- 17/06/2025
Part 2 of 6 of the 1983 Jane Austen adaptation. Fanny has grown up to be an indispensable member of the household at Mansfield Park. During Sir Thomas's absence abroad, Henry and Mary Crawford, wealthy siblings from London, stay in the neighbourhood with their half sister Mrs Grant and her clergyman husband, to the delight of almost everyone. However while Edmund is quite taken with Mary, Fanny is not sure about her and even less so about her brother Henry, who is far too intimate with her cousins Julia and Maria for her liking. For Maria is engaged to be married to the prosperous Mr Rushworth and during a trip to his grand estate Fanny is witness to his flirtatious and manipulative behaviour.
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00:30Thank you Mr. Clark.
00:51Good afternoon.
00:53Miss Bertram?
01:00It is strange.
01:14Yes.
01:16The first time I saw him I thought him absolutely plain.
01:19Black and plain.
01:21And yet he is still plain of course, but...
01:25but not so very plain.
01:28His teeth are good.
01:30And he's so well made.
01:32With such a pleasing manner.
01:34And with so much countenance that one quite forgets.
01:38Then, Mariah, you cannot much regard it.
01:43Being engaged to Mr. Rushworth, it cannot touch you as it does me.
01:49No.
01:50Indeed.
01:51Though there is never any harm you know in liking an agreeable man.
01:56Mr. Crawford, Julia, must take care of himself.
02:01I like your Miss Bertrams exceedingly.
02:03They are very elegant, agreeable girls.
02:06But you like Julia best.
02:08Oh yes, yes I like Julia best.
02:10But do you really Henry?
02:12For Miss Bertram is usually thought the handsomest.
02:15So I should suppose.
02:17She has the advantage in every feature.
02:19But I like Julia best.
02:22I shall always like her best.
02:24Since Mrs. Grant has ordered me.
02:26I shall not talk to you Henry.
02:28But I know you will like her best at last.
02:30But don't I tell you.
02:31I like her best at first.
02:33And besides, Miss Bertram is engaged.
02:37You should remember that.
02:39Yes.
02:40And I like her the better for it.
02:42An engaged lady is always more agreeable.
02:44Her cares are over.
02:46And she can exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.
02:49All is safe with an engaged lady.
02:51No harm can be done.
02:53And Mr. Rushworth is a very good sort of young man.
02:57And she doesn't care three straws for him.
02:59That is what you are saying.
03:01But I don't think it.
03:03I think too well of Miss Bertram to suppose she would ever give her hand without her heart.
03:08Mary how shall we manage him?
03:10We must leave him to himself.
03:12Talking does no good.
03:14He will be taken in at last.
03:16But I wouldn't have him taken in.
03:17I wouldn't have him duped.
03:19Oh let him stand his chance and be taken in.
03:21It will do just as well.
03:23Everybody is.
03:24But not always in marriage Mary.
03:27In marriage my dear sister especially.
03:31I fear you have learned in a bad school in London at your uncle's house.
03:36The Admiral has spoiled you.
03:38You're as bad as your brother.
03:40But we shall cure them shan't we Dr. Grant.
03:43Mansfield shall cure them both.
03:46Good morning Miss Price.
03:47Miss Crawford.
03:48I believe I begin to understand you all now.
03:49Except Miss Price.
03:50Your Portsmouth cousin.
03:51There's no mystery in fact here.
03:52Her family is greater than her father's fortunes.
03:53She's lived with us since she was ten.
03:54Oh I know the reasons for her gratitude towards your parents.
03:55But is she out or is she not?
03:59She dined with you all at the parsonage which seemed like being out.
04:03And yet she says so little I can scarcely suppose that she is.
04:06My cousin has grown up.
04:08I'm afraid the outs and not outs are beyond me.
04:12But the distinction is generally so broad.
04:15A girl not out has always the same sort of dress.
04:19A close bonnet for instance.
04:20You may smile but it is so I assure you.
04:22And very proper girls should be the same.
04:25Oh I assure you.
04:27but the distinction is generally so broad a girl not out has always the same
04:33sort of dress a close bonnet for instance you may smile but it is so I
04:38assure you and very proper girls should be quiet and modest one objects most
04:45often to the sudden alteration that results when they are introduced into
04:48company one doesn't like to see a girl so immediately up to everything mr.
