The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

0:01:24 > 0:01:26(BELLS JINGLE)

0:01:34 > 0:01:36Good morning, Mr Noggs.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38Mournful one for old Nickleby.

0:01:38 > 0:01:40Only fourpence, though.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42That will please him.

0:01:42 > 0:01:43Thank you.

0:01:43 > 0:01:46Good morning.

0:01:46 > 0:01:48(RINGING BELL)

0:02:02 > 0:02:04(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

0:02:05 > 0:02:07Ah. So our friend Mr Bray doesn't relish

0:02:07 > 0:02:08the thought of debtor's prison.

0:02:08 > 0:02:09I thought he'd send the money somehow.

0:02:09 > 0:02:11He hasn't.

0:02:14 > 0:02:17Hmm. I know something of that hand.

0:02:28 > 0:02:31My brother's dead,

0:02:31 > 0:02:33and the window and both children are in London,

0:02:33 > 0:02:35confound them!

0:02:37 > 0:02:41Anything else you want? Not now.

0:02:41 > 0:02:42I must go out.

0:02:42 > 0:02:46Reasonable. Very reasonable.

0:02:46 > 0:02:49Never did anything for me, and I never expected it,

0:02:49 > 0:02:50but the breath is no sooner out of his body,

0:02:50 > 0:02:52then the family looks here for support.

0:02:52 > 0:02:54What are they to me?

0:02:54 > 0:02:55I never saw them.

0:02:55 > 0:02:57That will cost you a pretty penny.

0:02:57 > 0:02:59I can't keep them.

0:02:59 > 0:03:01They must find something.

0:03:01 > 0:03:03If they won't do it for themselves,

0:03:03 > 0:03:04I shall.

0:03:19 > 0:03:22(BELLS JINGLE)

0:03:22 > 0:03:24Is Mrs Nickleby at home, girl?

0:03:24 > 0:03:26Hannah!

0:03:26 > 0:03:28Who is wanted?

0:03:28 > 0:03:30Are you Miss La what's her name?

0:03:30 > 0:03:33Creevy, La Creevy.

0:03:33 > 0:03:34A miniature, I presume,

0:03:34 > 0:03:37and a very strongly marked countenance for the purpose.

0:03:37 > 0:03:40I have no money to throw away on miniatures, ma'am,

0:03:40 > 0:03:42and no-one to give them to if I had.

0:03:42 > 0:03:44I came to see my sister-in-law Mrs Nickleby.

0:03:44 > 0:03:46Oh. Then you want the second floor.

0:03:46 > 0:03:48Hannah, show the gentleman up.

0:03:54 > 0:03:55What name?

0:03:55 > 0:03:56Nickleby.

0:04:00 > 0:04:03Mrs Nickleby, here's Mr Nickleby.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06Uncle Ralph.

0:04:06 > 0:04:07Good morning, sir.

0:04:07 > 0:04:09Nicholas, I suppose.

0:04:09 > 0:04:11And how do you do, ma'am?

0:04:12 > 0:04:14Ah. You must bear up against sorrow, ma'am.

0:04:14 > 0:04:16I always do.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18Mine was no common loss.

0:04:18 > 0:04:19'Twas no uncommon loss, ma'am.

0:04:19 > 0:04:22Husbands die everyday and wives, also.

0:04:22 > 0:04:23And brothers, too, sir.

0:04:23 > 0:04:25Yes, sir, and puppies and pug dogs likewise.

0:04:25 > 0:04:28(CRYING)

0:04:28 > 0:04:30When my wife died, ma'am, many years ago,

0:04:30 > 0:04:32I learned to survive the calamity.

0:04:32 > 0:04:34Doubtless, you will do the same.

0:04:34 > 0:04:38Well, ma'am, you say in your letter there's nothing left, hmm?

0:04:38 > 0:04:40And you spent what little you had

0:04:40 > 0:04:44in coming all the way to London to see what I can do for you.

0:04:44 > 0:04:46I'd hoped you might do something

0:04:46 > 0:04:47for your brother's children.

0:04:47 > 0:04:49It was his last wish.

0:04:49 > 0:04:51I don't know how it is,

0:04:51 > 0:04:53but whenever a man dies without property,

0:04:53 > 0:04:54he seems to think it gives him the right

0:04:54 > 0:04:56to dispose of other people's.

0:05:00 > 0:05:02And this is Kate.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05What sort of work is your daughter fitted for?

0:05:05 > 0:05:07She was the cleverest girl in a school of 25.

0:05:07 > 0:05:10Or was it 55? Well, anyway, I...

0:05:10 > 0:05:12we must try and get you apprenticed.

0:05:12 > 0:05:14And you, have you ever done anything?

0:05:14 > 0:05:15No, sir.

0:05:15 > 0:05:16I suppose you are willing to work.

0:05:16 > 0:05:17Of course I am.

0:05:17 > 0:05:19Then listen. This caught my eye this morning.

0:05:19 > 0:05:21You may thank your lucky stars.

0:05:21 > 0:05:24"Education at Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy,

0:05:24 > 0:05:26Dotheboys Hall," and so on and so on and so on.

0:05:26 > 0:05:30"NB: an able assistant wanted.

0:05:30 > 0:05:33"Annual salary £15.

0:05:33 > 0:05:35A master of arts would be preferred."

0:05:35 > 0:05:37There. Let him get that, and his fortune's made.

0:05:37 > 0:05:40If he doesn't like it, let him get something for himself.

0:05:40 > 0:05:42But he's not an NB,

0:05:42 > 0:05:43MA, Master of Arts.

0:05:43 > 0:05:46That, I think, can be got over.

0:05:46 > 0:05:47But it's so far away, Mama.

0:05:47 > 0:05:49Shh, Kate.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Nicholas, I wish you would say something.

0:05:51 > 0:05:53If I'm fortunate to be appointed, sir,

0:05:53 > 0:05:55what will become of my mother, my sister?

0:05:55 > 0:05:56In that case but not otherwise,

0:05:56 > 0:05:58they will be provided for by me.

0:05:58 > 0:05:59Then I'll do anything you wish.

0:05:59 > 0:06:01I'm very pleased to hear it.

0:06:01 > 0:06:02We'll visit Mr Squeers tomorrow.

0:06:02 > 0:06:06He's in town and attends daily from 1:00 till 4:00

0:06:06 > 0:06:07at the Saracen's Head...

0:06:12 > 0:06:14Every wholesome luxury, Mr Snawley,

0:06:14 > 0:06:16that Yorkshire can afford.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19Every comfort of an home that a boy could wish for.

0:06:19 > 0:06:23A father in me and mother in Mrs Squeers.

0:06:23 > 0:06:25Could I have a few words with you?

0:06:25 > 0:06:26By all means.

0:06:29 > 0:06:31Up to what age will you keep the boys?

0:06:31 > 0:06:33Just as long as the quarterly payments are kept up.

0:06:33 > 0:06:36What are they, natural children?

0:06:36 > 0:06:39We have a good many of them. No. They ain't.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41The fact is, I'm not the father, Mr Squeers.

0:06:41 > 0:06:44I'm only the father-in-law, as you might say.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46I married the mother. Oh, is that it?

0:06:46 > 0:06:49£20 per annum, I believe, Mr Squeers.

0:06:49 > 0:06:51Guineas, Mr Snawley.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53Pounds for two, I think, Mr Squeers.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56Very well. Payment in advance of course.

0:06:56 > 0:06:58Uh, they ain't great eaters.

0:07:04 > 0:07:05Mr Squeers?

0:07:05 > 0:07:09Why, it's Mr... Yes, sir.

0:07:09 > 0:07:11Won't you be seated?

0:07:11 > 0:07:13Good day, Mr Snawley.

0:07:13 > 0:07:15Ralph Nickleby's my name.

0:07:15 > 0:07:17You've advertised for an able assistant.

0:07:17 > 0:07:19Here is my nephew Nicholas, straight from school

0:07:19 > 0:07:22with everything he learnt there fermenting in his head

0:07:22 > 0:07:24and nothing fermenting in his pocket.

0:07:24 > 0:07:25Hmm. I'm afraid, sir, I'm not master of arts.

0:07:25 > 0:07:27Well, that is an objection.

0:07:27 > 0:07:30Here. Let me put this matter in its true light.

0:07:30 > 0:07:32A young man, wholly ignorant of the world.

0:07:32 > 0:07:35Look at him. Think of the use he can be

0:07:35 > 0:07:37in half a dozen ways.

0:07:37 > 0:07:40Your uncle's recommendation has done it, Mr Nickleby.

0:07:40 > 0:07:43From this moment you are nominated to and installed

0:07:43 > 0:07:47in the office of first assistant master of Dotheboys Hall.

0:07:47 > 0:07:49Thank you, Mr Squeers, very much indeed, sir.

0:07:49 > 0:07:51And thank you, uncle, for getting me this opportunity.

0:07:51 > 0:07:53I shan't forget your kindness.

0:07:53 > 0:07:54You better go home and pack up,

0:07:54 > 0:07:55what you have to pack.

0:07:55 > 0:07:58The coach starts at 8:00 tomorrow morning.

0:07:58 > 0:07:59Be here the quarter before.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01(CRYING)

0:08:01 > 0:08:02Now, now, my little man.

0:08:02 > 0:08:04There's nothing to cry for.

0:08:04 > 0:08:05(CRIES)

0:08:05 > 0:08:06Ow! Ohh!

0:08:06 > 0:08:08(CRIES)

0:08:10 > 0:08:13MAN: all baggage ready for the York coach, please.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15All baggage ready, please.

0:08:20 > 0:08:22Your milk and water, sir.

0:08:22 > 0:08:24Twopenn'orth?

0:08:28 > 0:08:31Here's richness.

0:08:31 > 0:08:32When I say, "number one,"

0:08:32 > 0:08:35the boy nearest the window may take a drink.

0:08:35 > 0:08:37MRS NICKLEBY: And she never saw her son again,

0:08:37 > 0:08:39never in all her life.

0:08:39 > 0:08:41I was just saying to Kate...

0:08:41 > 0:08:44No. I won't listen to myself.

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Just you make yourself useful to this Mr Squires,

0:08:46 > 0:08:47as I know you will,

0:08:47 > 0:08:49and you'll rise to be a partner

0:08:49 > 0:08:51in the establishment in no time at all.

0:08:51 > 0:08:53Come on, come on, come on,

0:08:53 > 0:08:55hold that noise, boy! I want more breakfast.

0:08:55 > 0:08:56I'll give you more breakfast!

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Anybody else want more?

0:08:58 > 0:08:59No, sir.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01That's right. Subdue your appetites, my dears,

0:09:01 > 0:09:02and you've conquered human nature.

0:09:02 > 0:09:03Oh, there you are.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05Get them boys on top of the coach, will you?

0:09:05 > 0:09:07That can't be the schoolmaster surely.

0:09:07 > 0:09:09He does seem an odd-looking man.

0:09:09 > 0:09:12So was Dr Johnson. All these bookworms are.

0:09:12 > 0:09:14Well, I never expected...

0:09:14 > 0:09:17I expected to find you here, ma'am.

0:09:17 > 0:09:19A house of mine in town is empty.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21I can put you in there rent-free till it's let.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23Of all the kindness!

0:09:23 > 0:09:24Do you hear that, Kate?

0:09:24 > 0:09:26A house, and in town, too.

0:09:26 > 0:09:27That would be near you, I suppose.

0:09:27 > 0:09:28East end.

0:09:28 > 0:09:31Oh. Oh, well, all the same.

0:09:31 > 0:09:32After all, it's somewhere to live.

0:09:32 > 0:09:34My clerk Noggs will take you down there

0:09:34 > 0:09:35as soon as the coach is gone.

0:09:35 > 0:09:36Oh, thank you.

0:09:36 > 0:09:38Good morning. Most delightful of you.

0:09:38 > 0:09:39Furthermore, I've found a situation for Kate

0:09:39 > 0:09:41with a milliner and dressmaker.

0:09:41 > 0:09:42Milliner?

0:09:42 > 0:09:43And dressmaker, ma'am.

0:09:43 > 0:09:46Mantalini's, a very well-known house.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48The York coach is leaving now.

0:09:48 > 0:09:49Hurry up there.

0:09:51 > 0:09:52Goodbye, uncle. Goodbye, Nicholas.

0:09:52 > 0:09:54I trust you'll take care of them.

0:09:54 > 0:09:56Goodbye, mother.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01Kate, you'll write to me?

0:10:01 > 0:10:03Bless you, love. Goodbye.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05(BELL TOLLING)

0:10:09 > 0:10:12That's right, Nickleby. You get up on top.

0:10:12 > 0:10:14I'm afraid of one of them boys falling off,

0:10:14 > 0:10:15and that's £20 gone.

0:10:26 > 0:10:27All right behind it?

0:10:27 > 0:10:29All right. Let her go!

0:10:31 > 0:10:32(FANFARE)

0:10:32 > 0:10:34Goodbye. Goodbye.

0:10:34 > 0:10:37Goodbye. Goodbye.

0:10:47 > 0:10:50SQUEERS: Hello, there!

0:10:50 > 0:10:51(HORSE SNORTS)

0:10:51 > 0:10:53Here we are!

0:10:53 > 0:10:55NICHOLAS: Dotheboys Hall, sir?

0:10:55 > 0:10:57That's it. You needn't call it a hall down here.

0:10:57 > 0:10:59The fact is, it ain't one.

0:11:04 > 0:11:05Where the devil have you been, Smike?

0:11:05 > 0:11:07Please, sir. I fell asleep over the fire.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09Fire? What fire? Where's the fire?

0:11:09 > 0:11:11Only in the kitchen, sir.

0:11:11 > 0:11:12Missus said as I was sitting up,

0:11:12 > 0:11:13I might go in for a warm.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15Missus is a fool.

0:11:15 > 0:11:16We feel more wakeful in the cold.

0:11:16 > 0:11:19See to the pony, then the boxes, then the boys.

0:11:19 > 0:11:21Hurry up, Nickleby. This wind's fit to blow you down.

0:11:21 > 0:11:23(WIND HOWLING)

0:11:28 > 0:11:29It's cold enough up here,

0:11:29 > 0:11:32yet the boys is always getting fevers.

0:11:32 > 0:11:33Obstinacy, that's what it is.

0:11:33 > 0:11:35WOMAN: Is that my Squeery?

0:11:35 > 0:11:36There you are, my love.

0:11:36 > 0:11:38And how's my Squeery?

0:11:38 > 0:11:39Quite well, me love.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41And how are the pigs and the cows?

0:11:41 > 0:11:42All right, every one of them.

0:11:42 > 0:11:43That's a blessing.

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Boys are bobbish, I suppose.

0:11:45 > 0:11:46Oh, they're well enough.

0:11:46 > 0:11:48The new young man, my dear.

0:11:48 > 0:11:51Good evening.

0:11:51 > 0:11:52Hmm.

0:11:52 > 0:11:53Better give him a shakedown for tonight.

0:11:53 > 0:11:56Phoebe! Phoebe!

0:11:56 > 0:12:00Nickleby, come in here and take your things off.

0:12:00 > 0:12:01Phoebe!

0:12:06 > 0:12:08Cubby, Duncans.

0:12:08 > 0:12:11Ha! What they want writing letters to them boys,

0:12:11 > 0:12:14I don't know, when they can't read.

0:12:19 > 0:12:23What do you want? Have you...

0:12:23 > 0:12:25has nothing been heard about me, sir?

0:12:25 > 0:12:27Devil a bit. Not a word and never will be.

0:12:27 > 0:12:30A pretty thing. Left here all these years

0:12:30 > 0:12:32and nothing paid after the first 6.

0:12:32 > 0:12:34MRS SQUEERS: in here with them.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42We'll put you in your regular bedroom tomorrow.

0:12:42 > 0:12:45Let me see. Who sleeps in Brooks' bed, me dear?

0:12:45 > 0:12:47Brooks'? There's Jennings,

0:12:47 > 0:12:50little bolder, Graymarsh,

0:12:50 > 0:12:51and what's his name.

0:12:51 > 0:12:52So there is.

0:12:52 > 0:12:53Yes. Brooks is full.

0:12:53 > 0:12:55There's a place somewhere, I know.

0:12:56 > 0:12:59I think that Smike's turning silly.

0:12:59 > 0:13:02I hope not. He's a handy fella for rough work.

0:13:02 > 0:13:03That will do, Phoebe.

0:13:05 > 0:13:08Remember, Nickleby, 7:00 in the morning.

0:13:08 > 0:13:09I shall be ready, sir.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13The pump's in the yard.

0:13:13 > 0:13:15You'll find a bit of soap in the kitchen window.

0:13:15 > 0:13:16Blow that light out as soon as you can now.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Candles cost money.

0:13:24 > 0:13:26Don't like the look of him,

0:13:26 > 0:13:28nasty, stuck-up monkey.

0:13:28 > 0:13:33Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

0:14:12 > 0:14:15(KNOCK ON DOOR) Come in.

0:14:20 > 0:14:21Thank you.

0:14:26 > 0:14:28(BELLS RINGING)

0:14:40 > 0:14:42Ah. You've had your breakfast.

0:14:42 > 0:14:44I've had some porridge, sir.

0:14:44 > 0:14:45(BELCHES)

0:14:45 > 0:14:46Then you're ready for work.

