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BOY: Floy! Wait for me!

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(THEME TUNE MASKS DIALOGUE)

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(BIRDSONG)

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Lucretia.

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Oh, Louisa!

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How is my sweetest friend?

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Have you breakfasted?

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Thank you, Lucretia. I have.

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I took an early breakfast with my brother,
who has come home.

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Oh. He is better, I trust, my love?

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He's greatly better, thank you.
(CLEARS THROAT)

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My dear Louisa must be very careful
of that cough.

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It's nothing, merely the change of weather.

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We must expect change.

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- Of weather?
- Of everything.

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It's a world of change.

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Why, even the silkworm changes into
all sons of unexpected things, continually.

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My Louisa is ever happy in her illustrations.

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- Florence has returned home also.
- Oh.

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She is a strange girl.

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If my brother cannot feel comfortable
in her society

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after all the sad things that have happened,
then what is the reply?

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-(\NHISPERS) I don't know.
- He must make an effort!

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Oh.

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We've always been
a family remarkable for effort

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- And he has done so!
- Hm?

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He has made an effort!

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My dearest love, I...

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I only hope she may be worthy of
the name of Dombey.

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Oh, my dear Louisa,
may I, as a humble individual,

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venture the observation that dear Florence
is in every way most promising?

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Florence?

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I am sure she may yet be worthy
of her name.

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Lucretia, if I have not expressed myself
with clearness the fault, of course, is mine.

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My remark was not intended
to relate to Florence in any way.

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-Indeed?

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Then I fear I am dull.

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I was speaking of my brother Paul's second
wife. It is his intention to marry again.

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Oh. Ooh! (GIGGLES)

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If my brother had consulted with me,
I should have said to him,

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"Paul, you must have family,
you must have beauty,

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you must have dignity,
you must have connection."

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And as far as I can say,
that is what he's done.

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Although I must confess
it takes me by surprise

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for, when my brother went out of town,

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I had no idea
he would form an attachment out of town

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and he certainly had no attachment
when he left here.

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However, I've only seen her picture yet,
but that is beautiful indeed.

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Her name is beautiful too.

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"Edith" is at once uncommon,
as it strikes me and distinguished.

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And so, Lucretia,
you will be happy to hear that

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my dear brother is
to get married immediately.

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Oh, Lucretia!

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Oh, good gracious me!

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How monstrous!

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- Lucretia, what ails you?
-(MURMURS)

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Dear heaven!

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Oh, how very tedious.

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-(GROANS)
- Lucretia, speak to me!

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-(MURMURS)
- Then, where is the smelling bottle?

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- H-H-H-H-Here.
-(SIGHS)

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- Are you better, Lucretia?
-(COUGHS)

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-(SOFTLY) Yes.
- Good.

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Oh, what in the world
could have caused you to...?

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(GASPS) Oh, <i>I</i> see!

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My eyes are opened all at once. I wouldn't
have believed it if a saint had told it to me.

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Oh, I was foolish to give way to faintness.

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I shall be better presently.

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You will be better presently, Lucretia!

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Do you suppose I am blind?

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Oh, no, Lucretia!

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The scales have fallen from my sight!

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Oh. Louisa,
how can you speak to me like that?

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You have basked at my brother's fireside
like a serpent,

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so that you might, in secret,

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-entertain designs upon him.
- No.

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You dare to think that
he might unite himself with you?

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- Yes.
-(GUFFAWS)

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It is an idea the absurdity of which
almost relieves it of its treachery.

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If I have ever had any lingering thought

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that Mr Dombey was inclined
to be particular towards me,

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then, surely you, Louisa,
will not condemn me.

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She's going to say that
I have encouraged her.

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- In my own defence...
- Yes, she is going to say it.

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Well, in my own defence,

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I would merely ask if you yourself
hadn't often favoured such a fancy

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and even said that it might happen?

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Lucretia Tox, I can bear much,
but not too much.

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I have been mistaken in you.

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I wish you well
and I shall ever wish you well.

