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dearest. Ma, I hope you won't be angry,

but this morning, Mr. John Rogmith and I

were married. He loves me better than I

can ever deserve. I didn't mention it

beforehand in case it caused any

difference at home. Please tell darling

P. Ever. Dearest Mah, your affectionate

daughter, Bella. There, P, you're safe

and Ma can't take you alive.

>> Would you post this, please?

You do realize, don't you, P, that I'm

no longer your lovely woman.

>> I am well aware of it, and I resign you

most willingly.

>> Willingly? You ought to be

brokenhearted.

>> So, I should be my dear if I thought

ever losing you.

>> You know that you're not, don't you, P?

Well, now we're a partnership of three,

aren't we?

>> Listen, we must let them know it's a

wedding party.

>> Well, my dear, this is so much more

successful than our previous

anniversaries. We should hold our future

ones here. H

many happy returns to this most happy

day. Gentlemen, John Bella, the present

occasion is fraught with feelings that I

cannot trust myself to express. For the

part I have had in it, for the

confidence you have placed in me, for

the affectionate goodwill and kindness

which which you have determined not to

find me in the way I do most heartily,

thank you. My love to you. And may we

meet on many more returns of this

occasion.

>> Poor dear. You won't feel solitary and

neglected when you go home by yourself.

>> Lord, no, my dear. It's love.

Love that makes the world go round.

I, John Alman, in as much as I never

made friends and have a rebellious

family, leave to Nicodemus Buffin, the

little man, and the whole west and widue

of my property to the crown.

>> Signed by me to stay, John Harmon.

>> Yes,

that's the old man's mark, sure enough.

Now then, hey, when you put off your

that, we get down to business.

Now, first of all, I should call you

popping for short. And if you don't like

it, you can lump it.

>> Oh, I don't mind it, W.

>> It's lucky for you.

>> Do you want to be read, too?

>> Uh, no thank you, W. Not just now. Yeah,

cuz if you did, why wouldn't I've been

your slave long enough. I'm not going to

be trapped under foot by a dustman any

longer. I renounce the old situation

except for my salary.

>> Just as you say, wig.

>> Yeah. Next, you're placed in this yard

to clear the ground. Sneaking,

sniffling, sniffing meal.

>> Oh, it's not me cold, wig.

>> No joking, buffing. I won't have that

mean here and you buffing. We'll send

him packing now. Now

>> Mr. Slobe,

I call upon Buffin to inform this mean

that I am master here.

>> Sloppy, my good fellow. Mr. Wag is

master here. He don't want you. You'll

have to go

>> for good.

>> For good.

Now, Buffing, you are aware, aren't you,

that you're in possession of property to

which you had no right?

>> Mr. Venus tells me so.

>> I tell you so now, Buffing, I'm prepared

to bargain with you. But if you trifle

with me, I shall walk out of here and

bargain with the rightful owners as

specified in the will. We found that is

the crown. That is her majesty.

>> Quiet, quiet, Mr. W.

>> Sure, I have no intention of trifling.

And Buffin, are you prepared to come to

terms at once?

>> I'm willing to come to terms.

>> I won't take willing buffing. Do you ask

to be allowed to come to terms?

>> Oh dear. Yes.

>> Yes. Yes. What? I'll have it out of you

in full.

>> Oh dear. I ask to be allowed to come to

terms provided

that document is correct.

>> Don't you be afraid of that. So you want

to know the terms now? All right, mark

them well cuz they're the lowest and

only terms now. You will throw your

little mound into the general estate,

then divide the whole lot into three

parts. You keep one and hand over the

others. Wait, wait, Boin. You bought the

house, haven't you? You'll be charged

for it. I shall be ruined. Wait,

something more, Bin. Something more.

You'll leave me in so custody of the

mounds until they're cleared. Any

valuables found in them, I take charge

of them. You'll produce the contract for

the sale of the mound so we know exactly

what they're worth. And you make out the

list of all other property. And then

when the mounts are cleared at the last

shovel full, the final division will

come off.

>> Dreadful.

Dreadful. I shall die in the poor ass.

