1 00:03:38,904 --> 00:03:41,383 Over here, Ashton. Come and see. 2 00:03:42,754 --> 00:03:46,746 A green heron left it, I think. She'll be coming back to nest. 3 00:03:46,823 --> 00:03:50,259 - Then she'll be disappointed. - Ashton, put that back. 4 00:03:50,328 --> 00:03:52,819 - That isn't yours. - It is now. 5 00:03:53,096 --> 00:03:56,190 No, please, you can't take a mother bird's baby. 6 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,361 I'm sorry, Brett. You're right. 7 00:03:59,771 --> 00:04:02,069 You found it, you put it back. 8 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:06,443 If I can't have it, nobody can. 9 00:04:13,428 --> 00:04:16,795 Miss Ashton, Miss Brett. You stop it now. 10 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,163 I say stop it, hear? 11 00:04:22,538 --> 00:04:25,098 Come along, you're wanted to the big house. 12 00:04:25,808 --> 00:04:27,866 Mr Orry's just about to go. 13 00:04:29,244 --> 00:04:30,939 Come along now, little ladies. 14 00:04:31,013 --> 00:04:33,322 It's time to say goodbye to your big brother. 15 00:04:56,616 --> 00:04:58,926 You made sure you saw to Mr Orry's trunk? 16 00:04:58,996 --> 00:05:01,829 Yes, madam. Priam put it on the steamer this morning. 17 00:05:01,899 --> 00:05:04,232 - Thank you so much. - Welcome, madam. 18 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:12,399 He's as eager to get started as I am, Priam. 19 00:05:16,147 --> 00:05:18,137 I'm gonna miss all of you so much. 20 00:05:18,216 --> 00:05:19,547 Remember to keep warm. 21 00:05:19,618 --> 00:05:22,143 You won't be used to the cold up North. 22 00:05:22,286 --> 00:05:23,788 And come back to us. 23 00:05:25,768 --> 00:05:27,566 - I will. - Safe. 24 00:05:30,506 --> 00:05:32,498 I expect you'll do well, Orry. 25 00:05:33,010 --> 00:05:35,376 Now, Tillet, tell him what you told me. 26 00:05:36,979 --> 00:05:39,641 Son, I know we've had our disagreements in the past. 27 00:05:39,715 --> 00:05:42,480 Sometimes your behaviour has been a little less restrained... 28 00:05:42,551 --> 00:05:43,984 than I might have wished for. 29 00:05:44,053 --> 00:05:47,217 Your father's forgotten how he was at your age. 30 00:05:48,659 --> 00:05:50,160 Perhaps I have. 31 00:05:52,407 --> 00:05:54,874 I want you to know I'm very proud of you. 32 00:05:55,543 --> 00:05:58,774 It's no small thing for a man to have a son at West Point. 33 00:05:59,513 --> 00:06:02,506 Thank you, sir. I'll do my best for you. 34 00:06:02,750 --> 00:06:04,115 I know you will. 35 00:06:10,491 --> 00:06:12,651 Orry. 36 00:06:15,473 --> 00:06:18,204 What in the world happened to you two ladies? 37 00:06:18,277 --> 00:06:21,246 Brett fell down, and I had to help her up. 38 00:06:21,947 --> 00:06:23,539 I picked this for you. 39 00:06:24,650 --> 00:06:26,744 Thank you, Brett. That was sweet. 40 00:06:26,819 --> 00:06:28,684 I found you a present, too. 41 00:06:28,921 --> 00:06:31,186 - Liar. - Brett wouldn't let me keep it. 42 00:06:32,791 --> 00:06:34,520 Well, I'll tell you what. 43 00:06:34,593 --> 00:06:37,892 This will be from you both to remind me how much I love you. 44 00:06:38,464 --> 00:06:39,761 And Mont Royal. 45 00:06:53,690 --> 00:06:54,851 Whoa, son. 46 00:08:47,517 --> 00:08:48,559 Help. 47 00:09:01,409 --> 00:09:04,037 Praise the Lord. Somebody heard us. 48 00:09:08,983 --> 00:09:11,951 Please don't move. A snake's gotten in the carriage. 49 00:09:24,276 --> 00:09:25,437 Sweet Jesus. 50 00:09:27,179 --> 00:09:29,943 Please be very still no matter what happens. 51 00:09:30,182 --> 00:09:31,843 It is poisonous. 52 00:09:32,685 --> 00:09:34,880 I'm sure it is, Maum Sally... 53 00:09:35,421 --> 00:09:38,480 or the young gentleman wouldn't be so concerned for us. 54 00:09:53,450 --> 00:09:56,647 - You are very brave. - Thank you very much, sir. 55 00:09:57,221 --> 00:09:58,813 It was my pleasure. 56 00:09:59,656 --> 00:10:02,649 - Would you help Maum Sally first? - Miss Madeline, I can wait. 57 00:10:02,726 --> 00:10:05,627 Maum Sally, if we argue, we'll both catch cold. 58 00:10:06,169 --> 00:10:07,212 Careful. 59 00:10:07,213 --> 00:10:09,662 Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. 60 00:10:25,427 --> 00:10:27,895 We can never repay you, sir. 61 00:10:32,334 --> 00:10:34,359 And I don't even know your name. 62 00:10:35,637 --> 00:10:39,744 It's Orry, Orry Main. I'm from Mont Royal, just up the river. 63 00:10:42,222 --> 00:10:44,315 My name is Madeline Fabray. 64 00:10:45,192 --> 00:10:46,920 I'm delighted to meet you. 65 00:10:54,568 --> 00:10:55,796 My father... 66 00:10:56,670 --> 00:11:00,162 and I have only recently come from New Orleans to Charleston. 67 00:11:05,056 --> 00:11:07,957 I'm afraid our driver isn't used to South Carolina roads yet. 68 00:11:08,025 --> 00:11:11,517 The horses slipped and bolted. 69 00:11:13,465 --> 00:11:15,364 It must have been terrifying. 70 00:11:17,268 --> 00:11:19,532 Maum Sally and I are travelling to meet my father. 71 00:11:19,604 --> 00:11:22,664 He has business at a plantation near here. 72 00:11:25,176 --> 00:11:27,042 I'd be happy to escort you there. 73 00:11:27,112 --> 00:11:30,684 I haven't told you where it is yet. Perhaps it's out of your way. 74 00:11:31,761 --> 00:11:33,023 I'm headed for Charleston. 75 00:11:33,096 --> 00:11:35,963 Actually, much further than that. I'm on my way to West Point. 76 00:11:36,032 --> 00:11:38,796 - The military academy? - Yes. 77 00:11:41,970 --> 00:11:44,963 I won't be back this way for two more years. 78 00:11:45,141 --> 00:11:46,539 I'm so sorry... 79 00:11:49,846 --> 00:11:52,089 that we haven't had more time to talk... 80 00:11:52,090 --> 00:11:53,132 You know... 81 00:11:54,184 --> 00:11:56,994 it's customary in this part of the country... 82 00:11:57,398 --> 00:11:59,464 for a lady to give a gentleman a token 83 00:11:59,465 --> 00:12:01,425 if she wishes to thank him properly. 84 00:12:02,736 --> 00:12:05,728 - I see you collect them. - Madam? 85 00:12:07,475 --> 00:12:08,518 Tokens. 86 00:12:11,846 --> 00:12:14,974 This is from a lady who stole my heart six years ago... 87 00:12:17,651 --> 00:12:21,154 when she was born. My little sister, Brett. 88 00:12:25,871 --> 00:12:29,808 Miss Madeline, Mr Villefranche tell me we got trouble. 89 00:12:30,376 --> 00:12:31,624 How is he, Maum Sally? 90 00:12:31,625 --> 00:12:33,812 He got a bump on the head, that's all. 91 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,379 But he told me we will never reach Resolute before dark now. 92 00:12:37,917 --> 00:12:40,077 The LaMotte place, that's where you're going? 93 00:12:40,151 --> 00:12:43,315 - Yes. You know it? - They're neighbours of ours. 94 00:12:46,324 --> 00:12:48,161 Let me take you there. We can send 95 00:12:48,162 --> 00:12:50,272 back horses and men for the carriage. 96 00:12:51,174 --> 00:12:53,404 - But how? - Do you ride? 97 00:12:55,379 --> 00:12:57,847 - Yes, of course, but... - Then it's settled. 98 00:12:59,416 --> 00:13:02,442 Miss Madeline, you hardly know this gentleman. 99 00:13:05,289 --> 00:13:07,052 I'll be safe, Maum Sally. 100 00:13:07,424 --> 00:13:08,857 Whoa, boy. 101 00:13:11,128 --> 00:13:13,039 I feel I can trust him. 102 00:13:14,977 --> 00:13:16,342 I don't know why, but I do. 103 00:13:16,412 --> 00:13:19,676 You'll all be safe at Resolute long before dark, I promise. 104 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:21,091 You see? 105 00:13:35,364 --> 00:13:36,407 Ready? 106 00:14:11,423 --> 00:14:13,049 How much further? 107 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,554 Resolute's just around the next bend. 108 00:14:21,767 --> 00:14:23,393 I've dropped something. 109 00:14:36,459 --> 00:14:38,518 That was very clumsy of me. 110 00:14:39,762 --> 00:14:40,990 Yes, it was. 111 00:14:44,901 --> 00:14:45,993 Thank you. 112 00:15:03,498 --> 00:15:05,989 Maum Sally would say that wasn't ladylike. 113 00:15:10,305 --> 00:15:12,796 That I should have given you this instead. 114 00:15:15,542 --> 00:15:18,204 I've never met anybody like you, Miss Fabray. 115 00:15:19,681 --> 00:15:22,987 I'd be honoured if you'd write to me at the military academy. 116 00:15:24,663 --> 00:15:25,960 I'd like that. 117 00:15:32,304 --> 00:15:34,465 Well, I suppose we should be going. 118 00:15:51,102 --> 00:15:52,933 Resolute is quite impressive, Justin. 119 00:15:52,934 --> 00:15:54,332 You are to be congratulated. 120 00:15:54,405 --> 00:15:56,677 Yes. I certainly hope your daughter 121 00:15:56,678 --> 00:15:58,636 shares your opinion, Nicholas. 122 00:15:58,809 --> 00:16:01,108 I confess I'm a bit worried. 