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But, as an individual who desires to be true
to herself in her own poor position,

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and as a sister of my brother,
and as a sister-in-law of my brother's wife,

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and as a connection by marriage
of my brother's wife's mother,

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I can only say as a Dombey that I can wish
you nothing else but good morning!

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Loui... Oh! Oh, dear. (SOBS)

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(DOOR CLOSES)

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Now that my mother and I
have come to live in London,

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will you stay here with us until I am married?

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Thank you.

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I wish that we should know
and trust each other, Florence.

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You're very kind to me.

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But let me say,
while we have a moment alone,

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that when I am married
and have gone away for some weeks,

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I would feel easier at head if you went home
and waited there for your father and me.

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No matter who invites you
to stay elsewhere,

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go directly home after the wedding.

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- Will you promise me?
- I promise, Mama.

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- You won't mind being on your own?
- No, I...I'm used to it.

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Di and I pass whole days together
sometimes.

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-Is Di your maid?
- No, he's my dog.

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- Susan's my maid.
-(CHUCKLES) Come.

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Oh, and how is my charming Florence?

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You must come and kiss me if you please,
my love.

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You have heard, no doubt, my pet,

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that your dear papa is to be married to
my dearest Edith this day week.

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I knew it was to be very soon,
but not exactly when.

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Oh, my dear Edith, do you mean to say
that you have not told Florence?

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Why should I tell Florence?

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Why? Well, because, well...

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Oh, my dear Dombey.

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Look, Edith, see who's here.

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Mrs Skewton, ma'am.

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Edith.

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MRS SKEWTON:
Oh, confess my dearest Dombey,

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you were never more surprised
and pleased in your life.

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I was never more surprised.

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Nor pleased, my dearest Dombey.

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Yes, well, I... I am exceedingly glad
to meet Florence here.

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When Edith cannot have you near her,

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she will at least have near her
somebody or something belonging to you.

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- Well, how excessively charming it is.
MR DOMBEY: Eminently so.

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Bless you, my dear Dombey,
for that proof of head.

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And are your preparations for the marriage
nearly finished, sir?

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Yes, madam.
That is the purpose of my visit.

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- And the lawyers' preparations?
- The Deed of Settlement is now ready.

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Edith has only to suggest her own time
for its execution.

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MRS SKEWTON: My dearest love,
do you hear what Mr Dombey says?

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It shall be when you please.

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MR DOMBEY: Tomorrow?
- If you please.

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Or would the next day suit
your engagements better?

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I am at your disposal.

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- I have no engagements.
MRS SKEWTON: No engagements?

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Oh, my dearest Edith, when you have
a thousand and one appointments

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with all sons of trades people.

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They are of your making.

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- Florence, would you like to see your room?
- Yes, Mama.

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Hurry back to us, darling Edith.

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You and Mr Dombey
can arrange between you.

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My dear Dombey,
when you take my own Edith away to Paris,

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you will leave Florence here with me
in her stead?

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With the greatest of pleasure.

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Will you show Miss Dombey to the room
which has been made ready for her?

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- Go with her, Florence.
- Yes, Mama.

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I shall follow you in a moment.

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To think that I shall be assisting
in the formation of her mind

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would be a perfect balm to me

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in the extremely shattered state
to which I shall be reduced.

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I shall be delighted to leave Florence
in such admirable guardianship.

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Ma'am, these are
the terms of the settlement.

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Ooh.

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Now, if you will excuse me,
I have matters to attend to.

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- You must go so early?
- Yes, I fear so.

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-If I might just pay my respects to Edith...
- She has returned to us.

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Someone is going, my pet.

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Soon now, I shall have the happiness
to claim this hand as Mrs Dombey's.

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How dare you walk out of this room?

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You are worse than a child...

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Achild? No child would be
half so obstinate and undutiful.

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Listen to me, Mother.

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After the wedding,
you must remain alone here until I return.

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- Remain alone here?
- You know my meaning.

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- Florence must go home.
- My dear girl...

