0:00:12 > 0:00:14BIRDSONG
0:00:33 > 0:00:35SOLEMN TICKING
0:00:35 > 0:00:37The boundaries...
0:00:37 > 0:00:39of...
0:00:41 > 0:00:43..propriety...
0:00:46 > 0:00:48..vigorously...
0:00:49 > 0:00:51..assaulted.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00'..propriety were...'
0:01:02 > 0:01:05SIGHS EXCLAIMS
0:01:10 > 0:01:13PLAYS SINGLE NOTE
0:01:16 > 0:01:18PLAYS FLUENT SCALE
0:01:19 > 0:01:22PLAYS SLOW, HAUNTING MELODY
0:01:27 > 0:01:30DOVES COO PEACEFULLY
0:01:34 > 0:01:36MUSIC CONTINUES SNORING
0:01:38 > 0:01:41ALL SNORT AND SQUEAL
0:01:53 > 0:01:56'The boundaries of...propriety
0:01:56 > 0:01:58'were vigorously assaulted.'
0:01:58 > 0:02:01The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted,
0:02:01 > 0:02:05as was certainly right, but not quite breached, as was also right.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06Nevertheless...
0:02:08 > 0:02:11..she was not pleased.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16STRIKES UP LOUD, VIGOROUS TUNE
0:02:17 > 0:02:19SQUEAKS PROTESTINGLY
0:02:19 > 0:02:22CONTINUES TO PLAY LOUDLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY
0:02:29 > 0:02:31- GASPS - What is it?- Jane!
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Oh.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46JANE!
0:02:46 > 0:02:49CONTINUES TO PLAY
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Oh, dear me!
0:02:54 > 0:02:56That girl needs a husband.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00But who's good enough? Nobody.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I blame you for that.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Being too much the model of perfection?
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- LAUGHS - I've shared your bed for 32 years.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Perfection is something I've not encountered.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Yet.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18CHUCKLES
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Oh! Stop it! Mr Austen!
0:03:22 > 0:03:25It's Sunday! Stop! No!
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- It's... - CHUCKLES
0:03:27 > 0:03:31The utmost of a woman's character is expressed...
0:03:31 > 0:03:33in the duties of daughter,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35sister,
0:03:35 > 0:03:40and, eventually...wife and mother.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45It is secured by soft attraction, virtuous love...
0:03:45 > 0:03:47and quiet in the early morning.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52If a woman happens to have a particular superiority,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56for example a profound mind, it is best kept a profound secret.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01'Humour is liked more, but wit...? No.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04'It is the most treacherous talent of them all.'
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Now, George, old fellow, you know you have to stay.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Jenny! - George...
0:04:10 > 0:04:12There.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Hurry along, Jane! We'll be late!
0:04:21 > 0:04:23When Her Ladyship calls, we must obey.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Come along, Jane!
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Lady Gresham, may I introduce my niece,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Comtesse de Fueillide.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15And Mr Fowle, Cassandra's fiance.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Comtesse...? Then, you presume to be French?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23- By marriage.- Monsieur le Comte is not here to pay his respects.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27A prior engagement. Monsieur le Comte was obliged to pay them
0:05:27 > 0:05:31- to Madame la Guillotine. - TREMULOUSLY:- Oh...!
0:05:33 > 0:05:38I see your nephew is with us again. Mr Wisley?
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Wisley is indispensable to my happiness.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Oh, do sit down.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Mr Fowle and Cassandra are only recently engaged.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00When shall you marry?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- Not for some time, Your Ladyship. - Why not?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05I am also engaged for the West Indies
0:06:05 > 0:06:08with Lord Craven's expedition against the French, as chaplain.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11What has Craven offered you?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- I have hopes of a parish on my return.- How much is it worth?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18CHUCKLES UNCOMFORTABLY Enough to marry on,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21in a modest way.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24SIGHS
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Mr Wisley,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30did you know the Basingstoke Assemblies resume? Very soon,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34I believe. Jane does enjoy a ball.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Wisley can't abide them.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46But, sir, a ball is an indispensable blessing
0:06:46 > 0:06:48to the juvenile part of the neighbourhood.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Everything agreeable in the way of talking and sitting down together,
0:06:52 > 0:06:54all managed with the utmost decorum.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58An amiable man could not object.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Then, I find I am converted.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08'Displayed, like a brood mare!'
0:07:08 > 0:07:12Mr Wisley is a highly eligible young gentleman.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16- Oh, Mother! - You know our situation, Jane!
0:07:16 > 0:07:19And he's Lady Gresham's favourite nephew, and heir.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22One day he shall inherit this!
0:07:22 > 0:07:25- SIGHS LONGINGLY - Excellent prospects!
0:07:28 > 0:07:31CHUCKLES TEASINGLY
0:07:31 > 0:07:36- His small fortune will not buy me. - What- will- buy you, cousin?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Oof!
0:07:39 > 0:07:41CROWDS CHEERS AND SHOUTS
0:07:41 > 0:07:43He's getting a pasting!
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- More wary in the world, Mr Lefroy! - CHUCKLES
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- Hit him! - ALL YELL
0:07:51 > 0:07:53LAUGHS
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- You can pay me for that later! - Huzzah! Huzzah!
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Go on, hit him!
0:08:07 > 0:08:09- ALL CHEER - Lefroy!
0:08:13 > 0:08:15ALL SHOUT AND LAUGH
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Glass of wine with you, sir? - Madam.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29GRUNTS
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Displaying to advantage, I see, Lefroy.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Like the sword, Austen!
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- How long before you have to go back to the sticks?- A day.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- So short?- Mm. Doghouse. Debts. But one must cut some sort of a figure,
0:08:45 > 0:08:49- even in the militia.- Especially when condemned to a parsonage.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54- Yes. Still... - Who is the sour-faced little virgin?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Er, your pardon, ma'am.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Mr Tom Lefroy, may I present Mr John Warren?
0:09:02 > 0:09:06My father is preparing us both for holy orders.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Er, I understand you've visited Hampshire, Mr Lefroy.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14- Last year. - CHUCKLES - Long visit, was it?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Very long, Mr Warren. Almost three hours.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Mr Austen...a kiss, a kiss!
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- Oops!- Oh!
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Where should we go? Vauxhall Gardens?- Been there.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Oh, Lefroy, there's a Tahitian love fest on at White's.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- Crockfords? - Done that. Or...it did me.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Wh-Wh-What is a Tahitian love fest?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47BOTH CHUCKLE
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Warren!
0:10:03 > 0:10:08Theft of one pig is a crime, heinous to be sure,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11- but two pigs are... - DOOR BANGS OPEN
0:10:11 > 0:10:16Two pigs is a violent assault on the very sanctity
0:10:16 > 0:10:19of private property itself.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- WHISPERS APOLOGETICALLY: - You...and your kind
0:10:25 > 0:10:28are a canker on the body social.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34And cankers are cut...out.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Transportation for life.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Next!
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Why are you here in London, sir? - To learn the law.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Which has no other end but what?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47The preservation of the rights of property.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Against? - The mob.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Therefore order is kept...
0:10:53 > 0:10:56- ..because we have... - A standing army?
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Good manners, sir. And prudence. Do you know that word? Prudence?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Yes.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Consider myself. I was born rich, certainly,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10but I remained rich by virtue of exceptional conduct.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14I have shown...restraint.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Your mother, my sister, became poor because she did not.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- She married my father for love. - And that's why you have so many
0:11:21 > 0:11:24brothers and sisters back there in Limerick.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32If you hope...I say hope.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36If you aspire to inherit my property...
0:11:37 > 0:11:41..you must prove yourself more worthy.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44But what do we find? We find dissipation
0:11:44 > 0:11:48wild enough to glut the imaginings of a Hottentot, braggadocio,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51wild companions,
0:11:51 > 0:11:55gambling, running around St James's like a neck-or-nothing young blood
0:11:55 > 0:11:59of the fancy. What kind of lawyer will that make?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Typical.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Humour.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15Well, you're going to need that, because I'm teaching you a lesson.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22I am sending you to stay with your other relations, the Lefroys.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Uncle...they live in the country!
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Deep...in the country.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32CHUCKLES
0:12:32 > 0:12:35ROOKS CAW
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Jane? - Hmm?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Can you...?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Thank you.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59I think you two quite the prettiest sisters in England.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01CHUCKLES
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Mr Fowle will be enchanted.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07San Domingo is half a world away.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- He'll forget me. - Oh, impossible!
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Look at the memory you're giving him tonight.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17LAUGHS Cassie...
0:13:17 > 0:13:19his heart will stop at the very sight of you,
0:13:19 > 0:13:22or he doesn't deserve to live.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Yes, I am aware of the contradiction embodied in that sentence.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30CLATTER OF HOOVES AND CARRIAGE WHEELS Who is it?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Jane!
