1 00:00:54,654 --> 00:00:56,428 (CLOCK TICKING) 2 00:00:56,823 --> 00:00:59,963 JANE: "Boundaries of... 3 00:01:02,429 --> 00:01:03,805 "propriety... 4 00:01:08,468 --> 00:01:12,245 "vigorously assaulted... 5 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:23,983 "...propriety were..." 6 00:01:26,453 --> 00:01:27,590 (EXCLAIMS) 7 00:01:39,466 --> 00:01:41,138 (PLAYING PIANO SOFTLY) 8 00:02:17,871 --> 00:02:23,116 "The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted. 9 00:02:23,543 --> 00:02:27,247 "The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted, as was only right, 10 00:02:27,247 --> 00:02:29,916 "but not quite breached, as was also right. 11 00:02:29,916 --> 00:02:31,417 "Nevertheless, 12 00:02:33,853 --> 00:02:35,457 "she was not pleased." 13 00:02:39,092 --> 00:02:40,195 (PIANO PLAYING LOUDLY) 14 00:02:56,743 --> 00:02:58,278 -What is it? -Jane. 15 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:00,582 Oh. 16 00:03:12,125 --> 00:03:13,626 Jane! 17 00:03:19,465 --> 00:03:21,672 Oh, dear me. 18 00:03:21,801 --> 00:03:25,009 That girl needs a husband. 19 00:03:25,438 --> 00:03:28,885 And who's good enough? Nobody. 20 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:32,645 I blame you for that. 21 00:03:32,645 --> 00:03:35,315 Being too much the model of perfection. 22 00:03:35,315 --> 00:03:36,885 (LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY) 23 00:03:37,383 --> 00:03:39,552 I've shared your bed for 32 years 24 00:03:39,552 --> 00:03:43,856 and perfection is something I have not encountered. 25 00:03:43,856 --> 00:03:44,925 Yet. 26 00:03:48,428 --> 00:03:53,377 No. Stop it. Mr Austen, it's Sunday! Stop, no, it's... 27 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:56,603 (CHUCKLES) 28 00:03:57,704 --> 00:04:02,915 The utmost of a woman's character is expressed in the duties of daughter, 29 00:04:04,210 --> 00:04:09,159 sister and, eventually, wife and mother. 30 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:16,964 It is secured by soft attraction, virtuous love and quiet in the early morning. 31 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,395 lf a woman happens to have a particular superiority, 32 00:04:22,395 --> 00:04:27,139 for example, a profound mind, it is best kept a profound secret. 33 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:31,475 Humour is liked more, but wit? No. 34 00:04:32,505 --> 00:04:35,642 lt is the most treacherous talent of them all. 35 00:04:35,642 --> 00:04:39,912 Now, George, old fellow, you know you have to stay. 36 00:04:39,912 --> 00:04:41,618 -Jenny! -George, George. 37 00:04:48,688 --> 00:04:51,964 MRS AUSTEN: Hurry along, Jane! We'll be late! 38 00:04:52,825 --> 00:04:55,896 JANE: When Her Ladyship calls, we must obey. 39 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:28,932 MRS AUSTEN: Come along, Jane. 40 00:05:39,572 --> 00:05:43,645 Lady Gresham, may I introduce my niece Comtesse De Feuillide 41 00:05:45,578 --> 00:05:48,614 and Mr Fowle, Cassandra's fiancé. 42 00:05:48,614 --> 00:05:54,320 -Comtesse? Then you presume to be French? -By marriage. 43 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,290 Monsieur le Comte is notheee to pay his respects? 44 00:05:57,290 --> 00:05:59,492 A prior engagement, ma'am, 45 00:05:59,492 --> 00:06:03,296 Monsieur Ie Comtewas obliged to pay his eespectsto Madame Ie GuiIIotine. 46 00:06:03,296 --> 00:06:04,365 Oh! 47 00:06:07,767 --> 00:06:11,037 I see your nephew is with us again. 48 00:06:11,037 --> 00:06:12,447 Mr Wisley. 49 00:06:13,506 --> 00:06:16,384 Wisley is indispensable to my happiness. 50 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:22,891 Well, do sit down. 51 00:06:29,288 --> 00:06:33,236 Mr Fowle and Cassandra are only recently engaged. 52 00:06:34,494 --> 00:06:36,362 When shall you marry? 53 00:06:36,362 --> 00:06:38,865 -Not for some time, Your Ladyship. -Why not? 54 00:06:38,865 --> 00:06:41,067 I'm also engaged to go to the West Indies 55 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:44,504 with Lord Craven's expedition against the French, as chaplain. 56 00:06:44,504 --> 00:06:49,842 -What has Craven offered you? -I've hopes of a parish on my return. 57 00:06:49,842 --> 00:06:51,719 How much is it worth? 58 00:06:53,446 --> 00:06:56,051 Enough to marry on, in a modest way. 59 00:07:01,888 --> 00:07:06,426 Mr Wisley, did you know the Basingstoke assemblies resume? 60 00:07:06,426 --> 00:07:09,395 Very soon, I believe. 61 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:13,866 -Jane does enjoy a ball. -Wisley can't abide them. 62 00:07:19,405 --> 00:07:20,747 But, sir, 63 00:07:21,307 --> 00:07:26,012 a ball is an indispensable blessing to the juvenile part ofthe neighbourhood. 64 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:29,315 Everything agreeable in the way oftalking and sitting down together 65 00:07:29,315 --> 00:07:31,954 all managed with the utmost decorum. 66 00:07:32,785 --> 00:07:35,197 An amiable man could not object. 67 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,599 Then I find I'm converted. 68 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:46,432 JANE: Displayed like a brood mare. 69 00:07:46,432 --> 00:07:51,170 -Mr Wisley is a highly eligible young gentleman. -Oh, Mother! 70 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:54,841 -You know our situation, Jane. -Oh! 71 00:07:54,841 --> 00:07:58,678 And he is Lady Gresham's favourite nephew and heir. 72 00:07:58,678 --> 00:08:01,351 One day, he shall inherit this. 73 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:05,058 Excellent prospects! 74 00:08:11,691 --> 00:08:16,401 -His small fortune will not buy me. -What will buy you, cousin? 75 00:08:23,102 --> 00:08:25,912 MAN: More wary in the world, Mr Lefroy. 76 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:32,420 (LAUGHING) 77 00:08:33,246 --> 00:08:35,214 You can pay me for that later. 78 00:08:35,214 --> 00:08:37,956 -Huzzah! Huzzah! -MAN: Come on, Mr Lefroy. 79 00:08:45,791 --> 00:08:47,565 Come on, man, hit him! 80 00:08:48,561 --> 00:08:49,801 Lefroy! 81 00:09:02,975 --> 00:09:06,445 -WOMAN: Glass ofwine with you, sir? -Madam. 82 00:09:08,948 --> 00:09:10,620 (GROANING) 83 00:09:13,819 --> 00:09:17,823 -Displaying to advantage, I see, Lefroy. -Like the sword, Austen. 84 00:09:20,126 --> 00:09:22,094 How long before you have to get back to the sticks? 85 00:09:22,094 --> 00:09:23,763 A day. 86 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:25,131 So soon? 87 00:09:25,131 --> 00:09:28,868 Doghouse, debts, but one must cut some sort of a figure even in the militia. 88 00:09:28,868 --> 00:09:32,004 Especially when condemned to a parsonage, my friend. 89 00:09:32,004 --> 00:09:33,205 Yes. 90 00:09:33,205 --> 00:09:38,611 Still, who is this sour-faced little virgin? 91 00:09:38,611 --> 00:09:40,454 Your pardon, ma'am. 92 00:09:42,114 --> 00:09:45,685 Mr Tom Lefroy, may I present Mr John Warren? 93 00:09:45,685 --> 00:09:50,222 Joining me in Hampshire, my father is preparing us both for holy orders. 94 00:09:50,222 --> 00:09:53,993 I understand you've visited Hampshire, Mr Lefroy. 95 00:09:53,993 --> 00:09:55,494 Last year. 96 00:09:56,862 --> 00:10:00,070 -Long visit, was it? -Very long, Mr Warren. Almost three hours. 97 00:10:00,366 --> 00:10:03,903 Mr Austen, you're devilishly handsome. A kiss, a kiss. 98 00:10:03,903 --> 00:10:05,541 Oops! 99 00:10:07,206 --> 00:10:09,375 So, Tom, where should we go? Vauxhall Gardens? 100 00:10:09,375 --> 00:10:10,977 Been there. 101 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:13,713 Lefroy, there's a Tahitian Love Fest on at White's. 102 00:10:13,713 --> 00:10:14,880 Seen it. 103 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,149 -Crockford's? -Crockford's? Done that. 104 00:10:17,149 --> 00:10:19,051 Or did it do me? 105 00:10:19,051 --> 00:10:22,327 Wh-wh-what is a Tahitian Love Fest? 106 00:10:33,032 --> 00:10:34,602 Warren! 107 00:10:46,746 --> 00:10:49,089 HENRY: I humbly beg your pardon, sir. 108 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:55,558 Theft of one pig is a crime, heinous to be sure, but two pigs... 109 00:10:58,290 --> 00:11:05,037 Two pigs is a violent assault on the very sanctity of private property itself. 110 00:11:08,467 --> 00:11:09,635 (WHISPERING) Excuse me. 111 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:15,244 You and your kind are a canker on the body social. 112 00:11:17,576 --> 00:11:20,818 And cankers are cut out. 113 00:11:21,814 --> 00:11:24,950 Transportation for life. Next. 114 00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:26,118 (GAVEL BANGS) 115 00:11:26,118 --> 00:11:30,222 -Why are you here in London, sir? -To learn the law. 116 00:11:30,222 --> 00:11:34,660 -Which has no other end but what? -The preservation ofthe rights of property. 117 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:37,463 -Against? -The mob. 118 00:11:37,463 --> 00:11:42,968 Therefore, order is kept because we have... 119 00:11:42,968 --> 00:11:47,006 -A standing army? -Good manners, sir, and prudence. 120 00:11:47,006 --> 00:11:49,850 -Do you know that word? Prudence? -Yes. 121 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:53,813 Consider myself. 122 00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:59,657 I was born rich, certainly, but I remain rich by virtue of exceptional conduct. 123 00:11:59,819 --> 00:12:02,196 I have shown restraint. 124 00:12:04,690 --> 00:12:07,326 Your mother, my sister, became poor because she did not... 125 00:12:07,326 --> 00:12:08,961 She married my father because she loved him. 126 00:12:08,961 --> 00:12:13,099 Yes, and that's why you have so many brothers and sisters back there in... 127 00:12:13,099 --> 00:12:14,669 -Limerick. -Mmm. 128 00:12:18,671 --> 00:12:20,810 Ifyou hope, I say hope... 129 00:12:21,874 --> 00:12:25,549 Ifyou aspire to inherit my property, 130 00:12:27,947 --> 00:12:31,016 you must prove yourself more worthy. 131 00:12:31,016 --> 00:12:34,019 But what do we find? We find dissipation 132 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:38,558 wild enough to glut the imaginings of a Hottentot braggadocio. 133 00:12:39,725 --> 00:12:43,331 Wild companions, gambling, 134 00:12:43,529 --> 00:12:48,334 running around St James's like a neck-or-nothing young blood ofthe fancy. 135 00:12:48,334 --> 00:12:51,508 -What kind of lawyerwill that make? -Typical. 