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John Walter

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Not bad to you.

I am a widow, mate.

When will the child be born?

In seven months.

Did you tell Fogarty before he's held? You promised that you weren't?

I intended to.

I'll take it Fogarty is the father.

Well?

Yes.

You ought to be hard in your head in shame.

There are many kinds of shame.

Yes, but none greater than for a woman to be carrying.

Are you here to brand me, James?

How could you bring yourself to this?

My sister?

You brought up in a decent home, would you?

Is it indecent to love a man?

Love?

Call this love?

Oh, what do you know of love, James?

I might think it indecent to marry in order to secure a ship.

Why, you know, James!

You keep out of this!

Listen, I am the elder brother and I have the responsibility of her.

Indeed you are, so how could you love this to happen?

I am! How could you do it?

What's it living under your roof?

Don't you try to push the blame for this onto me?

Did you know that it happened on your ship?

You've allowed her too much freedom. She's uno-needed.

Then you should have cut her to the eye of her!

You're forced to, will you?

If a customer comes in, we don't want this all over the town.

I'd hope for better things for you.

I'm sorry if I've spoiled your plan.

You're not sorry, Elizabeth. That's plain enough.

The plans for my benefit, James, are for your own.

You'd have me marry Albert Fraser and bring a shipyard into the family.

Albert Fraser holds you in high regard.

He has a genuine affection for you.

And what of my feelings for him?

Have they of no account?

Don't sally me miss your two-upish! In your circumstances it doesn't suit well!

How would you have me then?

Elizabeth! Have you no sense of shame?

Oh, there's only one course open for you.

Yes. You will marry Daniel Fogarty and as soon as possible.

You're a monster of a clipper-ship of little enough station in his world.

But there it is. You've put yourself in a...

...golly too. Narrow to go about!

And what if he doesn't agree?

He seduced you!

Did he? Did he?

What if I were to tell you, James, that in fact it was I who encouraged you?

Hey, you little slut!

What if I do not wish to marry Daniel Fogarty?

Haven't sake Elizabeth!

Haven't you brought enough shame on this family as it is?

Well, you will marry that man and there's an intuit.

Don't anger me further, Elizabeth.

No, do as we say.

Just remember this.

An unwed woman with child disowned and with no money of her own has but two destinations.

Workouts are the street!

You should not have hit her like that.

Are you being too soft with her?

Is it that way, Bruce?

Oh my God, she'll wait the child now.

Right.

Bands will be read as soon as Fogarty returns from the body.

She's where she's told no one hopes she's telling the truth.

I don't see any reason why she should tell anybody.

Sir, I have said nothing but haven't even discussed it.

Can you deal with the shops, Sarah?

Yes.

I want you at the warehouse.

You'll load them.

Cast going in this morning.

Cast! I haven't saved James!

Oh, look at them as golden sovereigns and perhaps you won't despise them quite so much.

And when Fogarty returns, we shall not wait for them.

So we shall tell him, Robert.

You and I.

You know, I told you to keep pumping, man. Get out of here.

Go!

Go!

Let's get you on! Let's get on this first!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

I need it.

I'm frozen.

Good morning to you.

Wearing time, eh?

Yes, it is.

See which am merry Gordon, both lost with all hands?

Charlotte Rhodes overdue.

May I inquire after your sister?

Unludible.

After she's unwelled.

Oh, nothing serious, I trust.

Oh, simple cold.

But sensibly she's taken to her back.

Very wise.

Please give her my compliments when you next see her and tell her that I'll call on her.

If I may, when she's become.

Yes. I will indeed.

Tell noon, then.

No. I've forgotten, have you?

The trip down the river on my new steam-pinnest.

Yes, of course.

Well, the truth is, I'll not be disappointed.

You gave me your word and eat it.

I'll not be robbed of this opportunity of giving you a practical demonstration of the advantages of steam.

Well, I've even had a screw of my own design fitted to the boat in honor of the occasion.

