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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.
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00:11歌詞・作曲・編曲 初音ミク
03:32Mr. Lovelace.
03:34Again.
03:37He seems keen.
03:41Pinch your cheeks, Bella.
03:43Your face must be your fortune now.
04:07Miss Arabella?
04:09Mr. Lefniz, do you care to walk, sir?
04:41Mr. Harlow, it's closer.
04:54Heir to a peerage. A splendid paternal estate. Two unmarried aunts. Mark that.
05:02And an army of whores and bastards. Mark that.
05:06Father, you can manage the estate far better than I can.
05:10Yes. Property is always safest in men's hands.
05:15Since I have no desire to marry...
05:17Where is the man who could deserve you?
05:20Just let me have enough to tend my charities. I have no desire for wealth.
05:25If she had the money, she'd give it all away.
06:05What are you doing?
06:12It's yours, I believe.
06:33I know, I know, Jack. I have boasted I was in love before.
06:36What about the Matthews girl? Wasn't that the real thing?
06:39I had the time, I thought so.
06:41And the one in Richmond, Miss Betterton.
06:43But they were never like this, truly.
06:46When I remember what I felt then and compare it with how I feel now...
06:49Mm, yes. I'm sure.
06:52But first I had to find a way to rid myself of a confounded sister.
06:56Well?
06:59There are so many stimulus to such a spirit as mine in this affair,
07:03such opportunities for stratagems and contrivances.
07:07And fatigue.
07:08Look, Bob, why go to all the trouble, hmm?
07:11And expense?
07:12Virgins in season are as plentiful as ripe figs.
07:17The exhilaration of it.
07:19To carry off such a girl as this Clarissa Harlow
07:22in spite of all her purity and virtue.
07:24So tantalising.
07:27And what a triumph over all the sex.
07:30Well, have it your way.
07:32But remember, I want all the juicy details.
07:37Just now, my charming Frostpiece is with her friend, Miss Howe.
07:43How cruel of you to rob poor Bella of the only lover she ever had.
07:48Me?
07:49It wasn't me. She refused him.
07:52Most reluctantly, though.
07:54The man works her up into such a rage.
07:57And then puts the question.
07:59What could she do?
08:01She was practically speechless.
08:04Just managed to stutter something about her disinclination to change her state.
08:08What you might call a consenting negative.
08:13Poor Bella.
08:15Such a handsome man.
08:18A bit wild.
08:20Very wild.
08:46But do you never mean to marry, sacrifice my independence?
08:50Love, honour and independence.
08:52Could you honestly promise that?
08:54Promising's not the problem.
08:56I could not promise what I would not practise.
09:00It could be. It's just the opposite.
09:01That little reptile word, obey, doesn't bother me a bit.
09:04Happy to pronounce it as meekly as you please.
09:08But afterwards...
09:11I have everything I need.
09:13My books, my friends, your grandfather's estate.
09:18I told you I gave it to my father.
09:20How very obedient.
09:23But was that entirely wise?
09:26Such glaring displays of virtue you don't tend to look a little like policy.
09:32Aha!
09:35To Miss Clarissa Harlow.
09:37Your swains pursue you everywhere.
09:41Imagine...
09:42leaving all the family paintings to her
09:45just because she used to tittle with them
09:47and wipe and clean them with her own dainty fingers.
09:51Dainty?
09:52Whose fingers could be daintier than these?
09:56He might just as well have left them to the maid.
10:02Which of your heartbroken suitors is this from, I wonder?
10:06You've rejected so many.
10:08Poor Mr Wiley.
10:11Mr Mullins.
10:14Or do you have a new one?
10:16Mr Lovelace?
10:19Throw it away.
10:47Throw it away.
10:47I don't want it.
10:48Nonsense.
10:48I'm forced to listen to Miss Clarissa's superior opinion.
10:53Don't you like him at all?
10:55Not just a teeny bit.
10:58He's so handsome.
