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Marianne is at last out of danger. Elinor, waiting for Colonel Brandon to return with Mrs. Dashwood, receives a visit from a desperately remorseful Willoughby.
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00:52Elena?
00:55Maria.
01:03Marianne, I do believe you're better.
01:05Yes, I feel better.
01:11Oh, love, I've been in bed.
01:14Don't take a moment.
01:16It's ten o'clock, exactly as the Colonel promised.
01:20Mama is here.
01:24Do not excite yourself for her sake.
01:30Ah.
01:36Ellen.
01:38My darling, are we in time?
01:41You're smiling.
01:43Oh, very nice.
01:45This way, Mrs Dashwood.
01:46My dear Colonel.
01:48Aren't your mother about to start out herself?
01:50She's determined to come on her own account.
01:58Oh, my love, my love.
02:02Thank God.
02:04Oh, thank the dear Lord who has given you back to me.
02:07I was so frightened.
02:09I had no news, you see.
02:10I expected you home and you'd not come.
02:15Let me look at you.
02:16Oh, how thin you are.
02:20Well, I shall soon feed you up.
02:22You will have all your favorite things.
02:24I'm very thirsty, Mama.
02:40We must let her rest.
02:42She's still very weak.
02:44You go to sleep now, Marianne.
02:47Mama is with you.
02:48She will not go away.
02:57You need sleep too, my dear.
02:59I can see that.
03:02This is my place now.
03:18Colonel Brandon.
03:20I cannot find words to acknowledge what we owe to you.
03:23Or to thank you adequately.
03:26The glimpse I had just now of your sister is sufficient, thanks.
03:30Not that I need any.
03:33If ever a man deserved his heart's desire,
03:36it is you, Colonel.
04:11At last we're alone.
04:15Oh, my dear Eleanor.
04:17You do not yet know all my happiness.
04:20Colonel Brandon loves Marianne.
04:22He told me so himself.
04:26Oh, you're never like me, dear Eleanor.
04:29Look how calmly you take the news.
04:32He opened his whole heart to me yesterday as we traveled.
04:36He came out quite unawares, quite without design.
04:39I could talk of nothing but my child.
04:41He gave way to his feelings.
04:44And he told me of his earnest, tender, constant affection for Marianne.
04:50I think everybody knows Colonel Brandon to be an excellent man.
04:54Excellent?
04:55Oh, my dear.
04:57Think how he remained constant throughout that terrible business with Woodenby.
05:01And think how he brought me here.
05:03Any man might do as much for love.
05:05Oh, Eleanor.
05:07Do you now belittle him?
05:08On the contrary.
05:11I'm saying that what makes him so fine a gentleman is his constant goodness to everybody.
05:17I have offered him a heartfelt thanks for all he has done.
05:21Oh, thanks are not enough, my love.
05:22One must hope could cause us along.
05:24Oh, I have told him that Marianne will be well enough to see him tomorrow.
05:32Whose idea was this?
05:35Mothers, I suppose?
05:37You must thank him.
05:39I mean to.
05:41He is a worthy man.
05:43But worthy men are so uninteresting.
05:46Especially men of his age.
05:49They're letting him see me in this state.
05:52You look lovely.
05:53My skin looks terrible.
05:55You're romantically pale.
05:57Like the heroine of one of Mrs Radcliffe's novels.
06:02Yes, I see what you mean.
06:15Good morning, Colonel Brandon.
06:17Please come in.
06:18Miss Dashwood.
06:21Miss Marianne.
06:23It is both an honor
06:26and the greatest of pleasures to see you.
06:31I shall leave you now for a little while.
06:33Oh, I'm sure the Colonel would be pleased for you to stay.
06:36Excuse me. I have much to do downstairs.
06:56Do please sit down, Colonel.
07:16Dear Colonel Brandon, I must convey to you my most sincere gratitude for...
07:22Oh, let us leave that a set.
07:25Excuse me.
07:26I interrupted rudely.
07:29I'm embarrassed of being thanked for what was a great privilege.
07:37I only caught a glimpse of you the other night through the door.
07:41You're looking so much better.
07:44You must be looking forward to going home to Barton.
07:47Yes.
07:49It seems a lifetime ago that we left for London.
07:53You'll take things very quietly when you get back.
07:55Promise me, dear.
07:57I'm grateful for your concern, Colonel.
08:00Be assured I intend to do little but sit in the garden and read.
08:05Gothic novels with their ghosts and ruined castles.
08:09Why not?
08:11I play the schoolmaster.
08:13You read Cooper and Scott.
08:17You have heard of them, have you?
08:20I have studied them a little.
08:22I think them truly wonderful.
08:25Oh, indeed they are great poets.
08:28But have you not read the majestic Milton?
08:31Or the demigod, Shakespeare?
08:36Fear no more the heat of the sun,
08:38Nor the furious winter's rages.
08:42Thou thy world a task hath done.
08:45Home art gone and tain thy wages.
08:50A treasure house awaits your unlocking, Miss Marianne.
08:54Of mighty language and great thoughts.
08:57But you speak poetically, Colonel.