Well, I've very little time today, Frasier.

It'll take no more than an hour of your time.

Perhaps not.

No, and eat it.

No fairness. You cannot let me down now.

I've better be.

One hour.

Not a moment longer.

Noone sharp at the arms.

I'll have steam up ready to cast off the moment you arrive.

Take the flight.

Put your flight away.

Get on, Ed!

I mean, I'm not...

What are you doing?

We're going to go down to the off-hand side of the home hill.

You don't bank.

You've lost your hat.

I've got to go.

You've saved the car up.

I'll win the needed car.

He'll choke the next time.

Come on, way down to me.

Hey, come on, Ed!

Hey, who's been the fighter but all been down for?

We're down for anyway.

You're killing yourself down there.

For what?

He is out down there and for what?

For James and the evening,

you're my whole not see I hate for the cover from him.

No, that cover!

Oh, God.

The brain is not scary, you.

You understand the light, are you?

Over the side, Billy.

You're touching.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He told me to close it.

Help me!

Come in.

Yes, what do you want?

Oh, I had this bicycle, isn't it?

My man George sells on the Charlotte Road.

To be sure.

You wanted something?

Well, don't just stand there.

What can I do for you?

I'd not use the Charlotte Road, so that's what you've come about.

Oh, no, it isn't that, man.

You said my husband you wish to speak to?

No.

No, it's you I'd have a word with.

You're the note cracker for the Canadian line.

It's you that pays out the Jews.

Yes?

Well, then you're the one who's come out with them.

You have a lot, ma'am.

I'm sure that you've already...

Well, yes, Mrs. Baskam, you've already drawn your half a lot, ma'am.

I was wondering...

Well, you wanted me to give you an advance against the remainder.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Baskam, I can't do that.

But little Billy man's right when he gets home.

You know the custom as well as I.

A half-on presentation of your note and the rest when the Charlotte Road's docks.

Put on a desperate need, Mrs. Oned.

I would check the cast, everything's in order.

Oh, is this?

George Baskam's wife.

She won.

An advance against the remainder of her husband's dues.

Some of the money that's due to him, sir.

When he gets home, when he's completed the voyage and then payable to him and him alone.

Not only if you shall insert her.

It wouldn't be the first time.

You asked Mr. Robert there, he's helped me before out of the kindness of his heart, haven't you, sir?

Well, it was just the one occasion.

Why do you need an advance, Mrs. Baskam?

With nothing to eat.

Shopkeepers have a credit against the voyage. It's a commoner of practice.

I can't get no credit, sir.

You're already in debt to them, are you?

Well, then you've been very foolish and very prodigal.

James.

Look, I don't ask for me, Mr. Enneden, but with three children.

What thought you'd give them when you're in the public bar at the longboat?

No, I'm sorry, Mrs. Baskam.

Ships wages will be paid when they're due and not before.

Mr. Enneden!

Mr. Enneden!

What is it, Jack?

The Shirley Road's. We've seen it.

Where?

My brother and me, without only an ass, Mack, this morning's a try-out look with a fish.

Oh, well, no, I'm good. There's a deal of sea running out there.

We were heading back in, and that's when we seen her.

She's a float, Mr. Enneden, but she's in a poor way.

Where, man, where?

She's not more than six or seven miles west nor west of East Royal Bank.

She has a bad list, not making any way.

All right, for storm catches the rapier she's done for.

Church! Church!

Stop at somebody! Oh, town on on fire! Minutes!

Come on, man.

Thank you, Jack.

No, no, Mr. Enne, it is.

Not news I can hardly bring, I'll not profit from it.

Hello! Lost her!

What? Turn, turn the corner, no sign of her.

James, what are we gonna do?

My son.

Charlotte Ross. Everything I have.

But the men, James, all their men's lives!

If you lose the ship at least, you've got the insurance.

Don't comfort yourself with that thought.

We lose the Charlotte roads. We have nothing.