11:00So wild.
11:01So vain.
11:03I cannot...
11:05I cannot admire a man with no morals, Clary.
11:09Men put on their morals like we put on our stays.
11:13He has no heart.
11:15No true feels.
11:17Mr Lovelace does not know how to love.
11:27And you do.
11:29If I thought...
11:30If?
11:31Were you love upon condition?
11:32Who said anything about love?
11:35I speak only of liking.
11:37If I thought you were a moral man, I might admit a conditional kind of liking.
11:43Clary, if I didn't know you better, I might almost mistake that for a considerable
11:50time.
11:50But I'm not pretending negative.
12:09Clarissa.
12:12I thought it was Bella Mr Lovelace was intent on.
12:15But from the point of view of the estate, so long as Bella don't object...
12:20Me?
12:22Why should I object?
12:24She's welcome to my leavings.
12:28Suppose she were to resume her grandfather's estate.
12:31I wish to seem...
12:32Worried about his morals?
12:33I shouldn't worry.
12:35I'm sure Clary will cure his morals if any woman can.
12:39Besides, the man's a thoroughbred.
12:43Cultivated, well-traveled.
12:44Rather too well-traveled, from what I hear.
12:48Noblesse oblige and so on.
12:50Not some vulgar lecher.
12:52Just suppose...
12:54With her grandfather's estate,
12:56Mr Lovelace's inheritance,
12:58and just suppose I were to throw in the revenues from mine.
13:02You will live to see your daughter a peeress of the realm.
13:07Sister Bella.
13:09You see how it is?
13:10This little siren is in a fair way to out-uncle us, as she has already out-grandfathered us.
13:17We must find a way to clip her wings.
13:24So, not satisfied with one, sister. You want to bag them both?
13:28No. Only the one that struggles.
13:30Bella might do for some men. Yours, I think.
13:36Damn it.
13:39Birds are like women, Jack.
13:41Patience.
13:42That's the thing.
13:44Observe the lie of the land.
13:45The shift of the wind.
13:47The rival predators.
13:48Article one of the rake's creed.
13:51Importunity and opportunity no woman can withstand.
13:55The artful fowler marks his prey.
13:57Spreads his snares.
13:59Sets up his stalking horse.
14:01Plants his decoys and...
14:04Ends up with a crow.
14:06But the sport, Jack.
14:08A sport.
14:09Well, she is the hollow heiress.
14:11Pox on their money.
14:13Girls, not gold, Jack.
14:15Hollow places sprung up from a dunghill.
14:18Trade.
14:19I'd trade the lot of them for one sweet kiss.
14:22And tomorrow I need to have it.
14:24There's nothing sweeter than a virgin humbled.
14:28Article two of the rake's creed.
14:30Keep them guessing.
14:41Mr Lovelace has honoured us with another visit.
14:44The honour is all mine.
14:47I'll leave you.
14:48Don't go.
14:50I'm sure Mr Lovelace wouldn't want me to monopolise the honour that he pays us.
14:54Indeed, madam. Stay.
14:56A conversation of two such charming ladies as yourselves is a double delight.
15:00I had always heard you preferred not to confine your pleasure to one lady entirely.
15:05That, madam, would depend upon the lady.
15:09Mr Harlow.
15:11Mr Lovelace.
15:13Again.
15:14If you were hoping to see my sister, then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
15:19She's indisposed.
15:21I'm sorry to hear it.
15:23Perhaps you might like to leave a message.
15:25I'm sure Clary would be happy to take it.
15:27I'm sure Clary wouldn't wish to deprive our guest of both your sister's company.
15:32I very much doubt whether Bella's indisposition is infectious.
15:38May I?
15:43Such fine detail.
15:46It's easy to see where your daughter gets her own exquisite taste.
15:50Which daughter might that be?
15:52Or is the compliment general?
15:54You must mean Bella.
15:56She was always far handier with a needle than me.
15:59In a family like this, all praise must be general.