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I will not have her corrupted and perverted.

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You are an idiot, Edith.

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Do you expect there can ever be
any peace for you in that house

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until she is married and away?

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There will be no peace for me there
whether Florence marries or not.

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Am I to be told, after all my pain and labour
to make you independent,

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that there is corruption and contagion
in me?

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That I'm not fit company for a girl?
What are you, prey? What are you?

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I might have been different but for you

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and I will not see Florence
dragged down to my level.

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She is so much to me
that sooner than see harm come to her,

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I would refuse the hand of that man
in the church itself.

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Edith!

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Take your own way, Mother. Share as
you please in what you have gained.

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Spend, enjoy, make much of it,
but you will leave her alone.

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Not a hard condition on this bitter day.

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Not if you proposed it in a filial manner,
perhaps not, very likely not.

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- But such exceedingly cutting words...
- They are at an end between us.

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From this hour,
my lips are closed upon the past.

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I forgive you your wickedness.

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May God forgive my own.

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(DOOR CLOSES)

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Dombey, how are you?

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- Major, how are you?
- By Jove, sir!

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Joey B is in such a case this morning

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and is in great mind to make a double
marriage of it and take the mother too.

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(CHUCKLES) Dombey, I give you joy.

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You're more to be envied
than any man in England.

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- I share your opinion, Major.
- As for Edith Granger,

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there's not a woman in all Europe but might
and would give her ears and earrings too

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-to be in Edith Granger's place.
- You are good enough to say so, Major.

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- Ah, Carker!
- The very day is auspicious.

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The brightest and most genial weather.
I hope I am not a moment late.

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- Punctual to your time, sir.
- I am rejoiced, I'm sure.

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I took the liberty of riding round
to Brook Street

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with a few poor rarities of flowers
for Mrs Dombey.

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Mrs Dombey that is to be will be sensible
of your attentions, Carker, I'm sure.

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- Mm?
- If she is to be Mrs Dombey this morning,

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-it's high time we were off.
- Well, then, sir, let us be off by all means.

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"Major?
"Sir?

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Ooh. (CHUCKLES)

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Who giveth this woman
to be married to this man?

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I give this woman to be married to this man.

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MINISTER: I, Paul, take thee, Edith...
-|, Paul, take thee, Edith...

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-...to my wedded wife...
-..to my wedded wife...

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-...to have and to hold...
-..to have and to hold...

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-...from this day forward...
-..from this day forward...

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-(\NEEPING)
BOTH: For better, for worse...

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BOTH: ..for richer, for poorer...
- No thank you.

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BOTH: ..in sickness and in health...
-(\NEEPS)

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(CEREMONY CONTINUES)

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I, Edith, take thee, Paul...

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I, Edith, take thee, Paul...

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MINISTER: -..to my wedded husband.
-..to my wedded husband.

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- To have and to hold...
- To have and to hold...

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BOTH: ..from this day forward...

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BOTH: ..to love, cherish and to obey...

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BOTH: ..until death us do pad...

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MINISTER:
..according to God's holy ordinance.

232
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EDITH: ..according to God's holy ordinance.

233
00:13:45,301 --> 00:13:47,611
MINISTER: And thereto I give thee my troth.

234
00:13:47,701 --> 00:13:50,659
EDITH: And thereto I give thee my troth.

235
00:13:59,061 --> 00:14:01,052
MINISTER: With this ring, I thee wed...

236
00:14:01,141 --> 00:14:03,371
MR DOMBEY: With this ring, I thee wed.

237
00:14:03,461 --> 00:14:05,611
MINISTER: With my body, I thee worship...

238
00:14:05,701 --> 00:14:08,375
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- How very pretty.

239
00:14:08,461 --> 00:14:11,579
Now, Florence, it is your turn.

240
00:14:11,661 --> 00:14:13,652
(CHUCKLES)

241
00:14:13,741 --> 00:14:16,779
Do you know, sir,
I came all the way from Baden-Baden

242
00:14:16,861 --> 00:14:19,660
merely to attend on my dear cousin Edith?