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Henry! LAUGHS
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Oh! Oh, wonderful!
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Hello, John. It's very good to see you.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46ALL CHATTER
0:13:48 > 0:13:50George!
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- Leave your brother alone! - BOTH LAUGH
0:13:54 > 0:13:57- MURMUR OF CONVERSATION - Jane!
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Jane! Have you heard? My father's nephew is staying with us.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- From London!- He is... - A brilliant young lawyer.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- Lucy, please. - With a reputation!- For lateness?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10RINGS ON CUP
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Hat off, George! Father's ready!
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Thank you, John.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19The family is always moving, in great ways and small.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Firstly, the small.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Henry is back from Oxford with his degree...
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- thank goodness.- Well done. - ALL LAUGH
0:14:28 > 0:14:32And our friend John, my new student. Then the great -
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Cassandra, who is forsaking us for her brother Edward
0:14:35 > 0:14:39and his family at the coast, whilst Robert voyages to the West Indies
0:14:39 > 0:14:42with Lord Craven's expedition. And then, together,
0:14:42 > 0:14:47they can embark on that most great and most serious journey of life.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Miss Austen, I understand you will be favouring us with a reading?
0:14:51 > 0:14:54- Do, Jane. - ALL MURMUR ENCOURAGEMENT
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Advice from a young lady,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09on the engagement of her beloved sister, Cassandra...
0:15:09 > 0:15:13to a Fowle. ALL LAUGH
0:15:16 > 0:15:19His addresses were offered in a manner violent enough
0:15:19 > 0:15:23to be flattering. The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted,
0:15:23 > 0:15:27as was only right, but not quite breached, as was also right.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Nevertheless... DOOR BANGS
0:15:39 > 0:15:45Er...may I introduce my young nephew, Mr Thomas Lefroy.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50And he's more than welcome. Join us, sir. Join us.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Green velvet coat!
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Vastly fashionable!
0:15:57 > 0:16:00You'll find this vastly amusing.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06"His addresses were...
0:16:07 > 0:16:11"The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14"as was only right, but not quite breached,
0:16:14 > 0:16:18"as was also right. Nevertheless, she was not...
0:16:18 > 0:16:21"..her sentiments noble, her person lovely,
0:16:21 > 0:16:24"her figure elegant..." CHUCKLES
0:16:26 > 0:16:30- God, there's writing on both sides of those pages!- Ssh, damn it!
0:16:30 > 0:16:34"..yesterday I repelled Lord Graham and his six million,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37"which would have lasted me almost a twelvemonth...
0:16:38 > 0:16:40- "..With the colonies." - Oh!
0:16:40 > 0:16:44ALL LAUGH CONTINUES UNDER BACKGROUND MUSIC
0:16:44 > 0:16:47"..a treasure greater than all the jewels in India,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- "an adoring heart."- God!
0:16:49 > 0:16:52"Pray, madam, what am I to expect in return?"
0:16:52 > 0:16:56"Expect? Well, you may expect to have me pleased from time to time."
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- Is this who I am?! - ALL CHUCKLE
0:16:59 > 0:17:02"And a sweet, gentle,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05"pleading, innocent, delicate,
0:17:05 > 0:17:10"sympathetic, loyal, untutored, adoring female heart."
0:17:15 > 0:17:18The end. CHUCKLES ALL LAUGH
0:17:18 > 0:17:22- Bravo, Jane!- Well done, Jane! - ALL BUT TOM APPLAUD
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Mm. Well done.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- MURMUR OF CONVERSATION - She speaks so well!
0:17:33 > 0:17:35ALL CHATTER
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Excessively charming, I thought!
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Accomplished enough, perhaps.
0:17:43 > 0:17:48But a metropolitan mind may be less susceptible to juvenile self-regard.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51CHUCKLES UNCOMFORTABLY
0:18:03 > 0:18:07STRIKES UP DETERMINED BUT SLIGHTLY AWKWARD TUNE
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- LOUD AND OFF-KEY - # In airy dreams...
0:18:19 > 0:18:24- ENTHUSIASTICALLY, STILL FLAT - # Love to see...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- # Do you... - AIMS FOR HIGH NOTE AND MISSES
0:18:38 > 0:18:42# Often think on...
0:18:42 > 0:18:46# Me? #
0:18:46 > 0:18:48APPLAUDS
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Careful there, old fellow.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Fine piece, Mr Lefroy.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29- Handled a gun before, have you, Tom? - "Tom"...! - SQUEALS
0:19:30 > 0:19:32DOGS BARK GASPS
0:19:32 > 0:19:35PANTS IN TERROR
0:19:38 > 0:19:41- Tom...! - Uncle?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Why not try a walk?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48There's some very fine country around about.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- Very fine. - A walk...
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Miss!
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Miss? Miss? Miss!
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Miss, I... Oof!
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- BITES BACK A GIGGLE - Miss?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Er, Miss... Miss, er...
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Austen! - Ah. Mr Lefroy.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Oh... Yes, I know. But I am alone.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Except for me.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09- Exactly. - Oh, come!
0:21:09 > 0:21:13What rules of conduct apply in this rural situation?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16We have been introduced, have we not?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18What value is there in an introduction
0:21:18 > 0:21:21when you cannot even remember my name -
0:21:21 > 0:21:24indeed, you can barely stay awake in my presence?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- Madam.- These scruples must seem very provincial
0:21:29 > 0:21:33to a gentleman of such elevated airs, but I do not devise these rules.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35I am merely obliged to obey them.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40I have been told that there is much to see upon a walk,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43but all I've detected so far is a tendency to green above
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- and brown below. - Well, others have detected more.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50It is celebrated. There is even a book about Selborne Wood.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Oh!
0:21:52 > 0:21:54A novel, perhaps.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Novels...
0:21:59 > 0:22:02being poor, insipid things read by mere women -
0:22:02 > 0:22:05even, God forbid, written by mere women?
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- Ah. We are talking of your reading. - As if the writing of women
0:22:08 > 0:22:12did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature,
0:22:12 > 0:22:16the liveliest effusions of wit and the best-chosen language imaginable!
0:22:16 > 0:22:20- Was I deficient in rapture? - In consciousness!
0:22:20 > 0:22:22It was...
0:22:24 > 0:22:27It was...
0:22:28 > 0:22:30..accomplished.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37It was ironic.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- You are sure I've not offended you? - Not at all!
0:22:50 > 0:22:51SIGHS
0:22:51 > 0:22:54BABBLE OF VOICES
0:22:54 > 0:22:56BANGS LOUDLY
0:22:56 > 0:23:00My lords, ladies and gentlemen, The Grand Vizier's Flight!
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- May I have the honour? - How kind, cousin.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Miss Austen. - Oh, Mr Wisley.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21May I have the...pleasure of this next dance?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25BOTH CHATTER AND LAUGH
0:23:27 > 0:23:30- Oh, no, we're so late! - Take care!
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- Oh, thank you, Tom! Hurry! - Lucy!
0:23:33 > 0:23:37ORCHESTRA PLAYS LIVELY BUT FORMAL DANCE TUNE
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- Agh! - Oh!
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I am mortified.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04I practise, but it...won't...stick.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15What a lovely pair they make.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Ah, sister! - What do you make of Mr Lefroy?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24- Oh, we are honoured by his presence. - You think?- He does,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27with his preening Irish-cum-Bond-Street airs!
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- Jane!- Well, refusing to dance, when there are so few gentlemen!
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Jane!- Are all your friends so disagreeable?
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- Where exactly in Ireland does he come from?- Limerick, Miss Austen.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47I would regard it as a mark of extreme favour
0:24:47 > 0:24:50if you would stoop to honour me with this next dance.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55LIVELY, ELEGANT MUSIC STRIKES UP
0:24:56 > 0:25:00Being the first to dance with me, I feel it only fair to inform you
0:25:00 > 0:25:04- that you carry the standard for Hampshire hospitality.- Ah!
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Then, your country reputation depends on my report.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12This is called a country dance, after the French, contredanse...
0:25:15 > 0:25:18..not because it is exhibited at an uncouth rural assembly,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21with glutinous pies...
0:25:23 > 0:25:25..execrable Madeira...
0:25:25 > 0:25:27and truly anarchic dancing.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30You judge the company severely, madam.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- I was describing your thoughts. - Allow me to think for myself.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Let me do the same, and come to a different conclusion.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40- Will you give so much to a woman? - It must depend upon the woman,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43and what she thinks of me.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45You are...
0:25:45 > 0:25:48above being pleased.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52And I think that you, Miss... What was it?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Austen, Mr... - Lefroy.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58I think that you, Miss Austen...
