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Come on. Come get some bread.

Don't you want any? Come on.

Come on. Here you go.

Go on. Here you go.

So! You've been giving them wheat, have you?.

My seed, eh??!.

You've gone up in the world. Is that it?.

Is that what you think?. I'll give you something to think about!

Now, get out of here!

(WOMAN) You've only been gone an hour.

- What's he done?. - Nothing.

Did he hit you?.

Shame on you for letting him. His father was my father's journeyman.

Keep in.

Mr Fawley!

- Should I take this off?. - For five seconds.

Stay still everyone.

Come on, if you're coming, then.

- Have you finished your work?. - Yeah.

Good boy.

- Come on. Come on. - All right.

You look sad, Jude. Are you sorry I'm going?.

- Yeah. - So am I.

- Where are you going, sir?. - Christminster.

Why do you have to go?.

Do you know what a university is?. A university degree?.

Do you see it, over there?.

That's Christminster.

If you want to do anything in lfe, Jude, that's where you have to go.

even if it means giving up everything else for a while.

You have to read your books while your friends are out playing.

Get out of bed early in the morning when it's freezing cold.

Study every chance you get. One day it'll all pay off, I promise you.

Once you're there, everything is open to you. You can become anything you want.

You can choose your future.

- Dinner! - Come on.

Hurry up, Jude.

- Staying to eat with us today, Jude?. - No.

Have a piece of this cheese, you'll love it.

- Who's waiting?. Chip off the old block, eh?. - Is she a looker?.

(Reading in Ancient Greek)

"Swiftly she rose from the grey sea lke a mist."

(Ancient Greek)

"My child, why do you weep??"

(Girls laughing)

(WOMAN) Here's the poet.

- Thank you very much. - I didn't throw it.

Nor me. I didn't throw it, I tell you. I don't even lke the look of him.

- None of you threw it. - What's wrong with him?.

- I think he's quite nice. - He's all right. He's just standing there.

- Oh, look. You've scared him off now. - He's shy.

I bet you think I threw it.

No.

Well I did.

But don't tell anyone.

My name's Arabella.

My father's a pig breeder. We were washing innards for black pudding.

- What?. - Nothing.

I don't work Sundays. You can see me then.

- Did you catch anything?. - No. I should have thrown something else.

(Reading in Latin)

- Now all you do is read?. - Yes.

Nothing else?.

- What do you read?. - Latin, some Greek.

I have read two books of the Iliad, Thucydides, Hesiod, some of the Greek testament.

Hoity-toity!

Well I need to to get into Christminster.

Christminster (??)

Yes. I'm going to be a scholar.

- Maybe even a professor one day. - My, my.

- Have you ever seen me clmb a tree?. - No.

(She laughs)

I've got something to show you, Jude.

Where are you?.

(She giggles)

Get up, Abby.

Why?.

I want to kiss you.

Kiss me lke this.

Be careful I'm hatching an egg.

I carry it with me everywhere. It'll hatch in three days.

Why do you do that?.

It's natural for a woman to bring a lve thing into the world.

- Jude?. - Yes.

It's late.

To the bride and the groom!

We'll send that to Aunt Drusilla.

Aunt Drusilla.

- What should we call her?. - Rosie's pig.

- What about Jemima Spot?. - Do you lke that?.

(JUDE) It isn't your own?.

So?.

What?.

- You've got enough of your own. - It's very fashionable in London.

(JUDE) Do you care what people think in London?.

Don't you lke it?.

- No. - Then I won't wear it.

Leave it on.

I want to see us. You can close your eyes if you lke and pretend it's dark.

Jude. Ask me nicely.

- Ask you what?. - What you want me to do.

- I don't know. - What??!.

We'll just have to make it up.

He's never going to get here.

He's probably bloody drunk.

We'll just have to do it ourselves.

- Be careful with those. - Then find somewhere else for them.

This table is for the lard.

(Pig squeals)

Right, move her.

- Where do you want it?. - On this side.

(Pig screams)

(Pig falls silent)

Thank God it's dead.

What's God got to do with pig killing?.

