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00:02:16Good morning.
00:02:19Good morning.
00:02:21Did you enjoy the ceremony?
00:02:23I was.
00:02:34Good morning, Betsy.
00:02:35Well, John.
00:02:36A widow.
00:02:37I hope the rheumatism is better.
00:02:39Much better, thank you, Squire.
00:02:41Postmaster.
00:02:42Good collection, I hope.
00:02:43Very good indeed, Squire.
00:02:45Try a pinch of snuff.
00:02:47Thank you, Squire.
00:02:53It becomes good as the day.
00:02:55Ah, Miss Susan.
00:02:56I hope I see you well.
00:02:58A fine sermon, Squire.
00:03:00Splendid.
00:03:01So much truth in it.
00:03:02I feel a better man already.
00:03:04Mr. Eden's sermons are always beautiful.
00:03:06They are like his.
00:03:07All goodness.
00:03:09Mr. Eden is fortunate to have one so beautiful
00:03:11think so highly of him.
00:03:13That is more than she has ever said of her poor old dad.
00:03:15Yes, or of me either.
00:03:16I love Mr. Eden.
00:03:17Then I would that I were Mr. Eden.
00:03:19I love him as a parson.
00:03:21For his piety.
00:03:22For his charity to the sick.
00:03:24Not as...
00:03:30Not as she loves young George Fielding, eh?
00:03:32A young pauper with a farmer can hardly grow enough to pay his tithe.
00:03:35Grove Farmer's not been doing too well of late, eh?
00:03:38No, never will with him at the head of it.
00:03:41Susan.
00:03:42Shame on you not to have listened to that lovely sermon.
00:03:45I had eyes and thoughts for no one but you.
00:03:47Oh, la, Mr. Fielding.
00:03:48Is that what you come to church for?
00:03:50To let your eyes and thoughts wander?
00:03:52Oh, but they didn't wander once.
00:03:53An expensive item for a son-in-law, I'm thinking.
00:03:56A son-in-law?
00:03:58I don't want him for a son-in-law.
00:04:00Not if we were the last man in the world.
00:04:01Which he is not.
00:04:02Believe me, Farmer, there are men
00:04:04who will give your daughter a good home
00:04:06and help her father in hard times.
00:04:12Well, young man.
00:04:14Good morning, Mr. Merton.
00:04:15I'm not so sure that it is such a good morning.
00:04:17Susan, take a turn with Squire Meadows.
00:04:20Oh, but father...
00:04:21I have a word or two to say to young George Fielding here.
00:04:28Well, sir, how's business on the farm?
00:04:31None too good.
00:04:32They tell me you're threshing out new wheat for the rent.
00:04:34They tell you the truth, sir.
00:04:35And the rent for next quarter will come from where?
00:04:37I don't know.
00:04:38Then what the devil do you mean by making up to my daughter?
00:04:40I love her.
00:04:41Love.
00:04:42Will it pay your rent and feed your horses?
00:04:44Will it feed you and a wife and children if they come along?
00:04:47The man who marries my daughter
00:04:49must show me first 1,000 pounds
00:04:51and he is put away for a rainy day.
00:04:53Can you do that?
00:04:54You know that I can't do that.
00:04:55Then wipe my daughter from your mind.
00:04:57I did my last word.
00:05:00Your answer, Susan.
00:05:02I thank you, Mr. Meadows, for the honor you do me.
00:05:05But my hand can only go to the man who holds my heart prisoner.
00:05:08George Fielding, eh?
00:05:09I name no name.
00:05:10No need to.
00:05:11I know.
00:05:12What can he offer you compared to myself?
00:05:14A fine home, money and a position in society
00:05:17as the wife of the Squire and a justice of the peace.
00:05:19Oh, sir, say no more.
00:05:21I can never marry you.
00:05:22I do not love you.
00:05:24For here comes my father.
00:05:26I will bid you a good day.
00:05:40You told me to wait, Squire?
00:05:42Yes, Crawley.
00:05:43Course of true love running smoothly.
00:05:47Not yet, but it will.
00:05:49Get Farmer Merton's mortgage, which you hold in your name,
00:05:52and bring it up to my house at once.
