- 17/06/2025
Part 1 of 6 of the 1983 Jane Austen adaptation. 10-year-old Fanny Price is shipped from her large and impoverished family to live with wealthier relatives at Mansfield Park. Largely neglected or ignored by most of her relatives, the only one to pay her any notice is her cousin Edmund. And as she grows so too do her feelings for her cousin, who is unaware of her affections for him.
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00:00The End
01:00Good day to you, Mrs Norris.
01:01Sir Thomas.
01:06Sister, I hope I find you well.
01:09The carriage will call for you in quarter of an hour.
01:12And you have a vast way to go to meet the child.
01:15Northampton is full eight miles, so I am too.
01:19Mrs Norris, pray take a cup of chocolate with us.
01:21Sir Thomas, you are everything that is considerate.
01:24The trouble to myself, you know, I never regard.
01:26Did not I say from start to finish,
01:28I could never rest till we did something further for my poor sister Price.
01:34To take upon us the charge and expense of but one of her superfluity of children,
01:39the burden will be as nothing to our benevolence.
01:42Such an unfortunate marriage.
01:44A lieutenant of Marines with neither fortune nor education.
01:49And then eight children.
01:51Seven, Mrs Norris.
01:53Now the eldest daughter comes to Mansfield.
01:54Some small relief, perhaps, to your sister in Portsmouth,
01:58but a vast change to little Fanny Price.
02:01Indeed, Sir Thomas, and with such opportunities.
02:04Give her an education, an introduction into society under such favourable circumstances,
02:10and ten to one, but she has the means of settling well without further expense to any of us.
02:15A niece of yours, Sir Thomas, will not grow up in this neighbourhood without many advantages.
02:25I do not say she will be as handsome as her cousins,
02:28but in all probability she will make a creditable match.
02:31And you need fear nothing for your two sons on this account.
02:36Even suppose her to have the beauty of an angel.
02:38Brought up together, she will never be more to them than a sister.
02:42I suppose, Sister, you will put the child in the little white attic,
02:46close by the governess and the housemaids.
02:48The white attic?
02:50Is Fanny then to come to us?
02:52I thought, Sister, she would come to you,
02:55for it was your idea, you know, from start to finish.
02:58What? To me?
03:03Why, sure, Sir Thomas, you did not think so.
03:06Indeed I did.
03:07You and Mr Norris having no children of your own,
03:10I took it for certain she would go to the parsonage.
03:13My dear Sir Thomas, I cannot conceive how you were ever so mistook.
03:18Why, poor Mr Norris and his state of health alone make it impossible.
03:23I do assure you he could no more stand the noise of a trial than fly.
03:28If he should once get out of his gouty complaints,
03:31it might be a different matter.
03:33Then, indeed, I should be glad to take my turn at Fanny
03:36and think nothing of the inconvenience.
03:39But now, poor Mr Norris takes up every moment of my time,
03:44and the very mention of such a thing,
03:46I am sure, would quite distract him.
03:48Why, then, she had better come to us.
03:59The carriage is here, Sir Thomas.
04:03Well, Mrs Norris, we must do our duty by her.
04:08Let her home be in this house.
04:11At Mansfield Park.
04:12Why, my dear child, how pale you are.
04:27You're not cold.
04:29Are you unwell?
04:32I thank you, Mum.
04:33You must try to be in your best looks.
04:35Don't mind all that I've said to you.
04:37Do you hear me, Fanny?
04:41Yes, ma'am.
04:43We are almost come to Mansfield Park.
04:46I'm sure your poor dear mother told you
04:48how fortunate you are to leave your family and come to this.
04:51Didn't she, child?
04:53Yes, ma'am, she did.
04:54And you have me to thank for it.
04:56With all my faults,
04:58I think I may say I have a warm heart.
05:01Thank you, Mum.
05:02And we may both be judged by your good behaviour,
05:06which I trust your gratitude will show to an extraordinary degree.
05:10You must not be putting yourself forward before your cousins.
05:14You have advantages in life far beyond yours.
05:18If you are respectful to the family
05:19and keep an amiable countenance,
05:23I am the wary of Lady Bertram's heart.
05:27All may be well.
05:30I hope you pay attention, Fanny.
05:32Yes, yes, well, for there.
05:36You see now, there is the house.
05:40Yes, there is Mansfield Park.
05:46Mrs Norris, Sir Thomas.
05:47Sir Thomas, we have been a great while on the road,
05:50but you know how I choose to spare your horses.
05:53Coachmen would urge them,
05:54but I said no, I would not let them suffer on my account.
05:58Now, here is little Fanny Bryce.
