Lark Rise to Candleford TV Series 2008-2011 by Beth Freed - Dailymotion

Beth Freed

An adaptation of Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel "Lark Rise To Candleford", set in 19th-century Oxfordshire, in which a young girl moves to the local market town to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress.

Transcript

00:00To be continued...

00:30Thank you, Thomas.

00:41Hamlet folk used to call it the Occhid Age.

00:45A child who was more like an adult.

00:48They joked that such young souls ought to be locked up in a box for a year or two.

00:54And such boys become fathers.

00:57Growing up happens in public.

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01:20So please don't miss anything that I was thinking about at once.

01:22Nobody can do it all.

01:23Nobody can do it all.

01:24It's the only excuse.

01:25You'll soon get used to the post office, Sydney.

01:40We sell stamps and postal orders and we deliver parcels and telegrams.

01:45We get our kinds of extraordinary folk in here with extraordinary business.

01:49The post office is the very marrow of service to our community.

01:53I'm sure you'll find that a comfort, Sydney, in your time of discomfort.

01:59What no one has mentioned, Sydney, is that we insist on enjoying life here.

02:04So, perhaps a bite to eat?

02:10Good morning, madam. Welcome to Candleford post office.

02:14What are you in need of today?

02:18I would like a penny stamp, please.

02:23That'll be one penny.

02:31Sydney, you are a natural.

02:36Minnie will show you where to wash your hands before we eat.

02:41Goodness.

02:43He is from all the world like a little man.

02:46Your father had a riding accident, which has left him in need of hospital treatment.

02:55He will be well enough to come home soon.

02:57It is nothing to be too concerned about.

03:01Were you concerned?

03:02As soon as he heard about you, your father's one wish was to care for you and welcome you into his home and his life.

03:16And tomorrow, I will take you to meet him.

03:21Would you like that?

03:23Miss Lane?

03:23Yes.

03:25Will you please show me how the telegraph machine works?

03:37Miss Margaret?

03:39Come in.

03:40Oh, I was expecting him.

03:42And I should be home soon enough if you'd care to wait.

03:45I've been trying to explain to my children what it means for a bride to be given away at her own wedding.

04:03I must go.

04:04If you are besieged by doubts, Miss Margaret, let me tell you, it is common enough. It will pass.

04:12Not doubts.

04:14I do want to marry Thomas Brown. I am certain of this.

04:20But there is something of which you are not so certain.

04:23Thomas may decide.

04:26I mean, Robert, what is love?

04:30Well, it's the desire and cherishing one another.

04:46That is all.

04:48There has to be more about it, doesn't there?

04:50What does it matter if we don't understand love just so long as we feel it?

04:54Only it does come into my mind all day, that question, what is love?

05:06So, if you could tell me, please.

05:10Why do you feel so compelled to understand?

05:14Because if it is only feelings, feelings can change.

05:19And Thomas might see me differently and realize that he has married someone who is not lovable.

05:29Miss Margaret.

05:32Can you just trust that Thomas...

05:35I don't wish to alarm you, Miss Margaret, but there is a rash on your neck and on your face.

05:42Yes.

05:49Oh, dear.

05:53The Alison pox.

05:55The Alison pox.

05:57I am ruined.

06:01He does seem to have attached himself to Miss Lane.

06:04He seems to have attached himself to the post office and all.

06:08Miss Lane is right.

06:10He is a little man.

06:13Little man he shall be, then.

06:14I saw these.

06:18I knew I had to pick them for you.

06:20Chrysanthemums is for love and cheerfulness.

06:23Every flower has its meaning.

06:25More gifts.

06:28You liked it last time I bought you flowers.

06:31Oh, I did.

06:33And the time before, and the time before that.

06:35And the berries, and the piece of ribbon.

06:39I'm only being romantic now.

06:41So much romance might choke a girl.

06:43That's just the way I am.

06:45Go and be the way you are somewhere else.