00:05:54It falls due tomorrow, I think.
00:05:56By then I shall have thought of some scheme
00:05:59which may make the fair Susan a little more tractable.
00:06:05Good morning, Farmer Fielding.
00:06:06Good morning, Your Reverend.
00:06:07Did you enjoy the sermon?
00:06:08Your Reverend, there would be better.
00:06:09Ah, it's good to hear that.
00:06:10Let me see.
00:06:11Could you tell me the text?
00:06:12The text?
00:06:13What?
00:06:14Have you forgotten already?
00:06:15Is it possible you never heard?
00:06:16No, Your Reverend.
00:06:17There was one member of my congregation this morning
00:06:18who never heard a word,
00:06:19because his thoughts were all for a certain young lady,
00:06:20who should be nameless.
00:06:21Your Reverend.
00:06:22But who am I to blame him?
00:06:23I approve of his choice.
00:06:24I would have done the same myself.
00:06:25Well, Susan, did you enjoy your stroll to the spire?
00:06:27Why, yes, Father.
00:06:28My child, what's worrying you?
00:06:29Ah, yes.
00:06:30Ah, yes.
00:06:31Ah, yes.
00:06:32Ah, yes.
00:06:33Ah, yes.
00:06:34Ah, yes.
00:06:35Ah, yes.
00:06:36Ah, yes.
00:06:37Ah, yes.
00:06:38Ah, yes.
00:06:39Ah, yes.
00:06:40Ah, yes.
00:06:41Ah, yes.
00:06:42Ah, yes.
00:06:43Ah, yes.
00:06:44Ah, yes.
00:06:45Ah, yes.
00:06:46Ah, yes.
00:06:47Ah, yes.
00:06:48Ah, yes.
00:06:49Ah, yes.
00:06:50Ah, yes.
00:06:51Ah, yes.
00:06:52Ah, yes.
00:06:53Ah, yes, you're reverence.
00:06:54You're not forgotten your dining with us today?
00:06:55Forgotten?
00:06:56No.
00:06:57I'm hungry.
00:06:58But I can't live on love like some young people can.
00:07:00Ah.
00:07:01And if we're ready?
00:07:02Oh.
00:07:03Ah, the Reverend Mr. Eden.
00:07:04And Mr. Merton too.
00:07:05And the fair Susan.
00:07:07Mr. Fielding?
00:07:08I've just got tomorrow's breakfast.
00:07:10Are you aware, sir, that this is Sunday?
00:07:12On my honor, I'd forgotten it.
00:07:14And the fairer Susan.
00:07:15Mr. Fielding?
00:07:16I've just got tomorrow's breakfast.
00:07:17Are you aware, sir, that this is Sunday?
00:07:18And the fish didn't seem to be aware of it.
00:07:20Look. Isn't he a beauty?
00:07:23Under the mill sluice. That's where he came from.
00:07:26How dare you speak to his reverence like that?
00:07:29I'll speak to his reverence as I speak to any other man.
00:07:32And pay him the compliment in granting that he is a man.
00:07:35Not a mealy-mouthed worm like Squire Meadows, who I passed just now.
00:07:40Squire Meadows.
00:07:43Why, I've better things in here for bait than he.
00:07:46This is no day nor place for angry words.
00:07:48I am at your disposal, farmer. We are behind time as it is.
00:07:52Come, your reverence. Come, Susan.
00:08:01And how many more scrapes am I going to get you out of?
00:08:03Well, I expect you're sorry you got me out of the mill dam
00:08:05when the ice gave way last Christmas.
00:08:07Oh, don't be silly. I don't want to be reminded of that.
00:08:09Well, I shall never forget it. And one of these days I hope to repay you.
00:08:12I don't want repayment.
00:08:14Is there anything that I can do?
00:08:16Well, you're a good listener, Tom, and I've got no one else I can tell my troubles to.
00:08:19Then unload them on me, and you can tell me them all while we're having dinner together.
00:08:22Oh, but are we having dinner together?
00:08:24I hope so, because I haven't any.
00:08:26And if you dine alone, you'll have no one to tell your troubles to.
00:08:29Yes, you're right. It's roast pork and applesauce today.