>> Oh, something more above.

You've been seen unlawfully feriting

about the yard. These two pair of eyes

are present looking at you have seen you

dig out a Dutch bottle.

>> That was mine. W I put it there myself.

>> What was in it, Buffin?

>> Nothing you could make money out of. W

>> I promise you.

>> I was prepared for an evasive answer

from our dusty friend.

>> Not

silver, not bank note, nor jewels.

I promise you.

>> Yeah. Well, I got a little idea. I think

we'll meet with your approval, Mr.

Venus. We charge that bottle against our

dusty friend of £1,000.

I think that's all for the moment. Now,

do you agree to our terms? Yes or no?

And no off measures.

What's the good of my pretending to

resist?

Can't help myself.

Yes. Yes.

Good night, Buffy.

>> Buffy.

Yes, please.

>> Nothing.

So, you won't make me a doll, Mr. R.

>> Nope, I won't, Mr. Raburn.

>> It's not just for a doll you came here.

I know your tricks and your manners.

You'll get nothing out of me.

Disgraceful

creature. You wicked child.

>> Don't cry like that.

>> I'll I'll throw a doll at you.

>> Me pay you a fine. It's only five

shillings

ultimately.

>> Sharp as a serpent's tooth if he wasn't

as dull as ditch water. fit only to be

preserved in the liquor that destroys

him.

>> He has no consideration for his liver.

Is he no consideration for me?

>> Yes.

Don't

>> don't

do won't do way do you.

>> I won't do so anymore.

I can't bear to look at you.

Bring me my bonnet and my soul.

Make yourself useful,

bad boy.

And let me have your room instead of

your company for one half minute.

I have to go to the opera.

See the grand ladies arrive.

I copy their dresses for my dolls.

I should like to see your back before I

go, Mr. Rabin.

But let me tell you once and for all.

It's no use you paying me visits. You

won't get what you want to know out of

me. Not if you brought pincers with you

to tear it out.

>> Are you so obstinate about a doll's

dress for my godchild?

>> Doll's dresses are addresses.

You won't get them from me, Mr. Raven.

So get along with you now. Come on. Give

it to me now. Go back to your corner,

you naughty old thing.

No. No. I don't want your help. Go back

to your corner immediately.

You prodigal old son,

you sit there till I come back.

My dear Mortimer, what a picture of

contented industry you look.

>> Dear Eugene,

what a picture of discontented idleness

you look.

>> Where have you been?

>> All about town.

meaning

about Lizzy Hexom.

>> You're a man of infinite discernment.

>> And yet, Eugene,

you know, you don't really care for her.

>> I don't know that.

I must ask you not to say it, as if you

took it for granted.

>> If you really cared for her, you should

leave her alone.

>> I don't know that either.

Tell me, have you ever known me take as

much trouble about anything as I have

about Liz's disappearance?

>> I wish I have.

>> You confirm my own impression.

Does that look as though I care for her?

I ask for information.

>> Look, I asked you for information.

>> I know, but I can't give it. I need

information. If my taking so much

trouble to finally does not mean I care

for, what does it mean?

>> You must look to the end.

>> Ah, how acute you are, Mortimer. It's

just what I'm incapable of doing.

at school. Remember, I always did my

lessons at the last moment. Now we're

out in life together. It's the same. I

mean, to find Lizzy. I can't go further

than that.

I shall use any means to do so. Fair or

foul, it's all alike to me.

I ask you for information.

What does it mean?

And when you have found her,

how can I tell what I'll feel then? My

mind can't move so far into the future.

>> I'm on duty tonight.

>> This interesting gentleman is the son of

a lady of my acquaintance, Mr. um Dolls.

>> My important choice.

>> Yes, he has something to say to me. I

think

>> I think we'll have to wind him up more.

Hope is powers of communication. Brandy,

Mr. Dolls, all rum.

>> Three ps of rum.

>> Oh, no. Mr. Dolls appear considerably

unstrung. Yes. Ooh, think I'll fumigate

him.

What a mad fellow you are, Esen. Why

does this creature come to see you?