06:54I love to ride.

06:58And I can get you a horse if you would like.

07:06Tell me.

07:09Have you seen the hotel yet, Sydney?

07:11Perhaps I will take a stroll around the hospital grounds.

07:25Leave you two men to get to know one another.

07:27No.

07:28No, Dorcas.

07:30There's really no need.

07:34Sydney.

07:35We shall find you a good school nearby.

07:43And we shall find you some friends.

07:46And you can join the cricket team.

07:48I don't like cricket.

07:53No.

07:55Well, neither do I.

08:01Sydney, why don't you tell your pa what you do like?

08:03Start there.

08:05Your reading, and figures, and...

08:07Yes.

08:08That is what I meant to say.

08:10Tell me, Sydney.

08:13I like the post office.

08:17Well, we shall see plenty of that.

08:23I am always in there.

08:24Can we go now, please?

08:42Yes.

08:43Sydney, you are right.

08:45I am tired.

08:48I should sleep.

08:49I should sleep.

08:50Sydney, let me say, when I am up, I will bring you home.

09:03And you will see I can be.

09:10We can be.

09:11You will see.

09:17I promise you.

09:25The man is a living scandal.

09:28To deceive the whole town into believing he was the owner of a vast chain of London hotels.

09:34When he was nothing more than the lap boy of some moneyed widow.

09:38And to bring Candleford into such disrepute.

09:42Playing out his sordid, sordid, sordid entanglements, practically in the streets.

09:47Sordid.

09:49A fitting girl is to enable us to fit.

09:51We cannot fit if you are incapable of remaining still for more than a second.

09:55To be a bridesmaid is a great moment in every girl's life.

10:00Don't I look beautiful?

10:04And to top it all, I'm an illegitimate child.

10:08Is there no end to the man's immorality?

10:10Sordid.

10:12I thought you quite liked Mr J.D.

10:17Mr J... Mr Dowland wears a convincing mask of presentability.

10:23But we soon perceived his inner rot.

10:27It always comes back to breeding.

10:31Mr Dowland may wear a suit.

10:33But he will never wash off the grime of luck, right?

10:39Miss Lane says that as things are, we must think only of the child.

10:43Yes.

10:44Yes, poor mate.

10:45That is laudable of Dorcas, of course.

10:47Miss Lane can be relied upon to be heroic.

10:50Nick, nettle, burdock, yellow dock, dandelion.

10:59This lab poultice was taught to me by my grandma.

11:02I've never known it fail with any ailment of the skin.

11:04Oh, but look at her hands.

11:06It's getting worse.

11:08My face does feel more itching than ever.

11:13Hmm.

11:14I can't fathom it.

11:15She's getting married in three days.

11:17She can't be a bride looking like something the dog's left over.

11:22I cannot let Thomas see me like this coming up the aisle.

11:26It must be a terrible ailment to be beyond my poultice.

11:31Perhaps if I add some elderflower and comfrey, that might be the remedy.

11:36Thomas Brown frets about the slightest thing.

11:38If you were to see Miss Margaret like this before the wedding...

11:42Perhaps we ought to keep you here in the End House.

11:46Till we can find a cure for this, Miss Margaret.

11:54What are you doing?

11:58Prayer is listening.

12:01It's at times like this that we feel the presence.

12:06We place ourselves into the palm of God's care and our every step will be guided.

12:13Sydney.

12:17The greatest day of my life is fast approaching.

12:20And I know that I must seek the will of the Lord.

12:23Hmm.

12:25I seek

12:26them

12:28Bing!

12:31Bing!

12:34Bing!

12:36There it is before me.

12:38The gift

12:40of guidance.

13:01Sydney.

13:02Sydney.

13:06Sydney.

13:07Sydney.

13:09Sydney.

13:10Sydney.

13:11Sydney.

13:12Sydney.

13:13Sydney.

13:14Sydney.

13:15Sydney.

13:16Sydney.

13:17Sydney.

