All language subtitles for Persuasion 1971 Episode 1 part 1.en

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Elliot of Kelling

Hall Walter Elliot born March the 1st

1760 married July the 15

1784 Elizabeth daughter of Jam Stevenson

Esquire of South Park in the county of

gler by which lady who died March the

20th

1800 he had issue Elizabeth born June

the 1st

1784 I really think we should get some

of those New China roses Penelope don't

you oh what a good idea miss ellot an

born August the 9th

1787 surely there must be some way we

can cut down the expenses lady

Russell a stillborn son November the 5th

1789 Mary born November the 20th

1791 married December the 16th

180 Charles son and heir of Charles

Musgrove Esquire of upper cross in the

county of

Somerset ah Mary there you are I just

walk through the fields and see if there

are any peasants about and leave me here

all

alone principal seat Kellin Hall in the

county of Somerset air

presumptive William Walter Elliot

Esquire great grandson of the second s

Walter well now that Mrs Elliot is dead

perhaps Mr Elliot's conduct will improve

water how can it he's a man who spoken

slightingly of his own blood and future

honors all the same he is your Heir he

never even consulted me before he

married her no he was always a very

unsteady man father well she gave him no

children we can be thankful for that I

suppose and his inheritance is still a

good way off I must say I hope the

estate will be in a better condition

then than it is now quite lady Russell

shepher gave me the figures oh did he an

and I have drawn up a scheme for cutting

back your expenses and retrenching here

it

is

retrench can we we

retrench does it occur to you Elizabeth

there's any way in which we can retrench

oh Father I've done all I can you have

Miss Elliot I know you have I've cut off

all unnecessary Charities I haven't

refurnished the drawing room I don't see

what else I can do without compromising

our dignity nor do I we are ill used

Elizabeth we're very unfortunate I've

mortgaged all I can I won't sell of

course not the Kell state will be passed

on whole and entired as I received it

you can be clear in 7 years if you will

what an and I suggest I beg leave sarter

to recommend lady Russell's regulations

it's our simple duty to clear our debts

as soon as possible there can be no

dignity in anything else you will only

be doing what a great number of our

first families have done or ought to

do your feelings as a gentleman and as

the head of a house are important of

course Walter but your reputation as an

honest man is more important

still but this is unendurable

what every comfort of Life knocked off

Journeys London servants horses table

contractions and restrictions everywhere

father it's no use what to live without

the Deen of a private gentleman F sooner

quit kellen's Hall at

once well s water since the idea of

leaving has been started in the very

quarter which ought to dictate I have no

scruple in confessing my judgment to be

entirely on that side what Shepherd

what's that I am perfectly persuaded

that nothing can be done without a

change of Abode s Walter what leave

Kellen well it is certainly something

that you should consider leave Kellen my

father believes it might be wiser it

does not appear to me that Sir Walter

can materially alter his style of living

in a house which has such a character of

hospitality and ancient dignity to

support as Kellen Hall there is no need

to go on supporting it surely well Miss

Anne in any other place s Walter May

judge for himself I cannot understand

your meaning shepher

I think he means we could live more

cheaply somewhere else very true Miss

Anne very true oh in any other place Sir

Walter may be looked up to as one who

sets the style Miss Elliot however he

may choose to model his

household yes yes I see what you mean no

but where would we

go Oh you mean London of course oh yes

well

London oh I do quite like the idea of

London I

uh I believe bath is to be preferred s

Walter oh oh no London or nowhere

couldn't we take a smaller house

somewhere near here then we could still

be close to Mary and to Lady Russell we

could still sometime see the grounds

here a smaller house here it's

Unthinkable of course father but uh bath

is only 50 mil away it would be very

convenient very especially for your

friends I should be able to see you

every winter For What and B is a very

safe place for a gentleman in s Walter's

predicament what shepher Sir Walter may

be of great consequence there at

comparatively little

expense Sir Walter Elliot of kage is of

great consequence wherever he goes

shepher and at whatever

expense if he does

go if he chooses to go

I do wish we weren't going to Bath I

think it's a very sensible decision well

it's sensible yes but I don't like bath

it doesn't agree with me you think that

because you were sent to school there

after your mother

died I wish we were staying near here oh

you could never have asked your father

to do that and I think you yourself

would have found it more mortifying than

you imagine well it's been decided

against me as