What do you say, James?

Not in charge! Not for this voyage anyway.

I didn't shoot.

I haven't enough money, not to chuck away on premiums to the mutual society.

I got changed when you make a mistake.

You certainly make one with a vengeance.

I have a feeling that this time you've made one, that you regret.

A glass of Shelly Wine.

Yes, Mr. Gulliam?

I've been looking for you further.

Oh?

I thought you were going down to the key.

Oh, come, come, Madman.

A man's entitled to a glass of wine.

Not three months out of the university, and already the life's not the old.

There's much to be done, Father.

Oh, plenty of time to do it in.

Come on, then, sit down and drink, or blood.

I've been studying the fingers, Glanville, left with us.

Mm-hmm.

A joint stock company with Glanville and the Mersey and North Britain Railway.

Now, that's a proper proposition that merits consideration, Father.

Oh, perhaps so.

I'm sure of it.

Well, we don't want to go into it, Bullhead, you do it.

We want to take our time and think it over carefully.

It's my opinion that the Mersey and North Britain is soundly based.

Ah, no shipping.

That's the business we can and drink.

And it hasn't done too badly, by is it?

But we must look to the future, Father.

Oh, shut the door, my own.

I'm all Mrs. Basker.

I'm worried about the show, but the road's almost ever cast to come and be anxieties.

Madman George is about to show up, Rose.

I know, but what about it?

Well, she's found her in a feast oil bank.

You sure of this?

Well, it wasn't her there with James and Eden, the mean pig.

When Jack Little John told him, he'd seen her with his own eyes.

Oh, there's no help for us, Madman. Go on.

Oh, now come to that little Charlotte Road, eh?

That'll be a shock to her need.

There's one and only ship.

Mm.

The man must be out of his mind.

Oh, I know, but why do you say that?

Well, sure, you know.

You tell him a little.

No, what?

She's not insured.

No, it's not insured.

It's no, it's what?

Oh, you should make it your business to know these things, Father.

I know, but cheeky.

OK.

And Eden's not a fool's to take a risk like that.

She's not insured, I tell you.

I'm not with the mutual, perhaps, but, eh,

nor with any other association.

Foundering off the east oil bank.

I knew it would come to this.

Robert Waldamy warned him.

Worn him.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Hi, Odys, is it the warehouse?

Mr. James was quite right to refuse me, of course.

Refuse you?

Some of them money due to my charge when he gets home.

Oh, don't talk to me about a lot,

but no, it's Mrs. Bascom.

They're fierce words in this house.

I'll leave you a few shillings.

That's all I asked him for.

Mr. James had not been there.

I know.

Robert would have given it to you.

But I can't, Mrs. Bascom.

I was not asking.

Oh, it's all very well for Robert to give away money.

He calls it Christian charity.

But let me give away as much as that.

Hate me and I'm taking the food out of the baby's mouth.

I understand Mrs. Onedyn.

Mom will just have to do without till the father gets home.

If he gets home.

It's company money, Mrs. Bascom.

I can't give away company money.

I do understand Mrs. Onedyn.

I understand Mrs. Onedyn.

All your few shillings.

I'll let you have it back as soon as my judge got home.

I'm sorry.

I haven't got it.

I'm not just saying that.

I haven't got it.

Look, Mrs. Bascom, you're not the only one.

They all come here.

All the crew members' wives.

A shilling here, a couple of shillings there.

Well, why do they all come here for money?

That shop out there has got nothing to do with the unknead in line.

Why should we be deemed responsible for James' company debts

and paid by the starving families of his wretched crew?

There's no particular magic in that shop counterout there, Mrs. Bascom.

There's little enough profit, believe me, from the business that passes over it.

Barely enough to feed and clothe us.

I do understand how things are, Mrs. Onedyn.

And I want to talk about all this work.

Well, I suppose I should be getting back to the children.

Oh, please, Mrs. Onedyn.

No.

Chomp!