13:18Sydney.

13:19Sydney.

13:20Sydney.

13:21Sydney.

13:22Sydney.

13:23Sydney.

13:24Sydney.

13:25Sydney.

13:26Sydney.

13:27Sydney.

13:28Sydney.

13:29She asked me to be like a father to her.

13:32And as soon as she comes to me for help, look what comes of it.

13:35You do take on Robert Timmons.

13:38Miss Ellison is a logic unto herself. Everyone knows that.

13:42It seemed to come upon her as she was asking me what love is.

13:46That's because, you see, it ain't so much her skin that's sickening as her mind.

13:52Miss Ellison's mind is too delicate, always was.

13:56What she has is a pox of the brain.

14:01A thinking sickness put upon her by her pa.

14:05Perhaps that is why talking to me has come upon her again.

14:10What's growing to your skin, Alfie?

14:14Love.

14:17If either of you know any impediment why you may not be joined together in holy matrimony, that ye confess it.

14:29That ye confess it.

14:32Laura, why do we throw raisins at the married couple on their wedding day?

14:39Well, to wish them prosperity and fertility.

14:44Are you alright, Thomas?

14:47No, Laura. I am burdened with the need to confess.

14:53The Book of Common Prayer tells us we must rid ourselves of all blemish and sin if we are to be fit for matrimony.

15:00Sin? Have you sinned, Thomas?

15:03Oh, I have. I have not always been as dedicated to my work as I might be. I have loitered.

15:10Loitered? I thought you were going to say through stones that cats are set fire to a hayrick like I did.

15:17I have been known to gossip and sit in judgement of my fellow man.

15:22Thomas, that is hardly the stuff to call off a wedding.

15:27I once condemned Miss Ellison's father publicly.

15:32I must cleanse my soul before her if I am to be worthy of that dear woman.

15:37Thomas, truly, perhaps now is not the best moment to trouble Miss Margaret with your confessions.

15:44But I am sure she is in such a bloom of happiness.

15:48Oh, but I must. My mission is clear. I will seek out Miss Ellison and confess all. All.

15:57Laura, is lighter and truly a sin?

16:00No, Minnie, it is not.

16:02Oh, then I shall go to heaven.

16:06Ten.

16:08Well done.

16:09You count this stack.

16:20Nine.

16:22It's a good job I have you to keep an eye on me, Sydney.

16:26Write it up.

16:27Very neat handwriting.

16:37Who taught you such a fine hand?

16:40Myself.

16:44And your hair brushed so smartly.

16:47And your tie?

16:49Myself.

16:50Sydney, I think you are a remarkable boy.

17:01What I mean to say is...

17:05If you want to talk, I can listen.

17:08Ten.

17:09You don't say much, do you?

17:26Miss Lane says I talk too much.

17:29Miss Lane says there's not a thought that crosses my mind that don't get spoke.

17:33You keep it all inside.

17:35You're like a pie, aren't you?

17:37All crust, the meat hid away in the gravy.

17:40I reckon I'm like a sponge pudding with custard.

17:44What if we had half of you and half of me, what would we have?

17:48Dinner.

17:51If you do need to talk, and I ain't saying you do,

17:54you can trust Miss Lane with your troubles.

17:55And if you can't manage that, I can tell you what she will say anyway.

17:59We only have to be well today.

18:02That's all we can do.

18:04We can only do our best.

18:06Be willing.

18:08So you can do it, see?

18:11I'll tell you something, little man.

18:13I reckon this post office is the safest place in the whole world.

18:19Thomas Brown.

18:20We are most concerned to know how it is with the boy.

18:23Poor dear love.

18:26Ladies, may I ask?

18:28When will Miss Ellison call the collector wedding dress?

18:32The final fitting is tomorrow.

18:36Is there anything the matter, Thomas?

18:41Thomas, you are looking at me most oddly.

18:45Am I looking at you?

18:48I am.

