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Heat.

Heat.

Morning.

>> Morning, Mr. Lightwood.

>> Uh, Mr. Buffins within.

>> Mr. Buffin.

>> Ah,

>> Mr. Buffin.

>> Morning.

>> You uh you seem somewhat tired, sir.

>> What? Oh, yes. Uh, a busy night. We um

we have an appointment I believe.

>> Yes. A very busy night. The uh the man

who pulled John Harmon's body from the

river.

>> Hexom.

>> Gaba Hexom is dead.

>> Dead?

>> Yes. We pulled him from the river last

night. The uh £10,000 reward you offered

for the apprehension of Harmon's

murderer.

>> Bought an accusation against Hex and we

were at the river to apprehend him. He

uh eluded us.

>> Uh drown himself.

>> No, an accident. So that case rests as

you might say.

>> Do you believe exam guilty?

>> Well then, I'm now in a position to give

you final details of your fortune.

>> Oh, it's hardly the moment I discuss my

fortune.

>> What?

>> So much death about

>> in the midst of life. Following upon the

sad death by drowning of John Harmon,

the Harmon estate now passes to you in

its entirety. All forms of law now

having been complied with. So my dear

Mr. Buffin, I congratulate you on coming

into possession of upwards of £100,000.

>> Oh, I don't know what to say about it.

I'm sure

>> it involves no trouble, Mr. Buffin.

There are no estate to manage, no agents

to take the cream off the milk before it

comes to the table. I mean, you could

put the hole in a cash box tomorrow

morning and take it with you to, say,

the Rocky Mountains. In as much as every

man appears to be under a fatal spell

which obliges him sooner or later to

mention the Rocky Mountains in a tone of

extreme familiarity to some other man.

>> I hope you'll excuse my pressing you

into the service of that range of

geographical BS.

>> It's a great lot to take care of.

>> My dear Mr. Buffin, then don't take care

of it.

>> If it weighs upon your mind, you can

easily make it less. And I do assure you

there are many people who'd be happy to

take the trouble off your hands.

>> That is not very satisfactory, Mr.

Lightwood.

>> Is anything satisfactory, Mr. Buffy?

>> Well, I found life pretty satisfactory

when I was just a dustman.

>> I think it's a pity the old man made so

much, mate. Never did him no good.

Turned away his only son. Him dead

before I can help him

drown.

Last time I saw him, he's a little boy,

seven years

going away all lonely and for lawn some

foreign school. He come to have a little

warm at our fire, you know. Oh, there

was a shivering wind.

AND I WAS TO TAKE HIS BOX DOWN TO THE

STEAMBOAT cuz that old m of a father

wouldn't dream of allowing six pence for

coach money. Frozen he was. My Mrs.

Buffing out by the fire and warmed her

hands and rubbed his little cheeks with

them. It was both crying.

I won't say but what it cut me.

We never had no children of our own. We

often wish we had but after that no no.

Well, we might both die, said Mrs. Bob.

And then other strange eyes would see

that lonely look on our child.

So overnight when it was very cold or

the wind roared or the rain dripped

heavy, she'd wake up sobbing. She'd call

out in a fluster.

Don't you see the poor child's face?

Oh, shelter the poor child.

Well, in the course of years,

gradually wore out as many things do.

>> My dear Mr. Buffin, everything wears to

rags.

>> Oh, I wouldn't say everything.

There are some things I never found

among the dust.

Your belly make love cry.

>> How'd you get your wooden leg

>> in an accident?

>> You like it?

>> Well, I haven't got to keep it warm,

have I?

Hey,

>> did you ever hear the name Buffin?

>> No.

>> Do you like it?

>> No.

>> Why?

>> I don't know why I don't, but I don't.

>> You'll be sorry for that.

>> No, I won't.

>> My name's Buffin.

>> Well, I can't help that. And if I could,

I wouldn't.

>> Well, here's another chance for you. Do

you like the name Nicodemus?

Think about it. Nick or Naughty?