0:14:46 > 0:14:47I wasn't able to wash.

0:14:47 > 0:14:49Of course you wasn't. The pump's froze.

0:14:49 > 0:14:52Never mind. A dry polish is almost as good.

0:14:52 > 0:14:53Dreadful things.

0:14:53 > 0:14:54It's brimstone morning, and I can't find

0:14:54 > 0:14:56the school spoon anywhere.

0:14:56 > 0:14:58We purify the boys' blood now and then.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00Purify, fiddlesticks.

0:15:00 > 0:15:03We don't buy brimstone and treacle for that.

0:15:03 > 0:15:05They have it part because it keeps them from ailing

0:15:05 > 0:15:08and part because it spoils their appetites.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11It comes cheaper than breakfast and dinner.

0:15:11 > 0:15:13Here's the blessed thing.

0:15:13 > 0:15:16He were sleeping on it.

0:15:16 > 0:15:19A most invaluable woman, that.

0:15:19 > 0:15:21More than a mother to them boys.

0:15:21 > 0:15:22(WHIP)

0:15:22 > 0:15:2410 times more.

0:15:24 > 0:15:26She does things for them boys

0:15:26 > 0:15:27that half the mothers going

0:15:27 > 0:15:28wouldn't do for their own sons.

0:15:28 > 0:15:31I can well imagine that, sir.

0:15:31 > 0:15:33We had a boy died here early last winter,

0:15:33 > 0:15:35young Dorker.

0:15:35 > 0:15:38Mrs Squeers was as partial to that lad

0:15:38 > 0:15:40as he'd been her own.

0:15:40 > 0:15:42The attention that boy got in his illness,

0:15:42 > 0:15:44the motherly love what was showered on him.

0:15:44 > 0:15:46Dry toast and warm tea

0:15:46 > 0:15:47offered him every night and morning

0:15:47 > 0:15:50when he couldn't swallow anything.

0:15:50 > 0:15:52That's my son, that is.

0:15:52 > 0:15:54Little Wackford.

0:15:54 > 0:15:55The image of his mother and me

0:15:55 > 0:15:57and a bit more beside.

0:15:57 > 0:16:00Yes. That boy Dorker had a candle in his bed

0:16:00 > 0:16:01till the very night he died

0:16:01 > 0:16:04and the best dictionary set up to lay his head on.

0:16:06 > 0:16:08This is our shop, Nickleby.

0:16:08 > 0:16:09MRS SQUEERS: No, you don't.

0:16:09 > 0:16:11All at once, or I'll have the hide of you.

0:16:13 > 0:16:14Next boy, come on.

0:16:14 > 0:16:17Please, ma'am. That boy's got my clothes on.

0:16:17 > 0:16:19That will do! You shut up

0:16:19 > 0:16:21and mind your own business!

0:16:23 > 0:16:26Now then. Is that physicking over?

0:16:26 > 0:16:27Just over.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31Wackford, you can do that later.

0:16:31 > 0:16:33Bring the basin and come with your mother.

0:16:33 > 0:16:34Hurry up. Places.

0:16:34 > 0:16:36And stop that snivelling,

0:16:36 > 0:16:39or I'll give you something to snivel for.

0:16:39 > 0:16:43Well, boys, I've paid my half-yearly visit to London,

0:16:43 > 0:16:44and you'll be glad to see I've come back

0:16:44 > 0:16:46as strong and as vigorous as ever.

0:16:46 > 0:16:47Hip, hip.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49(Mumbling) Hooray.

0:16:49 > 0:16:53That will do. First class.

0:16:53 > 0:16:55English and philosophy.

0:16:55 > 0:16:59Brooks, spell window.

0:16:59 > 0:17:02W-I...

0:17:02 > 0:17:12W-I-N, win, D-E-R, der, winder.

0:17:13 > 0:17:14Casement.

0:17:14 > 0:17:16Go out and clean them.

0:17:16 > 0:17:18We go on the practical mode of teaching.

0:17:18 > 0:17:19When a boy learns his subject,

0:17:19 > 0:17:20he goes out and does it.

0:17:20 > 0:17:23Graymarsh, spell botany.

0:17:23 > 0:17:26GRAYMARSH: B-O...

0:17:26 > 0:17:31B-O-T, bot,

0:17:31 > 0:17:35T-I-N, bottin,

0:17:35 > 0:17:40N-E-Y, bottiney,

0:17:40 > 0:17:42noun substantive, knowledge of plants.

0:17:42 > 0:17:45Out you go, and take the snow off the garden paths.

0:17:45 > 0:17:48You, what's your name, what's an horse?

0:17:48 > 0:17:50It's a...a beast, sir.

0:17:50 > 0:17:52So it is. An horse is quadruped,

0:17:52 > 0:17:54and quadruped's Latin for beast.

0:17:54 > 0:17:56See that you're perfect in that.

0:17:56 > 0:17:57Go and look after my horse

0:17:57 > 0:18:00and rub him down well, or I'll rub you down!

0:18:00 > 0:18:02It's washing day tomorrow,

0:18:02 > 0:18:03and I want the coppers filled.

0:18:03 > 0:18:05The rest of the class, go and draw water

0:18:05 > 0:18:08until somebody tells you to leave off.

0:18:08 > 0:18:09Now that's our system, Nickleby.

0:18:09 > 0:18:11What do you think of it?

0:18:11 > 0:18:12It's a very useful one at any rate.

0:18:12 > 0:18:13You're right there.

0:18:13 > 0:18:15Now just take the second class

0:18:15 > 0:18:17and explain them some reading.

0:18:17 > 0:18:20(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

0:18:20 > 0:18:24"The Pilgrim's Progress."

0:18:24 > 0:18:27"As I walked through the wilderness of this world,

0:18:27 > 0:18:30"I lighted on certain place where was a den,

0:18:30 > 0:18:34"and I laid me down in that place to sleep,

0:18:34 > 0:18:37and as I slept, I dreamed a dream."

0:18:50 > 0:18:53Demmit! What, Nickleby!

0:18:53 > 0:18:55Of course, Demmit, I remember.

0:18:55 > 0:18:57Your niece.

0:18:57 > 0:19:00Follow me, my dear,

0:19:00 > 0:19:01will you?

0:19:01 > 0:19:03They all follow me,

0:19:03 > 0:19:06always did, Demmit, always!

0:19:06 > 0:19:07WOMAN: Mr Nickleby.

0:19:07 > 0:19:10Good morning.

0:19:10 > 0:19:12This is my niece, ma'am.

0:19:12 > 0:19:14I spoke to you about a vacancy for her.

0:19:14 > 0:19:16You remember? Just so.

0:19:16 > 0:19:17What work can you do, child?

0:19:17 > 0:19:20I can turn a hem, ma'am, or sew a seam.

0:19:20 > 0:19:21And that is all?

0:19:21 > 0:19:23She can learn. Oh, quite,

0:19:23 > 0:19:25and I can do with another pair of hands.

0:19:25 > 0:19:28We keep 20 young women constantly employed here.

0:19:28 > 0:19:32Yes, and some of them demned handsome, too.

0:19:32 > 0:19:34Mantalini, do you want to break my heart?

0:19:34 > 0:19:36My senses' idol!

0:19:36 > 0:19:38Not for 20,000 hemispheres

0:19:38 > 0:19:42populated with little, uh, ballet dancers.

0:19:42 > 0:19:44Alfred.

0:19:44 > 0:19:46Ahem.

0:19:46 > 0:19:48The hours are from 9:00 to 9:00.

0:19:48 > 0:19:50There's extra work when we're very full of business,

0:19:50 > 0:19:52for which I allow payment as overtime.

0:19:52 > 0:19:53Your wages shall average

0:19:53 > 0:19:54from 5 to 7 shillings a week.

0:19:54 > 0:19:56Yes, madame.

0:19:56 > 0:19:57You can begin as soon as it's convenient.

0:19:57 > 0:20:00She can begin now. Oh. Very well.

0:20:00 > 0:20:01Come into the showroom.

0:20:03 > 0:20:05There. Now you are provided for.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07I'm very much obliged to you, uncle.

0:20:07 > 0:20:08I've merely done my duty.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10I hope that you'll do yours.

0:20:10 > 0:20:11I'll do my best.

0:20:11 > 0:20:12I'm very pleased to hear it.

0:20:12 > 0:20:14You'll find your way home this evening?

0:20:14 > 0:20:15Goodbye then.

0:20:15 > 0:20:16Good day, ma'am.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18Good day, Mr Nickleby.

0:20:19 > 0:20:22Oh, Miss Knag, this young person is beginning here today.

0:20:22 > 0:20:24Try her with some easy work at first.

0:20:24 > 0:20:26Very good, madame. I quite understand.

0:20:26 > 0:20:27And she might come into the showroom with you.

0:20:27 > 0:20:28Her appearance will...

0:20:28 > 0:20:30It will suit very well with mine.

0:20:30 > 0:20:33How very clever of you to think of it.

0:20:33 > 0:20:35That way.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Demmit! Who'd have thought old Nickleby

0:20:37 > 0:20:40would have had such a demned pretty, young creature

0:20:40 > 0:20:41for a niece, eh?

0:20:41 > 0:20:42If it weren't for your wicked extravagance,

0:20:42 > 0:20:44we wouldn't have to keep borrowing from him

0:20:44 > 0:20:47or employing his poor relations.

0:20:47 > 0:20:50My life and soul.

0:20:50 > 0:20:51Ohh!

0:20:54 > 0:20:57PARROT: Demmit! Demmit!

0:20:57 > 0:20:59(SCREECHES)

0:20:59 > 0:21:01You will work here, Miss Nickleby.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06You better begin by hemming this petticoat.

0:21:06 > 0:21:07If you want anything, come to me.

0:21:07 > 0:21:09Thank you.

0:21:11 > 0:21:12(TITTERING)

0:21:12 > 0:21:13(WOMAN CLAPS)

0:21:13 > 0:21:15(TITTERING STOPS)

0:21:20 > 0:21:22Where are you from? From Devonshire.

0:21:22 > 0:21:23Oh, I don't mean that.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25Where did you work before?

0:21:25 > 0:21:26Nowhere.

0:21:26 > 0:21:27Oh, nowhere.

0:21:27 > 0:21:29Oh, superior, aren't we?

0:21:29 > 0:21:30(LAUGHTER)

0:21:30 > 0:21:32(CLAPS)

0:21:35 > 0:21:37That's enough! Dinner's over!

0:21:38 > 0:21:39Rise.

0:21:39 > 0:21:40For what we have received,

0:21:40 > 0:21:43may the lord make us truly thankful. Amen.

0:21:43 > 0:21:45Amen. Amen. Amen.

0:21:53 > 0:21:55Nickleby, I'm going out.

0:21:55 > 0:21:58You will have to take the rest of the classes by yourself.

0:21:58 > 0:21:59You can do that, I suppose.

0:21:59 > 0:22:00Yes, Mr Squeers.

0:22:03 > 0:22:04Smike.

0:22:04 > 0:22:07You needn't be afraid of me.

0:22:07 > 0:22:09You've been here a long time, haven't you?

0:22:09 > 0:22:13Since I was 5, they tell me, sir.

0:22:13 > 0:22:15I don't know.

0:22:15 > 0:22:19Don't you remember your mother your home?

0:22:19 > 0:22:22No, I don't remember.

0:22:22 > 0:22:24I don't remember anything.

0:22:24 > 0:22:26Someone must have brought you here.

0:22:26 > 0:22:30Your father perhaps. He wasn't my father.

0:22:30 > 0:22:34I don't think he was.

0:22:34 > 0:22:38I was afraid of him.

0:22:38 > 0:22:39I was glad to leave him.

0:22:39 > 0:22:42Glad? But surely, you're not happy here.

0:22:45 > 0:22:47Happy?

0:22:47 > 0:22:48PHOEBE: Smike!

0:22:49 > 0:22:51Beg pardon, Mr Nickleby.

0:22:51 > 0:22:53Smike, Miss Fanny's back,

0:22:53 > 0:22:56and you're to fetch her box upstairs quick as you can.

0:22:59 > 0:23:02# Fanny Squeers is jealous

0:23:02 > 0:23:04# Fanny Squeers is jealous!

0:23:04 > 0:23:05Oh, stop it, Wackford.

0:23:05 > 0:23:07# Hilda Price has gone and got spliced

0:23:07 > 0:23:10# So Fanny Squeers is jealous!

0:23:10 > 0:23:12Is that you, Phoebe?

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Where's that lazy hound of a Smike?

0:23:14 > 0:23:16He were with Mr Nickleby.

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Not there. Over here.

0:23:26 > 0:23:29That will do. Go on outside.

0:23:29 > 0:23:31# Hilda Price has gone and got spliced!

0:23:31 > 0:23:33ow!

0:23:33 > 0:23:35You'll never get spliced, you won't.

0:23:38 > 0:23:40Phoebe! Yes, miss?

0:23:40 > 0:23:42Was it a pretty wedding, Miss Fanny,

0:23:42 > 0:23:43over to Miss Price's?

0:23:43 > 0:23:44Come on.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47She must have made a lovely bride

0:23:47 > 0:23:49and done well by herself, too, hasn't she?

0:23:49 > 0:23:51Well enough for her, I have no doubt.

0:23:51 > 0:23:54Who is Mr... Nickleby?

0:23:54 > 0:23:56He's the new assistant.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58You ought to see him.

0:23:58 > 0:24:00He's a real gentleman born

0:24:00 > 0:24:02if ever there was one.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05The way he talks and acts

0:24:05 > 0:24:06and carries on.

0:24:06 > 0:24:09And you've only to look at him.

0:24:09 > 0:24:11Such beautiful eyes he's got

0:24:11 > 0:24:13and such a sweet smile,

0:24:13 > 0:24:15and as for his legs...

0:24:15 > 0:24:16Phoebe, that's quite enough.

0:24:16 > 0:24:21Oh, but, miss, you ought to see him for yourself.

0:24:21 > 0:24:24First, write the address at the top

0:24:24 > 0:24:29and then the date, 17TH of December, 1830.

0:24:29 > 0:24:30(KNOCK ON DOOR)

0:24:30 > 0:24:32Come in.

0:24:32 > 0:24:35I'm sorry, father, but...

0:24:35 > 0:24:36Oh.

0:24:38 > 0:24:39I beg your pardon.

0:24:39 > 0:24:44I thought my father was...or might be...

0:24:44 > 0:24:45Dear me. How very awkward.

0:24:45 > 0:24:46Mr Squeers is out.

0:24:46 > 0:24:48Oh, how tiresome.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50I'm sorry I intruded.

0:24:50 > 0:24:51I'm sure...

0:24:51 > 0:24:53It must look so very strange.

0:24:53 > 0:24:56I only wanted my pen mended.

0:24:56 > 0:24:57Perhaps I can do it for you.

0:24:57 > 0:24:59Oh, no, no, no. I couldn't

0:24:59 > 0:25:00put you to the trouble.

0:25:00 > 0:25:01Hard nib or soft?

0:25:01 > 0:25:03Such a sweet smile.

0:25:03 > 0:25:05What did you say?

0:25:05 > 0:25:06Dear me. I was thinking

0:25:06 > 0:25:08of something else for the moment.

0:25:08 > 0:25:12As soft as possible, if you please.

0:25:12 > 0:25:15Oh. I quite forgot. I'm MISS Squeers.

0:25:15 > 0:25:16I imagined that.

0:25:16 > 0:25:18Did you really?

0:25:18 > 0:25:20There's a strong family resemblance.

0:25:22 > 0:25:23Oh, I beg your pardon.

0:25:23 > 0:25:24Very awkward of me.

0:25:24 > 0:25:28Oh, not at all. It's my fault, mine entirely.

0:25:28 > 0:25:31Very...so embarrassing. I scarcely know what I...

0:25:31 > 0:25:34Careful. You're biting your nib off now.

0:25:34 > 0:25:35Oh.

0:25:38 > 0:25:40Oh, dear me!

0:25:45 > 0:25:47FANNY: What do you mean, "quick as you could"?

0:25:47 > 0:25:49I sent for you 10 minutes gone.

0:25:49 > 0:25:52Don't you run from me, you lying, little pig you!

0:26:00 > 0:26:01Smike was having his supper.

0:26:01 > 0:26:02I told him to finish it.

0:26:02 > 0:26:03If you have any objections,

0:26:03 > 0:26:06you better make them to me.

0:26:06 > 0:26:10I didn't see you where there, Mr Nickleby.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12It's quite all right of course

0:26:12 > 0:26:14now that you explained.

0:26:14 > 0:26:16There's no call to run away.

0:26:16 > 0:26:19Pa's still out, and Ma's with him.

0:26:19 > 0:26:22You can have a glass of port if you like.

0:26:22 > 0:26:25Come and sit down. Thank you. I'm going to bed.

0:26:25 > 0:26:27Nobody's kind to me!

0:26:27 > 0:26:30I wish everybody was dead!

0:26:30 > 0:26:32I wish I was dead, too!

0:26:32 > 0:26:34(SOBBING)

0:26:37 > 0:26:38(DOOR SLAMS)

0:26:46 > 0:26:47(KNOCK ON DOOR)

0:26:50 > 0:26:52Come in.

0:27:06 > 0:27:09Mr Nickleby likes you, doesn't he, Smike?