06:01My poor sister's child.
06:06Well, Fanny.
06:08Speak to your uncle.
06:11Sir.
06:13Come, you shall meet your aunt.
06:15And Mrs Norris, pray be seated.
06:17Mariah, Julia, look to your aunt Norris.
06:19I'm sure she'll take some tea.
06:20Indeed, Sir Thomas, you are very kind.
06:22I am quite fatigued.
06:23Oh, Fanny, you may sit by me.
06:28These are your cousins,
06:30my two sons,
06:32Tom
06:33and Edmund.
06:34How do you do, Fanny?
06:35How do you do, Fanny?
06:37And my daughters,
06:39Mariah
06:39and Julia.
06:44My dear Mariah.
06:47Be seated, child.
06:49Didn't you hear what Lady Bertram said?
06:51Yes, indeed, Mum.
06:52You must not stare at your little cousin.
06:59Will you take some tea, Fanny?
07:02No, sir.
07:03My thank you.
07:05She will have some cake.
07:09I know, Sir Thomas.
07:12She will take some cake
07:13if Mariah will bring it to her.
07:16Certainly, Mama.
07:23They are crispy tarts.
07:27Where, Fanny?
07:41This may be not to her taste.
07:43Oh, yes, indeed, Sir.
07:46My poor Puck!
07:53Do be careful!
07:55Sister, I won't help this.
07:56My poor Fanny!
07:57My children, take your little cousin
07:59and show her the house.
08:00Tom, Edmund, you may leave too.
08:02I want time for sober reflection
08:04with your aunt and Lady Bertram.
08:06Then Fanny may return to us.
08:09Very well, Sir.
08:12This is not a very promising beginning.
08:14After all that I said to her
08:16as we came along,
08:18I thought she would have behaved better.
08:20We must not judge too early.
08:21Well, I hope she will not tease my poor Puck.
08:24I have just but got Julia to leave her alone.
08:28There may be some sulkiness of temper.
08:30Her poor mother had a good deal.
08:33But then, I do not know
08:34that her being sorry to leave her home
08:35is really against her.
08:37For with all its faults, you know,
08:38it was her home.
08:40Well, perhaps she will be in better spirits
08:42when Mariah and Julia have showed her the house.
08:46But there will be some difficulty, Mrs Norris,
08:48in the proper distinction to be made
08:50between the girls as they grow up.
08:52How to preserve in my daughters
08:54the consciousness of what they are
08:55without making them think too lowly of their cousin.
08:58I should like to see them good friends.
09:03But Fanny Price is not a Miss Bertram.
09:07It is a point of great delicacy.
09:09You must assist us by teaching her
09:11exactly the right line of conduct.
09:13Oh, I shall do my part, Sir Thomas,
09:14you may be sure.
09:16But to be here at Mansfield Park
09:17shall constantly remind her
09:19how much she owes to you and Lady Bertram.
09:22Thank you very much.
09:52Thank you very much.
10:22Thank you very much.
10:52Oh, Ma, come and take me home.
10:58Forgive me that I'm ungrateful.
11:01But I'm so unhappy.
11:03Mariah and Julia, my dear children.
11:10But where is Fanny?
11:12She was here, aunt.
11:14We cannot tell where she's gone.
11:16Miss Lee has said us to put together a map of Europe.
11:19But Fanny does not understand the task at all.
11:22And does Miss Lee find her very dull?
11:25I cannot tell that.
11:26But Julie and I do.
11:28Fanny has never heard of Asia Minor.
11:30She does not even know the difference
11:32between watercolours and crayons.
11:33Did you ever hear anything so stupid?
11:35My dear, it is very bad.
11:37But you must not expect everybody to be as forward
11:40and quick at learning as yourself.
11:42But aunt, she is really very ignorant.
11:46Do you know we asked her last night
11:48by what way she should get to Ireland?
11:50And she said she's crossed to the Isle of Wight.
11:53And she called it the island.
11:55As if it were the only island in the world.
11:57And when we told her our father's fortune
11:59came from the sugar in Antigua,
12:01she thought it was a shop.
12:03To be sure, that is very stupid.
12:05But all things considered,
12:06I do not know that it is not as well.
12:09For though you know, owing to me,
12:10your papa and mama so good as to bring her up with you,
12:13it is not at all necessary
12:14that she should be as accomplished as you are.
12:17But now, let me advise you, my dears.
12:19And where has Italy gone?
12:21It should be here.
12:32My dear little cousin,
12:34what can be the matter?
12:39Are you ill?
12:42Has someone scolded you?
12:43Or did you quarrel with Julia or Mariah?