>> We shall soon hear. Now then,

>> speak out. Don't be afraid. State your

business, Mr. D.

Mr.

is it?

>> Yes, of course it is. Look at me. What

do you want?

>> Do me the favor, my dear Malcolm, of

whining out Mr. Dolls again. I'm

occupied with a fumigation.

I tried to n you, but you look you want

you want to know where she lives, don't

you, Mr. Rainbow?

>> Yes, I do.

>> Well, I'm allowed to do it. What you the

man?

>> Give that direction.

>> Have you got it?

>> No.

>> What do you mean then?

>> Wind him up again. Mortima.

>> You Shane, can you stoop to the use of

such an instrument as this?

>> I said that I would find her by any

means. Fair or foul. These are foul. And

I'll take them if I don't first break

the head of Mr. Dolls with a fumigator.

Mr. Dolls,

>> can you get the direction that I

>> speak?

How much do you want to speak?

>> 15 shoes

to run. You shall have it. How will you

get the direction?

>> I'm the man to get it, sir.

I'm an illusual

blown up morning till night. Call names.

She makes submit the money to n turns

pre

>> dead get on. What comes next?

>> Let us pass between the postman. Let us

easier for a man of talent to get that

direction to get your own direction.

>> Get it then. New brute.

Get it and bring it here to me

>> and earn the money for 63 pennets of rum

and drink them all one after the other.

Can drink yourself dead with all

possible expedition.

I should wash my hands of Mr. Dolls

physically and with you again directly.

Mortima,

>> much prefer you washing your hands of

Mr. Dolls morally. You shame.

>> Yes, so would I.

>> But you see, dear boy, I can't do

without him.

>> You can't make me laugh about him.

>> You can make almost anything amusing,

but not this. Yes. Well, I'm a little

ashamed of it myself and therefore let

us change the subject.

>> It's so deplorably underhanded.

So unworthy of you

setting on of such a shameful.

We've changed the subject.

Take a cigar.

I light it. Draw one puff.

Breathe the smoke out. There it goes.

It's dolls. It's gone.

And being gone, I'll tell you something

which will amuse you. Isn't it

extraordinary that I can never go out

after dark without finding myself

followed? Always by one person,

sometimes by two. On my honor, it's

true.

>> Are you sure?

>> Sure, my dear boy. They're always the

same. The school masters abroad.

>> The school masters?

>> Yes.

>> You mean there's two fellows who came

here one day?

>> They do me the honor of attending me

after dark.

How long has this been going on?

>> I think ever since a certain person

disappeared,

>> Lizzie Hexom.

>> Yes.

>> They think you're responsible for her

disappearance.

>> I really haven't had time to think about

>> Why have you asked them what they

wanted? Have you objected?

>> Why should I ask them what they want?

Why should I object when I'm

indifferent?

>> Look, you're in your most reckless mood.

I wish you would speak a little more

soberly and plainly.

>> Then soberly and plainly, Mortimer,

I go the school master to madness.

I make him so ridiculous,

so aware of being made ridiculous. I see

him sweat from every paw when we pass

one another.

This amiable occupation's been the

solace of my life since I was borked, in

the manner so unnecessary to recall,

I've derived an expressible comfort from

it.

I do it thus.

I stroll out after dark and go a little

way looking at a window and watch

fertively for the school master.

Sooner or later I perceive him on the

watch, sometimes with a pupil, sometimes

not, and I tempt him on all over London,

one night west,

one night east.

Sometimes I walk fast on a short street,

turn the corner, being out of his view,

turn quickly back. I pass him coming on

as if unaware of his existence

and he undergoes grinding torments.

Night after night his disappointment is

acute

but hope springs eternal in the

scholastic breast and he follows me

again tomorrow.

Thus, I enjoy the pleasures of the chase

and derive great benefit from the

healthful exercise.

If I do not, I dare say,

he waits outside

all night.

This is

extraordinary story.

I don't like it.

>> You're getting too sedentary, Mortimer.

Come and enjoy the pleasures of the

chase with me. Come. Is he watching now?