0:27:09 > 0:27:11Oh, yes, he does,

0:27:11 > 0:27:14and you've been having a fine, idle time

0:27:14 > 0:27:16since he's been here.

0:27:16 > 0:27:19Wait till I tell father.

0:27:19 > 0:27:21Just wait!

0:27:32 > 0:27:34Smike!

0:27:34 > 0:27:36Where the devil are you?

0:27:36 > 0:27:38Smike!

0:27:41 > 0:27:44Where's that Smike?

0:27:44 > 0:27:46Is he hiding somewhere in here?

0:27:46 > 0:27:47Smike!

0:27:47 > 0:27:48He's not here, sir.

0:27:48 > 0:27:50Where is he then?

0:27:50 > 0:27:53At the bottom of the nearest pond for all I know.

0:27:53 > 0:27:54Come on.

0:27:56 > 0:27:57Someone knows where he is!

0:27:57 > 0:27:59(GRUNT)

0:27:59 > 0:28:02Sneaking off up the York Road, he was.

0:28:02 > 0:28:04Oh, he was, was he?

0:28:04 > 0:28:06Each boy, keep his seat.

0:28:06 > 0:28:08Nickleby, to your place.

0:28:11 > 0:28:13Stand a little out of the way, my dear.

0:28:13 > 0:28:15I've hardly room enough.

0:28:15 > 0:28:18Have you anything to say?

0:28:18 > 0:28:20I was driven to do it.

0:28:20 > 0:28:21Oh, driven, were you?

0:28:21 > 0:28:25Then I'll have to spare you.

0:28:25 > 0:28:26I'll flog you within an inch of your life

0:28:26 > 0:28:28and spare you that.

0:28:28 > 0:28:31Hee hee hee! Ha ha ha!

0:28:31 > 0:28:33Let that boy go. Hold your tongue!

0:28:33 > 0:28:35You've done him enough harm. Get back to your desk!

0:28:35 > 0:28:36I've seen it these last few weeks,

0:28:36 > 0:28:38nothing but blows and strikes.

0:28:38 > 0:28:39I'm in my rights!

0:28:39 > 0:28:41Your rights? To beat and starve these boys?

0:28:41 > 0:28:43This isn't a school. It's a hell on earth.

0:28:43 > 0:28:46You young scum!

0:28:46 > 0:28:47Ohh! I...

0:28:47 > 0:28:49MRS SQUEERS: Oh, help!

0:28:49 > 0:28:51He's killing my Squeery!

0:28:51 > 0:28:53Stop it, you dirty hound you. Stop it!

0:28:53 > 0:28:54Help!

0:28:54 > 0:28:58(SOBBING)

0:28:58 > 0:29:01SQUEERS: Ow! Oh! Ow!

0:29:01 > 0:29:02Ohh! Help!

0:29:02 > 0:29:05He's killing my Squeery!

0:29:05 > 0:29:07Ow!

0:29:07 > 0:29:10Stop it! Help!

0:29:10 > 0:29:12(SOBBING)

0:29:16 > 0:29:18(WHEEZES)

0:29:18 > 0:29:20Aah! Hoo hoo!

0:29:20 > 0:29:22(SOBBING)

0:29:22 > 0:29:23Come, Smike.

0:29:23 > 0:29:24(MUMBLES)

0:29:28 > 0:29:29(MRS SQUEERS MOANS)

0:29:31 > 0:29:34He's dead! He's murdered!

0:29:34 > 0:29:37My Squeery!

0:29:37 > 0:29:39Squeery!

0:29:39 > 0:29:41Squeery, say something.

0:29:44 > 0:29:47(GROANS)

0:29:58 > 0:30:02FANNY: "To Mr Ralph Nickleby, esquire.

0:30:02 > 0:30:06"Sir, my pa requests me to write to you,

0:30:06 > 0:30:10"the doctors being doubtful whether he will recover the use of his legs,

0:30:10 > 0:30:13"which prevents his holding a pen.

0:30:13 > 0:30:15When your nephew had done this to him"...

0:30:15 > 0:30:18ohh! "And jumped upon him with his feet

0:30:18 > 0:30:20"and also language,

0:30:20 > 0:30:24"which I will not pollute my pen with describing,

0:30:24 > 0:30:26"he assaulted my ma with dreadful violence

0:30:26 > 0:30:30"and drove her back comb several inches into her head.

0:30:30 > 0:30:34"The monster, having satiated his thirst for blood,

0:30:34 > 0:30:35ran away."

0:30:35 > 0:30:38"Taking with him a boy of desperate character,

0:30:38 > 0:30:41who he had incited to rebellion."

0:30:43 > 0:30:45"My pa begs that if he comes to you,

0:30:45 > 0:30:47"you will let the assassin go,

0:30:47 > 0:30:50"as he is sure to be hung before long,

0:30:50 > 0:30:51"which will save us trouble

0:30:51 > 0:30:54and be much more satisfactory."

0:30:56 > 0:30:58Pretty.

0:30:58 > 0:31:00Very pretty.

0:31:00 > 0:31:02I recommend you against my convictions,

0:31:02 > 0:31:04and what is the result?

0:31:04 > 0:31:06Conduct for which you might hold up your hand

0:31:06 > 0:31:07at the old bailey.

0:31:07 > 0:31:08It isn't true! Nicholas, tell him!

0:31:08 > 0:31:09He was ill-treating the boy.

0:31:09 > 0:31:10I'd do the same again.

0:31:10 > 0:31:11RALPH: Penitence.

0:31:11 > 0:31:13I never would have believed it.

0:31:13 > 0:31:14Mama, please.

0:31:14 > 0:31:16What have you done with him?

0:31:16 > 0:31:19Did you take this boy away, or didn't you?

0:31:19 > 0:31:20The boy's in my charge until I can find him a home

0:31:20 > 0:31:22or give him one myself.

0:31:22 > 0:31:24The whole thing proved, even on his own confession.

0:31:24 > 0:31:25One thing is proved. But uncle!

0:31:25 > 0:31:26Let me say a world.

0:31:26 > 0:31:30Of what I have done for you, my niece,

0:31:30 > 0:31:34or I intended to do, I shall say nothing,

0:31:34 > 0:31:37but this boy, headstrong and willful as he is,

0:31:37 > 0:31:39shall not have one penny of my money!

0:31:39 > 0:31:41Knowing full well the consequences,

0:31:41 > 0:31:42he's come back to be a burden

0:31:42 > 0:31:45on his sister's scanty wages.

0:31:45 > 0:31:47Very well.

0:31:47 > 0:31:51I have no wish to desert you, ma'am, or Kate,

0:31:51 > 0:31:56but I will not help him or those who do help him.

0:31:56 > 0:31:59But I can't renounce my own son,

0:31:59 > 0:32:01even if he's done all you say.

0:32:01 > 0:32:02Mama, you know he hasn't.

0:32:02 > 0:32:04I don't know what to think.

0:32:04 > 0:32:07Never mind. We can go to the work house

0:32:07 > 0:32:09or the refuge for the destitute.

0:32:09 > 0:32:11Wait, sir.

0:32:11 > 0:32:12You needn't leave here.

0:32:12 > 0:32:14I shall be gone in one minute.

0:32:14 > 0:32:15No, Nicholas!

0:32:15 > 0:32:17Don't go away again, please.

0:32:17 > 0:32:19Kate, I never meant to stay here with you.

0:32:19 > 0:32:21When I'm away, you will be helped.

0:32:21 > 0:32:22Mother sees that,

0:32:22 > 0:32:24and she's right.

0:32:27 > 0:32:28Bless you, Kate.

0:32:32 > 0:32:34I'm taking you at your word, sir,

0:32:34 > 0:32:36but if you break it...

0:33:02 > 0:33:04I beg your pardon.

0:33:04 > 0:33:06I...I'm in your way perhaps.

0:33:06 > 0:33:09Oh, no, not at all, thank you,

0:33:09 > 0:33:11but if I'm in yours...

0:33:11 > 0:33:12No.

0:33:12 > 0:33:14There doesn't seem to be very much.

0:33:14 > 0:33:18No. It's so hard to find work of any kind.

0:33:38 > 0:33:39You understand of course,

0:33:39 > 0:33:42my secretary must make himself master of foreign policy,

0:33:42 > 0:33:45run his eye over all accounts of public meetings,

0:33:45 > 0:33:47get up a few little arguments now and then

0:33:47 > 0:33:49on the effects of returned cash payments,

0:33:49 > 0:33:51the exportation of bullion,

0:33:51 > 0:33:52the Emperor of Russia,

0:33:52 > 0:33:54bank notes, and all that kind of thing,

0:33:54 > 0:33:56and then of course wait in the lobby every night

0:33:56 > 0:33:58in case I need fresh cramming,

0:33:58 > 0:34:00and during debates, sit in the gallery

0:34:00 > 0:34:02and point me out to people

0:34:02 > 0:34:04as the celebrated Mr Gregsbury

0:34:04 > 0:34:06and any other little eulogium that might strike you.

0:34:06 > 0:34:10And for salary in round figures,

0:34:10 > 0:34:1415 shillings a week and find yourself there.

0:34:14 > 0:34:1715 shillings? That's not much.

0:34:18 > 0:34:20(DING)

0:34:20 > 0:34:23(KNOCK ON DOOR)

0:34:23 > 0:34:25Door, Matthews.

0:34:25 > 0:34:27I mean for the duties and responsibilities.

0:34:27 > 0:34:29Door, Matthews!

0:34:29 > 0:34:32Secretaries. Nothing else.

0:34:32 > 0:34:33Tuition?

0:34:37 > 0:34:42Mr and Mrs Kenwigs, to instruct the daughters in French.

0:34:42 > 0:34:45A shilling per week per each Miss Kenwigs

0:34:45 > 0:34:48and a shilling over until the baby can take it out in grammar.

0:34:48 > 0:34:50Thank you.

0:34:50 > 0:34:52My aunt's pen.

0:34:52 > 0:34:55Le plume de ma tante.

0:34:55 > 0:34:59GIRLS: Le plume de ma tante.

0:34:59 > 0:35:00My uncle's...

0:35:00 > 0:35:01Hold on a minute, sir.

0:35:01 > 0:35:04Do you consider French a cheerful language?

0:35:04 > 0:35:05Yes. I'd say that it was.

0:35:05 > 0:35:07Oh. It's very much changed since my time, then,

0:35:07 > 0:35:09very much. My uncle's...

0:35:09 > 0:35:11What is the French for water?

0:35:11 > 0:35:14L'eau. L'eau.

0:35:14 > 0:35:15And you call that a cheerful language.

0:35:15 > 0:35:17Ha ha ha!

0:35:17 > 0:35:18Shall the gentleman go on, uncle?

0:35:18 > 0:35:21Oh, yes, yes, let him go on.

0:35:21 > 0:35:24My uncle's garden. Le jar...

0:35:24 > 0:35:25(CRYING)

0:35:33 > 0:35:35(CRYING)

0:35:39 > 0:35:43The daughters I could manage, even the uncle,

0:35:43 > 0:35:45but the baby was too much for me. Ha ha ha!

0:35:45 > 0:35:48I must find real work somewhere,

0:35:48 > 0:35:50and then there's Smike.

0:35:50 > 0:35:51He can't go on hiding for ever

0:35:51 > 0:35:54in one wretched, little room.

0:35:54 > 0:35:56We're leaving London, Mr Noggs.

0:35:56 > 0:35:58But I could look after the boy.

0:35:58 > 0:36:00And bring down trouble on your own head?

0:36:00 > 0:36:03Better you've never see him, know nothing of him.

0:36:03 > 0:36:06I must go,

0:36:06 > 0:36:09but there's one thing I wanted to ask.

0:36:09 > 0:36:11It's about Kate and my mother.

0:36:11 > 0:36:14If anything should happen... I'll let you know.

0:36:14 > 0:36:19You didn't need to ask. Thank you.

0:36:19 > 0:36:21I'll write to you.

0:36:21 > 0:36:24I'll send an address as soon as I can.

0:36:24 > 0:36:26Don't you forget then.

0:36:26 > 0:36:28I'm not likely to.

0:36:28 > 0:36:29I haven't so many friends

0:36:29 > 0:36:31that I shall forget my best one.

0:36:37 > 0:36:39(PENNYWHISTLE PLAYING)

0:36:49 > 0:36:51Mind out there!

0:36:52 > 0:36:55MAN: Madeline. Madeline.

0:36:58 > 0:37:00Hurry up. We haven't all day, Madeline.

0:37:05 > 0:37:07I'm just coming, father.

0:37:12 > 0:37:13Let me take those.

0:37:15 > 0:37:17We met before at the agency.

0:37:19 > 0:37:21Yes.

0:37:21 > 0:37:22I remember.

0:37:22 > 0:37:26MAN: Madeline. What is it, Madeline? Who's...

0:37:26 > 0:37:28This gentleman's just helping me, Father.

0:37:28 > 0:37:29We have no money, young man,

0:37:29 > 0:37:31it that's what you're hoping for. Please, Father.

0:37:31 > 0:37:33Get the rest of the luggage, and let's be off.

0:37:33 > 0:37:35MAN: Just a minute! Oh, no, you don't.

0:37:35 > 0:37:36Trying to do a flit, eh,

0:37:36 > 0:37:37trying to queer my pitch for me, eh?

0:37:37 > 0:37:39I'm not too partial to that kind of lark, see?

0:37:39 > 0:37:41Leave my father alone.

0:37:41 > 0:37:42You have no right to. Let him go!

0:37:42 > 0:37:44Stop that, my little lady.

0:37:44 > 0:37:45Take your hands off her!

0:37:45 > 0:37:45That will do, young shaver.

0:37:45 > 0:37:46This is not your business!

0:37:46 > 0:37:48I'll soon make it mine!

0:37:48 > 0:37:50Please!

0:37:50 > 0:37:51There's nothing you can do.

0:37:51 > 0:37:53Here's my warrant of debts unpaid

0:37:53 > 0:37:55to the sum of £1,700, detaining creditors...

0:37:55 > 0:37:56yes, yes. There's no need

0:37:56 > 0:37:58to cry my finances all over the town.

0:37:58 > 0:37:59You will accompany me forthwith

0:37:59 > 0:38:02and present yourself at the King's Bench Prison before noon.

0:38:02 > 0:38:03He's not well. I must go with him.

0:38:03 > 0:38:05If you wants to live with him, you can apply.

0:38:05 > 0:38:07Go on.

0:38:07 > 0:38:08Might as well use the hackney.

0:38:08 > 0:38:10NICHOLAS: If there's anything I can do,

0:38:10 > 0:38:12any message to friends.

0:38:12 > 0:38:15No. There's nothing.

0:38:15 > 0:38:17You're very kind.

0:38:17 > 0:38:18I only wish I could do something, too.

0:38:18 > 0:38:19Thank you.

0:38:19 > 0:38:21MAN: Come on. Come on if you're coming.

0:38:28 > 0:38:29Cheer up, governor.

0:38:29 > 0:38:31Perhaps they'll live in the rules.

0:38:31 > 0:38:32The rules?

0:38:32 > 0:38:34Lodgings just outside the prison.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36Pay so much a week for the privilege.

0:38:36 > 0:38:38Giddyap there, doggie.

0:39:05 > 0:39:08Only 12 more.

0:39:08 > 0:39:09Tired, Smike?

0:39:09 > 0:39:10No. I'm not tired.

0:39:10 > 0:39:12Well, if you're not, I am.

0:39:12 > 0:39:13Let's try in here.

0:39:23 > 0:39:24Landlord!

0:39:29 > 0:39:31I shouldn't have come with you.

0:39:31 > 0:39:32I'm nothing but a trouble to you.

0:39:32 > 0:39:34A trouble? You are far from that, Smike.

0:39:34 > 0:39:36I'm only too glad of your company.

0:39:36 > 0:39:38You haven't enough money even for yourself.

0:39:38 > 0:39:41If it hadn't been for me...

0:39:41 > 0:39:42Yes, gentlemen?

0:39:42 > 0:39:43We're looking for some supper

0:39:43 > 0:39:44and a room perhaps afterwards.

0:39:44 > 0:39:46Supper? I'm a bit short tonight.

0:39:46 > 0:39:48I'll tell you what. There's a gentleman in the parlour

0:39:48 > 0:39:49who's ordered a beefsteak pudding and potatoes,

0:39:49 > 0:39:51and there's more than he can manage.

0:39:51 > 0:39:54If I ask leave, I have no doubt you could sup with him.

0:39:54 > 0:39:55We're very dusty and dirty.

0:39:55 > 0:39:58Oh, lord love you. Why, it's only Mr Crummles.

0:39:58 > 0:40:00Smike.

0:40:00 > 0:40:02Don't you believe what I've said?

0:40:02 > 0:40:06Tried to go away when we were in London.

0:40:06 > 0:40:07I couldn't.

0:40:07 > 0:40:09You want a hot meal and a good sleep,

0:40:09 > 0:40:10and I want no more talk of that kind,

0:40:10 > 0:40:12understand, Smike?

0:40:12 > 0:40:14LANDLORD: All right. I knew it would be.

0:40:14 > 0:40:16Come this way, gentlemen.

0:40:16 > 0:40:17Wait till you see them in here,

0:40:17 > 0:40:19the way they're going on it.