136 00:12:59,211 --> 00:13:00,849 Humour? 137 00:13:02,214 --> 00:13:06,526 Well, you're going to need that because I'm teaching you a lesson. 138 00:13:09,722 --> 00:13:14,329 I'm sending you to stay with your other relations, the Lefroys. 139 00:13:16,428 --> 00:13:22,234 -Uncle, they live in the country. -Deep in the country. 140 00:13:22,234 --> 00:13:23,337 (LANGLOIS CHUCKLING) 141 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,865 -Jane? -Mmm? 142 00:13:43,355 --> 00:13:44,799 Can you? 143 00:13:47,226 --> 00:13:48,602 Thank you. 144 00:13:49,795 --> 00:13:52,935 I think you two quite the prettiest sisters in England. 145 00:13:55,367 --> 00:13:57,540 Mr Fowle will be enchanted. 146 00:13:58,904 --> 00:14:01,441 San Domingo is half a world away. 147 00:14:03,108 --> 00:14:05,077 He'll forget me. 148 00:14:05,077 --> 00:14:08,647 Impossible. Look at the memory you're giving him tonight. 149 00:14:08,647 --> 00:14:09,815 (CHUCKLES) 150 00:14:09,815 --> 00:14:11,483 Cassie. 151 00:14:11,483 --> 00:14:15,590 His heart will stop at the very sight ofyou or he doesn't deserve to live. 152 00:14:17,223 --> 00:14:20,602 And, yes, I'm aware ofthe contradiction embodied in that sentence. 153 00:14:20,893 --> 00:14:22,494 (CARRIAGE APPROACHING) 154 00:14:22,494 --> 00:14:23,768 Is it? 155 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,410 -Jane! -Henry! 156 00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:36,174 You look wonderful. 157 00:14:36,976 --> 00:14:39,144 Well, hello, John. It's very good to see you. 158 00:14:39,144 --> 00:14:41,988 -Nice to see you. -Oh, John! 159 00:14:44,083 --> 00:14:45,289 George! 160 00:14:45,451 --> 00:14:46,930 (EXCLAIMING) 161 00:14:47,119 --> 00:14:49,155 MRS AUSTEN: Leave your brother alone. 162 00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:57,363 Jane! Jane? Have you heard? My father's nephew is staying with us. 163 00:14:57,363 --> 00:14:58,631 From London. 164 00:14:58,631 --> 00:15:00,299 -He is a... -A brilliant young lawyer. 165 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:02,468 -Lucy, please. -With a reputation. 166 00:15:02,468 --> 00:15:03,702 For lateness? 167 00:15:03,702 --> 00:15:04,976 (CLINKING) 168 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:08,977 MRS AUSTEN: Hat off, George. Hat off, Father's ready. 169 00:15:10,809 --> 00:15:12,678 -Thank you, John. -Please. 170 00:15:12,678 --> 00:15:16,315 REVEREND AUSTEN: The family is always moving in great ways and small. 171 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:22,197 Firstly, the small. Henry is back from Oxford with his degree, 172 00:15:22,988 --> 00:15:24,690 -thank goodness. -Well done. 173 00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:29,061 And our friend John, my new student. Then the great. 174 00:15:29,061 --> 00:15:33,566 Cassandra, who is forsaking us for her brother Edward and his family at the coast 175 00:15:34,533 --> 00:15:38,504 whilst Robert voyages to the West Indies with Lord Craven's expedition. 176 00:15:38,504 --> 00:15:44,750 And then, together, they can embark on that most great and most serious journey of life. 177 00:15:45,678 --> 00:15:49,581 Miss Austen, I understand you will be favouring us with a reading? 178 00:15:49,581 --> 00:15:51,417 -Do, Jane. -WOMAN: Do. 179 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:53,519 MAN: Oh, please, Miss Jane. WOMAN: Oh, yes, Jane, do. 180 00:15:53,519 --> 00:15:54,895 Please, Jane. 181 00:16:02,728 --> 00:16:08,075 "Advice from a young lady on the engagement of her beloved sister Cassandra 182 00:16:09,201 --> 00:16:10,769 "to a Fowle." 183 00:16:10,769 --> 00:16:12,407 (ALL LAUGHING) 184 00:16:15,507 --> 00:16:20,079 "His addresses were offered in a manner violent enough to be flattering. 185 00:16:20,079 --> 00:16:24,550 "The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted, as was only right, 186 00:16:24,683 --> 00:16:27,853 "but not quite breached, as was also right. 187 00:16:27,853 --> 00:16:29,923 "Nevertheless, she was..." 188 00:16:39,932 --> 00:16:45,211 And may I introduce my young nephew Mr Thomas Lefroy? 189 00:16:45,771 --> 00:16:46,874 WOMAN: Oh. 190 00:16:47,473 --> 00:16:51,284 REVEREND AUSTEN: And he's more than welcome. Join us, sir, join us. 191 00:16:52,978 --> 00:16:56,118 Green velvet coat. Vastly fashionable. 192 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:01,231 You'll find this vastly amusing. 193 00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:06,569 "His addresses were... 194 00:17:09,495 --> 00:17:12,998 "The boundaries of propriety were vigorously assaulted, 195 00:17:12,998 --> 00:17:17,803 "as was only right, but not quite breached, as was also right. 196 00:17:17,803 --> 00:17:19,805 "Nevertheless, she was not pleased. 197 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:24,651 "Her taste was refined, her sentiments noble, her person lovely, her figure elegant." 198 00:17:24,777 --> 00:17:26,517 (LAUGHING) 199 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,250 Good God, there's writing on both sides ofthose pages. 200 00:17:31,250 --> 00:17:32,592 Shh. Damn it, man. 201 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:37,489 "'It was only yesterday I repelled Lord Graham and his six million, 202 00:17:37,489 --> 00:17:41,026 "'which would have lasted me almost a twelvemonth, 203 00:17:41,026 --> 00:17:42,800 "'with economies...' 204 00:17:46,465 --> 00:17:48,100 "'...a treasure 205 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:51,637 "'greater than all the jewels in India, an adoring heart."' 206 00:17:51,637 --> 00:17:52,838 God! 207 00:17:52,838 --> 00:17:55,978 "'And pray, madam, what am I to expect in return?' 208 00:17:56,475 --> 00:18:00,145 "'Expect? Well, you may expect to have me pleased from time to time."' 209 00:18:00,145 --> 00:18:01,680 Is this who I am? 210 00:18:02,981 --> 00:18:08,287 "And a sweet, gentle, pleading, innocent, 211 00:18:08,287 --> 00:18:14,829 "delicate, sympathetic, loyal, untutored, adoring female heart." 212 00:18:20,132 --> 00:18:21,500 The end. 213 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:22,734 (ALL LAUGH) 214 00:18:22,734 --> 00:18:25,537 -Bravo, Jane. -WOMAN: Well done, Jane. 215 00:18:25,537 --> 00:18:27,406 (ALL APPLAUDING) 216 00:18:27,406 --> 00:18:28,714 MAN: Bravo. 217 00:18:29,675 --> 00:18:31,051 Well done. 218 00:18:36,715 --> 00:18:38,524 WOMAN: She speaks so well. 219 00:18:42,421 --> 00:18:45,265 Well, excessively charming, I thought. 220 00:18:46,492 --> 00:18:49,361 Well, accomplished enough, perhaps, 221 00:18:49,361 --> 00:18:54,503 but a metropolitan mind may be less susceptible to extended, juvenile self-regard. 222 00:18:57,536 --> 00:19:00,175 REVEREND AUSTEN: Well, thank you. We're both very proud. 223 00:19:15,621 --> 00:19:19,296 # In airy dreams 224 00:19:24,296 --> 00:19:25,706 (EXCLAIMS) 225 00:19:26,298 --> 00:19:31,804 # ...absent Iove to see 226 00:19:43,916 --> 00:19:47,727 # Dear you, oh, to think 227 00:19:48,253 --> 00:19:54,101 # On thee # 228 00:20:28,493 --> 00:20:30,836 MR LEFROY: Careful there, old fellow. 229 00:20:32,297 --> 00:20:34,140 TOM: Fine piece, Mr Lefroy. 230 00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:36,702 Handled a gun before, have you, Tom? 231 00:20:36,702 --> 00:20:37,869 -TOM: Mmm. -Tom! 232 00:20:37,869 --> 00:20:39,177 (LUCY SCREAMS) 233 00:20:40,272 --> 00:20:41,478 MR LEFROY: Jesus! 234 00:20:49,214 --> 00:20:51,489 -Tom. -Uncle? 235 00:20:52,451 --> 00:20:54,863 Why not try a walk? 236 00:20:55,721 --> 00:21:00,397 There's some very fine country round about. Very fine. 237 00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:02,229 A walk. 238 00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:57,519 Miss! 239 00:21:58,283 --> 00:21:59,887 Miss! Miss! 240 00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:01,890 Miss! Miss, I... 241 00:22:05,757 --> 00:22:06,928 Miss? 242 00:22:09,561 --> 00:22:10,729 Miss? 243 00:22:10,729 --> 00:22:13,471 -Miss... -Austen. 244 00:22:14,232 --> 00:22:15,802 Mr Lefroy. 245 00:22:16,802 --> 00:22:19,043 Yes, I know, but I am alone. 246 00:22:20,038 --> 00:22:22,074 -Except for me. -Exactly. 247 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:23,875 Oh, come! 248 00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:27,746 What rules of conduct apply in this rural situation? 249 00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:30,488 We have been introduced, have we not? 250 00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:36,260 What value is there in an introduction when you cannot even remember my name? 251 00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:39,664 Indeed, can barely stay awake in my presence. 252 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:42,761 Madam. 253 00:22:42,761 --> 00:22:46,498 These scruples must seem very provincial to a gentleman with such elevated airs, 254 00:22:46,498 --> 00:22:50,639 but I do not devise these rules. I am merely obliged to obey them. 255 00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:55,974 I have been told there is much to see upon a walk 256 00:22:55,974 --> 00:23:00,479 but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below. 257 00:23:00,479 --> 00:23:04,416 Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. 258 00:23:04,416 --> 00:23:07,522 -There's even a book about Selborne Wood. -Oh. 259 00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:10,626 A novel, perhaps? 260 00:23:13,425 --> 00:23:14,699 Novels? 261 00:23:16,428 --> 00:23:21,767 Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women? 262 00:23:21,767 --> 00:23:23,435 I see, we're talking ofyour reading. 263 00:23:23,435 --> 00:23:27,539 As ifthe writing ofwomen did not display the greatest powers of mind, 264 00:23:27,539 --> 00:23:31,009 knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions ofwit and humour 265 00:23:31,009 --> 00:23:33,979 and the best-chosen language imaginable? 266 00:23:33,979 --> 00:23:37,050 -Was I deficient in rapture? -In consciousness. 267 00:23:38,283 --> 00:23:39,887 It was... 268 00:23:43,188 --> 00:23:46,464 It was accomplished. 269 00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:54,900 It was ironic. 270 00:24:00,138 --> 00:24:03,585 -And you're sure I've not offended you? -Not at all. 271 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,598 My lords, ladies and gentlemen, the Grand Vizier's Flight. 