243
00:14:19,741 --> 00:14:22,096
I said to myself, "Confound it, Feenix!

244
00:14:22,181 --> 00:14:27,301
When we do get a rich City fellow into
the family, let us pay him some attention.

245
00:14:27,381 --> 00:14:29,577
Let us do something for him." (CHUCKLES)

246
00:14:29,661 --> 00:14:32,255
So I gave the bride away.

247
00:14:32,341 --> 00:14:35,857
Er...come, sir. Come.
You must sign the book.

248
00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:39,093
- Me? I'm honoured.
- Yes.

249
00:14:40,261 --> 00:14:41,774
My dear Dombey.

250
00:14:41,861 --> 00:14:45,820
I fear I must relinquish
darling Florence after all

251
00:14:45,901 --> 00:14:47,972
and suffer her to go home.

252
00:14:48,061 --> 00:14:50,655
- Had she not better stay with you?
- I think not.

253
00:14:50,741 --> 00:14:55,656
My dearest Edith will be her natural
and constant guardian when you return.

254
00:14:55,741 --> 00:14:59,530
I would not wish to make her jealous,
eh, Edith?

255
00:14:59,621 --> 00:15:03,057
- But, sir, you've signed in the wrong place.
- Oh.

256
00:15:03,141 --> 00:15:07,021
You've enrolled yourself
as having been born this very morning.

257
00:15:07,101 --> 00:15:09,251
(LAUGHS) Confound it.

258
00:15:10,341 --> 00:15:12,981
Cleopatra and her Anthony are triumphant.

259
00:15:13,061 --> 00:15:15,291
- Major.
- Dombey, congratulations.

260
00:15:15,381 --> 00:15:19,011
May I make so bold as to wish
the new Mrs Dombey all happiness...

261
00:15:19,101 --> 00:15:20,694
I thank you, sir.

262
00:15:23,141 --> 00:15:26,259
...if wishes are not superfluous,
applied to such a union?

263
00:15:27,381 --> 00:15:31,375
I am proud to see that my humble offering
is graced by Mrs Dombey's hand

264
00:15:31,461 --> 00:15:34,658
and holds so favoured a place
in so joyful an occasion.

265
00:15:34,741 --> 00:15:36,334
I---

266
00:15:36,421 --> 00:15:39,618
- Yes, Mr Carker?
- Forgive me.

267
00:15:39,701 --> 00:15:44,298
I am reminded, not for the first time,
of a lady I once knew.

268
00:15:47,181 --> 00:15:49,855
Mrs Dombey! Oh, this is an occasion.

269
00:15:49,941 --> 00:15:54,299
Joe Bagstock does not deny it and he
wishes you both joy and he wishes you...

270
00:15:54,381 --> 00:15:56,372
<i>(WEEPS)</i>

271
00:15:56,461 --> 00:15:58,452
(CHURCH BELLS PEALING)

272
00:15:58,541 --> 00:16:00,532
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

273
00:16:02,221 --> 00:16:04,212
LOUISA: Oh, look here!

274
00:16:06,621 --> 00:16:08,612
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

275
00:16:14,021 --> 00:16:16,012
- Bye.
'BYE-bye.

276
00:16:16,101 --> 00:16:18,092
Bye !

277
00:16:20,261 --> 00:16:22,059
Bye .

278
00:16:28,861 --> 00:16:31,853
And remember that, lad, if ever I goes away,

279
00:16:31,941 --> 00:16:36,378
meaning to come back to supper and don't
come back, within 24 hours a'ter my loss,

280
00:16:36,461 --> 00:16:41,615
go you to Brig Place and whistle that tune
I taught you outside of my old moorings.

281
00:16:41,701 --> 00:16:47,174
If I answer in the same tune, then you stand
off and on till I throw out further signals.

282
00:16:47,261 --> 00:16:51,459
What am I to stand off and on of, Captain?
The horse road?