0:40:19 > 0:40:22Thrust, Parry. Thrust, Parry.

0:40:22 > 0:40:25More fire, boys. Make the spark fly.

0:40:25 > 0:40:27Under, over. Good work!

0:40:27 > 0:40:301, 2, into him.

0:40:30 > 0:40:331, 2, reverse!

0:40:33 > 0:40:351, 2. That's better.

0:40:35 > 0:40:39Mr Vincent Crummles, this is the young gentleman, sir.

0:40:39 > 0:40:42Aha.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44Ha ha ha!

0:40:44 > 0:40:47There's a picture. The little one has him.

0:40:47 > 0:40:49If the big'un does not counter in 3 seconds,

0:40:49 > 0:40:52he's a dead man. Bravo, boys, bravo.

0:40:52 > 0:40:53That will be a double encore.

0:40:53 > 0:40:56What do you think of that, sir? Very good indeed.

0:40:56 > 0:40:58If only they were a little better match.

0:40:58 > 0:41:00Match? Why, that's the essence of the combat,

0:41:00 > 0:41:01that there should be a foot or two between them.

0:41:01 > 0:41:04How else are you going to get up the sympathies of the audience?

0:41:04 > 0:41:05I see. I beg your pardon.

0:41:05 > 0:41:07Ah. The ample pleasures of the table.

0:41:07 > 0:41:11Now, gents, draw up and make yourselves comfortable.

0:41:11 > 0:41:12I'm glad you thought well of the combat.

0:41:12 > 0:41:15We open at Portsmouth the day after tomorrow.

0:41:15 > 0:41:16The company are there already.

0:41:16 > 0:41:17My son, take your had off.

0:41:17 > 0:41:20My sons and I are on our way to join them.

0:41:21 > 0:41:22Where are you bound for?

0:41:22 > 0:41:24We're making for the coast.

0:41:24 > 0:41:25We thought if there were nothing ashore

0:41:25 > 0:41:27we might get work aboard some ship or other.

0:41:27 > 0:41:29With practiced hands as plentiful as oysters?

0:41:29 > 0:41:32There's not a skipper would think you're worth your salt.

0:41:32 > 0:41:36Tell me, has no other profession occurred to you

0:41:36 > 0:41:37that a young man of your figure and address

0:41:37 > 0:41:39could take up? Can't say it does.

0:41:39 > 0:41:42No? Then I'll tell you one.

0:41:42 > 0:41:45The stage! The stage?

0:41:45 > 0:41:46The theatrical profession!

0:41:46 > 0:41:49I'm in it myself, my wife is in it,

0:41:49 > 0:41:50my children are in it.

0:41:50 > 0:41:53I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy,

0:41:53 > 0:41:56and my chaise-pony goes on in "timour the tartar."

0:41:56 > 0:41:59I'll bring you out and your friend, too.

0:41:59 > 0:42:02Capital countenance for the starved business.

0:42:02 > 0:42:03Say the word.

0:42:03 > 0:42:04But I've never acted a part in my life

0:42:04 > 0:42:05except at school.

0:42:05 > 0:42:07Genteel comedy in your walk and manner,

0:42:07 > 0:42:08juvenile tragedy in your eye,

0:42:08 > 0:42:10and touch-and-go farce in your laugh!

0:42:10 > 0:42:11Could I live by it?

0:42:11 > 0:42:14Live by it? Like a prince.

0:42:14 > 0:42:16Why, with your salary and your friend,

0:42:16 > 0:42:18you'd earn a pound a week.

0:42:18 > 0:42:20Well, Smike, what do you...

0:42:22 > 0:42:24Ah. The arms of Morpheus.

0:42:24 > 0:42:25And with a run of good houses,

0:42:25 > 0:42:27nearly double the money.

0:42:27 > 0:42:29What do you say?

0:42:29 > 0:42:30Good.

0:42:44 > 0:42:46CRUMMLES: Here we are, my boy,

0:42:46 > 0:42:48the home of the drama!

0:42:49 > 0:42:51(NEIGHS)

0:42:51 > 0:42:53Hurry, boys. We're late.

0:42:59 > 0:43:00A good pony at bottom.

0:43:00 > 0:43:01His mother was on the stage, too.

0:43:01 > 0:43:03We'll find my wife rehearsing, no doubt.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05Astonishing woman!

0:43:05 > 0:43:08Mrs Crummles was the original blood drinker.

0:43:08 > 0:43:09She had to give it up, though.

0:43:09 > 0:43:10Did it disagree with her?

0:43:10 > 0:43:12Not so much with her as with the audiences.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14Ah, what a woman, what a woman!

0:43:14 > 0:43:16Mother of 6 children, 3 of them alive,

0:43:16 > 0:43:18and all upon the stage.

0:43:18 > 0:43:20Extraordinary.

0:43:20 > 0:43:21Extraordinary indeed.

0:43:21 > 0:43:23Farewell!

0:43:23 > 0:43:24Alone.

0:43:24 > 0:43:28Alone in the African jungle

0:43:28 > 0:43:31and married to an outlaw!

0:43:31 > 0:43:33The first time I saw that admirable woman,

0:43:33 > 0:43:35Nickleby, she stood on her head

0:43:35 > 0:43:36on the butt end of a spear

0:43:36 > 0:43:38surrounded by blazing fireworks.

0:43:38 > 0:43:39Such grace...

0:43:39 > 0:43:40(SNIFFS)

0:43:40 > 0:43:41Coupled with such dignity.

0:43:41 > 0:43:42I adored her from that moment.

0:43:42 > 0:43:44MRS CRUMMLES: And yet another blow!

0:43:44 > 0:43:47My daughter lost!

0:43:47 > 0:43:49Wild beasts best me path!

0:43:49 > 0:43:52Ohh!

0:43:52 > 0:43:53Mrs Crummles, my darling,

0:43:53 > 0:43:55allow me to introduce Mr Nicholas Nickleby

0:43:55 > 0:43:56and his friend!

0:43:56 > 0:43:58I'm very glad to meet you, sir.

0:43:58 > 0:44:03Ohh! In half an hour, the sun will set,

0:44:03 > 0:44:06and then, then where shall I be?

0:44:06 > 0:44:08The end of act iv, scene 2,

0:44:08 > 0:44:09"the mortal struggle."

0:44:09 > 0:44:12A most heart-rending piece.

0:44:12 > 0:44:14Ah. The infant phenomenon,

0:44:14 > 0:44:18miss Ninetta Crummles, age 10.

0:44:18 > 0:44:20She's practicing for our little ballet interlude,

0:44:20 > 0:44:22"The Indian Savage And The Maiden."

0:44:30 > 0:44:33The idol of every place we go into.

0:44:33 > 0:44:35How old do you say she was?

0:44:35 > 0:44:38She's 10.

0:44:38 > 0:44:39Amazing.

0:44:46 > 0:44:47Mr Folair, Mr Nickleby.

0:44:47 > 0:44:48Very happy to know you, sir.

0:44:48 > 0:44:49How do you do, sir?

0:44:49 > 0:44:51Beautiful pirouette, darling.

0:44:51 > 0:44:54Talent there, gentlemen.

0:44:54 > 0:44:56Did you ever see such a setup?

0:44:56 > 0:44:57Do you mean the infant phenomenon?

0:44:57 > 0:44:59Infant, humbug, sir.

0:44:59 > 0:45:00She's only 10 after all.

0:45:00 > 0:45:0410? She's been 10 for the last 5 years at least,

0:45:04 > 0:45:06but she's no taller.

0:45:06 > 0:45:07Up late every night

0:45:07 > 0:45:11and kept on a diet of gin and water unlimited from infancy.

0:45:11 > 0:45:13CRUMMLES: Folair!

0:45:13 > 0:45:15Onstage!

0:45:15 > 0:45:17Onstage!

0:45:17 > 0:45:19(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

0:45:27 > 0:45:30Everybody's here, Mr Crummles.

0:45:30 > 0:45:32Silence, please!

0:45:32 > 0:45:34(BANG AND SCREAM)

0:45:34 > 0:45:35Silence.

0:45:35 > 0:45:36(SNIFFS)

0:45:36 > 0:45:38Now, ladies and gentlemen,

0:45:38 > 0:45:41we'll call "the mortal struggle" for tomorrow, Saturday.

0:45:41 > 0:45:43On Monday morning, we shall read a new piece.

0:45:43 > 0:45:44The name is not known yet,

0:45:44 > 0:45:46but there will be good parts for everyone.

0:45:46 > 0:45:49Mr Nickleby, a new performer

0:45:49 > 0:45:51of genius and learning, will take care of that.

0:45:51 > 0:45:52What? But I...

0:45:52 > 0:45:55On Monday morning at 10:00 everybody, please.

0:45:55 > 0:45:56WOMAN: Everyone at 10:00.

0:45:56 > 0:45:59Mr Crummles, I can't write a play.

0:45:59 > 0:46:00I'm afraid you misunderstood.

0:46:00 > 0:46:02And by Monday morning?

0:46:02 > 0:46:03My invention isn't equal to it.

0:46:03 > 0:46:06Invention? What's that to do with it?

0:46:06 > 0:46:07You said you could read French, didn't you?

0:46:07 > 0:46:08Yes.

0:46:08 > 0:46:10There. Turn that into English

0:46:10 > 0:46:11and put your name on the title page.

0:46:11 > 0:46:12What do you say, dear?

0:46:12 > 0:46:14We must consider the question of suitable parts.

0:46:14 > 0:46:17Quite, quite. I'll tell you what.

0:46:17 > 0:46:19You shall study Romeo when you've done that piece.

0:46:19 > 0:46:20Romeo? It'll do very well,

0:46:20 > 0:46:23and you might get up Rover while you're about it

0:46:23 > 0:46:25and Cassio and Jeremy Diddler.

0:46:25 > 0:46:29Ah. The apothecary for you

0:46:29 > 0:46:30and Polonius and Tony Lumpkin.

0:46:30 > 0:46:32Oh, and Bottom The Weaver.

0:46:32 > 0:46:33Well, I doubt if...

0:46:33 > 0:46:34You can easily knock them off.

0:46:34 > 0:46:36One part helps the other so much.

0:46:36 > 0:46:39It's all there, cues and all.

0:46:39 > 0:46:40Come along, my dear.

0:46:53 > 0:46:56Miss Bray waiting to see you.

0:46:56 > 0:46:57Bray?

0:46:57 > 0:47:00Hmm. Daughter of the old man, I suppose,

0:47:00 > 0:47:01or it's his sister.

0:47:06 > 0:47:07Miss Bray.

0:47:09 > 0:47:12I hadn't expected anyone so young or so...

0:47:15 > 0:47:17you've come to clear the debt, I take it.

0:47:19 > 0:47:21No.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23I came to ask if you...

0:47:23 > 0:47:26you and Mr Gride would give my father another chance,

0:47:26 > 0:47:27set him free.

0:47:27 > 0:47:29Set him free?

0:47:31 > 0:47:35My dear child, your father has been arrested.

0:47:35 > 0:47:36Nothing can free him now

0:47:36 > 0:47:38until he's paid both his debts.

0:47:38 > 0:47:40Surely you must know the law.

0:47:40 > 0:47:42I know nothing of the law.

0:47:42 > 0:47:45I only know that this imprisonment at his age...

0:47:45 > 0:47:47but you're not in the prison itself surely.

0:47:47 > 0:47:48You're in the rules.

0:47:48 > 0:47:50It's not so bad there.

0:47:50 > 0:47:53Bad enough, Mr Nickleby.

0:47:53 > 0:47:54If you would only give us...

0:47:54 > 0:47:56My dear Miss Bray, I've already told you I can do nothing.

0:47:56 > 0:47:59As for Gride, he will tell you precisely the same.

0:47:59 > 0:48:02Your father was once a man of wealth.

0:48:02 > 0:48:04Before he squandered his money,

0:48:04 > 0:48:05he should have thought of the consequences.

0:48:05 > 0:48:08(BELL DINGS)

0:48:08 > 0:48:09Now I have some work to do.

0:48:14 > 0:48:16Good night, sir.

0:48:16 > 0:48:17Good night, my dear.

0:48:22 > 0:48:24(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

0:48:31 > 0:48:33MRS NICKLEBY: An old family friend saying to me...

0:48:33 > 0:48:34what was his name now?

0:48:34 > 0:48:36It began with a "V" and ended with a "C,"

0:48:36 > 0:48:39but whether it was Watkins or...

0:48:39 > 0:48:40No. It couldn't have been that.

0:48:40 > 0:48:42Uncle, I...

0:48:42 > 0:48:43Ah, my dear.

0:48:43 > 0:48:45As you see, were just talking about you.

0:48:45 > 0:48:47Kate, my love, you're to dine

0:48:47 > 0:48:48with your uncle at half past 6:00 tomorrow.

0:48:48 > 0:48:50I'm having a small party of business friends,

0:48:50 > 0:48:51and your mother has promised me

0:48:51 > 0:48:52you shall keep house for me.

0:48:52 > 0:48:54I'm sure you won't mind obliging me.

0:48:54 > 0:48:56I shall be very glad to of course, uncle,

0:48:56 > 0:48:58but we don't finish work until 9:00.

0:48:58 > 0:49:00I've already spoken to Madame Mantalini.

0:49:00 > 0:49:01You may leave early. Oh.

0:49:01 > 0:49:03Well, of all the fortunes.

0:49:03 > 0:49:04Come in good time in a hackney coach.

0:49:04 > 0:49:06I'll pay for it.

0:49:06 > 0:49:11Good night and, uh, God bless you.

0:49:11 > 0:49:12I have an idea your uncle has taken

0:49:12 > 0:49:14a strong fancy to you.

0:49:14 > 0:49:15That's quite clear.

0:49:15 > 0:49:16Let me see. Your black silk frock

0:49:16 > 0:49:17will be dressy enough

0:49:17 > 0:49:19with that pretty, little scarf

0:49:19 > 0:49:21and a plain band in your hair.

0:49:21 > 0:49:24MAN: Well, if this is a discounting dinner, hawk.

0:49:24 > 0:49:26All I have to say is devil take me

0:49:26 > 0:49:28if it wouldn't be a good plan

0:49:28 > 0:49:29to get discount every day.

0:49:29 > 0:49:31You will have plenty of it in your time.

0:49:31 > 0:49:32Nickleby will tell you that.

0:49:32 > 0:49:33What do you say, Nickleby?

0:49:33 > 0:49:35Am I to be a good customer?

0:49:35 > 0:49:37It depends entirely, milord, on circumstances.

0:49:37 > 0:49:40On your lordship's circumstances.

0:49:42 > 0:49:44And here's our hostess wondering why the deuce

0:49:44 > 0:49:46someone doesn't make love to her.

0:49:46 > 0:49:48No. Indeed. I...I...

0:49:48 > 0:49:50There. She can't look me in the face and deny it.

0:49:50 > 0:49:53I'll hold any man £50 she can't.

0:49:53 > 0:49:55Done! Within two minutes.

0:49:55 > 0:49:57Pike, you're the timekeeper.

0:49:57 > 0:50:00Please don't make me the subject of your bets.

0:50:00 > 0:50:01(LAUGHTER)

0:50:01 > 0:50:04Uncle, do ask them not.

0:50:04 > 0:50:06RALPH: Why not, my dear, if the gentleman insists.

0:50:06 > 0:50:07It is done in a moment.

0:50:07 > 0:50:08Oh, I don't insist.

0:50:08 > 0:50:11If miss Nickleby makes the denial, I lose,

0:50:11 > 0:50:14but I'd be glad to see those bright eyes of hers,

0:50:14 > 0:50:17especially as they favour the table so much.

0:50:17 > 0:50:19So they do, and it's too bad of you.

0:50:19 > 0:50:21(LAUGHTER)

0:50:21 > 0:50:22How goes the enemy?

0:50:22 > 0:50:24One minute gone. Bravo!

0:50:24 > 0:50:25Won't you make an effort

0:50:25 > 0:50:26for me, Miss Nickleby?

0:50:26 > 0:50:28You needn't trouble yourself to inquire, my buck.

0:50:28 > 0:50:30She and I understand each other.

0:50:30 > 0:50:32Time? Minute and a half gone.

0:50:32 > 0:50:33Get the money ready.

0:50:42 > 0:50:44(LAUGHTER)

0:50:49 > 0:50:50Ask my niece not to leave

0:50:50 > 0:50:53until I have spoken to her.

0:50:53 > 0:50:56Thanks. That's a girl of spirit.

0:50:56 > 0:50:57We'll drink her health.

0:50:57 > 0:51:01Miss Nickleby and those bright and beautiful eyes.

0:51:01 > 0:51:03ALL: Miss Nickleby.

0:51:03 > 0:51:04An unexpected pleasure...

0:51:04 > 0:51:06your niece, I mean.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08Designed to surprise you, Lord Frederick.

0:51:08 > 0:51:12Nickleby knows well enough how to please a new client.

0:51:12 > 0:51:14Speaking of clients, Mr Gride,

0:51:14 > 0:51:17I was honoured yesterday by a visit from Bray's daughter.

0:51:17 > 0:51:20She merely wants to set the whole course of law in reverse,

0:51:20 > 0:51:22free her father without payment of his debts.

0:51:22 > 0:51:24What an optimistic young lady.

0:51:24 > 0:51:28Yes...but rather a good-looking one.