272 00:24:23,695 --> 00:24:26,903 -May I have the honour? -How kind, cousin. 273 00:24:34,739 --> 00:24:37,344 -Miss Austen. -Mr Wisley. 274 00:24:38,343 --> 00:24:41,346 May I have the pleasure ofthis next dance? 275 00:24:43,448 --> 00:24:45,257 (CHATTERING) 276 00:24:47,452 --> 00:24:50,296 LUCY: Oh, no, we're so late. MRS LEFROY: Take care. 277 00:24:50,589 --> 00:24:52,357 Oh, thank you, Tom. 278 00:24:52,357 --> 00:24:53,563 LUCY: Hurry. MRS LEFROY: Lucy. 279 00:25:12,377 --> 00:25:13,578 (EXCLAIMS) 280 00:25:13,578 --> 00:25:14,784 WISLEY: Oh! 281 00:25:19,584 --> 00:25:21,154 I am mortified. 282 00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:25,600 I practised, but it won't stick. 283 00:25:35,767 --> 00:25:37,644 HENRY: What a lovely pair they make. 284 00:25:39,638 --> 00:25:41,273 Ah, Sister. 285 00:25:41,273 --> 00:25:44,976 ELIZA: What do you make of Mr Lefroy? JANE: We're honoured by his presence. 286 00:25:44,976 --> 00:25:46,111 You think? 287 00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:48,813 He does, with his preening, prancing, Irish-cum-Bond-Street airs. 288 00:25:48,813 --> 00:25:50,015 Jane. 289 00:25:50,015 --> 00:25:53,985 Well, I call it very high indeed, refusing to dance when there are so few gentleman. 290 00:25:53,985 --> 00:25:56,655 -Henry, are all your friends so disagreeable? -Jane. 291 00:25:56,655 --> 00:25:58,823 Where exactly in Ireland does he come from, anyway? 292 00:25:58,823 --> 00:26:00,700 Limerick, Miss Austen. 293 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:11,536 I would regard it as a mark of extreme favour 294 00:26:11,536 --> 00:26:15,108 ifyou would stoop to honour me with this next dance. 295 00:26:16,474 --> 00:26:19,352 (COUNTRY DANCE MUSIC PLAYING) 296 00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:24,816 Being the first to dance with me, madam, I feel it only fair to inform you 297 00:26:24,816 --> 00:26:28,320 that you carry the standard for Hampshire hospitality. 298 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,690 Ah, then your country reputation depends on my report. 299 00:26:31,690 --> 00:26:36,468 This, by the way, is called a country dance, after the French, contredanse. 300 00:26:39,965 --> 00:26:43,702 Not because it is exhibited at an uncouth rural assembly 301 00:26:43,702 --> 00:26:45,476 with glutinous pies, 302 00:26:48,206 --> 00:26:49,707 execrable Madeira 303 00:26:51,476 --> 00:26:53,178 and truly anarchic dancing. 304 00:26:53,178 --> 00:26:55,590 You judge the company severely, madam. 305 00:26:55,981 --> 00:26:59,317 -I was describing what you'd be thinking. -Allow me to think for myself. 306 00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:02,654 Gives me leave to do the same, sir, and come to a different conclusion. 307 00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:06,424 -Will you give so much to a woman? -It must depend on the woman 308 00:27:06,424 --> 00:27:08,494 and what she thinks of me. 309 00:27:09,761 --> 00:27:13,868 But you are above being pleased. 310 00:27:16,368 --> 00:27:18,737 And I think that you, miss, what was it? 311 00:27:18,737 --> 00:27:21,183 -Austen. Mr...? -Lefroy. 312 00:27:23,108 --> 00:27:29,058 I think that you, Miss Austen, consider yourself a cut above the company. 313 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:31,852 Me? 314 00:27:34,052 --> 00:27:35,724 You, ma'am, 315 00:27:36,688 --> 00:27:38,929 secretly. 316 00:27:40,792 --> 00:27:42,532 (ALL APPLAUDING) 317 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,771 How many times did you stand up with that gentleman, Jane? 318 00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:54,806 -LUCY: Was it twice? -Twice would have been partial. 319 00:27:54,806 --> 00:27:57,575 -Thrice would have been absolutely... -LUCY: Flagrant. 320 00:27:57,575 --> 00:28:02,047 Careful, Jane, Lucy is right. Mr Lefroy does have a reputation. 321 00:28:02,047 --> 00:28:04,616 Presumably as the most disagreeable... 322 00:28:04,616 --> 00:28:08,723 "...insoIent, arrogant, impudent, 323 00:28:09,587 --> 00:28:15,332 "insufferabIe, impertinent of men." 324 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,977 Too many adjectives. 325 00:28:37,415 --> 00:28:39,519 What is she trying to say? 326 00:28:40,118 --> 00:28:42,757 On your toes, gentlemen. No singles. 327 00:28:45,023 --> 00:28:46,191 (GRUNTS) 328 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:47,533 (ALL CHEERING) 329 00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:49,862 Bowler's end, bowler's end. 330 00:28:53,698 --> 00:28:55,700 MAN 1 : Again! MAN 2: Run for more. 331 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,806 I never feel more French than when I watch cricket. 332 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:01,706 -Out. -Not out. 333 00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:02,874 -No? -No. 334 00:29:02,874 --> 00:29:04,546 MRS AUSTEN: Is he out? 335 00:29:09,948 --> 00:29:13,184 I begin to suspect you're flirting with my brother, cousin. 336 00:29:13,184 --> 00:29:17,132 Flirting is a woman's trade. One must keep in practice. 337 00:29:18,356 --> 00:29:19,524 (EXCLAIMS) 338 00:29:19,524 --> 00:29:20,900 You're gone. 339 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,031 MAN: Well played, Tom. 340 00:29:25,196 --> 00:29:27,369 We're depending on you. 341 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,040 MRS AUSTEN: Oh, it's Mr Warren's...turn. 342 00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:34,072 MAN: Best of luck! 343 00:29:34,072 --> 00:29:35,551 John Warren! 344 00:29:37,075 --> 00:29:38,884 MAN: Good luck, Mr Warren. 345 00:29:39,377 --> 00:29:41,686 John neverwas very good, though. 346 00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:55,331 MAN: Easy! 347 00:29:57,328 --> 00:29:58,863 MAN: Run, Warren, run! 348 00:29:58,863 --> 00:30:00,265 MAN 1 : Quickly, hurry! MAN 2: Run! 349 00:30:00,265 --> 00:30:01,937 Jolly good show! 350 00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:04,008 Watch. 351 00:30:05,703 --> 00:30:07,372 -UMPIRE: You're out. -Yah! 352 00:30:07,372 --> 00:30:09,040 -UMPIRE: You're gone, Mr Warren. -Oh, dear. 353 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,917 Prodigious, Tom, prodigious. 354 00:30:11,676 --> 00:30:12,950 (LAUGHING) 355 00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:16,581 Thank you, Warren. On yourway. 356 00:30:16,581 --> 00:30:18,219 MAN: Same again, Tom. 357 00:30:20,552 --> 00:30:24,455 -MRS AUSTEN: Well done, Mr Warren. -Bad ball. It's a terrible wicket. 358 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:27,731 I hope you're not too disappointed, Miss Austen. 359 00:30:29,027 --> 00:30:30,972 Four more to win, Wisley. 360 00:30:32,931 --> 00:30:35,274 MAN 1 : Who's next? MAN 2: Come on! 361 00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:38,102 -LUCY: She can't... -Jane! 362 00:30:38,102 --> 00:30:40,705 What on earth are you going to do? 363 00:30:40,705 --> 00:30:43,074 WOMAN 1 : Irrepressible. WOMAN 2: ...she can. 364 00:30:43,074 --> 00:30:44,780 (CROWD APPLAUDING) 365 00:30:55,987 --> 00:30:57,295 MAN 1 : Move in! 366 00:30:58,289 --> 00:30:59,790 MAN 2: Go easy, Tom. 367 00:31:04,829 --> 00:31:06,638 MAN 3: Be gentle, Lefroy! 368 00:31:23,982 --> 00:31:25,290 (GRUNTS) 369 00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:28,593 (ALL EXCLAIM) 370 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,089 Run, Jane, run! 371 00:31:31,089 --> 00:31:33,125 -Move! -Run! 372 00:31:34,592 --> 00:31:36,366 Only four more to win. 373 00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:39,332 MAN: Bowler's end! Move yourself, you lout! 374 00:31:42,767 --> 00:31:44,712 MAN: One more! WOMAN: Quickly! 375 00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:46,771 Go, go, go! 376 00:31:46,771 --> 00:31:48,113 UMPIRE: Not out. 377 00:31:51,142 --> 00:31:52,382 Bad luck, Lefroy. 378 00:31:57,649 --> 00:31:58,786 See? 379 00:32:03,187 --> 00:32:04,859 WOMAN: She was so good. 380 00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:13,798 -You've played this game before? -No choice, you see. She was raised by brothers. 381 00:32:13,798 --> 00:32:15,868 Time for a swim, I think. 382 00:32:20,038 --> 00:32:21,539 MRS AUSTEN: Well played, Henry. 383 00:32:21,539 --> 00:32:24,815 I dedicate our victory to La Comtesse de Feuillide. 384 00:32:28,513 --> 00:32:31,983 -Now, there's a decent bit of river over the hill. -Oh, yes? 385 00:32:33,184 --> 00:32:34,890 (EXCLAIMING) 386 00:32:37,388 --> 00:32:38,696 Careful! 387 00:32:56,441 --> 00:32:58,045 Come on, let's go! 388 00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:01,117 Wait! 389 00:33:05,616 --> 00:33:08,119 -Not this time, Lefroy. -Huh? 390 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:09,427 You think not? 391 00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:16,800 (WHOOPING) 392 00:33:34,612 --> 00:33:35,780 (DOG BARKS) 393 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:37,122 Down, boy. 394 00:33:39,617 --> 00:33:42,996 -Father, have you seen Tom? -No, Lucy, I've not. 395 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:52,498 Besotted. Natural enough at 15. 396 00:33:53,231 --> 00:33:55,767 Love and sense are enemies at any age. 397 00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:59,908 -Mrs Lefroy, may I explore your library? -Of course. 398 00:34:01,439 --> 00:34:05,676 Lucy would marry him tomorrow, and what a terrible husband he would make. 399 00:34:05,676 --> 00:34:10,420 I suppose you mean his reputation. Experience can recommend a man. 400 00:34:30,334 --> 00:34:32,473 (MAN CHUCKLING) 401 00:34:50,688 --> 00:34:53,998 -Miss Austen. -Oh, Mr Lefroy. 402 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,667 -And reading. -Yes. 403 00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:03,034 I've been looking through your book ofthe wood. MeWhite's NaturaI History. 404 00:35:03,034 --> 00:35:04,137 Oh. 405 00:35:04,635 --> 00:35:08,378 -Well, how do you like it? -I cannot get on. It is too disturbing. 406 00:35:08,806 --> 00:35:10,376 -Disturbing? -Mmm. 407 00:35:11,576 --> 00:35:13,978 Take this observation. 