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I'll put a touch more of your greenery yellow in that frozen charlie.

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Yeah, right.

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You look, Bettenesville's a bit of a connoisseur of your wild primo shape.

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Beaten's field, you don't mind at all.

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Well, if he likes to be called anyway.

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Beaten's field.

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Yeah. Beaten's field, Bettenesville. What's the difference?

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Everyone calls you dizzy anyway.

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Oh, here we go.

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That looks more like a case of John Disson wild primo.

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Now, as through the fireplace, I should like a new grate in the modern taste with a tiled serone.

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That's another forty-pound.

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Parquet flooring, extending some three feet into the room from the wainscot.

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That'll be fifty-bounds at least.

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Then to cover the center of the floor, just overlapping the parquet of fine-person copied.

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Person copied.

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Person copied.

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Person copied.

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Say, uh, twenty-three feet by twenty.

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That's another hundred and forty-pound.

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I'd like the same carpet in the same pattern for the passage outside.

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Say thirty-eight pounds.

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And, uh, curtains of rich silk.

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With valences and cornices.

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Indeed, my dear modding.

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With valences and cornices.

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Valences and cornices.

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Say, a hundred and forty-five pounds.

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Now, as to the furniture.

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The furniture, my dear.

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Well, the articles upon which one reclines, sits or reposives.

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What does the border geeks expect me to do?

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Squat in the middle of the floor like a Turkish parcher?

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No, no, no, because he's not.

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Mr. Gotham.

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A mortar.

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Oh, a mortarman.

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This is the second time in my life that I have managed to climb to the top of the greasy pole.

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On the first occasion I had misjudged quite how greasy it was.

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And I slither back down it with humiliating celebrity within ten months.

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This time, however, I have managed to remain on my only aginous perch somewhat longer.

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And I purpose to remain even longer yet.

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But in comfort, Mr. Mortimer.

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In comfort.

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It's up to eleven hundred pounds already, my lord.

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We're merry hands still alive.

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It would be merely a beginning.

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But here you see me and poor helpless widower of frugal wants, modest tastes.

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I have no doubt improvements will occur to me, and you of course.

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If you respect my lord, the board of works is fantastic to move on the board of works.

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And I've already saved them two years of expense by conducting the prime minister's suit from my own home.

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Using the cabinet room as my office.

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But it's only diminished mobility imposed by my gut that induces me to move in at all.

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However, having done so, I propose to transform this crumbling beggar's refuge into her home.

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And for the art I shall exercise in so doing, I will charge the board of works no fee.

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Well, there is that, of course.

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I will further make the board this proposal.

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When I leave, which I do not purpose for some time,

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I shall leave all my improvements behind me, but will be happy to pay for any depreciation.

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See? Yes, when I will prepare a memorandum along those lines to my superiors, my lord.

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Thank you, Mr. Mortimer.

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Good day to you.

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Good day.

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Good day Mr. Corrin.

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You had a really. You didn't have to make a concession.

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Appreciate it.

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My dear Monte, next to knowing what to see is an opportunity.

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The most important thing is to know when to forgo an advantage.

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A poor fellow will put forward the proposal as his own, be commended for it by his superiors.

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And then after I shall have anything I want from him.

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You've been meeting Mackey Valley.

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I feel the need to read a book I write it myself.

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Good morning, gentlemen.

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Morning, me, no.

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No.

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Perhaps a little more prim and a little less rose.

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Very good, me, no.

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I may have imagined all the cabinets.

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Please.

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Left of themselves.

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There's no knowing what mischief they'll be up to.

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I know perfectly well what does he will say.

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Not what is the justice in the matter, but where do England's interests lie?

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When he resasked as a young man, what his politics were, did he say that England?

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He hasn't changed.

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That blind patriotism could land us in trouble.

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What prey could land us in trouble?

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Oh, please, my lord.

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Gentlemen, sit down.

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I may be your elder and your better.

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Don't be prepared to forget it, if you will.

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I apologize for being late.

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With my infirmities, make the journey from home ever more onerous.

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In fact, I propose to move in here.

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But it hasn't been used as a home for what?

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Two generations.

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The place is ruined.

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To bin Salisbury, the house and I should march very well together, don't you think?

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You were saying, Darby.

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What could land us in trouble?

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Mr. Gladstone has been in flaming public opinion about this business in Eastern Europe.