0:26:00 > 0:26:03..consider yourself a cut above the company.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Me?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09You, ma'am...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- secretly. - MUSIC CONCLUDES AND STOPS
0:26:13 > 0:26:16ALL APPLAUD
0:26:21 > 0:26:25- How many times did you stand up with that gentleman, Jane?- Twice?
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Twice would have been partial. Thrice would have been absolutely...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Flagrant. - Careful, Jane. Lucy's right.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Mr Lefroy does have a reputation.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38Presumably as the most disagreeable, insolent, arrogant,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40impudent...
0:26:41 > 0:26:43..insufferable...
0:26:43 > 0:26:46impertinent...of men!
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Too many adjectives.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10What is she trying to say?!
0:27:10 > 0:27:13On your toes, gentlemen! No singles.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- ALL GASP AND APPLAUD - Bowl us in!
0:27:24 > 0:27:27I never feel more French than when I watch cricket.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- Out! - Not out. No.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42I begin to suspect you of flirting with my brother.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Flirting is a woman's trade. One must keep in practice.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49SHOUTS
0:27:50 > 0:27:53- ALL CHATTER AND LAUGH - Well played.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55So, we're depending on you.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01- Oh, it's Mr Warren's... - Thank you.- ..turn.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04John Warren!
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Good luck, Mr Warren.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09John never was very good, though.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11ALL APPLAUD
0:28:20 > 0:28:23- Easy! - Hit the ball, sir!
0:28:23 > 0:28:28- ALL LAUGH - Run, Warren! Run! Run! - Jolly good show!
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Watch!
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Yeah!
0:28:35 > 0:28:37- ALL APPLAUD - Prodigious, Tom! Prodigious!
0:28:37 > 0:28:39LAUGHS
0:28:41 > 0:28:44- Thank you, Warren. On your way. - Same again, Tom.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Well done, Mr Warren!
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Bad ball. A terrible wicket. I hope you're not too disappointed.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58Four more to win, Wisley.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00- Who's next? - Come on!
0:29:01 > 0:29:03- She can't... - Jane!
0:29:03 > 0:29:08- What on earth are you going to do? - Irrepressible!- She can.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10APPLAUSE
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Go easy, Tom.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31Be gentle, Lefroy!
0:29:50 > 0:29:52DOG BARKS ALL APPLAUD
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Run, Jane! Run!
0:29:54 > 0:29:57- Move! - Run!
0:29:59 > 0:30:02ALL SHOUT
0:30:05 > 0:30:07One more!
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Not out.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13ALL CHEER
0:30:13 > 0:30:15- LAUGHS - Lefroy!
0:30:25 > 0:30:27She was so good!
0:30:30 > 0:30:35- You've played this game before. - No choice. Raised by brothers.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Time for a swim, I think.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44- Well played, Henry. - I dedicate our victory
0:30:44 > 0:30:46to la Comtesse de Fueillide.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52- There's a decent bit of river over the hill.- Oh, yes?
0:30:53 > 0:30:55ALL SHOUT AND LAUGH
0:30:58 > 0:30:59Careful!
0:30:59 > 0:31:02ALL YELL HAPPILY
0:31:25 > 0:31:28- Not this time, Lefroy! - Why not?
0:31:52 > 0:31:54- DOG BARKS - Down, boy.
0:31:57 > 0:32:01- Father, have you seen Tom? - No, Lucy, I've not.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07Besotted!
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Natural enough at 15.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Love and sense are enemies at any age.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15- Mrs Lefroy, may I explore your library?- Of course.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22Lucy would marry him tomorrow. And what a terrible husband he'd make!
0:32:22 > 0:32:25I suppose you mean his reputation.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28Experience can recommend a man.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48MALE VOICE CHUCKLES
0:33:01 > 0:33:04STAIRS CREAK
0:33:05 > 0:33:08- Miss Austen! - Oh! Mr Lefroy.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13- And reading! CHUCKLES - Yes.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17I have been looking through your book of the wood,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20- Mr White's Natural History. - Oh! How do you like it?
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- I cannot get on. It is too disturbing.- Disturbing?!
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Mmm!
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Take this observation.
0:33:28 > 0:33:33"Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way,
0:33:33 > 0:33:37"sailing around at a great height perfectly happily.
0:33:37 > 0:33:41"Then... Then one leaps onto the back of another,
0:33:41 > 0:33:45"grasps tightly, and, forgetting to fly,
0:33:45 > 0:33:50"they both sink down and down... in a great dying fall,
0:33:50 > 0:33:52"fathom after fathom,
0:33:52 > 0:33:54"until the female utters..."
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Yes?
0:34:05 > 0:34:09"..the female utters a loud, piercing cry...
0:34:12 > 0:34:14"..of ecstasy."
0:34:19 > 0:34:23Is this conduct commonplace in the natural history of Hampshire?
0:34:24 > 0:34:27Er... SNAPS BOOK SHUT CHUCKLES
0:34:27 > 0:34:30Your ignorance is understandable,
0:34:30 > 0:34:34since you lack... What shall we call it?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37..the history?
0:34:38 > 0:34:43- Propriety commands me to ignorance. - Condemns you to it,
0:34:43 > 0:34:46and your writing to the status of female accomplishment.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49If you wish to practise the art of fiction,
0:34:49 > 0:34:52to be the equal of a masculine author,
0:34:52 > 0:34:55experience is vital.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59I see.
0:34:59 > 0:35:04And, er...what qualifies you to offer this advice?
0:35:05 > 0:35:08- I know more of the world. - CHUCKLES
0:35:08 > 0:35:10A great deal more, I gather.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14Enough to know that your horizons must be...
0:35:14 > 0:35:17widened...
0:35:19 > 0:35:21..by an extraordinary young man.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24By a very dangerous young man!
0:35:24 > 0:35:28One who has no doubt infected the hearts of many a young...woman...
0:35:28 > 0:35:31- with the soft corruption... - Read this,
0:35:31 > 0:35:33and you will understand.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44"When the philosopher heard that the fortress of virtue
0:35:44 > 0:35:47"had already been subdued, he began to give a large scope
0:35:47 > 0:35:51"to his desires. His appetite was not of that squeamish kind
0:35:51 > 0:35:54- "which cannot feed on a dainty..." - '"..because another has tasted it."'
0:35:54 > 0:35:58- He's not tasting this dainty. - What, dear?
0:35:58 > 0:36:01JANE READS, TOM BLENDING IN "Nor had her face much appearance
0:36:01 > 0:36:04"of beauty, but her clothes, being torn
0:36:04 > 0:36:06"from all the upper part of the body, her breasts..."
0:36:06 > 0:36:10'"..which were well formed and extremely white,
0:36:10 > 0:36:13'"attracted the eyes of her deliverer, and for a few moments,
0:36:13 > 0:36:18- '"they stood silent..."' - "..and gazing at each other."
0:36:29 > 0:36:32CHURCH BELL RINGS
0:36:33 > 0:36:36LOW MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
0:36:40 > 0:36:42I have read your book.
0:36:43 > 0:36:47- I have read your book... and disapprove.- Course you do.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50But of what? The scenes? Characters?
0:36:50 > 0:36:52- The prose?- No.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56- All good.- The morality?
0:36:56 > 0:36:59- Flawed. CHUCKLES - Of course it is.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03But why? Vice leads to difficulty, virtue to reward.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07- Bad characters come to bad ends. - Exactly. But, in life...
0:37:07 > 0:37:11bad characters often thrive. Take yourself.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13LAUGHS
0:37:13 > 0:37:16And a novel must show how the world truly is -
0:37:16 > 0:37:20how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22A novel should somehow...
0:37:22 > 0:37:26er...reveal the true source of our actions.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30What of my hero's feelings?
0:37:30 > 0:37:33It seems to me, sir, that your hero's very vigorous feelings
0:37:33 > 0:37:37caused him, and everyone connected with him, a great deal of trouble.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Ah, well, if the book has troubled you...
0:37:40 > 0:37:44- But an author must know trouble. - What sort of trouble?
0:37:44 > 0:37:46All sorts of trouble.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51BABBLE OF VOICES AND LAUGHTER
0:37:51 > 0:37:54LIVELY DRUMBEAT SHOUTING
0:37:55 > 0:37:59Bampton Fair! Vastly entertaining. Monstrous good idea, Jane.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Yes, Miss Austen. Not your usual society.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Show a little imagination, Mr Lefroy.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07SHOUTING LIVELY FIDDLE MUSIC
0:38:22 > 0:38:24GASPS LAUGHS
0:38:31 > 0:38:32SQUEALS
0:38:32 > 0:38:35Trouble here enough!