18:49Well, I must not look at you.

18:52I am a man about to be married.

18:57We didn't leave our post.

19:03I expect this is all rather new for you.

19:06Rather grand.

19:07It's big.

19:08Yes.

19:10But isn't it all going to be rather delightful for Thomas Brown's wedding banquet?

19:14It's too big.

19:17Oh, Sydney.

19:19I know how you must feel.

19:22Your father's accident.

19:24Being thrown into a strange life at the post office.

19:27The post office isn't strange.

19:30The hotel is strange.

19:42Thomas, I can't decide which hat to wear to the wedding.

19:46Do you think feathers or silk?

19:50Oh, dear.

19:52Have you still not managed to track down Miss Ellison?

19:55Ma'am.

19:57The Lord has given me this hiatus

20:00so that I may further examine my soul.

20:04And, ma'am,

20:06I am finding much to contemplate

20:09and much to confess.

20:11Oh, Thomas.

20:13I do wish you could just relish the occasion.

20:16The food I know will be sumptuous.

20:18I went to great lengths to prepare the menu.

20:21This is a serious matter, Miss Lane.

20:27I am in need of pleading guilty to the fact that I have been attracted

20:32to Miss Ruby.

20:36When?

20:38I was, I believe, 18.

20:39Thomas, being attracted to a comely local woman in your youth is not a crime.

20:47I must cleanse my spirit.

20:49But it is normal.

20:51Everyone has such feelings.

20:53Miss Ellison herself will have entertained affections for someone.

20:59Miss Ellison?

21:01Entertained affections?

21:03For another man?

21:05Of course.

21:06Who?

21:09I have no idea.

21:11I was only trying to explain.

21:13Oh, I must know.

21:15I must find out.

21:17Dear God in heaven.

21:22I placed myself in the palm of your care.

21:27Please don't make me leave the post office.

21:32I don't want a father.

21:34I want Miss Lane.

21:38Please.

21:42I was mistaken in thinking we should give Sydney such a wholehearted welcome into the post office.

21:47He has fastened onto us.

21:50And I see now that might not be the best thing for him.

21:54Or his father.

21:56There is already a rift between them and it is all my doing.

22:01Mommy's praying.

22:02Little man is praying to stay here in the post office.

22:07James!

22:08You ain't meant to be up yet.

22:10You ain't ready for it.

22:11I have to be with my son, Queenie.

22:14Before it is too late.

22:15And you are certain, are you?

22:16That you know what you are about to do is right?

22:18He needs to see me well.

22:20He needs to see me strong.

22:21Is that what he will see?

22:23He will see me trying.

22:25And he will see me trying.

22:27He will see me trying.

22:29He will see me trying.

22:31He will see me trying.

22:33I am not sure.

22:35I am not sure.

22:37I am not sure.

22:38No, you are wrong, Queenie.

22:39I must act.

22:41Before it is too late.

22:42James!

22:43Can you see me trying?

22:45He will see me trying.

22:47He will see me coming to him.

22:49Why do you always believe you have to take on the world to make things right, James?

22:55Why can't you trust that things are as they should be?

22:59Perhaps you are sick because you are meant to be sick.

23:02No, you are wrong, Queenie.

23:04I must act.

23:06Before it is too late.

23:07James, can you hear what you are saying?

23:11Always this need to prove yourself.

23:14Here it is pulling you from your sick bed.

23:17You are James.

23:19That is enough.

23:21A Larkroy's boy.

23:23That is plenty.

23:24You are on your way home, Mr. Dallenden. You have lost your way.

23:38I know my way home.

23:39You have it so easy.

23:40I don't need your help.

23:54Not you nor any of you.

23:56James, you are not fit.

23:57You are not fit.

23:59What?

24:00Not fit to be a father?

24:02You are not fit to get yourself home.

24:03That is all.

24:05I know what you think of me.

24:07I see it in your face.

24:08Do you?

24:09Do you?

