06:15Oh, my bones!
06:17Shake me up, Judy!
06:22So, as you see, we're managing very well.
06:25We've got more pupils than ever before, and Prince has taken on three apprentices, and
06:29I've learned myself to play the piano well enough to get by.
06:32But how will you manage when the baby comes?
06:34Don't know, but we will manage somehow.
06:37I'm sure you will, Caddy.
06:39And it was you who got me started on trying to make something out of myself.
06:42I'm ashamed to think of what I was like when you first met me.
06:45All unpolite and inky, and not a good word to say to anybody.
06:50Maybe you don't see much of a difference now, but if there is, it's thanks to you, Esther.
06:55No.
06:57No, you've done it yourself, Caddy.
07:00I wish I could say I've done as much with my life as you have with yours.
07:17Oh, Lord!
07:18Mrs. Guppy?
07:19Is Mr. Guppy at home?
07:22Oh, Lord, it's so cold.
07:24Mrs. Guppy, may I come in?
07:33Miss Somersen!
07:34This is indeed an honour.
07:38Mother!
07:41I took the liberty of sending you a note, Mr. Guppy.
07:44You did.
07:45And I have it here.
07:48Mother, please.
07:52I do beg your pardon, Miss Somersen.
07:55Perhaps I could speak to you alone for a moment.
07:58Mother?
08:16I came here rather than to the office, because I did not want to cause you any embarrassment.
08:23Remembering what you said to me on another occasion.
08:27Oh, yes.
08:30Forgive me.
08:31Was you referring to the occasion when I made a declaration?
08:38I feel a little giddy.
08:41It's very hot and close in here.
08:44Where was I?
08:45You were saying that you made a declaration, Mr. Guppy.
08:48A declaration of love and a proposal of marriage.
08:50Which you turned down.
08:51Well, you did.
08:52You won't object to admit that.
08:54I don't object in the least.
08:55You proposed and I turned you down.
08:57There's no doubt about that.
08:58Thank you, Miss.
08:59I, uh, regret that my arrangements in life, combined with circumstances beyond my control,
09:08will make it impossible for me ever to renew that offer in any shape or form.
09:14That's quite all right, Mr. Guppy.
09:16I'm very sorry.
09:18Truly, I am.
09:19But it couldn't be.
09:22Now, could it?
09:23You know?
09:26But the memory of it will stay with me.
09:28Mr. Guppy, please stop.
09:30I want to tell you why I came to see you.
09:32Beg your pardon.
09:34Please do.
09:36When you asked me to marry you...
09:38Which proposal has now been repudiated on both sides.
09:40You also said that you might be able to help me by making inquiries into my birth and my ancestry.
09:46Yes.
09:47Yes.
09:48And I have already made some discoveries.
09:50I want you to stop, Mr. Guppy.
09:54I have been told all the circumstances of my birth.
09:58So I would be very grateful if you would make no further inquiries.
10:03Is that all?
10:05Yes, Mr. Guppy, that's all.
10:10Then, Miss Somersen, upon my soul, you may rely upon me in every respect.
10:20Mr. Guppy.
10:33Master.
10:34Ada.
10:35What's the matter?
10:36I thought you were with Richard.
10:37I went to his lodges at the time we arranged.
10:39But they said he'd gone out.
10:41They didn't know where.
10:42Where else for the court?
10:46Another adjournment.
10:47Again, nothing done.
10:48Nothing, nothing done.
10:49No, no, sir.
10:50Don't say nothing done, sir.
10:51That is scarcely fair.
10:53We have our shoulders to the wheel, and the wheel is going round.
10:57The wheel goes round.
10:58But it does need oiling from time to time.
11:02Yes, indeed.
11:02Which reminds me, there are some bills for you to sign, Mr. Carsten.
11:06Let's go this way.
11:07It's just a short step to my chambers.
11:10Hey, Danester.
11:12Whatever are you doing here?
11:15Oh, Lord, it was today, wasn't it?
11:19I'm so sorry.
11:21Doesn't matter.
11:22I found you now.
11:23Am I forgiven?
11:26Excellent.
11:27Now, I know a very good place to eat.
11:28The Davison horseback of the best in London.
11:36Do you know, I heard the most extraordinary thing from Tulkinghorn.
11:41What was that?
11:43Our neighbor, Boythorne, has been entertaining Mr. John Jarndyce and the wards in Jarndyce.
11:50And what should that be to us?
11:53Mr. Jarndyce is an old friend of yours, I understand.
11:56They should have been entertained here, not at that fellow Boythorne's place.
12:02I'm sure that Mr. Jarndyce wouldn't have felt slighted in the least by not being invited here.
12:06Well, I disagree.
12:09I've written to Mr. Jarndyce to invite them all.
12:16Welcome back.
12:17Welcome back.
12:19It's been a bleak house indeed without you to brighten it.
12:21Indeed, I think the wind has been in the east ever since you went away.
12:24We went away for long.
12:25I know, but you are very much missed.
12:27The pair of you.
12:28Now, when you're both ready, supper is on the table.
12:39We've received an invitation from a very august personage.