408 00:35:13,978 --> 00:35:15,179 (CLEARS THROAT) 409 00:35:15,179 --> 00:35:19,821 "Swifts on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, 410 00:35:20,017 --> 00:35:24,226 "sailing around at a great height perfectly happily. Then... 411 00:35:24,889 --> 00:35:30,228 "Then one leaps onto the back of another, grasps tightly, 412 00:35:30,228 --> 00:35:36,770 "and forgetting to fly, they both sink down and down in a great, dying fall, 413 00:35:37,735 --> 00:35:41,876 "fathom after fathom, until the female utters..." 414 00:35:47,512 --> 00:35:48,581 Yes? 415 00:35:52,683 --> 00:35:56,961 "...the female utters a loud, piercing cry 416 00:36:00,224 --> 00:36:01,464 "of ecstasy." 417 00:36:06,864 --> 00:36:10,470 Is this conduct commonplace in the natural history of Hampshire? 418 00:36:13,204 --> 00:36:14,273 (STUTTERS) 419 00:36:15,973 --> 00:36:21,821 Your ignorance is understandable since you lack... What shall we call it? 420 00:36:23,548 --> 00:36:24,719 The history? 421 00:36:27,251 --> 00:36:30,588 Propriety commands me to ignorance. 422 00:36:30,588 --> 00:36:35,434 Condemns you to it and yourwriting to the status offemale accomplishment. 423 00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:41,436 Ifyou wish to practise the art offiction, to be the equal of a masculine author, 424 00:36:41,799 --> 00:36:44,404 experience is vital. 425 00:36:47,305 --> 00:36:48,511 I see. 426 00:36:50,007 --> 00:36:54,512 And what qualifies you to offer this advice? 427 00:36:55,313 --> 00:36:56,647 I know more of the world. 428 00:36:56,647 --> 00:36:58,282 (LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY) 429 00:36:58,282 --> 00:37:00,694 A great deal more, I gather. 430 00:37:02,186 --> 00:37:07,032 Enough to know that your horizons must be...widened 431 00:37:09,594 --> 00:37:11,698 by an extraordinary young man. 432 00:37:12,330 --> 00:37:15,166 By a very dangerous young man, 433 00:37:15,166 --> 00:37:18,135 one who has, no doubt, infected the hearts of many a young... 434 00:37:18,135 --> 00:37:21,810 -Young woman with the soft corruption... -Read this 435 00:37:23,207 --> 00:37:24,947 and you will understand. 436 00:37:32,283 --> 00:37:37,198 "When the phiIosopher heard that the fortress of virtue had aIready been subdued, 437 00:37:37,488 --> 00:37:40,628 "he began to give a Iarge scope to his desires. 438 00:37:40,825 --> 00:37:44,795 "His appetite was not of that squeamish kind which cannot feed on a dainty 439 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:46,631 -"because another..." -TOM: "Another has tasted it." 440 00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:50,544 -He's not tasting this dainty. -What, dear? 441 00:37:51,469 --> 00:37:54,338 JANE: "...nor had her face much appearance of beauty. 442 00:37:54,338 --> 00:37:57,875 "But her cIothes being torn from aII the upper part of her body..." 443 00:37:57,875 --> 00:38:02,482 TOM: "...her breasts, which were well formed and extremeIy white, 444 00:38:03,047 --> 00:38:07,852 "attracted the eyes of her deIiverer, and for a few moments they stood siIent..." 445 00:38:07,852 --> 00:38:09,922 JANE: "...and gazing at each other." 446 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,171 (CHURCH BELL TOLLING) 447 00:38:34,378 --> 00:38:36,585 I have read your book. 448 00:38:38,182 --> 00:38:41,595 -I have read your book and disapprove. -Of course you do. 449 00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:48,194 -But ofwhat? The scenes? Characters? The prose? -No, all good. 450 00:38:49,894 --> 00:38:52,374 -The morality? -Flawed. 451 00:38:52,897 --> 00:38:56,067 (LAUGHING) Well, of course, it is. But why? 452 00:38:56,067 --> 00:39:00,404 Vice leads to difficulty, virtue to reward. Bad characters come to bad ends. 453 00:39:00,404 --> 00:39:06,043 Exactly. But in life, bad characters often thrive. Take yourself. 454 00:39:06,043 --> 00:39:07,211 (TOM LAUGHING) 455 00:39:07,211 --> 00:39:11,386 And a novel must show how the world truly is, 456 00:39:11,615 --> 00:39:15,720 how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. 457 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:21,329 A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions. 458 00:39:23,661 --> 00:39:25,504 What of my hero's feelings? 459 00:39:25,930 --> 00:39:30,735 Well, it seems to me, sir, that your hero's very vigorous feelings 460 00:39:30,735 --> 00:39:34,071 caused him and everyone connected with him a great deal oftrouble. 461 00:39:34,071 --> 00:39:36,608 Ah, well, ifthe book has troubled you... 462 00:39:36,941 --> 00:39:40,411 -Oh, but an orphan must know trouble. -What sort of trouble? 463 00:39:41,245 --> 00:39:43,019 All sorts of trouble. 464 00:39:52,523 --> 00:39:56,193 Laverton Fair. Vastly entertaining. Monstrous good idea, Jane. 465 00:39:56,193 --> 00:39:59,597 Yes, Miss Austen, not exactly your usual society, I'd say. 466 00:39:59,597 --> 00:40:01,974 Show a little imagination, Mr Lefroy. 467 00:40:31,729 --> 00:40:34,432 Trouble here enough. 468 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:37,412 And freedom, the freedom of men. 469 00:40:37,802 --> 00:40:39,637 Do not you envy it? 470 00:40:39,637 --> 00:40:43,516 But I have the intense pleasure of observing it so closely. 471 00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:48,345 Ah. 472 00:40:48,345 --> 00:40:51,416 Now, there's a fool, to go to it with a professional. 473 00:40:51,649 --> 00:40:53,083 (GRUNTING) 474 00:40:53,083 --> 00:40:56,189 -You know about this, of course. -Of course. 475 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,266 Yes, a vastly fashionable pastime in London. 476 00:41:07,264 --> 00:41:10,176 Beating a man to a pulp. What are you doing? 477 00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,112 Mr Lefroy, stop! 478 00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:16,813 TOM: Make way! 479 00:41:18,108 --> 00:41:19,643 (GRUNTING) 480 00:41:21,345 --> 00:41:24,553 -Stop! -Let us see how you fare against me, sir. 481 00:41:25,549 --> 00:41:26,857 Coming through. 482 00:41:31,188 --> 00:41:35,534 Five shillings on the gent. Who will take it? You, sir? That's the ticket. 483 00:41:37,661 --> 00:41:38,901 Have that. 484 00:41:40,731 --> 00:41:41,834 Thank you. 485 00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,009 Go on, hit him! 486 00:41:46,403 --> 00:41:48,883 Come on, Lefroy, hit him, man! 487 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:53,488 Tom, you must stop. 488 00:41:56,747 --> 00:41:58,351 Come on, Lefroy! 489 00:42:01,318 --> 00:42:02,728 Up, sir. 490 00:42:05,656 --> 00:42:06,862 Tom! 491 00:42:07,858 --> 00:42:09,064 (EXCLAIMS) 492 00:42:09,426 --> 00:42:10,905 Lucy. 493 00:42:12,429 --> 00:42:14,169 (EXCLAIMING) 494 00:42:16,567 --> 00:42:20,674 -That's twice he's done that to me. -You spend money like water. 495 00:42:21,839 --> 00:42:24,342 I'm afraid it's damn low waterwith me. 496 00:42:24,508 --> 00:42:26,851 -I'm afraid I'm short, sir. -Take it. 497 00:42:28,412 --> 00:42:30,186 How embarrassing. 498 00:42:31,882 --> 00:42:33,019 Yeh! 499 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:37,259 Mr Lefroy? Mr Lefroy? Mr Lefroy? 500 00:42:42,793 --> 00:42:45,034 Was I deficient in propriety? 501 00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:49,801 Why did you do that? 502 00:42:50,634 --> 00:42:53,910 Couldn't waste all those expensive boxing lessons. 503 00:42:56,974 --> 00:42:59,543 Forgive me if I suspect in you a sense of justice. 504 00:42:59,543 --> 00:43:01,386 (CHUCKLING) 505 00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:08,252 I am a lawyer. Justice plays no part in the law. 506 00:43:09,820 --> 00:43:11,594 Is that what you believe? 507 00:43:14,558 --> 00:43:16,093 I believe it. I must. 508 00:43:20,130 --> 00:43:21,574 I beg your leave. 509 00:43:30,507 --> 00:43:34,455 -Her heart is stirred. -It's a summer squall. 510 00:43:34,812 --> 00:43:40,990 Mr Lefroy will soon be gone. And Mr Wisley will still be waiting, I hope. 511 00:43:41,652 --> 00:43:44,989 -The man's a booby. -Oh, he will grow out ofthat. 512 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:47,799 And she could fix him with very little trouble. 513 00:43:47,925 --> 00:43:50,761 You could persuade her. 514 00:43:50,761 --> 00:43:52,365 To sacrifice her happiness? 515 00:43:52,863 --> 00:43:57,968 Jane should have not the man who offers the best price, but the man she wants. 516 00:43:57,968 --> 00:43:59,640 Oh, Mr Austen. 517 00:44:00,204 --> 00:44:04,274 Must we have this conversation day in and day out? 518 00:44:04,274 --> 00:44:07,653 We'll end up in the gutter ifwe carry on like this. 519 00:44:24,895 --> 00:44:28,467 MRS AUSTEN: Jenny! Mr Austen! 520 00:44:30,567 --> 00:44:31,875 Where are you? 521 00:44:40,544 --> 00:44:41,886 (DOORBELL DINGS) 522 00:44:57,061 --> 00:44:59,404 So kind ofyou to return the call. 523 00:45:03,767 --> 00:45:06,941 -Will you take a dish oftea, ma'am? -Green tea? 524 00:45:07,871 --> 00:45:11,250 -Brown, Your Ladyship. -Then no. 525 00:45:17,181 --> 00:45:19,217 Where is your youngest daughter? 526 00:45:20,784 --> 00:45:23,264 She's visiting the poor, ma'am. 527 00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:38,978 Jane? Jane! 528 00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:48,152 At last. Lady Gresham and Mr Wisley have come to call. Where have you been? 529 00:45:50,047 --> 00:45:51,548 Ma'am. Sir. 530 00:45:53,217 --> 00:45:57,821 Well, perhaps... Perhaps the young people would like to take a walk? 531 00:45:57,821 --> 00:46:01,734 I see there's a pretty little wilderness at the side of the house. 532 00:46:03,327 --> 00:46:04,737 Excuse me. 533 00:46:09,233 --> 00:46:10,643 Jane? 534 00:46:14,104 --> 00:46:16,481 -What is she doing? -Writing. 535 00:46:18,475 --> 00:46:20,477 Can anything be done about it? 536 00:46:25,949 --> 00:46:29,353 Miss Austen, you may know 537 00:46:29,353 --> 00:46:32,356 that I have known you 538 00:46:32,356 --> 00:46:36,426 for some considerable time during my visits to Steventon. 539 00:46:36,426 --> 00:46:41,170 The garden is so affecting in this season. 540 00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:43,339 Indeed. 541 00:46:43,834 --> 00:46:49,010 -The impression you have given me has always... -The flowers particularly. 