09:01Sorry, I did not mean to.
09:03Pray do not apologize.
09:06I did not know you were interested in literature.
09:10You could not know.
09:12I do not believe the subject has ever arisen between us.
09:15Until now.
09:20Miss Marianne.
09:22May I venture a proposal?
09:25A proposal?
09:28Allow me to select a book for you.
09:32From Mr Palmer's extensive library.
09:35It may help pass the time while you remain here.
09:38And it will give me a great deal of pleasure.
09:43Yes, I will be delighted.
09:46And perhaps we might discuss it when I visit you at Barton.
09:50You are to visit us at Barton.
09:54Did not know.
09:56Your mother has invited me.
10:05Thank you, Mrs Wallace.
10:06Thank you, Miss.
10:07I wish you a good journey.
10:10And you, Mrs Jennings.
10:12What can I say to you?
10:13I'll have no thanks, my dear.
10:16I've enjoyed every moment the two of you spent with me.
10:19And I'm very grateful for the pleasure of the company of such lovely young people.
10:24I wish you no more sorrows and much future happiness.
10:30Bless you.
10:32We shall see you at Barton Park, I hope.
10:34The next time Sir John gives one of his hops.
10:39Allow me to escort you to the carriage, Mrs Dashfield.
10:41Thank you, Carol.
10:43Marianne is still rather weak.
10:46And Miss Marianne, of course.
11:00Your mother's as good a hand at that game as I am.
11:07Thank you, Colonel Brandon.
11:12I wish you a good journey, ladies.
11:14Dear Colonel.
11:15Thank you for your kindness.
11:44Oh, how good it is to see the sun again, after what Shakespeare calls the furious winter's rages.
11:51Oh, my little love.
11:55We shall always be grateful to the people of Cleveland.
11:59Mr Palmer's library is full of great books.
12:02I wonder if he has ever read The Majestic Milton or The Demigod Shakespeare.
12:08I should think he bought them to make a fine show.
12:14I have formed a plan.
12:17I shall enter upon a course of serious study.
12:20I shall rise at six and divide every moment until dinner between music and reading.
12:25I dare say Colonel Brandon will advise me as to my reading.
12:29Yes, I'm sure he will.
12:31What I long for most is to sit down at my own dear pianoforte.
12:37My plans shall keep me busy.
12:40We shall have no time for regrets.
13:06I don't know if I'm Simon.
13:18I dare say something I want to tell him.
13:19I'm looking for sure.
13:19I want him to stride yourzy buddy.
13:29Let's discuss something I wanted to know.
13:29I'm not sure if I擦ped your trulypound system.
13:30. . .
14:09. . .
14:29Oh, it is over now.
14:34Eleanor, do not grieve.
14:35That moment had to come.
14:37I'm glad it is over.
14:40Is it?
14:41At least we are talking about him.
14:44We should have done so before.
14:46Do you think we should, Willoughby?
14:49You see, I speak his name calmly.
14:55Then there is something I must tell you.
14:58He came when you were very ill.
15:00To Cleveland.
15:01He came from London like a madman.
15:05I promised him that as soon as you were well enough,
15:07I would pass his words on to you.
15:10From day to day since,
15:12I have feared to unsettle your mind too soon.
15:15I can talk of it now.
15:18You were plain lovely, Miss Marianne.
15:21Is it all right for me to polish the table?
15:24Of course you may.
15:27Marianne, let us put on our coats and go for a walk.
15:41He did love you.
15:44He implored me to tell you that he was penitent.
15:48That you would always be dear to him.
15:52And he begged you to forgive him.
15:56Did you forgive him?
15:58For my part, yes.
16:01And I pitied him, but I did not tell him so.
16:06My illness has made me think.
16:09I had enough leisure to reflect.
16:12But only now do I see that my own want of feelings
16:15brought on my sufferings.
16:18I always talked about feelings,
16:20but they were all for myself.
16:22I wronged you and I wronged mother.
16:25My weak character almost brought me to the grave.
16:28My love.
16:29I brought my illness on myself
16:31by play-acting and pining and starving myself romantically
16:35and being foolish till I almost died of it.
16:39And I knew I was doing wrong.
16:44As for Willoughby,
16:47I don't know if I can soon or ever forget him.
16:51My own future conduct must be my proof.
16:55Yes.
16:56Because I hope to earn forgiveness.
16:59I can forgive him, Eleanor.
17:02And doing so for the first time feel free.
17:14I am sorry, woman.
17:18But I shall never forget how he made you suffer.
17:23Nor his guilty conduct towards Eliza Williams.
17:27And it is all very well he's still loving you.
17:30Mama, I think enough has been said.
17:32But he will always be extravagant and fickle and selfish,
17:36however often he repents.
17:37And if you had married her...
17:40Dear.
17:42I should never have been happy with him.
17:45I know.
17:47Eleanor told me today all that I wanted to hear.
17:50And I am satisfied.
17:52And that is all, Mother.
17:54Well, you need plenty of occupation.
17:59Tom?
18:00Hello.
18:01I'm glad Colonel Brandon is coming tomorrow.