0:38:35 > 0:38:38And freedom - the freedom of men.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42- Do not you envy it? - When I have the intense pleasure
0:38:42 > 0:38:45of observing it so closely?
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Harder! Hit him harder!
0:38:47 > 0:38:51There's a fool, to go to it with a professional.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55- Go on, lad! - You know about this, of course.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59- Of course.- Vastly fashionable pastime in London.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05EXCLAIMS CROWD SHOUTS
0:39:06 > 0:39:10Beating a man to a pulp... What are you doing?
0:39:10 > 0:39:12CROWD ROARS
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Mr Lefroy... Stop!
0:39:20 > 0:39:23- Stop!- Let us see how you fare against me, sir!
0:39:24 > 0:39:26ALL SHOUT EXCITEDLY
0:39:29 > 0:39:33- Five shillings on the gent. We'll take it. - ALL CHATTER
0:39:34 > 0:39:37- Who's he, then? - ALL SHOUT
0:39:39 > 0:39:42- Thank you. - Keep 'em comin'!
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- Knock him out! - Tom!
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Hit him, man!
0:39:47 > 0:39:49- Tom...- Up!
0:39:49 > 0:39:52You must stop!
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Come on, Lefroy!
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Up, sir!
0:40:01 > 0:40:04- Stop! - Tom!
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Lucy!
0:40:10 > 0:40:12ALL CHEER
0:40:13 > 0:40:17- That's twice he's done that to me. - You spend money like water!
0:40:17 > 0:40:21I'm afraid it's damn low water with me.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23- I'm afraid I'm short, sir. - Take it.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26How embarrassing!
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Mr Lefroy? Mr Lefroy?!
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Mr Lefroy!
0:40:38 > 0:40:41Was I deficient in propriety?
0:40:43 > 0:40:45Why did you do that?
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Couldn't waste all those expensive boxing lessons.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55Forgive me if I suspect in you a sense of justice.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57CHUCKLES COUGHS
0:40:58 > 0:41:03I am a lawyer. Justice plays no part in the law.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Is that what you believe?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I believe what I must.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16I beg your leave.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26A heart has stirred.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30It's a summer squall. Mr Lefroy will soon be gone,
0:41:30 > 0:41:34and Mr Wisley will still be waiting...I hope.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38- The man's a booby. - Oh, he will grow out of that,
0:41:38 > 0:41:41and she could fix him with very little trouble.
0:41:41 > 0:41:45- You could persuade her. - To sacrifice her happiness?
0:41:45 > 0:41:49Jane should have...not the man who offers the best price,
0:41:49 > 0:41:52- but the man she wants! - Oh, Mr Austen!
0:41:52 > 0:41:56Must we have this conversation day in and day out?!
0:41:56 > 0:42:00The girl will end up in the gutter, if we carry on like this!
0:42:00 > 0:42:02DOOR SLAMS
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Janie!
0:42:18 > 0:42:20Mr Austen!
0:42:21 > 0:42:24Where are you?!
0:42:31 > 0:42:33RINGS BELL
0:42:47 > 0:42:50So kind of you to return the call.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57- Will you take a dish of tea, ma'am? - Green tea?
0:42:57 > 0:43:00Brown, Your Ladyship.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Then, no.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Where is your youngest daughter?
0:43:10 > 0:43:13She's visiting the poor...ma'am.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17BOTH LAUGH
0:43:25 > 0:43:27Jane! Jane!
0:43:30 > 0:43:34At last! Lady Gresham and Mr Wisley have come to call.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36Where have you been?!
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Ma'am. Sir.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45Well, perhaps the young people would like to take a walk.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49I see a pretty little wilderness at the side of the house.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Excuse me.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58Jane!
0:44:01 > 0:44:04- What is she doing? - Writing.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08Can anything be done about it?
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Miss Austen, you may know that...
0:44:16 > 0:44:20I have known you for some considerable time,
0:44:20 > 0:44:23during my visits to Steventon...
0:44:23 > 0:44:27The garden is...so affecting... in this season.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29Indeed.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32The impression you have given me has been -
0:44:32 > 0:44:34Flowers, particularly.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37What I'm trying to say... is that I...
0:44:37 > 0:44:40I have a respectable property of £2,000 a year,
0:44:40 > 0:44:44and addition to greater expectations as Lady Gresham's heir,
0:44:44 > 0:44:47- to which it may be indelicate to refer.- Oh, indelicate. yes.
0:44:47 > 0:44:51It's yours...if we marry. All of it, yours.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56Mr Wisley...
0:45:00 > 0:45:04Your offer is most sincere, I can see,
0:45:04 > 0:45:07and gentlemanlike, and it honours me, truly.
0:45:08 > 0:45:13But...for all you are, and all you offer, I...
0:45:15 > 0:45:17Yes.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22CLEARS THROAT
0:45:27 > 0:45:30Sometimes affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom.
0:45:37 > 0:45:42Lying to tradesmen! Mending, scratching, scraping!
0:45:42 > 0:45:45Endlessly, endlessly making do!
0:45:45 > 0:45:48I understand that our circumstances are difficult.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52- There is no money for you. - Surely something could be done!
0:45:52 > 0:45:56What we can put by must go to your brothers! You will have nothing,
0:45:56 > 0:45:59- unless you marry. - I will not marry without affection,
0:45:59 > 0:46:03- like my mother!- And now I have to dig my own damn potatoes!
0:46:12 > 0:46:16Would you rather be a poor old maid? Ridiculous?
0:46:16 > 0:46:19Despised? The butt of jokes? The legitimate sport
0:46:19 > 0:46:23of any village lout with a stone and an impudent tongue?
0:46:28 > 0:46:31Affection...
0:46:31 > 0:46:33is desirable.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37Money... is absolutely indispensable.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46I could live by my...
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Your what?
0:46:53 > 0:46:55- I could live by my... - Pen?!
0:46:55 > 0:46:59Let's knock that notion on the head once and for all.
0:46:59 > 0:47:01What's this? Trouble...
0:47:01 > 0:47:04amongst my women?
0:47:04 > 0:47:08Come. Take hands, and there's an end.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12- Where are you going? Miss! - To feed the pigs, ma'am!
0:47:29 > 0:47:31He could give you a splendid home.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35- A comfortable life.- Father...
0:47:36 > 0:47:38Consider.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41This is likely to be your best offer.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44Wisley?! CHUCKLES
0:47:44 > 0:47:47It is true, so far he has not impressed us...
0:47:47 > 0:47:50- "A booby." - He should grow out of that.
0:48:02 > 0:48:06Nothing...destroys spirit...
0:48:07 > 0:48:09..like poverty.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23I saw Queen Marie Antoinette wear something the same at a ball once.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Am I making a show?
0:48:27 > 0:48:29I am, I know.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35What trouble we take to make them like us, when we like them!
0:48:37 > 0:48:39Henry?
0:48:41 > 0:48:45Er...Eliza, my brother is much younger than you.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47And poorer.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52He knows that I care for him sincerely.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54I know that he is handsome...
0:48:54 > 0:48:57Handsome young men must have a living, as well as the plain.
0:48:57 > 0:49:01- You'd encourage him to take you for money?- Men do.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04- That does not make it honourable. - I'm a sensible woman.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06Thank God I am not, by your description.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12If you were, you might ascertain that your Irish friend
0:49:12 > 0:49:15has not a penny, and could not marry without it.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18Consider that at the ball tonight.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22In any event, he'll be gone tomorrow, back to Bond Street
0:49:22 > 0:49:24where he can do no more harm.
0:50:47 > 0:50:50LOW MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
0:51:12 > 0:51:15Good evening, Miss Austen.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17ALL CHATTER QUIETLY
0:51:29 > 0:51:32DIALOGUE MUTED UNDER HAUNTING INCIDENTAL MUSIC
0:51:57 > 0:52:02VIOLINIST PLAYS INTRO TO LILTING, ELEGANT TUNE
0:52:02 > 0:52:05ORCHESTRA JOINS IN
0:53:55 > 0:53:59MUSIC DRAWS TO STATELY CONCLUSION
0:54:04 > 0:54:06LOW MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
0:54:17 > 0:54:20ALL CONVERSE QUIETLY
0:54:24 > 0:54:27- Jane Austen, ma'am. - Pleasure.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30CONVERSATION BECOMES INDISTINCT SUBJECTIVELY TO JANE
0:54:30 > 0:54:33You dance with passion.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37No sensible woman would demonstrate passion...
0:54:37 > 0:54:39if the purpose were to attract a husband.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45As opposed to a lover?