123 00:16:01,778 --> 00:16:04,266 They should have arrived long before this. 124 00:16:04,267 --> 00:16:06,148 They probably got a late start. 125 00:16:06,550 --> 00:16:08,814 We've got plenty of time before dark. 126 00:16:08,885 --> 00:16:10,910 Why don't we have a julep while we're waiting? 127 00:16:10,987 --> 00:16:12,080 Very well. 128 00:16:28,717 --> 00:16:32,050 Papa, there's been a most terrible accident. 129 00:16:32,421 --> 00:16:33,911 What happened, Main? 130 00:16:35,023 --> 00:16:37,113 Their carriage horses slipped and bolted. 131 00:16:37,114 --> 00:16:39,016 Our carriage was thrown in the river. 132 00:16:39,093 --> 00:16:41,904 Monsieur Main, he risked his life to rescue us... 133 00:16:42,141 --> 00:16:45,702 and then he told me that he was a neighbour of Monsieur LaMotte's. 134 00:16:45,778 --> 00:16:47,576 I am most grateful, Monsieur. 135 00:16:47,648 --> 00:16:49,808 Please, sir, anybody would have done the same. 136 00:16:49,883 --> 00:16:52,317 What about Maum Sally and Villefranche? 137 00:16:52,685 --> 00:16:55,518 They're still with the carriage, Papa, but they're fine. 138 00:16:55,788 --> 00:16:57,983 I told them you'd send fresh horses. 139 00:16:58,392 --> 00:16:59,915 I'll do better than that. 140 00:16:59,993 --> 00:17:02,121 Nathaniel. Come over here, boy. 141 00:17:02,463 --> 00:17:04,124 I want you to organise a rescue party. 142 00:17:04,198 --> 00:17:07,405 I'd like to stay and help, but I'm afraid I have a steamer to catch. 143 00:17:07,479 --> 00:17:10,414 What a shame, but once again, Monsieur, my thanks. 144 00:17:11,816 --> 00:17:12,858 And mine. 145 00:17:14,452 --> 00:17:16,647 Now remember, you promised to write. 146 00:17:17,722 --> 00:17:18,764 I will. 147 00:17:23,094 --> 00:17:25,961 - Madeline, you must be exhausted. - I am, Papa. 148 00:17:26,031 --> 00:17:29,432 I have not properly introduced you to Monsieur LaMotte as yet. 149 00:18:21,776 --> 00:18:24,266 Station's over there. It's as far as I go. 150 00:18:57,468 --> 00:19:00,904 Well, ladies, goodbye. And I'll see you in two years. 151 00:19:06,877 --> 00:19:07,935 I'm sorry. 152 00:19:08,012 --> 00:19:10,879 You'll be needing help getting that to the station. 153 00:19:10,981 --> 00:19:14,007 - No, thank you. I can manage. - Will you listen to that? 154 00:19:15,987 --> 00:19:18,488 Where you are from, country boy? 155 00:19:20,902 --> 00:19:22,961 I'm from South Carolina. 156 00:19:23,271 --> 00:19:26,570 And going to West Point, or I don't know one when I see one. 157 00:19:27,944 --> 00:19:30,104 Yes, that's where I'm headed, so... 158 00:19:31,279 --> 00:19:34,646 if you could get your foot off my trunk. I got a train to catch. 159 00:19:35,685 --> 00:19:36,776 Thank you. 160 00:19:37,853 --> 00:19:40,083 Now listen here, soldier boy... 161 00:19:40,655 --> 00:19:42,891 me and my friends will get that on the 162 00:19:42,892 --> 00:19:44,899 train, or you'll go on without it. 163 00:19:46,639 --> 00:19:49,107 - How much to load it? - $2. 164 00:19:51,044 --> 00:19:53,034 It's worth maybe 25 cents. 165 00:19:55,682 --> 00:19:58,048 Who do you think you're talking to? 166 00:19:58,352 --> 00:20:00,843 We ain't no part of your slave labour. 167 00:20:01,955 --> 00:20:04,514 No, sir. No, you're not. 168 00:20:05,459 --> 00:20:08,986 So if you'll just stand aside, I'll handle it myself. 169 00:20:12,677 --> 00:20:15,168 We'll load it or you'll load it... 170 00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:17,849 the price is the same, $2. 171 00:20:18,349 --> 00:20:20,875 Don't put your hands on me again, sir. 172 00:20:20,985 --> 00:20:22,748 Or you'll what? 173 00:21:07,321 --> 00:21:08,720 Thanks. Orry Main. 174 00:21:09,590 --> 00:21:10,852 George Hazard. 175 00:21:16,364 --> 00:21:19,265 - Glad to know you. - Not as glad as I am to know you. 176 00:21:28,186 --> 00:21:30,052 Pennsylvania. Lehigh Station. 177 00:21:30,123 --> 00:21:32,647 South Carolina. I'm on my way to West Point. 178 00:21:33,992 --> 00:21:35,035 So am I. 179 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:39,923 I had no idea this trip would be so eventful. 180 00:22:04,201 --> 00:22:08,662 You're probably the first real Southerner I've ever met. 181 00:22:09,473 --> 00:22:11,304 You're my first damn Yankee. 182 00:22:12,409 --> 00:22:15,937 I used to think that all Yankees ever did... 183 00:22:16,246 --> 00:22:18,080 was peddle jackknives, tin ware, and 184 00:22:18,081 --> 00:22:20,017 try to beat their neighbours in court. 185 00:22:21,396 --> 00:22:23,388 Well, we've got some like that. 186 00:22:23,865 --> 00:22:26,835 And I guess there're probably some Southerners... 187 00:22:27,436 --> 00:22:29,482 who eat pork and collards, sleep all 188 00:22:29,483 --> 00:22:31,531 day and beat their slaves all night. 189 00:22:35,378 --> 00:22:38,244 Some of us do think slavery's outdated, you know... 190 00:22:38,413 --> 00:22:42,475 we favour more modern methods in spite of what some folks believe. 191 00:22:43,618 --> 00:22:44,779 I know that. 192 00:22:45,989 --> 00:22:47,864 My family owns an ironworks. 193 00:22:48,902 --> 00:22:51,962 We've got labour problems, too. 194 00:22:52,973 --> 00:22:57,103 - Hazard Iron? That's your family? - Yes. 195 00:22:57,944 --> 00:23:00,811 I hope you don't consider that peddling jackknives. 196 00:23:00,947 --> 00:23:03,616 No, not at all. You make farm machinery. 197 00:23:03,618 --> 00:23:04,660 Yeah. 198 00:23:08,121 --> 00:23:11,852 I believe that mechanisation is the key to the South's future. 199 00:23:13,104 --> 00:23:15,948 Sounds like you want to be a farmer, not a soldier. 200 00:23:15,949 --> 00:23:17,005 I do. 201 00:23:17,006 --> 00:23:19,003 Then why're you going to the Point? 202 00:23:20,645 --> 00:23:22,772 I want to learn something, George. 203 00:23:23,348 --> 00:23:25,076 The military academy... 204 00:23:25,283 --> 00:23:28,684 is the best all-round education a man can get in this country. 205 00:23:29,787 --> 00:23:31,880 I want to improve Mont Royal. 206 00:23:33,192 --> 00:23:35,456 Maybe even build a cotton mill. 207 00:23:39,308 --> 00:23:41,354 I've wanted to be a soldier all my life. 208 00:23:41,355 --> 00:23:43,302 Thank God I've got an older brother... 209 00:23:43,379 --> 00:23:46,507 who can take care of the ironworks, or I couldn't do this. 210 00:23:46,583 --> 00:23:49,050 - I think you'll be a good one. - I hope so. 211 00:23:52,188 --> 00:23:53,765 We'll have to be pretty tough to 212 00:23:53,766 --> 00:23:55,589 make it through West Point, though. 213 00:23:55,658 --> 00:23:57,387 No leave for two years... 214 00:23:57,693 --> 00:23:59,662 They say the hazing is hell. 215 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,571 I've never been too great at book learning. 216 00:24:07,748 --> 00:24:10,046 I just wonder if I'll make it through. 217 00:24:11,452 --> 00:24:13,215 You'll make it through. 218 00:24:15,022 --> 00:24:17,821 - I'll bet money on it. - You will? 219 00:24:19,961 --> 00:24:21,951 What are you doing? That's a $10 note. 220 00:24:22,029 --> 00:24:24,691 That's right. When you graduate from West Point... 221 00:24:24,765 --> 00:24:27,701 you give that half back to me, plus another $10. 222 00:24:29,136 --> 00:24:30,473 What if I don't graduate? 223 00:24:30,546 --> 00:24:33,519 Then I'll give you mine, but that's not gonna happen. 224 00:24:33,619 --> 00:24:35,712 This is one bet I'm going to win. 225 00:24:59,356 --> 00:25:02,190 I trust the wine is to your taste, Nicholas. 226 00:25:02,191 --> 00:25:03,760 A fine vintage, Justin. 227 00:25:06,997 --> 00:25:09,557 From France, of course, and quite costly. 228 00:25:10,334 --> 00:25:13,065 I have it shipped up by an importer on the Gulf. 229 00:25:13,270 --> 00:25:14,999 If there is a war with Mexico... 230 00:25:15,072 --> 00:25:17,633 it's going to play havoc with my wine cellar. 231 00:25:17,941 --> 00:25:21,399 You expect President Tyler to fight over Texas? 232 00:25:21,845 --> 00:25:25,054 He must, sir. It's a point of honour. 233 00:25:26,862 --> 00:25:28,889 Mexico repudiating its treaty, 234 00:25:28,890 --> 00:25:31,458 guaranteeing Texas its independence? 235 00:25:33,201 --> 00:25:36,603 Some say Mexico intends to sell Texas to Britain. 236 00:25:37,406 --> 00:25:39,897 Aren't those fears being exaggerated... 237 00:25:40,275 --> 00:25:43,573 by those who want Texas to enter the Union as a slave state? 238 00:25:44,346 --> 00:25:45,836 Where did you hear that, my dear? 239 00:25:45,914 --> 00:25:49,258 I encourage my daughter to read and question, sir. 240 00:25:49,563 --> 00:25:51,861 She has an excellent mind. 241 00:25:56,736 --> 00:25:59,534 A mind hardly seems necessary, Nicholas... 