04:54Bertram I dare say you have sometimes met with such changes this is hardly fair
05:00you know I see what you're at you're quizzing me about Miss Anderson no indeed
05:05now I am quite in the dark but I will quiz you with a great deal of pleasure if
05:10you will tell me what about you carry it off very well it was exactly so the
05:15Andersons of Baker Street you remember Edmund I was speaking of him the other day
05:19yes I remember well when Anderson first introduced me to his family his sister
05:25was not out I couldn't once get her to speak to me though I sat in a room an
05:29hour with her and another little girl lately I saw her again she was then out
05:34and I did not recollect her she came up to me and claim me as an acquaintance she
05:38talked and laughed and I didn't know which way to look I felt I must be the
05:41chest of the entire room and it seems miss Crawford's heard the story and a very
05:47pretty story it is with more truth in it I dare say than does credit to miss
05:52Anderson mothers have certainly not got the right way of managing their daughters
05:58those who show the world what female manners should be are doing a great deal to set
06:03that to rights oh Miss Crawford there's the hunter I mean to race next week at Basingstoke
06:08what do you say to him oh mr. Bertram I am no judge but it looks very fine and will
06:17you and mr. Crawford join my party to see me win there I should like to I am sure
06:22but I don't think Henry will be parted yet from Mansfield and you are both to
06:26dine with us next Wednesday to meet mr. Rushworth didn't I hear my mother arrange
06:30it so with mrs. Grant why so she did I am sorry mr. Bertram but it seems your
06:36splendid horse must win without me and I am sure he will ah but you know there
06:41shall not be so much pleasure in it I dare say since you are inclined to be so
06:45gallant but the odds you know will be the same and now I must be satisfied about
06:52miss Price does she go to balls does she dine out everywhere as well as at my
06:57sisters no I do not think Fanny has ever been to a ball no Fanny never my mother
07:06seldom goes into company herself and dines nowhere but at the parsonage and Fanny
07:11stays with her at home oh then the point is clear miss Price is not out I spent the week at
07:25Compton do you know the house lady Bertram belongs to a friend of mine I do not
07:33think I have ever been as far as come no matter you wouldn't know it I never saw a
07:40place so altered the approach now is the finest thing you ever saw I declare when I
07:45got back to Southerton yesterday it looked like a prison oh for shame a prison
07:50indeed Southerton court is the noblest old place in the world must try and do
07:55something with it I don't do what I want some friend to advise me your best friend
08:01on such an occasion will be mr. Repton I imagine as he has done so well by Smith at
08:05Compton his terms are five guineas a day well and if they were ten I am sure you
08:11need not regard of the expense I would have everything done in the best style
08:16mr. Norris and I did a vast deal at the parsonage when we first had it you young
08:20ones don't remember but if dear sir Thomas were here after all his troubles in
08:24Antigua he could tell you what improvements we made
08:28if I were you mr. Rushworth I would have a shrubbery one likes to go into a shrubbery in the fine weather
08:38do you think so ma'am at Compton they've cut down two or three old trees that grew too near the place
08:48it opens the prospect amazingly at Southerton I believe Repton or anybody of that sort
08:55would certainly have the avenue down the avenue that leads from the west front to the top of the hill
09:00you know cut down an avenue doesn't it make you think of Cooper what ye fallen avenues once more
09:09I mourn your face unmerited yes I fear the avenue stands a bad chance Fanny
09:14Southerton is an old place I suppose is it any particular style
09:19Elizabethan heavy but respectable looking
09:23I wouldn't influence mr. Rushworth but had I placed a new fashion I should not put myself in
09:31the hands of an improver I would rather abide by my own blunders
09:35and it would be delightful to see the progress of it all but not to me
09:40I should be thankful to any mr. Repton who would undertake it and never look till it was complete
09:45Henry is different he loves to be doing but not I
09:50Mr. Burton let me tell you I have tidings of my harp at last it has been seen by some farmer
09:57and he told the miller who told the butcher and the butcher's son-in-law left word at the shop
10:03but you cannot conceive what a piece of work was made in bringing it not a cart nor a wagon nor
10:09anything of that kind could be hired in the village I was astonished but it seems that haymaking must
10:15account for it so Henry has offered to fetch it tomorrow in his barouche it travels in style
10:22during the haymaking it would be hard to spare a horse
10:26well in London we have a maxim everything can be bought with money
10:32I shall understand all your ways in time but would you write to your brother and tell
10:40him I shall prepare some plaintive air against his return and you shall come and listen to me
10:47it will give me the greatest pleasure though I am not expecting to write to tom at present
10:52what brother would