12:47Come, you must tell me.
12:49Will you pray, excuse me?
12:51Fanny, think.
12:53I shall suffer too,
12:54unless you let me help you.
12:57Who would comfort you at home?
13:01Is that it?
13:03Dear little Fanny.
13:04We're sorry to leave Mama,
13:05which shows you're a very good girl.
13:07No, cousin, it's not Mama.
13:09Then you shall tell me.
13:11Yes, we'll walk out in the park.
13:13But you're with friends, remember?
13:15Relations will all love you.
13:17So that's your family.
13:20But Fanny,
13:21which of all these brothers and sisters?
13:23William and Sam,
13:25Susan and Mary.
13:27Now, who comes after?
13:29Is it Tom?
13:30I'm Betsy.
13:32Which is the one you love the best?
13:34I love them all.
13:37It's William.
13:38William.
13:40The eldest.
13:41So it's he that comforts you
13:43and pleads for you to your mother
13:44when she's vexed.
13:45And he will miss me too.
13:47Yes, he'll write to you.
13:50Yes, he promised.
13:52But I told him that I'd write first.
13:54And will you do it?
13:56I haven't any paper.
13:58Is that all your difficulty?
13:59Will it make you happy
14:02to write to William?
14:04Yes, very.
14:05Then we'll do it now.
14:07Come with me to the breakfast room.
14:08We shall find everything there
14:09and be sure of having the room to ourselves.
14:12But, cousin,
14:12will you go to the post?
14:14Yes, depend upon it.
14:15And go with the other letters.
14:17And as your uncle will frank,
14:18it will cost William nothing.
14:19My uncle?
14:20Yes, indeed.
14:21As soon as you've written it,
14:22I'll give it to my father, to Frank.
14:25Why, Fanny,
14:26it's not such a bold step.
14:27Don't be so alarmed.
14:29There, it's done.
14:35Fanny, you may begin.
14:47My dearest William,
14:49I write to you from Mansfield Park.
14:53I hope that you and all the family
14:54go on safe and well.
14:56I was sorry at first to be away
14:59and not to see you.
15:01But now I am more comfortable
15:03and everybody here is kind and good to me.
15:07One above all,
15:09my cousin Edmund.
15:11He helps me to write this letter
15:13and says he will send you half a guinea
15:16under the seal.
15:17I think each day I grow a little bolder.
15:22My dearest William,
15:24I am glad I have your letter.
15:27I go on well as before.
15:29Tom.
15:30It is near the end of the holidays
15:31and today my cousin Tom Bertram
15:34made me a pretty present.
15:36I have much ado at Mansfield Park
15:39carrying messages
15:41and performing little tasks
15:42for my Aunt Bertram
15:43and my Aunt Norris.
15:45Only think, William.
15:48Edmund has taught me
15:49to be more cheerful
15:50with my cousins,
15:51Mara and Julia
15:51and often now I am called on
15:54to join them in their games.
15:57Yet not think that we have time
15:58for nothing here but gaieties.
16:01Today I helped my uncle,
16:03the Reverend Mr Norris,
16:05to decorate the church
16:06for the Harvest Festival.
16:08He is the parson here.
16:09My cousin Edmund
16:11is to be a clergyman himself
16:13but he is now at Eton College.
16:16I miss him very much.
16:19So, William,
16:20you are to go to sea
16:21and be a sailor.
16:25I have the finest news.
16:28My uncle invites you
16:29to Mansfield Park
16:30to spend the Christmas holiday
16:32before you sail.
16:34Bunny, he's here.
16:39My dearest William.
16:41I sing of a maiden
16:44that is matchless,
16:48King of all kings
16:51to her son she chose.
16:55He came also still
16:57where his mother was,
17:01as due in April
17:04that falleth on the grass.
17:07He came also still
17:10where his mother lay,
17:14as due in April
17:17that falleth on the spray.
17:20Mother and maiden
17:22was never such a she.
17:26Well, may such a lady
17:29God's mother be.
17:33Well, well.
17:34Shall he be in time?
17:39Aye, I promise you.
17:41It's half an hour
17:41before the stage
17:42reaches the crossroads
17:43and I walk fast.
17:46Yet, think,
17:47I may have sailed
17:47half round the world
17:48before I see Portsmouth again.
17:51Give my thanks
17:52to aunt and uncle.
17:53I'll be gone.
17:56William.
17:59May God have care of you.
18:01I'll be sure.
18:02Farewell, honey.
18:03Fanny, he'll return.
18:30Have faith.
18:31Know the lines
18:37by William Cooper
18:38The time's passing
18:39and the changing seasons.