usual I shall miss Kellen in the country

my dear you shall spend every summer

here with

me the change will do you good you've

not been away from home

enough your spirits are low oh they're

high enough I think a larger society

will improve

them you should know more people an your

mother would have wanted it oh if she

had still been alive we would would not

be going to bath at all she always

managed to keep my father within his

income she was a very sensible

woman I loved her so

much I know you did I don't know what

would have become of us after she died

if you had not been here well you are my

own dear goddaughter and a very good one

eh what let Kellin Kellin in the hands

of other people well so Walter the

purpose of your move to Bath has always

been to recoup killage let there will be

no need to advertise your intentions

Walter advertise advertise shepher blaz

my degradation to the whole world I was

about to observe Sir Walter that

advertisement will not be necessary I

absolutely forbid you to drop the

slightest hint of my having any

intention whatsoever of letting my house

very good

soter but father Shepherd is right we

must find a tenant

if some most unexceptionable applicant

were spontaneously to solicit my letting

my house as a great favor and entirely

on my own terms it is possible possible

that I might consider doing so yes

Father you do understand Shepherd that

Kellen is not to be offered about it was

very far from my intention to wish to

suggest anything of the kind miss it is

not to be thought of of course not no

I was wondering Sir Walter I leave it to

you Shepherd but not a word not a

whisper of this must get out the matter

must not be breathed Beyond this circle

it must all remain a profound

secret it must all remain a profound

secret do you think Mr Shepherd is the

right man for this business then oh yes

he's quite sensible really and his

daughter Mrs clay well I believe she's

been to stay with your sister again yes

she has I wish Elizabeth had some of

your judgment Anne I never have

succeeded in persuading her to do

something she does not want to do well

she does know what she wants that's true

for instance I thought it most unjust

that she goes to London Every Spring and

you never do oh but I've never wanted to

she will not listen to me

I do not like this friendship of hers

for Mrs clay at all Mrs Clay is a very

clever woman she knows how to please

well I've hinted at everything I can but

it does no good the Friendship is quite

out of place the daughter of your

father's agent well like other young

ladies she is considerably Galer than

her parents perhaps but she's still not

a suitable companion for Elizabeth I

should like to see their intimacy broken

off well it won't be I'm afraid Mrs CLA

is giving us even more of her company

than she used to more than I care for to

tell you the truth Elizabeth will go her

own way it's an unfortunate friendship

and front to you giving her confidence

to a woman like that oh she amuses me

very much with her affectation and her

Elegance she is all superlatives and

Rapture you know worse and worse I don't

mind for myself but I am afraid for my

father Mrs clay has freckles as he

frequently points out but she's young

and good-looking and unscrupulous I dare

say I'm very glad you are going to

Bath Elizabeth can hardly have Mrs clay

to stay with her

there Miss Elliot I'm quite overcome I

do not know what to say your kindness

what pel what what father Miss Elliot

has invited me to go to bath with her

Capital idea Elizabeth Capital well

father I shall need someone to help me

when we first arrive of course you will

my dear of course oh so water I I do not

know how to exppress

my of course we shall have to find a

tenant first he what I take leave to

observe s Walter that the present

juncture is much in our favor there time

something was oh indeed it is Sir Walter

this new piece will be turning all our

Rich Navy officers toore Sir Walter

eager to spend their prize money many a

noble Fortune has been made in the war

could not be a better time for having a

choice of tenants very responsible

tenants if a rich Admiral were to come

in our way he'd be a very lucky man

that's all I have to say Kelling Hall be

a prize indeed greater than any he ever

took however however many friendships

he'd bought in eh

shepher oh was so I uh I presume to

observe Sir Walter that I have a little

knowledge of the gentleman of the Navy

I'm free to confess that they have very

liberal Notions well however liberal

their notion Shepherd there can be very

few of them who wouldn't be surprised to

find themselves in a house like like

this oh they would look around them and

bless their Good Fortune Sir Walter

without a doubt but I I do agree with my

father I do think a sailor would be a

most desirable tenant possibly

possibly I do believe father that Mr

shepher must have a particular tenant in

mind what is this true shepher well sir

I did happen to fall in with a l fall in

with into what ocean

oh it was at the quarter sessions in

Taunton s Walter he is a native of

Somerset as a matter of fact and I