0:54:49 > 0:54:53Rest easy, Mr Lefroy. I have no expectation on either count.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57- I did not mean to hurt... - Oh, no. Of course not. Excuse me.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Just over-warm. Er, pardon me.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07CONVERSATION CONTINUES, INDISTINCT
0:55:11 > 0:55:13- Ah! Miss Austen! - Excuse me.
0:55:47 > 0:55:52This is unbearable. My father is pressing for an early ordination,
0:55:52 > 0:55:55while my own inclination is to the scarlet of a captaincy
0:55:55 > 0:55:58in His Majesty's regulars.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01But I do not have the money to purchase one.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03I do.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08Well, that, of course, is impossible.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11Oh, Henry! Do not disguise yourself, not to me.
0:56:14 > 0:56:18Scarlet...will suit you very well.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23- Miss Austen! - JANE AND ELIZA GASP
0:56:23 > 0:56:24There you are!
0:56:33 > 0:56:38I cannot believe that I am obliged to have this conversation.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Your Ladyship?
0:56:42 > 0:56:46Mr Wisley's mother, my own dear sister, died young.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49I have no children of my own.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53I hope you never come to understand the pain of that condition.
0:56:55 > 0:57:00Let us simply say...my nephew's wishes are close to my heart...
0:57:02 > 0:57:05..however extraordinary they may be.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09Well...
0:57:09 > 0:57:12your health seems robust.
0:57:13 > 0:57:16You have the usual accomplishments.
0:57:16 > 0:57:19Your person is agreeable.
0:57:21 > 0:57:25But...when a young woman such as yourself
0:57:25 > 0:57:29receives the addresses from a gentleman such as my nephew,
0:57:29 > 0:57:32it is her duty to accept at once!
0:57:32 > 0:57:35But what do we find?
0:57:37 > 0:57:39- Independent thought? - Exactly.
0:57:39 > 0:57:42My nephew, Miss Austen,
0:57:42 > 0:57:45condescends far indeed,
0:57:45 > 0:57:50in offering to the daughter of an obscure and impecunious clergyman.
0:57:50 > 0:57:54Impecunious? Your Ladyship is mistaken.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57I am never...mistaken.
0:57:57 > 0:58:01Your father is in grave financial difficulties.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04But all is not lost.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09He has a daughter upon whom fortune has smiled.
0:58:24 > 0:58:27Mr Wisley is a good opportunity for Jane.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31She should accept him at once!
0:58:33 > 0:58:35Do...not you think?
0:58:36 > 0:58:40- Lucy! - What? What... Mother!
0:59:05 > 0:59:08I have learned of Mr Wisley's marriage proposal.
0:59:09 > 0:59:11My congratulations.
0:59:11 > 0:59:15Is there an alternative, for a well-educated young woman
0:59:15 > 0:59:19- of small fortune? - How can you have him?
0:59:20 > 0:59:23Even with his thousands and his houses,
0:59:23 > 0:59:27how can you, of all people, dispose of yourself without affection?
0:59:31 > 0:59:34How can I dispose of myself with it?
0:59:36 > 0:59:38You are leaving tomorrow.
1:00:14 > 1:00:18- Did I do that well? - Very, very well.
1:00:18 > 1:00:23I wanted, just once, to do it well.
1:00:23 > 1:00:25< MEN CHATTER
1:00:29 > 1:00:32I have no money, no property,
1:00:32 > 1:00:35I am entirely dependent upon that bizarre old lunatic, my uncle.
1:00:35 > 1:00:40I cannot yet offer marriage. But you must know what I feel.
1:00:41 > 1:00:43Jane, I'm yours.
1:00:43 > 1:00:48God, I'm yours. I'm yours, heart and soul.
1:00:50 > 1:00:52Much good that is.
1:00:53 > 1:00:55Let me decide that.
1:01:00 > 1:01:02What will we do?
1:01:04 > 1:01:07What we must.
1:01:14 > 1:01:17'"My dearest Cassandra, my heart has wings.
1:01:17 > 1:01:20'"Doubts and deliberations are ended.
1:01:20 > 1:01:23'"Soon I shall escape the attentions of that great lady
1:01:23 > 1:01:26'"and her scintillating nephew.
1:01:26 > 1:01:29'"Eliza, Henry and I will join you at the coast,
1:01:29 > 1:01:31'"but we are obliged to break our journey in London.
1:01:31 > 1:01:34'"Tom has cleverly secured an invitation
1:01:34 > 1:01:35'"to stay with his uncle, the judge.
1:01:35 > 1:01:38'"Let us hope we can convince him of my eligibility.
1:01:38 > 1:01:40'"Please destroy this disgraceful letter
1:01:40 > 1:01:43'"the moment you have recovered from your astonishment.
1:01:43 > 1:01:46'"Yours affectionately, and in haste, Jane.'"
1:01:50 > 1:01:53Tom! Our guests have arrived.
1:02:01 > 1:02:03Decorum.
1:02:03 > 1:02:05- Countess. - Sir.
1:02:05 > 1:02:08- Welcome... - Madame le Comtesse.
1:02:08 > 1:02:09Madame le Comtesse.
1:02:09 > 1:02:14Seldom, too seldom, my house receives the presence of nobility.
1:02:14 > 1:02:17And, of course, its friends. Please.
1:02:17 > 1:02:21Your stay is short. There's not a moment to lose.
1:02:21 > 1:02:27My nephew has devised a plan of metropolitan amusement.
1:02:27 > 1:02:33- Pleasure is, as you would say, Madame, his forte.- Ah, is it?
1:02:33 > 1:02:35LAUGHTER
1:02:35 > 1:02:37Which battle was it, Tom?
1:02:37 > 1:02:40- Ah. Villers-en-Cauchies. - Very good.
1:02:40 > 1:02:43Thousands slain. Served those Frenchies out.
1:02:43 > 1:02:47Oh. Saving your presence, ma'am.
1:02:47 > 1:02:50Be not afraid of abusing the Jacobins on my account, Judge.
1:02:50 > 1:02:54- They guillotined my husband. - Oh, savages. Beasts.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56- And his property? - Confiscated.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58A disaster.
1:02:58 > 1:03:02Of course, by then, much of my wealth was portable, so...
1:03:02 > 1:03:04- Ah. - CHUCKLES
1:03:04 > 1:03:08Yes, portable property is happiness in a pocketbook. LAUGHTER
1:03:09 > 1:03:12Do I detect you in irony?
1:03:15 > 1:03:21It is my considered opinion that irony is insult with a smiling face.
1:03:21 > 1:03:24- CHUCKLES - Indeed.
1:03:25 > 1:03:26No.
1:03:27 > 1:03:29No?
1:03:29 > 1:03:35No, irony is the bringing together of contradictory truths
1:03:35 > 1:03:38to make out of the contradiction a new truth with a laugh or a smile,
1:03:38 > 1:03:42and I confess that a truth must come with one or the other,
1:03:42 > 1:03:47or I account it as false and a denial of the nature of humanity itself.
1:03:49 > 1:03:51CHUCKLES
1:03:55 > 1:03:58My cousin is a writer.
1:03:58 > 1:04:00Of what?
1:04:00 > 1:04:02Jane?
1:04:04 > 1:04:06Novels.
1:04:07 > 1:04:13- A young woman of family? - CLEARS THROAT - Yes, uncle,
1:04:13 > 1:04:16and tomorrow we go and visit another, Mrs Radcliffe.
1:04:16 > 1:04:20She keeps herself to herself, but I know her husband through the law.
1:04:20 > 1:04:24- Who? - The authoress, Mrs Radcliffe.
1:04:24 > 1:04:27- As writing is her profession. - Her what?
1:04:27 > 1:04:30£500, uncle, for the last novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho.
1:04:30 > 1:04:34- And £800, I believe, for her next. - The Italian.- Above £1,000?
1:04:35 > 1:04:39- CHUCKLES - The times, the times.
1:04:53 > 1:04:55You live so quietly.
1:04:55 > 1:05:00And yet your novels are filled with romance, danger, terror.
1:05:02 > 1:05:05Everything my life is not.
1:05:05 > 1:05:07Oh. Apparently.
1:05:07 > 1:05:11- Of what do you wish to write? - Um...
1:05:13 > 1:05:16- ..of the heart. - Oh. Do you know it?
1:05:18 > 1:05:20Not all of it.
1:05:20 > 1:05:23In time, you will.
1:05:23 > 1:05:28But even if that fails, that's what the imagination's for.
1:05:31 > 1:05:35Your imagination has brought you independence.
1:05:36 > 1:05:40At a cost to myself and to my husband.
1:05:41 > 1:05:42Poor William.
1:05:42 > 1:05:46To have a wife who has a mind is considered not quite proper.
1:05:46 > 1:05:49To have a wife with a literary reputation...