24:11You see my mind?

24:13I think many things of you, sir.

24:16Today what I feel is pity.

24:19Don't pity me.

24:21Not you.

24:23You think you are the only man on God's earth to have burdens, Mr. Dallenden.

24:28You went at woe with me.

24:29You are at woe with yourself.

24:30And if you don't stop, it will kill you.

24:32That is what I see.

24:34You have courage, James.

24:35But perhaps courage is not what you need now.

24:40Now let me get you home.

24:47Bees, bees, I hope you are sleeping snug.

24:50Is that lady speaking to her bees?

24:53She has been having a conversation with those bees for more than 40 years.

25:01Aren't you just the image, Sydney?

25:09You might not know it, but this here is where you come from.

25:15All of your past is here.

25:17You don't know what I'm talking about, do you?

25:25You make sure you find time to come here to play, child.

25:31With the scraps of crockery in the lane.

25:35Spending afternoon laying on your belly.

25:38Peering down into the cracks in the ground that I peered into.

25:44Ain't Miss Lane starting them young these days.

25:48I hope she's paying you fair wages, boy.

25:50Slave labour it is now at that post office.

25:52Now, this here is Mr. Terrell, my husband.

25:59This is Sydney.

26:00Sydney.

26:02Will you do something for me?

26:04Will you tell Thomas Brown that you saw Miss Ellison and that all is well with her?

26:08Is there something the matter, Mark?

26:14Poor woman is plagued with a need to know what love is.

26:18Everyone knows what love is.

26:21Is that so?

26:23Care to tell me in so many words?

26:25There is something else you can do, our Laura.

26:27But you must keep the purpose of it to yourself.

26:31Secret.

26:39I received your message, James.

26:41That you were home and wanted to see me.

26:44I requested that you bring Sydney to me.

26:48Sydney is out on the rounds with Laura.

26:51I thought it might be a pleasant way for him to find his way around a little.

26:54We didn't expect you home quite so soon.

26:58And since it is only you and I,

27:01perhaps there is an opportunity for us to discuss.

27:03What is there to discuss?

27:06The situation is fragile.

27:09We must ask ourselves how to manage the next transition so that it is...

27:14I am home.

27:17I want my son with me.

27:21Sydney is afraid.

27:22We might only add to his fear if things do not go well now.

27:29What do you suggest?

27:32The boy finds the hotel intimidating, James.

27:36Perhaps you could be with him in the post office.

27:41At first.

27:42This might give you a few days to recuperate and still get to know Sydney.

27:53Don't rush him.

27:55Let him come to you.

27:58He will.

28:00I am certain of it.

28:03You are his father.

28:05It is what he will want.

28:07Then I must trust you in this.

28:15Can you do that?

28:20Yes.

28:24Miss Pearl.

28:26Miss Ruby.

28:27Miss Ellison would like me to collect her dress and deliver it to her.

28:31Don't be ridiculous, girl.

28:32We shall need to undertake a final fitting.

28:35Thomas has been looking for Miss Ellison.

28:37She seems to be...

28:39missing.

28:41I am only permitted to say that I am to bring the dress.

28:46We will not allow it. Our reputation hangs on a correct fitting.

28:50And Miss Ellison will want to look at her best on her wedding day.

28:55There is something untoward, isn't there, girl?

28:58Perhaps we could bring the dress to Miss Ellison, if you were to tell us where she is.

29:07The dress shall not leave the shop without a professional hand on it.

29:11I hear you went out on the post round.

29:24You saw La Crize.

29:27That is where I spent my childhood.

29:32And you met Queenie.

29:33She was like a mother to me.

29:39And I expect she would dearly love to be a grandma to you.

29:45Would you like that?

29:47I would.

30:03We can have your name inscribed upon it, if you would like.

30:33Thomas, I saw Miss Ellison today.

30:39Where?

30:40Where does she know that I am searching for her?

30:43She said she would come by, but she has been so busy.