presume to observe one who has acquired

a very handsome Fortune has he indeed

what is this Navy officer's name shepher

he is called Admiral Croft Miss edot who

Admiral Croft he was in Taunton to look

at some advertised places in the

neighborhood but none of them suited him

and accidentally hearing hey hey what's

that Shepherd it proved impossible for S

Walter Elliott's concerns to be kept

entirely secret yes yes what happened

then understanding my connection with

kinch the adal introduced himself in

order to make particular inquiries and

what was their result we had a pretty

long conference Miss Elliot and he

expressed as strong an inclination for

the place as a man who knew it only by

description could feel indeed he sounds

a most eligible and responsible tenant

mot but who is he I can answer for his

being of a gentleman's family s Walter

from the country near Milverton

ah he is a rear Admiral he was at

Trafalga he's been in the East Indies

since so the East Indies he's been

stationed there for several years I

believe then I take it for granted his

face is as orange as the cuffs and capes

of my libery he is a very hail hearty

well-looking man I assure you s Walter

little weather beaten to be sure but not

much he's quite the gentleman Miss

Elliot not likely to make the smallest

difficulty about terms he only wants a

comfortable home and to get into it as

soon as possible I'm glad to hear it I'm

not particularly disposed to favor a

tenant the park will be open to him of

course there can be very few Navy

officers or many of any other

description who could have had such a

range Oh indeed not Sir Walter but ask

the

gardens well I'm not fond of the idea of

my shrubberies being always

approachable and I would recommend Miss

Elliot to be on her guard with respect

to her flower

garden I am very little disposed to

Grant any tenant any extraordinary favor

I assure you all these cases if I may

presume to say so Sir Walter there are

established usages depend on me no

tenant shall have more than his just

rights is just

rights does the Admiral have a family he

is married but without children miss

ellot the very state to be wished for a

lady without family is the very best

preserver of furniture in the world yes

yes and uh did you meet Mrs Croft I did

and a very well spoken Gentile shrewd

lady she seemed to be hm she asked more

questions about the house and terms and

taxes than the Admiral himself

furthermore Sir Walter she is not quite

unconnected with this part of the

country either well I never heard of him

who is she she is sister to a gentleman

who lived amongst us once a Walter she

told me so herself sister to the

gentleman who lived a few years back at

monford oh bless me what was his name at

monford I've heard it quite recently too

uh Penelope my dear can you help me what

was the name of the gentleman who lived

at monkford he was one of Mrs croft's

Brothers there were two of them you

remember Mrs croft's

Brothers you mean Mr Wentworth I suppose

of course Wentworth is the very name he

was cured for two or three years at

monkford you remember Sir Walter some

time back came about the year five I

take it Wentworth oh I Mr Wentworth the

curet of monford you misled Me by

talking of gentleman I thought you meant

some man of property Mr went there's a

nobody quite unconnected I remember

nothing to do with the straford family

one wonders how the names of our

nobility become so common indeed indeed

the Admiral would be an unexceptionable

tenant s Walter wife no children

handsome Fortune may I take leave to

wait upon him and pursue the

matter do you have any objection

Elizabeth well no father the sooner we

find a tenant the sooner we may move to

B and the happier I shall be would't

youel oh Miss Elliot you know how much

well I leave it to you shepher to

arrange a day for Kellen to be seen very

good Sir

Walter it will be a distressing one for

us

all Admiral

C I let my house to ad

craft Admiral cross my

tenant well certainly better than a m

Mister well they have been and

everything is settled my father says

Admiral Croft is one of the best looking

Sailors he has ever met not to brown or

weatherbe not at all he says that if

only his own man could arrange the

Admiral's hair he wouldn't be ashamed of

being seen with him anywhere well I'm

delighted my darling so now you will all

be off to Bath in September I suppose my

father and Elizabeth will I'm going to

stay with Mary at uppercross oh why

because Mary requires me to go she can't

possibly do without me she says I'm glad

that somebody thinks me useful Elizabeth

says that nobody will want me in bar not

when she has Mrs clay I suppose exactly

I wonder at it and I wonder at very much

it doesn't surprise me I'm afraid cannot

it as see the danger well I've tried to

warn her but all I do is offend her

can't your father see the danger no and

that is what the danger is Elizabeth

will go her own

way well I am pleased that I'm being

left behind anyway I was dreading

September in all the white glare of bath

yes hot weather does keep on in a

continual state of inelegance