1:05:49 > 1:05:51nothing short of scandalous.
1:05:55 > 1:05:57But it must be possible.
1:05:58 > 1:06:02- To live as both wife and author? - Oh.
1:06:02 > 1:06:03I think so.
1:06:05 > 1:06:06Though never easy.
1:06:26 > 1:06:28SNORING
1:06:43 > 1:06:46Could I really have this?
1:06:46 > 1:06:48What, precisely?
1:06:48 > 1:06:50You. LAUGHS
1:06:50 > 1:06:53Me, how?
1:06:53 > 1:06:55- This life with you. - Yes.
1:06:57 > 1:07:00- Lefroy. - Hush. The judge.
1:07:00 > 1:07:03- The man's like a rampant dog. - SIGHS
1:07:04 > 1:07:07He will be generous. I'm sure of it.
1:07:08 > 1:07:11- You'll speak with him? - Tomorrow, I promise.
1:07:11 > 1:07:14I really must say good night.
1:07:14 > 1:07:16- Good night. - Good night.
1:07:18 > 1:07:20- Miss Austen? - SIGHS
1:07:20 > 1:07:22- Yes?- Good night.
1:07:29 > 1:07:31You know, I think my mother is right.
1:07:31 > 1:07:33A husband, and the sooner, the better.
1:07:51 > 1:07:53GRUNTS
1:08:00 > 1:08:02DOG BARKS
1:08:10 > 1:08:13DISTANT BELL TOLLS
1:08:16 > 1:08:21Five girls of little fortune.
1:08:29 > 1:08:33"..sensibly and as warmly as a man
1:08:33 > 1:08:35"violently in love can be supposed to do...
1:08:36 > 1:08:38"Mr Wickham was the happy man
1:08:38 > 1:08:40"towards whom almost every female eye was turned...
1:08:40 > 1:08:42"..No comparison...
1:08:47 > 1:08:51"..Partial, prejudiced, absurd...
1:08:51 > 1:08:56"Watch for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods...
1:08:56 > 1:08:59"The happiness which this reply produced...
1:08:59 > 1:09:02"It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed..."
1:09:16 > 1:09:18KNOCK AT DOOR
1:09:42 > 1:09:44CLOCK CHIMES
1:09:51 > 1:09:55- Good morning, sir. - Good morning?
1:09:58 > 1:10:02- Has the world turned topsy? - Sir?
1:10:03 > 1:10:07I trust the countess is enjoying her visit?
1:10:07 > 1:10:10- I... I gather she is, sir. I... - Fine woman, very fine woman.
1:10:12 > 1:10:16Indeed. I'd hoped to discuss a certain matter.
1:10:16 > 1:10:19Your allowance is beyond negotiation.
1:10:22 > 1:10:25SIGHS
1:10:25 > 1:10:27Now that you have had the opportunity
1:10:27 > 1:10:30to become acquainted with Miss Austen yourself,
1:10:30 > 1:10:32I am sure you will find, as I do,
1:10:32 > 1:10:35- that she is a remarkable young woman. - YELLS
1:10:36 > 1:10:40- This is an outrage! - If you will allow me to speak, sir.
1:10:40 > 1:10:44- There is no need. This letter makes it absolutely clear.- Letter?
1:10:44 > 1:10:47Now I know what you were at down in Hampshire.
1:10:47 > 1:10:49It is from Steventon.
1:10:49 > 1:10:52Is it true that you have practiced upon me with this chit?
1:10:52 > 1:10:55I wished you to know the young lady. I wished to introduce her
1:10:55 > 1:10:59- to your affections discreetly. - Aye! Blind me with the rich widow,
1:10:59 > 1:11:03and then insinuate that penniless little husband-hunter!
1:11:03 > 1:11:06- Moderation, sir, I beg you! - That ironical little authoress.
1:11:06 > 1:11:09I wished you to know her for yourself.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11I was certain her merit would speak for her.
1:11:11 > 1:11:16- Consider, sir, my happiness is in your hands.- Happiness?
1:11:18 > 1:11:22Damn it, nephew, I had rather you were a whore-mongering blackguard
1:11:22 > 1:11:23with a chance of reform
1:11:23 > 1:11:27than a love-sick whelp sunk in a bad marriage.
1:11:42 > 1:11:45My uncle has refused to give his consent.
1:11:45 > 1:11:49- The letter has done its work. - Who sent it?
1:11:52 > 1:11:54Lady Gresham?
1:11:55 > 1:11:57Or her nephew.
1:12:03 > 1:12:07They think that they can do what they like with us,
1:12:07 > 1:12:10- but I will not accept this. - We have no choice.
1:12:11 > 1:12:13Of course we do.
1:12:24 > 1:12:28I...depend entirely upon...
1:12:33 > 1:12:36Upon your uncle.
1:12:36 > 1:12:39Mmm.
1:12:39 > 1:12:42And I depend on you.
1:12:47 > 1:12:50So what will you do?
1:12:51 > 1:12:54What I must.
1:12:54 > 1:12:59I have a duty to my family, Jane. I must think of them as well as...
1:12:59 > 1:13:01Tom...
1:13:03 > 1:13:06Is that... is that all you have to say to me?
1:13:22 > 1:13:24Goodbye, Mr Lefroy.
1:14:16 > 1:14:20The sentence of this court is that you be taken to the place
1:14:20 > 1:14:24whence you came and thence to a place of execution
1:14:24 > 1:14:29and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead.
1:14:30 > 1:14:33May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
1:14:41 > 1:14:43Next.
1:14:47 > 1:14:49GAVEL CLANGS
1:14:55 > 1:14:57He has behaved so ill to you, Jane.
1:15:03 > 1:15:06Perhaps soon we can return home to Steventon.
1:15:08 > 1:15:10Is there any news of Robert?
1:15:16 > 1:15:20- He has arrived in San Domingo at last.- Good. Good.
1:15:22 > 1:15:23Good.
1:15:47 > 1:15:49- LAUGHTER - Glass of wine with you, sir?
1:15:51 > 1:15:52Yes.
1:15:52 > 1:15:56Yes, a toast from one member of the profession to another.
1:17:08 > 1:17:11I'm sorry to have been so disobliging in the past.
1:17:17 > 1:17:19Mr Wisley?
1:17:23 > 1:17:27So, the infamous Mrs Radcliffe.
1:17:27 > 1:17:31Was she really as gothic as her novels?
1:17:33 > 1:17:35Not in externals,
1:17:35 > 1:17:38but her inner landscape is quite picturesque, I suspect.
1:17:38 > 1:17:40True of us all.
1:17:40 > 1:17:42WHISPERING
1:17:47 > 1:17:50THUNDER RUMBLES
1:18:37 > 1:18:39WHISPERS
1:18:39 > 1:18:41Oh.
1:18:43 > 1:18:47- There's a message for Reverend Austen.- Thank you.
1:19:11 > 1:19:13Uncle?
1:19:28 > 1:19:30What is it?
1:19:34 > 1:19:36SOBS
1:19:50 > 1:19:53GASPS AND SOBS
1:20:28 > 1:20:32It seemed he died very soon after landing in San Domingo.
1:20:32 > 1:20:34My God, he was hardly there.
1:20:35 > 1:20:37What was the disease?
1:20:38 > 1:20:42Yellow fever. Lord Craven, he wrote.
1:20:42 > 1:20:46He said that if he had known he was engaged to be married,
1:20:46 > 1:20:48he would never have taken him.
1:20:55 > 1:20:58Jane, there's something else.
1:20:59 > 1:21:02Mr Lefroy, Tom.
1:21:03 > 1:21:05What?
1:21:05 > 1:21:08I would keep this from you if I could.
1:21:08 > 1:21:11He's here visiting Mrs Lefroy and I...
1:21:11 > 1:21:13He is engaged.
1:21:22 > 1:21:25So soon?
1:21:56 > 1:21:58A letter?
1:21:59 > 1:22:01Um, no.
1:22:01 > 1:22:04No, it's something I began in London.
1:22:08 > 1:22:12It is the tale of a young woman. Two young women.
1:22:14 > 1:22:17Better than their circumstances.
1:22:17 > 1:22:19So many are.
1:22:19 > 1:22:26And two young gentlemen who receive much better than their desserts as so very many do.
1:22:28 > 1:22:29Mmm.
1:22:33 > 1:22:35How does the story begin?
1:22:35 > 1:22:39- Badly.- And then? - It gets worse.
1:22:41 > 1:22:43With, I hope, some humour.
1:22:48 > 1:22:50How does it end?
1:22:55 > 1:22:58They both make triumphant, happy endings.
1:23:00 > 1:23:03Brilliant marriages?