00:08:32Ah, I can feel my teeth on the crackling already.
00:08:35Ah, then come on.
00:08:37You know, you're getting me talked about, Tom. You're getting me a bad name.
00:08:40Already people are looking at me askance because I know you.
00:08:43I suppose I should give you up, but I like you, Tom, and there's the devil of it.
00:08:46I'll try not to disgrace you again, Mr. Fielding.
00:08:50May I come in?
00:08:51Oh, it's Frank Winter, sir. What brings you here for Sunday?
00:08:53Hello, Tom. I just came to wish you good-bye.
00:08:56I sail for Australia at the end of this week.
00:08:58What, so soon?
00:08:59Yes, time flies. Tell me, have you thought about my suggestion?
00:09:02Are we coming with you?
00:09:03Yes.
00:09:04And leave the old farm?
00:09:05You wouldn't be leaving much of value.
00:09:07You're right there, between ourselves.
00:09:10Unless I can get to a renewal of a certain note of hand, I may have to leave anywhere.
00:09:14Then why hesitate?
00:09:15There are reasons.
00:09:16Reasons or reason?
00:09:18And the name of that reason is Susan McEvoy.
00:09:22What does her father say about it?
00:09:24Oh, unless I can show him a thousand pounds in the bank, he'll have none of me.
00:09:27And what chance of you of putting by a thousand pounds in this place?
00:09:31Come to Australia with me, and in two or three years' time, you'll return home with three times that amount.
00:09:36And leave her all that time?
00:09:37Better to leave her for three years than have to give her up altogether.
00:09:41I'll give you my answer tomorrow.
00:09:43But why not now?
00:09:44It depends on that note of hand.
00:09:46If I can get it renewed, I'll stay here.
00:09:48If I can't, I'll go with you.
00:09:51Is that Farmer Merton's acceptance?
00:09:53All to do tomorrow, as you said.
00:09:55What do you wish me to do?
00:09:57Present it.
00:09:58He can't meet it, I know.
00:09:59And then?
00:10:00Threaten him with a writ.
00:10:02And then?
00:10:04They say love always finds a way.
00:10:12Why do you sigh, Miss Toulson?
00:10:13Is it love?
00:10:14Oh, I was sighing, sir, because of what you've just told us.
00:10:16That you're going away.
00:10:18I shall miss you all, too.
00:10:19And you mean to bury yourself in Lichester Jail?
00:10:21The prison chaplaincy is vacant.
00:10:23I can do more good to the boss sufferers there than I can do in this parish.
00:10:29If I could only land him safely in Lichester Jail.
00:10:32As visiting justice, I could use my influence to make him comfortable.
00:10:36And you're speaking of who, Squire?
00:10:38That young puppy, of course, George Feely.
00:10:41Gamekeeper fellows in the village constable to see you, sir.
00:10:44Sorry, Squire, to bother you on a Sunday, but...
00:10:47What's it all about?
00:10:48The Fultures have been busy again last night.
00:10:50Oh, have you caught anybody?
00:10:51Not as you might say caught anyone, sir, but we've got our suspicions.
00:10:54We've tracked their footsteps to a gap in the edge on the borders of the Parsley Crossroads.
00:10:59Tis our belief it is one of the cottages had by, sir.
00:11:02Parsley Crossroads?
00:11:05That's the opposite side of my estate from Grove Farm, where George Fielding lives.
00:11:08Right on the opposite side, sir.
00:11:10Five miles or more away.
00:11:12You couldn't have traced those footprints to a gap in the hedge between my estate and Grove Farm?
00:11:16Oh, no, sir.
00:11:17And you couldn't have traced them further still?
00:11:19The very gates of Grove Farm itself, eh?
00:11:21No, Squire, nowhere near.
00:11:23And you couldn't have caught a glimpse of that poacher and have identified him as George Fielding, eh?
00:11:30I begin to see your meaning, sir.
00:11:34So do I.
00:11:35It is possible, is it not?
00:11:37Anything's possible, Squire.
00:11:39It is the unexpected what always happens, sir.
00:11:42I had brought this warrant for you to sign as a Justice of the Peace for the arrest of James Budge, the party we suspect.