30:48With her preparations.

30:52Thomas is in need of confessing all of his past sins.

30:56Which don't amount to much.

30:58Eating a burnt sausage and whistling in bed.

31:01I will have you know for a man to cleanse his soul before the woman he loves is as close to piety as a humble postman can get.

31:11Pie for tea. Close to pie for tea.

31:16I will not allow my piety nor my marriage to be mocked.

31:21Thomas, no one wants to mock your marriage. We are all intent on celebrating it except you.

31:31I will not allow my marriage to be mocked.

31:34Thomas, no one wants to be mocked.

31:35Thomas, no one wants to be mocked.

31:37James!

31:39James!

31:44All right, sir.

31:47Don't be afraid.

31:48I am well.

31:49Come here to me, boy.

32:02Come and see. I am well.

32:04Don't back away from me.

32:07Don't turn away from me.

32:09James, please.

32:11It is too much. He is afraid.

32:12He cannot help you. He cannot even help himself.

32:15Girls don't want nice.

32:17That's what they might say.

32:19But a girl can fall in love without knowing it's happening or why it's happening.

32:21If she thinks she might have missed her chance, then she sees a boy for what he truly is.

32:23The girl can fall in love without knowing it's happening or why it's happening.

32:30If she thinks she might have missed her chance, then she sees a boy for what he truly is.

32:38I say. But a girl can fall in love without knowing it's happening, Laura, why it's happening.

32:44If she thinks she might have missed her chance, then she sees a boy for what he truly is.

32:50All I seem to live for, Laura, is the pleasing of whoever happens to be in front of me.

32:56I'm sick of it. I've never decided to be shot with this way of thinking.

33:04I see you mean it.

33:06From now on, I shall have a good look at what it is that I want.

33:11If you could do one thing for yourself, what would it be?

33:14Something that would make your blood sing from the sheer wildness of it.

33:19Well, I've always had this one thought.

33:22Since I was a nipper.

33:25Ring the church bells, good and loud, in the middle of the night.

33:35You did it, Alf. You did it.

33:52Laura, are you all right?

33:54Was that you screaming?

33:55It wasn't screaming, ma'am.

33:58It was something else.

34:03Didn't the bell sound so joyous, though?

34:05I can wait no longer.

34:25I want the boy.

34:29Tomorrow.

34:30James, you look so unwell.

34:35Let me fetch the doctor for you.

34:37I will be all right.

34:41Tomorrow.

34:42I am not keeping Sydney from you.

34:45I am thinking of the boy.

34:47Are you?

34:48It is in your nature to be boundlessly generous.

34:53But even you want something.

34:56Even you are human.

34:59It is one thing to offer a place of safety to a child.

35:02It is another thing entirely to take advantage of the situation.

35:08You know I cannot help but believe you.

35:12You use that.

35:15You torture me with possibility.

35:17James, please let me get the doctor.

35:23I'll give you tonight to prepare the child.

35:37Wake up, Sydney.

35:40You must come with me.

35:47Miss Margaret.

35:56Miss Margaret.

35:56The way I see it,

36:06your pa is at the source of all this.

36:13He put these thoughts into your mind.

36:17There is a reason it is called the Ellison box.

36:21I can't tell you what love is.

36:24I can only tell you what love is to me.

36:28I can be myself with Emma and know she will not turn away.

36:37She sees what I am and she accepts me.

36:42Perhaps with a bit of correction when my pride gets the better of me.

36:45If what I am saying makes things worse, then I am sorry, but...

36:54I have a choice.

36:56I know it now.

36:59To face my groom like this.

37:01Or to abandon my wedding.

37:05I have been waiting for this day.

37:12I have watched women younger than myself come to the church one after another.

37:18I have loved Thomas Brown from afar and hoped and waited until he approached me.

37:35When my father died, I believed I was free of him, but he lives in my mind still.

37:50We may be done with the past, but the past is not done with us.