242 00:25:59,973 --> 00:26:02,100 when one has the face of an angel. 243 00:26:14,321 --> 00:26:15,856 Left, right, left. 244 00:26:25,744 --> 00:26:28,042 - Attention. - Fire. 245 00:26:32,517 --> 00:26:33,574 Fire. 246 00:26:43,573 --> 00:26:46,474 Once again, gentlemen. Charge. 247 00:26:47,277 --> 00:26:50,074 Move. Go, gentlemen, strike the melons. 248 00:26:53,683 --> 00:26:56,550 Ready. Fire. 249 00:27:00,223 --> 00:27:02,555 Charge cartridge. 250 00:27:05,628 --> 00:27:07,767 Draw sabres. 251 00:27:10,545 --> 00:27:11,587 Ram. 252 00:27:18,453 --> 00:27:21,115 This company can load and fire three times a minute. 253 00:27:24,158 --> 00:27:27,424 It's like I always knew it would be. 254 00:27:30,364 --> 00:27:31,525 Only better. 255 00:27:39,885 --> 00:27:42,410 Think we'll ever be able to learn all this? 256 00:27:43,122 --> 00:27:45,921 Are you joking? We'll be experts in no time. 257 00:27:46,892 --> 00:27:50,328 Well, so far, we haven't even been able to find our barracks. 258 00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:12,085 He looks helpful. Excuse me, sir. 259 00:28:12,163 --> 00:28:15,929 - My friends and I are plebes... - No, sir, you are not. 260 00:28:16,567 --> 00:28:19,195 - Sir? - You are things, sir. 261 00:28:19,637 --> 00:28:23,403 To become plebes, you must first survive the entrance examination. 262 00:28:23,641 --> 00:28:25,725 Until then, you are lower than plebes. 263 00:28:25,726 --> 00:28:27,383 You are the lowest of the low. 264 00:28:27,489 --> 00:28:29,616 You are things, sir. 265 00:28:30,826 --> 00:28:32,088 Remember that. 266 00:29:04,004 --> 00:29:06,734 I'm beginning to wish I'd never seen this trunk. 267 00:29:08,075 --> 00:29:11,442 - Here, these belong to you two. - Thank you. 268 00:29:19,698 --> 00:29:21,632 - I'm Ned Fisk. - George Hazard. 269 00:29:22,367 --> 00:29:24,358 Orry Main. Thank you. 270 00:29:27,372 --> 00:29:28,669 I come from Ohio. 271 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:32,107 Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania. I know, you've never heard of it. 272 00:29:32,177 --> 00:29:35,044 I'm from a place called Mont Royal, South Carolina. 273 00:29:38,383 --> 00:29:39,907 It's near Charleston. 274 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,826 You're a planter, are you? 275 00:29:44,701 --> 00:29:47,999 - My father is. We grow cotton. - With slave labour. 276 00:29:54,511 --> 00:29:56,411 You can sleep some place else. 277 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,076 I may have to be here with your kind, but I don't have to like it. 278 00:30:01,650 --> 00:30:05,051 - And just what's my kind, friend? - Slave owners. 279 00:30:09,127 --> 00:30:11,230 My pa's got a small tobacco farm. 280 00:30:12,607 --> 00:30:15,872 He can't get decent prices because of Southern competition. 281 00:30:16,044 --> 00:30:18,342 I had to wait two years to get here... 282 00:30:18,679 --> 00:30:21,079 because there was no money for the trip. 283 00:30:21,449 --> 00:30:23,940 That's unfortunate, but it is hardly my fault. 284 00:30:24,018 --> 00:30:25,417 The hell it isn't. 285 00:30:25,953 --> 00:30:28,820 It's yours and every slave owner's in this country. 286 00:30:30,691 --> 00:30:33,558 Well, there's nothing anybody can do about it here. 287 00:30:38,343 --> 00:30:42,075 So we'll just have to live and let live, all right? 288 00:31:12,356 --> 00:31:15,792 Your visit has been distressingly brief, Miss Fabray. 289 00:31:16,026 --> 00:31:17,823 Or may I call you Madeline? 290 00:31:19,063 --> 00:31:21,054 Yes, it has been a short visit. 291 00:31:21,665 --> 00:31:23,346 And I'm not sure that we know each 292 00:31:23,347 --> 00:31:25,328 other well enough for first names yet. 293 00:31:25,402 --> 00:31:28,143 Perhaps we should get to know each other better. 294 00:31:34,322 --> 00:31:36,291 - Good morning. - Good morning. 295 00:31:39,462 --> 00:31:41,649 You two seem to be enjoying yourselves. 296 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:43,057 It was a wonderful ride. 297 00:31:43,299 --> 00:31:45,859 It's a pity we have to leave this afternoon. 298 00:31:46,368 --> 00:31:49,236 You see, my dear? It's the opinion of the majority. 299 00:31:50,306 --> 00:31:51,967 And the majority rules. 300 00:31:53,749 --> 00:31:56,552 A well brought up young lady is ruled by her father. 301 00:31:56,622 --> 00:31:58,181 Isn't that right, Nicholas? 302 00:31:58,257 --> 00:32:01,625 Alas, I am ruled by my business appointments in Charleston... 303 00:32:01,695 --> 00:32:05,756 but, Justin, your hospitality has been beyond compare. 304 00:32:05,866 --> 00:32:07,389 We are most grateful. 305 00:32:07,734 --> 00:32:10,862 I promised Maum Sally I would supervise Villefranche. 306 00:32:11,171 --> 00:32:12,695 She is afraid... 307 00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:17,872 his injury has made him forget how to load a carriage. 308 00:32:18,512 --> 00:32:19,555 Shall I help, Papa? 309 00:32:19,616 --> 00:32:22,320 No. Enjoy your breakfast. I shan't be too long. 310 00:32:24,696 --> 00:32:27,688 Your father is very indulgent with his slaves. 311 00:32:29,234 --> 00:32:30,963 Maum Sally is our freed servant. 312 00:32:31,035 --> 00:32:34,005 And my father is kind to everyone, no matter who they are. 313 00:32:34,072 --> 00:32:35,164 Of course. 314 00:32:36,507 --> 00:32:39,101 Miss, I apologise. I'm most terrible sorry. 315 00:32:39,177 --> 00:32:42,544 Don't distress yourself, Nancy. I have to change anyway. 316 00:32:42,814 --> 00:32:45,146 - If you'll excuse me. - Of course. 317 00:32:57,874 --> 00:33:00,775 If that ever happens again, it'll be the whip. 318 00:33:50,515 --> 00:33:53,781 My name is Bent. 319 00:33:56,521 --> 00:33:57,886 Cadet Bent. 320 00:33:59,892 --> 00:34:01,359 I, sirs... 321 00:34:02,862 --> 00:34:04,636 am your drillmaster. 322 00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:14,575 Elkanah Bent, sirs, of the great and sovereign state of Georgia. 323 00:34:17,287 --> 00:34:19,916 And you, sir, are from Ohio. 324 00:34:20,824 --> 00:34:22,018 Yes, sir. 325 00:34:22,393 --> 00:34:24,861 - I can't hear you, sir. - Yes, sir. 326 00:34:25,430 --> 00:34:27,585 To most of us from the Southern states, 327 00:34:27,586 --> 00:34:29,365 the word Ohio means one thing... 328 00:34:29,666 --> 00:34:31,077 Oberlin College... 329 00:34:31,579 --> 00:34:33,843 where white and black students defy convention... 330 00:34:33,916 --> 00:34:35,907 by studying together as equals. 331 00:34:37,186 --> 00:34:40,087 You consider yourself the equal of a nigger, sir? 332 00:34:40,588 --> 00:34:43,251 No, sir. I mean, yes, sir. 333 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,576 What is your comment on that, sir? 334 00:34:58,086 --> 00:34:59,552 Or do you have one? 335 00:35:00,287 --> 00:35:01,447 No, I don't. 336 00:35:02,756 --> 00:35:06,248 You will reply, "No, I don't, sir." 337 00:35:07,261 --> 00:35:08,819 No, I don't, sir. 338 00:35:11,665 --> 00:35:12,962 Thank you, sir. 339 00:35:14,134 --> 00:35:16,864 I know how difficult that must have been, sir... 340 00:35:17,471 --> 00:35:20,804 because you gentlemen from South Carolina consider yourselves... 341 00:35:20,874 --> 00:35:23,854 superior to the gentlemen from Georgia, do you not, sir? 342 00:35:23,923 --> 00:35:26,357 - No, we don't, sir. - Good, sir. 343 00:35:28,194 --> 00:35:30,128 I'm pleased you agree with me. 344 00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:33,225 Surprised, but pleased, nonetheless. 345 00:35:36,469 --> 00:35:37,697 And you, sir. 346 00:35:39,405 --> 00:35:42,168 How do you feel about the South as compared with... 347 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,334 your section of the country, sir? 348 00:35:45,044 --> 00:35:46,738 The East, I believe? 349 00:35:48,088 --> 00:35:50,320 Which do you think superior, sir? 350 00:35:50,321 --> 00:35:51,686 Why, the East, sir. 351 00:35:54,664 --> 00:35:57,132 - What did you say? - I said, the East, sir. 352 00:35:57,367 --> 00:35:59,562 Nothing but dirt farmers down South. 353 00:36:00,837 --> 00:36:04,705 Present company excepted, sir. As always. 354 00:36:20,269 --> 00:36:21,496 Mr Hazard... 355 00:36:24,273 --> 00:36:26,263 the potmaker from Pennsylvania. 356 00:36:27,476 --> 00:36:29,409 You will step forward, sir. 357 00:36:31,447 --> 00:36:33,171 I shall use you to demonstrate a 358 00:36:33,172 --> 00:36:35,383 fundamental principle of marching, sir. 359 00:36:37,151 --> 00:36:38,448 And Mr Main... 360 00:36:39,790 --> 00:36:42,290 our hothouse lily from South Carolina. 