0:51:38 > 0:51:40You see, Nickleby,

0:51:40 > 0:51:42the estate is large enough,

0:51:42 > 0:51:43but the ready cash is not.

0:51:43 > 0:51:45That's the deadlock.

0:51:45 > 0:51:47Now, I'm wondering...

0:51:47 > 0:51:48you mean it's no go?

0:51:48 > 0:51:51I never digest my dinner and business at the same time,

0:51:51 > 0:51:52nor should you.

0:51:52 > 0:51:53Come to my office one day.

0:51:53 > 0:51:55You're a deuced good fellow, Nickleby.

0:51:55 > 0:51:57Hawk said you'd come to the rescue.

0:51:57 > 0:51:58The most knowing card in the pack,

0:51:58 > 0:52:01I always called him. Eh, hawk?

0:52:01 > 0:52:03Where the devil is he?

0:52:10 > 0:52:13Ah, how delightfully studious.

0:52:15 > 0:52:18And such eyelashes.

0:52:18 > 0:52:20Upon my soul, they're perfect.

0:52:20 > 0:52:24Now, why did I speak and destroy such a pretty little picture?

0:52:25 > 0:52:26Let me go!

0:52:26 > 0:52:28Oh, no. I want to talk to you.

0:52:28 > 0:52:29Let me go!

0:52:35 > 0:52:37Let me leave here, please. Just a moment.

0:52:44 > 0:52:46Sit down, my dear.

0:52:49 > 0:52:52I advise you, sir, to rejoin the party.

0:52:52 > 0:52:53Hmm.

0:52:53 > 0:52:55You wanted our young friend, didn't you?

0:52:55 > 0:52:58If he'd found his way in here instead of me,

0:52:58 > 0:52:59you would have been a little blinder

0:52:59 > 0:53:01and a little deafer, eh?

0:53:01 > 0:53:03Who brought him to you?

0:53:03 > 0:53:05Without me, what chance would you have

0:53:05 > 0:53:07to land him in that net of yours?

0:53:07 > 0:53:11It's a large net, and rather full.

0:53:11 > 0:53:13I shouldn't like anyone to be choked in the meshes.

0:53:13 > 0:53:15Hmm.

0:53:18 > 0:53:19Now, Kate.

0:53:19 > 0:53:20I won't stay in this house a moment longer.

0:53:20 > 0:53:23You must calm yourself, my dear.

0:53:23 > 0:53:25Yes. Yes, you should go. Of course you shall.

0:53:25 > 0:53:27What that man said was true.

0:53:27 > 0:53:28You brought me here for...

0:53:28 > 0:53:29for your business.

0:53:29 > 0:53:32My dear child, how could I know this would happen?

0:53:32 > 0:53:34I sent the fellow off quickly enough.

0:53:34 > 0:53:35You saw that for yourself.

0:53:35 > 0:53:37Think no more of it.

0:53:38 > 0:53:41I shall say nothing of this to your mother.

0:53:41 > 0:53:43After all, it was only an incident.

0:53:45 > 0:53:471,000. Many a thanks.

0:53:47 > 0:53:49Thank you, milord.

0:53:49 > 0:53:50Nickleby's losing by it. Take my word.

0:53:50 > 0:53:53He wouldn't give those terms to everyone.

0:53:53 > 0:53:54I wouldn't.

0:53:54 > 0:53:55Heh heh!

0:53:55 > 0:53:57That, um, niece of yours...

0:53:57 > 0:53:58devilish pretty girl.

0:53:58 > 0:54:00She's considered so, I believe.

0:54:00 > 0:54:01(BELLS JINGLING)

0:54:01 > 0:54:03Where does the beauty live, eh?

0:54:03 > 0:54:06I should like to have another peep.

0:54:06 > 0:54:09I'm sure, milord, no good would come of your knowing.

0:54:09 > 0:54:11Oh, come.

0:54:11 > 0:54:12You know you're going to make a fortune out of me.

0:54:12 > 0:54:13Let me see her again,

0:54:13 > 0:54:15and I'll never deal with anyone else.

0:54:15 > 0:54:16If you could come back later...

0:54:16 > 0:54:18but I had a letter,

0:54:18 > 0:54:19just before Kate left this morning,

0:54:19 > 0:54:22or didn't leave, rather.

0:54:22 > 0:54:25Confound you, Nigel! I told you to show Mrs Nickleby...

0:54:25 > 0:54:27Ooh, there you are, after all.

0:54:27 > 0:54:28Kate, my dear.

0:54:28 > 0:54:30I was sure if you had been engaged,

0:54:30 > 0:54:32you'd have said so in the letter.

0:54:32 > 0:54:33And in that case, of course,

0:54:33 > 0:54:34you wouldn't have written it.

0:54:34 > 0:54:37I couldn't quite make out why we had to come, but...

0:54:39 > 0:54:40Ooh.

0:54:40 > 0:54:42I beg your pardon.

0:54:42 > 0:54:43(DOOR CLOSES)

0:54:43 > 0:54:44Allow me to present my sister-in-law.

0:54:44 > 0:54:46You're the mother of miss Nickleby,

0:54:46 > 0:54:49the delightful creature we met when last we dined here?

0:54:49 > 0:54:51No, I can't believe it.

0:54:51 > 0:54:53Milady is too young for that.

0:54:53 > 0:54:54MRS NICKLEBY: but I assure you...

0:54:54 > 0:54:56Sir Mulberry Hawk.

0:54:56 > 0:54:58Lord Verisopht.

0:54:58 > 0:55:01A great pleasure. How do you do?

0:55:01 > 0:55:04Milord, Sir Mulberry. Really, I...

0:55:04 > 0:55:05Now that we've met Mom,

0:55:05 > 0:55:07we must improve on the acquaintance.

0:55:07 > 0:55:09I have a private box at the opera.

0:55:09 > 0:55:11The opera!

0:55:11 > 0:55:12If you and your daughter would do me the honour...

0:55:12 > 0:55:14it's a new opera on Saturday,

0:55:14 > 0:55:15first performance.

0:55:15 > 0:55:18Come, now. A refusal is out of the question.

0:55:18 > 0:55:19I'll send my carriage for you.

0:55:19 > 0:55:21You're so very pressing. I scarcely know what to...

0:55:21 > 0:55:22Kate, do you hear?

0:55:22 > 0:55:23Yes, Mama, but...

0:55:23 > 0:55:25Of course. We shall be delighted.

0:55:25 > 0:55:27Capital. Now we must be off.

0:55:27 > 0:55:28Good day, Nickleby.

0:55:28 > 0:55:29I will see you out.

0:55:29 > 0:55:32Eh? What?

0:55:32 > 0:55:34Oh, are we going?

0:55:34 > 0:55:36Good day, miss Nickleby.

0:55:36 > 0:55:38Good day, Mrs Nickleby.

0:55:38 > 0:55:42I shall look forward to Saturday.

0:55:42 > 0:55:45Two more handsome, delightful gentlemen, I never saw.

0:55:45 > 0:55:47And titles, both of them.

0:55:47 > 0:55:50What a wicked girl not to tell your mother you'd met them.

0:55:50 > 0:55:52I declare, you must have had some reason for it.

0:55:52 > 0:55:55Please, Mama, must we go to the opera?

0:55:57 > 0:55:58(WOMAN SINGING OPERA)

0:56:02 > 0:56:04(MAN SINGING)

0:56:09 > 0:56:11Delightful. Quite delightful.

0:56:11 > 0:56:13And so different from Shakespeare.

0:56:13 > 0:56:15I'm always ill after Shakespeare.

0:56:15 > 0:56:17It's the most extraordinary thing.

0:56:17 > 0:56:19This is the most happy evening for me, my dear.

0:56:19 > 0:56:22Suppose we slip out for a little supper together?

0:56:22 > 0:56:24Your mother won't miss you.

0:56:24 > 0:56:25What do you say?

0:56:28 > 0:56:31Why, Kate, my dear, you've gotten quite pale.

0:56:31 > 0:56:33It's nothing, Mama. You imagined it.

0:56:33 > 0:56:35I was thinking the same, Mrs Nickleby.

0:56:35 > 0:56:38Your daughter needs country air.

0:56:38 > 0:56:39Now, I have a little place near Windsor.

0:56:39 > 0:56:40Windsor?

0:56:40 > 0:56:41A few hundred acres.

0:56:41 > 0:56:44Why not let her come down there next weekend?

0:56:44 > 0:56:45Accompanied by yourself, of course.

0:56:45 > 0:56:47Lord Frederick will be there, too.

0:56:47 > 0:56:50Well, really, this is too kind.

0:56:50 > 0:56:52Isn't it, Kate?

0:56:52 > 0:56:54Just think of it. Hundreds of acres.

0:56:54 > 0:56:56It could do you all the good in the world,

0:56:56 > 0:56:58won't it, Lord Frederick? She's more than...

0:56:58 > 0:57:00(SINGING CONTINUES LOUDER)

0:57:00 > 0:57:01...just now, it occurred to me

0:57:01 > 0:57:04it reminded me of the day you caught that dreadful cold

0:57:04 > 0:57:05the very evening that gentleman called

0:57:05 > 0:57:07whose father and mother married an Archbishop.

0:57:07 > 0:57:09Or were they married by one?

0:57:09 > 0:57:10I'm sure you must...

0:57:10 > 0:57:12(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

0:57:18 > 0:57:20CRUMMLES: A glooming peace

0:57:20 > 0:57:22this morning with it brings;

0:57:22 > 0:57:26the sun for sorrow will not show his head.

0:57:26 > 0:57:29Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;

0:57:29 > 0:57:35some shall be pardoned and some punish-ed:

0:57:35 > 0:57:39for never was a story of more woe

0:57:39 > 0:57:45than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

0:57:51 > 0:57:53(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

0:58:17 > 0:58:21Capital, my boy, a prince of a Romeo. Take it.

0:58:21 > 0:58:24I was quite swept off my feet, I was, really.

0:58:24 > 0:58:26I'm out of stout, love. Would you be a dear?

0:58:26 > 0:58:27Now I have another novelty.

0:58:27 > 0:58:28What's that, the performing pony?

0:58:28 > 0:58:30Oh, no, we never come to the ponies

0:58:30 > 0:58:31till everything else has failed.

0:58:31 > 0:58:33A bespeak, my boy.

0:58:33 > 0:58:36A benefit night in your honour.

0:58:36 > 0:58:39Excuse me. This just came on the London coach.

0:58:39 > 0:58:42From Newman Noggs.

0:58:42 > 0:58:44Is it bad news?

0:58:44 > 0:58:45"No wish to alarm you,

0:58:45 > 0:58:47"but your uncle being the man he is

0:58:47 > 0:58:49"and his friends the men they are,

0:58:49 > 0:58:53"events may soon occur which would put your sister in sore need of protection."

0:58:53 > 0:58:55(CRUMMLES HUMMING)

0:58:56 > 0:58:59Mr Crummles, I hope you'll forgive me.

0:58:59 > 0:59:00I shall have to leave the company.

0:59:00 > 0:59:02Leave? At the height of your success?

0:59:02 > 0:59:03Nonsense.

0:59:03 > 0:59:04I just heard from London.

0:59:04 > 0:59:06Oh, a superior offer. I'll double it.

0:59:06 > 0:59:08It's nothing of that kind. My sister needs me.

0:59:08 > 0:59:09Oh? Short of money, I suppose,

0:59:09 > 0:59:10and the mortgage threatening.

0:59:10 > 0:59:13Ha ha! How often I've played in that situation.

0:59:13 > 0:59:15My boy, after your bespeak,

0:59:15 > 0:59:16you'll be able to send her every penny she needs,

0:59:16 > 0:59:17more than that.

0:59:17 > 0:59:19You're very kind, Mr Crummles,

0:59:19 > 0:59:20but you don't understand.

0:59:20 > 0:59:21It's not really a question of money.

0:59:21 > 0:59:22Family affection.

0:59:22 > 0:59:24Advice from a brother on an affair of the heart.

0:59:24 > 0:59:25You must write her, my boy.

0:59:25 > 0:59:26I'll help you with the letter myself.

0:59:26 > 0:59:28You better read this.

0:59:28 > 0:59:29What?

0:59:29 > 0:59:30You can see how serious it is.

0:59:30 > 0:59:31Seems so ungrateful of me.

0:59:31 > 0:59:33If there was anything else I could do...

0:59:33 > 0:59:35You must go.

0:59:35 > 0:59:36You must go at once.

0:59:36 > 0:59:38There's not a moment to lose.

0:59:38 > 0:59:40What drama.

0:59:40 > 0:59:41What drama!

0:59:41 > 0:59:42If I could take the morning coach...

0:59:42 > 0:59:44Yes, yes, by all means.

0:59:44 > 0:59:46Attention, everyone!

0:59:46 > 0:59:47Attention, everyone!

0:59:47 > 0:59:51Smike, you'll be safe here with Mr Crummles, won't you?

0:59:51 > 0:59:53I wanted to go with you.

0:59:53 > 0:59:54I'm afraid you can't do that.

0:59:54 > 0:59:57I'll send for you immediately things are more settled.

0:59:57 > 1:00:00We shall see him off first thing tomorrow, the entire company.

1:00:00 > 1:00:03Costumes from the funeral scene, ways and means, Act III.

1:00:03 > 1:00:06Everyone much affected.

1:00:06 > 1:00:07(SNIFFS)

1:00:07 > 1:00:10And the infant phenomenon to present a bouquet.

1:00:10 > 1:00:12Afterwards, a full rehearsal for the entire company.

1:00:12 > 1:00:13"Romeo And Juliet"?

1:00:13 > 1:00:15No, no. We have no Romeo.

1:00:15 > 1:00:17(CRYING)

1:00:17 > 1:00:20If you have tears, forbear to shed them now.

1:00:20 > 1:00:21Save them for the departure.

1:00:21 > 1:00:24Mr Crummles, at great personal sacrifice...

1:00:24 > 1:00:26my Romeo was notorious.

1:00:26 > 1:00:28I can well believe it.

1:00:28 > 1:00:29It'll take more than that to save the day.

1:00:29 > 1:00:31Off you go, my boy, and make ready.

1:00:31 > 1:00:34And remember, our good wishes go with you every inch of the way.

1:00:34 > 1:00:35Thank you, sir,

1:00:35 > 1:00:37for all the goodness you've shown to Smike and me.

1:00:37 > 1:00:39I know you'll look after him.

1:00:39 > 1:00:40Thank you, everyone,

1:00:40 > 1:00:42for all your help and your kindness.

1:00:42 > 1:00:43I shall never forget you.

1:00:43 > 1:00:44Adieu.

1:00:44 > 1:00:45Goodbye.

1:00:45 > 1:00:47We will see you off tomorrow.

1:00:47 > 1:00:48Goodbye, Molly.

1:00:48 > 1:00:49(WOMAN CRYING)

1:00:51 > 1:00:53Born for the lamps, too.

1:00:53 > 1:00:55Crudden, call the pony for tomorrow.

1:00:55 > 1:00:56Yes, sir.

1:00:56 > 1:00:58(SNIFFS)

1:01:08 > 1:01:11Acton Court. 10 minutes, gentlemen.

1:01:15 > 1:01:17(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1:01:26 > 1:01:28...the old woman thinks we are doing it for her health.

1:01:28 > 1:01:30So they both come down to Windsor tomorrow, eh?

1:01:30 > 1:01:31Yes. The old mare goes out to grass,

1:01:31 > 1:01:34and then the little filly shows up aces.

1:01:34 > 1:01:35(MEN CHUCKLING)

1:01:35 > 1:01:38Come, let's give her the first glass of the new magnum.

1:01:38 > 1:01:40Little Kate Nickleby!

1:01:40 > 1:01:41(LAUGHTER)

1:01:41 > 1:01:43MEN: Kate Nickleby!

1:01:43 > 1:01:45Just a minute.

1:01:45 > 1:01:46The little Jade,

1:01:46 > 1:01:48she's a worthy imitation of her uncle Ralph.

1:01:48 > 1:01:50Hanged back to be the more sought after.

1:01:50 > 1:01:51That's going to raise the interest.

1:01:51 > 1:01:53Will you come outside for a moment?

1:01:53 > 1:01:55Upon me soul, a mysterious stranger.

1:01:55 > 1:01:57Name your business here or nowhere.

1:01:57 > 1:01:59The lady you named is my sister.

1:01:59 > 1:02:01My business, you'll guess.

1:02:03 > 1:02:05Are you coming outside?

1:02:05 > 1:02:06No.

1:02:10 > 1:02:12(CHUCKLES)

1:02:12 > 1:02:14So much for the errand boy.

1:02:14 > 1:02:17MAN: London coach just leaving, sir.

1:02:17 > 1:02:20(HORN TOOTING)

1:02:24 > 1:02:26I must say, Hawk,

1:02:26 > 1:02:27I still think you should have accepted

1:02:27 > 1:02:28the fellow's challenge.

1:02:28 > 1:02:29And I still think otherwise.

1:02:29 > 1:02:30He was within his rights, you know.

1:02:30 > 1:02:32I'm not interested one way or the other.

1:02:32 > 1:02:34Eh?

1:02:34 > 1:02:36What the devil?

1:02:36 > 1:02:37You going to answer for what you said?

1:02:37 > 1:02:38To you, no!