283
00:16:51,541 --> 00:16:54,659
Here's a smart lad for you
as don't know his own alphabet.

284
00:16:54,741 --> 00:16:57,460
Go away a bit and come back again.

285
00:16:57,541 --> 00:16:59,691
- Do you understand that?
- Yes, Captain.

286
00:16:59,781 --> 00:17:02,295
- Very good, my lad, then do it.
-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

287
00:17:02,381 --> 00:17:05,214
- What's that?
- Somebody's knuckles, Captain.

288
00:17:05,301 --> 00:17:07,258
- See if it's 'er?
-'Er, Captain?

289
00:17:07,341 --> 00:17:10,413
'Er! The MacStinger. Go and see!

290
00:17:16,061 --> 00:17:18,052
(HORSES' HOOVES CLATTERING)

291
00:17:23,581 --> 00:17:25,379
How do you do?

292
00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:27,259
Mr Gills?

293
00:17:28,501 --> 00:17:31,220
Oh. How do you do? Mr Gills?

294
00:17:32,101 --> 00:17:35,014
I'm very well indeed, myself.
I'm much obliged to you.

295
00:17:35,101 --> 00:17:37,092
My name is Toots. Mr Toots.

296
00:17:38,821 --> 00:17:42,416
I beg your pardon. You don't happen to know
the Chicken at all, do you, Mr Gills?

297
00:17:42,501 --> 00:17:45,141
- The Chicken?
- The Game Chicken.

298
00:17:45,221 --> 00:17:48,020
You may remember he covered himself
and England in glory

299
00:17:48,101 --> 00:17:50,331
in his contest with
the Nobby Shropshire One.

300
00:17:51,421 --> 00:17:54,140
(CHUCKLES) He's now teaching me
the an of fisticuffs

301
00:17:54,221 --> 00:17:56,656
at the rate often and six a visit.
(CLEARS THROAT)

302
00:17:56,741 --> 00:17:58,334
Stand by.

303
00:17:58,421 --> 00:18:02,415
Might he sit in the shop with your
young man, Mr Gills? Sit down, Chicken.

304
00:18:02,501 --> 00:18:05,892
The rain is bad for his stamina.
He is easily offended.

305
00:18:05,981 --> 00:18:07,972
(ensues)

306
00:18:09,061 --> 00:18:12,816
- Now, Mr Gills, if we might speak...
- Hm?

307
00:18:12,901 --> 00:18:15,654
(SOFTLY) Miss D-O-M... You know...

308
00:18:16,461 --> 00:18:18,771
Maybe you'll come aboard, then?

309
00:18:25,061 --> 00:18:26,813
- Now, sir.
- Mr Gills?

310
00:18:26,901 --> 00:18:28,653
Avast! My name's Cuttle.

311
00:18:28,741 --> 00:18:31,574
Captain Cuttle's my name
and England is my nation.

312
00:18:31,661 --> 00:18:35,894
This here's my dwelling place
and blessed be creation. Job.

313
00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:39,451
I er... I couldn't see Mr Gills, could I?

314
00:18:39,541 --> 00:18:41,817
If you could see Sol Gills, young gentleman,

315
00:18:41,901 --> 00:18:46,259
you'd be welcomer to me
than a wind astern to a ship becalmed.

316
00:18:46,341 --> 00:18:49,971
But you can't see Sol Gills.
And why can't you see Sol Gills?

317
00:18:50,061 --> 00:18:52,575
Because he's in-wis-ible.

318
00:18:52,661 --> 00:18:55,016
Oh. Lord bless me!

319
00:18:55,101 --> 00:18:59,777
One morning at daybreak, he went over
the side without a splash, without a ripple,

320
00:18:59,861 --> 00:19:02,580
left me in charge here by a piece of writing.

321
00:19:02,661 --> 00:19:04,777
Good gracious, Captain Gills.

322
00:19:04,861 --> 00:19:06,898
I'm sure Miss Dombey don't know that.