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I thought the hysterical old spouter was sicker than I am.

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He's recovered sufficiently to write a pamphlet about the Turkish atrocities against the Bulgarians.

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And I indifference to them.

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He has already sold 45,000 copies.

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Mr. Gladstone's political secret was the combination of a first-rate digestion of the second-rate conscience.

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He cares as much about the bulgars as he does about the African water buffalo.

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What is his point?

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The Turks and infra-dells.

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The bulgars, Christians.

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Ah.

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Everything's to have me.

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He forgets that I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.

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Both Jew and Christian.

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Were they English Christians against whom these alleged atrocities are being committed?

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Mr. Gladstone, that purger-doll hypocrite, would not find me lacking.

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Nevertheless, Mr. Gladstone is demanding that we should take action.

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You two wait as long as needs be put yourself at her complete disposal.

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Run errands for her if she wishes it.

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But make it clear Lord Beaconsfield is expecting a letter in return.

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Yes, son.

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Turkey is our bulwark against Russia.

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All my life, the Russian bear, has been trying to creep forward, to eat up smaller countries,

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to dip its massive paw into a warm water pot.

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Thus giving herself access to wider hunting grounds, in particular the British Empire.

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And of the British Empire in particular, India.

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Well, that's her fear, how said?

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She tried it 20 years ago and the Crimea.

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Turkey stood in her way then.

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She stands in her way now.

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We shall do nothing to alienate Turkey.

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Austria, Germany and Russia have united in an alliance to move against the Turks.

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We shall not join it.

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Prime Minister, that is a selfish policy.

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The foreign minister, patriotism is of necessity, selfish.

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Furthermore, I wish the battleships Rupert, Sultan and Mullock, order to the Darden Olds.

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Thus bringing the number of iron clads in Turkish waters up to ten.

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The Queen will be alarmed.

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Her Majesty is able to grasp the truth of any matter that is put to her clearly.

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We do not wish our country to be dragged into a war on behalf of Turkey, Lord Beakinsfield.

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I cannot tell you Majesty, how much I am aided by the breadth and the cuteness of the

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majesty's understanding of these metals.

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That is precisely why the naval reinforcements were sent to the Darden Olds.

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I will dispatch too further iron clads tomorrow.

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Had your Majesty agreed to the move against Turkey by the three powers,

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Constantinople would at this moment be garrisoned by Russian troops,

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gazing hungrily out of the gateway to your Majesty's Empire.

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Quite so, quite so.

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We have a surprise for you.

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One, Anjuli has finished the portrait.

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You find it becoming?

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No artist could completely capture the singularly regal beauty of your Majesty's aspect, but...

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Yes.

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I think it most like, and pleasing.

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I think it is for you.

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For me?

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Your Majesty, you do me too much honour.

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I am quite unworthy of such a gesture.

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Be concerned.

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Do not worry, Lord Beakinsfield. We require something of you in return.

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Your Majesty has only to name it.

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We wish you to have yourself painted by Bon Angeli, so that you may present a portrait of yourself to us.

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Your Majesty finds me speechless.

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You're unique condition for you, Lord Beakinsfield.

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Now, is there anything else that we should talk about?

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Guy, I think not. Your Majesty?

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Then we suggest that you return.

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The air begins to strike a little chill.

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We must be vigilant of that bronchitis of yours.

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The thunder of Lord Beakinsfield.

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Your fond of Lord Beakinsfield.

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He has the feminine principle in him.

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He actually likes women. He does not address us as does that irretrievable lunatic Gladstone.

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As though we were a public meeting.

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Do you think it prudent?

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What?

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The whole thing. What you've been doing.

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Monty, you're my secretary. Not my tutor.

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Yes, my Lord.

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Don't forget. You have to take charge of Lady Chesterfield.

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Even me with her sister, Lady Bradford. Indeed, my Lord.

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A gray hair by God. Nonsense.

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Your hair will be black as long as you live.

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Maybe black as long as I die.

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Lady Bradford?

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Selena.

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If you only knew what it means to me to have you here.

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You know how much my sister and I have been longing to see your hand.

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I'm surprised it took you so long to ask us.

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My natural disposition is timid.

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Oh, you timid.

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The timidity that springs from being bullied at school.

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From being made to feel not quite in society.

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But your famed arrogance, your invulnerability.

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Armor. The shell of the snail.