542 00:46:49,773 --> 00:46:53,043 What I'm trying to say is that I... 543 00:46:53,043 --> 00:46:55,479 I have a respectable property of 2,000 a year 544 00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:58,382 in addition to even greater expectations as Lady Gresham's heir, 545 00:46:58,382 --> 00:47:02,286 -to which it may be indelicate to refer. -Oh, indelicate, yes. 546 00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:06,290 It's yours. Ifwe marry, all of it, yours. 547 00:47:10,027 --> 00:47:11,631 Mr Wisley... 548 00:47:16,466 --> 00:47:22,905 Your offer is most sincere, I can see, and gentlemanlike, and it honours me, truly. 549 00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:29,419 But for all you are, and all you offer, I... 550 00:47:31,648 --> 00:47:32,717 Yes. 551 00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:37,596 (CLEARS THROAT) 552 00:47:43,894 --> 00:47:47,500 Sometimes affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom. 553 00:47:54,571 --> 00:47:59,509 Lying to tradesmen, mending, scratching, scraping. 554 00:47:59,509 --> 00:48:03,013 Endlessly, endlessly making do! 555 00:48:03,013 --> 00:48:05,616 I understand that our circumstances are difficult, ma'am. 556 00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:09,887 -There is no money for you. -Surely something could be done. 557 00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:14,758 What we can put by must go to your brothers. You will have nothing, unless you marry. 558 00:48:14,758 --> 00:48:18,462 Well, then, I will have nothing. For I will not marry without affection, like my mother! 559 00:48:18,462 --> 00:48:21,738 And now I have to dig my own damn potatoes! 560 00:48:30,974 --> 00:48:36,822 Would you rather be a poor old maid? Ridiculous, despised, the butt of jokes? 561 00:48:37,281 --> 00:48:41,820 The legitimate sport of any village lout with a stone and an impudent tongue? 562 00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:51,800 Affection is desirable. 563 00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:56,976 Money is absolutely indispensable. 564 00:49:04,841 --> 00:49:06,479 I could live by my... 565 00:49:10,447 --> 00:49:11,584 Yourwhat? 566 00:49:13,483 --> 00:49:15,587 -I could live by my... -Pen? 567 00:49:16,620 --> 00:49:19,356 Let's knock that notion on the head once and for all. 568 00:49:19,356 --> 00:49:20,698 What's this? 569 00:49:21,325 --> 00:49:24,499 Trouble amongst my women? 570 00:49:25,329 --> 00:49:26,500 Come, 571 00:49:27,664 --> 00:49:29,800 take hands and there's an end. 572 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,338 -Where are you going? Miss! -To feed the pigs, ma'am. 573 00:49:51,154 --> 00:49:53,327 He could give you a splendid home. 574 00:49:55,058 --> 00:49:57,333 -A comfortable life. -Father. 575 00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:00,065 Consider. 576 00:50:01,365 --> 00:50:04,072 This is likely to be your best offer. 577 00:50:04,701 --> 00:50:05,975 Wisley? 578 00:50:07,537 --> 00:50:09,573 It is true, so far he has not impressed... 579 00:50:09,573 --> 00:50:12,986 -A booby. -He should grow out ofthat. 580 00:50:26,356 --> 00:50:29,200 Nothing destroys spirit 581 00:50:30,894 --> 00:50:32,395 like poverty. 582 00:50:43,407 --> 00:50:47,252 I saw Queen Marie Antoinette wear something the same at a ball once. 583 00:50:49,179 --> 00:50:52,922 Am I making a show? I am, I know. 584 00:50:56,253 --> 00:50:59,723 What trouble we take to make them like us when we like them. 585 00:51:02,692 --> 00:51:03,761 Henry? 586 00:51:06,930 --> 00:51:11,606 -Eliza, my brother is much younger than you. -And poorer. 587 00:51:14,404 --> 00:51:17,248 He knows that I care for him sincerely. 588 00:51:18,041 --> 00:51:19,776 I know that he is handsome... 589 00:51:19,776 --> 00:51:22,879 And the handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain. 590 00:51:22,879 --> 00:51:25,215 You encourage him to take you for money? 591 00:51:25,215 --> 00:51:27,651 -Men do. -That does not make it honourable. 592 00:51:27,651 --> 00:51:29,494 Well, I'm a sensible woman. 593 00:51:30,487 --> 00:51:33,092 I thank God I am not, by your description. 594 00:51:35,158 --> 00:51:38,829 Ifyou were, you might have ascertained that your Irish friend has no money, not a penny 595 00:51:38,829 --> 00:51:41,605 and could not be expected to marry without it. 596 00:51:42,399 --> 00:51:44,572 Consider that at the ball tonight. 597 00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:50,915 In any event, he'll be gone tomorrow back to Bond Street where he can do no more harm. 598 00:53:44,154 --> 00:53:45,997 Good evening, Miss Austen. 599 00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:49,460 Yes, yes. 600 00:54:30,300 --> 00:54:32,609 (SLOW MUSIC PLAYING) 601 00:57:02,585 --> 00:57:05,031 Miss Jane Austen. 602 00:57:05,622 --> 00:57:06,759 Pleasure. 603 00:57:07,657 --> 00:57:10,865 WOMAN: We're very honoured to be here at your aunt's ball. 604 00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:13,335 TOM: You dance with passion. 605 00:57:14,464 --> 00:57:19,538 No sensible woman would demonstrate passion ifthe purpose were to attract a husband. 606 00:57:23,139 --> 00:57:25,346 -As opposed to a lover? -Hmm. 607 00:57:30,313 --> 00:57:32,649 Rest easy, Mr Lefroy. 608 00:57:32,649 --> 00:57:35,185 -I have no expectation on either account. -I did not mean to offend or hurt... 609 00:57:35,185 --> 00:57:39,724 Oh, no, no, of course not. Excuse me, I'm just overwarm. 610 00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:41,627 Pardon me. 611 00:57:53,236 --> 00:57:55,648 -Ah, Miss Austen. -Excuse me. 612 00:58:30,673 --> 00:58:35,545 HENRY: This is unbearable. My father is pressing for an early ordination, 613 00:58:35,545 --> 00:58:41,184 while my own inclination is to the scarlet of a captaincy in His Majesty's regulars. 614 00:58:41,184 --> 00:58:44,893 But I do not have the money to purchase one. 615 00:58:46,222 --> 00:58:47,564 I do. 616 00:58:49,425 --> 00:58:55,034 -Well, that, of course is impossible. -Oh, Henry, do not disguise yourself, not to me. 617 00:58:59,269 --> 00:59:03,080 The scarlet will suit you very well. 618 00:59:04,974 --> 00:59:08,649 Miss Austen? There you are. 619 00:59:19,055 --> 00:59:23,594 Miss Austen, I cannot believe I am obliged to have this conversation. 620 00:59:24,994 --> 00:59:26,131 Your Ladyship? 621 00:59:27,664 --> 00:59:31,839 Mr Wisley's mother, my own dear sister, died young. 622 00:59:33,069 --> 00:59:35,014 I have no children of my own. 623 00:59:36,105 --> 00:59:39,780 I hope you never come to understand the pain ofthat condition. 624 00:59:41,578 --> 00:59:47,027 Let us simply say my nephew's wishes are close to my heart, 625 00:59:48,785 --> 00:59:51,162 however extraordinary they may be. 626 00:59:54,524 --> 00:59:55,627 Well, 627 00:59:56,926 --> 00:59:59,099 your health seems robust. 628 01:00:00,263 --> 01:00:02,834 You have the usual accomplishments. 629 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,537 Your person is agreeable. 630 01:00:09,172 --> 01:00:14,544 But when a young woman such as yourself receives the addresses 631 01:00:14,544 --> 01:00:20,119 from a gentleman such as my nephew, it is her duty to accept at once. 632 01:00:21,184 --> 01:00:22,822 But what do we find? 633 01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:26,789 -Independent thought? -Exactly. 634 01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:33,630 My nephew, Miss Austen, condescends far indeed 635 01:00:33,896 --> 01:00:38,735 in offering to the daughter of an obscure and impecunious clergyman. 636 01:00:38,735 --> 01:00:42,410 Impecunious? Your Ladyship is mistaken. 637 01:00:43,139 --> 01:00:45,380 I am never mistaken. 638 01:00:46,376 --> 01:00:50,324 Your father is in grave financial difficulties. 639 01:00:51,414 --> 01:00:53,393 But all is not lost. 640 01:00:54,851 --> 01:00:58,662 He has a daughter upon whom fortune has smiled. 641 01:01:14,270 --> 01:01:17,842 Mr Wisley is a good opportunity for Jane. 642 01:01:19,175 --> 01:01:21,518 She should accept him at once. 643 01:01:23,579 --> 01:01:26,252 Do not you think? 644 01:01:27,116 --> 01:01:30,222 -Lucy, let us take some refreshments. -What? Mother. 645 01:01:56,813 --> 01:02:00,055 I have learned of Mr Wisley's marriage proposal. 646 01:02:01,651 --> 01:02:03,152 My congratulations. 647 01:02:03,753 --> 01:02:09,259 Is there an alternative for a well-educated young woman of small fortune? 648 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,334 How can you have him? 649 01:02:13,596 --> 01:02:15,732 Even with his thousands and his houses, 650 01:02:15,732 --> 01:02:19,975 how can you, of all people, dispose ofyourselfwithout affection? 651 01:02:23,773 --> 01:02:26,480 How can I dispose of myselfwith it? 652 01:02:29,412 --> 01:02:31,516 You are leaving tomorrow. 653 01:03:08,885 --> 01:03:12,059 -Did I do that well? -Very, very well. 654 01:03:13,022 --> 01:03:17,527 I wanted, just once, to do it well. 655 01:03:18,327 --> 01:03:21,137 (MEN CHATTERING) 656 01:03:23,833 --> 01:03:27,069 I have no money, no property, 657 01:03:27,069 --> 01:03:30,873 I am entirely dependent upon that bizarre old lunatic, my uncle. 658 01:03:30,873 --> 01:03:35,480 I cannot yet offer marriage. But you must know what I feel. 659 01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:38,352 Jane, I'm yours. 660 01:03:39,215 --> 01:03:43,925 Gah, I'm yours. I'm yours, heart and soul. 661 01:03:46,155 --> 01:03:48,191 Much good that is. 662 01:03:49,192 --> 01:03:51,327 Let me decide that. 663 01:03:51,327 --> 01:03:52,862 (MEN LAUGHING) 664 01:03:56,933 --> 01:03:58,434 What will we do? 665 01:04:01,537 --> 01:04:02,845 What we must. 666 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,817 JANE: "My dearest Cassandra, my heart has wings. 667 01:04:14,817 --> 01:04:17,620 "Doubts and deIiberations are ended. 668 01:04:17,620 --> 01:04:22,762 "Soon I shaII escape the attentions of that great Iady and her scintiIIating nephew. 669 01:04:23,426 --> 01:04:26,596 "EIiza, Henry and I wiII join you at the coast, 670 01:04:26,596 --> 01:04:29,465 "but we are obIiged to break our journey in London. 671 01:04:29,465 --> 01:04:33,269 "Tom has cIeverIy secured an invitation to stay with his uncIe, the judge. 672 01:04:33,269 --> 01:04:36,239 "Let us hope we can convince him of my eIigibiIity. 673 01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:38,174 "PIease destroy this disgracefuI Ietter 674 01:04:38,174 --> 01:04:40,743 "the moment you have recovered from your astonishment. 