00:11:49The name can be altered, can it not?
00:11:51Aye, Squire.
00:11:52It's only in pencil.
00:11:54What name shall I alter it to?
00:11:56George Fielding.
00:11:58And you'd better get Squire Williams to sign it.
00:12:02Hmm?
00:12:09Lawyer Crawley to see you, sir.
00:12:12Good morning, farmer.
00:12:13Good morning.
00:12:14What can I do for you?
00:12:15Quite a lot.
00:12:16Your acceptance, 500 pounds.
00:12:17You've not forgotten.
00:12:18Due today.
00:12:19So it says here.
00:12:21I thought it was not yet for another three weeks.
00:12:23Ah, you thought wrong, farmer, I'm thankful to say, and the money will be a real comfort to me.
00:12:28But I haven't the money by me.
00:12:30You must wait until next week.
00:12:31Next week?
00:12:32Impossible.
00:12:33Impossible or not impossible, you'll have to wait.
00:12:35Ah, that's where we disagree, farmer.
00:12:37I must have that money today, or...
00:12:39Or what?
00:12:40I shall have to wish you a writ against you.
00:12:42A writ against me?
00:12:43I've never had a threat like that before.
00:12:45I don't believe you mean it.
00:12:47Not mean it!
00:12:48You'll soon see whether I mean it or not.
00:12:50But you know my father will pay.
00:12:52My dear young lady, my business is with your father and not with you.
00:12:56I came here for my money and...
00:12:57Good morning, farmer.
00:12:59Miss Sillson.
00:13:00Well, Corrie, what's the matter?
00:13:03You seem put about.
00:13:05Am I intruding at a private meeting?
00:13:08Oh no, squire, as justice of the pieces will concern you,
00:13:11I shall be at court later to ask for a writ.
00:13:14A writ against whom?
00:13:15Farmer Merton here.
00:13:17Impossible.
00:13:18So I would have thought an hour ago.
00:13:20I shall refuse to sign any such writ.
00:13:22Pardon, squire.
00:13:23It is your duty as a justice of the piece.
00:13:25Well, well, well, well.
00:13:26What is the amount?
00:13:29Large.
00:13:32Five hundred pounds.
00:13:33Five hundred pounds!
00:13:34And that's small.
00:13:36To you, squire, but to me...
00:13:38Your name is good.
00:13:39You can repay.
00:13:41In a few months.
00:13:43There you are, then, Corrie.
00:13:44What ails you, man?
00:13:46I want my money now, and I intend to have it.
00:13:49And you shall have it.
00:13:50Come, my friend.
00:13:52I'll pull you through.
00:13:54Be it my house an hour hence, and you shall be paid in full.
00:13:57Now get about your dirty business, or I'll throw you out.
00:14:02How can I ever thank you?
00:14:09I want no thanks from you.
00:14:12Shall I give you my note of hand?
00:14:13No, no.
00:14:14Your word is your bond as far as I am concerned.
00:14:17But as a matter of business, perhaps it would be better.
00:14:21My father and I will never forget this, sir.
00:14:23To know I remain in your memory is all that I ask.
00:14:27Will you stay with us and have a mug of ale?
00:14:30Curved at Miss Susan's hands.
00:14:33That would be a pleasure, indeed.
00:14:41But this money was lent to me by Mr. Weir, iron founder of Winchester.
00:14:44Oh, yes.
00:14:45That note was purchased by me.
00:14:47I was about to ask for renewal of payment.
00:14:49That application must be made to me, too.
00:14:52Then will you?
00:14:53Impossible.
00:14:54Your note must be paid by the end of the week.
00:14:56But I have no money.
00:14:57You must renew it.
00:14:58Well, you have the stock, farm, furniture.
00:15:03But if you take those away, how am I to carry on?
00:15:05You'll be forcing me to leave the place where I was born and bred.
00:15:08Doubtless you will find comfortable lodging elsewhere.
00:15:13I wish you good day.
00:15:17You have the warrant with you duly signed by Mr. Justice Williams?
00:15:19Yes, squire.
00:15:20Good.
00:15:21Good.
00:15:22Come along, then.