18:42What prodigies
18:43can power divine perform
18:45more grand
18:46than it produces
18:47year by year
18:48and all in sight
18:49of an attentive man?
18:51Familiar with the effect,
18:53we slight the cause
18:54and in the constancy
18:55of nature's course,
18:56the regular return
18:57of genial months
18:58and renovation
19:00of a faded world
19:01see naught to one dread.
19:04From dearth to plenty
19:05and from death to life
19:06is nature's progress.
19:09When she lectures man
19:10in heavenly truth,
19:12evincing,
19:13as she makes
19:14the grand transition
19:15that there lives
19:16and works
19:17a soul
19:17in all things
19:19and that soul
19:21is God.
19:28I thank you, cousin.
19:30For what?
19:32All I've learned.
19:33I shall remember
19:36your goodness
19:37to the last moment
19:39of my life.
19:44For as much
19:45as it hath pleased
19:46almighty God
19:47of his great mercy
19:49to take unto himself
19:50the soul
19:51of our dear brother
19:52here departed,
19:53we therefore
19:54commit his body
19:55to the ground.
19:58Earth to earth,
20:00ashes to ashes,
20:02dust to dust.
20:03Let's pray.
20:33I do not forget, Sir Thomas, how much poor Mr Norris owed to you, even this parish.
20:41I have lost one of my oldest friends.
20:44Well, I must manage now without him, and I shall, if I make even stricter economies.
21:03Our melancholy duty is done.
21:16Tom, I would see you in my room.
21:27Fanny? Fanny?
21:29Fanny, you may come upstairs and help me undress.
21:34I do not like these clothes.
21:37Mrs Norris always preferred black, so I suppose it does not trouble her.
21:50I asked her to come back with us, but she says she has a vast deal to do, making ready the removal to her new home.
21:58So, my dear, you are to leave us now and live with my sister.
22:04How should you like it?
22:09I'm going to leave you.
22:11Why, yes.
22:13Come.
22:15You have been seven years with us, and my sister always meant to take you when Mr Norris died.
22:22I had always intended that the living of Mansfield Parish should fall to Edmund on Mr Norris's decease,
22:30an event which I had not expected to occur before your brother's ordination.
22:35Your profligacy, I fear, renders this impossible.
22:40The benefits will have to be sold.
22:41And since nothing I have ever said to you before has touched your conscience,
22:46perhaps this injustice will serve some purpose.
22:51The younger brother must now pay for the elder brother's pleasures.
22:57There's nothing else to be done, sir.
22:59No, sir.
23:00This is a last resort, you may be sure.
23:02You have robbed Edmund for ten, twenty, thirty years, perhaps for life,
23:09of over half the income which ought to be his.
23:13Maybe in my power hereafter, or in yours, I hope it will,
23:18to procure him better preferment.
23:20The loss of Mansfield as his parish will affect him deeply.
23:24Anyway, it pains me to remind you, Tom,
23:29but the blame for this falls greatly to your charge.
23:34Well, I hope, sir, that you...
23:37Indeed, I...
23:40I...
23:42I own to some extravagance.
23:44You own to it?
23:46What would you deny?
23:47I...
23:47Your debts at gaming and at racing have placed a burden on my resources
23:58which cannot be discharged.
24:02I blush for you, Tom.
24:04I blush for the expedient which I am now driven on.
24:08Yes, sir.
24:10I hope I shall in future...
24:12with some better fortune...
24:15Well, Edmund shall still have Thornton Lacey, the curate's place.
24:22That there is a smaller family living held for Edmund
24:26is the only circumstance which has reconciled my conscience to this necessity.
24:31But it should prove no balm to yours.
24:34No, sir.
24:36I may not excuse myself, I know.
24:39Then let us end an interview which has been displeasing to us both.
24:43Sir.
24:44And, Tom.
24:47I shall not disclose to Edmund all I have said to you.
24:52The loss of income from my West Indian estates can share the blame in this affair.
24:57Indeed, it is another source of present anxiety
25:00of which I may have cause to speak to you again.
25:05Sir.
25:06You ought to excuse me.
25:07Lord.
25:17The tedious piece of work he made of it.
25:20I'm not half so much in debt as some of my friends I'll have him know.
25:25Henry.
25:25Mr. Burton.
25:25Well, cheers for my Uncle Norris, yes.
25:28I'm going around for your mother.
25:29And there's another thing.
25:34These Parsons don't live long.
25:36They've well-plied food.
25:38So it's an excellent soup part.
25:41Well, Edmund may have it there.