323
00:19:06,981 --> 00:19:08,779
You come here from her, then?

324
00:19:08,861 --> 00:19:11,057
Oh... Oh, I should think so.

325
00:19:11,141 --> 00:19:14,497
Then I need only observe
that you know an angel

326
00:19:14,581 --> 00:19:17,414
and are chartered by an angel.

327
00:19:17,501 --> 00:19:19,492
She is an angel, Captain.

328
00:19:19,581 --> 00:19:22,255
If there is an angel anywhere,
it is Miss Dombey,

329
00:19:22,341 --> 00:19:25,538
but the truth of the matter is
it is the young woman I come from,

330
00:19:25,621 --> 00:19:27,419
Miss Dombey's maid Susan, you know.

331
00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:30,141
This morning, most unexpectedly,
she took me into the pantry.

332
00:19:30,221 --> 00:19:33,657
She gave me this newspaper.
She has kept it from Miss Dombey all day.

333
00:19:33,741 --> 00:19:38,019
She asked me to go to Mr Gills and ask him
whether he believed the news to be true.

334
00:19:38,101 --> 00:19:39,580
The news?

335
00:19:39,661 --> 00:19:41,732
You have not read it or heard anything,
Captain?

336
00:19:41,821 --> 00:19:43,459
No, lad, I've not.

337
00:19:43,541 --> 00:19:48,411
It says here that the wreckage of a ship that
was bound for Barbados has been found.

338
00:19:48,501 --> 00:19:51,778
What's that you say? Walter's ship?

339
00:19:51,861 --> 00:19:53,534
Oh, well, it says,

340
00:19:53,621 --> 00:19:58,616
"All surmises as to the fate of the missing
vessel, are now set at rest forever.

341
00:19:58,701 --> 00:20:01,819
It seems certain that
she broke up in the last hurricane

342
00:20:01,901 --> 00:20:04,256
and that every soul on board perished."

343
00:20:04,341 --> 00:20:06,412
Well, how do they know it was his ship?

344
00:20:06,501 --> 00:20:10,256
Oh, why, Captain,
cos pan of the stern was found floating.

345
00:20:10,341 --> 00:20:12,810
The name "Son And Heir"
was painted upon it.

346
00:20:12,901 --> 00:20:14,892
Then...he's gone.

347
00:20:16,261 --> 00:20:18,252
Walter, my dear boy.

348
00:20:20,461 --> 00:20:21,974
He's gone.

349
00:20:22,061 --> 00:20:25,531
Someone's always going and dying
or doing something unpleasant, you know.

350
00:20:25,621 --> 00:20:27,214
I never saw such a world.

351
00:20:27,301 --> 00:20:30,737
This here news was written in a ship's log

352
00:20:30,821 --> 00:20:33,620
and that's the truest book
as a man can write.

353
00:20:34,581 --> 00:20:39,132
You may tell the young woman
that Captain Cuttle says, "It's all over."

354
00:20:39,221 --> 00:20:43,010
But, er...Miss Florence, Captain,
will she be much affected?

355
00:20:43,101 --> 00:20:45,092
Why, Lord love you!

356
00:20:45,181 --> 00:20:48,219
They was as fond of one another
as two young doves.

357
00:20:48,301 --> 00:20:51,020
- Were they, though?
- They was made for one another.

358
00:20:51,101 --> 00:20:53,092
Oh, well, upon my word and honour.

359
00:20:54,181 --> 00:20:56,172
I'm even more sorry now than I was before.

360
00:20:56,981 --> 00:21:00,531
You see, I... I positively adore Miss Dombey.

361
00:21:01,581 --> 00:21:03,572
I'm perfectly sore with loving her.

362
00:21:03,661 --> 00:21:06,858
I cannot get through my meals.
I find no pleasure in my tailor.

363
00:21:08,021 --> 00:21:10,251
I often cry when I'm alone.

364
00:21:10,941 --> 00:21:12,136
I am wretched.

365
00:21:12,221 --> 00:21:15,737
Aye. Made for one another.