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But characteristics people remark upon in my speaking style in Parliament.

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They were all adopted in my earliest days to conceal my teller.

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The hands grasping the lapels, all hooked into the armholes of my waistcoat.

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To prevent them from trembling.

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The imprecivity of my face.

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Expressionless. Unsmiling.

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Even when unleashing my most flashing retorts.

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That was simply to stop my mouth from trembling.

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Throwing back of the shoulders?

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Give me courage.

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You need no armor now.

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I need none against you.

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But in public life, the manners have become the man.

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People have much mistaken me.

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Or rather, I have misled them.

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The bumpshoe's pretty juby my youth.

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The inscrutable, oriental grand vizier, my middle and later years.

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All illusion.

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Pantomime.

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My need has been simple.

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It has been that my life should be one perpetual love.

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You had that for over 30 years with your wife, dear Mary Anne.

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Oh, yes, yes, I did.

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She used to say to people, I'm 12 years older than Dizzy, you know.

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He married me from my money.

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But if he had it to do again, it would be for love.

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When I had a late sitting in the Commons,

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she would light every room in the house to await my return.

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I have seen the finest sights that Europe has to offer.

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But none to match those glowing windows that grove negate

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as I clattered towards them through the fog of a winter's night.

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Once, when she was over 7 to 7,

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she set up half the night to await my return from some triumph or other.

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They tried to detain me with a celebration of the Carlton Club,

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but I broke away and are at home.

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There she was, with a grouse pie and a bottle champagne.

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I had half the pie, drank all the champagne.

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I said to her, you're more like a mistress to me than a wife.

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Then do you think it right what you were doing to me?

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I am conscious of doing you no wrong.

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Benjamin, you know perfectly well what I mean.

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You have been laying siege to me.

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You call incessantly at Belgrade Square.

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I presume friends may call upon one another.

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You call upon me every day.

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There are some friends, one cherishes more than others.

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You rack me constant letters.

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It's a well recognized form of human communication.

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Please, you will not evade me by irony.

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These are letters of passion.

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I have never asked anything from you but your presence.

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When I have that, I have everything.

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You have it often enough in society.

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I have to see you in society as different from seeing you alone as moonlight is from sunshine.

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The visits, the letters, more than 900 so far.

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Benjamin, they are excessive.

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If nothing else may not the memory of your beloved wife restrain you.

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I have been gradually sorting her papers.

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She kept every scrap of paper on which I had written three words.

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Every fortnight for 33 years she cut my hair.

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I have discovered that she kept it.

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Every hair in packets.

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There are hundreds of them.

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I also found this, addressed to me.

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It was written 16 years before she died.

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Being older than me, she always assumed she would go first.

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My own dear husband, if I should depart this life before you, leave orders that we may be buried in the same grave.

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At whatever distance you may die from England.

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You have been a perfect husband to me.

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We put by my side.

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And now farewell my dear dizzy.

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Do not live alone, dearest.

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I honestly hope you may find someone as attached to you as your own devoted Mary Anne.

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I cannot be that someone.

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For most his sake or a friend of my husband, you like him.

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What kind or condition of man are you?

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I see you every day because it is absolutely necessary to my existence.

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Yes, I write to you every day, sometimes two and three times a day, because the image of you obsesses me.

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I write in cabinet, I scribble on my knee on the front bench, I write while dealing with the plenty of potentials of fallen powers.

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I keep messengers by me, constantly to carry to you the promptings of my love.

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The difficulties between us only animate me the more.

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The very thought of you who excites me.

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My misfortune is that my body has grown old, but my heart is still that of a boy.

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I am 73 years old, stifled by asthma, saturated with gout.

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Yet I have lived to know that the twilight of love has its splendor and its richness.

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It is only my acute sense of the absurd that prevents my going down on my knees and begging you not to banish me.

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Also the knowledge that I would probably be unable to get up again.

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Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy.

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What am I to do with you?

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What you will.

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You may call upon me three times a week, not more, preferably less.

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You may write to me once every two or three days, I do not guarantee to answer.

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Those are my conditions.

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If you do not accept them, you must sever all connections.

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I accept.

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I am doing you a service.

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I am no goddess.

293
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I am a very ordinary matron of 58 who loves her husband.

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I can never be what you want me to be.

295
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Will you at least do one thing for me?