10:57when they are far from their families
10:59they can write long letters
11:01I believe
11:03miss price has a brother at sea
11:05an excellent correspondent
11:07at sea has she
11:09in the king's service of course
11:11perhaps you know something of his captain you have a large acquaintance in the navy I think
11:17among admirals and their flags and bickerings and jealousies and hard enough but very little of
11:24the lower ranks certainly at my home at my uncle's of admirals and rears and vices we saw a great deal
11:34now do not suspect me of a pun I entreat
11:37but it is not a favorite profession of mine I confess
11:44but mr. Crawford has done it all at his house at everingham so he informs him
11:50if mr. Rushworth seeks advice he should ask mr. Crawford
11:54well if Crawford's willing I am entirely at your service
11:59why then we must make up a party
12:02yes
12:03oh mr. Rushworth I have long been wishing to call on your good mother again
12:07mr. Crawford might take my two nieces with me in his barouche
12:12and Edmund could go on horseback
12:14and sister you why Fanny you know will stay at home with you
12:19as soon as ever mr. Rushworth's mother is home again we must make up a party
12:28well Fanny how do you like miss Crawford now
12:33how did you like her yesterday Egan very well very much
12:40she entertains me and she is so extremely pretty that I have great pleasure in looking at her
12:45she has a wonderful play of feature
12:53but was there nothing in her conversation that struck you as not quite right
12:58yes she should not have spoken of her uncle as she did
13:07it was very wrong very indecorous
13:09and ungrateful I think she has been living at the admiral's house
13:15yes you know the reason she left it after her aunt's death there was some other cause
13:23the admiral introduced his mistress
13:25that's why miss Crawford came to live with mrs. grant
13:28though they are half sisters they had not seen one another for many years
13:32I do not tell you to excuse her but only so that you may understand
13:42whatever the admiral's faults she should remember his kindness to her brother
13:46they say he treats mr. Crawford as his own son
13:52you'd forgive anything Fanny for kindness to a brother
13:56no cousin
13:57you must allow me to make sport of you a little
14:04and I do not ask you to forgive miss Crawford even for a brother's sake except for having a lively mind
14:11for there is nothing loud or coarse about it
14:14she is perfectly feminine
14:17except for this one instance we've been speaking of
14:20well I am glad that you saw it all as I did
14:27well agreed on that
14:29yes cousin
14:35to midshipman William Price on board the Antwerp
14:40my dearest William the 11th of this month brought me your letter and I am very much obliged to you
14:46fulfilling me so long a sheet of paper my letter was a note compared to yours
14:54my cousin Edmund
14:57my cousin Edmund asks to be remembered to you and desires his best wishes
15:03my uncle still on his affairs in the west indies but we are in hopes of seeing him again before winter comes
15:09I keep very stout you will rejoice to know and ride my cousin's mare almost every day
15:23almost every day
15:28why Fanny what are you about I am sure you have been standing out that window an hour or more
15:33no no I assure you
15:35you know you were to come with me to turn out my larder at the white house as soon as ever you were
15:39done riding
15:39I am sorry aunt Norris but my cousin Edmund has the mare
15:43he's teaching miss Crawford to ride and they've not returned
15:46well if he does not come soon you must go without
15:49I cannot wait all day and lady Bertram will require you
15:53you need not loiter at the window neither find some employment and be useful
15:57I came to see the lady Bertram's pug but she's not here pug! pug!
16:14that's good very good now ring back a little and bring her in to me
16:39excellent you managed her very well and only the third time in the sun
16:44but see who is here miss price I must apologize we have been much too long
16:50oh no is it so late Fanny?
16:52miss miss Crawford should continue I'm pleased to see her right she does so well
16:57but you have every reason to reproach me and I have nothing in the world to say for myself
17:01I knew it was very late and that I was behaving extremely ill and therefore if you please you must forgive me
17:07oh I assure you selfishness must always be forgiven you know for there is no hope of a cure
17:12I'm sure Fanny will very readily forgive you yes indeed there'll be time enough for her to ride
17:18twice as far as she ever goes and clouds are coming up you have saved her from being too much fatigued by
17:24the sun as I fear you will be now nothing fatigues me I assure you but getting off this horse nothing
17:31ever fatigues me but doing what I don't like miss price I give way to you with a very bad grace but I
17:38sincerely hope you'll have a pleasant ride and I know I'll hear nothing but good of this dear
17:44what a delightful beautiful animal we shall walk to the parsonage I promise
17:50it will be no trial if I have your arms you'll see to miss price Jenkins aye sir
17:55I was sure she would ride well she has the name for it her figure is as neat as her brother's she
18:09has the same energy of character good night Fanny good night I think good horsemanship has a great deal