25:42To the Antwerp at Gibraltar.
25:48My dear William, the new parson is come to Mansfield.
25:52He is Dr. Grant and he has a wife about 15 years his junior, but no children.
25:57My cousin Tom thinks Dr. Grant a short-necked, apoplectic sort of furrow.
26:05But they both seem to me very agreeable.
26:09Today, I helped my Aunt Norris to carry some of the things from the parsonage to her new home.
26:16Well, Mrs. Grant, I shall not trouble you again.
26:19It has been no trouble.
26:20We shall be always glad to see you, ma'am.
26:22If there is to be an end of Dr. Grant's dilapidations, I may beg a little of the fruit from that apricot by the stable wall.
26:31Indeed, ma'am.
26:32I had not thought it worth the trouble of gathering.
26:35Sir, that tree is a moor park.
26:38It was a present from Sir Thomas to Mr. Norris, but I saw the bill.
26:41It cost seven shillings and was charged as a moor park.
26:45Then, ma'am, you were imposed on.
26:48An apricot is an insipid fruit at the best, but a good one is eatable.
26:53Which none of those from my garden are.
26:55The truth is, ma'am, Dr. Grant scarcely knows the taste of a fresh apricot.
27:00My cook contrives to get them all.
27:03Those from your tree make such excellent tarts and pizzeros.
27:06Oh, but you are welcome to all you choose to take.
27:12Good day, Mrs. Norris.
27:13Good day to you, Mrs. Grant.
27:16Dr. Grant.
27:16Wilcox, the White House.
27:33It is as true a moor park as ever lived.
27:36As for Mrs. Grant's cook, I am told she has never seen in her kitchen.
27:42And such a quantity of eggs and butter are consumed now.
27:46When I managed affairs at the parsonage, I may tell you, Fanny, things were very different.
27:50To be sure, ma'am.
27:52Though nobody loves plenty and hospitality more than myself.
27:55The parsonage, I believe, was never wanting in comforts in my time and never bore bad character.
28:01But Mrs. Grant's way of going on is something I cannot understand.
28:06Even though the doctor is very fond of eating and must have a good dinner every day,
28:10if she contrived to gratify his appetite at small expense, I should not complain.
28:16But a fine lady in a country parsonage is quite out of place.
28:19Yet, Lady Bertram, inquire as I may,
28:22I cannot find that Mrs. Grant had ever a greater fortune than £5,000
28:26and pays her cook as high wages as you do here at Mansfield Park.
28:31I am astonished to see her so well settled in life
28:34and not the least handsome to account for it.
28:39I am sure I must live with stricter economy.
28:42Things will be managed differently at the White House.
28:44And when does Fanny come to live with you?
28:49To live with me?
28:51Well, I thought you had settled it so with Sir Thomas.
28:55In my little cottage?
28:56There is no room.
28:57I never spoke a syllable about it to Sir Thomas, nor he to me.
29:03Why, I am sure he never wished me to take Fanny, a poor, desolate widow.
29:09What possible comfort could I have in taking such a charge upon me?
29:13Nor would she want it, would you?
29:16No, she is in good hands here and doing very well.
29:19I must struggle through my sorrows as best I can.
29:22Then you do not mind living by yourself quite a little.
29:27My dear Lady Bertram, what else am I fit for?
29:29Now and then I hope to have a friend in my little cottage.
29:33I shall always have a bed for that.
29:35If I can make both ends meet, that's all I ask for.
29:39Well, I hope, sister, things are not so bad with you neither, considering.
29:45Sir Thomas tells me you will have 600 a year.
29:49Lady Bertram, I do not complain.
29:52We both thought Fanny would be a great comfort to you.
29:56But if you do not like it, there is no more to be said.
30:00I only know that I must live within my income or be miserable.
30:04She is no encumbrance here.
30:06And to lay by a little at the end of the year?
30:08Well, I dare say you will.
30:11You always do, you know.
30:13I can only say that my sole desire is to be of use to you and Sir Thomas.
30:17But as for Sir Thomas, he tells me he must sail to Antigua very soon.
30:24His estate there makes that poor returns.
30:26He must look to things himself.
30:29And Tom goes with him.
30:31Then you will certainly need Fanny here.
30:35Sir Thomas must think of that.
30:37I wonder he has not told me of this plan.
30:41It is a vast way to go.
30:43Oh, if he has gone from me a great while, I should want Fanny here.
30:50I have grown quite used to her.
30:54And so has Park.
30:56Mrs Norris, I trust you will assist Lady Bertram in the domestic economy and have a special care of my two girls.
31:07Be assured, Sir Thomas.