It's a bit late to be looking at other women.

I won't feel sorry for you.

You should have lstened to me. Fawleys are not cut out for marriage.

- I didn't have a choice. - You had no brains.

- Five months gone and not even a bump. - Please don't say that.

Shall I get your room ready?.

No, I'd better go.

(ARABELLA) "Dear Jude, I've decided to leave, and I won't be back.

"I know you think I tricked you into marrying me,

"but I swear I really believed I was pregnant.

"I'm going to Australia to start again.

"Perhaps now you'll be free to go to Christminster

"and become a university man.

"Good luck. "

(WOMAN) Can I help you?.

..then there's your back-to- back houses, your grubby children hanging off scaffolding.

It's the same city.

Maybe a five-minute walk from Church Street to "Scum Street".

Why don't we go over?. Why don't we go over and knock on their doors?.

Because they've convinced us this is the way it is. No change. Why change?.

They've won the argument.

They educate their kind to win the argument.

I'm looking for Jude Fawley. I beleve he works here.

- You'll find him around the corner, miss. - Thank you.

Jude Fawley?. I'm your cousin, Sue Bridehead.

Aunt Drusilla wrote and told me you were in Christminster.

- Hello. - Hello.

Don't take this wrongly, but you don't look lke cousins.

- Why is that?. - You're pretty, and he's got a stone for a face.

- A big nose is a sign of nobilty. - Shut up.

They have the same noses. Look at them.

One each, right in the middle of their faces.

- Tell me some more about my cousin. - He's a scholar, a true scholar.

- He's a sinner. - Why is that?.

- What was the last one calledd?. - Oh, you mean Vicky.

- No, Florence, - The one before Elspeth.

- Mm...nice, isn't it?. - Oh, lovely.

Nothing up the sleeve, right?.

Oh, yes! Now, that is good, that is good.

(Jude reciting in Ancient Greek)

Jude. Jude!

Jude!

Not there, it's bad luck. They used to burn martyrs there.

- Are you superstitious, Jude?. - No.

Nor am I, but I think it's better to be safe, don't you?.

- Where are we going?. - Somewhere lving, away from this university.

- But it's wonderful here. - It's all stone.

- The buildings, yes. I meant the scholars. - I was talking about the scholars, too.

Finish it.

- How much are these two, please?. - Ten shillings.

- You're not going to buy them?. - Why not?.

- Would you lke me to wrap them up?. - No, thank you.

- Why have you wrapped them up?. - To avoid giving my landlady a heart attack.

- You're being rather confrontational - No, I just wonder why you go to church at all

Because a part of me is still a superstitious, backward country girl

- You mean, lke me?. - I didn't know you were a girl

Do I irritate you?.

No.

even when I'm trying to prove how much cleverer than you I am?.

You are.

- Don't say that. - Why not?.

Because it's not the sort of thing you should admit to.

Why not, if it's true?.

- Say something. - I enjoy lstening to you.

Catullus.

(Reading in Latin)

"God, lke the man who sits at her side

"Who watches and catches the laughter which softly tears me to tatters

"Nothing is left of me each time I see her."

Beautiful

What does the law say about marrying your cousin?.

It's not about that. It says nothing about falling in love with them. Quite common, I hear.

- What do you think, Jude?. - You two are cousins, you tell me.

- Sue?. - How do you know?.

- You've got a woman's hands. - You'll have to do better than that.

- "Pruples" doesn't count. - You've been following me?.

I came to say goodbye.

- Won't you introduce me to your friend?. - It's Wilkes.

How do you do, Mr Wilkes?.

- Why are you leaving?. - I had a row with my landlady.

She found a statue, threw it on the floor and ground the head to pieces with her heel

She made sure I lost my job as well

- Where will you go?. - I don't know. I'm going to teach somewhere.

- You can teach here in Christminster. - everyone in this city is a teacher, Jude.

I've got a friend who can help. Mr Phillotson. I was his pupil in Marygreen.

Don't worry about me.

I was going to look him up, anyway. No harm in asking.