296
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It is a silly fancy.

297
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The little token I give to those of whom I am fond.

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I call it my queen bee symbol.

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Will you wear it for me sometimes and think of me?

300
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I am sure your husband will not be jealous of my family.

301
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I am a poor little bee.

302
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My husband is a man who trusts his friends.

303
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Then you will wear it.

304
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Sometimes.

305
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I am glad to be here.

306
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Mr. Corry has given me the grand tour.

307
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I must congratulate you, Benjamin.

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The house is the most perfect work of art.

309
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I might say the same of you, dear Anne.

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Except that you are perfect, yet you are no art.

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My dear, dear dear, that honey tongue of yours will get you into trouble yet.

312
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You have prepared to guarantee that, Ma'am.

313
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Lord, I know that suffering is a mark of thy love.

314
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But just for once, wouldn't they headache do?

315
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Germany and Austria have held their hand.

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But Russia has decided to take on the Turks by herself.

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Large part of the populace believe we should aid the Russians.

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They have been stirred up by Gadsden's words.

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Five millions of Christian Bulgarians, he tells them,

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Cowed and beaten down to the ground,

321
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Hardly then trained to look upward, even to their father in heaven,

322
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have extended their hands to you.

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Remarkable feat of contortionism, if nothing else.

324
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A morn-ring-old pentaloon,

325
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intoxicated as usual by the exuberance of his own verbosity.

326
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But danger is not turkey, it is Russia.

327
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It has been ears and always will be.

328
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Russia. We shall not lift a finger for Russia.

329
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Trust you're not suggesting, Prime Minister,

330
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that we should go to war against her.

331
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I am proposing merely to maintain our fleet in Turkish waters,

332
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Lord Darby, and to keep our shells greased.

333
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I have not made a majesty in the Empress of India

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to have a tribe of Cossacks to spoil it.

335
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The Baron and the Baroness Rothschild, my lord.

336
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For me, home is Sunday with the two of you.

337
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You are my family.

338
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Darling, busy, you are ours.

339
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My dearest, dearest lady, Lionel.

340
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But what a difference you've made to this house.

341
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You're a genius.

342
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And all achieved so quickly.

343
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I'm an old man in a hurry.

344
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Well, you hurry to some effect.

345
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Look what you've done in three years of office.

346
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You've empowered local councils to build houses for rent.

347
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You've legalized peaceful pickety.

348
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My sweet darling bee.

349
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But I could have lost him.

350
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Look, the class was undone.

351
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Here, let me.

352
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May I?

353
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Of course.

354
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You've stopped workers being imprisoned for breach of contract.

355
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You've brought in compulsory education.

356
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Stopped factories polluting rivers.

357
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The pin goes behind.

358
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000
I should know.

359
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000
You've introduced the ten hour day and you've saved the empire

360
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by buying into the Suiz Canal.

361
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With the loan of your four million pounds.

362
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000
There.

363
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000
Don't you feel proud of what you achieved?

364
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000
I'm proud of my country.

365
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000
I'm proud of Tory democracy.

366
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But for me, personally, it's all come too late.

367
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000
But to achieve power, it's empty.

368
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
It's too late.

369
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It started from too low a base.

370
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The school nobody's ever heard of.

371
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No university.

372
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It took me 30 years to reach the level of respect and acceptance

373
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with which the Gladstones, the Darby's, the Salzbres,

374
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were their eterns, their oxfords and their Cambridge's started.

375
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Yet you are prime minister.

376
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,000
They are not.

377
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000
I'm also 73 years old.

378
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000
I'm like an old steam engine, a wheezing up a gradient

379
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which in its youth it would have flown with a speed that curved the wind.

380
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000
Oh, enough of my whining.

381
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000
Here's to us.

382
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000
And to her Majesty the Queen.

383
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000
The Queen.

384
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God bless her.

385
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
And now to dinner.

386
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000
I haven't seen much of Selena Bradford lately.

387
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000
I've been seeing rather more of her sister, Lady Chesterfield.

388
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000
Lady, that's all right.

389
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000
Look after Lady Chesterfield.

390
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000
Very good, sir.

391
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000
Lady Chesterfield.

392
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000
For me to say you're looking delightly countess.

393
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000
Permission granted.

394
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
You sweet liar.

395
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000
They tell me he manages her very well.

396
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000
He believes he does.