361 00:36:44,003 --> 00:36:45,368 You seem amused. 362 00:36:46,339 --> 00:36:48,136 You step forward, too, sir. 363 00:37:09,273 --> 00:37:10,468 Now, sirs... 364 00:37:10,609 --> 00:37:12,544 you'll raise these buckets to your sides 365 00:37:12,545 --> 00:37:14,340 and keep them at a 90-degree angle... 366 00:37:14,412 --> 00:37:17,245 to your bodies at all times. Now, sirs. 367 00:37:19,016 --> 00:37:20,558 The principle of which I spoke is 368 00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,383 commonly called the goose step, sirs. 369 00:37:22,454 --> 00:37:25,651 On command, you will stand on one leg thus, your right leg, sirs. 370 00:37:25,724 --> 00:37:27,986 On the command, "Front," you will fling 371 00:37:27,987 --> 00:37:30,023 the raised leg forward, thus, sirs. 372 00:37:30,262 --> 00:37:32,063 Now, sirs, begin. 373 00:37:32,303 --> 00:37:36,836 Stand. And front. Down. Front. Down. 374 00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:42,013 Continue, sirs. 375 00:37:49,158 --> 00:37:52,251 Not one drop of water is to be spilled, sirs. 376 00:37:52,862 --> 00:37:54,454 Keep your arm up, sir. 377 00:38:00,481 --> 00:38:01,742 Arms up, Main. 378 00:38:11,625 --> 00:38:14,458 Arms up, sirs. Up, sirs. 379 00:38:18,565 --> 00:38:20,328 Get your legs down, sirs. 380 00:38:21,368 --> 00:38:23,064 Keep your arms up, sirs. 381 00:38:33,925 --> 00:38:36,087 Up, Main. Up, sirs. 382 00:38:40,799 --> 00:38:42,096 And up, sirs. 383 00:38:47,106 --> 00:38:49,301 Yes, sirs. Up, sirs. 384 00:38:50,011 --> 00:38:51,578 And continue, sirs. 385 00:39:02,566 --> 00:39:04,362 Let's see 90 degrees, sirs. 386 00:39:06,304 --> 00:39:08,464 Up, sir. 387 00:39:12,043 --> 00:39:13,566 No slacking off, sir. 388 00:39:42,186 --> 00:39:43,287 Halt, sir. 389 00:39:44,163 --> 00:39:45,859 Stay where you are, sir. 390 00:39:55,341 --> 00:39:57,104 Up on your feet, Mr Main. 391 00:39:57,944 --> 00:40:00,311 You have not yet mastered the principle. 392 00:40:12,069 --> 00:40:13,196 Cadet Bent. 393 00:40:14,406 --> 00:40:16,670 These two men have been drilled sufficiently. 394 00:40:16,741 --> 00:40:19,574 You will return them to rank, sir, and dismiss the squad. 395 00:40:19,644 --> 00:40:20,686 Yes, sir. 396 00:40:27,585 --> 00:40:28,847 Fall in, sirs. 397 00:40:36,939 --> 00:40:39,840 Squad dismissed. 398 00:40:52,121 --> 00:40:55,751 Good for you, boys. You stood up to him. Called his bluff. 399 00:40:56,258 --> 00:40:57,658 Call that a bluff? 400 00:40:58,227 --> 00:41:01,104 By the way, Hazard, we haven't really met. My name is George. 401 00:41:01,174 --> 00:41:02,216 So is mine. 402 00:41:02,276 --> 00:41:03,970 That makes three. I'm George McClellan. 403 00:41:04,044 --> 00:41:06,069 And I'm George Pickett, from Virginia. 404 00:41:06,146 --> 00:41:09,707 So am I. From Virginia, that is. Tom Jackson. 405 00:41:10,818 --> 00:41:14,049 - Are you all right, Mr Main? - Fine, Tom. The name's Orry. 406 00:41:14,455 --> 00:41:17,446 That Cadet Bent is a little tetched, I think. 407 00:41:19,059 --> 00:41:21,721 Thank God for that upperclassman, whoever he was. 408 00:41:21,795 --> 00:41:24,788 His name is Ulysses, but they call him Sam. Sam Grant. 409 00:42:35,770 --> 00:42:39,171 The mail, sir. One for you and one for Miss Madeline. 410 00:42:39,241 --> 00:42:40,832 Thank you, Maum Sally. 411 00:42:54,467 --> 00:42:56,800 I have something for you, child. 412 00:42:57,737 --> 00:43:00,605 Why didn't you tell me there was a letter for me this morning? 413 00:43:00,673 --> 00:43:02,665 Because I only just arrived. 414 00:43:05,078 --> 00:43:08,877 Now, who or what could be so important? 415 00:43:13,398 --> 00:43:15,977 He says he's always thinking of me, and 416 00:43:15,978 --> 00:43:18,301 that he can't wait to see me again. 417 00:43:19,137 --> 00:43:22,265 "Even though the training at the academy is sometimes... 418 00:43:23,574 --> 00:43:24,802 "merciless... 419 00:43:29,113 --> 00:43:30,706 "the thought that..." 420 00:43:33,985 --> 00:43:37,763 The thought that I'll be here when he gets home helps him through it. 421 00:43:39,101 --> 00:43:42,265 He says a whole lot for such a short acquaintance. 422 00:43:49,312 --> 00:43:51,006 What else he got to say? 423 00:43:53,015 --> 00:43:56,247 You're mighty taken with that Mr Main, aren't you? 424 00:43:57,553 --> 00:43:59,818 Madeline, dear, may I speak with you? 425 00:44:00,489 --> 00:44:01,650 Yes, Papa. 426 00:44:02,291 --> 00:44:04,601 Justin LaMotte has written to say... 427 00:44:04,672 --> 00:44:07,835 he will be here in Charleston on business the first of the month. 428 00:44:07,908 --> 00:44:10,308 He asks permission to call on us. 429 00:44:11,579 --> 00:44:12,739 Well, that's fine. 430 00:44:12,813 --> 00:44:16,078 I'll have something special prepared for dinner that night. 431 00:44:18,452 --> 00:44:21,478 I hope you will be as pleased to see Justin as I will. 432 00:44:23,324 --> 00:44:26,020 Of course, Papa. He's your friend. 433 00:44:57,981 --> 00:44:59,573 Mr Fisk, sir. 434 00:45:01,351 --> 00:45:03,581 You hold your sabre like a hose, sir. 435 00:45:06,223 --> 00:45:09,192 You parry as though you were scaring crows, Mr Fisk. 436 00:45:10,427 --> 00:45:13,726 You are nothing more than a miserable, clumsy little farmer. 437 00:45:14,198 --> 00:45:16,962 But I'm supposed to make a soldier out of you. 438 00:45:17,034 --> 00:45:18,076 En garde. 439 00:45:21,208 --> 00:45:23,651 Set yourself down. Bend your elbow. 440 00:45:25,187 --> 00:45:26,710 Straighten your knee. 441 00:45:29,024 --> 00:45:30,924 I said, bend your elbow, sir. 442 00:45:48,622 --> 00:45:51,853 Your head, Mr Fisk. Parry. Seconde. 443 00:45:52,157 --> 00:45:56,356 Point. Parry seconde. Seconde. Point. Parry seconde. 444 00:46:03,069 --> 00:46:05,037 You're a joke, Mr Fisk. 445 00:46:05,572 --> 00:46:08,063 On the battlefield, you'd be cut to ribbons. 446 00:46:09,109 --> 00:46:10,406 And rightly so. 447 00:46:12,045 --> 00:46:13,173 You, sir... 448 00:46:14,056 --> 00:46:17,119 are the sorriest excuse for a soldier I have ever seen. 449 00:46:31,910 --> 00:46:34,776 All right, sirs. Who shall we have next? 450 00:46:39,084 --> 00:46:40,824 Let's have you, Mr Main. 451 00:46:42,432 --> 00:46:44,423 At your service, sir. 452 00:46:48,171 --> 00:46:50,036 My pleasure. 453 00:48:21,765 --> 00:48:23,564 Drummer, sound mess call. 454 00:48:49,403 --> 00:48:51,883 Squad dismissed. 455 00:48:56,990 --> 00:49:00,357 Where did you learn how to handle a sword like that? 456 00:49:00,627 --> 00:49:02,390 My father thought it was something... 457 00:49:02,462 --> 00:49:05,761 every Southern gentleman should know, so he gave me lessons. 458 00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:08,331 You sure gave Bent a lesson. 459 00:49:54,870 --> 00:49:56,839 Look, child. 460 00:49:56,906 --> 00:50:01,536 These were the cuttings Mr LaMotte sent from Resolute last fall. 461 00:50:02,245 --> 00:50:04,076 They're very pretty. 462 00:50:06,549 --> 00:50:08,319 You look so sad. 463 00:50:09,397 --> 00:50:12,092 Still thinking about Orry Main? 464 00:50:15,403 --> 00:50:18,997 I can't seem to do anything else, Maum Sally. 465 00:50:22,976 --> 00:50:25,206 His letters were so wonderful. 466 00:50:26,748 --> 00:50:28,883 I think they were part of the reason 467 00:50:28,884 --> 00:50:30,616 that I fell in love with him. 468 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,419 But he doesn't write any more. 469 00:50:36,268 --> 00:50:38,566 You got to forget about him. 470 00:50:39,672 --> 00:50:43,608 Young men always making promises they never going to keep. 471 00:50:45,978 --> 00:50:48,003 That's what Papa says. 472 00:50:49,248 --> 00:50:51,649 "Soldiers have wandering hearts." 473 00:50:52,117 --> 00:50:55,678 He tells me I should forget him, but I can't, Maum Sally. 474 00:50:56,488 --> 00:50:58,683 I can't, no matter what I do. 475 00:51:02,505 --> 00:51:05,872 Madeline, it seems our guest has arrived early. 476 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,839 He says he could not deny himself the 477 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,075 pleasure of our company any longer. 478 00:51:14,852 --> 00:51:17,582 Monsieur LaMotte, how nice to see you again. 479 00:51:17,655 --> 00:51:20,215 You're more lovely than ever, Miss Fabray. 480 00:51:20,623 --> 00:51:23,285 But I do wish you would call me Justin. 481 00:51:23,893 --> 00:51:26,769 I think it is proper, my dear, after all this time. 482 00:51:27,809 --> 00:51:29,174 As you wish. 483 00:51:30,045 --> 00:51:31,088 Justin. 