oh and I love the sweet sad autumnal

months in the country then after you've

been to Mary you must come to me and

then we can go to Bath together oh that

is a kind thought no it's selfish I

shall not be able to Bear Kellen without

you not at first it will be very

melancholy here not at all the Crofts

are such agreeable people you will like

them so much of

course you know who Mrs croft's brother

is I do not think so who Captain

Frederick

Wentworth

oh my dear that was a long time ago now

seven years but I have never met anyone

who could compare with him because you

hardly ever left Kellen that is why oh

you should have married Charles musk I

Told You So at the time well you mustn't

tell me so again now he's married Mary

you would have been more suited to him

than Mary I never even thought of it oh

my dear thousands of women have made

your mistake Captain wiith was the first

young man to fall in love with you that

was his charm it had nothing to do with

charm not that I blame him you were very

attractive was

I but I'm afraid I can't depend on ever

blooming like that again now of course

you can you're still very pretty oh no

nonsense and I still believe you were

quite right to break off the engagement

you were very young he had no fortune or

prospects your father disapproved oh you

were absolutely right I wouldn't have

broken it off if you hadn't persuaded

me and my father didn't actually refuse

his permission it was fortunate he did

not have to he'd have done nothing for

you you know it wouldn't have mattered

my dear you had no mother I could not

see you snatched away by a stranger

without family or Fortune he had no

connections even he didn't need them he

had ability oh and you would have been

been sunk in weariness and anxiety you'd

have lost your

youth well I have lost it of course you

have not by not starting a family so

young you have kept your health your

figure and your good looks you were

right to be persuaded I might have been

happier if I hadn't

been none of the things you imagined

would have happened Captain Wentworth

has been very

successful there was no real risk and if

youa had not seen the dangers of the

engagement yourself you would not have

broken it off I only broke it off

because I thought that I might be a

handicap to him that I might hold him

back in his

career he couldn't understand what I

meant I can hardly understand it myself

now but I could never have given him up

if I hadn't thought that I was doing it

for his sake my dear you could never

have given him up if you hadn't realized

that you were not rarely in love with

him oh no it was because I loved him

that I could give him up you thought so

of course but you were not really in

love you never have rely been in

love I think I have you will see what I

mean once you are in bath you will find

some man who will love you so much that

you have to love him back and then you

will know what love is that is not at

all how I imagine my life in bar I'm

sure you will find someone and be happy

I cannot wish the past were different

well I can I

do who don't think that I blame you I

don't even blame

myself but if someone in the same

situation came to me for

advice that is not the advice I would

give I only did what I felt your mother

would have done I know you

did you should not go on thinking about

what happened so long ago yes it is a

long time 7

years you

know Captain Wentworth has never married

either this is a sad day

Shepherd Elliot is leaving Kellen and

doesn't know when he may

return I imagine the tenantry notice

it no doubt the cotti will be their

doors waiting to see me drive by for

some of them it may be for the last time

oh they feel it Sir Walter I assure you

they feel it most strongly I thought as

much they will not feel the same I think

when Admiral Croft leaves Kellen Oh

indeed not sir water he is only a tenant

your tenant he is a remarkably fortunate

gentleman and not ill looking for a sale

oh he is

old everyone I know seems to be growing

old and Haggard mer C every face in the

neighborhood worsting the way the Crow's

foot increases so rapidly about lady

Russell's temples is a great distress to

me only Elizabeth seemed to Bloom as

ever am it's the wreckage of everyone

else oh well s water Miss Elliot blooms

indeed but we must not say everyone else

Master be

father Oh indeed not Penelope well

perhaps not perhaps not

everyone ah there you all are have you

finished your farewells yes thank you

Father I hope we haven't delayed you

there was no

need we must be off the cottagers are

waiting

come bye

bye

bye

by

by goodbye lady Russell goodbye Walter

take time about finding a house won't

you yes goodbye father I hope you find

somewhere comfortable thank you thank

you goodbye goodbye come along Penelope

oh shepherd I shall sit outside going

through the village I don't want to

disappoint the tenry of course not s

water very well thought

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now that we've got them off we can take

you to Mary

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goodbye lady Russell and thank you