I mean, have you seen him tonight?

>> I forgot to look for him when I was last

out. I'm sure he's there. Come. Be a

British sportsman. It'll do you good.

Come. Come.

Oh, look to your feet. We shall try your

boots.

Well,

when you are ready, I am. Need our shame

with a ho chimmy. And likewise with the

hard forward. Hard forward. Tantimmy.

Will nothing make you serious?

>> I'm always serious. Just now I'm excited

by the glorious fact that a

southerntherly wind and a cloudy sky

claim a hunting evening. Ready? So I

turn out the light and we take the

field.

And so you see as I was saying Mortima

undergoing grinding torment.

Hello. I thought I heard a noise.

Anything wrong, what?

>> I can't sleep.

I can't forget that fellow's face.

>> That's odd. I can

You call it the temple late.

>> Wish I meant I but wasn't going to say

the same to you.

>> It was just by chance.

>> Yeah, same with me.

Now, I don't mind telling you. I mean,

why should I mind telling you I'm a

deputy lock keeper upstream and

yesterday was my day off. So, I come

down to London to get the law on a

steamer that drowned me and I ain't

going to be drowned and not be paid for

it.

What is your business at these chambers

so late at night? Well, to ask Ly

Lightwood to act on behalf of you in a

match with a steamer.

I don't mind telling you. Why should I

mind telling you? You see, Ly Lightwood

and that friend of his, they owe me a

good turn. They gave me a lot of

trouble, let me down badly. If they'd

have taken me down good and proper in a

matter of a certain gafferum's death,

I'd have been a rich man by now instead

of being called bad names.

Where is your lock?

>> Flash water 25 mi upstream with you.

You know

Eugene Rabel?

>> Yes, I do.

>> And you don't like him?

>> No, I don't.

And you don't either, do you?

>> He's heaped on me provocation and

venomous insults. He and his friend will

treat your letter with contempt and

light their cigars with it. I

>> George and the dragon. I shouldn't

wonder if they did. Hey, will

let me ask you a question.

I know a little about Gaffer Hexon.

When did you last set eyes on his

daughter, Lizzy?

>> I never seen her once. Not since the day

that Gaffer died.

>> You know well by sight.

>> No one better.

>> And you know him as well.

>> Who's him? Cassie.

>> Oh, Yo Gon.

>> Did you ever see them together?

>> Yes, I did. the day that Gaffford died.

>> Was he insolent to her, too? Or did he

make a show of being kind to her?

>> Oh, very kind, I thought.

Well,

he is opening your elf. He's better than

he looks, governor.

>> It won't be long then before we see each

other again.

>> I don't know where to find you.

>> I know where to find you, and I'll come

to your lot.

Now dolls, wake up. It's very well

direction 50.

Uh-oh.

You got the place then?

>> Yes, I did. No thanks to you.

>> We kept our recommendations. The man

will take over when you're transported.

>> Don't be too long about it, will you?

over there. You come here. Here. Hey,

you

wish I may die, but you look just like

me. I hadn't realized it was your luck.

>> No. No. Ah, still. You're not really

interested in looking at locks, are you?

You got better things to think about,

are you?

Don't you worry about our friend,

Governor.

He's taking it easy.

>> You think I've been following him?

>> I know you have.

>> Well, I have. I have.

But he may land.

Even if he does land, he won't get lost,

will he? He'll just leave his boat

behind.

going after her? Is he?

>> I have hardly any doubt that at last he

is going to her.

>> Yeah, but you've had doubts before,

haven't you? Hey, and have shown on you,

haven't they, Governor?

>> These are my holidays.

>> Oh, they p George.

You must have a pretty stiff working

week if these your holidays.

And I've never left him since they

began. And I'll never leave him now till

I've seen him with her.

>> And then

>> I'll come back to you.

>> I have a pound for you. You've got two.

>> Now I must follow him.

It takes this river road the fool to

confuse observation or divert attention

if not solely to baffle me. But he must

have the power to make himself invisible

before he can shake me off.

>> Governor, governor,

if you don't get disappointed again,

would you like to stay in the lock house

when he come back? I

>> will.