>> It's not sort of name as I could wish

anyone I had respect for to call me by.

>> Well, that's me, Naughty Buffett.

>> What's your name?

>> Silus Wig. And I don't know why, SILUS.

AND I DON'T know why. Wig.

>> Well, Wig, I'd like to make a sort of

offer to you.

Where I live is called the power. Oh

>> yeah,

>> power. Yeah,

>> I shall expect you to work.

>> Yeah.

now these ballots.

First morning I met you, you was a

singing one of these your ballots to the

butcher's boy. I listened with

admiration amounting to and I

thought to myself here is a literary man

>> with a wooden leg.

>> Well, not exactly. So, sir a wooden leg.

Yes.

>> And you know all of these songs

>> by name and by tune.

>> Yeah.

>> And if you want to read or sing any one

on them off straight.

>> Yeah.

>> You won't need to whip on your

spectacles and do it. Now I've SEEN YOU

AT IT.

WE SAILED IT.

>> A literary man with a wooden leg and all

print is open to it. That is not

>> I truly s I believe you couldn't show me

a piece of English print I wouldn't be

able to COLOR IN AND THROW IN

>> on the spot.

>> On the spot.

>> I knew it.

>> Well, consider this. Here am I. A man

without a wooden leg and all print is

shut to me.

>> Indeed. Education neglected.

>> Neglected.

That ain't the word for it. Mind you, I

wouldn't say that. If you showed me a B,

I couldn't so far give you a change for

it as to answer buffin. I mean, B for

buffing. I know.

>> Yes,

>> it ain't much.

>> Perhaps it's not as much as could be

wished by an inquiring mind, sir.

>> Now, look here. I'm retired from

business.

>> Me and Mrs. Boffin, we live on a

competitance under the will of a

diseased governor.

>> A gentleman dead.

>> Well, man alive. Ain't I just told you a

diseased governor? Now it's too late for

me to begin shoveling and shifting at

alphabets. I'm getting to be an old

bird. I want to take things easy. But I

want some reading. I want some fine bold

reading. Wake. I want some splendid

gorging book.

Now, how do I set about getting that

reading wig? By paying a man truly

qualified to do it so much an hour. Say

Tutms.

Tuten me. An hour to come and do it.

>> Oh, flattered, sir. I'm sure

this is the offer you mentioned.

>> Do you like it?

>> I ain't considering of it, Mr. Buffy.

Two longans and a shorten tney.

>> Two shortens is one long. Two two

longans is four longans. Five longans in

all.

>> Six nights a week at five longs a night.

You mount up to 30 longans

around

half a crown.

>> Half a crown.

Ain't much half a crown.

Per week, you know.

>> Per week. Yes. And as to the amount of

strain upon the intellect now, was you

thinking at all of poetry?

>> Would that come dear?

>> It would be dearer. When it comes to a

person grinding off poetry night after

night, well, it is right. You expect to

be paid for its wearing effect on his

mind.

>> Well, to tell you the truth, Mr. Wick, I

was not thinking of poetry. Now except

in so far as this if you was to feel

yourself in your mind now and then to

tip me and Mrs. Buffin one of your

ballots why then we should fall into

poetry.

>> I follow you sir but not being a regular

musical professional I shall be lo to

engage myself with that and therefore

when I dropped in poetry well I should

ask you to consider it as a friend.

>> That's more than I could have asked

>> and I thank you kindly for it Mr.

Now what do you think of the terms?

>> I am considering it Mr. Poppy. I never

bargain.

>> So I should have thought of you.

>> No sir, I never did agle and I never

will. Consequently, I'll meet you at

once. Free and fair with

done for double the money.

>> Well, you know what? It ought to be

better than I do.

>> Could you begin tonight?

Yes, sir. I see no difficulty if you

wish it. You are provided with a needful

implement book.

>> Bought him in a sale. Eight volumes, red

and gold. Every volume with a purple

ribbon to keep the place where you left

off. Do you know him?

>> The book's name, sir.