397
00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,000
If I flattery, he once told me everybody is susceptible to flattery

398
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000
with royalty.

399
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000
We're not going to afford to lay it on with a trowel.

400
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000
I think he deceived himself.

401
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000
Oh, yes, undoubtedly he flatters her.

402
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000
And she responds.

403
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,000
All these flowers, for instance, are fresh today from the royal gardens.

404
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Yet, oh, form, he has a genuinely romantic conception of the monarchy.

405
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000
I have a strong suspicion he still believes in divine right.

406
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000
In private he calls her his fairy queen.

407
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
I wouldn't be surprised if he was a little in love with her.

408
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,000
Darling, did he yet?

409
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000
I do believe he's a little in love with all of his children.

410
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000
My dear darling, precious Anne.

411
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Countess?

412
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000
Lord?

413
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000
Hmm.

414
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000
I should rarely have brought a chaperone,

415
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000
but I'm hard pressed with these days to find anyone older than myself.

416
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Oh, come now.

417
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000
You're as young as the dew that sparkled on these primroses this morning.

418
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000
You hear where it counts.

419
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000
Excuse me.

420
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000
At least it shows somebody's home.

421
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000
My dear darling, you're the greatest man I've known.

422
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000
And yet you still can make me laugh like a girl.

423
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,000
And you, my dear Anne, have always had the power to move me in quite a different way.

424
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,000
I remember the first time we met at Lady Kay's, the indelible impression he made upon me.

425
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,000
Your violet eyes and full sunshine, your comedious skin, your hair.

426
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000
To his top head.

427
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000
You make me some positively botanical.

428
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000
But you are a garden in which all sweets grow.

429
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000
In your letter, you said you had something to say to me.

430
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000
First of all, you're beloved tea.

431
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,000
Milk or lemon ala rus, or in some mysterious manner of your own.

432
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Fordom knows perfectly well how I like it, don't you, fordom?

433
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000
I do, my lady.

434
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000
A cake, sweet meats. Turkish delight?

435
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Thank you, no. I'm banding.

436
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000
I wish to share the considerable quantity of weight before Lady H is born.

437
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000
What a slip of a girl like you.

438
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
You're going to a decline and fade away.

439
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000
A slight exaggeration.

440
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,000
Thank you for them. That'll be all.

441
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000
The chair suits your coloring.

442
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000
You're like a jewel in its setting.

443
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000
It's a pleasure just to look at you.

444
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Benjamin, what was it you wanted to say to me?

445
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Anne, I believe I have given you innumerable marks of the esteem I feel for you.

446
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000
You cannot be unconscious of the...

447
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000
...affection, I feel for you.

448
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
Esteem, affection.

449
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000
These emotions flow from many things.

450
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,000
They are the intangible filaments of the delicate web that is friendship.

451
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000
That is our friendship.

452
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,000
Lately, these feelings have undergone a subtle change.

453
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000
They have deepened and divergent.

454
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Benjamin, I'm not sure.

455
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Benjamin, I think we should not talk of these things now.

456
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
We'll talk of it, we must. I must.

457
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
I keep recalling that poem by one of the metaphysicals.

458
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000
A harrick was a little marvel.

459
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Had we but world enough in time, this coinless lady were no crime.

460
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,000
But ever at my back I hear, time's winged chariot drawing near.

461
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,000
I was not constructed to live alone.

462
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
I am sure you were not.

463
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,000
And you have been a widow longer than I, a widower.

464
00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Would it not be fitting, my dear Anne, were we to become one?

465
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Believe me, I would love you as ardently as any boy.

466
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Anne, my dearest, what I'm saying,

467
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000
may I have the honor of your hand in marriage.

468
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
My dearest, does he?

469
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:24,000
You have paid me the greatest compliment a man can pair, woman.

470
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:30,000
And I will be sensible of that for the rest of my time.

471
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000
But at our age, both set in our ways.

472
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000
We are as young as the dole.

473
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:43,000
We have a delightful relationship now in which each encounter is fresh

474
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000
and we demand nothing of each other.

475
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
That is the point. I am demanding more.

476
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000
I would soon bore you.

477
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000
Well, I was a Jew, wrote in your novel, The Young Duke.

478
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

479
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000
That was written when I was young and insufferable.

480
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
If I were to write that novel again.

481
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
I recall reading a novel last month.