37:59I will not be defeated.

38:02I will go up the aisle like this.

38:12I can hardly believe how many people came out.

38:17You've done it now.

38:19Now you know how it feels.

38:21I did like the feel of my heart pounding.

38:24I'm glad I did it.

38:26Because now I see.

38:28That kind of thing.

38:29Trouble and the like.

38:32It ain't me.

38:33I know it ain't.

38:36There's nothing wrong with Al Farless, just the way he is.

38:40What I know is.

38:42I love my life.

38:44I am blessed.

38:46I was born to enjoy the sun coming up of a morning and the look on a face when I play a tune.

38:51I saw these and I knew I had to pick them for you.

39:00Chrysanthemums is for love and cheerfulness.

39:03Minni.

39:24Come here.

39:32You know where Sidney is, don't you?

39:41You have hidden him.

39:44I heard him praying.

39:46His whole heart wants to be here and it ain't right to send him away and I won't do it and I won't let you do it.

39:50Do you suppose that you know what is right in all this, Minni?

39:57He has a father.

39:59A family.

40:02We cannot turn away from the ties of blood.

40:04But he loves you, Mum.

40:08Oh, Minni.

40:11We will be here for Sidney.

40:14Be part of his life.

40:15But he must go to Mr. Dowland.

40:20Must.

40:21Must.

40:24It would be selfish to think otherwise.

40:28Go and fetch him, Minni.

40:36Pa!

40:36I have something for you.

40:45A book of poems.

40:49Sonnets.

40:52In Queenie always saying,

40:54when we let go,

40:56the answer will appear.

40:57Thomas Brown!

41:06Are you skulking?

41:07My wife-to-be is being kept from me.

41:11It's bad luck for a man to see his bride.

41:14Only on his wedding day.

41:16This is uncalled for.

41:17There must be a reason.

41:18That's a superstition, see,

41:19from the days when a man had not so much as glinted his bride

41:21till he met her at the altar.

41:24He might not like the look of her, see?

41:26He might run away.

41:26That's why there's a veil

41:28to hide her face

41:30in case she's into a picture.

41:32A man has to do the nuptials first,

41:34then take a look.

41:35I must see Miss Margaret today.

41:38You see enough of her after the wedding.

41:40A hundred years of nagging awaits you.

41:43Rest your ears while you can't.

41:44Push your car, okay.

41:46Ow!

41:48Ow!

41:52Oh!

41:53Ay!

41:53You can work in the post office on Saturdays.

41:57Laura will take you out on her rants.

42:08A sausage to gird you.

42:10Come here to me, boy.

42:24Don't back away from me.

42:27Don't turn away from me.

42:33I'll give you tonight to prepare the child.

42:35I'm here to hide.

42:48You can ask me, man.

42:50I'll give you anotherし.

42:51You can pass me, man.

42:52I'll give you one more of your hands.

42:53My heart is so gentle.

42:53I'll give you an eye.

42:55I'll give you an eye.

42:56I'll give you an eye.

42:57I'll give you an eye.

42:58I'll give you an eye.

42:59Bye!

43:00Bye!

43:01Bye!

43:02Bye!

43:03Bye!

43:04I have no plan.

43:16But I could not let that boy see me hand him over.

43:20Abandon him.

43:23At least he knows he is wanted.

43:32What is it, Sydney?

43:34My ma, when she took me to that school, and left me, was it because I wasn't good enough?

43:51No, little ma.

43:54It certainly was not.

43:57You are more than good enough.

44:00I don't know what to do.

44:16I don't know what is best.

44:17We have a conscience for a reason.

44:24Birds don't have one as far as I can see.

44:28Dogs don't show much sign of living by one.

44:30We are given a conscience, because if we don't live by it, it hurts.

44:37Do you know what it is I'm talking about?

44:39I do.

44:42I want to do the right thing.

44:45I know you do.

44:46But I can't seem to find what that is.

44:51I think he can.