>> I thought you might have known him

without it. Well, his name is

Decline and Fall Off the Russian Empire.

Oh,

indeed. Do you know it? Well, I haven't

been not to say right slap for him very

lately, having been otherwise employed.

But know him? Oh, old familiar declining

and falling off the roof. rather

ever since I was not so high or stick.

Ever since my oldest brother left our

college to enlist into the army on which

occasion as the ballot that was made

about it described beside that cottage

DOOR, MR. BUFFIN, HER girl was on her

knees. She held a loft snowy scarf, sir,

which my oldest brother noticed

flattered in the breeze. She breathed a

prayer for him, Mr. puffing a prayer he

could not hear. And my oldest brother

leaned upon his sword, Mr. Puffin,

and wiped away a tear.

I take it very friendly of you, Mr.

Wake, to drop into poetry so soon.

Name the hour of your arrival.

>> 8.

I shall expect your coming most

joyfully, Mr. Wait,

>> I SHALL HAVE NO PEACE, NO PATIENCE. YOU

come

>> print

is opening before me.

>> This night a literary man with a wooden

leg will begin to lead me a new life. My

fist again.

>> Morning. Morning. Morning.

>> Morning. Morning.

Beside a cottage door, a girl was on her

knees. She yelled aloft, a snowy scarf

which fluttered in the breeze.

Beside that cottage door, a girl was on

an English.

>> Yes, my love.

>> There's a gentleman here would like to

speak to you, my love, and Mr. Rogue

Smith.

>> Rogue Smith?

I don't know a Rogue Smith. IS HE IN THE

DUST?

HELLO. I know your face. That's right. I

seen you this morning when I was talking

to a literary gentleman at his stall.

Know your face. Don't know you.

>> No, you don't know me, sir. I'm a nobody

and not likely to be known.

>> Well, what do you want with me then?

>> Well, uh, Mr. Buffin, you will probably

change your manner of living in your

changed circumstances. Perhaps keep a

larger house, have many matters to

arrange, be beset by numbers of

correspondence. If you would try me as

your secretary,

>> as your secretary,

>> we would try me as your man of business

under any name, I know that you would

find me useful, and I would willingly

serve you for any time you may appoint

before money need be considered.

What do you do for a living?

>> Well, I've said that I would like to be

your secretary. I had some other slight

intentions which have been superseded.

So now I have to begin life.

>> Well,

>> um, will you allow me to call on you in

a few days? I can't expect you to accept

me on trust at first sight. Let me come

to you again for your further opinion.

>> That's fair enough.

>> Yes. Call at Buffin's power in the next

week or two.

I shall be pleased to see you.

>> Thank you.

>> Ah, that will be my husband. RW where in

the parl would be pleased for you to

join us. This gentleman RW proposes to

take your apartment which you wish to

let by the quarter.

>> A quarter's notice on either side.

>> Shall I mention, sir, the the form of a

reference? Well, I think that a

reference is not necessary, and neither

to say the truth is it convenient, for I

am a stranger in London. I require no

reference from you, and perhaps,

therefore, you will require none from

me. I think that will be fair on both

sides. Indeed, I show the greater

confidence of the two, for I will pay in

advance whatever you require. Uh, and I

will be leaving my furniture here,

whereas if you were an embarrassed

circumstance

Oh, this is merely supposious.

>> Perfectly.

>> Why, then I I might lose it. Well, money

and goods are certainly the best of

references.

>> Do you think they are the best part?

>> Among the best, my dear.

>> I should have thought myself it was so

easy to add the usual kind of one.

>> I accept your terms, Mr.

>> Rogith. John Rogith.

>> Get me pen and paper, Lavian. I shall

write up a simple agreement.

And you should be a witness, fella.

I would like eight sovereigns to seal

the bargain. Mr.

>> Yes, of course.

>> And if you will sign here,

Where am I to go? Pear in this corner.

>> I'm very much obliged to you, Miss

Wilfer.

>> Obliged?

>> I've given you so much trouble

>> signing my name?