484 00:51:32,613 --> 00:51:33,740 Splendid. 485 00:51:35,016 --> 00:51:38,918 I will tell Uncle John to have an extra place set for dinner, sir. 486 00:51:40,021 --> 00:51:41,579 Thank you, Maum Sally. 487 00:51:41,790 --> 00:51:45,021 Justin, I've been saving a very interesting brandy for you. 488 00:51:45,093 --> 00:51:46,897 If you'll excuse me, I will have it 489 00:51:46,898 --> 00:51:48,551 brought up from the wine cellar. 490 00:51:48,630 --> 00:51:50,359 You're too kind, Nicholas. 491 00:51:56,984 --> 00:52:00,976 I know it isn't proper, but I took the liberty of bringing you this. 492 00:52:01,522 --> 00:52:02,852 I hope you'll accept it. 493 00:52:02,923 --> 00:52:05,357 That was very thoughtful of you... 494 00:52:06,759 --> 00:52:07,987 Justin. 495 00:52:11,265 --> 00:52:14,597 I really shouldn't accept it, but I love surprises. 496 00:52:24,389 --> 00:52:26,788 It's beautiful. Thank you. 497 00:52:27,358 --> 00:52:29,519 Not half so beautiful as you. 498 00:53:06,842 --> 00:53:09,069 I'll never make it, George. Mahan is 499 00:53:09,070 --> 00:53:11,117 gonna eat me alive in that class. 500 00:53:13,561 --> 00:53:15,494 I wasn't cut out for West Point. 501 00:53:15,563 --> 00:53:18,999 Don't say that. You ride a horse better than any man here. 502 00:53:19,267 --> 00:53:20,859 You're a good marksman. 503 00:53:21,502 --> 00:53:23,696 Lord knows, you're handy with a sabre. 504 00:53:23,770 --> 00:53:26,763 That won't do any good if I can't remember what's in these books. 505 00:53:26,841 --> 00:53:28,833 I'll get you through it. We'll drill 506 00:53:28,834 --> 00:53:30,504 it till you know it backwards. 507 00:53:32,346 --> 00:53:34,438 It doesn't seem any use right now. 508 00:53:35,483 --> 00:53:37,690 I don't even want to be a soldier. 509 00:53:37,764 --> 00:53:40,790 But you want to improve Mont Royal, don't you? 510 00:53:42,734 --> 00:53:44,759 Maybe I should find another way. 511 00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:53,335 I think there's something else that's bothering you. 512 00:53:57,115 --> 00:54:00,949 And I don't think it has anything to do with military history. 513 00:54:04,435 --> 00:54:07,461 How long has it been since you've heard from Madeline? 514 00:54:12,509 --> 00:54:14,568 - Fisk. - Ned. 515 00:54:25,356 --> 00:54:27,585 I thought you'd gotten used to us, Fisk. 516 00:54:27,658 --> 00:54:30,400 I haven't heard you talk about moving to another barracks... 517 00:54:30,473 --> 00:54:32,600 I'm not moving to another barracks. 518 00:54:33,408 --> 00:54:35,706 I have to resign from the academy. 519 00:54:38,279 --> 00:54:40,372 My pa took a fall from a hayloft. 520 00:54:41,182 --> 00:54:43,673 Laid him up real bad. 521 00:54:45,020 --> 00:54:48,888 They need me to run the farm because there's nobody else. 522 00:54:51,259 --> 00:54:53,694 I'm sorry, Fisk. That's tough luck. 523 00:54:56,677 --> 00:54:58,872 If there's anything we can do... 524 00:55:01,048 --> 00:55:05,075 You could help, Mr Planter's son, but you won't. 525 00:55:05,786 --> 00:55:09,846 You're gonna keep on working your slaves and undercutting prices... 526 00:55:09,922 --> 00:55:13,086 so that folks like us will always live hand-to-mouth. 527 00:55:13,627 --> 00:55:15,720 You can save your sympathy. 528 00:55:16,729 --> 00:55:19,096 Put it in the bank with all your money. 529 00:55:43,634 --> 00:55:46,765 Come on, what do you say to a trip to Benny Havens? 530 00:55:46,842 --> 00:55:49,683 - This hour? - You need a bracer, don't you? 531 00:55:50,619 --> 00:55:54,350 We already have more demerits than any other two men in our class. 532 00:55:54,523 --> 00:55:55,923 Over 150 each. 533 00:55:55,991 --> 00:55:57,652 And whose fault is that? 534 00:55:58,595 --> 00:56:00,756 All right, so those demerits came from Bent. 535 00:56:00,830 --> 00:56:04,458 Just the same, over 200 skins in one year, and we're out. 536 00:56:04,834 --> 00:56:06,374 And if we're caught at Benny's... 537 00:56:06,375 --> 00:56:07,417 We won't get caught. 538 00:56:07,436 --> 00:56:09,377 Who would be crazy enough to go out 539 00:56:09,378 --> 00:56:11,372 on a night as cold as this? Come on. 540 00:56:22,763 --> 00:56:24,526 Careful. That ice is soft. 541 00:56:24,598 --> 00:56:25,826 George, you're right. 542 00:56:25,901 --> 00:56:29,063 Who would be crazy enough to go out on a night like this? 543 00:56:41,226 --> 00:56:43,786 Here we are. Now, you just face the wall there. 544 00:56:43,862 --> 00:56:45,523 You come around here. 545 00:56:47,332 --> 00:56:48,890 Now, remember what I said. 546 00:56:48,967 --> 00:56:51,049 Don't face one another and that will 547 00:56:51,050 --> 00:56:53,132 take care of your boys' honour code. 548 00:56:53,272 --> 00:56:57,834 So if an officer was to ask you if you'd seen one another drinking... 549 00:56:57,910 --> 00:57:01,937 you could swear on oath that you hadn't seen nothing. 550 00:57:06,028 --> 00:57:07,394 Thank you, Benny. 551 00:57:07,731 --> 00:57:09,028 To your health. 552 00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:17,464 George, listen. I've been thinking. 553 00:57:18,343 --> 00:57:20,537 We could make things right for Fisk. 554 00:57:21,044 --> 00:57:22,170 How's that? 555 00:57:23,313 --> 00:57:25,110 We both get allowances. 556 00:57:25,315 --> 00:57:28,148 We could give him the money to hire somebody to run his farm. 557 00:57:28,218 --> 00:57:30,243 Then he could stay at the Point. 558 00:57:32,199 --> 00:57:35,328 Fisk is too proud. He wouldn't accept charity like that. 559 00:57:36,238 --> 00:57:39,035 Yes, he will. If we make it a loan. 560 00:57:39,307 --> 00:57:42,004 We'll just give him a long time to pay it back. 561 00:57:43,345 --> 00:57:46,142 Might leave us a little short of cash, though... 562 00:57:47,383 --> 00:57:48,906 but it would sure be worth it. 563 00:57:48,984 --> 00:57:51,452 You're right. It would. 564 00:57:55,391 --> 00:57:56,881 Let's do it. 565 00:58:01,408 --> 00:58:03,137 Now don't you feel better? 566 00:58:03,811 --> 00:58:05,574 Yes. A little. 567 00:58:10,484 --> 00:58:12,611 I just keep thinking... 568 00:58:13,387 --> 00:58:14,429 No. 569 00:58:15,022 --> 00:58:16,319 About Madeline? 570 00:58:20,227 --> 00:58:23,099 I just don't understand why she doesn't answer my letters. 571 00:58:23,169 --> 00:58:26,576 There could be a hundred reasons. You hardly know her. 572 00:58:27,779 --> 00:58:30,543 I know her well enough to believe that she... 573 00:58:31,616 --> 00:58:32,981 What is it? 574 00:58:34,686 --> 00:58:35,881 Nobody. 575 00:58:36,856 --> 00:58:39,255 Just a civilian from the village. 576 00:58:40,392 --> 00:58:43,520 Don't you do that to me. You took 10 years off my life. 577 00:58:47,299 --> 00:58:48,630 You boys best get moving. 578 00:58:48,702 --> 00:58:51,408 Just seen the Corporal go round to the back door. 579 00:58:56,553 --> 00:58:57,595 Damn. 580 00:58:57,654 --> 00:58:58,697 Go. 581 00:59:20,923 --> 00:59:22,321 Stop, you there. 582 00:59:29,030 --> 00:59:30,760 The path's up ahead. 583 00:59:37,071 --> 00:59:38,265 George. 584 00:59:38,339 --> 00:59:40,331 Help. 585 00:59:40,475 --> 00:59:42,215 He's fallen through. 586 00:59:43,723 --> 00:59:45,213 Good, that ought to slow him down. 587 00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:48,021 George, we can't leave him here. He might drown. 588 00:59:48,327 --> 00:59:50,387 I was afraid you'd say that. 589 00:59:50,463 --> 00:59:51,725 Help me. 590 00:59:52,131 --> 00:59:54,724 Careful, George. It's cracked. Lie down. 591 00:59:56,169 --> 00:59:58,865 Hold on, Bent. We'll get you. 592 01:00:00,006 --> 01:00:01,303 Take my hand. 593 01:00:43,339 --> 01:00:46,467 Come on. Bent, you can't stay here. 594 01:00:47,109 --> 01:00:50,168 Bent, you got to get back to your barracks. You'll get pneumonia. 595 01:00:50,246 --> 01:00:52,271 I know. 596 01:00:53,382 --> 01:00:55,680 I can make it without any help... 597 01:00:56,652 --> 01:00:58,552 from either of you two. 598 01:01:06,974 --> 01:01:09,807 That gracious "thank you" made it all worthwhile. 599 01:01:11,378 --> 01:01:14,439 At least he can't put us on report. We saved his life. 600 01:01:15,249 --> 01:01:18,548 Don't let that get around the barracks, or we're in trouble. 601 01:01:25,463 --> 01:01:27,336 You sound awful, Orry. 602 01:01:27,406 --> 01:01:29,533 You really should report to the medical officer. 603 01:01:29,608 --> 01:01:30,973 I'm fine, George. 