1:02:38 > 1:02:40You call yourself a gentleman?

1:02:40 > 1:02:41Oh, go to the deuce!

1:02:41 > 1:02:44Let go her head. You'd better.

1:02:44 > 1:02:46Let her go, I tell you.

1:02:46 > 1:02:47Get off!

1:02:47 > 1:02:48Not till you...

1:02:52 > 1:02:53Aah!

1:03:07 > 1:03:09Aah!

1:03:17 > 1:03:20(GRUNTING)

1:03:30 > 1:03:31(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

1:03:35 > 1:03:38All right. I'm just coming. I'm just coming.

1:03:43 > 1:03:45Bless my soul!

1:03:45 > 1:03:47Kate. I must...

1:03:52 > 1:03:54Nicholas: I went away on one condition:

1:03:54 > 1:03:56that you would care for my mother and Kate.

1:03:56 > 1:03:57I left them to you,

1:03:57 > 1:03:58and this is how you treat them.

1:03:58 > 1:04:01Young girls like to imagine things.

1:04:01 > 1:04:02Kate is no exception.

1:04:02 > 1:04:03Kate imagined nothing.

1:04:03 > 1:04:04She told me nothing of her trouble.

1:04:04 > 1:04:07Your loose-tongued friends made it clear enough.

1:04:07 > 1:04:08You broke your promise,

1:04:08 > 1:04:10and one day, you'll pay for it.

1:04:10 > 1:04:11I see...

1:04:11 > 1:04:13an IOU of some kind,

1:04:13 > 1:04:15due on some indefinite date.

1:04:15 > 1:04:16You can sneer if you want to.

1:04:16 > 1:04:18I may be young, I may have no money and no experience,

1:04:18 > 1:04:20but I know the difference between good and evil,

1:04:20 > 1:04:23and I know how people of your type come to an end.

1:04:23 > 1:04:24(BELLS JINGLING)

1:04:24 > 1:04:27From the very first, you took advantage of my helplessness.

1:04:27 > 1:04:28I should have known better than to trust you a second...

1:04:28 > 1:04:30I've heard enough!

1:04:32 > 1:04:33As for your mother and your sister,

1:04:33 > 1:04:36from now on, you can care for them. I fully intend to.

1:04:36 > 1:04:38You will never make use of my sister again for your business schemes.

1:04:42 > 1:04:44Of course, they will have to leave the home I've provided.

1:04:44 > 1:04:45They have already left it!

1:04:45 > 1:04:48They never want to see it again... or you.

1:04:52 > 1:04:55I'll tell Mr Nickleby.

1:04:55 > 1:04:57Some of those things you said...

1:04:57 > 1:04:59oughtn't to have said them.

1:04:59 > 1:05:01But they was good to hear.

1:05:01 > 1:05:03It's easy enough to talk.

1:05:03 > 1:05:05I have to make good my words.

1:05:11 > 1:05:13Miss Bray is here.

1:05:13 > 1:05:15Who?

1:05:15 > 1:05:16Miss Bray?

1:05:16 > 1:05:18Are you in or out? You didn't tell me.

1:05:18 > 1:05:21Perhaps you don't want to see anybody.

1:05:23 > 1:05:25Well, my dear?

1:05:25 > 1:05:27I had to come, Mr Nickleby.

1:05:27 > 1:05:29It's my father's health.

1:05:29 > 1:05:31For some time now, he's not been very strong,

1:05:31 > 1:05:34and yesterday, he had an attack.

1:05:34 > 1:05:35The doctor always told him to be careful of his heart.

1:05:35 > 1:05:37Dear me.

1:05:37 > 1:05:38If this imprisonment has to go on,

1:05:38 > 1:05:39I don't know what might happen.

1:05:39 > 1:05:41You don't expect me to cancel the debt,

1:05:41 > 1:05:42to say nothing of Gride?

1:05:42 > 1:05:44Oh, no.

1:05:44 > 1:05:46If you could see your way to...

1:05:46 > 1:05:49reduce the interest, I suppose.

1:05:49 > 1:05:50Yes.

1:05:50 > 1:05:53Father can earn nothing.

1:05:53 > 1:05:55The little I manage to make is...

1:05:55 > 1:05:58barely enough to keep us in the rules,

1:05:58 > 1:06:00out of the prison itself.

1:06:00 > 1:06:03After paying the interest to you and Mr Gride,

1:06:03 > 1:06:05what chance have we to pay off the debts?

1:06:05 > 1:06:07How can we ever be free?

1:06:07 > 1:06:11Child, child, you must not distress yourself.

1:06:13 > 1:06:17You would do a great deal to free your father, wouldn't you?

1:06:17 > 1:06:19Yes.

1:06:19 > 1:06:23Perhaps something can be managed.

1:06:23 > 1:06:24Something even more practical

1:06:24 > 1:06:27than a reduction in the interest.

1:06:27 > 1:06:30I shall come in tomorrow or the day after...

1:06:30 > 1:06:32that's very kind of you. Thank you.

1:06:32 > 1:06:35Have a word or two with your father,

1:06:35 > 1:06:38and then, of course, we shall have to see Mr Gride.

1:06:54 > 1:06:55MAN: how much?

1:06:55 > 1:06:56I thought two pounds a week.

1:06:56 > 1:06:57Ha ha ha!

1:06:57 > 1:06:59Is that asking for so very much?

1:06:59 > 1:07:01Might as well ask for the moon.

1:07:01 > 1:07:02Good morning, sir.

1:07:02 > 1:07:04Good morning.

1:07:04 > 1:07:06I'll wait till you finish with the young gentleman.

1:07:06 > 1:07:08What is this one under tuition,

1:07:08 > 1:07:09knowledge of French required?

1:07:09 > 1:07:11Dancing master. Now, sir?

1:07:11 > 1:07:13Just a moment, young man.

1:07:13 > 1:07:16Am I to understand you are seeking employment?

1:07:16 > 1:07:17If I can find it, sir.

1:07:17 > 1:07:18And you speak French?

1:07:18 > 1:07:19Fairly well, sir.

1:07:19 > 1:07:22Education... a great thing.

1:07:22 > 1:07:25I never had any.

1:07:25 > 1:07:26Come along with me. But I...

1:07:26 > 1:07:28not another word.

1:07:30 > 1:07:32(BELLS TOLLING)

1:07:34 > 1:07:36I saw it in "the times" that you were in London again.

1:07:36 > 1:07:38Regular as the clock, sir.

1:07:38 > 1:07:40What do you think of Wackford Jr.

1:07:40 > 1:07:43As a specimen of Dotheboys Hall feeding?

1:07:43 > 1:07:45I brought him up to show parents and guardians.

1:07:45 > 1:07:47He's flesh. He's firmness.

1:07:47 > 1:07:49Look at them tears, sir.

1:07:49 > 1:07:50There is oiliness.

1:07:50 > 1:07:53Yeah, he looks well, indeed.

1:07:53 > 1:07:54And are you quite recovered

1:07:54 > 1:07:55from that young scoundrel's attack?

1:07:55 > 1:07:56I've only just started, sir.

1:07:56 > 1:07:59I was one blessed bruise from here to there.

1:07:59 > 1:08:01Vinegar and brown paper from morning till night.

1:08:01 > 1:08:03You might have thought I was a big brown paper parcel

1:08:03 > 1:08:05chock full of nothing else but grounds.

1:08:05 > 1:08:07I should like a word with you.

1:08:07 > 1:08:11Wackford, run and buy yourself a tart.

1:08:11 > 1:08:13Pastry makes their flesh shine.

1:08:13 > 1:08:15Parents like it.

1:08:15 > 1:08:16Now, sir?

1:08:16 > 1:08:20I suppose you're not dolt enough to forgive or forget

1:08:20 > 1:08:22the violence done to you by that nephew of mine...

1:08:22 > 1:08:23Devil a bit.

1:08:23 > 1:08:25Or to lose an opportunity of repaying him.

1:08:25 > 1:08:26Show me one.

1:08:26 > 1:08:27Where is he?

1:08:27 > 1:08:29I know where he is.

1:08:29 > 1:08:30We shan't lose track of him.

1:08:30 > 1:08:32Tell me, who was this boy he took with him?

1:08:32 > 1:08:33Was he young or old?

1:08:33 > 1:08:35He might have been nigh 20

1:08:35 > 1:08:37and was just beginning to be useful about the place.

1:08:37 > 1:08:40I had hopes of him even earning me a bit in the village.

1:08:40 > 1:08:42Perhaps he will yet.

1:08:42 > 1:08:44My nephew will find it harder than he thinks

1:08:44 > 1:08:46to get the better of me.

1:08:48 > 1:08:49Mother! Kate!

1:08:49 > 1:08:51What happened?

1:08:51 > 1:08:52Everything's happened. Everything is settled.

1:08:52 > 1:08:53Did you speak to your uncle?

1:08:53 > 1:08:55Yes, but never mind about that.

1:08:55 > 1:08:56Don't you want to hear my news?

1:08:56 > 1:08:57I only wish we could.

1:08:57 > 1:08:58I went to the agency.

1:08:58 > 1:09:00Lo and behold, there he was.

1:09:00 > 1:09:01Kate: Who was?

1:09:01 > 1:09:03Mr Cheeryble, the chubbiest, tubbiest,

1:09:03 > 1:09:05most wonderful old gentleman you've ever seen.

1:09:05 > 1:09:06I never have seen him.

1:09:06 > 1:09:07I'll show him to you.

1:09:07 > 1:09:08Oh.

1:09:08 > 1:09:11White cravat, double chin.

1:09:12 > 1:09:13Very portly.

1:09:13 > 1:09:14(LAUGHING)

1:09:14 > 1:09:15(DEEP VOICE) Young man,

1:09:15 > 1:09:17you are looking for work, are you not?

1:09:17 > 1:09:19And you speak French, do you not?

1:09:19 > 1:09:20But how do you know that?

1:09:20 > 1:09:21Not another word, young man.

1:09:21 > 1:09:22Follow me.

1:09:22 > 1:09:23(NORMAL VOICE) And off we go...

1:09:23 > 1:09:24into the city,

1:09:24 > 1:09:25down Threadneedle Street,

1:09:25 > 1:09:27off to the left, off to the right,

1:09:27 > 1:09:28and up front of his door.

1:09:28 > 1:09:30Open the door,

1:09:30 > 1:09:31and what do you think's inside?

1:09:31 > 1:09:32Another Mr Cheeryble...

1:09:32 > 1:09:34white cravat, double chin,

1:09:34 > 1:09:35very portly.

1:09:35 > 1:09:37Twins! As you say, madam.

1:09:37 > 1:09:39And the first Mr Cheeryble says

1:09:39 > 1:09:40to the second Mr Cheeryble...

1:09:40 > 1:09:42(DEEP VOICE) "Brother Ned,

1:09:42 > 1:09:43here's just the young gentleman we've been looking for."

1:09:43 > 1:09:44Oh! Oh!

1:09:44 > 1:09:46"And he even speaks French, brother Ned."

1:09:46 > 1:09:47Oh, but what has that got to do with...

1:09:47 > 1:09:49Shh. Silk importers. Do half their business with France.

1:09:49 > 1:09:52"Young man, we offer you the vacant stool

1:09:52 > 1:09:53"in our counting house

1:09:53 > 1:09:57at a salary of 120 pounds a year."

1:09:57 > 1:09:58Oh, 120?

1:09:58 > 1:10:00"Just to start with, of course.

1:10:00 > 1:10:02"And as they're looking for somewhere to live, brother Charles,

1:10:02 > 1:10:04why can't they have the little cottage at Bow?"

1:10:04 > 1:10:05Cottage?

1:10:05 > 1:10:06A real home again.

1:10:06 > 1:10:08Bow...it's the sweetest little village.

1:10:08 > 1:10:10Oh!

1:10:18 > 1:10:20What is it, Smike?

1:10:20 > 1:10:21Are you sure they'll want me?

1:10:21 > 1:10:24Of course they will. This is your home now.

1:10:31 > 1:10:33I'm sure I heard a hackney.

1:10:33 > 1:10:35Here we are, mother. This is Smike,

1:10:35 > 1:10:36just back from Portsmouth.

1:10:36 > 1:10:38Any friend of Nicholas is more than welcome.

1:10:38 > 1:10:40And this is my sister, Kate.

1:10:40 > 1:10:42I've heard so much about you.

1:10:42 > 1:10:43We're only just settling in,

1:10:43 > 1:10:44so I hope you'll forgive us

1:10:44 > 1:10:46if there's not much in the house, I mean.

1:10:46 > 1:10:47(NICHOLAS CHUCKLES)

1:10:47 > 1:10:48MRS NICKLEBY: Well, now, Nicholas,

1:10:48 > 1:10:49much as you'd like me to stand here talking,

1:10:49 > 1:10:50I have so much to do.

1:10:50 > 1:10:51Then we mustn't keep you, mother.

1:10:51 > 1:10:53So like your dear papa.

1:10:53 > 1:10:55Never able to keep his thoughts on one subject

1:10:55 > 1:10:56for two minutes together.

1:10:56 > 1:10:58Now, what was I saying? Oh, yes.

1:10:58 > 1:11:00Flowers for Miss La Verzey's room.

1:11:00 > 1:11:03You know, a fine Saturday morning like this

1:11:03 > 1:11:04always puts me in mind of...

1:11:04 > 1:11:06(MEN TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

1:11:06 > 1:11:08I'll wager no-one dragged you so far out of the city

1:11:08 > 1:11:10this last 10 years. Here we are.

1:11:12 > 1:11:14They must have been profiteers.

1:11:14 > 1:11:15Mrs Nickleby.

1:11:15 > 1:11:17It's, yes. Good morning.

1:11:17 > 1:11:19I am Frank Cheeryble, and this is mister...

1:11:19 > 1:11:20Cheeryble?

1:11:20 > 1:11:21Not one of the brothers, surely?

1:11:21 > 1:11:23A nephew, ma'am, but also in the firm.

1:11:23 > 1:11:24And this is Mr Linkinwater,

1:11:24 > 1:11:26our confidential clerk.

1:11:26 > 1:11:27How nice.

1:11:27 > 1:11:27Kate's my daughter.

1:11:27 > 1:11:29Mr Cheeryble, Mr Linkin.

1:11:29 > 1:11:31Oh, I've got it wrong.

1:11:31 > 1:11:33Well, now do come inside.

1:11:33 > 1:11:35We were strolling by this way, and we thought we'd call to see

1:11:35 > 1:11:36if you were settling in comfortably.

1:11:36 > 1:11:39Of course, in Devonshire, the earwigs always used to fall in

1:11:39 > 1:11:41one's tea on Sunday evenings.

1:11:41 > 1:11:44What in the world? Pardon me. Oh!

1:11:44 > 1:11:46Let me help you. There.

1:11:46 > 1:11:47Oh.

1:11:47 > 1:11:49Very kind of you.

1:11:49 > 1:11:51I want to get to the kitchen.

1:11:55 > 1:11:57Oh, but I haven't introduced them.

1:11:57 > 1:11:58Heh heh heh!

1:11:58 > 1:12:00Isn't there some work you can put me to?

1:12:00 > 1:12:01Please come in and sit down.

1:12:01 > 1:12:04No, no, miss Nickleby, I insist on helping.

1:12:05 > 1:12:07Now...what can I do?

1:12:07 > 1:12:09Well, if you could put the books away.

1:12:09 > 1:12:12Oh! That doesn't sound very arduous.

1:12:12 > 1:12:13I'm a very good furniture mover, you know.

1:12:13 > 1:12:15And as for hanging pictures, well...

1:12:15 > 1:12:17oh, no. I must dust them first.

1:12:17 > 1:12:19Oh, forgive my ignorance.

1:12:19 > 1:12:22In my bookshelves, they only get dusted if they're taken out.

1:12:22 > 1:12:23So the dry and dusty authors

1:12:23 > 1:12:25get dustier, still, I suppose.

1:12:25 > 1:12:27Naturally. It's a very good system.

1:12:27 > 1:12:31You can tell at a glance what's worth reading and what isn't.

1:12:34 > 1:12:35Oh, Miss La Creevy did that.

1:12:35 > 1:12:37It can't be you, surely.

1:12:37 > 1:12:38It is.

1:12:38 > 1:12:39I should never have guessed it

1:12:39 > 1:12:41were it not for the brooch.

1:12:41 > 1:12:43She's no flatterer, this Miss La...uh...

1:12:43 > 1:12:44NICHOLAS: Creevy.

1:12:44 > 1:12:45Better not let her hear you.

1:12:45 > 1:12:47Kate, Nicholas,

1:12:47 > 1:12:50Mr Lavenderwater's found out how to light the boiler.

1:12:50 > 1:12:52Isn't it the cleverest thing?

1:12:52 > 1:12:53Well, Mr Cheeryble,

1:12:53 > 1:12:55that's Kate's miniature you have there.

1:12:55 > 1:12:57Isn't it a most delightful likeness?

1:12:57 > 1:12:58This is Miss La Creevy.

1:12:58 > 1:13:00Oh, I...

1:13:00 > 1:13:02I was just admiring your work.

1:13:02 > 1:13:04NICHOLAS: Especially the brooch.

1:13:07 > 1:13:11Quite the sweetest portrait I've ever done.

1:13:11 > 1:13:13Now, come, everyone.