goodbye my dear

so you've come at

last was to think I'd never see you oh

an I'm so real I can hardly speak I

haven't seen a creature the whole

morning oh Mary I am sorry you seem so

well when you wrote well I made the best

of it as I always do but I was very far

from well at the time I didn't think

I've ever been so ill as I am this

morning oh dear me well certainly not

well enough to be left alone

what if I was suddenly seized in some

Dreadful way and not able to ring the

bell so lady Russell wouldn't get out I

didn't think she's been in this house

three times All Summer she sent you her

love Mary where's Charles go out

shooting as usual I haven't seen him

since 7:00 this morning he would go

though I told him how ill I was he said

he wouldn't be long and now it's almost

one look well he must have had good

sport then am I do believe that if

Charles were to see me dying he wouldn't

believe there was anything the matter

with me you might try and persuade him

while you're here that I really am very

ill much worse than I ever

admit I assure you I haven't seen a soul

this whole long morning but haven't you

had your little boys with you oh only be

as long as I could bear their noise well

it will soon be better now you know I

always cure

you how are your neighbors at the great

house I can't tell you I haven't seen

one of of them this morning oh except Mr

Musgrove and he only spoke at the window

without getting off his horse I told him

how ill I was but none of them's been to

see me the Miss musgroves never put

themselves out of their way you know

well it's early yet they may be here at

any moment oh I don't want them I assure

you they laugh and talk much too much

for

me oh an I'm so very unwell it was most

unkind of you not to come on Thursday

but you wrote and said that you were in

no hurry for

me oh

well but you haven't asked me one word

about our dinner at the pools yesterday

what did you go I thought you had been

too ill for a party oh yes I went I was

very well yesterday there's nothing at

all the matter till this

morning it would have been very odd if I

hadn't gone I hope you enjoyed

yourself oh it was nothing remarkable

one always knows beforehand what the

dinner will be and who will be

there so uncomfortable not having a

carriage of our own Mr and Mrs Musgrove

took me and we were so

crowded they're both so very large and

they take up so much

room and Mr Musgrove always sits forward

so I was crowded into the back seat with

Henrietta and

Louisa think I'm ill today because of it

I'm looking forward to is seeing all the

musgroves again but you won't going

calling them till they've been to see

you oh Mary I wouldn't dream of standing

up on ceremony with a Musgrove no but

they ought to call on you now they ought

to feel what is due to you as my sister

you know Mrs Musgrove often fails to

give me my due precedence When We Dine

at the great house well I'm sure it is

only because she thinks of you as one of

the family I didn't see why I should be

considered so much at home as to lose my

place and

oh Charles what a lovely White Horse can

you see it why don't you go and have a

closer look and take little water with

you take him by the

hand what

a I'm so glad you've come an Mary looks

better already well I'm good for her

Charles I do wish you could persuade her

not to be always imagining herself ill

I'll try there's never anything really

the matter with a you

know the boys are so will behaved I

could manage them perfectly well if only

Mary wouldn't keep interfering well I

dare say excuse me I'd better have a

word with young

Charles go on Walter after it go on you

can run faster than that go

on oh they're so unmanageable and they

do me more harm than good little Charles

doesn't listen to a word I say and is

getting quite as bad but Charles spoils

them so can't get them under any sort of

control does he oh yes you know I hate

bringing them here but Mrs mgr's always

wanting to see them but why Mary she is

their grandmother she will indulge them

so and give them so much trash and sweet

things they come back sick and cross for

the rest of the day well it's only

because she's so fond of them I

expect oh an

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I'm more than I

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expected oh mram I cannot help wishing

Mrs Charles had a little of your method

with those children they're quite

different creatures with you well I am

their aunt children always behave better

with aunts but in general they are so

spoiled they are as fine healthy

creatures as ever were seen poor little

dear and without

partiality but Mrs Char has no more idea

how to treat them than oh bless me how

Troublesome they are well they are still

very young Mrs mgro ah yes but I assure

you missan it prevents my wishing to see

them at this house as often as I

otherwise should

I believe Mrs Charles is not quite

pleased with my not inviting them off oh

she she has not said that to me it is

very bad to have children with one that

one was always having to check don't do

this don't do that one can only keep

them in tolerable order by giving them

more cake than is good for them soan Sir

Walter and your sister are gone to Bath

have you any idea where they'll settle

well they're going to look about them

before they decide Mr Musgrove very wise

very wise well well here we are at

miklus again yes Mr Musgrove so we are

isn't it today the crofs were coming to

Kellen yes it is oh and I've quite

forgotten oh I'm so glad I didn't

remember

before makes me feel very sad and low oh

Mary an do come and play and cheer us up

why don't you play Louisa you're so good

oh but I want to dance father you will

come and play won't you an yes of course

I

will there play

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that well done Miss and Well Done Lord