366
00:21:18,941 --> 00:21:21,535
But what signifies that now?

367
00:21:25,741 --> 00:21:27,732
(DOOR OPENS)

368
00:21:30,781 --> 00:21:34,854
- Mr Carker?
- Well. Captain Cuttle.

369
00:21:34,941 --> 00:21:38,536
You'll have received the news
as was in print yesterday, sir?

370
00:21:38,621 --> 00:21:43,900
Yes. The underwriters have suffered
a considerable loss. Such is life.

371
00:21:45,741 --> 00:21:48,130
Is there anything I can do for you,
Captain Cuttle?

372
00:21:48,221 --> 00:21:51,339
Well, I'd like you to put my mind at ease,
if you please, sir.

373
00:21:51,421 --> 00:21:54,891
What about?
Be quick if you please, I am much engaged.

374
00:21:56,981 --> 00:22:02,010
Well, sir, before my young friend Walter
went on this here disastrous voyage...

375
00:22:02,101 --> 00:22:04,092
Come, come, Captain Cuttle.

376
00:22:04,181 --> 00:22:07,458
There are hazards in all voyages,
whether by sea or land.

377
00:22:07,541 --> 00:22:10,693
You don't suppose that young
whatshisname was lost in bad weather

378
00:22:10,781 --> 00:22:13,250
that was got up against him in these offices,
do you?

379
00:22:13,341 --> 00:22:18,461
Fie, Captain! Sleep and soda water are
the best cures for such uneasiness as that.

380
00:22:18,541 --> 00:22:20,578
Mr Carker, afore that young lad went away,

381
00:22:20,661 --> 00:22:22,459
-he told me something.
-Indeed?

382
00:22:22,541 --> 00:22:26,296
He told me that he wasn't going away
for his own good, or promotion.

383
00:22:27,061 --> 00:22:30,577
Now, I'd like, if you please, to ask
a question or two of you in a civil way,

384
00:22:30,661 --> 00:22:32,937
for my own satisfaction.

385
00:22:33,021 --> 00:22:36,537
Captain Cuttle,
I must ask you to do me a favour.

386
00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:38,259
And what is it, sir?

387
00:22:38,341 --> 00:22:40,855
To have the goodness to walk off,
if you please,

388
00:22:40,941 --> 00:22:43,455
and to carry your jargon somewhere else.

389
00:22:43,541 --> 00:22:44,611
Eh?

390
00:22:44,701 --> 00:22:48,535
I tell you what, Captain, I was too lenient
with you when you came here before.

391
00:22:48,621 --> 00:22:50,532
In my desire to save young whatshisname

392
00:22:50,621 --> 00:22:52,771
from being kicked out of here
neck and crop,

393
00:22:52,861 --> 00:22:56,172
I tolerated you, but for once and only once.

394
00:22:56,261 --> 00:22:59,174
- Now go, my friend.
-(lNHALES SHARPLY)

395
00:22:59,261 --> 00:23:01,252
You are deep, Captain Cuttle.

396
00:23:01,341 --> 00:23:05,460
You hatch nice little plots
and make nice little appointments

397
00:23:05,541 --> 00:23:09,250
and you receive nice little visitors too,
Captain, eh?

398
00:23:09,341 --> 00:23:10,934
Stand by.

399
00:23:11,021 --> 00:23:13,535
It's a bold measure
to come here afterwards.

400
00:23:13,621 --> 00:23:19,173
You conspirators and hiders and
runners-away should know better than that.

401
00:23:19,941 --> 00:23:21,739
Will you oblige me by going?

402
00:23:23,701 --> 00:23:26,898
My lad, there's many a word
as I could choose to say to you,

403
00:23:26,981 --> 00:23:30,611
but I don't rightly know
where they're stowed just at present.

404
00:23:30,701 --> 00:23:31,930
Good day, Captain.

405
00:23:33,341 --> 00:23:38,620
But you and me will come alongside 0'
one another again, my lad, if we live.