I thought it was you standing here.

This would be a bad pit for a man to be

flung into with his hands tied behind

his back.

Those slippery smooth walls will give

him no chance.

And I suppose these gates would suck him

down.

Your face is like a ghost. Look quite

wore out.

Why don't you come in and lie down?

Did you see him with him?

>> I did.

>> I saw them walking side by side.

>> What did you do?

>> Nothing.

>> What you going to do?

How did that happen? I don't know. I

can't keep it back.

It's happened I don't know how many

times since I saw them together.

See it?

Smell it. Taste it.

Chunks it. It comes out like this.

I've had no rest since I left London.

I don't know that I've so much as sat

down since I left here.

Can you give me a drink? I asked you

what you were about to do. Can I plan

anything in this state? I'm so

exhausted. Why don't you lie down?

I shall require no calling.

Not peaceful.

I'm very peaceful.

You're stupid. I suppose

if you manage a tolerably satisfactory

life, you've got the better of me.

Man as I am, mutton as you are.

No pleasures of the chase in this part

of the country,

huh?

Poor school master.

Lizzy.

Lizzy, I was just saying to myself,

Lizzy, you were bound to come. Though

you were late. Well, I had to take my

time through the village and speak to

several people as if I know where

special to go.

>> Other village lads such scandal among

us.

>> Will you walk beside me, Mr. Rabburn,

and not touch me?

>> Lizzy, well, don't be unhappy. Don't be

reproachful.

>> I cannot help being unhappy. I don't

mean to be reproachful,

Mr. Rayburn. I implore you to go away

from here today.

>> Lizzy, Lizzy, Lizzy, now you're being

unreasonable. I can't go away.

>> Why not,

>> Faith? Cuz you won't let me. Mind, I

don't mean to be reproachful. I don't

complain that you deliberately keep me

here, but you do it. You do it.

>> Please, please don't touch me, Mr.

Raburn. I speak to you very seriously.

>> I will do anything you ask, Lizzy,

within the limits of possibility.

Now, when you met me, as I came from

work the night before last, you said

that you were surprised to see me and

that you were on a fishing excursion.

Was it true?

>> Not in the least true. I came here

because I had information that I'd find

you here.

>> Can you imagine why I left London, Mr.

Rabburn?

>> I'm afraid you left London to get rid of

me. Not very flattering to my

self-esteem, but you did.

>> I did.

>> How could you be so cruel?

Oh, Mr. Raymond,

is the cruelty on my part?

Oh, Mr. Rope,

is there no cruelty in your being here

tonight?

>> Is he in the name of all that's good?

Don't be distressed.

>> What else can I be

>> when I know the distance and difference

between us?

What else can I be

when you put me to shame by coming here?

busy.

I never thought before

that there was a woman in the world who

could affect me so much by saying so

little.

Don't be hard in your opinion of me.

You don't know what my state of mind is

towards you.

You don't know how you haunt and

bewilder me.

You don't know how the cursed

carelessness that's helped me every

other turning of my life. It won't help

me here. You've struck it dead. I think

I almost wish you'd struck me dead with

it.

Oh, it grieves you to see me distressed.

It grieves me to see you distressed.

Oh, I don't reproach you. Indeed, I

don't reproach you.

But you have not felt this as I feel it.

Think so different and starting from

another point of view.

You have not thought.

I intreat you.

Think now?

>> What am I to think of?

>> What? Think of me?

>> Tell me how not to think of you, Lizzy.

You'll change me altogether.

>> I don't mean in that way.

>> Think of me as belonging to another

station and quite cut off from you in

honor.

Remember that I have no protection near

me unless I have one in your noble

heart.

Well, respect my good name.

And if you feel towards me as in one

particular as you might if I was a lady,

then give me the full claims of a lady

upon your generous behavior.

I am removed from you and your family.

I've been a working girl.

Now, how true a gentleman

to be as considerate of me as if I was

removed by being a queen?

>> Have I injured you so much?

>> No. No. You may put me right.

I don't speak of the past, but of the

present and future.