00:15:23Wait.
00:15:38Susan.
00:15:39We'll give them a minute or two, and then take him in front of the girl.
00:15:46It's well that she should know he's a poacher.
00:15:48Aye, squire.
00:15:49And remember, young feeling is to think I know nothing of this.
00:15:53Right, squire.
00:15:54Good Australia.
00:15:55Good Australia.
00:15:56And for two years.
00:15:57Whatever shall I do without you all that time?
00:16:01You'll think of me as I'll think of you.
00:16:03We shall never be absent from each other's thoughts.
00:16:06You won't forget me while you're out there?
00:16:07Never.
00:16:08Never.
00:16:09And you'll wait for me?
00:16:10Always.
00:16:11No other man shall ever speak words of love to me.
00:16:14I swear it.
00:16:15George Fielding, I arrest you in the name of the law.
00:16:22Arrest?
00:16:23What do you mean?
00:16:24For poaching.
00:16:25Poaching?
00:16:26I'll never believe that.
00:16:27Believe it or not, squire, it's true.
00:16:29What do you mean to suggest that?
00:16:31One moment.
00:16:32Leave this to me.
00:16:34You say this gentleman is guilty of poaching.
00:16:36Where did the crime occur?
00:16:38On your estate, squire.
00:16:39My estate?
00:16:40Impossible.
00:16:41We traced his footprints from the gap in the edge to the snares leading of this farm.
00:16:46So you'd better come along with me.
00:16:47We've got to put a stop to this poaching.
00:16:49Susan, you don't believe this of me.
00:16:50Never.
00:16:51Never.
00:16:52I can't believe it myself, but in face of the evidence.
00:16:55But surely, squire, that is insufficient evidence to convict me of such a crime?
00:16:58Take no notice of this evidence, squire.
00:17:00He is no poacher.
00:17:02There is but one poacher here.
00:17:04You're no poacher, Tom.
00:17:05Have been all my life.
00:17:06So you see, Mr. Squire, Mr. Constable, Mr. Gamekeeper, you've got me.
00:17:11Well, why don't you take me and let this man go free?
00:17:15You confess?
00:17:16I do.
00:17:17And another thing I'll swear to.
00:17:19Mr. Fielding was a bed of a cold the night you speak of.
00:17:22What night are they alluding to?
00:17:23Tom, this will mean prison for you.
00:17:25Better than prison for you?
00:17:27I'm innocent.
00:17:28Then it's just that the guilty should suffer.
00:17:32And I'm sure that the squire will agree with me.
00:17:36I'm only too delighted to find a mistake has been made.
00:17:40Yes.
00:17:41I'm sure you are.
00:17:43Take him away.
00:17:44Come with me.
00:17:45Come with me.
00:17:46Yes.
00:17:51My heartiest congratulations.
00:17:53I never believed you could be guilty of such reprehensible conduct.
00:17:58I bid you good day, Miss Susan.
00:18:11You're out of that danger now.
00:18:13But you're still leaving me.
00:18:15Only for two years.
00:18:16And two years will quickly pass.
00:18:17Take my lucky.
00:18:18It will remind you.
00:18:19It will never leave me.
00:18:20Well, it's goodbye to the farm.
00:18:21To England.
00:18:22Goodbye to you.
00:18:23Goodbye to the old world.
00:18:24Success and good luck in the new.
00:18:25Yes.
00:18:26Success.
00:18:27Yes, success.
00:18:28This is to be my prison for the next three months.
00:18:32What's going on, don't you?
00:18:42Look at that help?
00:18:43True, not god- será.
00:18:44Right?
00:18:45Your joy is mine.
00:18:46I know.
00:18:48Is this better?
00:18:50It's really much safe to see you.
00:18:51My daughter should be here now.
00:18:53All right.
00:18:54Get out of here!
00:18:56Get out of here!
00:18:58Get out of here!
00:19:00When you want!
00:19:02Get out of here!
00:19:04Wake up!
00:19:06Wake up!
00:19:08President!
00:19:10Come on!
00:19:12Come on!
00:19:14One simple more!
00:19:16Right!
00:19:18Then!
00:19:20Get back there!