Yes, certainly. But I am your landlord's

daughter, sir.

>> Well, I shall arrange for my furniture

to be delivered next Wednesday, then,

Mr. Wilson.

>> That will be an order, Mr.

Good night.

>> Good night, Mr. Relax.

>> Thank you.

>> Something about that young man which

isn't quite to my taste.

>> I certainly don't like him.

>> Well, now back once again to the uh

bosom of my family.

>> The bosom is agitated. RW

>> h we have got a murderer for a tenant.

>> Ah, we got a robber to see him unable

for his life to look anyone in the face.

Never was such an exhibition.

>> My dear, he's a diffident gentleman.

Don't you think?

>> Oh, not as I think doubly, but as you

do. And I should say particularly so in

a society of girls of your age.

>> Not since our age. What's that got to do

with him? Besides, we're not of the same

age. Never you mind lover. You wait

until you have an age to ask such

questions.

>> P. Mark my words. Between Mr. Rogmith

and me there lies a natural antipathy

and a deep distrust. And something will

come of it.

>> My dear girls, between Mr. Rogmith and

me, there is a matter of eight

sovereigns. and something for supper

shall come with it, if you'll agree upon

the article. These sovereigns come just

in time. Oh,

>> I hate to test being poor.

>> But tonight, we shall have a bottle of

scotch ale and a rum. My dear, while I

am out buying us some cutlets, perhaps

you will prepare some boiling water and

lemon peel.

>> I should also prepare the frying pan if

we really are going to have ve cutlets.

>> Yes, love. time we were off.

>> Amen.

>> Lord, I feel quite nervous at the

thought of meeting poor John Hman's

intended.

>> I hope she likes us. Naughty.

>> Nobody could outlive you, love.

>> Ah, when Mr. Arma made such a fool of

me, not to mention himself as he's dead.

What do you suppose he did it for?

>> Impossible to say, my dear. As I have

told you, time's out of numbers since

his will was brought to light. I doubt

if I ever exchanged a hundred words with

the old gentleman.

>> Poor Bella. Poor indeed. Here in this

ridiculous black dress, which I hate, a

kind of widow who was never married, to

be left in a will to a man I never seen.

Why did Mr. Arm have to choose me of all

people? Why do you have to tie me up to

his son? It's ridiculous. Stranger

coming over to marry me whether he likes

me or not.

>> He didn't have to marry him, my love. He

could have said no.

>> If he'd said no to me, he wouldn't have

got the money.

>> Well, he's dead now, so you haven't got

either. Money or husband. It's also

ridiculous. I could never have liked

him. Book of orange flowers indeed.

Mind you, the money would have smoothed

it all out.

Money. I want money. I want it

desperately. I hate to be poor. And we

are degradingly poor, miserably poor,

beastly poor.

So here I am with all the ridiculous

parts of the situation remaining and

added to them all this ridiculous dress.

>> See who it is.

>> Where's that Mr. and Mrs. Buffin?

>> Oh, the Golden Dustmen.

Bring them down here, Levvenia, at the

leisurely pace.

Pray be seated.

Pardon me to what am I indebted for this

honor?

>> Well, Mark, to to make it shorter,

perhaps you may be acquainted with the

names of me and Mrs. Buffin has haven't

come into a certain property.

>> I have heard of such being the case.

>> Yes, and I dare say you're not very

inclined to take kindly to us.

>> Oh, pardon me. It were unjust to visit

upon Mr. and Mrs. Buffin a calamity

which was doubtless a dispensation.

>> That's fairly said, I'm sure. WELL, NOW

ME AND MRS. BUFFIN, WE'RE WE'RE PLAIN

PEOPLE. CONSEQUENTLY, we make this call

to say we would be rejoiced if your

daughter would come to consider our ass

in the light of our own home equally

with this. In short, we want to cheer

your daughter and give her the

opportunity of sharing such pleasures as

we are going to take ourselves.

WE WANT TO BRISK HER UP AND BRISK HER

APART AND GIVE HER A CHANGE.