675 01:04:40,743 --> 01:04:44,315 "Yours affectionateIy, and in haste, Jane." 676 01:04:48,584 --> 01:04:52,259 Tom! Our guests have arrived. 677 01:05:00,296 --> 01:05:01,365 Decorum. 678 01:05:02,098 --> 01:05:03,201 Countess. 679 01:05:04,033 --> 01:05:05,301 Sir. 680 01:05:05,301 --> 01:05:07,003 -Welcome... -Madame Ie Comtesse. 681 01:05:07,003 --> 01:05:13,146 Madame le Comtesse. Seldom, too seldom, my house receives the presence of nobility. 682 01:05:14,010 --> 01:05:16,319 And, of course, its friends. Please. 683 01:05:17,546 --> 01:05:20,652 Your stay is short. There's not a moment to lose. 684 01:05:20,883 --> 01:05:26,731 My nephew has devised a plan of metropolitan amusement. 685 01:05:27,223 --> 01:05:31,560 Pleasure is, as you would say, Madame, his forte. 686 01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:32,868 ELIZA: Ah, is it? 687 01:05:35,631 --> 01:05:37,900 Which battle was it, Tom? 688 01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:39,201 ViIIers-en-Cauchies. 689 01:05:39,201 --> 01:05:44,073 Very good. Thousands slain. Served those Frenchies out. 690 01:05:44,073 --> 01:05:48,511 Oh. Saving your presence, ma'am. 691 01:05:48,511 --> 01:05:51,681 Be not afraid of abusing the Jacobins on my account, Judge. 692 01:05:51,681 --> 01:05:55,685 -They guillotined my husband. -Oh, savages. Beasts. 693 01:05:55,685 --> 01:05:57,892 -And his property? -Confiscated. 694 01:05:58,654 --> 01:05:59,723 A disaster. 695 01:06:00,222 --> 01:06:03,659 Of course, by then, much of my wealth was portable, so... 696 01:06:03,659 --> 01:06:05,160 (CHUCKLING) 697 01:06:05,561 --> 01:06:08,097 Yes, portable property is happiness in a pocketbook. 698 01:06:08,097 --> 01:06:09,906 (LAUGHING) 699 01:06:11,867 --> 01:06:14,370 Do I detect you in irony? 700 01:06:18,674 --> 01:06:23,953 It is my considered opinion that irony is insult with a smiling face. 701 01:06:24,380 --> 01:06:26,416 HENRY: (LAUGHING) Indeed. 702 01:06:27,550 --> 01:06:28,619 No. 703 01:06:30,753 --> 01:06:31,856 No? 704 01:06:33,356 --> 01:06:37,634 No, irony is the bringing together of contradictory truths 705 01:06:38,094 --> 01:06:41,931 to make out of the contradiction a new truth with a laugh or a smile, 706 01:06:41,931 --> 01:06:45,935 and I confess that a truth must come with one or the other, 707 01:06:45,935 --> 01:06:50,713 or I account it as false and a denial ofthe very nature of humanity itself. 708 01:06:54,210 --> 01:06:55,620 (CHUCKLES) 709 01:06:59,315 --> 01:07:01,818 My cousin is a writer. 710 01:07:03,386 --> 01:07:05,763 -Ofwhat? -Jane? 711 01:07:09,291 --> 01:07:10,394 Novels. 712 01:07:12,428 --> 01:07:14,965 A young woman offamily? 713 01:07:16,665 --> 01:07:21,113 Yes, uncle, and tomorrow we go and visit another, Mrs Radcliffe. 714 01:07:22,138 --> 01:07:25,775 She keeps herselfto herself, almost a recluse, but I know her husband through the law. 715 01:07:25,775 --> 01:07:29,245 -Who? -The authoress, Mrs Radcliffe. 716 01:07:29,612 --> 01:07:32,415 -As writing is her profession. -Herwhat? 717 01:07:32,415 --> 01:07:35,184 £500, uncle, for the last novel, The Mysteries of UdoIpho. 718 01:07:35,184 --> 01:07:37,953 -And £800, I believe, for her next. -The ItaIian. 719 01:07:37,953 --> 01:07:40,092 Above £1 ,000? 720 01:07:42,691 --> 01:07:46,104 The times, the times. 721 01:07:59,942 --> 01:08:02,645 You live so quietly. 722 01:08:02,645 --> 01:08:07,184 And yet your novels are filled with romance, danger, terror. 723 01:08:09,351 --> 01:08:11,296 Everything my life is not. 724 01:08:13,656 --> 01:08:14,827 Apparently. 725 01:08:15,624 --> 01:08:17,569 Ofwhat do you wish to write? 726 01:08:20,229 --> 01:08:21,673 Of the heart. 727 01:08:22,832 --> 01:08:24,504 Do you know it? 728 01:08:25,668 --> 01:08:27,147 Not all of it. 729 01:08:28,304 --> 01:08:30,078 In time, you will. 730 01:08:30,973 --> 01:08:35,387 But even ifthat fails, that's what the imagination is for. 731 01:08:39,582 --> 01:08:42,892 Your imagination has brought you independence. 732 01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:48,599 At a cost to myself and to my husband. 733 01:08:50,025 --> 01:08:51,265 Poor William. 734 01:08:52,261 --> 01:08:55,164 To have a wife who has a mind is considered not quite proper. 735 01:08:55,164 --> 01:08:59,271 To have a wife with a literary reputation nothing short of scandalous. 736 01:09:04,673 --> 01:09:06,709 But it must be possible? 737 01:09:07,743 --> 01:09:10,450 -To live as both wife and author? -Oh. 738 01:09:11,447 --> 01:09:12,687 I think so. 739 01:09:14,717 --> 01:09:16,127 Though never easy. 740 01:09:36,939 --> 01:09:38,884 (SNORING) 741 01:09:54,723 --> 01:09:56,463 Could I really have this? 742 01:09:57,259 --> 01:09:58,794 What, precisely? 743 01:09:59,795 --> 01:10:01,137 (LAUGHS) You. 744 01:10:02,131 --> 01:10:03,405 Me, how? 745 01:10:05,334 --> 01:10:07,313 -This life with you. -Yes. 746 01:10:09,505 --> 01:10:10,839 HENRY: Lefroy. 747 01:10:10,839 --> 01:10:13,175 -Hush. The judge. -The man's like a rampant dog. 748 01:10:13,175 --> 01:10:14,654 (SIGHS) 749 01:10:16,912 --> 01:10:19,585 He will be generous. I'm sure of it. 750 01:10:20,816 --> 01:10:23,352 -You'll speak with him? -Tomorrow, I promise. 751 01:10:23,352 --> 01:10:25,661 I really must say good night. 752 01:10:26,422 --> 01:10:28,595 -Good night. -Good night. 753 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,770 -Miss Austen? -Yes? 754 01:10:34,363 --> 01:10:35,807 Good night. 755 01:10:42,004 --> 01:10:46,816 You know, I think my mother is right. A husband, and the sooner, the better. 756 01:11:25,981 --> 01:11:28,757 (BELL TOLLING) 757 01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:36,198 Five girls of little fortune. 758 01:11:44,900 --> 01:11:51,112 JANE: "...sensibIy and as warmIy as a man vioIentIy in Iove can be supposed to do. 759 01:11:52,675 --> 01:11:57,681 "Mr Wickham was the happy man towards whom aImost every femaIe eye was turned. 760 01:12:03,686 --> 01:12:06,928 "...partiaI, prejudiced, absurd. 761 01:12:07,923 --> 01:12:11,097 "Watch for the first appearance of PemberIey Woods. 762 01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:15,864 "The happiness which this repIy produced... 763 01:12:15,864 --> 01:12:19,641 "It wiII not do. My feeIings wiII not be repressed." 764 01:13:01,143 --> 01:13:03,919 (CLOCK CHIMING) 765 01:13:10,753 --> 01:13:14,166 -Good morning, sir. -Good morning? 766 01:13:18,594 --> 01:13:21,768 -Has the world turned topsy? -Sir? 767 01:13:23,532 --> 01:13:26,535 I trust the countess is enjoying her visit? 768 01:13:26,869 --> 01:13:31,340 -(STAMMERING) I gather she is, sir. I... -Fine woman, very fine woman. 769 01:13:32,841 --> 01:13:34,047 TOM: Indeed. 770 01:13:34,476 --> 01:13:39,482 -I'd hoped to discuss a certain matter. -Your allowance is beyond negotiation. 771 01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:50,359 Now that you have had the opportunity to become acquainted with Miss Austen yourself, 772 01:13:50,359 --> 01:13:55,030 I am sure you will find, as I do, that she is a remarkable young woman. 773 01:13:55,030 --> 01:13:56,338 (EXCLAIMS) 774 01:13:58,133 --> 01:14:00,836 -This is an outrage! -Ifyou will allow me to speak, sir. 775 01:14:00,836 --> 01:14:04,640 There is no need. This letter makes it absolutely clear. 776 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:05,808 Letter? 777 01:14:05,808 --> 01:14:09,050 Now I know what you were at down in Hampshire. 778 01:14:09,578 --> 01:14:11,413 -It is from Steventon. -Is it true 779 01:14:11,413 --> 01:14:13,882 that you have practiced upon me with this chit? 780 01:14:13,882 --> 01:14:15,818 I wished you to know the young lady. 781 01:14:15,818 --> 01:14:17,920 I wished to introduce her to your affections discreetly. 782 01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:24,827 Aye! Blind me with the rich widow and then insinuate that penniless little husband-hunter! 783 01:14:24,827 --> 01:14:28,730 -Moderation, sir, I beg you! -That ironical little authoress. 784 01:14:28,730 --> 01:14:31,267 I wished you to know her for yourself. 785 01:14:31,867 --> 01:14:34,711 I was certain her merit would speak for her. 786 01:14:34,937 --> 01:14:38,850 -Consider, sir, my happiness is in your hands. -Happiness? 787 01:14:41,777 --> 01:14:42,911 Damn it, nephew, 788 01:14:42,911 --> 01:14:46,849 I had rather you were a whore-mongering blackguard with a chance of reform 789 01:14:46,849 --> 01:14:50,626 than a love-sick whelp sunk in a bad marriage. 790 01:15:06,401 --> 01:15:09,245 My uncle has refused to give his consent. 791 01:15:10,405 --> 01:15:13,579 -The letter has done its work. -Who sent it? 792 01:15:16,645 --> 01:15:18,146 Lady Gresham? 793 01:15:19,781 --> 01:15:21,157 Or her nephew. 794 01:15:29,825 --> 01:15:33,996 They think that they can do what they like with us, but I will not accept this. 795 01:15:33,996 --> 01:15:35,805 We have no choice. 796 01:15:36,899 --> 01:15:38,469 Of course we do. 797 01:15:42,271 --> 01:15:43,408 I... 798 01:15:50,512 --> 01:15:53,754 I depend entirely upon... 799 01:15:59,922 --> 01:16:01,958 Upon your uncle. 800 01:16:02,791 --> 01:16:04,167 Mmm. 801 01:16:05,928 --> 01:16:07,771 And I depend on you. 802 01:16:14,369 --> 01:16:16,280 So what will you do? 803 01:16:19,308 --> 01:16:20,787 What I must. 804 01:16:21,677 --> 01:16:26,214 I have a duty to my family, Jane. I must think of them as well as... 805 01:16:26,214 --> 01:16:27,317 Tom... 806 01:16:31,186 --> 01:16:34,223 Is that... Is that all you have to say to me? 807 01:16:50,906 --> 01:16:52,578 Goodbye, Mr Lefroy. 808 01:17:47,596 --> 01:17:51,566 The sentence ofthis court is that you be taken to the place whence you came 809 01:17:51,566 --> 01:17:54,979 and thence to a place of execution, 810 01:17:55,470 --> 01:18:00,248 and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead. 811 01:18:01,209 --> 01:18:03,985 May the Lord have mercy on your soul. 812 01:18:13,321 --> 01:18:14,561 Next. 813 01:18:27,269 --> 01:18:30,011 He has behaved so ill to you, Jane. 814 01:18:35,510 --> 01:18:38,616 Perhaps soon we can return home to Steventon. 815 01:18:40,916 --> 01:18:42,986 Is there any news of Robert? 816 01:18:49,691 --> 01:18:52,060 He has arrived in San Domingo at last. 817 01:18:52,060 --> 01:18:53,231 Good. 818 01:18:55,363 --> 01:18:56,432 Good. 819 01:19:21,323 --> 01:19:23,769 Glass ofwine with you, sir? 820 01:19:25,427 --> 01:19:26,496 Yes. 821 01:19:27,095 --> 01:19:30,405 Yes, a toast from one member ofthe profession to another. 