482
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Oh, one of those French trifles.

483
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Nothing that would stand comparison with your works.

484
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000
How did the narrative proceed?

485
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Ah, yes. I have said, a French cant,

486
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:29,000
maybe acquainted with two sisters in Paris, Lyon, somewhere.

487
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000
One sister was married, the other was not.

488
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000
The cant had them as fortunate to fall in love with the one who was married.

489
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,000
But he proposed to and wed the one who was not.

490
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000
His idea, Mr. French, novelist would have us believe,

491
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,000
was that by being married to the sister would give him unlimited opportunity

492
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
to be close to his true beloved.

493
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
As a tale, it was diverting.

494
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:07,000
But as I said, nothing likes only of the truth in real life as your novel.

495
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:15,000
In real life, the unmarried sister would know where the cant's true affection lay.

496
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000
And however fond of him she was,

497
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000
she would know that only misery would result from such falsity.

498
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:45,000
And, my dear, you are the best of all combinations.

499
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,000
A woman who is not only clever, but kind.

500
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000
I promise to be my friend for always.

501
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000
With all my heart.

502
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Do one more thing for me.

503
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Anything.

504
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Wear this for me, sometimes.

505
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Oh, my dear.

506
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000
What are we going to do with you?

507
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
You see me through.

508
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Gladstone, I know, Gladstone.

509
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
You're going to miss the debate on the Russo-Turkish War.

510
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000
That might be called a misfortune, but hardly a calamity.

511
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000
What's the difference?

512
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Where Mr. Gladstone to fall into the Thames, that might be called a misfortune?

513
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Or anyone to pull him out again? That would be a calamity.

514
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
The British people will always be on the side of the underdog.

515
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Justly not advocating that we should become involved in the conflict ourselves.

516
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
War is humanity in the grip of an epileptic seizure.

517
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
No sane person would want it.

518
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Russia, however, must be stopped somewhere.

519
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000
She will be stopped the easier if she is convinced that we are prepared to fight.

520
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000
I apologize for the little hurt.

521
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,000
I apologize for the fact that the strength of the Empire.

522
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000
British Empire and full mobilization is the most fearsome sight on God's earth.

523
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Oh, for a man.

524
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
We should like to get those russians such a beating.

525
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Any person of your majesty's refined sense of honour down to feel so.

526
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Russians are more cruel and barbarous than the Turks.

527
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Slow death by imprisonment.

528
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Exile to Siberia.

529
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
We do not understand your inaction.

530
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000
The princess of Cambridge said something of the sort to me last night at dinner.

531
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
I cannot imagine she said what you are waiting for.

532
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Put Tato's madam at this moment, I said.

533
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
We are not entertained, Lord Bekinsfield.

534
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Give me, ma'am. I was merely trying to lighten for a moment.

535
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000
For burden, your majesty carries.

536
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,000
To be brutal, ma'am, we shall let the Turks do our fighting for us while they can.

537
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Why shall a single British life be lost if it is avoidable?

538
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
I believe it to be completely avoidable if we are a droid.

539
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000
We know we were against going toward the beginning of this business.

540
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Certain stances change.

541
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
And now let us move on to more pleasant topics.

542
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000
We have a gift for you.

543
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Another one, ma'am.

544
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000
We would like you to accept a copy of our own modest contribution to literature.

545
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000
We call it leads from the journal of our life in the highlands.

546
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000
You overwhelming, ma'am.

547
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000
We have by now read a great menu. Your novels, Lord Bekinsfield.

548
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
You have a flattering romantic concept of women.

549
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Flattery plays no part in it, ma'am.

550
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Women have made me.

551
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,000
It was a woman, my sister, who kept up my faith in myself when I was young.

552
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,000
It was a woman, Mrs. Austin, who found a publisher for my first novel.

553
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,000
It was the Sheridan Sisters, the ladies, Cork and London Denny, who launched me into society.

554
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:55,000
It was a woman, my dear wife, who found me a seat in Parliament.

555
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
There is nothing so sweet as feminine friendship.

556
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Nothing so terrible as a dinner party of men.

557
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:11,000
I count myself the luckiest man on earth, that the sovereign whom I am sworn to serve,

558
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
should be a woman.

559
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000
I have been fortunate in my experiences as a woman kind, ma'am.

560
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000
All but one.

561
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
There was one who was not kind.