18:16to do with the mind my sisters have a plan to go to Mansfield common do you mean to ride tomorrow
18:31if any no not if you want the mayor it's not for myself but whenever you are inclined to stay at home
18:40miss Crawford would be glad to have a little longer mrs. grant has been telling her of the views from the
18:45common and she has a great desire to go but any morning will do I shall not ride tomorrow certainly
18:52I've been out very often lately you sure yeah I can easily walk if I want exercise
19:00and I'd rather stay at home good night good night Fanny and thank you
19:15are you on the flower bed again
19:25are you on the flower bed again
19:29look
19:33shall I bring fresh tea Mr. Bertrand no thank you badly I took tea at the parsonage very good sir
19:53I've been discussing with Dr. and Mrs. Grant the arrangements for our trip to Southerton
20:09there is one slight alteration ma'am which I trust you'll approve
20:12but all the arrangements are done I made them myself with Mrs. Rushworth when she called the other day
20:17indeed ma'am this is a matter that I agreed with Mrs. Rushworth herself when I showed her to her carriage
20:24but where is Fanny has she gone to bed she was here a moment ago
20:29yes I'm here why what a foolish trick Fanny to be idling upon a sofa
20:38if you have no work of your own I can always supply you from the paw basket
20:42you must learn to think of other people it is shocking for a young person to be always
20:46lolling upon a sofa I must say ma'am that Fanny is as little upon the sofa as anyone in the house
20:52yes very true Fanny have you the headache I think you do it's nothing a trifle how long
20:59have you had it it's nothing but the heat did you go out in the sun why to be sure would you have
21:06her stay in on such a fine day we were all out even your mother why yes indeed Edmund
21:13I was out above an hour in the flower garden while Fanny cut the roses it was shady enough
21:21in the alcove but I quite dreaded coming home perhaps sister she might try some of your aromatic
21:29vinegar mine is at home well she has had it Mrs. Norris ever since she came back from your house a
21:35second time has she been twice to your house ma'am in such heat no wonder her headaches Fanny
21:43take this to bed with you and drink it before you sleep I hope tomorrow you'll be well
21:47I thank you cousin
21:51indeed not very well
21:56good night mum
21:58pray excuse me good night Fanny
22:02good night
22:03good night Fanny
22:10I am to blame
22:21upon my word ma'am this has been a very ill managed business
22:25I am sure I do not know how it might have been better
22:27done unless I had gone myself
22:31when the roses were gathered your aunt wished to have them
22:35of course
22:35and were there so many that Fanny must go twice
22:38no
22:39but they were put into the spare room in the white house to dry
22:44and Fanny forgot to lock the door and bring the key
22:47so she was obliged to go again
22:50it is not above a quarter of a mile
22:52how often do I pace it myself three times a day and in all weathers too
22:58I wish Fanny had half your strength ma'am
23:01if Fanny would be more regular in her exercise she would not be knocked up so soon
23:05between ourselves Edmund it was cutting the roses and dawdling about in the flower garden
23:10that did the mischief
23:11indeed
23:12it was as much as I could bear myself
23:16sitting and calling to park was almost too much for me
23:21we are agreed at least that Fanny must have proper exercise in future
23:26and so she shall
23:35and next Friday she is to join the party to go to Southerton
23:43no not Fanny
23:46if it's agreed
23:47but your mother is not to go Edmund who will stay with Lady Bertram
23:51oh yes Edmund
23:53Fanny must stay with me I cannot do without Fanny
23:58indeed ma'am so I understood
24:00that is why I have asked Mrs. Grant to spend the day with you
24:06Fanny has a great desire to see Southerton and I'm sure you would be glad to give her the pleasure now
24:12I should be very glad
24:14it is always a pleasure to be with Mrs. Grant
24:20if your aunt sees no objection
24:23very well
24:24very well
24:26just as you choose
24:27settle it your own way I am sure I do not care about it
24:32there will be room in the carriage I suppose
24:35in Mr. Crawford's barouche
24:36why certainly
24:37it holds four very well without the box
24:39on which one may go with Mr. Crawford
24:43there is no hardship I suppose
24:45nothing unpleasant in going on the barouche box
24:47unpleasant
24:48oh dear I believe it would be generally thought the favorite seat
24:52then there can be no harm in Fanny using it
24:55Fanny
24:57I do not think it will be Fanny
24:59no indeed
25:01I believe Miss Crawford will choose the box herself
25:04yes most probably
25:06do you see now Miss Crawford is not this the finest view
25:21what do you say miss price it is most beautiful such a fine burst of country
25:28I wish you had my seat but I dare say you would not take it let me press you
25:33ever so much mr. Crawford isn't it a charming view it is and yet I find it always a shade more
25:41charming to my left than to my right oh no indeed I'm sure it is quite the reverse we come next to
25:47the village this is the last hill your brother should have gained on us by now and yes I don't