604 01:01:35,714 --> 01:01:39,445 Hazard, Main. You have both been placed on report, sirs. 605 01:01:43,622 --> 01:01:44,816 Bent. 606 01:01:45,624 --> 01:01:47,819 He really did report us. 607 01:01:48,260 --> 01:01:50,990 After saving his life. Can you beat that? 608 01:01:59,416 --> 01:02:00,643 Come in. 609 01:02:06,356 --> 01:02:07,984 What do you want, Main? 610 01:02:08,525 --> 01:02:10,857 Request permission to report to the infirmary, sir. 611 01:02:10,927 --> 01:02:13,293 Why? You look healthy enough to me. 612 01:02:14,531 --> 01:02:16,261 I think I'm very ill, sir. 613 01:02:16,333 --> 01:02:18,436 I think you're a malingerer, Main. 614 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:22,181 I think you just want to avoid your assigned duties. 615 01:02:22,317 --> 01:02:23,682 Corporal Bent, I swear... 616 01:02:23,752 --> 01:02:26,311 Permission to report to the infirmary denied. 617 01:02:28,455 --> 01:02:31,425 Now I'll show you what happens to shirkers, Mr Main. 618 01:02:31,693 --> 01:02:35,459 As of right now, you start 10 hours of extra guard duty. 619 01:02:38,633 --> 01:02:41,863 You are dismissed, sir. 620 01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:33,042 - Cadet Grant, isn't it? - It is. 621 01:03:34,112 --> 01:03:36,647 What are you doing out here in this weather? 622 01:03:36,892 --> 01:03:38,827 Working off demerits, sir. 623 01:03:39,028 --> 01:03:41,758 You're a sick man. You should be in the hospital. 624 01:03:42,031 --> 01:03:44,761 No, sir. Thank you, sir. I'm all right. 625 01:03:46,502 --> 01:03:49,403 Shall I ask a tactical officer to have you relieved? 626 01:03:51,507 --> 01:03:52,735 No, sir. 627 01:03:54,143 --> 01:03:56,839 I have to work off these demerits, sir. 628 01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,240 You'll make a good soldier, Mr Main... 629 01:04:00,316 --> 01:04:02,727 if Corporal Bent doesn't kill you first. 630 01:04:41,580 --> 01:04:43,657 If Grant hadn't had that tactical 631 01:04:43,658 --> 01:04:46,176 officer send someone to relieve you... 632 01:04:46,251 --> 01:04:48,310 you might have frozen to death. 633 01:04:48,387 --> 01:04:50,355 We should have let Bent freeze. 634 01:04:51,923 --> 01:04:54,329 You're the one who insisted we go back. 635 01:04:56,173 --> 01:04:58,903 Anyhow, it's better that it turned out this way. 636 01:04:59,009 --> 01:05:01,978 Grant and his friends are keeping their eyes on Bent. 637 01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:04,171 That will make him ease up on us. 638 01:05:04,281 --> 01:05:07,182 Don't you think that somehow in Bent's twisted mind... 639 01:05:07,251 --> 01:05:09,651 he'll see that as our fault and come down even harder? 640 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:10,762 No. 641 01:05:11,021 --> 01:05:13,614 He's too much of a coward to go up against Grant. 642 01:05:13,689 --> 01:05:15,714 He'd rather bully underclassmen. 643 01:05:16,093 --> 01:05:18,459 I never met anybody like him before. 644 01:05:19,664 --> 01:05:21,802 I believe the word is "bent." 645 01:05:25,947 --> 01:05:28,973 There's another reason why I'm glad you didn't freeze. 646 01:05:30,418 --> 01:05:31,749 What's that? 647 01:05:34,489 --> 01:05:38,016 I wanted to thank you for loaning me the money to stay here. 648 01:05:39,527 --> 01:05:42,621 I guess I might have been wrong about Southerners. 649 01:05:45,500 --> 01:05:48,709 Maybe some of them. But remember, Bent's from Georgia. 650 01:05:49,482 --> 01:05:50,525 Yes. 651 01:05:52,952 --> 01:05:53,995 George. 652 01:05:55,121 --> 01:05:57,248 - Would you mail that for me? - Sure. 653 01:05:57,824 --> 01:05:59,757 Still wooing Madeline? 654 01:06:02,729 --> 01:06:05,595 - If she doesn't write me soon... - I'm sure she will. 655 01:06:06,266 --> 01:06:08,397 But even if she doesn't, I've still 656 01:06:08,398 --> 01:06:10,293 got a sister who's not married. 657 01:06:13,250 --> 01:06:14,741 We've got to go. 658 01:06:17,989 --> 01:06:19,032 Goodbye. 659 01:06:26,764 --> 01:06:28,732 Hello, Mr McCullough. 660 01:06:31,936 --> 01:06:35,337 Our foundry's down here, and there's the new library building. 661 01:06:38,549 --> 01:06:41,580 Mum. Dad. They're here. 662 01:06:47,262 --> 01:06:48,320 This is your house? 663 01:06:48,397 --> 01:06:49,830 Hi, George. 664 01:06:53,268 --> 01:06:55,066 George, hello. 665 01:06:56,038 --> 01:06:57,267 Come on. 666 01:06:57,774 --> 01:06:58,900 At last. 667 01:07:08,429 --> 01:07:10,920 - Hello, Mother. - Welcome home, son. 668 01:07:11,365 --> 01:07:12,956 Doesn't he look grand? 669 01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:15,159 I thought we'd never get here. 670 01:07:15,236 --> 01:07:17,397 Those were the longest two years of my life. 671 01:07:17,471 --> 01:07:19,485 It's good to have you here, George. 672 01:07:19,486 --> 01:07:20,529 Thank you, sir. 673 01:07:21,108 --> 01:07:24,100 I want you to meet my parents. This is Maude and William Hazard. 674 01:07:24,178 --> 01:07:25,221 How do you do? 675 01:07:25,246 --> 01:07:27,009 It's a pleasure. Welcome to Belvedere. 676 01:07:27,010 --> 01:07:28,053 Thank you. 677 01:07:28,054 --> 01:07:29,943 George has written us so much about you. 678 01:07:30,018 --> 01:07:31,552 It's kind of you to have me here. 679 01:07:31,630 --> 01:07:33,894 And these are my brothers, Stanley... 680 01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:35,690 and this is Billy. 681 01:07:36,502 --> 01:07:39,368 - Are those real sabres? - Here, take a look. 682 01:07:39,638 --> 01:07:42,039 Don't touch that, Billy. It's dangerous. 683 01:07:45,744 --> 01:07:48,235 My brother obviously forgot to introduce me, Mr Main. 684 01:07:48,314 --> 01:07:49,644 Of course not. 685 01:07:50,783 --> 01:07:52,306 I'm Virgilia Hazard. 686 01:07:52,384 --> 01:07:54,477 Pleased to meet you, Miss Hazard. 687 01:07:55,553 --> 01:07:57,555 I've heard so much about you. 688 01:07:58,602 --> 01:08:00,900 George tells us you're a Southerner. 689 01:08:02,004 --> 01:08:03,996 Yes. From South Carolina. 690 01:08:04,174 --> 01:08:05,903 Do you keep slaves? 691 01:08:10,314 --> 01:08:12,179 My family does, yes. 692 01:08:13,850 --> 01:08:15,647 Are you evil, Mr Main? 693 01:08:16,186 --> 01:08:17,983 Oh, no. Not again. 694 01:08:20,357 --> 01:08:21,654 Virgilia. 695 01:08:23,033 --> 01:08:25,904 Great men like Mr Garrison keep trying to show Southerners... 696 01:08:25,973 --> 01:08:28,499 the evil they're doing. And it's our duty to take... 697 01:08:28,577 --> 01:08:29,620 Virgilia. 698 01:08:29,677 --> 01:08:31,241 I thought I asked you to stop 699 01:08:31,242 --> 01:08:33,239 reading that abolitionist nonsense. 700 01:08:33,681 --> 01:08:36,776 It's not nonsense, Father. It's God's truth. 701 01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:39,964 I'm afraid her causes are Virgilia's way 702 01:08:39,965 --> 01:08:41,912 of making up for not being born a man. 703 01:08:41,989 --> 01:08:44,617 Don't you patronise me, Stanley Hazard. 704 01:08:44,692 --> 01:08:46,887 That will be enough, Virgilia. 705 01:08:46,994 --> 01:08:49,513 Now, I think we should all go indoors. 706 01:08:49,514 --> 01:08:50,805 Yes, by all means. 707 01:08:51,277 --> 01:08:53,836 I hear congratulations are in order for you. 708 01:08:53,913 --> 01:08:55,744 Mother wrote that you were engaged... 709 01:08:55,814 --> 01:08:57,908 but she didn't tell me who the lucky girl was. 710 01:08:57,983 --> 01:09:00,544 My fiancée is Miss Isabel Truscott... 711 01:09:00,619 --> 01:09:03,350 from one of the best families in Pennsylvania. 712 01:09:03,423 --> 01:09:04,913 I've no doubt. 713 01:09:05,425 --> 01:09:08,622 George wrote that you might be interested in seeing the foundry. 714 01:09:08,695 --> 01:09:12,222 Yes, sir. I want to know all there is to know about Hazard Iron. 715 01:09:45,922 --> 01:09:48,686 It's the busiest operation of its kind in the country. 716 01:09:48,758 --> 01:09:50,578 Our boilerplates wind up on everything 717 01:09:50,579 --> 01:09:51,886 from ships to fire engines. 718 01:09:51,961 --> 01:09:53,986 Anything that uses a steam generator. 719 01:09:54,062 --> 01:09:56,964 - Like a cotton mill? - Like 10 or 12 of them. 720 01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,100 I take it you found that impressive. 721 01:09:59,167 --> 01:10:01,568 More than that, sir. Your foundry is a revelation. 722 01:10:01,637 --> 01:10:04,800 I'm sure it's a good idea to build a cotton mill in South Carolina. 723 01:10:04,874 --> 01:10:07,109 I just hope I can make my father see that. 724 01:10:07,182 --> 01:10:09,747 Surely he must be aware that the economy of the South... 725 01:10:09,823 --> 01:10:12,883 would be much stronger if more cotton were processed there. 726 01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:17,294 Yes, sir. But he has a very strong bias against any form of industry. 