blessing other those little fingers of

yours do fly out

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[Applause]

it was very good of you to call on us so

soon after our arrival Mrs Musgrove it

must have been very agitating finding

strangers in your old home well I was

very upset of course Admiral Croft

thinking about it made me quite ill well

you should have followed your sister's

example and stayed at home it was

nothing to her compared to what it was

to me no the only reason she didn't come

was that there wasn't enough room in the

carriage Oh I thought perhaps as she had

never left home and you of course had to

come here oh no she doesn't suffer half

as much as I do I assure you she has a

very strong

Constitution but I'm almost always

rather

ill I'm so sorry we missed Mr Musgrove

this morning oh he spends his whole time

shooting I'm afraid oh I see I hope

you're settling in Happily at Kellen we

are very happily

must have been very hard for you to give

up that beautiful house everything about

it must be so precious to you yes it is

well you needn't be afraid that we shall

alter anything oh but you must make all

the changes you want oh there won't be

many I assure you you need not fear to

come with your sister the next time she

calls on us oh no really I only didn't

come because there was no room for me in

the carriage although I must admit I

wasn't altogether sorry of course I

understand it perfectly your beloved

home made over to strangers

can't be easy no it isn't but I'm glad

it is you who have taken it oh how very

kind of course the Admiral and I have

had many homes we're quite used to

giving them up I suppose that is

inevitable with the Navy well yes it is

though the Navy has its do sir you know

to make up for its privations oh yes I

know it's a good life oh by the bye your

sister was telling me it's you who knew

my brother when he was living down here

yes it was perhaps you haven't heard

that he's married

now no I haven't yes to a Shropshire

girl he went to shopshire you know after

he was cured at monkford he's got a very

good Parish

now has he I'm delighted to hear it so

we you know Mrs Croft has another

brother it's time he married and settled

down too sevie yes we're hoping he'll be

here to stay with us soon I dare say you

know him by name Mrs mgro

Captain Wentworth well now that the war

is over we're hoping he can come for a

long visit guess he'd better spend this

War's prize money before the next War

start do you remember Mr Wentworth an I

don't think I knew him or his brother

yes I knew them both slightly it was

while you were still at school yes it

must be some years ago now

seven I believe it

was yes it was while we were in the

Bermudas Sophie well I hope we shall

have the pleasure of meeting your

brother Mrs Croft there there are so few

distinguished families in this

neighborhood does he like shooting yes

he likes to take out a gun I think then

he must come and shoot with Charles oh

very

kind goodbye thank you so much goodbye

goodbye Mrs uh M grve come on boy where

we go come on come

on come

on a few weeks

and he may be walking

here

well what does Lady Russell have to say

nothing very much except that she's

enjoying herself she sends you her

love I do think she's all going away for

two months just as the Crofts come to

kinch do you I understand it I think so

she feels your father's humiliation Mary

Charles well call it what you like but I

think s Walter himself thinks it's

humiliating to have to let Kellen and go

to Bath of course he doesn't

Charles oh Louise I hope you havn't come

to tell us the others I'm coming that

will be too bad no no I've come on ahead

to make more room in the carriage that's

all M wanted to bring the har you see

the H isn't our piano 4y good enough for

her well Papa and M in very low Spirits

this evening especially mamar oh dear

why she's been thinking about poor

Richard oh I see you knew my brother

dick and didn't you well of course you

did but I don't see what he has to do

with the heart well we all thought it