25:54see him yes we shall come soon to the house one of the finest places in the country though I am
26:03sure mr. Rushworth with mr. Crawford's advice will make it finer yet
26:17missus Norris had you a pleasant journey oh I assure you miss Crawford I'm glad you'll come
26:33mama here is miss Bertram my dear welcome to Sutherton
26:40these windows have an eastern aspect from which one sees the avenue
26:48mr. Wolsey Mahdi
26:50James Turnbull russ man
26:56llev engelton
26:57james turnton in oils
26:58et alias
26:59fia
27:0011
27:02he defended his sovereign at the battle at edge hill as a consequence of which he lost his
27:07life from a severe chill the result of unaccustomed exposion severe chill
27:14this gallery leads to the family chapel which properly we ought to enter from
27:19above and look down upon but as we are quite amongst friends I will take you
27:23this way if you will excuse me
27:27that's great aunt Agatha
27:32this way
27:34this chapel was fitted up as you see it in the time of James the second before
27:40that as I understand it the pews were only wenskitt it is a handsome chapel
27:45the prayers were read in it both night and morning by the domestic chaplain
27:50within the memory of many but the late mr. Rushworth left it off
27:54there is some reason to believe that the linings and cushions of the pulpit
27:58and family seats were only purple cloth but that is not quite certain
28:03every generation has its own improvements
28:06but what a pity it was left off there's something in a chapel and a chaplain
28:12so much in character with a great house a whole family assembled for prayers
28:17very fine
28:17very fine indeed to force the poor housemaids and footmen to say their prayers twice a day
28:24that is hardly Fanny's idea if the master and mischiefs do not attend themselves
28:29there is no good in the custom
28:31but can you not imagine with what unwilling feelings the former bells of the house of
28:37Rushworth repaired to this chapel
28:39the young missus this and that starched up into seeming piety
28:44but with their heads full of something very different
28:47especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at
28:50and in those days I fancy parsons were even more inferior to what they are now
28:54do look at mr. Rushworth and mariah standing side by side
29:01exactly as if the ceremony was about to be performed
29:04haven't they completely the air of it
29:06I do not like to see miss bertrand so near the altar
29:17so mr. Crawford will you give me away
29:20well what's that you say who's to give whom away
29:24I'm afraid I should do it very awkwardly
29:28oh my word it really is a pity
29:30if we had but a proper license
29:33nothing in the world could be more snug and pleasant
29:36my dear Edmund you might perform the ceremony directly
29:40what a pity that you are not yet ordained
29:43mr. Rushworth and mariah are quite pretty
29:46ordained what are you to be a clergyman
29:50yes
29:51I shall take orders soon after my father's return
29:55if I had known this before I would have spoken of the cloth with more respect
30:02mr. Rushworth
30:05the air in here oppresses me
30:08would you persuade your mother to lead us out of doors
30:10we have spent time enough
30:13if we're too long going over the house we shan't have time for what's to be done
30:17it's uh past two
30:20then we're to dine at five
30:22mr. Crawford
30:26I mean to show you the west front
30:28I want your opinion
30:29excuse me
30:30miss bertram
30:34pray tell your aunt where we are gone
30:36excuse me
30:40yes
30:45yes
30:47yes
30:49yes
30:50this is the beautiful one from the trap
30:52and of course one can't see it for a couple of trees
30:54yes
30:54yes
30:55here it must view
30:55yes
30:56no come down here
30:58we see it much better
30:59come down here
30:59I can make it part of the drive
31:01and you see all those trees simply obscure the view
31:04and
31:04that's the avenue I was telling you of Mr. Crawford
31:08Thank you. Now, now, Repton, you see, I'm sure would advise having all the trees down.
31:13Please simply ask you a question.
31:15Don't you find? I'll not be able to do it.
31:18There's the mill at the top of the hill.
31:26I'll mark on the price, would you agree?
31:30It's a little tiny.
31:38I'll mark on the hill.
32:05So, you are to be a clergyman, Mr Bertram.
32:09This is rather a surprise to me.
32:13Why should it surprise you?
32:16You must suppose me to be designed for some profession and see that I am neither a lawyer, a soldier, nor a sailor.
32:21Yes, but why a clergyman?
32:24What is to be done in the church?
32:27Men love to distinguish themselves and a clergyman is nothing.
32:32Nothing.
32:34It is true that a clergyman cannot be high in fashion.
32:38But I cannot call it nothing to have the charge of all that is most important to mankind.
32:43No one can call that nothing.
32:46You can assign greater consequence to clergymen than I am used to here.
32:50One scarcely sees a clergyman out of his pulpit.
32:54You are speaking of London.
32:56I am speaking of the nation at large.
32:59I imagine the metropolis is a pretty fair sample of the rest.
33:04But it isn't there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.
33:08They are lost in the crowd.
33:09It is not in fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be useful if his parish and neighborhood are small enough to make it possible.