>> YEAH,

>> that's it.

Lord, let's be comfortable

>> upon me. I have several daughters. Which

of my daughters might I understand is

thus favored by the kind intentions of

Mr. Borthin and his lady?

>> Don't you see? Naturally, Miss Bella,

because if she had married John Harmon,

as intended, she would have had it all,

not just what we are offering. Oh,

>> my daughter Bella is accessible and

shall speak for herself.

Send my daughter Bella to me.

>> PLEASANT PREMISES YOU HAVE HERE.

>> IT IS THE abode of conscious though

independent poverty.

Oh,

beautiful.

My

wizzy.

What's the news out of doors?

>> What's the news indoors?

>> But I am very glad to see you home.

Oh, this

this this

is the best time of the day and night.

I'm so grateful to you for letting me

come to live here.

>> I've been thinking as I sat at work

today. What a thing it would be if I

could have your company till I married.

At least till I courted.

And when I'm courted, I shall make him

do some of the things that you do for

me. Thank you.

He couldn't brush my hair like you do.

He couldn't help me up the stairs like

you do.

He couldn't do anything quite like you

do. But he can carry on my work and he

can he can call for orders in his clumsy

way. And he shall too.

>> I think they're rather hard on me.

>> What a bit.

They don't care for you, those fellows.

If you're not hard on them,

as I was saying, if I could have your

company,

that's a large, isn't it?

>> I have no intention of parting company,

Jenny.

>> Yeah. Ah, who comes here? A grenadier.

What does he want? A pot of beer.

>> Mr. Eugene Rayburn, isn't it? So I'm

told

>> you may come in if you're good.

>> I'm not good, but I'll come in. I was

strolling here. Thought I'd come and see

how you are, Miss Hexon.

I propose

to be of use to someone.

I propose to engage a teacher for you,

to help you to an education like you've

helped your brother Charles.

You will not refuse me, Miss Hex.

Why have I not distressed you?

Please don't disappoint me, Miss Hexom.

You mustn't let false pride lose you an

opportunity. Oh,

>> force pride, Mr. Raven,

>> does wrong to you and your dead father.

>> Well, to my father.

>> Can you ask? By perpetuating the

consequences of his blind ignorance.

I hate to claim to mean well, but I

really do mean honestly and simply well.

I want you to know it.

>> Well, I've never doubted that, Mr. Ray.

>> Then you accept my offer.

>> Well, I don't know that I should.

>> I should like you to think about it, and

I shall come again for your answer.

>> Very well, Mr. Rabburn.

I'm thinking of buying a doll, Miss

Jenny.

>> I should not if I was you.

>> Why not?

>> You're sure to break it. All you

children do.

>> But that makes good for trade, you know,

Miss R. And much as people's breaking

promises and contracts and bargains of

all sorts makes good for my trade as a

lawyer.

Why, if we were all as industrious as

you are working since you could grow a

little busy body, it would be a bad

thing.

>> Do you mean bad for our backs and bad

for our legs?

>> No, no, no. I wasn't referring to an

infirmity.

I mean,

no, I didn't. I meant bad for business.

Bad for business.

If we all set to work as soon as we

could use our hands, it it would be all

over with the doll's dress makers.

>> There's something in there.

>> You have a kind of idea in your nodle

sometimes.

Poor fun. You must sting me, Mr. Rayurn.

Well, I won't detain you any longer.

>> That is to say, Mr. N, you wish me to

go.

Ah, you have a visitor. Gentleman from a

foreign land. I think Mr. Aeron, if I'm

not mistaken. Shall I let him in?

>> Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Come in.

Come in. Come in.

>> And how is my little dress maker for

little people?

>> Oh, my dear friend, what have you

brought for me tonight?

>> What have I brought you?

An evening cloak for your opera doll,

perhaps? Eh.

or a waste coat for your fine gentleman

on the shelf. Or a

dress

for your bride. Yes.

Beautiful.

Oh my

god.