727 01:10:17,532 --> 01:10:19,396 My God. That's a shame. 728 01:10:19,801 --> 01:10:22,428 Father, I think this requires your attention. 729 01:10:22,637 --> 01:10:24,797 Would you excuse me for just a moment, please? 730 01:10:24,872 --> 01:10:25,931 Yes, sir. 731 01:10:30,711 --> 01:10:33,381 - Who lives there? - Our workers. 732 01:10:33,957 --> 01:10:36,252 Immigrants mostly. Irish, German, 733 01:10:36,253 --> 01:10:38,828 Welsh. A lot more than when I left. 734 01:10:49,341 --> 01:10:51,010 I know. They're not much better 735 01:10:51,011 --> 01:10:53,004 than your slave quarters, are they? 736 01:10:53,078 --> 01:10:54,306 They're worse. 737 01:10:56,047 --> 01:10:59,021 At least our workers have a choice. We don't own them. 738 01:10:59,088 --> 01:11:02,793 We don't force them to work here. They can leave whenever they want. 739 01:11:03,968 --> 01:11:07,403 An empty belly is a pretty good reason to stay. 740 01:11:08,805 --> 01:11:12,468 Are you saying that you don't like the way that we run the foundry? 741 01:11:14,778 --> 01:11:17,406 I don't have to like everything about... 742 01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:20,779 what you do any more than you have to like everything we do. 743 01:11:22,953 --> 01:11:24,684 I guess you're right. 744 01:11:25,562 --> 01:11:28,933 I guess there's probably room for improvement on both sides. 745 01:11:29,071 --> 01:11:31,334 I know there is. That's why I wanted 746 01:11:31,335 --> 01:11:33,598 to visit and learn from you Yankees. 747 01:11:34,208 --> 01:11:37,041 You're really serious about this cotton mill, aren't you? 748 01:11:37,211 --> 01:11:40,477 After the army, I'm dead serious if I can talk my father into it. 749 01:11:40,549 --> 01:11:44,007 If Hazard Iron supplies the parts, you won't get a better deal. 750 01:11:44,353 --> 01:11:47,150 I'm planning on using that argument on my father. 751 01:11:54,675 --> 01:11:57,404 They sure don't feed us like this at West Point. 752 01:11:57,678 --> 01:12:00,077 I'm glad you were the one who was there. 753 01:12:01,047 --> 01:12:02,605 Soup, Mr Stanley. 754 01:12:03,016 --> 01:12:05,883 - Late again, Billy. - Sorry, sir. 755 01:12:06,954 --> 01:12:10,081 Now, don't forget to put your napkin on your lap, Billy. 756 01:12:17,435 --> 01:12:19,466 Salt and pepper, Mr Main? 757 01:12:21,780 --> 01:12:24,908 - Thank you, Miss Truscott. - You're welcome, Mr Main. 758 01:12:24,983 --> 01:12:27,212 I'm sorry you have to leave so soon. 759 01:12:28,319 --> 01:12:30,751 Yes, there's a friend I have to see 760 01:12:30,752 --> 01:12:33,052 in Charleston before I head home. 761 01:12:34,191 --> 01:12:35,921 A friend, Mr Main? 762 01:12:37,761 --> 01:12:39,786 I think it must be a lady. 763 01:12:40,030 --> 01:12:42,498 And how do your instructors feel about your president? 764 01:12:42,566 --> 01:12:45,103 Well, sir, they like him. Even when they don't agree... 765 01:12:45,181 --> 01:12:47,843 But I've enjoyed my stay here very much. 766 01:12:49,351 --> 01:12:52,149 Have you read something on Mr Polk's views? 767 01:12:53,255 --> 01:12:57,248 I think that Polk will annex Texas if he's elected president. 768 01:12:57,660 --> 01:12:59,992 After all, he's a committed expansionist. 769 01:13:00,062 --> 01:13:03,031 But it's wrong. Texas belongs to Mexico. 770 01:13:03,666 --> 01:13:06,726 And if he does, there will be war. 771 01:13:08,104 --> 01:13:11,847 I just hope that Orry and I don't graduate too late to fight it. 772 01:13:12,519 --> 01:13:15,113 They say we'll see action with Gen. Zachary Taylor. 773 01:13:15,188 --> 01:13:16,815 Wouldn't that be something? 774 01:13:16,890 --> 01:13:19,621 Mr Polk believes in Manifest Destiny, all right. 775 01:13:19,694 --> 01:13:21,059 If this country is to stretch... 776 01:13:21,129 --> 01:13:24,155 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, there will be plenty of action. 777 01:13:24,232 --> 01:13:25,275 We know that. 778 01:13:25,333 --> 01:13:28,427 Unless God strikes him dead first, which he deserves. 779 01:13:38,323 --> 01:13:39,984 Can't any of you see? 780 01:13:40,058 --> 01:13:41,685 Expansionism is just another name... 781 01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:44,923 for perpetuating the foul institution of slavery. 782 01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:50,295 Virgilia, be quiet. 783 01:13:50,836 --> 01:13:52,895 No, Mother. Not this time. 784 01:13:54,173 --> 01:13:55,996 I can't just sit by and listen to 785 01:13:55,997 --> 01:13:58,041 my own brother and a slave owner... 786 01:13:58,109 --> 01:14:01,046 tell us how eager they are to fight... 787 01:14:01,115 --> 01:14:03,957 when everyone knows that this a devil's war. 788 01:14:05,296 --> 01:14:08,493 George, to annex Texas as a slave state... 789 01:14:08,566 --> 01:14:11,728 I see you're still reading your abolitionists, Virgilia. 790 01:14:11,868 --> 01:14:14,201 I'm doing more than reading, George. 791 01:14:14,904 --> 01:14:18,567 I've joined their cause, and my allowance goes to support it. 792 01:14:19,376 --> 01:14:20,418 Virgilia. 793 01:14:20,744 --> 01:14:22,370 I have a right, Father. 794 01:14:22,746 --> 01:14:25,806 I'm a grown woman, and I must decide for myself now. 795 01:14:27,118 --> 01:14:30,791 And I will fight the ungodly evil that lives in the South. 796 01:14:30,866 --> 01:14:32,026 Miss Hazard... 797 01:14:34,469 --> 01:14:37,165 Perhaps if you knew more about our Southern way of life... 798 01:14:37,239 --> 01:14:39,730 you wouldn't be so quick to condemn. 799 01:14:39,875 --> 01:14:44,312 Mr Main, I know all I need to know. 800 01:14:48,149 --> 01:14:52,483 And I will not sit down at a table with a man who chooses to keep... 801 01:14:52,554 --> 01:14:55,000 his fellow human beings in bondage. 802 01:15:07,713 --> 01:15:10,580 Orry, I'm afraid I have to apologise for my sister. 803 01:15:11,117 --> 01:15:14,315 She sometimes lets her emotions run away with her. 804 01:15:15,521 --> 01:15:17,552 Why don't you tell us some more about 805 01:15:17,554 --> 01:15:19,586 your plans for the cotton mill, Orry. 806 01:15:20,670 --> 01:15:21,730 Yes, sir. 807 01:16:33,034 --> 01:16:34,558 Strawberries. 808 01:16:35,736 --> 01:16:37,501 Blueberries. 809 01:16:38,614 --> 01:16:42,553 Berries, fresh berries, sweet berries, out on your front street. 810 01:16:42,621 --> 01:16:44,555 Fresh berries. 811 01:16:46,191 --> 01:16:48,216 Ain't nobody home, sir. 812 01:16:48,827 --> 01:16:50,317 This is the Fabray house? 813 01:16:50,395 --> 01:16:52,761 Yes, sir, but they is all gone now. 814 01:16:53,098 --> 01:16:54,395 Gone where? 815 01:16:55,267 --> 01:16:56,997 Me can't rightly say, sir. 816 01:16:57,070 --> 01:17:00,505 But that house there been closed up for nearly a week now. 817 01:17:01,540 --> 01:17:02,598 Thank you. 818 01:17:03,141 --> 01:17:04,238 Yes, sir. 819 01:17:05,722 --> 01:17:07,713 Strawberries. 820 01:17:08,859 --> 01:17:10,918 Blueberries. 821 01:17:11,595 --> 01:17:12,960 Berries, fresh... 822 01:17:22,172 --> 01:17:23,901 Orry, you're home. 823 01:17:28,912 --> 01:17:31,585 Hello, sir. I'll take care of him. 824 01:17:51,379 --> 01:17:54,837 - Are you feeling all right, sir? - I'm just tired, son. 825 01:17:56,658 --> 01:17:58,255 And worried about the cotton crop. 826 01:17:58,331 --> 01:18:00,799 We didn't get enough rain after the spring planting. 827 01:18:00,867 --> 01:18:03,893 Irrigating by hand is keeping the slaves away from other work. 828 01:18:03,970 --> 01:18:06,234 The crop is still liable to be small. 829 01:18:08,141 --> 01:18:10,871 We could still make a profit in spite of that... 830 01:18:11,277 --> 01:18:13,108 if we milled our own cotton. 831 01:18:13,179 --> 01:18:15,477 Son, we've argued this point before. 832 01:18:15,648 --> 01:18:17,981 Father, you should have been with me at Hazard Iron. 833 01:18:18,051 --> 01:18:20,178 I saw a hundred ways to improve Mont Royal. 834 01:18:20,253 --> 01:18:22,591 You seem very anxious to change your home. 835 01:18:24,802 --> 01:18:27,270 We can't ignore progress, sir. We'll be left behind. 836 01:18:27,338 --> 01:18:28,805 That's what the Hazards said and... 837 01:18:28,873 --> 01:18:30,746 I'm very sure your friends know a great 838 01:18:30,747 --> 01:18:32,434 deal about running their foundry... 839 01:18:32,510 --> 01:18:34,205 but a cotton plantation is different. 840 01:18:34,278 --> 01:18:37,214 Every year, the South counts for less on a national level... 841 01:18:37,281 --> 01:18:38,680 because we cling to manual labour. 