1:13:13 > 1:13:17It's homemade cordial. At least, I think it is.

1:13:17 > 1:13:19Well, did you collect the money?

1:13:19 > 1:13:22I couldn't. His lordship wasn't in.

1:13:22 > 1:13:23At this hour?

1:13:23 > 1:13:25Wasn't Hawk there?

1:13:25 > 1:13:27Gone abroad.

1:13:27 > 1:13:29Or going.

1:13:29 > 1:13:32Abroad? Hawk?

1:13:32 > 1:13:35Had to run for it after the duel.

1:13:35 > 1:13:38What are you babbling about, man? What duel?

1:13:38 > 1:13:40What story is this that you've been fobbed off with?

1:13:40 > 1:13:43No story. They had an argument, him and Lord Verisopht,

1:13:43 > 1:13:45about Hawk's accident.

1:13:45 > 1:13:47Accident. Attempted murder.

1:13:47 > 1:13:49Go on.

1:13:49 > 1:13:50Go on!

1:13:50 > 1:13:53His lordship said Hawk was to blame.

1:13:53 > 1:13:55Well, they'd been drinking.

1:13:55 > 1:13:57Tempers ran high. So they fought it out.

1:13:57 > 1:13:59Pistols.

1:13:59 > 1:14:02His lordship lost.

1:14:02 > 1:14:04You mean to tell me that he's...

1:14:04 > 1:14:07dead as a doornail.

1:14:07 > 1:14:09That's why he wasn't in.

1:14:10 > 1:14:11Dead.

1:14:13 > 1:14:16Your nephew has lost an enemy,

1:14:16 > 1:14:17and you have lost 6,000 pounds.

1:14:17 > 1:14:18That's enough!

1:14:18 > 1:14:20(BELLS JINGLING)

1:14:24 > 1:14:25Buried him at Twickenham.

1:14:25 > 1:14:26Get out!

1:14:44 > 1:14:47(KNOCK KNOCK)

1:14:47 > 1:14:48Are you at home?

1:14:48 > 1:14:49No!

1:14:52 > 1:14:53News, Mr Nickleby.

1:14:53 > 1:14:55Wackford's done it, he has.

1:14:55 > 1:14:56I seen him, didn't I, father?

1:14:56 > 1:14:57You did, my boy,

1:14:57 > 1:14:59and you shall have the best button-over jacket

1:14:59 > 1:15:01the new boys bring down as a reward.

1:15:01 > 1:15:02And another thing...

1:15:02 > 1:15:04I found the very man for you.

1:15:04 > 1:15:06You might remember Mr Snawley.

1:15:09 > 1:15:11He's done it!

1:15:11 > 1:15:15His capital B's and D's are exactly like mine.

1:15:15 > 1:15:18And not a figure scratched out.

1:15:18 > 1:15:19There ain't such a young man in all London.

1:15:19 > 1:15:21Well said, Tim.

1:15:21 > 1:15:24I'm certain our young friend will succeed in no time.

1:15:24 > 1:15:25Didn't I say so, brother Charles?

1:15:25 > 1:15:27Brother Ned, you did.

1:15:27 > 1:15:29Come into our room, Mr Nickleby.

1:15:29 > 1:15:32Just look at those B's and D's, Mr Ned.

1:15:32 > 1:15:33I have only to look at your face, my dear fellow.

1:15:33 > 1:15:36They're written there as plain as on the ledger.

1:15:36 > 1:15:37(CHUCKLING)

1:15:37 > 1:15:39We have to go to the continent.

1:15:39 > 1:15:40So, for the next month or two,

1:15:40 > 1:15:42Frank will be in charge here.

1:15:42 > 1:15:45He will have much to occupy him.

1:15:45 > 1:15:47So we want you to take off his hands

1:15:47 > 1:15:49a little matter he's been attending to.

1:15:49 > 1:15:51It concerns a father and child.

1:15:51 > 1:15:53They're in financial distress, Mr Nickleby.

1:15:53 > 1:15:56The mother was an old friend of ours.

1:15:56 > 1:15:58She's been dead now some years.

1:15:58 > 1:16:01We're anxious to help for her sake and the girl's.

1:16:01 > 1:16:04But if her father knew, he'd make her life a misery.

1:16:04 > 1:16:05Yes, brother Charles.

1:16:05 > 1:16:06Yes, brother Ned.

1:16:06 > 1:16:07He resented our friendship with the mother.

1:16:07 > 1:16:10In fact, he seems to resent everything.

1:16:10 > 1:16:12So we're doing what we can without his knowledge.

1:16:12 > 1:16:14The child has some artistic talent,

1:16:14 > 1:16:15and we have become...

1:16:15 > 1:16:17dealers in the fine arts. Eh, brother Ned?

1:16:17 > 1:16:18Yes, brother Charles.

1:16:18 > 1:16:21(CHUCKLES)

1:16:21 > 1:16:23(MAN SHOUTING)

1:16:28 > 1:16:29Excuse me, sir.

1:16:29 > 1:16:31I'm looking for Mr Bray's lodging.

1:16:35 > 1:16:36Next landing.

1:16:36 > 1:16:37Thank you.

1:16:39 > 1:16:41Lodgings, he says.

1:16:41 > 1:16:43Ha! Yes.

1:16:43 > 1:16:46With a turnkey for the landlord.

1:16:59 > 1:17:00(DOOR OPENS)

1:17:03 > 1:17:05You're miss Bray.

1:17:06 > 1:17:08I never thought we'd meet again.

1:17:08 > 1:17:09I didn't even know your name,

1:17:09 > 1:17:11where to find you.

1:17:11 > 1:17:14It seemed too much to hope for a third time.

1:17:14 > 1:17:18You were so kind that day.

1:17:18 > 1:17:20I had no chance to thank you.

1:17:20 > 1:17:23Bray: Who is it, Madeline? What do they want?

1:17:23 > 1:17:26I'm from your friends, the Cheerybles, the dealers.

1:17:26 > 1:17:28I shall be coming in future.

1:17:28 > 1:17:31Miss Bray, many times since, I...

1:17:31 > 1:17:34Madeline. Madeline!

1:17:34 > 1:17:36Yes, Father.

1:17:36 > 1:17:37Please come in.

1:17:39 > 1:17:41You may remember this gentleman, father.

1:17:41 > 1:17:43He helped us the day we...

1:17:43 > 1:17:44left home.

1:17:44 > 1:17:45Never mind that. What's his business here?

1:17:45 > 1:17:48I've called about a pair of handscreens.

1:17:48 > 1:17:49My employers ask you to proceed with them.

1:17:49 > 1:17:52And I'm to pay for the two drawings with many thanks.

1:17:52 > 1:17:53See the money's right, Madeline.

1:17:53 > 1:17:55Open it, my dear.

1:17:55 > 1:17:57It's quite right, Father, I'm sure.

1:17:57 > 1:17:58Sure?

1:17:58 > 1:18:00How can you be sure?

1:18:01 > 1:18:035 pounds.

1:18:03 > 1:18:04Well, is that right?

1:18:04 > 1:18:05Yes.

1:18:05 > 1:18:07Well, get it changed. Get me a newspaper.

1:18:07 > 1:18:09Buy me some grapes. There'll be other things,

1:18:09 > 1:18:11but you can go out again later.

1:18:11 > 1:18:13What are you waiting for?

1:18:13 > 1:18:14A receipt?

1:18:14 > 1:18:16No, sir. There's no need for that.

1:18:16 > 1:18:18No need? What do you mean?

1:18:18 > 1:18:22Do you think you bring your paltry money here as a gift? Is that it?

1:18:22 > 1:18:23Father.

1:18:23 > 1:18:25Give him a receipt.

1:18:27 > 1:18:29Just because you can't appreciate the time and taste

1:18:29 > 1:18:30bestowed on the goods you deal in,

1:18:30 > 1:18:32I suppose you think you give your money away.

1:18:32 > 1:18:34Good day, sir.

1:18:36 > 1:18:37Thank you.

1:18:46 > 1:18:48The way my father spoke to you...

1:18:48 > 1:18:49he's been very ill.

1:18:49 > 1:18:51He's worse than usual, is all.

1:18:51 > 1:18:52I've forgotten it already.

1:18:52 > 1:18:53Thank you.

1:18:53 > 1:18:54Miss Bray?

1:18:54 > 1:18:57Miss Bray, I'm not very good

1:18:57 > 1:18:59at disguising my feelings.

1:18:59 > 1:19:03My interest isn't confined to my mission here.

1:19:03 > 1:19:06If there's anything I can do for you at any time,

1:19:06 > 1:19:09I want you to know you have only to call on me.

1:19:20 > 1:19:23I still don't understand it.

1:19:23 > 1:19:26Ralph Nickleby become a charitable institution.

1:19:26 > 1:19:28Now, now.

1:19:28 > 1:19:29What is that to you?

1:19:29 > 1:19:31You're getting the money Bray owes you paid in full.

1:19:31 > 1:19:33That's more than you ever expected.

1:19:33 > 1:19:35And more than Bray or his daughter expected, either,

1:19:35 > 1:19:37I warrant.

1:19:39 > 1:19:40His daughter!

1:19:40 > 1:19:42Of course!

1:19:42 > 1:19:45Good-looking as well as optimistic, eh?

1:19:45 > 1:19:47Does Bray suspect your intentions?

1:19:47 > 1:19:48He should do. Heh heh heh!

1:19:48 > 1:19:52I've asked his daughter's hand in marriage.

1:19:52 > 1:19:53Marriage?

1:19:53 > 1:19:57Oh, so that's the story, is it?

1:19:57 > 1:19:59Somebody to grace your table, eh?

1:19:59 > 1:20:03One who can't run away like your little niece did

1:20:03 > 1:20:06when the clients start their wagers.

1:20:06 > 1:20:09Married for business as well as pleasure, eh?

1:20:09 > 1:20:12Good day, Mr Gride. (GRIDE CHUCKLING)

1:20:17 > 1:20:20Ah, Miss Bray.

1:20:20 > 1:20:21Or may I now presume to call you Madeline?

1:20:21 > 1:20:22Going out, my dear?

1:20:22 > 1:20:24I was, for my father.

1:20:24 > 1:20:25Do, then.

1:20:25 > 1:20:29I trust I'll have time enough to enjoy your society

1:20:29 > 1:20:31in more congenial surroundings.

1:20:32 > 1:20:34(KNOCK ON DOOR)

1:20:34 > 1:20:35BRAY: Come in.

1:20:38 > 1:20:40Well, Bray,

1:20:40 > 1:20:45I've come for my answer. Shh!

1:20:45 > 1:20:48The girl may hear you. She's gone out.

1:20:48 > 1:20:51Besides, if she hadn't, what would it matter?

1:20:51 > 1:20:53You've had time enough to give her...

1:20:53 > 1:20:55a hint of your wishes.

1:20:55 > 1:20:57A hint?

1:20:57 > 1:20:59Do you think I have to hint to my own daughter?

1:20:59 > 1:21:01I was about to add that a hint from you

1:21:01 > 1:21:04is doubtless the equivalent of a command.

1:21:04 > 1:21:07Do I take it as settled, then?

1:21:07 > 1:21:09I don't know.

1:21:09 > 1:21:11It seems a cruel thing.

1:21:11 > 1:21:13Cruel? It would make a good marriage.

1:21:13 > 1:21:16Why, hundreds do it every year.

1:21:16 > 1:21:19The girl might fancy a younger man, I suppose.

1:21:19 > 1:21:20She would like to fall in love.

1:21:20 > 1:21:24Can't she see what this means to you?

1:21:24 > 1:21:25You're an ill man, Bray,

1:21:25 > 1:21:28but you're not too ill to recover.

1:21:28 > 1:21:30If only you had your freedom.

1:21:30 > 1:21:31Gaiety is your element...

1:21:31 > 1:21:35France, with the money to support you there in luxury.

1:21:35 > 1:21:38And what's the reverse side of the picture?

1:21:38 > 1:21:40A pauper's grave out there.

1:21:40 > 1:21:41She understands that well enough.

1:21:41 > 1:21:43Then she understands her plain duty.

1:21:43 > 1:21:45Nicholas, I thought you'd never be home.

1:21:45 > 1:21:47Oh, my dear, I'm so glad you've come.

1:21:47 > 1:21:48I really didn't know what to do for the best.

1:21:48 > 1:21:50It was only this afternoon.

1:21:50 > 1:21:52I wasn't in, and mama couldn't stop them.

1:21:52 > 1:21:53Stop who? What's happened?

1:21:53 > 1:21:54Smike's gone.

1:21:54 > 1:21:55Gone? What do you mean?

1:21:55 > 1:21:56Taken away.

1:21:56 > 1:21:57Two men came.

1:21:57 > 1:21:58That schoolmaster was one of them.

1:21:58 > 1:21:59Squeers!

1:21:59 > 1:22:01And a Mr Snawley, the other one said his name was.

1:22:01 > 1:22:02A most unpleasant man.

1:22:02 > 1:22:04He said he was Smike's father.

1:22:04 > 1:22:05He had a birth certificate to prove it,

1:22:05 > 1:22:06and letters, too.

1:22:06 > 1:22:09He's going to hand him back to Mr Squeers.

1:22:09 > 1:22:10Poor soul.

1:22:10 > 1:22:12He was just planting the window box there,

1:22:12 > 1:22:14and the look on his face, I'll never forget it...

1:22:14 > 1:22:16not Mr Snawley's face, I don't think.

1:22:16 > 1:22:18But perhaps now I should call him young Mr Snawley,

1:22:18 > 1:22:20being the son of that...

1:22:20 > 1:22:21Oh, Mama, what kind of a father

1:22:21 > 1:22:22to send him back to Squeers?

1:22:22 > 1:22:23You should have stopped them.

1:22:23 > 1:22:25But they were so violent.

1:22:25 > 1:22:26(KNOCK ON DOOR)

1:22:26 > 1:22:26Oh! Who's that?

1:22:26 > 1:22:28KATE: Mr Noggs!

1:22:28 > 1:22:32I've come to warn you about the boy.

1:22:32 > 1:22:33He's gone already. He's gone.

1:22:33 > 1:22:34...halfway to Hampshire by now.

1:22:34 > 1:22:37I mean, Yorkshire.

1:22:37 > 1:22:39But there's no coach till tomorrow.

1:22:41 > 1:22:42The Saracen's Head!

1:22:46 > 1:22:49I've never thrashed a boy in a coach before.

1:22:49 > 1:22:50There's inconvenience in it,

1:22:50 > 1:22:53but the novelty gives it a sort of relish, too.

1:22:53 > 1:22:55Not feeling quite so bumpish, are you, now?

1:22:55 > 1:22:57I must go home.

1:22:57 > 1:22:59You'll be home very soon, you will,

1:22:59 > 1:23:00in the peaceful village of Dotheboys.

1:23:00 > 1:23:03Ha ha ha!

1:23:03 > 1:23:04Your mother will be fit to jump out of her skin,

1:23:04 > 1:23:06Wackford, when she hears about this.

1:23:06 > 1:23:08I caught hold of his leg when you brought him in, didn't I?

1:23:08 > 1:23:09Like a good'un.

1:23:09 > 1:23:11You always do as your father does,

1:23:11 > 1:23:13and when you die,

1:23:13 > 1:23:14you'll go right up to Heaven,

1:23:14 > 1:23:15with no questions asked.

1:23:15 > 1:23:16What a girl.

1:23:16 > 1:23:18What a delicious girl.

1:23:18 > 1:23:21I'll teach you to stop running off.

1:23:21 > 1:23:23(LAUGHING)

1:23:27 > 1:23:29(LAUGHTER)

1:23:32 > 1:23:33You can't put a finger on me.

1:23:33 > 1:23:34I know the law.

1:23:34 > 1:23:36He is to come back with me, he is.

1:23:36 > 1:23:37NICHOLAS: I thrashed you once.

1:23:37 > 1:23:38If that's not enough...

1:23:38 > 1:23:40(YELLING)

1:23:42 > 1:23:44SQUEERS: There, there. Do get up.

1:23:44 > 1:23:45Come on, get up.

1:23:45 > 1:23:46Come, Smike. I'll help you.

1:23:46 > 1:23:47Ohh.

1:23:47 > 1:23:49You haven't heard the last of this!

1:23:49 > 1:23:51So, kidnapping boys, would you?

1:23:51 > 1:23:54Heaven bless me. He...

1:23:56 > 1:23:57There's laws against kidnapping!

1:23:57 > 1:23:59I got a witness!

1:23:59 > 1:24:02Wackford knows the nature of an oath!

1:24:02 > 1:24:03Wait till the next assizes!

1:24:03 > 1:24:05(YELLING)

1:24:05 > 1:24:06Where are you?

1:24:12 > 1:24:15Poor boy.

1:24:15 > 1:24:17It seems impossible.

1:24:17 > 1:24:19Why? What is it?

1:24:19 > 1:24:22All those years back...

1:24:25 > 1:24:27Poor boy.

1:24:27 > 1:24:28Now, come, Smike.

1:24:28 > 1:24:29I'm not hungry.

1:24:29 > 1:24:31But you must eat to build up your strength.

1:24:31 > 1:24:33Nicholas will be angry with you,

1:24:33 > 1:24:36and I shall be angry, too.

1:24:36 > 1:24:37You won't be angry.