44:54And I think he'll do the right thing.

44:55Warm your hands, James.

45:04Enjoy the stars over Lock Rise.

45:09Miss Margaret.

45:10I have something I would like to read to you.

45:18It's only words.

45:20But if you ask me, it's as close to a magic spell as words can get.

45:24You close your eyes, and you listen with all your heart.

45:48I will make sure that Dorcas knows where to find me.

45:51If you would like, perhaps we can meet.

46:00In London.

46:03Or I can come back here.

46:12I never knew my father.

46:17My whole life,

46:18I didn't think it mattered.

46:24But it does.

46:28It does.

46:35When you are ready,

46:37and when I am ready,

46:41perhaps...

46:42I want you to look after that for me.

47:03With Dorcas,

47:12he will have a chance.

47:15She can teach him to try and find a life worth living.

47:20And what about you?

47:22What about your chance?

47:24Queenie,

47:25Queenie,

47:26I believed the reason I came back here

47:28was to relive my own past.

47:32Recreate my life so that it worked.

47:36But it was not meant to be.

47:40Perhaps it is meant.

47:43Only not for you, James.

47:45Perhaps you came back here.

47:47Perhaps you came back here.

47:49And everything that has happened since you returned.

47:53In order to bring the boy to us.

47:57To bring him to his true home.

47:59How could I?

48:01If I didn't even know he existed.

48:03Do you suppose that matters?

48:06How do I know the wind should blow?

48:09Because it's blowing.

48:10I don't understand you, Queenie.

48:14I never did.

48:17You accept life.

48:20And I fight it.

48:32Now.

48:33Perhaps you will have done with the fighting

48:35when you've had enough of it.

48:40You go and find your life out there, James.

48:48Wherever it is.

48:50You deserve it.

48:53We all do.

48:55Queenie,

48:56you're right.

49:00A life worth living.

49:10Thomas Heavens,

49:24you are not dressed.

49:27The Lord set me a mission,

49:30Miss Lane.

49:32And I have failed him.

49:34Your confessions.

49:42Thomas.

49:44You are always telling me

49:46that we live by God's will.

49:48Isn't that so?

49:51Perhaps then,

49:52the reason he has kept Miss Ellison

49:54from you these past few days

49:56is so that

49:56you might not confess to her.

49:59He is, after all,

50:02the Almighty.

50:06Then why was I given a sign

50:08in the Book of Common Prayer?

50:13Because, Thomas,

50:15God clearly wished you

50:19to cleanse your soul

50:21before no one but him.

50:22Miss Lane,

50:27you are correct.

50:32Yes.

50:34It is my one weakness.

50:42Let me not

50:43to the marriage of true minds

50:45admit impediments.

50:48Love is not love

50:49which alters

50:51when it alteration finds.

50:55Or bends

50:56with the remover

50:57to remove.

51:00Oh no,

51:01it is an ever-fixed mark

51:03that looks on tempests

51:05and is never shaken.

51:07It is the star

51:09to every wandering bark

51:10whose worth's unknown

51:12although his height

51:14be taken.

51:16Love is not time's fool,

51:18though rosy lips

51:20and cheeks

51:21within his bending

51:22sickle's compass come.

51:25Love alters not

51:26with his brief hours

51:28and weeks,

51:29but bears it out

51:31even to the edge of doom.

51:34If this be error

51:35and upon me proved,

51:38I never writ

51:39nor no man

51:40ever loved.

51:42Hamlet folk

51:55used to call it

51:56the Ocad age,

51:58a child

51:58who was more

51:59like an adult.

52:00Perhaps

52:15that Ocad age

52:17never ends.

52:19Perhaps

52:20we're all children

52:21trying to be adults.

52:23and

52:29there

52:32seems

52:32to be

52:35there

52:36ORGAN PLAYS

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Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson Drama Romance TV Series (2009) S02 E12

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Lark Rise to Candleford TV Series 2008-2011

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