Why do you want me to stay?.

Because we've only just met.

- Mr Phillotson?. - Yes.

My name is Jude Fawley. I was your pupil in Marygreen.

Yes, of course you were.

- Are you an old pupil too?. - No, this is my cousin, Sue Bridehead.

Mr Phillotson, you once showed me Christminster, the same day you left Marygreen.

I came here because of you, sir, to become a university man.

Through here.

I gave up the idea of university a long time ago.

Other dreams have replaced it. I'm very happy as a schoolmaster.

Here we are.

Sue's been looking for work as a teacher.

- You've already had some experience. - No.

Is it very hard to find work?.

- I'm thinking of applying to a training colledge. - That's always a good idea.

What I need for this school is a second-year transfer.

- What about an apprentice?. - Jude!

- Are you serious about being a teacher, Sue?. - Yes, of course.

I'm sure it will be useful for both of you.

- I can't afford to pay you very much. - That doesn't matter.

All right, then.

(PHILLOTSON) One times seven?. (PUPILS) Seven.

- Two times seven?. - 14.

- Three times seven?. - 21.

- Four times seven?. - 28.

- Bye, Miss. - Bye.

Mount of Olves, Mount Moriah.

The Valley of Jehoshaphat.

The City of Zion.

Calvary. All names at the very root of our history.

This is an exact model of the City of Jerusalem as it was at the time of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

And they took Jesus through these hot, dusty, narrow streets...

How does anyone know what Jerusalem looked lke then?. I'm sure he doesn't.

Of course he does. The model is copied from the best conjectural maps.

Why Jerusalem?. Why not Athens, Rome or Alexandria?.

Because of what Jerusalem means to us as Christians. Surely you must see that?.

- Why are you so sceptica?. - I'm not, I was just pointing out...

Jude!

- What a surprise! - No, it isn't. You knew I was here.

- You've been watching me all the time. - Mr Phillotson.

Jude. Your cousin is such a clever girl she criticises all this unmercifully.

Please don't call me a clever girl There are too many of us these days.

- I didn't mean anything. - I know you didn't. Come on, Jude.

(LECTURER) This accusation, written: "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. "

- He wanted to impress you. - Not cleverly done.

He can't be clever. He's fond of you.

I 'm fond of him, too. It doesn't mean I go around patronising him.

I don't feel at all guilty.

(Reading Ancient Greek)

"Tell me, Muse, a man, many ways

"who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy city of Troy."

- Will you kiss it for luck?. - No.

A letter for the Dean of Admissions.

They took it.

Want a hat, Jude?.

- What's the problem?. - It's raining.

- It's what?. - Thought you were the intelligent one.

(Knock at door)

Sue!

"Sir, I have read your letter with interest,

"and judging from your description ofyourself as a working man,

"I think you have a much better chance of success in life

"by sticking to your own trade than by adopting any other course.

"Yours sincerely, the Dean of Admissions. "

(JUDE) I don't give a damn for any provost, ward, principal or bloody Master of Arts.

I 'd lck them on their own ground if they'd give me the chance.

We learned more outside the book, than in.

- Can you say the Creed in Latin?. - Yes, I can, I definitely can.

excuse me. Quiet, please, quiet!

The gentleman in the corner is to rehearse the articles of his belef in the Latin tongue

for the edification of this company.

- Thank you. - Here's your chance.

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem,

omnipotentem, Factorem coel et terrae,

visibilum omnium et invisibilum.

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis:. sub Pontio Pilato passus,

et sepultus est.

Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas.

Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum

et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filo que procedit.

You bloody fools.

Which one of you knows if I said it right or not?.

It might be The Ratcatcher's Daughter in double Dutch for all you know.

(Knocking on window)

(JUDE) Sue! Sue!

Jude...?.

I've been drinking, Sue.

- Will you let me in?. - All right.

- I can do it. - Jude.

You'll learn more than they can ever teach you.

I'm sure this is the last thing you want to hear,

but you don't need a double first from Christminster to do some good in the world.

- You should try to eat something. - He's too old for you.

I'll bring you breakfast in the morning.