Ah, thank you.

My lover,

>> it's Mr. Rogmith. Ah,

>> A MUTUAL FRIEND.

Come in, sir. Come in. Uh, sit down.

>> Thank you.

>> You uh you find me rather unprepared to

see you. I've been so busy with one

thing and another. I've I've not had

time to think over your offer. And

that's an apology from me as well. Lord,

we can talk it over now, can't

>> let ME SEE. IT WAS SECRETARY, you named.

>> Yes, I I said secretary.

>> That rather puzzled us at the time

because we've always understood a

secretary to be a piece of furniture

mainly of mahogany.

>> Oh, yes.

>> Lined with green bays or leather with a

lot of little drawers. You certainly

ain't that.

>> No, I I use the word in the sense of a

steward. Stuart or we're bad sailors. We

don't get to see very often.

>> No, no. A sort of manager.

>> Oh, well, if if you joined my employee,

but what exactly would you do?

>> Well, I could keep exact accounts of all

your expenditure, write letters under

your direction, transact your business,

arrange your papers so as to have them

always in order for immediate reference.

I'll tell you what.

You sit about these here present papers

and you see what you can make of them.

>> Then perhaps I shall know better what I

can make of you.

>> There we are.

>> I tell you, my dear, if you don't close

with Mr. brokemith now at once. And if

you ever go muddling yourself again with

things never meant nor MADE FOR YOU,

YOU'LL have an apoplelexi and break my

hearts.

>> THAT CLINCHES IT, MR. ROGMITH. WE ARE IN

BUSINESS.

And to begin with,

we'll set about it right away.

>> That's right, Naughty.

>> We are going in neck and crop for

fashion, Mr. Rogmith.

AND TO START WITH, WE'RE GOING TO BUY A

HOUSE.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, MR. OAKSMITH. A BIG HOUSE

WITH TWO WALLS, a front and a back

besides the servants.

>> Oh, it's to be a spanker. A real

spanker. But we can discuss that later.

First of all, I'd better show you your

way around this place.

>> Yes, certainly.

No,

regarding my literary gentleman with the

wooden leg, he might feel slightened

that my employing you as the sier

secretary.

I shall have to cast about the ways of

means arousing his jealousy.

This is where the old man died

here. until we found his will.

The house has been kept like this

rogsmith against the son's return.

When he came back to this house for the

last time in his life and for the last

time in his life saw his father, it was

most likely in this room they met.

Ah, there's another stairway leading

down into the yard. We'll go that way.

You may want to see it.

When John Armond was a little boy,

it was up and down these stairs. He came

and went to his father.

He was very timid of his father.

Many a time I've seen him in his shy way

sitting on these stairs.

Me and Mrs. I've often I've often

comforted him. Sit in with his little

book on these stairs.

>> And that's the place on the wall where

one day we measured his height. With his

own little hand, he wrote his name up.

The name is here still.

The poor dear gone forever.

>> Now we must take care of that name, old

lady. It won't be rubbed out in our

time. All in little lad.

And so the business,

the dust business

from which old Arman made his fortune. I

can price those bands to a fraction.

And So he dies

and with the death of Komodius, we leave

the Holy Roman Empire for tonight.

Ah, very good.

>> Keeps the organ moist. Hey, Mr. W.

>> Yeah, I like to do my reading on gin and

water, but not so much moist. No,

>> it's melis.

Yeah, melons is the word I should

employ, Mr. Puffin.

Ah, that cambodius.

He fights IN THAT WILD BEAST SHOW. WHAT

WAS IT, WIG? 375 times.

>> Yeah,

>> he kills 100 of them before he's

strangled.

>> I never knew this morning there were so

many scarers in print.

Naughty naughty. Oh my dear.

>> Oh my love.

>> Faces everywhere.

>> Faces my love.

>> The old mans and the boys. Then both

looked them together.

Old

and growing younger. Everywhere. On the

walls, on the windows, in the dark, ON

THE ST.

>> NO, NO, ASH. It's only the moonlight.