31:08And I hope I may say to you, you could not leave them in better hands.
31:14Mariah, Julia, be dutiful to your aunt and to your mother.
31:18Indeed, sir.
31:19We shall.
31:20Fanny, if William's squadron returns to England while I'm gone, you may invite him to Mansfield.
31:28I thank you, sir, for all your kindness.
31:31You've been parted for many years.
31:33I hope not without improvement on your side.
31:37Edmund, I leave you to manage my affairs as best you may.
31:40Depend upon it, sir.
31:41I have your advice.
31:44My dear, you must not stay.
31:47Goodbye, my dear, Sir Thomas.
31:54Come, Tom.
31:55Sir.
32:00Fanny.
32:04Goodbye, my dear son.
32:07Edmund.
32:10There's a filly, let me tell you, next week at New York.
32:13I come, sir.
32:14And exercise my hunter.
32:17Goodbye, my dear son.
32:28Goodbye, the car.
32:36Julia, we may finish tacking on my pattern now.
32:38Yes.
32:39Then we'll do a round.
32:40But, Moriah, you must pick it as I showed you, and you shall have printing for the wife.
32:47Mr. Thomas' going is quite unsettling.
32:49There is a great deal to be done.
32:52Who shall manage it?
32:54I shall speak to the steward, ma'am.
32:56But who will carve a table?
33:00Why, I again, ma'am.
33:01Why, I say that.
33:06So you may.
33:08Fanny.
33:09Fanny.
33:09The china silk looks very fine.
33:27Fine enough, I declare, for a ball at Sutherton.
33:30Does it not, Julia?
33:31Alice, have care.
33:32I cannot turn on to her, I am ruined.
33:35But the sash, is it not well matched?
33:37I do believe the green might suit you better.
33:39Fanny?
33:40Are you turned to stone?
33:42The emerald sack?
33:43Oh, here it is, ma'am.
33:45But, Moriah, Mr. Rushworth is the sort of amiable, modest young man who requires a great deal of encouragement.
33:52I shall speak to Mrs. Rushworth, and depend upon it, he will engage you for the first two dances.
33:57What if Mr. Rushworth does not choose to dance with me?
34:00Why, to be sure he will.
34:01And Julia, after.
34:03Only thing could I have done to bring it about.
34:06Fanny, Miss Bertram's gloves.
34:08Over the chair.
34:09It is the handsomest, most elegant girl I ever saw.
34:12If Lady Bertram would stir herself a little to call on Mrs. Rushworth before the winter's over,
34:17a few cotillions and that gown will be enough.
34:42Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade, where rumour of oppression and deceit,
35:12of unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more.
35:16My ear is pained.
35:18My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
35:25There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart that does not feel for man.
35:30Honey, I think they have returned.
35:32Why, such an evening we have had.
35:38My dear Lady Bertram, whilst you have been here with Fanny, taking parties as well,
35:42a vast deal has been accomplished.
35:45And all of it through me.
35:47If Sir Thomas is never to return from Antigua, he may take some comfort at least from that.
35:51If you could but see the ballroom at Southerton, it is so very splendid.
35:56With such a vast and handsome throng, it was the finest ball of all the season.
36:00And our two dear girls, the most sought-after of anybody there, as to be sure you would expect.
36:06Yes, you must tell me all about it.
36:11Though I confess I am a great deal fatigued.
36:16Fanny has been reading to me, but it was that heavy stuff.
36:21I fear I dozed a little.
36:26Whom did you dance with?
36:28Why, sister, I think that I may answer for that.
36:31I was quite astonished.
36:32There were so many there.
36:33Yet who do you suppose was asked to open the ball by Mr Rushworth himself?
36:38Who indeed?
36:39Why, our own dear Mariah.
36:42And after, he danced with her again.
36:45How many times, Mariah?
36:46A great many, that is all.
36:47I really cannot tell you.
36:48And Julia danced with him as well.
36:50Aunt Norris.
36:52Thank you, dear lady.
36:54Mama.
36:55Thank you, Mariah.
36:59All that is needed now is for you, sister,
37:01to call on Mrs Rushworth.
37:03And everything will be in train for Mariah to be married
37:06as soon as Sir Thomas is home.
37:08She will be mistress of Southerton
37:10and 12,000 pounds a year.
37:15It seems a very great match indeed.
37:19But Southerton is at such a distance.
37:23And the roads of this time of year are so very dirty.
37:28Oh, as to that, I shall speak to coachmen, you may be sure.
37:35Well, Fanny, I have poured it to your taste.
37:38Thank you, cousin.
37:39Had you a pleasant evening.