18:06Ah.
18:10I've never seen Exeter so crowded.
18:12Not this time of year.
18:14They got everything you wanted, Mrs Dashwood.
18:16Sack of provisions, yielding and stuff there.
18:18Miss Marianne.
18:19Oh, thank you.
18:20That is excellent, Tom.
18:24That's not quite the blue I wanted.
18:27Never mind.
18:27Oh, my dear.
18:28Oh, Martin talked all the way there and all the way back.
18:32He can talk, an old Martin.
18:35His silkies had another baby girl.
18:38Oh, we must go and see them.
18:40No other news, ma'am.
18:41All gossip.
18:46Oh.
18:47There was one piece of news.
18:49Mr Ferris is married.
18:53Who told you that Mr Ferris was married, Tom?
18:57I see Mr Ferris myself, ma'am.
18:59This morning in Exeter.
19:01And his lady, too.
19:03Miss Lucy Steel as was.
19:05Oh.
19:06Miss Lucy Steel?
19:08Yes, ma'am.
19:10They was in a chaise at the door of the New London Inn.
19:13I took my hat off and she knew me.
19:16I made me give her best compliments, and Mr Ferris as well, to you all.
19:20Oh, that is Lucy Steel.
19:23But did she tell you they were married, Tom?
19:26Yes, ma'am.
19:27I made free to wish her joy.
19:30Mr Ferris was in the carriage, but he just leaned back and looked out the other window.
19:34And well, he might.
19:36They were going to see her folk in Plymouth.
19:39Miss Lucy seemed vastly pleased.
19:46Well, I'll put that lot away.
19:54Oh, poor Eleanor.
19:58Oh, I cannot bear this.
20:04And I, too, my child.
20:06Through all her troubles, I never thought of you once.
20:11We all knew they were to be married.
20:15Marianne had all my tendons.
20:18I never thought once that you suffered as much.
20:21But unlike her, were brave.
20:26Excuse me.
20:28I'd better make sure that Colonel Brandon's room is ready.
21:03Do you think Colonel Brandon will like that, Tom?
21:06Oh, I don't know, ma'am.
21:08They're only from the Hedge Row.
21:10Oh.
21:11They're pretty, though.
21:17Oh.
21:18It's all right, Tom.
21:20Girls?
21:21Colonel Brandon is here.
21:30Mrs. Dashwood.
21:32Edward.
21:34I've come to see you all.
21:37I trust I've not called at an inconvenient time.
21:41Oh, no.
21:42No, Edward.
21:43Come in.
21:47Thank you, Susan.
21:57Well, Edward, I must wish you joy.
22:01Joy?
22:02Miss Marianne.
22:04Eleanor.
22:05Mr. Ferris.
22:13Is Mrs. Ferris still in Exeter?
22:16Or has she gone on a loan to Plymouth?
22:20Plymouth?
22:21My mother is in London.
22:23No, I was not speaking of your mother,
22:26but of Mrs. Edward Ferris.
22:29Mrs.
22:32Perhaps you mean my brother.
22:35You mean Mrs. Robert Ferris.
22:37Mrs. Robert Ferris?
22:39You may not have heard.
22:41My brother Robert is lately married to Miss Lucy Steve.
22:43Oh, Lucy and Robert.
22:47Yes, they were married a week ago
22:51and are now on their way to Plymouth.
22:55Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
23:00no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
23:06Satsang with Plymouth.
23:08Satsang with Plymouth.
23:13Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, noo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
23:13no.
23:13I am a joke to you and an offence to her.
23:17I have no right to come.
23:19Oh, Edward.
23:26Edward, where are you going?
23:27Far enough not to cause her more pain.
23:30Pain?
23:33Go to her, Edward. She's just out of her wits, that's all.
23:38And so are you. Go on.
24:07Lucy took him for his money. My mother's settlement on him cannot be revoked.
24:12And a fitting pair they make.
24:15I was a free man. I rode down here to marry you and...
24:19marched in upon you like a clumsy brute.
24:22No.
24:23Even now that I am asking for your hand...
24:27Are you?
24:29Yes.
24:31I'm blundering again.
24:33I love you.
24:36Oh, Eleanor.
24:39But you'll have to ask my mother's consent more gracefully.
24:43Oh, yes.
25:07Oh, Colonel.
25:10Oh, I'm so happy to welcome you.
25:13And so am I.
25:15And I to be here.
25:20Before I forget, I...
25:21I must give you Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer's kindest regards.
25:25Oh.
25:25Oh.
25:35Miss Marianne, I...
25:36I hope you will not think I have been too forward.
25:39But I have brought you a gift.
25:41That lovely box.
25:43And its contents. Please open it.
25:48Whatever can it be?
25:54Oh, books.
25:56Oh, thank you, Colonel.
25:59It is only a very modest treasure chest.
26:02The decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
26:05Will it not be too difficult for me?
26:08Oh, by no means.
26:10You may find it even more exciting than the mysteries of Udolpho.
26:16But I shall have hundreds of questions to ask you.
26:21My children.
26:22My children.
26:23By no means.
26:36So...
26:38...
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