Besides, I don't want to wait till I

want him to come and live here. He won't

if he thinks it's haunted.

>> I never had the feeling in the house

before. And I've been about it alone all

hours of the night. I've been in the

house when death was in it, when murder

was a new part of its adventures. And I

never had a frightenery yet.

>> Nor won't again, my love.

>> But why didn't it come before?

>> You come up with me now. We'll see.

There's nothing there.

>> Yeah.

There we are, MY DEAR. SAME AS EVER.

No faces here now, are they?

>> No.

>> Yeah. Feeling better?

>> Yes. I'm not nervous anymore.

But I've only just shut my eyes and

there they are. The old man's face and

it gets younger. The boy's face and it

gets older.

Silly old thing I am. This is the best

face in all the world.

>> Try to leave quietly.

>> So, you want to go to see your sister,

Hexom? If you please maintain

I do, sir.

>> And you hope to be one of us, school

master.

>> I do, sir.

>> Well, I'm sure in good time you will

pass a creditable examination and become

one of us.

Then the question is,

>> the uh question is, sir,

>> whether you had not better leave well

alone.

Is it well to leave my sister alone?

Sir,

>> I want you to consider.

I ask you to think about it. You know

how well you are doing here.

>> Yes, but but I mean she got me here.

>> Yes, she perceived the necessity of it

and made up her mind fully to the

separation.

>> Well, perhaps you will come with me and

see her in the rough and judge for

yourself.

>> Perhaps you would like to prepare her.

>> My sister Lizzy wants no preparing.

Well,

I can spare the evening. I'm ready to go

with you.

>> Where does your sister live?

Can't get up because my back's bad and

my legs is queer. But I'm the person of

the house.

>> Who else is at home?

>> There's no one at home at the moment,

young man. Except the person of the

house.

You want young man?

>> I wanted to see my sister.

>> Many young men have sisters.

Give me your name, young man.

>> Hexom is my name. Ah,

>> this gentleman's name.

>> Mr. Redstone, my school master.

>> Take a seat.

Close the door behind you. I can't do it

very well myself cuz my back's so bad

and my legs is queer.

I'm a doll's dress maker.

I hope it's a good business.

>> No, poorly paid. I had a doll married

last week. I was obliged to work all

night.

>> Ah, here is my particular friend.

>> Here's Mr. Ed. He was so kind as to take

an interest in coming. Well, I I brought

him.

>> How well you look.

>> Don't. Don't she just

But don't mind me. One, two, three. My

company. But don't mind me. Didn't

expect a visit from you, Charlie.

I see my brother near to the school cuz

it's easier for me to go there than for

him to come here. I work midway between

the two places.

>> You don't see much of each other? No.

>> Does Charlie always do well, Mr.

Edstone?

>> He could not do better. I regard his

course as quite plain before him.

>> You see, Mr. Redstone, it's better for

me not to come too often to see Charlie.

Well, I don't want to come between him

and his prospects. So, I'll come only

when he asks me. Don't you think that's

right, Mr. Redstone?

>> Well, your brother your brother is very

much occupied. You know, he has to work

hard. The less his attention is diverted

from his work,

the better for his future. When he shall

have established himself, why then it

will be another thing then?

>> Well, I've always advised him as you do,

have I, Charlie?

>> Well, never mind that. Now, how are you

getting on?

>> Very well. I want for nothing.

>> You uh have your room here.

>> Oh, yes. Upstairs. It's very quiet,

pleasant, and airy.

>> Yes. And she always has use of this room

for visitors.

Ah, caught you spying.

Hey, can wait outside.

You'll be glad to talk to your brother

alone.

>> When are you going to settle yourself in

some Christian sort of place? I'm very

well where I am, Charlie.

>> Very well where you are. I'm ashamed to

have brought Mr. Edstand with me.

>> I'm going out now.

>> Yes,

I'm going to see a customer.

>> How did you come to meet that little

witch? By

>> chance, it seems at first, Charlie.