1:23:03 > 1:23:08Incandescent marriages to very rich men.
1:23:08 > 1:23:10CHUCKLES
1:23:20 > 1:23:24You asked me a question.
1:23:25 > 1:23:27I am ready to give you an answer.
1:23:27 > 1:23:29But there is one matter to be settled.
1:23:32 > 1:23:35I cannot make you out, Mr Wisley.
1:23:37 > 1:23:41At times, you are the most gentlemanlike man I know,
1:23:41 > 1:23:42and yet you would...
1:23:42 > 1:23:46Yet. What a sad word.
1:23:46 > 1:23:51And yet...you write yourself most tellingly to great effect.
1:23:52 > 1:23:55- I'm speaking, of course, of your letter.- What letter?
1:23:55 > 1:23:59Was your aunt the correspondent on your behalf?
1:24:01 > 1:24:02What matter.
1:24:02 > 1:24:05- Um...- One way or another, passion makes fools of us all.
1:24:05 > 1:24:08I hope, in time, passion may regain your better opinion.
1:24:08 > 1:24:10The emotion is absurd.
1:24:11 > 1:24:14When you consider the sex to whom it is often directed,
1:24:14 > 1:24:16indistinguishable from folly.
1:24:17 > 1:24:21I thank you for the honour of your proposal. I accept. Good day.
1:24:32 > 1:24:34BIRDS SQUAWK
1:24:47 > 1:24:49George, George.
1:24:49 > 1:24:53Mr Wisley is... He's an honourable man.
1:24:53 > 1:24:57You'll always have a place with me.
1:25:00 > 1:25:02Miss Austen.
1:25:04 > 1:25:06Mr Lefroy.
1:25:14 > 1:25:16Sir.
1:25:18 > 1:25:23I believe I must congratulate you, Mr Lefroy.
1:25:24 > 1:25:27And you've come to visit an old friend at such a time.
1:25:27 > 1:25:29How considerate.
1:25:35 > 1:25:37I have come...
1:25:37 > 1:25:40to offer an explanation, belatedly...
1:25:42 > 1:25:45..for my conduct. I cannot think how to describe it.
1:25:45 > 1:25:47Tell me about your lady, Mr Lefroy.
1:25:49 > 1:25:51From where does she come?
1:25:53 > 1:25:54She's from County Wexford.
1:25:54 > 1:25:58Your own country. Excellent.
1:26:01 > 1:26:06What was it that won her? Your manner, smiles and pleasing address?
1:26:12 > 1:26:14No, no, not at all.
1:26:14 > 1:26:18No, had I really experienced that emotion,
1:26:18 > 1:26:21I should, at present, detest the very sight of him.
1:26:21 > 1:26:22And you are mistaken.
1:26:22 > 1:26:27I'm even impartial towards the gloriously endowed Miss Wexford...
1:26:27 > 1:26:29I cannot do this.
1:26:38 > 1:26:40And so you would marry Wisley?
1:26:46 > 1:26:48Please?
1:26:50 > 1:26:54If there is a shred of truth or justice inside of you,
1:26:54 > 1:26:56- you cannot marry him. - Oh, no, Mr Lefroy.
1:26:56 > 1:27:00Justice, by your own admission, you know little of, truth even less.
1:27:00 > 1:27:04Jane, I have tried. I have tried and I cannot live this lie.
1:27:05 > 1:27:06Can you?
1:27:07 > 1:27:10Jane, can you?
1:27:13 > 1:27:17What value will there be in life if we are not together?
1:27:24 > 1:27:26Run away with me.
1:27:28 > 1:27:30An elopement?
1:27:31 > 1:27:34That is exactly what I propose.
1:27:34 > 1:27:39We'll post to London, by Friday be in Scotland, and man and wife.
1:27:41 > 1:27:44- Leave everything? - Everything.
1:27:44 > 1:27:46It is the only way we can be together.
1:28:06 > 1:28:08You'll lose everything.
1:28:08 > 1:28:13Family, place. For what?
1:28:13 > 1:28:15A lifetime of drudgery on a pittance?
1:28:16 > 1:28:19A child every year and no means to lighten the load?
1:28:19 > 1:28:23- How will you write, Jane? - I do not know.
1:28:23 > 1:28:26But happiness is within my grasp and I cannot help myself.
1:28:26 > 1:28:28There is no sense in this.
1:28:32 > 1:28:35If you could have your Robert back,
1:28:35 > 1:28:39even like this, would you do it?
1:28:44 > 1:28:45Oh...
1:28:45 > 1:28:50- Please conceal my departure as long as possible.- Wait.
1:28:52 > 1:28:54Here.
1:28:55 > 1:28:58Take these. Now go, quickly.
1:29:10 > 1:29:12CLASSICAL MUSIC
1:29:19 > 1:29:22< ROOSTER CROWS
1:29:33 > 1:29:36Come. If we hurry, we can still make the morning coach.
1:29:36 > 1:29:38You are sure?
1:29:44 > 1:29:45Be careful.
1:29:48 > 1:29:50- Is it coming? - Not yet.
1:29:53 > 1:29:55Take my hand. All right?
1:29:56 > 1:29:59Hurry. I can hear it approaching.
1:30:03 > 1:30:05Here it is.
1:30:11 > 1:30:13Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
1:30:14 > 1:30:16Two to London. We'll settle at first rest.
1:30:16 > 1:30:18- Yes? - Right you are, sir.
1:30:48 > 1:30:51Hampshire, your home county.
1:30:52 > 1:30:53It was.
1:30:57 > 1:30:59BOTH LAUGH
1:30:59 > 1:31:01RUMBLING
1:31:02 > 1:31:06Stuck. Everybody out, ladies and gentlemen, please.
1:31:08 > 1:31:11- We need to lighten the load. - No, let me, let me.
1:31:11 > 1:31:13I shall require you gentlemen to give me a hand,
1:31:13 > 1:31:15put your shoulders into it.
1:31:18 > 1:31:20Now, sir, if you can push on the coach itself.
1:31:20 > 1:31:23Excuse me, sir. Young gentleman?
1:31:23 > 1:31:26- Yes, yes.- You on the other side, sir, thank you.
1:31:26 > 1:31:29- Young gentleman, please come along. - All right.
1:31:29 > 1:31:30Mind helping us? Thank you.
1:31:31 > 1:31:34Right, all together now then, sirs, please?
1:31:35 > 1:31:37MEN GRUNT
1:31:39 > 1:31:42- One, two and a three and push! - MEN GRUNT
1:31:42 > 1:31:45Go, gentlemen. Come on.
1:31:45 > 1:31:51'"Dear Tom. How timely was the arrival of the money you sent."'
1:31:52 > 1:31:55One, two and three!
1:32:00 > 1:32:04'"It was so very much appreciated by your father and I.
1:32:04 > 1:32:07'"You're so kind to share your uncle's allowance.
1:32:07 > 1:32:10'"Indeed, I do not dare think how we would survive without it."'
1:32:10 > 1:32:11MEN GRUNT
1:32:15 > 1:32:18Well done. Well done. Thank you, sirs.
1:32:19 > 1:32:21All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:32:21 > 1:32:23back on the coach as soon as you can, thank you.
1:32:33 > 1:32:35We are ready.
1:32:40 > 1:32:42- Worried?- No.
1:32:44 > 1:32:48- Is it the loss of your reputation?- No.
1:32:50 > 1:32:53- The loss of yours. - I do not...- Please, sir, come along.
1:32:53 > 1:32:55The coach is departing.
1:32:55 > 1:32:57Come.
1:33:21 > 1:33:23DOGS BARK
1:33:31 > 1:33:33Changing horses. 20 minutes only.
1:33:33 > 1:33:37House of office at the back of the inn. All down, quick as you like.
1:33:59 > 1:34:02How many brothers and sisters do you have in Limerick, Tom?
1:34:02 > 1:34:05Enough. Why?
1:34:07 > 1:34:11What are the names of your brothers and sisters?
1:34:11 > 1:34:13They...
1:34:15 > 1:34:18On whom do they depend?
1:34:22 > 1:34:25SIGHS Your reputation is destroyed.
1:34:27 > 1:34:31Your profligacy is a beautiful sham.
1:34:42 > 1:34:46- I can earn money. - It will not be enough.
1:34:46 > 1:34:49I will rise.
1:34:49 > 1:34:53With a High Court Judge as your enemy? And a penniless wife?
1:34:55 > 1:34:57God knows how many mouths depending on you?
1:34:58 > 1:35:03My sweet, sweet friend, you will sink, and we will all sink with you.
1:35:03 > 1:35:06- I will... - <- Hampshire Flyer.
1:35:06 > 1:35:08- <- Hampshire Flyer's leaving in five minutes.