562
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:31,000
My mother, ma'am. God bless herself. Never thought anything of me at all.

563
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
So much for feminine intuition.

564
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,000
If it is any consolation, the Duke Wellington's mother was the same.

565
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Dad Lecherseung, he must have cheated at Waterloo.

566
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Sileen.

567
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Despite your promises.

568
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000
And then, this attempt to marry me, I said, well, about proxy through my sister.

569
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Oh, dizzy!

570
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000
I said, to realise that you and Anne have no secret...

571
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Despite all this, I say, your visits have been as frequent.

572
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
You keep pouring out your letters. Look at this one.

573
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
This latest.

574
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
Asking me if I am going to the mastbar.

575
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:29,000
And if so, will I please give you a secret sign so that you may be able to find me and make an acid nation?

576
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,000
To see it's ridiculous. It's the letter of a youth.

577
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
I cannot and will not play these games.

578
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000
I have come here to ask you not to come to the ball at all.

579
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Not come?

580
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Not to write to me at all again, ever. Not even the most prosaic notes about ordinary things.

581
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,000
You don't mean it.

582
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,000
I never meant to think more.

583
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Very well.

584
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
We will meet naturally in society.

585
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
But no letters, no competences.

586
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
No letters, no competences.

587
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Please don't think me cruel.

588
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
We may still be friends.

589
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Goodbye.

590
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Goodbye, Selena.

591
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Oh, dizzy.

592
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
I came only the privilege of the lamb before it slaughtered.

593
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Please, to the last, I crop the flowery food and kiss the hand just raised to shed my blood.

594
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
My dearest Selena.

595
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
You cannot know the pain.

596
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000
The Russians have smashed through. They're under the walls of Constantinople.

597
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Turkey has surrendered. She's agreed to peace terms.

598
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
And read document called the Treaty of Sans to Fauna.

599
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000
The Treaty of Sans to Fauna cannot be countenance by Her Majesty's government.

600
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Why not? It brought peace. The tax signed it voluntarily.

601
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
She signed it while being crushed to death under the iron military heel of Russia.

602
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:18,000
It robs her of half her territory and creates a Bulgaria which is destined soon to be merely a part of...

603
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Mother Russia with access to a warm water port.

604
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
At last, the bear can break out.

605
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000
What we are looking at, gentlemen, is Russia's first move to get her claws into the British Empire.

606
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000
That fades to complete as little we can do about it.

607
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000
It's a very great deal we can do about it. And I propose to do it.

608
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000
For instance.

609
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:43,000
We should demand that Russia refers the Treaty to a European Congress for consideration and revision.

610
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Failure to agree to do so would elicit from us an immediate threat.

611
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Get!

612
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Declaration of War.

613
00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:00,000
There are already 7,000 seapoys on the high seas on route to Malta from India.

614
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
To show the Russians that we mean business.

615
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000
My dear seapoys, they are so splendidly marshal.

616
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
Can they fight like Genghis Khan himself?

617
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,000
The Lord Dabi has resigned as foreign secretary. Lord Salisbury has agreed to replace him.

618
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Excuse me, Mom.

619
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
We shall go to the Congress in Berlin together.

620
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Why are you sure the Russians are agreed to this Congress?

621
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Oh, yes, Mom.

622
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
They know we can thrash them.

623
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
We've got the people totally behind us now, too.

624
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
The Majesty may not have heard the latest music hall, did he?

625
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:48,000
We don't want to fight. But by Jingo, if we do, we've got the ships, we've got the men.

626
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
We've got the money, too.

627
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000
Oh, my dear, Dizzy, how weak you look.

628
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Did you get the little snack I sent you from the country?

629
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
You call six large baskets of English strawberries.

630
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Two hundred head of Parisian asparagus.

631
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000
And the finest foie gras strawsburgers have ever seen.

632
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
A little snack. Then, yes, I got it.

633
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,000
That must have done your gout a part of good. How is it, by the way?

634
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000
For medicinal purposes, they've put me on a bottle of wine a day.

635
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,000
The quacks have an advance since the days have bit the younger.

636
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000
And they must be strong, strong for my country.

637
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
I must fight Russia or maneuver her. I can't do either like this.

638
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000
That's why we're here. We've come to tell you about a new doctor.

639
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
He's a positive miracle worker.

640
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,000
His name is Dr. Kidd. He uses homiopathy.