822 01:20:46,007 --> 01:20:49,477 I'm sorry to have been so disobliging in the past. 823 01:20:55,350 --> 01:20:56,851 Mr Wisley? 824 01:21:02,591 --> 01:21:06,197 So, the infamous Mrs Radcliffe. 825 01:21:06,695 --> 01:21:09,505 Was she really as gothic as her novels? 826 01:21:12,434 --> 01:21:14,736 Not in externals, 827 01:21:14,736 --> 01:21:17,772 but her inner landscape is quite picturesque, I suspect. 828 01:21:17,772 --> 01:21:19,342 True of us all. 829 01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,971 (WHISPERING) There's a message for Reverend Austen. 830 01:22:25,407 --> 01:22:29,082 -(WHISPERING) Message for Reverend Austen. -Thank you. 831 01:22:54,769 --> 01:22:56,111 ELIZA: Uncle? 832 01:23:12,454 --> 01:23:13,864 What is it? 833 01:23:19,327 --> 01:23:22,307 (SOBBING) 834 01:23:49,524 --> 01:23:52,163 (GASPING) 835 01:24:15,116 --> 01:24:18,791 It seemed he died very soon after landing in San Domingo. 836 01:24:19,087 --> 01:24:21,362 My God, he was hardly there. 837 01:24:22,290 --> 01:24:24,235 What was the disease? 838 01:24:25,527 --> 01:24:29,304 Yellow fever. Lord Craven, he wrote. 839 01:24:29,731 --> 01:24:33,101 He said that if he had known he was engaged to be married, 840 01:24:33,101 --> 01:24:35,410 he would never have taken him. 841 01:24:42,477 --> 01:24:45,253 Jane, there's something else. 842 01:24:46,981 --> 01:24:49,324 Mr Lefroy, Tom. 843 01:24:51,453 --> 01:24:52,556 What? 844 01:24:53,321 --> 01:24:56,324 I would keep this from you if I could. 845 01:24:56,491 --> 01:24:59,471 He's here visiting Mrs Lefroy and I... 846 01:24:59,594 --> 01:25:01,266 He is engaged. 847 01:25:11,773 --> 01:25:12,979 So soon? 848 01:25:46,608 --> 01:25:47,848 A letter? 849 01:25:50,178 --> 01:25:51,349 No. 850 01:25:51,913 --> 01:25:54,518 It's something I began in London. 851 01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,957 It is the tale of a young woman. 852 01:26:02,657 --> 01:26:04,329 Two young women. 853 01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:08,697 Better than their circumstances. 854 01:26:09,130 --> 01:26:10,698 So many are. 855 01:26:10,698 --> 01:26:13,678 And two young gentlemen who receive 856 01:26:14,169 --> 01:26:17,479 much better than their deserts as so very many do. 857 01:26:19,607 --> 01:26:20,847 Mmm. 858 01:26:25,213 --> 01:26:27,022 How does the story begin? 859 01:26:27,615 --> 01:26:29,184 -Badly. -And then? 860 01:26:29,184 --> 01:26:30,856 It gets worse. 861 01:26:32,620 --> 01:26:34,531 With, I hope, some humour. 862 01:26:40,395 --> 01:26:42,033 How does it end? 863 01:26:48,069 --> 01:26:50,572 They both make triumphant, happy endings. 864 01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,512 Brilliant marriages? 865 01:26:55,643 --> 01:26:57,986 Incandescent marriages 866 01:26:59,581 --> 01:27:01,321 to very rich men. 867 01:27:14,329 --> 01:27:17,833 You asked me a question. 868 01:27:18,833 --> 01:27:23,509 I am ready to give you an answer. But there is one matter to be settled. 869 01:27:27,242 --> 01:27:29,517 I cannot make you out, Mr Wisley. 870 01:27:31,546 --> 01:27:33,252 At times, you are 871 01:27:34,215 --> 01:27:37,418 the most gentlemanlike man I know and yet you would... 872 01:27:37,418 --> 01:27:40,194 "Yet". What a sad word. 873 01:27:41,256 --> 01:27:46,102 And yet, you write yourself most tellingly to great effect. 874 01:27:47,562 --> 01:27:50,965 -I'm speaking, of course, ofyour letter. -What letter? 875 01:27:50,965 --> 01:27:54,241 Was your aunt the correspondent on your behalf? 876 01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:57,750 What matter? 877 01:27:58,740 --> 01:28:01,276 One way or another, passion makes fools of us all. 878 01:28:01,276 --> 01:28:03,778 I hope, in time, passion may regain your better opinion. 879 01:28:03,778 --> 01:28:05,757 The emotion is absurd. 880 01:28:06,714 --> 01:28:09,651 When you consider the sex to whom it is often directed, 881 01:28:09,651 --> 01:28:12,063 indistinguishable from folly. 882 01:28:14,055 --> 01:28:18,162 I thank you for the honour ofyour proposal. I accept. Good day. 883 01:28:45,186 --> 01:28:46,756 George, George. 884 01:28:47,422 --> 01:28:51,025 Mr Wisley is... He's an honourable man. 885 01:28:51,025 --> 01:28:53,198 You'll always have a place with me. 886 01:28:53,695 --> 01:28:55,003 (GRUNTS) 887 01:28:58,833 --> 01:29:00,209 Miss Austen. 888 01:29:02,470 --> 01:29:04,005 Mr Lefroy. 889 01:29:13,014 --> 01:29:14,185 Sir. 890 01:29:18,486 --> 01:29:21,956 I believe I must congratulate you, Mr Lefroy. 891 01:29:23,658 --> 01:29:27,662 And you've come to visit an old friend at such a time. How considerate. 892 01:29:34,168 --> 01:29:37,405 I have come 893 01:29:37,405 --> 01:29:40,351 to offer an explanation, belatedly, 894 01:29:41,476 --> 01:29:45,513 for my conduct. I cannot think how to describe it. 895 01:29:45,513 --> 01:29:48,084 Tell me about your lady, Mr Lefroy. 896 01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:51,454 From where does she come? 897 01:29:53,521 --> 01:29:55,694 She's from County Wexford. 898 01:29:56,057 --> 01:29:59,060 Your own country. Excellent. 899 01:30:01,462 --> 01:30:06,911 What was it that won her? Your manner, smiles and pleasing address? 900 01:30:12,807 --> 01:30:15,787 No, no, not at all. 901 01:30:15,943 --> 01:30:22,583 No, had I really experienced that emotion, I should, at present, detest the very sight of him. 902 01:30:22,583 --> 01:30:24,552 And you are mistaken. 903 01:30:24,552 --> 01:30:29,123 I'm even impartial towards the gloriously endowed Miss Wexford... 904 01:30:29,123 --> 01:30:30,795 I cannot do this. 905 01:30:40,768 --> 01:30:42,975 And so you would marry Wisley? 906 01:30:48,476 --> 01:30:50,250 (WHISPERS) Please? 907 01:30:53,414 --> 01:30:57,518 If there is a shred of truth or justice inside ofyou, 908 01:30:57,518 --> 01:30:59,821 -you cannot marry him. -Oh no, Mr Lefroy. 909 01:30:59,821 --> 01:31:02,857 Justice, by your own admission, you know little of, truth even less. 910 01:31:02,857 --> 01:31:07,464 Jane, I have tried. I have tried and I cannot live this lie. 911 01:31:08,463 --> 01:31:09,771 Can you? 912 01:31:10,865 --> 01:31:13,277 Jane, can you? 913 01:31:17,338 --> 01:31:20,978 What value will there be in life ifwe are not together? 914 01:31:28,449 --> 01:31:30,326 Run away with me. 915 01:31:32,854 --> 01:31:34,560 An elopement? 916 01:31:35,523 --> 01:31:37,866 That is exactly what I propose. 917 01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:43,567 We'll post to London, by Friday be in Scotland, and man and wife. 918 01:31:46,067 --> 01:31:48,547 -Leave everything? -Everything. 919 01:31:49,403 --> 01:31:51,906 It is the only way we can be together. 920 01:32:11,926 --> 01:32:13,996 You'll lose everything. 921 01:32:14,662 --> 01:32:19,110 Family, place. Forwhat? 922 01:32:19,534 --> 01:32:22,276 A lifetime of drudgery on a pittance? 923 01:32:23,004 --> 01:32:26,383 A child every year and no means to lighten the load? 924 01:32:26,674 --> 01:32:29,711 -How will you write, Jane? -I do not know. 925 01:32:30,111 --> 01:32:33,114 But happiness is within my grasp and I cannot help myself. 926 01:32:33,114 --> 01:32:35,253 There is no sense in this. 927 01:32:39,587 --> 01:32:44,092 Ifyou could have your Robert back, even like this, 928 01:32:45,192 --> 01:32:46,864 would you do it? 929 01:32:51,566 --> 01:32:53,101 (EXCLAIMS) 930 01:32:53,935 --> 01:32:57,939 -Please conceal my departure as long as possible. -Wait. 931 01:33:00,641 --> 01:33:01,881 Here. 932 01:33:03,911 --> 01:33:06,220 Take these. Now go, quickly. 933 01:33:42,083 --> 01:33:45,860 Come. Ifwe hurry, we can still make the morning coach. 934 01:33:46,187 --> 01:33:47,529 You are sure? 935 01:33:54,261 --> 01:33:55,603 Be careful. 936 01:33:57,765 --> 01:34:00,507 -Is it coming? -Not yet. 937 01:34:03,204 --> 01:34:06,480 Take my hand. All right? 938 01:34:06,874 --> 01:34:09,354 Hurry. I can hear it approaching. 939 01:34:14,548 --> 01:34:15,890 Here it is. 940 01:34:23,224 --> 01:34:24,668 Whoa. 941 01:34:25,726 --> 01:34:27,995 Two to London. We'll settle the first rest. 942 01:34:27,995 --> 01:34:29,838 -Yes? -Right you are, sir. 943 01:35:01,562 --> 01:35:03,837 Hampshire, your home county. 944 01:35:05,433 --> 01:35:06,775 It was. 945 01:35:10,571 --> 01:35:12,050 (LAUGHING) 946 01:35:12,940 --> 01:35:14,384 (RUMBLING) 947 01:35:16,343 --> 01:35:20,188 Stuck. Everybody out, ladies and gentlemen, please. 948 01:35:21,949 --> 01:35:24,552 -We need to lighten the load. -No, let me, let me. 949 01:35:24,552 --> 01:35:29,558 COACHMAN: I shall require you gentlemen to give me a hand, put your shoulders into it. 950 01:35:31,926 --> 01:35:37,205 Now, sir, ifyou can push on the coach itself. Excuse me, sir. Young gentleman? 951 01:35:37,364 --> 01:35:40,242 -Yes, yes. -You on the other side, sir, thank you. 952 01:35:40,735 --> 01:35:43,204 -Young gentleman, please come along. -All right. 953 01:35:43,204 --> 01:35:45,616 COACHMAN: Mind helping us? Thank you. 954 01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:48,713 Right, all together now then, sirs, please? 955 01:35:50,077 --> 01:35:52,648 (MEN GRUNTING) 956 01:35:53,881 --> 01:35:55,451 One, two, 957 01:35:56,217 --> 01:35:57,957 and a three and push! 958 01:35:59,086 --> 01:36:00,394 Come on. 959 01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:03,394 MRS LEFROY: "Dear Tom. 960 01:36:03,791 --> 01:36:06,771 "How timeIy was the arrivaI of the money you sent." 961 01:36:08,596 --> 01:36:11,235 COACHMAN: One, two and three! 962 01:36:16,337 --> 01:36:19,784 "It was so very much appreciated by your father and I. 963 01:36:20,407 --> 01:36:23,744 "You're so kind to share your uncIe's aIIowance. 964 01:36:23,744 --> 01:36:26,347 "Indeed, I do not dare think how we wouId survive without it." 965 01:36:26,347 --> 01:36:27,587 (GRUNTS) 966 01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:35,424 Well done. Thank you, sirs. 967 01:36:35,956 --> 01:36:40,404 All right, ladies and gentlemen, back on the coach as soon as you can, thank you. 968 01:36:50,204 --> 01:36:51,739 We are ready. 969 01:36:58,145 --> 01:37:00,386 -Worried? -No. 970 01:37:01,916 --> 01:37:05,886 -Is it the loss ofyour reputation? -No. 971 01:37:07,988 --> 01:37:09,523 The loss ofyours. 