12:43Celeste Tetlock has invited all three of us to stay at Chesney World.
12:47Now, what do you think of that?
12:49Well, why should he invite us?
12:52He knows we're friendly with Mr. Boythorne, and he hates Mr. Boythorne.
12:56I know, I was astonished myself, but, you know, there's a degree of acquaintance from the past.
13:01Didn't you meet Lady Tetlock, Esther, when you went to look at the ghost walk?
13:06I think you must have made a great impression on her, and that the invitation really comes from her, rather
13:10than Celeste.
13:10I'm quite sure it does not.
13:12You are not intending to accept, are you?
13:16Why not?
13:17I couldn't possibly go.
13:20Esther, why have I not?
13:21If Celeste thinks you're good enough for Chesney World, who are you to disagree?
13:24I can't go.
13:27Esther.
13:37Esther.
13:45I've come to tell you why we...
13:49Why I, at any rate, cannot go to Chesney World.
13:55It is a secret, but I think I must tell you.
14:01Go on.
14:09I am Lady Tetlock's daughter.
14:13She told me so herself, and she also told me that we must never meet again.
14:19So you see, the invitation...
14:26He couldn't possibly have come from her.
14:29Esther, Esther, my poor dear, look at her.
14:33No!
14:37Thanks.
14:38You must not tell anyone else.
14:39Of course I shan't tell anyone else.
14:41What a burden it must have been to keep that secret.
14:43It was for her.
14:44Yes.
14:46Perhaps.
14:50Esther.
14:58There is a secret I have kept from you all these years.
15:02But I think you should know.
15:06Esther, the lady who brought you up, who entrusted you to my care, was Lady Tetlock's sister.
15:15Her sister?
15:20But didn't you ever suspect?
15:22Not for a moment.
15:24I did think you might have been her child, the sister's...
15:26That would have explained why she broke off with Boythorn so suddenly.
15:31So she sacrificed her life for me.
15:37I wish she had not.
15:42She never loved me.
15:47She was right.
15:47It would have been better if I had never been born.
15:51But then, I would never have known you.
15:55Would I?
15:59You have filled my life with joy.
16:02But you have changed my life, too.
16:04Esther, let me go on now, or I shall never manage it.
16:09Our lives are changing.
16:12Rick has already left Bleak House, and Ada will not be with us much longer.
16:19But I hope that you will want to stay here with me.
16:26Yes, of course, if you wish it.
16:29Will you stay here as the mistress of Bleak House?
16:37As my wife.
16:44I know the world will say I'm far too old to offer myself as a husband for a young girl,
16:48but I can't help what I feel.
16:50And I care for your feelings much more than the world's.
16:55There.
16:57I've said it.
17:02I love you, Esther.
17:07Will you be my wife?
17:12May I think about it for a little while?
17:15Of course.
17:17Of course.
17:18As long as you like.
17:35You tell your policeman to seize me on the street and bring me here when I have done no crime.
17:40What justice is this?
17:42You've been annoying, respectable citizens, mademoiselle.
17:46It seems a friendly warning might be in order.
17:48Who gives you your orders?
17:50Is it my lady?
17:52Or is it that devil talking horn?
17:55They are both as bad as each other.
17:57It is a free country.
17:58Where is liberty, egalité, fraternité?
18:01You forget, mademoiselle.
18:02We haven't had no revolution here.
18:05I must ask you to write down your present address on this paper.
18:11So we can keep an eye on you.
18:13Unless you prefer to be clapped in irons.
18:16Too sweet.
18:17All the same to me.
18:18You are as bad as the worst of them.
18:20Give me the pen.
18:35There.
18:37Much obliged, mademoiselle.
18:39And that is all?
18:40I can go now?
18:45I can go now.
18:46I can go now.
18:48I can go now.
18:50I can go now.
18:54I can go now.
18:57I can go now.
18:59I can go now.
19:01I can go now.
19:06I can go now.
19:09I can go now.
19:14I can go now.
19:14I can go now.
19:15I can go now.
19:17I can go now.
19:22Yes.
19:26Yes, I will.
19:44I'll heal quiet this morning.
19:51This is delicious, Esther.
19:53No one makes blackberry jelly like yours.
19:56No, indeed.
20:05Is something the matter?
20:07No, nothing's the matter.
20:10That is...
20:11Esther, could you come and see me in the growlery in a little while?
20:16Yes, of course.
20:18What is it? What's she done?
20:20Has she got the accounts all wrong?
20:22No, nothing like that, either.
20:29I hate secrets.
20:31So do I.
20:37Why didn't you tell her?
20:39Tell her what, exactly?
20:41We are engaged to be married.
20:43I wasn't sure I...
20:46Esther, I have an anxious night a bit.
20:48Are you sure this is what you really want?
20:50Yes.
20:52I would not have said so.
20:54You wouldn't have rather carried on as we were?
20:58I was surprised when you asked me to marry you.
21:01You thought of me as a...
21:04a father, rather than as a lover.
21:07Yes.
21:10And now I think I could learn to think about you in that other way.
21:16Truly?
21:17Yes.