33:16Oh yes, that's true.
33:17There.
33:18You have quite convinced Miss Price already.
33:21I wish I could convince Miss Crawford too.
33:24I do not think you ever will.
33:27I am just as much surprised as I was at first that you intend to take holy orders.
33:32You really are fit for something better.
33:34Come do change your mind.
33:35It is not too late.
33:37Go into the law.
33:39No.
33:40I might just as easily...
33:41Open this gate.
33:43Since it is plainly locked.
33:45Were you about to tell me?
33:47No.
33:48There is no wit in my nature.
33:50You need not forestall me.
33:53But it is true the...
33:55The gate is locked.
34:04I wonder that I should feel tired from only walking in this sweet wood.
34:08And yet...
34:09Oh my dear Fanny, how thoughtless I have been.
34:12Miss Crawford, will you take an arm?
34:14Though I am not at all tired.
34:16And yet you scarcely touch me at Oxford.
34:18I often had to support a man for the length of a street.
34:21You are only a fly in comparison.
34:24And I really am not tired.
34:27Which I almost wonder at.
34:31We must have walked at least a mile in this wood.
34:34No, not half a mile.
34:35Half a mile.
34:37Oh, you don't consider how we have wound about.
34:40The wood itself must be half a mile long if you could see the end of it.
34:43But we have.
34:45But before we left that first great path, we looked down the whole vista and it could not have been more than a furlong.
34:51Oh, I know nothing of your furlongs.
34:54I say we have walked a mile.
34:57And I am not in the least surprised Miss Price should be tired.
35:00Oh, there is nothing so fatiguing as what we have been doing this morning.
35:03Seeing a great house dawdling from one room to another.
35:09It is generally allowed to be the greatest bore and Miss Price has found it so.
35:14Though she does not know it.
35:16I shall soon be rested.
35:18To sit in a wood is the most perfect refreshment.
35:22Ah, but I cannot sit.
35:24I must move.
35:26Resting fatigues me.
35:28I must go and look at that vista again.
35:31If you do, Miss Crawford, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long or half half a mile.
35:37It is an immense distance.
35:40I shall see that with a glance.
35:42Will you stay for us, Fanny?
35:44We shall be gone only a few moments.
35:45If we do not wind about too far.
35:48Yes, I am quite content.
35:49Keep in the shade.
35:51We shall return.
35:56We have been walking, you know, for just a quarter of an hour.
35:58And do you think we have been walking four miles an hour?
36:01Don't attack me with your watch.
36:03A watch is either too fast or too slow.
36:05I cannot be dictated by a watch.
36:20But I think I saw a knoll just now through the trees.
36:24We might take a view of what I propose.
36:26Oh, yes. We shall see it all from the park.
36:28Now here is Fanny.
36:30Oh, Miss Price, I declare.
36:31What do you do alone?
36:33I'm waiting for Miss Crawford and my cousin Edmund.
36:35They left me here to rest a little and said they would return.
36:38This gate is locked. Have you the key?
36:40The key?
36:41Oh, hang it.
36:52I ought to have that key about me.
36:55I had a mind to.
36:57I was very near thinking whether I shouldn't bring that key.
37:00I tell you I'm quite determined I shall never come thus far again unless I have it.
37:04But now you do not have it.
37:06No.
37:07Well then it must be fetched.
37:09We sadly cannot take in the aspect of Mr Crawford's improvements unless we have the key.
37:15True.
37:20I must go for it.
37:23I shall.
37:25It is a long way to the house, you know.
37:31But I shall make haste for it.
37:34I knew I should have brought that key.
37:49It is the best we can do.
37:52Since we have come so far.
38:01Though to tell the truth.
38:04I do not think I shall ever see Southerton again with so much pleasure as I do now.
38:09Some of this year's changes will hardly improve it for me.
38:13Well if other people think Southerton improved I have no doubt you will.
38:16You are a man of the world.
38:17Well not quite so much as might be good for me in some points.
38:21My feelings are not as free as one may find with men of the world.
38:28You seem to enjoy your drive here this morning.
38:31You and Julia were laughing the whole way.
38:33Were we?
38:35I don't recollect.
38:37But your sister loves to laugh.
38:38You think I am more light hearted than I am.
38:41More easily amused perhaps.
38:43By nature I believe I am as lively as Julia.
38:47But I have more to think of now.
38:50You have.
38:52Undoubtedly.
38:56But that should not justify a want of spirits.
38:59You have a very smiling scene before you.
39:02Well literally do you mean.
39:04It's true the sun is shining.
39:07But this iron gate gives me a feeling of restraint.
39:11I cannot get out.
39:14As the starling said.