Out of work already?.

Hello.

Don't you make a fool of yourself over her, Jude.

Marrying Arabella was the worst thing you ever did, until now.

Don't say that.

Your parents couldn't lve together and nor could Sue's.

They made each other's lves a lving hell and left you two as good as orphans.

- They were a different generation. - With the same curse over their heads.

- The Fawleys are not meant for marrying. - That's an old wives' tale.

Since when did you stop beleving in them?.

(SUE) "Dear Jude, I'm writing from Melchester,

"where Mr Phillotson and I have moved.

"He is teaching at a new school and I am studying at a training college.

"The rules here are strict beyond belief and our visiting hours are limited,

"but I would love to see you again. "

Your hands are rough, Jude.

So would yours be if they held a mallet and chisel all day.

I lke them, they are noble hands.

What's wrong?.

It'll take me a while to get used to you again.

- I come here to forget Melchester. - So where are we?.

France, Australa, Spain, Canada, Timbuktu.

- Is it that bad at the training schoo?. - Yes.

It's only another year.

Mr Phillotson thinks he can get me a good job when I've finished.

- How is he?. - He's been such a help.

I'm sure he has.

- Are you being silly?. - No.

Jude?.

I didn't realse he took a long-term interest in your future.

- He's a friend. - I'm sure he doesn't see it that way.

- An old man lke him?. - He isn't that old.

You said so yourself.

- What's the matter?. - I wish you would be more open with me.

All right, he asked me to marry him.

- What did you say?. - I said I'd think about it.

I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't have asked you to visit.

I'm not visiting, I've moved to Melchester.

Jude!

Jude!

Let me in.

They locked me up for being out with you, so I jumped out the window,

crossed the deepest river in England, and here I am.

I can't get warm.

- I'll borrow some clothes from the landlady. - Don't do that, for God's sake!

Then you'll have to wear some of mine.

- How about this?. - It might be a bit small

I'll wait outside.

- I brought you some brandy. - No glass?.

- In the cupboard. I'd have to clean them. - Don't worry, I'll drink it lke a man.

- What will they say at the schoo?. - I don't care.

- I'll go back as soon as they're dry. - It's late.

You could stay here tonight.

I wish I could get warm.

- Thank you, Jude. - For what?.

For being here.

- I'm glad you came to me. - There's no one else.

I should let you sleep.

Yes.

I couldn't sleep.

Why are you looking at me lke that?.

- Does it frighten you?. - No. I'm not afraid of any man.

Why not?.

Because no man will touch a woman unless she invites him to.

Until she says with a look or a smile, "Come on", he's always afraid.

If you never say it or look it, he'll never come.

You are the timid sex.

Shall I try again...

..to close my eyes and fall asleep?.

Good morning, Jude.

Morning.

- Can we talk?. - Yes.

- Is it about her running away from the schoo?. - And coming to you that night.

There have been rumours. She's been expelledd from school because of them.

- That isn't fair. - Jude.

I want to be able to defend her against any scandal I need to know what happened.

Nothing happened.

- Is that the truth?. - So help me God.

She stayed with me, but as a cousin.

Then we must both help her now.

- Hello. - Hello.

- Did you go to the schoo?. - Yes. They won't take me back.

They think you and I are having some kind of affair.

They even suggested I marry you for the sake of my reputation.

- I saw Mr Phillotson today. He said he'd help. - I don't want his help.

He was anxious. He cares for you very much.

I know.

- I have never told you about my past. - Go on, then, tell me about it.

I'm married, Sue.

I haven't seen her for years, but I'm still married.

Why are you telling me this?.

Because it's the only obstacle.

Obstacle to what?. I don't love you! I don't want to be your wife!

(Weeping quietly)

You are our closest mutual friend, Jude.

We thought you ought to be the first to know.

Richard asked me to marry him, and I said yes.

That's wonderful Congratulations. I'm very happy for you.

So are we.

- When did you decide?. - I've been asking Sue for months now.

This time it was her idea.

- I know it's the right decision. - Jude helped me make up my mind.