842 01:18:38,749 --> 01:18:41,775 That's enough, son. I said I don't wish to discuss it. 843 01:18:42,687 --> 01:18:44,052 Daddy, if you... 844 01:18:44,922 --> 01:18:46,412 You just got home. 845 01:18:47,225 --> 01:18:49,500 Go join your mother in the parlour. 846 01:18:51,107 --> 01:18:53,006 I'll be along directly. 847 01:18:56,979 --> 01:18:58,675 - He does, too. - Does not. 848 01:19:00,182 --> 01:19:01,740 - He does. - Not. 849 01:19:02,084 --> 01:19:03,381 All right. 850 01:19:03,953 --> 01:19:06,011 Who does or doesn't do what? 851 01:19:06,155 --> 01:19:08,817 Brett says Priam doesn't deserve to get whipped. 852 01:19:08,891 --> 01:19:10,289 And I say he does. 853 01:19:10,359 --> 01:19:12,657 We don't punish our slaves that way. 854 01:19:12,728 --> 01:19:15,298 We have ever since Salem Jones got here. 855 01:19:15,876 --> 01:19:17,844 The new overseer Father wrote me about? 856 01:19:17,912 --> 01:19:21,109 Yes. And Priam doesn't do anything bad. 857 01:19:21,182 --> 01:19:23,581 But Salem Jones whips him anyhow. 858 01:19:24,518 --> 01:19:27,544 Because Priam's uppity like his sister. 859 01:19:28,455 --> 01:19:30,787 What has Semiramis got to do with this? 860 01:19:31,292 --> 01:19:35,319 Ever since Salem Jones has been sleeping with Semiramis... 861 01:19:35,396 --> 01:19:38,832 Priam's been acting strange, and getting whipped a lot. 862 01:19:40,204 --> 01:19:42,874 You two go upstairs, and be nice. 863 01:20:01,834 --> 01:20:03,391 Who the hell are you? 864 01:20:03,802 --> 01:20:06,205 I'm Orry Main, Mr Jones. 865 01:20:06,912 --> 01:20:08,111 Mr Main, sir... 866 01:20:08,185 --> 01:20:11,278 I was coming up to meet you just as soon as I finished with this. 867 01:20:11,355 --> 01:20:12,822 This is why I'm here. 868 01:20:12,889 --> 01:20:15,119 What has Priam done? Why are you beating him? 869 01:20:15,192 --> 01:20:18,423 No crime, exactly. It's his attitude, sir. 870 01:20:18,495 --> 01:20:20,360 Priam don't show the proper respect. 871 01:20:20,430 --> 01:20:24,457 A good overseer knows how to get a man's respect without beating him. 872 01:20:24,534 --> 01:20:27,025 And we don't whip slaves at Mont Royal. 873 01:20:27,371 --> 01:20:28,633 So you let Priam go. 874 01:20:28,705 --> 01:20:31,572 Your father told me to handle these slaves any way I see fit. 875 01:20:31,641 --> 01:20:34,246 I don't see fit to let you whip them. 876 01:20:35,624 --> 01:20:38,559 Especially because it appears you enjoy it. 877 01:20:38,627 --> 01:20:41,686 Now you do what I tell you and you let him go. 878 01:20:43,030 --> 01:20:44,088 Now. 879 01:20:45,367 --> 01:20:48,767 Cuffey, Caesar. Get him down. 880 01:21:12,105 --> 01:21:15,165 You've been away two years, you'll be two more at the academy... 881 01:21:15,241 --> 01:21:17,038 then another four in the army. 882 01:21:17,110 --> 01:21:19,395 You're not running Mont Royal yet, and 883 01:21:19,396 --> 01:21:21,740 you'll not interfere with those who do. 884 01:21:22,048 --> 01:21:25,286 Salem Jones gets more work out of the Negroes than anyone ever has. 885 01:21:25,358 --> 01:21:26,488 That doesn't make him right. 886 01:21:26,564 --> 01:21:28,215 Cruelty, like what I saw yesterday, 887 01:21:28,216 --> 01:21:29,363 makes both of you wrong. 888 01:21:29,434 --> 01:21:31,902 Does it? Well, Salem Jones knows a thing or two. 889 01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:33,583 What about that slave, Nat Turner, 890 01:21:33,584 --> 01:21:35,530 murdered 55 white people in cold blood? 891 01:21:35,607 --> 01:21:37,541 That was over 10 years ago in Virginia. 892 01:21:37,609 --> 01:21:39,736 You think it couldn't happen here? 893 01:21:39,811 --> 01:21:42,404 With those abolitionists stirring up slaves against us. 894 01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:44,038 Tillet, Orry, please. 895 01:21:44,849 --> 01:21:46,571 We've got such a short time together 896 01:21:46,572 --> 01:21:47,875 while Orry's home on leave. 897 01:21:47,952 --> 01:21:49,385 Let's not spoil it. 898 01:21:49,787 --> 01:21:51,261 I'm sorry, Mother. 899 01:21:52,568 --> 01:21:54,683 We're invited to a wedding this afternoon. 900 01:21:54,684 --> 01:21:56,504 It wouldn't do for us to be fussing. 901 01:21:56,572 --> 01:21:57,630 Whose wedding? 902 01:21:57,707 --> 01:21:59,766 Justin LaMotte. I wrote you about it. 903 01:21:59,842 --> 01:22:01,867 No, sir, you didn't. Who is he marrying? 904 01:22:01,944 --> 01:22:04,913 Orry, she's the most beautiful girl you ever saw. 905 01:22:05,081 --> 01:22:06,810 A Creole from New Orleans. 906 01:22:07,216 --> 01:22:09,241 Her name is Madeline Fabray. 907 01:22:25,613 --> 01:22:30,175 Do you, Justin, take Madeline for your lawful wedded wife... 908 01:22:30,518 --> 01:22:33,885 promising to love, honour, and cherish her... 909 01:22:33,954 --> 01:22:37,254 forsaking all others as long as you both shall live? 910 01:22:38,626 --> 01:22:39,718 I do. 911 01:22:40,061 --> 01:22:44,975 And do you, Madeline, take Justin for your lawful wedded husband... 912 01:22:45,244 --> 01:22:47,939 promising to love, honour, and obey him... 913 01:22:48,013 --> 01:22:51,073 forsaking all others as long as you both shall live? 914 01:22:57,021 --> 01:22:58,114 I do. 915 01:23:25,396 --> 01:23:27,944 In the sight of God and this company, 916 01:23:27,945 --> 01:23:29,957 I pronounce you man and wife. 917 01:24:09,762 --> 01:24:11,856 We should pay our respects, son. 918 01:24:37,901 --> 01:24:40,028 My very best wishes, Mrs LaMotte. 919 01:24:45,210 --> 01:24:46,836 You are very kind, sir. 920 01:24:53,523 --> 01:24:55,224 How nice of you to come. 921 01:25:09,845 --> 01:25:14,408 Monsieur Main, I am so glad your family could come today. 922 01:25:14,483 --> 01:25:16,812 It gives me the chance to thank you again 923 01:25:16,813 --> 01:25:18,923 for your courtesy toward my daughter. 924 01:25:21,402 --> 01:25:24,030 Was she planning to marry Justin even then? 925 01:25:24,906 --> 01:25:26,271 No, she was not. 926 01:25:28,042 --> 01:25:31,101 I had it in mind from the day I met him. 927 01:25:31,778 --> 01:25:34,646 I knew he would be a perfect match for Madeline. 928 01:25:35,348 --> 01:25:38,682 An older husband. Wiser, more settled. 929 01:25:40,253 --> 01:25:41,414 I see. 930 01:25:42,490 --> 01:25:45,989 Tell me, how is life treating you in the military? 931 01:25:47,472 --> 01:25:50,100 As well as could be expected, sir. Thank you. 932 01:25:50,876 --> 01:25:52,138 Good day. 933 01:25:55,982 --> 01:25:59,041 Cuffey, saddle my horse for me. 934 01:25:59,352 --> 01:26:00,394 Yes, sir. 935 01:26:00,552 --> 01:26:03,521 Orry, please don't go. 936 01:26:05,891 --> 01:26:07,859 I have to ask you something. 937 01:26:08,293 --> 01:26:10,284 What could possibly matter now? 938 01:26:13,142 --> 01:26:16,010 Why did you stop answering my letters? 939 01:26:16,614 --> 01:26:17,656 What? 940 01:26:18,749 --> 01:26:20,992 I didn't. You stopped answering mine. 941 01:26:20,993 --> 01:26:22,036 I didn't. 942 01:26:30,860 --> 01:26:31,953 Papa. 943 01:26:36,165 --> 01:26:39,476 It was Papa. He destroyed your letters. 944 01:26:39,547 --> 01:26:40,590 What? 945 01:26:41,417 --> 01:26:43,714 He wanted me to marry Justin. 946 01:26:47,589 --> 01:26:50,149 But until now, I never knew how much. 947 01:26:50,525 --> 01:26:52,083 Now it's too late. 948 01:26:56,498 --> 01:26:58,989 Every day that I was away from you... 949 01:26:59,068 --> 01:27:02,332 I kept thinking about the day I would make you my bride. 950 01:27:08,187 --> 01:27:10,052 Better have this back now. 951 01:27:10,691 --> 01:27:13,318 Don't you think I dreamt of you, too? 952 01:27:14,593 --> 01:27:15,652 I better leave. 953 01:27:15,729 --> 01:27:16,991 Leaving, Main? 954 01:27:19,298 --> 01:27:22,291 See you again when you finish military school. 955 01:27:22,970 --> 01:27:26,302 Come, my dear. Our other guests are waiting. 956 01:28:10,340 --> 01:28:11,534 Justin. 957 01:28:15,010 --> 01:28:17,137 I didn't expect you so soon. 958 01:28:19,681 --> 01:28:22,888 You've been up here half an hour, my dear. 959 01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,034 I thought you'd be ready for me by now. 960 01:28:48,933 --> 01:28:50,698 You're so beautiful. 961 01:28:52,737 --> 01:28:54,205 So beautiful. 962 01:29:12,757 --> 01:29:14,561 What's the matter with you? 963 01:29:14,935 --> 01:29:16,132 Nothing. 964 01:29:27,818 --> 01:29:29,809 You're always so distant. 965 01:29:33,656 --> 01:29:35,249 But not tonight. 966 01:29:43,311 --> 01:29:46,508 I'll show you what it means to be my wife. 967 01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:00,452 No.