I think it's must have been something

more than chance.

Do

>> you remember that terrible drunken old

man that jumped in the river for a

quarter of rum and drowned there? Her

father pulled him out. Well, she's his

grandchild and her father's as bad as

her granddad. A weak, trembling,

wretched creature, never sober. She's

been surrounded by drunken people since

her cradle. if she ever had one.

Charlie,

>> I don't see what you have to do with her

for all that.

>> That's a sort of compensation.

Her restitution,

the river,

his father's grave. Why can't you let

bygones be bygones? What we've got to do

is turn our faces full in a new

direction

>> and never look back.

>> No.

Not even to try

to make amends.

>> You're such a dreamer, Liz. I don't want

to have to shake you off as I go up in

the world. I want to take you with me.

That's what I want and that's what I

shall do. I said to Mr. Edstone out

there. I said, after all, it's my sister

who's got me where I am.

>> I tried to help.

>> Well, don't pull me back now.

>> I don't live here selfishly, Charlie.

I should like I should like TO GET RIGHT

AWAY from the river.

>> Well, the further you get away from it,

the better for me. I've done it. Why not

you?

>> I think I can't get away from it.

That is

It seems I'm not meant to.

>> There you go again. This dreaming.

>> Truly, I mean to be a good brother to

you and to prove that I know what I am.

Yeah. All I can say is I I hope you'll

control your fancies a little on my

account. I'll get a schooling and you

must come and live with me and you'll

have to control your fancies then. So

why not now?

Say I haven't vexed you.

>> Oh, you haven't, Charlie. You haven't.

>> And I haven't hurt you.

>> You haven't, Charlie.

>> Say you're sure I didn't mean to hurt

you. Well, there's Mr. Redstone. It's

time to go. Kiss me and tell me you're

sure I didn't mean to.

You didn't mean to, Charlie.

>> I uh I'm ready to go now, sir.

>> Good night, Miss Exon.

>> Good night, Mstone.

>> Good night, Liz.

I think I'll sit for a minute. Hex,

>> I suppose your sister has received

hardly any teaching.

>> Hardly any, sir? Yeah, your father's

objections, no doubt. I remember them in

your case. And yet,

she scarcely looks or speaks like an

ignorant person.

>> Well, Lizzy has as much thought as the

best of us, Mr. Edstone. I used to call

the fire at home her books because she

was always full of fancies. Quite wise

fancies, considering when she sat

looking at it.

>> I don't like that fantasies. I don't

like that.

>> I've never brought myself to mention

this to you openly, Mr. Redstone. But if

I get on as well as you hope, I won't

say I shall be disgraced by my sister

because I don't mean disgraced, but

rather put to the blush by it. I mean,

she's been very good to me.

>> Yes.

And there is this possibility to

consider. Some man who had risen from

the bottom might come to admire your

sister and might even in time bring

himself to think of marrying your

sister. And it would be a sad drawback

and a heavy penalty upon inequalities of

condition if this inequality of

education remained.

>> Well, that's much my own meaning, sir.

>> I I but spoke as a mere brother. Now,

the case I have suppose will be a much

stronger case because an admirer, a

husband would form the connection

voluntarily besides being obliged to

proclaim it, which a brother is not.

After all, you know, it must be said of

you that you could not help yourself,

while it will be said of him, with equal

reason that he could.

>> Who's that?

It's that Rayb burner.

>> I beg you pardon, Mr. Edstone. I kind of

wonder what brings him here.

>> You don't appear to like your friend

Hexon.

>> I don't like him.

>> Why not?

>> Took hold of me by the chin in a very

impertinent way the first time I saw

him.

>> Oh, why?

>> Oh, nothing. Oh, it's much the same.

Something I happened to say about my

sister didn't happen to please him.

>> But then he knows your sister. He didn't

at the time.

>> Does now?

>> Does now?

>> Yes, sir.

>> Going to see her, I dare say.

>> He can't be. He doesn't know her well

enough.

>> I should like to catch him at it.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.