16:03I have the profoundest admiration for a family that has raised itself so high by its own conspicuous merits.
16:09We have prospered, sir.
16:10Deservedly.
16:11We have prospered by knowing our own worth.
16:14What we have, we hold.
16:16We owe no man a debt.
16:18You are fortunate.
16:19We, sir, are prudent.
16:22No man whose soul is mortgaged should ever presume to take a Harlow on lease for life.
16:35We are not a family for rent.
16:45This insolent, Booby Squire is my instrument.
16:49I play upon him as I please.
16:53There is one thing I am resolved upon.
16:56If I have not the sister, I will have him.
17:24Yours, I believe.
17:29Have a care, Mr Harlow.
17:35For your sister's sake, I warn you.
18:10What is her sister?
18:12How she is?
18:12What was her sister?
18:20What?
18:20How did she take archaeological behalf of Alexander?
18:26Hungry the soul!
18:26Is she taken away?
18:32No kneeling to me, Clarissa Harlow, but with the knee of duty and compliance, bend.
18:38You are aware of the outrage committed against your brother.
18:41I am aware of a rash dispute.
18:43Do you deny you have received this fellow's letters?
18:47Do you understand that you are never to see or write to this man again?
18:54I understand, sir, that you are my brother, and only my brother, and not the one to instruct me in
19:00my duty.
19:01It is not your brother, but I, your father, who instruct you.
19:04It would be a very shameless sister who encouraged a man to wade into her favor through her brother's blood.
19:10Sir, what have I done to deserve these accusations?
19:13Clarissa Harlow, you have always been a dutiful daughter,
19:17and if you remain so, we'll continue your rightful place in the affections of all your family.
19:24Mr. Roger Soames will wait upon you tomorrow,
19:27and it is our wish that you should prepare to receive his proposals of marriage,
19:31his generous proposals.
19:35Mr.
19:36Soames.
19:39Come in.
19:42Bella, come in.
19:44I've nearly finished.
19:46Still writing.
19:48Poor Clary.
19:50Such a pity.
19:53What will you do to amuse yourself now?
19:59Bella.
20:01Naughty, naughty.
20:03You know the rules.
20:04No letters.
20:05Even to Anna.
20:07Your go-between to lovelace.
20:11Bella.
20:13What will you do?
20:14Run to Mama?
20:16Or why not write her a letter?
20:20The servants have been warned.
20:22Your letters will be stopped.
20:27I wonder how Mr. Soames will take to such a literary wife.
20:37I wonder how to do it.
20:37I wonder how to do it.
20:38I wonder how to do it.
20:40I wonder how to do it.
20:41I wonder how to do it.
20:45I wonder how to do it.
20:46I wonder how to do it.
20:49I wonder how to do it.
20:49I wonder how to do it.
20:50I wonder how to do it.
20:50I wonder how to do it.
20:51I wonder how to do it.
20:51I wonder how to do it.
20:52I wonder how to do it.
20:52I wonder how to do it.
20:54I wonder how to do it.
20:55I wonder how to do it.
20:56I wonder how to do it.
20:59I wonder how to do it.
21:10shall i make tea mama perhaps we should sit down betty can make the tea
21:17sir larissa harlowe remember that i will have no child but an obedient one
21:27hey mr soames
21:32mr soames yes sir and mr harlowe madam and miss harlowe sir and miss clarissa
21:48oh sir harlowe sir unusually cold sir for the time of year oh yes indeed it is
22:05do you find it so miss my sister finds it rather warm i fancy
22:23inform the gentleman that we are not at home
22:28leave this to me no there's no need of that tell mr lovelace that the harlowe family are
22:34not at home to a brawling street fighter and that our sister is at present in the company of a
22:39gentleman
22:49so
23:17Perhaps you might prefer our Grandmother's jaws reset.
23:21In deference to your charitable inclinations.
23:24It would look charming for the bride of her.
23:53Come in.