37:51I had rather been here with you and Cooper beside the fire.
37:55I think I never danced with you.
38:01My dear William,
38:04I am sorry you cannot yet return to England.
38:06Miss Bertram is now 21
38:10and is engaged to marry Mr Rushworth of Southerton.
38:14But my uncle has never seen him yet
38:16and must write his consent.
38:19It is springtime.
38:21The old grey pony is dead.
38:23I am sorry,
38:39I am sorry.
38:41It is OK.
38:43What do I want to get my place?
38:44Fanny, don't you ride today?
39:04No, cousin.
39:05Not today.
39:07Fanny has not ridden, I am sure, since we lost the pony.
39:14That does not signify, you know, Edmund.
39:17She may ride one of her cousin's horses when they don't want them.
39:21And when last was that?
39:26I think on Wednesday last week my cousin stayed at home.
39:31Yes, to be sure.
39:32On Wednesday last it rained all day.
39:37I sent for Fanny to the White House, but she did not come till noon.
39:41I do not think sister can have rained all day.
39:43The storm we had was on Tuesday night.
39:50Then it appears Fanny has had no exercise at all.
39:54Unless she is called out in inclement weather.
39:58When it is fine, my sisters choose to ride and she has no mount.
40:01There seems to me but one thing to be done.
40:08Fanny must have a horse.
40:12A horse of her own?
40:14You will allow, ma'am.
40:15She requires some means of exercise.
40:18Well, I dare say.
40:19But Fanny, a proper lady's mount.
40:21I am sure Sir Thomas never intended it.
40:25And I must say, Edmund, to be making such a purchase in his absence,
40:29to add to the expenses of his stables,
40:31and at a time when such a large part of his income is unsettled,
40:36well, I am quite astonished you should consider it.
40:39And you, ma'am?
40:47Oh, why, to be sure, Edmund.
40:50I think Sir Thomas would hold Fanny must have something.
40:55A horse might easily be borrowed, if she requires it, from the steward.
40:59Or Dr Grant might now and then lend us the pony he sends to the post.
41:02And you know, Edmund, it need not be settled in any hurry.
41:07Sir Thomas will be home again in September.
41:10And where would be the harm in waiting until your father can settle it himself?
41:15Very well, ma'am.
41:20But I believe Fanny must have a horse.
41:24It may be done without expense.
41:27I have three horses of my own.
41:29The two hunters and a road horse,
41:31which may be exchanged for a mare that Fanny can ride.
41:34I am sure a good mare is to be found that would serve her purpose.
41:39And since my father will be put to no expense,
41:42there can be no objection to it.
41:44Why, that seems a very good plan.
41:48Don't you think so, Fanny?
41:51Oh, yes, ma'am.
41:52It would please me very much.
41:54But, cousin, you must not sacrifice a horse on my account.
41:58It is one I have small use for.
42:01And I am quite resolved.
42:18Fanny, who's there?
42:19Tom!
42:20Shh!
42:21Mr. Bertram!
42:22How have you come?
42:23By the mail from London.
42:25We docked at Gravesend last night.
42:26And my uncle.
42:27No, Sir Thomas stays in Antiquia.
42:29He has some business yet.
42:31What?
42:32Is there company?
42:33Yes, yes.
42:33Doctor and Mrs. Grant
42:34and young Mr. Rushworth is here to meet them.
42:37Mr. Rushworth, who's engaged here.
42:38I know.
42:38I bring my father's letters.
42:40Shall I surprise them?
42:41Well, Chloe, I thought it would be too much allowance.
42:43No, she won't mind it.
42:44Oh!
42:45I hope to light the candles.
42:48Well, then, I'll go in.
42:49Yes, yes, only a trifle fact.
43:18We left London at dawn.
43:20Doctor and Mrs. Grant, I trust I find you well?
43:23Oh, tolerably well, sir, yes.
43:25Very pleased, Mr. Bertram, to see you at home.
43:27But I am sure, Tom, you should take some soup.
43:30Let me send badly to the kitchen.
43:31No, ma'am, no.
43:32I assure you, I've dined already.
43:33There is one here, Tom, whom you have never met.
43:35Yes, Mr. Rushworth.
43:38Indeed.
43:39Rushworth.
43:40My brother, Tom.
43:41Mr. Rushworth, how do you do?
43:43Bertram, I'm very glad that you have come.
43:45We hope to see you at Southerton.
43:47My mother, Mrs. Rushworth, and I would like that, you know, very much.
43:52Oh, well, I shall be pleased.
43:53And I have some letters that will please you, Mariah, from my father.