1:24:37 > 1:24:39Yes, I shall.

1:24:39 > 1:24:41Now are you going to finish it for me?

1:24:43 > 1:24:45Come in. Come in.

1:24:45 > 1:24:46Supper's nearly ready.

1:24:46 > 1:24:47Nicholas, my dear.

1:24:47 > 1:24:48Oh, why you're not with them.

1:24:48 > 1:24:49He's not with you, I mean.

1:24:49 > 1:24:51He had to stay behind to see someone.

1:24:51 > 1:24:52A message came this afternoon.

1:24:52 > 1:24:53Then that explains everything,

1:24:53 > 1:24:56I suppose.

1:24:56 > 1:25:00Well, this is a pleasure. Heh heh heh!

1:25:00 > 1:25:02Kate's in the garden, Mr Cheeryble.

1:25:02 > 1:25:03Why don't you go out there

1:25:03 > 1:25:04and tell her you're in here?

1:25:04 > 1:25:07That is, I mean, well...

1:25:07 > 1:25:08you see, you can,

1:25:08 > 1:25:10if you make up your mind to it.

1:25:10 > 1:25:11Only because you made me.

1:25:11 > 1:25:13Is there anything else you'd like?

1:25:13 > 1:25:15Then I'll go in.

1:25:15 > 1:25:16Oh. It's you.

1:25:16 > 1:25:19I couldn't knock at this bedroom door.

1:25:19 > 1:25:21Better, I hope? Yes, thank you.

1:25:21 > 1:25:23Good. Then you'll forgive me

1:25:23 > 1:25:25if I steal her away from you.

1:25:30 > 1:25:31Tell me, Miss Nickleby,

1:25:31 > 1:25:34do you believe that history repeats itself? Why do you ask that?

1:25:34 > 1:25:37I was thinking of the last family that lived in this cottage.

1:25:37 > 1:25:39They were a mother, son, and daughter, too.

1:25:39 > 1:25:41I only hope that life here

1:25:41 > 1:25:44will be as kind to you and your family as it was to them.

1:25:44 > 1:25:46It has been kind already.

1:25:46 > 1:25:48It's brought us new friends... your uncles,

1:25:48 > 1:25:52Mr Linkinwater, and...you.

1:25:53 > 1:25:55But what happened to the other family?

1:25:55 > 1:25:57Do tell me.

1:25:57 > 1:25:59Well, the mother lived here to a ripe old age,

1:25:59 > 1:26:01the son made a career in the city,

1:26:01 > 1:26:04and the daughter met a young man and married him.

1:26:04 > 1:26:06She always said that this cottage

1:26:06 > 1:26:08brought her a lifetime of happiness.

1:26:08 > 1:26:10You seem to have known her quite well.

1:26:10 > 1:26:12She was my mother.

1:26:12 > 1:26:15I think that history does repeat itself sometimes.

1:26:15 > 1:26:18Don't you...Kate?

1:26:29 > 1:26:325 years old, eh?

1:26:32 > 1:26:35When the schoolmaster first took him in.

1:26:35 > 1:26:38And the man that brought him wasn't his father.

1:26:38 > 1:26:40Yes, it all fits.

1:26:40 > 1:26:41What does?

1:26:41 > 1:26:45Date, facts, everything.

1:26:45 > 1:26:49Answer him if you can, Mr Ralph Nickleby.

1:26:49 > 1:26:52Smike? And Uncle Ralph?

1:26:52 > 1:26:53You mean there's some connection?

1:26:53 > 1:26:56Do I? Perhaps I do.

1:26:56 > 1:26:58Well, we shall soon know.

1:26:58 > 1:27:00I'll have a free hand tomorrow.

1:27:00 > 1:27:02He hasn't asked you to the wedding, has he?

1:27:02 > 1:27:04Wedding? Who?

1:27:05 > 1:27:07Didn't you know?

1:27:07 > 1:27:09Your uncle! Getting married.

1:27:09 > 1:27:1220 years since his wife died.

1:27:12 > 1:27:14Now he suddenly decides to take another.

1:27:14 > 1:27:16Married? Uncle Ralph?

1:27:16 > 1:27:17Your doing in one way, you know.

1:27:17 > 1:27:21You stopped him using your sister as a bait for his business.

1:27:21 > 1:27:23If he marries Miss Bray, he's got her for good.

1:27:23 > 1:27:25Not Miss Bray who lives in Southwark,

1:27:25 > 1:27:26in the rules of the prison.

1:27:26 > 1:27:29That's the one. But she couldn't!

1:27:29 > 1:27:31She can't know what he is.

1:27:31 > 1:27:33She knows,

1:27:33 > 1:27:36but old Bray's deep in debt,

1:27:36 > 1:27:37and even my generous employer

1:27:37 > 1:27:40couldn't leave his father-in-law in the King's Bench.

1:28:14 > 1:28:16(DOOR OPENS)

1:28:21 > 1:28:22You.

1:28:27 > 1:28:29I heard of your marriage.

1:28:29 > 1:28:31I came to beg you to reconsider it.

1:28:31 > 1:28:33You don't understand.

1:28:33 > 1:28:36I understand everything. I know what you're doing.

1:28:36 > 1:28:40But I know my uncle, too. No-one better.

1:28:40 > 1:28:41Your uncle?

1:28:41 > 1:28:43If what he's done to his own family isn't enough...

1:28:43 > 1:28:45to my mother, my sister, to me.

1:28:45 > 1:28:48You can't marry him. You don't know what it would mean.

1:28:48 > 1:28:51My father's dying in this place.

1:28:51 > 1:28:54I must get him out of it.

1:28:54 > 1:28:55I won't disguise it.

1:28:55 > 1:28:58I've been through great unhappiness.

1:28:58 > 1:29:00If you'd only wait, just a week or two.

1:29:02 > 1:29:04My employers are abroad. They're expected back soon.

1:29:04 > 1:29:06I'm sure if they knew, they'd... No.

1:29:06 > 1:29:09No, I've taken so much from them.

1:29:10 > 1:29:14Besides, if I were to disappoint Father now...

1:29:15 > 1:29:16You haven't seen him as I have,

1:29:16 > 1:29:19growing weaker every day.

1:29:19 > 1:29:23He's better already at the thought of leaving here.

1:29:23 > 1:29:26I won't put it off, even for an hour.

1:29:26 > 1:29:28He's playing on your feelings.

1:29:29 > 1:29:30I'm his daughter.

1:29:33 > 1:29:35I'm not unhappy now.

1:29:37 > 1:29:40I'm happy at all I can achieve for him so easily.

1:29:40 > 1:29:43How can you be happy? How can you ever be?

1:29:43 > 1:29:44Miss Bray,

1:29:44 > 1:29:47Madeline, I have no right to interfere, I know that,

1:29:47 > 1:29:50but from the first moment I saw you, at the agency,

1:29:50 > 1:29:52I've held you in the deepest regard.

1:29:52 > 1:29:53And since then, I've come to...

1:29:53 > 1:29:56No. No. I beg of you.

1:29:56 > 1:29:58I'm not here because of that, believe me.

1:29:58 > 1:30:00It's not from any thought of my own feelings.

1:30:00 > 1:30:01I don't presume to imagine

1:30:01 > 1:30:02you've even spared me a thought.

1:30:02 > 1:30:04Why should you?

1:30:04 > 1:30:07I have, many times.

1:30:08 > 1:30:09You must go.

1:30:12 > 1:30:14What are you doing here?

1:30:14 > 1:30:16I'm here to save miss Bray if I can, from you.

1:30:16 > 1:30:17It's no business of yours.

1:30:17 > 1:30:21You'd better go while you can save your skin!

1:30:21 > 1:30:22If you were a younger man...

1:30:22 > 1:30:23Please!

1:30:25 > 1:30:27I'm ready to come. No, I won't let you.

1:30:27 > 1:30:29I must. I must!

1:30:29 > 1:30:30Come.

1:30:33 > 1:30:35Kate, speak to her.

1:30:35 > 1:30:39If there's anything I can say to beg you to listen to my brother...

1:30:39 > 1:30:40The girl, too.

1:30:40 > 1:30:42A whole parcel of them.

1:30:44 > 1:30:47I advise you to leave here, my lady.

1:30:47 > 1:30:49I can use force with your brother.

1:30:49 > 1:30:51You can use force with me.

1:30:51 > 1:30:52I've no doubt you'd like to.

1:30:52 > 1:30:54Will you go?

1:30:54 > 1:30:56No, I'll not go!

1:30:56 > 1:30:57From the moment we came to London,

1:30:57 > 1:30:59you thought you could do as you liked with us.

1:30:59 > 1:31:01Mama trusted you. We all did.

1:31:01 > 1:31:02We found you out now,

1:31:02 > 1:31:04and we're free of your charity.

1:31:04 > 1:31:06I'm not afraid of you.

1:31:06 > 1:31:09If you won't get out, I'll have you turned out, the pair of you!

1:31:09 > 1:31:10Where's Bray?

1:31:10 > 1:31:12No, let me, please! Bray!

1:31:14 > 1:31:16RALPH: Bray!

1:31:16 > 1:31:18If you don't want that daughter of yours to change her mind...

1:31:18 > 1:31:20(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

1:31:20 > 1:31:21Are you there?

1:31:21 > 1:31:23Father!

1:31:28 > 1:31:29Father!

1:31:31 > 1:31:35Father! Father! Ohh!

1:31:42 > 1:31:43(PEOPLE MURMURING)

1:31:46 > 1:31:48You will leave that girl here.

1:31:48 > 1:31:49She's free now.

1:31:49 > 1:31:51There's nothing you can do to touch her.

1:32:05 > 1:32:07(DOOR OPENS)

1:32:08 > 1:32:09(DOOR CLOSES)

1:32:09 > 1:32:10RALPH: Noggs.

1:32:18 > 1:32:19Take down this letter.

1:32:24 > 1:32:26"To Mr Squeers,

1:32:26 > 1:32:29the Saracen's Head, Snow Hill."

1:32:29 > 1:32:31Hmm.

1:32:31 > 1:32:34"I have decided

1:32:34 > 1:32:40"to finance any legal action you may care to take

1:32:40 > 1:32:42against my nephew."

1:32:44 > 1:32:46Ho ho! Ho!

1:32:46 > 1:32:47He isn't there?

1:32:47 > 1:32:48Who isn't?

1:32:48 > 1:32:50Mr Squeers.

1:32:50 > 1:32:51He is at Bow Street police station.

1:32:51 > 1:32:52You are lying.

1:32:52 > 1:32:54Oh, no, I'm not.

1:32:54 > 1:32:57And Mr Squeers hasn't been lying, either.

1:32:57 > 1:33:01Mr Squeers has confessed to conspiracy

1:33:01 > 1:33:03with regard to a birth certificate

1:33:03 > 1:33:06and certain letters purporting to prove

1:33:06 > 1:33:08that a Mr Snawley was the father.

1:33:08 > 1:33:10I don't know what you're talking about. Don't you?

1:33:10 > 1:33:12Mr Squeers says otherwise.

1:33:12 > 1:33:14So does Mr Snawley.

1:33:14 > 1:33:15So do the police.

1:33:15 > 1:33:17Hold your tongue, you treacherous, sneaking...

1:33:17 > 1:33:20I've held my tongue for 15 years,

1:33:20 > 1:33:23stood by helpless while you ruined many another

1:33:23 > 1:33:25as once you ruined me.

1:33:25 > 1:33:27You ruined yourself.

1:33:27 > 1:33:29You would sell your soul if you had one for a little gin.

1:33:29 > 1:33:31But I wouldn't sell my own flesh and blood.

1:33:31 > 1:33:34And it's not only little Kate I'm thinking of.

1:33:34 > 1:33:36I've seen the boy, Smike,

1:33:36 > 1:33:38the living image of his mother,

1:33:38 > 1:33:41of your wife. My wife?

1:33:41 > 1:33:42Didn't know I knew that, did you.

1:33:42 > 1:33:43That you had a son?

1:33:43 > 1:33:46Your wife died, but the child lived,

1:33:46 > 1:33:48and you had to keep his birth a secret

1:33:48 > 1:33:50or the money would have gone to him.

1:33:50 > 1:33:51You put him out with a poor family, didn't you,

1:33:51 > 1:33:52to bring up as their own?

1:33:52 > 1:33:55You paid them well for it, haven't you, ever since?

1:33:55 > 1:33:57Well, they didn't keep the boy.

1:33:57 > 1:33:58It isn't true.

1:33:58 > 1:34:00They put him to school in Yorkshire.

1:34:00 > 1:34:03They put him in Dotheboys Hall.

1:34:03 > 1:34:04They cheated me.

1:34:04 > 1:34:07Yes. They cheated you,

1:34:07 > 1:34:12just as you've cheated hundreds of others.

1:34:13 > 1:34:15In the gutter for this.

1:34:15 > 1:34:16And I'll deal with you, too.

1:34:16 > 1:34:18Will you? Will you?

1:34:18 > 1:34:20I've waited all these years

1:34:20 > 1:34:22for a chance to settle our account,

1:34:22 > 1:34:25and now at last it's come.

1:34:25 > 1:34:26The police have been here,

1:34:26 > 1:34:29and I've told them everything.

1:34:29 > 1:34:31There'll be another charge against you now...

1:34:31 > 1:34:33depriving your own son of his birthright,

1:34:33 > 1:34:34robbing him of a fortune.

1:34:34 > 1:34:37They will transport you for that, you know.

1:34:37 > 1:34:38Ha ha ha!

1:34:38 > 1:34:41They will confiscate every penny you've got!

1:34:41 > 1:34:43Ha ha ha!

1:34:43 > 1:34:44You can't escape now.

1:34:44 > 1:34:46It doesn't matter where you go.

1:34:46 > 1:34:48Off to see a lawyer, is that it?

1:34:48 > 1:34:49See if he can help you.

1:34:49 > 1:34:52Or are you going to bring the boy home?

1:34:52 > 1:34:53Own him as your own son,

1:34:53 > 1:34:55give him back the money?

1:34:55 > 1:34:56No use, no good.

1:34:56 > 1:34:59Nothing can help you now... money or lawyers!

1:34:59 > 1:35:00It doesn't matter where you go!

1:35:00 > 1:35:01You are too late!

1:35:01 > 1:35:03Ha ha ha!

1:35:03 > 1:35:06Too late! Ha ha ha!

1:35:07 > 1:35:08(DOOR OPENS)

1:35:15 > 1:35:16There's such a change in him.

1:35:18 > 1:35:19What did the doctor say?

1:35:19 > 1:35:22There is nothing we can do.

1:35:22 > 1:35:24Only wait.

1:35:24 > 1:35:25(SOBS)

1:35:34 > 1:35:36It's me, Smike.

1:35:38 > 1:35:40Don't let her know.

1:35:40 > 1:35:42I...I...

1:35:42 > 1:35:45I didn't mean to keep it.

1:35:45 > 1:35:46Keep what?

1:35:53 > 1:35:55Kate.

1:36:02 > 1:36:04He loves her.

1:36:08 > 1:36:11She loves him.

1:36:12 > 1:36:17Couldn't...bear... to see it.

1:36:24 > 1:36:25Forgive me.

1:37:55 > 1:37:57(THUNDER)

1:38:12 > 1:38:14(RINGING)

1:38:49 > 1:38:51NOGGS, VOICE-OVER: I've seen the boy, Smike.

1:38:51 > 1:38:55The very image of his mother, of your wife.

1:38:55 > 1:38:56Ha ha ha!

1:38:56 > 1:38:59They will transport you for that.

1:39:03 > 1:39:05Ha ha ha!

1:39:05 > 1:39:09It doesn't matter what you do.

1:39:09 > 1:39:10You can't save yourself.

1:39:10 > 1:39:14You are too late.

1:39:14 > 1:39:15Too late.

1:39:21 > 1:39:23Transport you.

1:39:23 > 1:39:26Cannot escape.

1:39:26 > 1:39:29Yes, just as you cheated others.

1:39:33 > 1:39:37Depriving your own son of his birthright,

1:39:37 > 1:39:38robbing him of a fortune.

1:39:38 > 1:39:43Nothing can help you now... money or lawyers.

1:39:43 > 1:39:45No escape.

1:39:49 > 1:39:52You are too late.

1:39:52 > 1:39:54Too late.

1:39:54 > 1:39:56Too late.

1:39:56 > 1:39:58Ha ha ha!

1:39:58 > 1:40:01Ha ha ha!

1:40:59 > 1:41:02And let us try to remember always

1:41:02 > 1:41:06the beautiful words of the marriage service we have just heard.

1:41:06 > 1:41:11For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,

1:41:11 > 1:41:14to love and to cherish,

1:41:14 > 1:41:15til death us do...

1:41:15 > 1:41:17...I didn't have 3 bridegrooms.

1:41:17 > 1:41:18Not that I was ever short of suitors.

1:41:18 > 1:41:20I must have had a dozen at least.

1:41:20 > 1:41:24Let me see. There was young Lukin, Mogley, Tipslark...

1:41:24 > 1:41:25he was hung afterwards.

1:41:25 > 1:41:28Then there was Cabbery, Smifser,

1:41:28 > 1:41:31the young gentleman who went to the same dancing school.

1:41:31 > 1:41:34Oh. And my poor, dear husband, of course.

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