972 01:37:09,523 --> 01:37:13,527 -I do not... -Please, sir, come along, the coach is departing. 973 01:37:13,527 --> 01:37:14,733 Come. 974 01:37:50,931 --> 01:37:53,601 COACHMAN: Changing horses. Twenty minutes only. 975 01:37:53,601 --> 01:37:57,947 House of office at the back of the inn. All down, quick as you like. 976 01:38:20,394 --> 01:38:24,131 How many brothers and sisters do you have in Limerick, Tom? 977 01:38:24,131 --> 01:38:26,508 Enough. Why? 978 01:38:29,904 --> 01:38:32,740 What are the names ofyour brothers and sisters? 979 01:38:32,740 --> 01:38:34,150 They... 980 01:38:37,745 --> 01:38:39,918 On whom do they depend? 981 01:38:43,984 --> 01:38:45,252 (SIGHS) 982 01:38:45,252 --> 01:38:47,288 Your reputation is destroyed. 983 01:38:49,990 --> 01:38:53,460 Your profligacy is a beautiful sham. 984 01:39:05,272 --> 01:39:08,651 -I can earn money. -It will not be enough. 985 01:39:10,678 --> 01:39:12,213 I will rise. 986 01:39:13,047 --> 01:39:16,824 With a High Court Judge as your enemy? And a penniless wife? 987 01:39:18,018 --> 01:39:21,021 God knows how many mouths depending on you? 988 01:39:22,389 --> 01:39:27,065 My sweet, sweet friend, you will sink, and we will all sink with you. 989 01:39:27,294 --> 01:39:29,530 -I will... -COACHMAN: Hampshire Flyer. 990 01:39:29,530 --> 01:39:32,374 Hampshire Flyer's leaving in five minutes. 991 01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:40,251 No! No, Jane. 992 01:39:41,308 --> 01:39:42,977 I will never give you up. 993 01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:47,016 -Tom... -Don't speak or think. 994 01:39:48,349 --> 01:39:51,557 Just love me. Do you love me? 995 01:39:53,854 --> 01:39:55,060 Yes. 996 01:39:56,890 --> 01:40:00,735 But if our love destroys your family, it will destroy itself. 997 01:40:01,028 --> 01:40:02,438 -No. -Yes. 998 01:40:03,330 --> 01:40:07,668 In a long, slow degradation of guilt and regret and blame. 999 01:40:07,668 --> 01:40:09,203 That is nonsense. 1000 01:40:12,439 --> 01:40:13,713 Truth. 1001 01:40:14,908 --> 01:40:16,682 Made from contradiction. 1002 01:40:20,247 --> 01:40:22,624 But it must come with a smile. 1003 01:40:23,717 --> 01:40:28,359 Or else I shall count it as false and we shall have had no love at all. 1004 01:40:33,227 --> 01:40:35,434 Please. 1005 01:40:42,469 --> 01:40:43,777 Goodbye. 1006 01:41:00,788 --> 01:41:03,928 Typical bloody runaway. "Will I, won't I?" 1007 01:41:23,977 --> 01:41:26,354 Miss. Miss. 1008 01:41:31,185 --> 01:41:32,857 All right, offyou go. 1009 01:42:36,316 --> 01:42:38,989 (CLOCK TICKING) 1010 01:42:53,700 --> 01:42:55,076 Hello? 1011 01:42:59,373 --> 01:43:03,343 -Where is everyone? -Looking for you, Miss. Looking everywhere. 1012 01:43:04,378 --> 01:43:06,448 -Thank you, Jenny. -Mr Warren. 1013 01:43:10,684 --> 01:43:14,359 Your family tried to keep the matter from the servants, but... 1014 01:43:16,023 --> 01:43:19,760 Where is that blackguard Lefroy? My God, if Henry finds him, he'll kill him. 1015 01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,432 He won't find him. 1016 01:43:22,429 --> 01:43:24,636 If he does, he won't kill him. 1017 01:43:26,099 --> 01:43:27,771 There's no need. 1018 01:43:29,903 --> 01:43:33,179 What happened? 1019 01:43:35,442 --> 01:43:37,114 Nothing happened. 1020 01:43:39,246 --> 01:43:42,420 I see. I see. 1021 01:43:52,626 --> 01:43:53,866 Jane, 1022 01:43:56,797 --> 01:44:00,176 I may have less personal charm than Lefroy. 1023 01:44:01,335 --> 01:44:07,708 Superficial charm to some eyes. To others, it is mere affectation, but I... 1024 01:44:07,708 --> 01:44:10,154 -I have no hopes. -Hopes? 1025 01:44:12,179 --> 01:44:15,023 You cannot begin to imagine. 1026 01:44:15,382 --> 01:44:18,658 Thank you for the great honour ofyour offer, 1027 01:44:19,953 --> 01:44:22,558 but are there no otherwomen in Hampshire? 1028 01:44:43,477 --> 01:44:45,854 It was you who wrote the judge. 1029 01:44:50,584 --> 01:44:54,054 You must consider how much I have always loved you. 1030 01:45:15,575 --> 01:45:17,884 (PLAYING SLOW SONG ON PIANO) 1031 01:45:42,536 --> 01:45:43,912 Well? 1032 01:45:48,775 --> 01:45:50,720 You came back to us. 1033 01:46:18,939 --> 01:46:20,247 Leave it. 1034 01:46:24,077 --> 01:46:28,248 Mr Austen, I must inform you that I shall not attend service today. 1035 01:46:28,248 --> 01:46:31,118 -Not in the presence ofthis young woman. -Indeed... 1036 01:46:31,118 --> 01:46:33,320 -If I must speak plainly... -Aunt. 1037 01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:37,524 I believe your youngest daughter has been on a journey. 1038 01:46:37,524 --> 01:46:42,329 -Her Ladyship considers travel a crime? -Unsanctioned travel. 1039 01:46:42,329 --> 01:46:46,533 Furthermore, be aware that my nephew has withdrawn his addresses 1040 01:46:46,533 --> 01:46:50,503 to someone without family, fortune, importance 1041 01:46:51,371 --> 01:46:54,875 and fatally tainted by suspicion. 1042 01:46:54,875 --> 01:47:00,051 -Oh, she has family, madam. -REVEREND AUSTEN: Indeed she has. 1043 01:47:01,348 --> 01:47:05,728 Importance may depend upon other matters than Your Ladyship can conceive. 1044 01:47:06,853 --> 01:47:10,528 As to fortune, a young woman might depend upon herself. 1045 01:47:12,959 --> 01:47:15,462 An interesting notion, Miss Austen. 1046 01:47:16,963 --> 01:47:18,169 (EXCLAIMING) 1047 01:47:22,669 --> 01:47:26,708 Oblige me a walk along the river to enlarge upon the topic. 1048 01:47:29,009 --> 01:47:30,317 Wisley? 1049 01:47:38,051 --> 01:47:43,023 I am sorry if my conduct has disappointed you, Mr Wisley. 1050 01:47:44,224 --> 01:47:48,328 It seems you cannot bring yourself to marry without affection. 1051 01:47:48,328 --> 01:47:50,034 Or even with it. 1052 01:47:51,565 --> 01:47:55,706 I respect you for that and share your opinion. Neither can I. 1053 01:47:58,405 --> 01:48:01,575 I'd always hoped to win your love in time, 1054 01:48:01,575 --> 01:48:05,445 but I am vain enough to want to be loved for myself rather than my money. 1055 01:48:05,445 --> 01:48:07,447 Do we part as friends? 1056 01:48:09,449 --> 01:48:10,893 We do. 1057 01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:16,759 -So, you will live... -By my pen. Yes. 1058 01:48:21,228 --> 01:48:24,299 Will all your stories have happy endings? 1059 01:48:25,031 --> 01:48:26,942 My characters will have, 1060 01:48:27,567 --> 01:48:29,876 after a little bit oftrouble, 1061 01:48:31,271 --> 01:48:33,444 all that they desire. 1062 01:48:35,809 --> 01:48:38,755 The good do not always come to good ends. 1063 01:48:41,248 --> 01:48:44,058 It is a truth universally acknowledged. 1064 01:48:45,385 --> 01:48:48,388 JANE: "...that a singIe man in possession of a good fortune 1065 01:48:48,388 --> 01:48:50,257 "must be in want of a wife." 1066 01:48:50,257 --> 01:48:52,430 (ALL CHEERING) 1067 01:48:53,426 --> 01:48:56,596 "However IittIe known the feeIings or views of such a man may be 1068 01:48:56,596 --> 01:48:59,065 "on his first entering a neighbourhood, 1069 01:48:59,065 --> 01:49:03,013 "this truth is so weII fixed in the minds of the surrounding famiIies, 1070 01:49:04,838 --> 01:49:09,409 "that he is considered as the rightfuI property of some one or other of their daughters. 1071 01:49:09,409 --> 01:49:12,679 "'My dear Mr Bennet,' said his Iady to him, one day, 1072 01:49:12,679 --> 01:49:15,815 "'Have you heard that NetherfieId Park is Iet at Iast?' 1073 01:49:15,815 --> 01:49:18,285 "Mr Bennet repIied that he had not. 1074 01:49:18,285 --> 01:49:20,788 "'But it is,' returned she..." 1075 01:49:22,489 --> 01:49:24,764 (WOMAN SINGING OPERA) 1076 01:51:13,333 --> 01:51:16,403 Is it Miss Austen? The Miss Austen? 1077 01:51:16,403 --> 01:51:19,939 No, Madam. That courtesy, according to the customs of precedence, 1078 01:51:19,939 --> 01:51:22,008 belongs to my elder sister. 1079 01:51:22,008 --> 01:51:25,845 Miss Jane Austen, the authoeess of Pride and Prejudice? 1080 01:51:25,845 --> 01:51:30,116 My sisterwishes to remain anonymous, but your kind regard is much appreciated. 1081 01:51:30,116 --> 01:51:31,993 -Thank you. -Thank you. 1082 01:52:05,852 --> 01:52:07,729 Please, come through. 1083 01:52:08,888 --> 01:52:10,457 I shall never forgive Henry for this. 1084 01:52:10,457 --> 01:52:13,563 Yes, you will. We always forgive him for everything. 1085 01:52:18,364 --> 01:52:20,810 Jane, an old friend. 1086 01:52:21,701 --> 01:52:23,373 Late as ever. 1087 01:52:25,205 --> 01:52:27,685 Madame le Comtesse, Miss Austen. 1088 01:52:30,143 --> 01:52:31,587 Mr Lefroy. 1089 01:52:39,352 --> 01:52:41,387 Please allow me to introduce to you 1090 01:52:41,387 --> 01:52:46,233 your most avid of admirers, my daughter, Miss Lefroy. 1091 01:52:47,927 --> 01:52:51,067 Miss Austen, what a pleasure to meet you. 1092 01:52:53,500 --> 01:52:56,002 Will you read for us this evening? 1093 01:52:56,002 --> 01:52:58,671 Ah, well, you see, my sister never reads. 1094 01:52:58,671 --> 01:53:01,841 Otherwise, how else is she supposed to remain anonymous? 1095 01:53:01,841 --> 01:53:03,376 -But... -Jane. 1096 01:53:11,351 --> 01:53:13,387 I will make an exception 1097 01:53:14,220 --> 01:53:16,393 if my new friend wishes it. 1098 01:53:18,691 --> 01:53:20,431 Come, sit by me. 1099 01:53:32,138 --> 01:53:33,981 She is lovely, Tom. 1100 01:53:36,009 --> 01:53:37,920 "She began now to comprehend 1101 01:53:39,145 --> 01:53:42,785 "that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, 1102 01:53:43,316 --> 01:53:45,090 "would most suit her. 1103 01:53:45,985 --> 01:53:49,455 "His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, 1104 01:53:49,823 --> 01:53:52,462 "would have answered all herwishes. 1105 01:53:54,527 --> 01:53:58,364 "It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both. 1106 01:53:58,364 --> 01:54:00,567 "By her ease and liveliness, 1107 01:54:00,567 --> 01:54:04,242 "his mind might have been softened, his manners improved, 1108 01:54:04,804 --> 01:54:09,844 "and from his judgment, information and knowledge ofthe world, 1109 01:54:11,044 --> 01:54:14,650 "she must have received benefit of greater importance. 1110 01:54:15,982 --> 01:54:20,089 "But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude 1111 01:54:21,855 --> 01:54:25,393 "what connubial felicity really was." 1112 01:55:19,500 --> 01:55:24,500 Subtitle source: Becoming.Jane.2007.1080p.HDDVD.DTS.x264-HD1080 Upload to subscene.com by ViSTA™-HDVN (8/6/2009)