641
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:58,000
He treats like with like. Roughly speaking, he gives you highly diluted doses or whatever knocks your substance it is that hails you.

642
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Do you think he might dilute Mr. Gladstone?

643
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000
I will tell you the truth, Lord Began's view.

644
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:11,000
Whenever a man is anxious to tell the truth, one can be sure that something unpleasant is coming.

645
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000
You have abused your constitution by a lifetime of overwork. I cannot give you a new body.

646
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,000
To hold the old one together, until after the Berlin Congress is all I ask.

647
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000
You are conversant with my underlying theories.

648
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Are you conversant with mine?

649
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000
No.

650
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000
And let us agree to trust one another.

651
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Let me have your potions and your elixirs.

652
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000
I'll give you my word. I will obey your instructions to the letter.

653
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:51,000
I should thank you to procure one of the new refrigerators and keep my preparations in that it's a machine for keeping things cool.

654
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Oh, dear God, I could put Europe in one.

655
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,000
But my breathing is my voice. My utterance is my artillery.

656
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000
When I did my guns are spiked.

657
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Pump the bulb and breathe in.

658
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000
You must not use it more than me.

659
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Ha.

660
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Ha.

661
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,000
Ha.

662
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:33,000
You have before you, sir, a convert to homey...

663
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Homey, up...

664
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000
Homey, up a thing.

665
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000
No. For those.

666
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Cossacks!

667
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,000
I wish you could have seen him. All the craft, the guile, the steel, all his courage.

668
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000
He was fighting for his country. He sent Russia packing out of Turkey.

669
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Denied her access to the Mediterranean? Got all Turkey's territories back for her and persuaded her to give a Cyprus in return.

670
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,000
I did Russia fight back.

671
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000
At one point it looked as if she wasn't going to give a centimeter.

672
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:13,000
Dizzy ordered a special train to take the British mission back to Calais saying there was nothing for it but war.

673
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Bismarck was alarmed, angry Russia, frantic France and Italy astonished. Austria delighted but incredulous it wasn't until the locomotive had steam up that the Russians gave in.

674
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000
At the end of the Congress I saw Bismarck gazing at Dizzy. I heard what he said.

675
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000
The old Jew he said.

676
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,000
There is a man.

677
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:39,000
The French general, Dédébé, said.

678
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:48,000
The traditions of England are not altogether dead. They survive in the hearts of a woman and an aged statesman.

679
00:45:48,000 --> 00:46:00,000
So long as the power and advice of England are felt in the councils of Europe, peace I believe will be maintained.

680
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:09,000
I am not ashamed of the noblest of human sentiments now declared by philosophers the sentiment of patriotism.

681
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:15,000
But man, I have brought you peace.

682
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:21,000
And I believe it to be peace with honor.

683
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Come on Dizzy, this isn't like you.

684
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:46,000
Bismarck, they are peeling for you. Peace with honor. You are the first man in Europe.

685
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:53,000
I wanted to be someone and I became someone.

686
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:59,000
I wanted fame and I got fame.

687
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,000
It is all too late.

688
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Too late.

689
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:14,000
And fame will let a woman to share it is ashes in the mouth.

690
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000
You share it with the nation.

691
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:25,000
Give me your health and your strength, Monty. And I might be able to enjoy.

692
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000
The life is the wrong way round.

693
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:34,000
We should start as ignorant, weak old men.

694
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,000
And grow into wise, strong, young ones.

695
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,000
You are as young in your heart as I am.

696
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,000
In my heart, ha.

697
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Yes.

698
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,000
But the final break up of my constitution has begun.

699
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:55,000
Old Doctor Kidd held me together in Berlin. He went marbles it.

700
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000
What does the psalmist say?

701
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Now days are consumed as smoke.

702
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:07,000
My bones are burned as a hearth.

703
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:15,000
I watch and am as alone as a sparrow on a house top.

704
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000
Finish it.

705
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,000
What?

706
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,000
For thou, Lord,

707
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000
shall endure forever.

708
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:31,000
And thy remembrance unto old generations.

709
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,000
For you, my Lord.

710
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,000
Thank you for it.

711
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:44,000
It's from the Queen.

712
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:49,000
She wants one of your diamond bees.

713
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
Help me. Help me.

714
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Monty.

715
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:18,000
Perhaps we're not done for. Yet.