would be best it seems to amuse M more

than the piano Forte but why has she

suddenly started thinking about dick

well Admiral and Mrs Croft happened to

mention that her brother Captain

Wentworth has just returned to England

oh or paid off or something anyway he's

coming to visit them almost at once

Louisa I still fail to see any

connection with dick well unluckily it

came into Mama's head after the Crofts

had gone that Wentworth or something

very like it was the name of Poor

Richard's captain at one time who I do

believe it was I don't know when or

where but a long time before he died

poor fellow and so mamama got out his

letters and things to look them over and

found that it was Wentworth and now

she's perfectly sure that this must be

the same man and her head is full of

nothing but him and poor Richard oh your

poor mother you know dick only ever

wrote two proper letters all the time he

was in the Navy and I do believe it was

a captain Wentworth who made him write

them what ship was Dick M Chipman on

then Louisa do you remember it was the

lonia that's right the lonia Mrs croft's

brother did command the lonia for a

while then it must be well he must

certainly have been a remarkable Captain

if you got dick to write proper letters

usually he only wrote home for money

Mary come on my D thank you

now have a care George have a care never

your mind sir leave it to

me

sure you leave it to me

Miss come in come

in it was good of you to come

mother your poor brother come along mama

you go along in Father I'll give George

a hand with a har that' be very good of

you

Charles Mama come in and sit down and

you seem feel much

better good evening Mrs

Musgrove that's right my maret by an how

are you Mrs Musgrove oh thank you Miss

Anne I am not too well I am a little low

I'm so sorry Louis has just been telling

us poor Richard I'm afraid Mary were not

in very good spirits just two years ago

just two

years where do you want it Mary oh anywh

you

choose evening must be given up to here

George not there Charles in everyone's

way well where then over

there thank you George that's all right

sir thank good job M and says that Mrs

croft's brother was once captain of the

lonia oh then it must be he yes I

thought it might turn out to be the same

one after all the compass have very many

Captain wentworths you know Miss Anne we

met him once or twice when we came back

from Clifton was it 7 years ago but how

did you know that Captain Wentworth was

captain of the

lonian it is all in the Navy list

Henrietta

oh what do we have a Navy list papa no m

i don't believe we have well then we

must get one at once we have Captain

went were thinking we're

ignorant poor Richard he was on the

lonia for 6 months Miss Anne and spoke

so well of his

captain I was reading over his letters

this

afternoon he called him a fine dashing

fellow but said he was too particular

about making him go to the school

Master only Richard spelled to T wo he

was never a good scholar he was never

good at anything

don't distress yourself

mother play something

[Music]

Henrietta oh what pretty music well

played Henrietta well played I had quite

forgotten about Captain Wentworth until

Mrs Croft mentioned him this afternoon

her other brother was cured out of

monkford do you remember either of them

miss an yes I knew them both slightly oh

it will be a change to have so many Navy

officers in the district well Louisa

there will be two two more than before I

wonder what age Captain Wentworth is

quite old I expect he's a captain I

believe he is

31 well quite how clever Henrietta is to

play so well wonder if Captain Wentworth

Likes music oh I hope he likes dancing

we must give a ball Henrietta I can

hardly wait for him to

[Music]

arrive welcome my dear

[Music]

where

go i' had forgotten What a fine piece of

country this was you were very wise to

choose kin C well now that you're assur

Frederick it's time you found somewhere

and settle down yourself yes I wouldn't

mind a house in the country and someone

to share it with him I dare say

[Laughter]