Oh, Mr. Fraser, good morning.

And a good morning to you, Mrs. Onedyn.

Oh, I beg your pardon. You have company.

Mrs. Bascom was just leaving.

Ah.

Yes.

Yes, just.

Good morning, Mrs. Onedyn.

Morning, sir.

Morning.

Oh, Mr. Fraser, would you sit down?

Thank you, but meantime is short this morning.

However, when I heard that Mrs. Elizabeth was unwell.

Unwell?

James told me she had a cold and has taken to her bed.

Oh. Oh, yes, she has.

Well, I simply could not allow important matters of business to postpone me.

Heartfelt wishes for a speed of recovery.

Will you give her these flowers with me kind as regards?

Yes.

Yes, I will.

I must go. I have an appointment with another lady at noon, along with your brother-in-law.

Morning.

Oh, Mr. Fraser, he brought you these.

There's a note.

Then you must return it. Unopened.

And you must tell him, Elizabeth.

Just stop calling on you.

It's not right. Not now.

She found it, man.

Oh, Mr. Eden, she's still a folkman.

You mean you abandoned her? Only six miles out.

Call yourself glasses sailors.

Well, that's the end of the old Needham line.

Sir, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

Well, that's the end of the old Needham line.

Sir, it would seem. I know I'm a downfall, but I'm sorry for that, Madman. And Madman is too.

Nothing less to take such a risk.

How sorry do you feel for a need in father?

Now what's going on in that sharp brain of your day?

The lady Sylvia is the fastest schooner out of this port. And she's ready for sale.

Salvage. Without insurance, so Needham could never meet the award made against him.

The Charlotte Rhodes and her cargo would be ours in Loon to be sold at a profit.

Free gales we took, each following the other, and I've not no worse.

Two days out of Lisbon, we lost Bascom.

We lost George Bascom.

Aye, sir. Washed overboard and drowned.

Has God's my witness, Mr. O' Needham, we've done their best.

And without sleep no food.

It's a bit of error, but it's if it was the old man he judging.

Get out of my sight.

Boy, any bad news about the Charlotte Rhodes.

This is not sunk yet.

Oh, no indeed.

And if she's still afloat when the lady Sylvia gets out of her,

we'll bring your schooner in and be pleased to do it.

Good day to you.

He pleased to do it.

Aye, they will at that.

And claim her for salvage.

What else?

1,500 pounds she's worth.

Cargo and ship.

We'll finish James.

We're finished!

Stop telling me what I know well enough.

They're not salvages, they're she's a fire.

A fire?

They're trying to tell you in the thoroughed hole.

Is she making much water?

Aye.

Well, then the hides will be done.

With any luck they'll smolder, but there'll be no flame.

I know what you think it's her.

But even if she is still afloat, there's no vessel to match the speed of the lady Sylvia.

What does he have in mind?

Don't ask me. I'm only as partner.

He expects me to spend my life running after him.

Well, he's wrong.

Fraser!

I need it.

What word would you, man?

Is that fella your alley?

It's not yet ten minutes to twelve o'clock.

You take me to the Charlotte Road.

She's on fire six miles off East All-Back.

That's damn bad news, Anita.

Man, can you do it?

Oh, now look, the vessel's never been put to the test on open water.

She might capsize.

It's time that she was, eh?

Oh.

This grows an experiment.

Might cheer off for a blade snap under the strain.

We'll take that chance.

You take it yes, you nothing to lose.

What a view to lose.

Look, man, if a blade's going to snap off, you may as well find out today is in a month's time.

Look, at this moment, the Collins Lady Sylvia is making for the Charlotte Road to claim salvage.

Now, can the vessel get us there first?

She'll drive the lady Sylvia to rock most limits, if nothing more.

Right. Well, then what are we waiting for?

I'd better see you and eat more cold.

How much? A bunker full.

Five minutes work.

Fifteen minutes, it normally takes my man to fill it.

Three minutes, there'll be five backs even.