21:19Truly.
21:21I don't know what marriage is like.
21:23I think perhaps no one does until they try it.
21:26And I think that you and I may do as well as others at it.
21:34Dear Esther.
21:39But all the same,
21:41I think you need time to accustom yourself to the idea.
21:44Until for now, I think it's best if we continue as we were.
21:47At least that is as far as others are concerned.
21:50Not to later.
21:51Not for the present.
21:52If you should change your mind, you see?
21:54I shan't go back on my word.
21:56Humor me in this, Esther.
22:00Very well.
22:08And now I have my work to do.
22:14What an inspiring sight.
22:17Captain Carsten.
22:18And where is it to be now?
22:20China?
22:21The West Indies?
22:22The Hindu Kush?
22:24And we should be caught at a deal for the time being.
22:26Well, not too dangerous, then.
22:29Not dangerous at all.
22:31Except to the pocket.
22:35I've been...
22:38wondering whether it might be best to sell out.
22:41After all.
22:43Dear me.
22:44I am sorry to hear that, Mr. Carsten.
22:48Well, there are so many expenses.
22:50Mess bills, stabling.
22:54One or two debts of honour.
22:56Ah, yes.
22:58Regarding which, if you would be so good as to.
23:08If I could only have some assurance of a speedy settlement.
23:11Oh, Mr. Carsten.
23:14You know me.
23:15I think.
23:17I am not the man to give assurances when the facts are not certain.
23:21Ah.
23:23What a man, eh?
23:25What a fellow.
23:26What integrity.
23:28Yes.
23:30Yes, you're a good man, Mr. Vols.
23:33A true friend.
23:36Should I sell out, do you think?
23:38You might think that the best course.
23:40You might very well think that.
23:43But I would not wish to influence you one way or the other.
23:53I am afraid that he has no present means at all.
23:56Even if he sells out, that money will be eaten up in debts he has incurred in the service.
24:02Meanwhile, I have three daughters to support.
24:05And an aged father in the Vale of Taunton.
24:08How are they to be fed?
24:10Now you mention it, I've always found an application to Mr. John Jarndyce rarely goes amiss.
24:17But Mr. Carsten has broken with him, has he not?
24:22Perhaps he has.
24:24But I fancy my friend Jarndyce has not broken with him.
24:29Oh, what care I for, house and land?
24:32Oh, what care I for treasure, oh?
24:36What care I for my newly wedded lord?
24:39I'm away with the wrackle-tackle gypsies, oh.
24:46Very pretty.
24:47Sir, you stalked me.
24:53You like your work here, Rosa?
24:57Yes, sir.
24:58My lady is kind to you?
25:01Very kind, sir.
25:03See, it's fond of you, I think.
25:06Rosa?
25:10My lady.
25:15Rosa, will you fetch my book?
25:18I think it is in the little city room.
25:21Yes, my lady.
25:28What were you saying to her?
25:31Nothing.
25:33Merely passing the time of day.
25:36I don't like your speaking to her.
25:39She is a very agreeable young woman.
25:42And I believe she loves you dearly.
25:45I wonder what she would think of you if she heard of your disgrace.
25:51You will have to forego that pleasure, Mr. Tolkien Horne, as I have decided to send her away.
25:57No, you will not do that.
25:59Do you presume to tell me how to run my household?
26:02We have an agreement, you and I.
26:05You will not draw attention to yourself by doing anything out of the ordinary.
26:11I understand very well that you wish to protect your little favorite from the taint of association with you.
26:17But it will not do, Lady Deadlock.
26:21If any action is to be taken, I will decide what and when.
26:28Not you.
26:34No, no, no, no.
26:59No, no, no, no.
27:05Oh, my bones.
27:07Go steady there, you brimstone beasts.
27:10Send me down gentle.
27:12Oh.
27:14Judy, shake me up.
27:18Afternoon.
27:19Mr. Smallweed.
27:21What brings you here?
27:23Just a friendly call, George.
27:25How's business?
27:27Quiet.
27:28That's a pity.
27:29I've come to call in your debt, George.
27:33What are you talking about?
27:35That debt was settled, and you know it.
27:37Oh, no, George.
27:38I don't think it was.
27:39Settled?
27:39No, no, no, no.
27:41Look here.
27:42Two hundred and forty-three pounds, seven and tuppence-free-farving, still owing.
27:45Your memory must be playing tricks on you, my old friend.
27:48You promised me if I supplied a letter where the captain's writing on it, it would put me straight and
27:54clear.
27:55And I did it against my conscience.
27:58And now you tell me I'm not straight and clear after all.
28:00Oh, that's about the size of it.
28:03Cruel world, innit?
28:05What?
28:06You little bloodsucker.
28:08I'll give you cruel world.
28:09I'll snuck your neck for you.
28:11That debt was settled.
28:12And you know it.
28:13No, George, it's not me.
28:14It's him.
28:15I'm just the messenger.
28:16He sent me to tell you.
28:17Who sent you?
28:18Oh, my bones.
28:20For bit of sake, George.
28:23Mr. Tolkien.
28:24Oh, my God.

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