43:58Aye, and Rushworth, too.
44:01Sir Thomas sends you his fondest greetings, ma'am, by his own hand.
44:04For Mariah's sake, I should rejoice, I suppose, that my father has approved the match.
44:16Yet I hope she finds more to Mr. Rushworth than his fortune.
44:20Mr. Rushworth seems very fond.
44:23And they must await Sir Thomas' return before they marry, which may not be till Christmas by Tom's account.
44:29It's time enough for Mariah to consult her heart.
44:31Perhaps Mr. Rushworth discloses more on better acquaintance.
44:37So I'd hoped, yet I don't see it.
44:40To speak true, Fanny, the longer I'm in Mr. Rushworth's company, the more I'm convinced if he hadn't 12,000 a year, he'd be a very stupid fellow.
44:49Now you'll reproach me. Am I unkind?
44:51Oh, how could I think so?
44:53You know I could not think so.
44:55Even this gentle man...
44:56Fanny, I know your gentle heart, so you'll forgive me.
45:00Do you glimpse the parsonage down in the valley?
45:05Yes, yes, I see it.
45:06They expect visitors.
45:08Why, who is to come?
45:09A half-brother and sister of Mrs. Grant, from London.
45:12He has an estate in Norfolk, but the young lady has recently been forced to quit her uncle's house.
45:18Some family difficulty.
45:19They are young people of considerable fortune, it seems.
45:22Their name is Crawford.
45:24It is only a country parsonage, but I have done what I can.
45:40My dear, didn't I tell you my sister would be pretty?
45:44Oh, Miss Crawford.
45:46How do you do, sir?
45:48And our brother has quite shamed me.
45:51He's so elegant, and we are not accustomed to it here.
45:55Dr. Grant, I'm pleased to meet you.
45:57I am glad, sir, that you are come.
46:00But this is such a pretty room, and you have done with it so charmingly.
46:04Hasn't she, Henry?
46:06Wouldn't you wish to spend your life in such a country parsonage?
46:08Answer me truly.
46:09Must I, indeed?
46:11Then I would spend half of it in town, and half in rusticity.
46:16Yet all that half with Mrs. Grant.
46:20I ignore such simple flattery.
46:22Though I confess I have a great desire to hold you here, and I have formed a plan.
46:31The device is matrimony.
46:34Oh, well, that might be pleasing, at least to me.
46:38Who shall I marry?
46:39I have fixed on Mr. Bertram of Mansfield Park.
46:44Mr. Tom Bertram?
46:46Why, we have met in London at my uncle's.
46:48Indeed.
46:49I am quite intrigued you have such neighbours.
46:51Is not his father a baronet?
46:53Sir Thomas Bertram, yes.
46:54Well, there must be some title to it, or it will never match my fortune.
46:58And besides, I quite like young Mr. Bertram.
47:01But Henry, what shall be done for Henry?
47:06Henry shall marry the youngest, Miss Bertram.
47:09A nice, handsome, good-humoured girl who will make him very happy.
47:15I thank you, ma'am.
47:16But you will never persuade him.
47:19If Henry is to marry, it must be a French woman.
47:22Well, all that English abilities can do has been tried.
47:24Oh, come, my dear Miss Crawford.
47:26Oh, I assure you, I have three particular friends who have been dying for him.
47:32And they have all been at pains to reason, coax, or trick him into marrying.
47:37But he is the most hateful flirt that can be imagined.
47:41If your Miss Bertrams do not like to have their hearts broke, let them avoid Henry.
47:47My dear brother, must I believe this of you?
47:52No.
47:53I'm sure you are too good.
47:56Yet, I must tell you, I value marriage too highly to be rushed into it.
48:01I believe a wife should be, as the poet has it, heaven's last best gift.
48:07Oh, you see how detestable he is, and how he smiles.
48:14I fear my uncle's lessons have quite spoiled him.
48:18Then you, Miss Crawford, are the more to be congratulated.
48:22I see your uncle's conduct has given you no disinclination to the married state.
48:28And I am not at all ashamed of it.
48:30I would have everybody marry, as soon as they can do it to advantage.
48:34And those who do not wish it have not yet seen the right person, that is all.
48:40Even you, Henry.
48:45My dear William, we have visitors come to the parsonage.
48:50A half-brother and sister to Mrs Grant.
48:53Amiable and elegant.
48:56Miss Crawford very beautiful besides.
48:58What do you think of her, Fanny?
49:06Miss Crawford.
49:07I find so much in her to admire.
49:10And yet...
49:11Miss Crawford.
49:28Miss Crawford.
49:35Miss Crawford.
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