23:56The silks are coming from London.
23:59They are the finest we could procure.
24:03Mama, please send them back.
24:10Clary, either we must give up our authority, which you know we can never do,
24:15or you must give up your humour, which we have every reason to expect.
24:20You've always been a dutiful girl.
24:23Much good it does me.
24:25Have I no duty to myself?
24:28Aren't they beautiful?
24:31Come and look.
24:35Then Mr. Soames will give you jewels.
24:38Quite besides the very handsome allowance he has agreed to,
24:42you will have more independence than a wife perhaps ought to have.
24:45Mother, nothing will ever persuade me to marry that man.
24:50But the terms, child.
24:52Where people marry to their liking, you know, terms are the least things stood upon.
24:56I can't see what you have against him.
24:59He's an honest man, virtuous.
25:02Virtuous?
25:03What, to try to force a girl against her will?
25:06We hear far too much about your will, young lady.
25:08Be told, your father's determined.
25:10And you?
25:11What about you?
25:12Your father?
25:13I know, I know, determined, but I asked about you.
25:17Or has a vow of silence been added to the other marriage vows?
25:21You must not ask me.
25:23Oh, Mum.
25:32I was required to fetch your letters.
25:48Is this all?
25:50Oh, it's enough.
25:59Clary, a woman must know when to bend.
26:02Or else she will surely break.
26:26Is this all?
26:27James, why must you be so spiteful?
26:32Madam, you do not know how to deal with your own daughter.
26:35If she had been left to me to manage, we would now be rejoicing in her happy fortunes as the
26:39wife of a wealthy man.
26:41Instead, we're...
26:43Now where's she off to?
26:51Here it is, miss.
27:06Is it safe?
27:07Try and test it, miss.
27:09You're not the only one with secrets.
27:20In a hurry, sister.
27:22It may be you are unacquainted with this fellow Lovelace's reputation.
27:28In Bath, Miss Matthews and Miss Medlicott, who died giving birth to his bastard.
27:35At Richmond, Miss James, Mrs Wilson, and two barmaids at the Rosencrown.
27:42At Hammersmith, Miss Oliver, her mother, and their upstairs maid.
27:47You see, he goes for quantity more than quality.
27:52Are you so very anxious to add the name of Harlow to this list?
27:59Your spies are very busy, sir.
28:02But how come you never thought to warn my sister of his ways?
28:05Your sister, Clary, had no need of warning.
28:08She saw him for what he is.
28:11There. Take it!
28:12It may amuse you to see what company you keep.
28:43There is stables, the back walk cloister.
28:48All of these.
28:49Here.
28:51Twelve hundred acres.
28:53Farmhouse and Grange Cottage, all with tenancies.
28:57Yes, if I may say so, Miss Clarissa is worth any amount of my acreage.
29:02Then we are all agreed.
29:04Oh, good.
29:05Here. Here.
29:09Oh, good.
29:11Then I shall sign.
29:33Clary?
29:34Anyone about?
29:36Good.
29:44Here.
29:46I know how you love to scribble.
29:48Don't tell anybody where you got them.
29:51Dear Uncle.
29:53Clary.
29:55Clary, I have to talk to you.
29:58I've always loved you like my own child.
30:01You've always been so kind.
30:02I know this is no trivial thing we ask.
30:05But then you're no trivial girl.
30:07You are a Harlow.
30:10It is in the family's interests for you to marry Mr. Soames.
30:14No.
30:15Clary.
30:16Why me?
30:17Why must it be me?
30:19Why not Bella?
30:20Mr. Soames has reasons for preferring you.
30:23And I have reasons for disliking him.
30:25Does the family honour mean nothing to you?
30:27How can honour be founded on falsehood?
30:29A falsehood is in your heart, Clarissa Harlow.
30:32You reject an honest man because your heart is whoring after a rake.
30:36No, sir.