well here I am quite ready to make a

foolish match I shall marry as soon as

I'm properly tempted perhaps one of the

Miss musgroves may catch your eye

anybody between 15 and 30 may have me

for the asking a little beauty a few

Smiles a few compliments to the Navy and

I'm a lost man you must keep a cool head

about it Frederick no Sophie I shall not

I'm a sailor I've had no Society among

women to make me nice my heart may be

caught by any pleasing young woman who

comes my way have you no special

requirements no features that

particularly recommend themselves to you

in a woman well yes I want a strong mind

with sweetness of

manner is that all it's not asking much

no but this is the woman I want I shall

of course put up with something a little

inferior but it was not be much you are

a fool

Frederick well if I'm a Fool then I

shall be a a fool indeed I have thought

about marriage more than most men have

you indeed and where prey have you done

it on board ship there and a sure I do

not believe he has thought about it at

all safire neither do I but I have you

know I

have poor Richard

indeed young master musgrow was nothing

but a thickheaded unfeeling unprofitable

dick he was moved about from ship to

ship so much and because no Captain

would keep him that may be true Mary but

I expect his mother loved him all the

same well she does now when she miss

remembers him but he was a very

Troublesome boy well they sent him to

see because he was so stupid and

unmanageable on land Mrs mro has

forgotten it of course she may still

have been fond of him oh if it wasn't

that dick was Charles's brother I would

have Charles what have you be good Lord

haven't you finished breakfast yet

Louisa and Henrietta will be here in a

minute why they're bringing Captain

Wentworth oh of course you're shooting

party oh here they come look they didn't

give us much time well quickly we can't

receive Captain Wentworth care over the

breakfast

things I don't expect Mary's finished

breakfast yet you're quite wrong she's

in the drawing

room I hope it didn't L of me of course

not of course not come

in good morning morning

good morning Captain wentw good morning

Mrs mgro how very good of you to call I

hope I'm not in the way of talk of

course

not I think you know my sister

an a Very Charming house Mrs margrove it

was a farmhouse you know my father did

it over for us when we were married is

that so do you like this new style of

architecture Captain Wentworth very much

yes it's very light and pleasant of

course the great house is more

substantial oh I do wish Papa would

modernize our house oh I can't agree it

would be a Pity to alter something so

old and beautiful quite I think my

father is right to resist my sister's um

clamor for

modernization oh you always agree with

him Charles not

always but why are we talking about

architecture when we could be out

shooting we must be on our way to wait a

little longer no we must be off come on

come on

again very

soon it is

over it is over the worst is

over I have seen him again after 8

years it is almost a third of my

life it seems little more than

nothing isn't he CH now didn't I tell

you how delightful he is yes Mary you

did he's so courtious and

thoughtful oh I can hardly wait for this

evening though he was so attentive to me

he wasn't very Gallant by you no he

seemed Gallant enough to me henriet

asked him what he thought of you and he

said you were so altered he wouldn't

have known you

again

oh he altered Beyond his knowledge I

don't call that very

Gallant he has not

altered I would have known him

anywhere or if he has changed it is only

to his

Advantage he seem the same Mr Wentworth

to me and a very agreeable one too

oh yes he is that

certainly do you mean there are Cooks on

board ship captain Wentworth oh no Miss

Louisa but surely you must have no no

food no Cooks to dress it no servants to

wait nothing we do not even have knives

and forks there's no need for them you

see oh you're mocking us I know it no

the life is very hard we eat only when

we put into some Port but supposing oh

he is mocking Us Henrietta not at all I

ass sure you when we sailors go ashore

we eat as much as possible because we

never know when we'll have the chance to

eat

again oh miss an if it had pleased

heaven to spare my poor son I dare say

he would have been just like Captain

Wentworth by now I dare say he would Mrs

mgro he was such a promising lad and so

good natur here we are Henrietta if

Captain W with W be serious with us we

can find up for ourselves what chipsy

has commanded the first was the ass I

remember look at the

ass begin a s r r s you won't find her

in the Navy list what she was quite worn

out she's been broken up I was the last

man to command her oh why oh she was

barely fit for service even when I had

her afterwards they said she was good

for home service for a year or two but

that was all barely fit for service and

yet you were put in command of her how

is that oh the Abal te amuse themselves

now and again by sending a few hundred

men to sea in an unseaworthy ship what

would they have a great many men to find

ships for you know and thousands of them

might just as well go to the bottom as

not oh it is impossible for the

admiralty to distinguish the few who

might be missed for what stuff these

young fellas talk never was a better

Sloop than the ASP in her day but

Admiral Captain Wentworth says that she

was barely fit for service nonsense for

an old built Sloop you would never see

her equal he was a lucky fellow to get

her surely if she was barely fit for he

knows very well there must have been 20

better men than he applying for at the

same time he was a lucky fellow to get

anything there Captain

W I felt my luck Admiral I assure you I

was as well pleased with my appointment

as you could wish that was the year six

was very anxious at that time to be at

se very anxious indeed I wanted to be

doing something to be sure you did what

would a young fell like you do a sh for

half a year together if a man has no

wife he soon wants to be a float

again oh but you must have been vexed

Captain Wentworth when you arrived on

the ASP and found what an old thing

they'd given you oh she was a dear old

ASP to me she did what I wanted and I

knew she would what was that well I knew

that we should either go to the bottom

together or she'd be the making of me

and she was oh yes I never had 2 days

foul weather all the time I was at Sea

with her and after taking enough private

ears for it to be very entertaining I

had the good luck on my passage home the

next Autumn to fall in with a very

French figer I wanted so you took her

yes and I brought her into Plymouth now

here's another instance of good luck we

had not been in the sound 6 hours when a

gale came up which lasted four days and

nights would have done for poor old as

in half the time how terrifying yes 24

hours later and I should have been no

more than Gallant captain Wentworth in a

small paragraph in the corner of a

newspaper well nobody would have thought

much of me being lost in only a Sloop