1:35:12 > 1:35:16No! No, Jane.
1:35:16 > 1:35:19I will never give you up.
1:35:19 > 1:35:23- Tom... - Don't speak or think...
1:35:23 > 1:35:27Just love me. Do you love me?
1:35:29 > 1:35:31Yes. CHUCKLES
1:35:32 > 1:35:35But if our love destroys your family, it will destroy itself.
1:35:35 > 1:35:37- No.- Yes.
1:35:37 > 1:35:42In a long, slow degradation of guilt and regret and blame.
1:35:42 > 1:35:44That is nonsense.
1:35:46 > 1:35:49Truth.
1:35:49 > 1:35:52Made from a contradiction.
1:35:54 > 1:35:56But it must come with a smile.
1:35:58 > 1:36:01Or else I shall count it as false and we shall have had no love at all.
1:36:06 > 1:36:07Please.
1:36:15 > 1:36:17Goodbye.
1:36:33 > 1:36:36Typical bloody runaway. Will I, won't I?
1:36:55 > 1:36:57Miss. Miss.
1:37:02 > 1:37:04All right, off you go.
1:38:04 > 1:38:06CLOCK TICKS
1:38:21 > 1:38:23Hello?
1:38:27 > 1:38:30- Where is everyone?- Looking for you, Miss. Looking everywhere.
1:38:32 > 1:38:34- Thank you, Jenny. - Mr Warren.
1:38:38 > 1:38:41Your family tried to keep the matter from the servants, but, er...
1:38:43 > 1:38:46Where is that blackguard Lefroy? If Henry finds him, he'll kill him!
1:38:46 > 1:38:49He won't find him.
1:38:49 > 1:38:52And if he does, he won't kill him.
1:38:52 > 1:38:54There is no need.
1:38:56 > 1:38:58- SIGHS - What, er...
1:38:58 > 1:39:01happened?
1:39:01 > 1:39:04Nothing happened.
1:39:05 > 1:39:06I see.
1:39:07 > 1:39:09I see.
1:39:18 > 1:39:19Jane...
1:39:19 > 1:39:22STAMMERS NERVOUSLY
1:39:22 > 1:39:26I may have less personal charm than Lefroy,
1:39:26 > 1:39:29superficial charm to some eyes,
1:39:29 > 1:39:32to others, it is mere affectation, but I...
1:39:32 > 1:39:35- I have no hopes...- Hopes?
1:39:35 > 1:39:39Oh, you cannot begin to imagine...
1:39:39 > 1:39:44John, thank you for the great honour of your offer, but...
1:39:44 > 1:39:47Are there no other women in Hampshire?!
1:39:47 > 1:39:49SIGHS
1:40:06 > 1:40:09It was you who wrote the judge.
1:40:13 > 1:40:18You must consider how much I've always loved you.
1:40:23 > 1:40:26PIANO PLAYS SOFTLY
1:40:37 > 1:40:40PLAYS MOURNFUL TUNE
1:41:03 > 1:41:05Well?
1:41:09 > 1:41:11You came back to us.
1:41:38 > 1:41:40Leave it.
1:41:43 > 1:41:47Mr Austen, I must inform you that I shall not attend service today.
1:41:47 > 1:41:50- Not in the presence of this young woman.- Indeed.
1:41:50 > 1:41:52- If I must speak plainly...- Aunt.
1:41:52 > 1:41:55I believe your youngest daughter has been on a journey?
1:41:55 > 1:41:58Your ladyship considers travel a crime?
1:41:58 > 1:42:00Unsanctioned travel.
1:42:00 > 1:42:04Furthermore, be aware that my nephew has withdrawn his addresses
1:42:04 > 1:42:08to someone without family, fortune,
1:42:08 > 1:42:09importance,
1:42:09 > 1:42:12and fatally tainted by suspicion.
1:42:12 > 1:42:15Oh, she has family, madam.
1:42:15 > 1:42:18Indeed she has.
1:42:19 > 1:42:21Importance may depend upon other matters
1:42:21 > 1:42:24than your Ladyship can conceive.
1:42:24 > 1:42:28As to fortune, a young woman might depend upon herself.
1:42:30 > 1:42:33An interesting notion, Miss Austen.
1:42:39 > 1:42:43Oblige me a walk along the river to enlarge upon the topic.
1:42:45 > 1:42:47Wisley!
1:42:53 > 1:42:56I am sorry if my conduct...
1:42:56 > 1:42:59has disappointed you, Mr Wisley.
1:43:00 > 1:43:04It seems you cannot bring yourself to marry without affection.
1:43:04 > 1:43:06Or even with it.
1:43:07 > 1:43:09I respect you for that...
1:43:09 > 1:43:12and share your opinion. Neither can I.
1:43:13 > 1:43:16I'd always hoped to win your love in time.
1:43:16 > 1:43:20But I am vain enough to want to be loved myself, rather than my money.
1:43:20 > 1:43:22Do we part as friends?
1:43:24 > 1:43:26We do.
1:43:29 > 1:43:32- So, you will live... - By my pen. Yes.
1:43:35 > 1:43:39Will all your stories have happy endings?
1:43:39 > 1:43:44My characters will have, after a little bit of trouble...
1:43:45 > 1:43:48..all that they desire.
1:43:49 > 1:43:52The good do not always come to good end.
1:43:54 > 1:43:57It is a truth universally acknowledged.
1:43:58 > 1:44:01"..that a single man in possession of a good fortune
1:44:01 > 1:44:04"must be in want of a wife." CHURCH BELLS RING
1:44:04 > 1:44:06Henry!
1:44:06 > 1:44:10"However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be
1:44:10 > 1:44:12"on his first entering a neighbourhood,
1:44:12 > 1:44:16"this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families..."
1:44:16 > 1:44:17CHEERING
1:44:17 > 1:44:19"..that he is considered as the rightful property
1:44:19 > 1:44:22"of someone or other of their daughters.
1:44:22 > 1:44:25"'My dear Mr Bennet,' said his lady to him one day,
1:44:25 > 1:44:28"'have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?'
1:44:28 > 1:44:30"Mr Bennet replied that he had not..."
1:44:30 > 1:44:34MUSIC: "Deh Vieni Non Tardar" from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
1:45:59 > 1:46:02APPLAUSE
1:46:20 > 1:46:23Is it Miss Austen? THE Miss Austen?
1:46:23 > 1:46:27No, madam. That courtesy, according to the customs of precedence,
1:46:27 > 1:46:28belongs to my elder sister.
1:46:28 > 1:46:32Miss Jane Austen, the authoress of Pride and Prejudice?
1:46:32 > 1:46:34My sister wishes to remain anonymous,
1:46:34 > 1:46:39- but your kind regards are much appreciated.- Thank you.
1:47:11 > 1:47:13Please, come through.
1:47:13 > 1:47:15I shall never forgive Henry for this.
1:47:15 > 1:47:19Yes, you will. We always forgive him for everything.
1:47:21 > 1:47:22Best behaviour.
1:47:22 > 1:47:26Jane...an old friend.
1:47:26 > 1:47:28Late as ever.
1:47:29 > 1:47:32Madam le Comtesse, Miss Austen.
1:47:34 > 1:47:36Mr Lefroy.
1:47:43 > 1:47:47Please allow me to introduce to you your most avid of admirers,
1:47:47 > 1:47:50my daughter, Miss Lefroy.
1:47:51 > 1:47:54Miss Austen, what a pleasure to meet you.
1:47:56 > 1:47:59Will you read for us this evening?
1:47:59 > 1:48:01Well, you see, my sister never reads.
1:48:01 > 1:48:04Otherwise, how else is she supposed to remain anonymous?
1:48:04 > 1:48:07- But...- Jane!
1:48:14 > 1:48:16I will make an exception.
1:48:16 > 1:48:20If my new friend wishes it.
1:48:20 > 1:48:23Come sit by me.
1:48:33 > 1:48:35She is lovely, Tom.
1:48:37 > 1:48:40"She began now to comprehend that
1:48:40 > 1:48:44"he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents,
1:48:44 > 1:48:47"would most suit her.
1:48:47 > 1:48:50"His understanding and temper, though unlike her own,
1:48:50 > 1:48:53"would have answered all her wishes.
1:48:55 > 1:48:59"It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both.
1:48:59 > 1:49:03"By her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened,
1:49:03 > 1:49:05"his manners improved,
1:49:05 > 1:49:11"and from his judgment, information and knowledge of the world,
1:49:11 > 1:49:14"she must have received benefit of greater importance.
1:49:15 > 1:49:21"But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what...
1:49:21 > 1:49:25"connubial felicity really was."
1:49:28 > 1:49:30APPLAUSE
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