I consented to this appointment as an

escape because for two days you followed

me so closely where there's so many eyes

to see me.

>> Again, not very flattering to my

self-esteem.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

>> Then I beseech you, Mr. Rayan. I beg and

pray you leave this neighborhood.

If you do not, then consider to what you

will drive me.

>> Drive you? What should I drive you?

You'll drive me away. I live here

peacefully and respected and I'm well

employed here. You'll force me to leave

this place as I left London. And if you

follow me again, you'll force me to

leave the next place in which I may find

refuge as I left this. Are you so

determined, Lizzy? Forgive the word I'm

going to use for it literal truth.

To fly from a lover.

Oh, I am so determined to fly from such

a lover.

I do not believe, Mr. Raburn,

that you could be so cruel as to drive

me from place to place or to wear me

out.

That you could drive me to death and I

would not give in.

Lizzy,

Lizzy,

Lizzy, you answer what I ask you. If I'd

not been what you call removed from you,

cut off from you, would you still have

made this appeal to me to leave you?

>> I don't know. Don't ask me, Mr. Raven.

Let me go back to my

>> Lizzy, you should go directly. I swear

I'll not follow you. I I'll not

accompany you. You should go alone if

you reply.

>> How can I tell you what I should have

done if you'd not been what you are? If

I'd not been what you make me out to be,

Lizzy, would you still have hated me?

>> Mr. Rayman, you know me better than to

think that I do.

>> If I'd not been what you make me out to

be, Lizzy, would you still have been

indifferent?

>> Oh, you know me better than that, too.

>> You must tell me, Lizzy, how you'd have

treated me if you considered me on equal

terms?

>> How can I think of you on equal terms?

How can I? You wouldn't be yourself.

How can I remember the night that I

first saw you? I had to leave the room

because you watched me so attentively.

Or remember the night that passed in

today when you broke to me that my

father was dead.

Or those nights you came to see me at

Jenny Rens

and how you helped me to be taught

better.

And how I've looked up to you and

thought you at first so good to be

mindful of me.

>> I knew at first what do you think me

after at first so bad?

>> Oh, I don't say that. I don't mean that.

But after the first wonder and pleasure

of being noticed by one so different

from anyone that had ever spoken to me

before,

I began to feel it might have been

better if I'd never seen you.

>> Why?

Why?

>> Because you were so different.

Because it was so endless,

so hopeless.

Spare me.

>> Did you think for me at all, Lizzy?

>> Not much.

Not much until now.

Well,

would you tell me why not?

>> Because I never supposed you might need

it until now.

But if you do need it,

if you truly feel that you

love me,

therefore there is nothing in life but

separation for us.

Then heaven help you

and heaven bless you.

I promised I'd not accompany you. I'll

follow you. Shall I keep you in view?

You're upset. It's getting dark.

>> No, I'm used to being out alone at this

hour. Please do not. I promise. I can

promise nothing more tonight. Busy,

>> there is only one way of sparing

yourself and me, Mr. Rabburn.

Leave this neighborhood tomorrow.

>> I will try.

Mortim would believe this.

Can I believe it myself?

Most ridiculous position is.

But I have power over her.

She loves me. Can't deny it even to

herself.

She is honest and passionate. Must go

through with her nature as I with mine.

If mine exacts its pains and penalties,

so musters, I suppose.

If I married,

how could I be sure I'd not be bored in

no time at all?

And yet, if a man said to me now at this

moment that I do not, in spite of

myself, love her for her beauty and for

her worth, that I would not be true to

her, I would break that man.

Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business.

So said Mortimer,

so rang the Mortimer bells.

They sound melancholy tonight,

but I have power over you.

Eugene, this is a bad business.

I wish I could stop the mortm appeal,

for it sounds like a nail.

>> Hello, friend. Are you blind?

Out of the question to marry her

and out of the question to leave her.

the crisis.

>> Yes.

A

nice

Yeah.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Oh,

Okay.

Come on.

Oh, dearest. I forgive you. I have

anything to forgive.

Thank God for the old days that enable

me to do this.

Yeah.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.