30:38I swear to you, if there were no such man as Mr. Lovelace,
30:42if there were no other man in all creation,
30:44I still would not have Mr. Soames.
30:52Look to your conscience, girl.
30:54The serpent has you in its coils.
31:13Come here.
31:24Come here.
31:25Whoever kicks onto it as envie of the woman,
31:25Come here.
31:25He lets you bend.gon
31:26scientist, he
31:27desires of him. He
31:28desires his righteousness, he
31:28here. He
31:36desires of me. Many
31:36truly deserve to kill him thanks for aОn t-
31:54Hand it over.
31:56Stand still, girl.
32:15Now get out.
32:17Get out of this house.
32:19You're dismissed.
32:21And you needn't apply to your mistress for a reference.
32:24You shan't be seeing her again.
32:26Perhaps you might try Miss Howe.
32:31Which dress shall I lay out, miss?
32:34That's all right, Betty.
32:35Hannah will see to it.
32:36Oh, not Hannah, miss.
32:37Hannah's gone.
32:38What do you mean?
32:40Back to her bags and left last night, miss.
32:43I'm to be your servant now.
32:45The blue dress, miss.
32:46Or would you prefer the grey?
32:48Without a word.
32:50I don't believe it.
32:52This is my brother's doing.
32:55No, the grey.
32:56I'm going to church.
32:58Church?
33:00Are you to be my jailer, Betty?
33:02No, miss.
33:03Only...
33:04Have I to ask your leave when I'm disposed to walk into the garden or feed my hens?
33:08No, miss.
33:09Oh, I see.
33:11Your authority only extends to the care of my soul, not to the care of my chickens.
33:16Lay out my grey dress.
33:19No, leave it.
33:21Leave me.
33:23Leave me.
33:24I'll do it myself.
33:34Leave me.
33:36I'll do it myself.
33:50I'll do it myself.
33:50I'll do it myself.
33:50I'll do it myself.
33:50Oh, no.
33:50No.
33:50How much stress on church-going should obstinately persist in defying...
33:58Which commandment is it? The one about the mother and the father?
34:03This.
34:04Dearest fellow, so devout.
34:11We recommend you to your solitary devotions
34:15in the hopes that you may acquire a more...
34:23Humble?
34:26A more humble spirit.
34:29We are well aware upon what saviour your pious hopes are pinned.
35:02Very little.
35:05I'd also say you're gone.
35:09Yours, I believe.
35:29Oh, wow.
35:45Bold as ninepence, miss.
35:47Your brother says as though you must have cooked it up between you.
35:51He says it's a wonder there wasn't a murder done.
35:56If you want my advice, miss, which I don't, Betty.
36:00No, miss.
36:01But all the same, miss, if you don't mind me saying,
36:05all this fine-houded-do of yours don't signify that.
36:10They mean to make you have Mr. Soames.
36:14And that's that.
36:49Soames.
37:07Soames.
37:37Don't cry out.
37:39And if I am, whose fault is that?
37:42Would you prefer me to do nothing?
37:44When I see you insulted, wire-drawn and ensnared like one of those silly birds?
37:49Nothing?
37:50The dangers that I suffer are not lessened by your making them the occasion for your spot.
37:55Save your gallantries for your admirers.
37:57Madam, you may, if you choose, compel me to ignore your brother's insults to your dignity.
38:03But I cannot overlook the affronts to mine.
38:06My brother's fault, sir.
38:07Do not blot out your own.
38:09Tell me, how is Miss Matthews and Miss Medlicott?
38:13Madam, whichever enemy has sought to poison your regard for me deserves my endless gratitude.
38:22Sir.
38:22I have been much to blame, I confess it.
38:25I have committed crimes against your sex.
38:28Lies, betrayals, things it makes me sick at heart to think of.
38:33Dearest creature, I would hide nothing from you.
38:37I insist that you should know the very worst of me.
38:41The blackest sins that taint my soul.
38:44Only then will you begin to see how much I am transformed.