39:16And Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching this key.
39:23And for the world you could not go without Mr. Rushworth's authority.
39:30Or I think you might with little difficulty pass through the gate here.
39:37With my assistance.
39:42If you could allow yourself to think it not prohibited.
39:45Prohibited?
39:46Nonsense.
39:48I certainly can get in here and I will.
39:50Mr. Rushworth will be back here in a moment you know.
39:52We shall not be out of sight.
39:53Or if we are.
39:55Miss Price will be so good as to tell him he may find us near that knoll.
39:58Oh no Mr. Crawford.
40:00By the grove of oak on that knoll.
40:01You will hurt yourself Miss Bertram.
40:03You will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes.
40:06You will tear your dress.
40:07Thank you my dear Fanny but I am alive and well.
40:10And your dress too.
40:11Indeed.
40:12So goodbye Fanny.
40:13You may tell Mr. Rushworth where we are gone.
40:23It is wrong.
40:26She should have stayed.
40:31Oh.
40:33Heyday.
40:35What's this?
40:36I thought that Mariah and Mr. Crawford were with you.
40:38And Mr. Rushworth too.
40:39But Mr. Rushworth is gone to fetch the key to the gate.
40:44And instead of waiting Miss Bertram and Mr. Crawford have climbed through the gap.
40:50And now they are gone.
40:53A pretty trick.
40:55Upon my word.
41:00Cannot see them anywhere.
41:02They cannot be far off.
41:04And I think I am equal to as much as Mariah.
41:09Even without help.
41:11But Julia, Mr. Rushworth will be here in a moment with the key.
41:14Do wait for Mr. Rushworth.
41:15Not I.
41:16I've had enough of the family for one morning.
41:20My child I have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother.
41:24While you were sitting here so composed and happy.
41:27Might have been as well if you had been in my place.
41:30But you always contrived to keep out of these scrapes.
41:32But didn't you see Mr. Rushworth?
41:36Yes, yes I saw him.
41:38He was posting away as if upon life and death.
41:41He scarcely had time to tell me of his errand and where you were.
41:45It's a pity he should have so much trouble for nothing.
41:48That is Miss Mariah's concern.
41:51I'm not obliged to punish myself for her sins.
41:54The mother I could not get away from.
41:56As long as my tiresome aunt was prancing about.
41:59But the son I can avoid.
42:03What?
42:17Mr. Rushworth.
42:19I fear they are gone.
42:22Gone?
42:25Mariah and Mr. Crawford?
42:28Yes.
42:29Into the park.
42:32But I brought the key.
42:33They climbed.
42:34What?
42:35Round the gate.
42:41There's a little space you see.
42:42What?
42:45Damn it!
42:48Climbed did they?
42:49Yes indeed.
42:52Good lord.
42:53They desired me to say, my cousin Mariah charged me to say, you would find them at the knoll.
43:03Or thereabouts.
43:04Whereabouts?
43:11How did she?
43:15Well I do not believe I shall go any further.
43:20I see nothing of them.
43:24By the time I get there they may be gone somewhere else.
43:27I've had walking enough.
43:28I've had walking enough.
43:44I'm very sorry.
43:46It was unlucky.
43:48I think they might as well have stayed for me.
43:54Miss Bertrand thought you would follow her.
43:56I shouldn't have had to follow her if she had stayed.
44:00Tell me Miss Price, are you such a great admirer of this Mr. Crawford as some people are?
44:14For my part I can see nothing in him.
44:18I do not think him at all handsome.
44:21Handsome?
44:23He's not five foot nine.
44:28I shouldn't wonder if he wasn't more than five foot eight.
44:33I think he's a very ill-looking fellow.
44:37In my opinion these Crawfords are no addition at all.
44:42He did very well without them.
44:47If I'd made any difficulty about fetching the key there might be some excuse.
44:54But I went the very moment she wanted it.
44:59When people are waiting they are bad judges of time.
45:06It is a pity you should not join them.
45:09They expected a better view of the house and how it may be improved.
45:13And nothing of that sort you know may be settled without you.
45:20Well...
45:24If you really think I had better go.
45:29It would be foolish to bring the key for nothing.
45:32I think you should.
45:33Aye.
45:38Very well.
45:39You stay for Mr. Bertram and Miss Crawford still?
45:40Yes.
45:41I do.
45:42Oh.
45:43Oh.
45:59You stay for Mr. Bertram and Miss Crawford still?
46:02Yes.
46:04I do.
46:06Well Fanny, this has been a fine day for you upon my word.
46:25Indeed aunt.
46:26Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end.
46:28I'm sure you ought to be very much obliged to your aunt Bertram and myself for contriving to let you go.