Oh, come on, hurry up.

All right.

What are you doing?

Well, I'll do anything you want me to do.

They're not coming with us.

Of course I'm coming with you.

I'm your partner, aren't I?

I've as much to lose as you have.

Let's leave.

Has she or speed?

Fright?

Yes.

I'll give you more steam.

Take the help.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

This is Ray, Jean-Richer before we do.

Doing my best to lead in.

I'll give you more steam.

Down floating cattle.

I'll give you more steam.

You'll see a needle.

You must be to Windwood while we hold a straight course.

You don't realize the need in that I'm risking the vass of the Trine Save Your Ship.

You're a genius, Fraser.

I've now always said as much.

Don't be alarmed the need in.

That is a packing blown.

Probably the vibrations shook loose a flange boat.

What comes of pushing an untried boat beyond its bare limits?

Talk to me, man. Do something about it.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

I'll give you more steam.

It's going on, Dad.

I've a rare look.

I've a rare look.

I've a rare look.

There she is.

I've a rare look.

Much obliged, Fraser.

You've had to be a service I needed. Good luck.

That was right. Not just smoldering.

I've got there's no flame.

Right. There's many buckets as we can find.

Grab it.

She's in safe and unaided.

Oh, thank God. She's at the key already.

No, she's downriver, but safe on a sandbank.

She'll have to off with a morning tide as like as not.

If the weather improves.

It's James, not with you.

No, he's stayed at the bar but he's well enough.

Ben's is with him.

I wrote a short to tell you the news.

You're so true.

Now go upstairs, put on some dry clothes and I'll attend to you something.

No, I'll open a bottle of good Madeira wine in celebration.

Madeira wine? It'll be the doctor of bottle of physics for you if you don't around like that much longer.

How did you manage to get there ahead of the lady's survey?

Well, if I hadn't seen it with me all night, I would not have believed it.

No ordinary ship could have done it.

James persuaded Albert Fraser to put to see in that steam contraption of it.

Surely.

Ben's such an act as much to Mr Fraser's credit it showed a great deal of courage.

I did.

Is Mr Fraser back safe?

Oh, I safe. But from what I saw, I fear his ship suffered greatly from the strain.

Come on.

Anne, you're staying eat with us.

Thank you, Sane.

Elizabeth, set the table.

Oh, let me help you.

Has James told Albert Fraser about me?

I shouldn't think so. Why should he?

Oh, Anne, what am I going to do?

What can you do to obey your brother?

And marry Daniel Fogarty?

There's no other way. It's his child, you can't you?

You must marry him.

You're a fool at best Elizabeth, to have given yourself to him outside marriage, but the harm's done and now it must be remedied.

I might have known you'd support James in his plans for me.

It's not a matter of my supporting James, you have no choice.

Life is full of traps for us women.

And despite your fine talk of independence, you've fallen into the oldest trap of all.

Oh, my dear.

Daniel Fogarty's a good man and he loves you.

You bring him a child, a son-babs.

Now, that's a gift any man prizes.

And you will have done better than I.

All I brought to my marriage was the Charlotte Rhodes.

So accept it, Elizabeth.

Why should my brother rule my life for me? Tell me what to do and what not to do?

Elizabeth, I have a great affection for James, but he can be a hard man if he's pushed to it.

I beg you, do not cross him over this.

And his decision is the right one.

I'll take my life.

I'll take my life.

I'll take my life.

James? Pay off the crew, Robert. Pay bains and fall.

The other men's wages proportionate, look.

What about Agnes Bascom?

And pay off for the two days work that our man did.

George Bascom didn't complete the voyage.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Bascom, you're having no more jim.

Mrs. Bascom?

I'm sorry, Mrs. Bascom.

Yours is a sad loss.

Oh, look out for us now, Mr. One-eated.

Do you know relatives?

No, Mrs. Gansaportos.

I'm afraid you must need to go on the parish.

The children? What's to become of us?