38:52Inspired by my love for you.
38:56Until now, all I have ever known is lust.
39:00But love, this is the first time.
39:05I beseech you, dearest madam, if you would let my aunt, Lady Betty, offer you her protection.
39:10And will you protect me from my protection?
39:12Trust me.
39:13Shh.
39:15Meet me again, here.
39:17I'll be waiting.
39:19Do not abandon me.
39:21I promise you this.
39:22If they do force you to be that monster's wife,
39:26you'll be the youngest and prettiest widow in all the county.
39:42You're taking the night air, sister?
39:44Do I need my maid's permission?
39:47Remember this, my pretty little flighty one.
39:50Your father's living will shall control your grandfather's dead one.
40:10The pink, I think, would become you.
40:12It would be a little insipid for my complexion.
40:16Kindness, Bella, would suit you better.
40:20Oh, yes.
40:21And this, I think, for your wedding night, girl,
40:26to match your charming eyes.
40:29Don't Mr. Lovely say you have charming eyes?
40:33Is that what he told you?
40:39How many hours do you spend in prayer?
40:42Or are your thoughts entirely devoted to love?
40:51How opportune that Mr. Soames would pop up to rescue us from your romantic wimps.
40:57Is it my fault, Bella, the opportune gentlemen don't pop up for you?
41:01The fickle head attracts the feckless heart.
41:05Oh.
41:07Then I will learn prudence from you.
41:09I will do as you do.
41:11Say as you say in everything.
41:15Then say,
41:17Lovelace is a villain.
41:20So I will.
41:22When I believe it.
41:25Then you don't believe it now.
41:27Did you believe it, Bella?
41:29When he kissed you.
41:31No.
41:33What?
41:35No.
41:51No.
42:22Mr. Harlow, your servant, sir.
42:26Mrs. Harlow.
42:29Miss Arabella.
42:31Mr. Harlow, sir.
42:34Mr. James.
42:51Mr. Harlow, sir.
43:13Mr. Harlow, sir.
43:45Thank you, sir.
44:05Madam.
44:06Sir.
44:08I would, if it were in my power, have spared you this interview.
44:12Which can only be painful to us both.
44:16I fail to see how any man who has the slightest regard for his own happiness could so persist.
44:22Persist?
44:24I would persist forever.
44:26And I hope in time...
44:27Time will not change my feelings, sir.
44:30That I shall be a miserable man.
44:32Better you were miserable by yourself, sir, than make us both so.
44:36For God's sake, dearest madam, for God's sake, what, sir?
44:42How came God's sake and your sake to be the same?
44:54Madam, you may have heard certain things said against me.
44:57I'll be a miserable man.
45:00I'll be a miserable man.
45:01I'll be a miserable man.
45:02I'll be a miserable man.
45:02The man is without his enemies.
45:05He needs to tell me what you have heard.
45:06And I shall strive to correct those faults.
45:10Then, sir, correct this fault.
45:13Do not attempt to have a woman forced against her will in the most important decision of her life
45:19for the sake of motives she despises.
45:34So, niece, sitting in state like a queen giving audience.
45:39Mr. Soames, why this distance man?
45:41I had hoped to see you on a more intimate footing.
45:44Am I to have no freedom?
45:46You have had your will in everything till now.
45:48Now is the time for obedience.
45:50Mr. Soames, you shall marry Mr. Soames.
45:53No.
45:54No, never.
45:55I would rather starve.
45:57I would rather die.
46:01I would rather be sealed and bricked up in the family vault.
46:09Not going, sister.
46:10We don't want you bricked up yet.
46:13Such a pretty little martyr's face.
46:16But such an obstinate neck.
46:19What will you do for letters in your vault?
46:25Here, sir.
46:26Stop, sir.
46:27No violence.
46:28Yeah.
46:29No violence.
46:31Oh, no!
46:33Yeah.
46:40No violence.
46:42No violence.
46:44No violence.
46:49No violence.
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