46:34A pretty good day's amusement you have had.
46:37Yes ma'am. I thank you.
46:39I think you have done pretty well yourself ma'am.
46:42Your lap seems full of good things.
46:44And this basket between us has been knocking my elbow unmercifully.
46:46My dear, it is only a beautiful little heap which Mrs. Rushworth and her dear old gardener insisted I must take.
46:54But if it's in your way, I'll have it on my lap directly.
46:57There Fanny, you shall have the parcel.
47:00Take great care of it.
47:01It is a cream cheese, just like the one we had at dinner.
47:04Now, I can manage my basket and the hamper very well.
47:09What else have you been sponging?
47:10Sponging, my dear.
47:12Nothing but four of those beautiful pheasant's eggs which Mrs. Rushworth quite forced upon me.
47:18I shall get your dairy made to set them under the first spare hen.
47:23It will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to have some living creatures by me.
47:29And if I have good luck, your mother shall have some.
47:40You will find the young people in the drawing room.
47:50Why, I declare the Crawfords.
47:53I met them in the hall and have not yet given them our great intelligence.
47:57We have had a letter from poor Sir Thomas in Antigua.
48:01Good evening, Lady Virgil.
48:03Sir Thomas is well.
48:05I believe so.
48:06Certainly.
48:07Why, Aunt, would you have Miss Crawford believe there is something ill?
48:10No, no, I assure you, we hear nothing ill, as yet.
48:15Sir Thomas informs us his business is so near done, he proposes taking his passage in the September packet.
48:21If there be no delays, storms or other misfortunes, one cannot foresee all,
48:28Sir Thomas will be home again in November.
48:30And dear Mariah will be married.
48:33Then it's good news indeed.
48:34If you need more candles at the Piano Forte, Julia, I'm sure Mr. Crawford will assist you.
48:43We are to have a song.
48:46Mr. Rushworth proposed it.
48:49Then I'm sure Henry will lend his voice as well.
48:55Mr. Bertram.
48:57Miss Price.
48:58It is a pleasant evening.
48:59Miss Crawford.
49:00We have been looking at the stars.
49:02Indeed.
49:05How happy Mr. Rushworth looks.
49:08Your father's return will be the forerunner of interesting events.
49:12Miss Bertram's marriage, your taking holy orders,
49:16sacrifices to the gods for a safe return.
49:19There is no sacrifice in either case.
49:23Mariah's marriage and my taking orders are freely chosen.
49:27Yes.
49:29I was merely joking.
49:32She has done no more than many young women would do.
49:35And as for taking orders, there is a very good living I understand kept for you hereabouts.
49:40True.
49:42But if the church is to be supplied, surely her clergy must have provision.
49:47It was you who spoke of sacrifice.
49:50Forgive me.
49:51I shall say no more of clergymen.
49:54Except for one who vexes me.
49:58I must own.
49:59Henry and I were partly driven out this evening by the behaviour of Dr. Grant.
50:03A brother-in-law who is kind and obliging to me and I dare say preaches a good sermon.
50:08But who, if his cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent wife.
50:14Tonight it was a goose he could not get the better of.
50:17And my poor sister was forced to stay and bear it.
50:20Oh, but surely...
50:21It goes against us, Fanny.
50:22We cannot defend Dr. Grant.
50:24No, but we need not give up his profession.
50:28Miss Crawford, we are to sing a glee.
50:30Shall you join us?
50:32Yes, I come.
50:37There goes good humour, I am sure.
50:41How well she walks.
50:43And how readily she falls in with others' wishes.
50:48What a pity she should be so influenced by her uncle's worldly views.
50:53Indeed.
50:55But there's not a cloud tonight.
50:59Here's harmony.
51:01Here's repose.
51:03Leaves all painting and music behind.
51:05Poetry can only reach for it.
51:08When I look out on such a night as this,
51:12I feel there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world.
51:18It is a lovely night.
51:20I wish everyone could learn to see it as you do.
51:21It was you that taught me, cousin.
51:25To think and to feel.
51:26I had an apt scholar.
51:30Look.
51:32There's Arcturus.
51:33Looking very bright.
51:34Yes, yes.
51:35And the bear?
51:37I wish I could see Cassiopeia.
51:39We must go out on the lawn for that.
51:41Should you be afraid?
51:42Not in the least.
51:43It's so long since we've had any stargazing.
51:46Yes.
51:48But how has that happened?
51:50I do not know.
51:51No.
51:55Wait.
51:57We'll stay till this is finished.
52:10Fanny, what do you stand and stare for?
52:13You will catch cold.
52:21Mansfield Park continues next on BBC Four.
52:32Watch all episodes on BBC iPlayer.
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