I'm afraid I don't know, Mrs. Bascom.

But I'll not have jim, sorry.

Look, if you come down to the work of our house,

you know, when you're able, I will see to it that you paid in for

just the same as if your husband had collected his wages.

Was she much damaged?

The risk been fractured when I was nearly back,

and the main bearings need re-metalin.

But the screw held up.

That was the one thing I was most afraid would go.

Well, you will have been put to some expense,

you must let me settle with you.

Oh, it was a demonstration, wasn't it?

For a potential customer.

Although not quite the way I'd intended it.

We pushed her hard in eating.

She did well, eh?

I'll not deny that.

Do you now convince that the future lies in steam?

For harbour work perhaps.

But for deep water, she has many limitations.

How can you say that after your experience on the vessel?

She rode the sea better than any sailing ship

twice her size and faster too.

I could build you a steamship.

Ten times as big and twice as good.

For every ton of cargo, I'd have to carry two tons of coal.

Now where would be the profit there?

There are already steamships operating in deep water,

making a financial return.

Maybe so, but steamships are costly to build.

I have not the money to buy me a second sailing ship,

leave alone a steamship.

But one day I shall have the money.

I promise you.

So you're wearing presents then?

It did me a favour.

I'm obliged to you.

Would you give me regards to Miss Elizabeth?

Yes, I will.

You made a form, babe.

She's docked.

Fuck it in.

No, he's in the longboat.

So tipping his entrance to the river proper,

that may be my lord, which is my biggest.

I'm not my lord.

I'm not my lord.

I'm just like your chin, rubbing my own looks back in there.

James, don't you hear me?

No, from what we see in this bar these days,

no, from what I hear about you bringing in the charlotte rose,

you're not looking to the semen.

Have a drink?

Well, yes, Mr. Foggard.

James, then, give him a drink.

I wish to speak with you, Daniel Foggard.

Hello, Nadin.

What are we going to say, Demita? Can I be selling company?

It's about Elizabeth.

She's with child.

I asked her to tell you before you say,

oh, she did not.

So we are here to tell you.

I would have ever do better for herself,

but there it is.

So you're married.

What are Elizabeth's feelings?

We're not here to discuss my sister's looks.

Say in the matter.

I say.

You're total, and the John even a service from me on your working from me.

You have its whole arrange, don't you?

Indeed we haven't, but we know, argument.

Well, I must talk with Elizabeth later.

I wish to see you out, don't you?

Ah!

It's so needed, business.

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

You, Mary Elizabeth.

Hi. I'll marry you.

But not because you tell me I must.

I'll marry her because I want to.

Hi! That's enough, James.

You.

So you are asking me to marry you?

Yes, Elizabeth, I am.

It would seem you took a great deal of persuading.

There was no persuasion. I want you for my wife.

You know my feelings for Elizabeth.

Yes. And I believe them to be honest.

And for that reason it grieves me to tell you, Daniel.

I will not marry you.

What are you saying? It's already been arranged.

By you, James. Not by me.

But the child you must think of the child.

My mind is made up.

Forgive me, Daniel. But I'll not be impressed into marriage.

Now listen here.

Haven't you already said enough?

Didn't I tell you to leave us alone and we manage our honor, prayers?

I'm not leaving here. I'll be back!

Do you realize what you've just done?

Yes.

With the full knowledge of the consequences?

You laid them out for me plain enough.

The workhouse or the streets wasn't it?

That will never happen.

Oh, Sarah.

If Elizabeth is forced to leave this house, then I will go with her.

What are you saying, woman?

What about our child?

Oh, little bit.

There are some lorities we must put even above children.

Fogarty was right.

You should not have tried to impress Elizabeth into it.

She'd not have married him anyway.

Maybe not.

And whose fault is that?

You were forever telling her that she'd do better marrying with a sea captain?

I just remember this, James.

Whatever happens to Elizabeth, it'll be your doing.

Amen there.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.