00:19:22Two deaths this week and five more cases of jail fever.
00:19:27Yes, sir.
00:19:28Otherwise the health of the prisoners is good.
00:19:30Yes, sir.
00:19:31Surprising.
00:19:32You know, I've never been in favor of this separate and silent system,
00:19:36but the visiting justices have ordered it,
00:19:38and it's my duty to carry out orders.
00:19:40Yes, sir.
00:19:41And I'd rather a prisoner had a few extra lashes with the cat
00:19:45or a few more hours in the black hole than to lose my job.
00:19:48Same with me, sir.
00:19:52Yes, sir.
00:19:53Yes, sir.
00:19:54Please, sir.
00:19:55Yes.
00:19:56Well, there'll be a nice little fillet
00:19:57while I was driving the other day.
00:19:58Yes.
00:19:59Yes, but there...
00:20:00there'll be the one in the shaft
00:20:01and the one on the carriage.
00:20:02Yes, sir.
00:20:03Yes.
00:20:04I picked that up very... very cheap, as a very cheap...
00:20:05Yes, I'd rather go, yes.
00:20:06Yeah, I'd rather go.
00:20:07Yes, I'd rather go.
00:20:09Visiting justices, sir.
00:20:13Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:20:14Good afternoon.
00:20:15Surely we're not to be deprived of Squire Meadows' presence today?
00:20:18Oh, of course not.
00:20:20He's merely stayed behind to pass a friendly word to some of his children.
00:20:24Now, see for yourself.
00:20:32Don't look so glum.
00:20:34Smile.
00:20:35Smile.
00:20:39Getting a little more used to the cat, eh, my friend?
00:20:45Mmm, nice, healthy colour.
00:20:49Your stay amongst us seems to be doing you good.
00:21:02They'll be glad to see you when you get home.
00:21:05If ever you do.
00:21:07Ah, gentlemen, I'm distressed to have kept you waiting, but I dallied for a minute or two to speak a few cheery words to my wayward charges.
00:21:22Good afternoon, Governor.
00:21:23Good afternoon, sir.
00:21:24And how is everything in this splendid institution, eh?
00:21:27Save for one death and five more cases of jail fever, we're all well.
00:21:32A death?
00:21:33One of my children taken from me.
00:21:35Oh, no, I always look upon the prisoners as my children.
00:21:38I know you do, sir.
00:21:40It does you great credit.
00:21:41Now then, as I call your numbers, you go in one at a time.
00:21:44And don't forget when they ask you, you have no complaints.
00:21:47Yes, or you will have some, and some you'll remember.
00:21:49Number 19!
00:21:50Number 19!
00:21:51Number 19!
00:21:58Hart!
00:21:59Stand there before the justices and take off your hat.
00:22:02Robinson, Tom, poaching game.
00:22:05One year's hard labour.
00:22:06I think we've met before.
00:22:08Yes.
00:22:09Say you'll wish it when you're getting the justice of the peace.
00:22:12You hear me?
00:22:13I heard you.
00:22:16Yes, and we heard too.
00:22:18I think a little discipline is called for.
00:22:20Just a little discipline.
00:22:22Yes, make it hot for the blagard.
00:22:24Stop his food.
00:22:25That'll do him good.
00:22:26Think a few extra turns at the crank.
00:22:28A few hours on the black hole.
00:22:30And a few days on bread and water will meet the case.
00:22:34Let that be listened to you.
00:22:36And if that fails, we've always got the cat.
00:22:41Number 19!
00:22:42The visiting justices are here to inspect the prisons,
00:22:46and to ask if you have any complaint to make as to your treatment here.
00:22:51Well, I'd like to...
00:22:52The prisoner has no complaint.
00:22:54I'm delighted to hear it.
00:22:56And I hope that when we meet again, you'll still have no complaints.
00:23:02That will be all, thank you.
00:23:04The murderer has no complaint.
00:23:05That will be all, thank you.
00:23:06The murderer has no complaint.
00:23:07I'm a seven!
00:23:08Out!
00:23:09Send before the justices and remove your hat.
00:23:10Bradshaw, Henry.
00:23:11House breaking with violence.
00:23:12Sentence, two years prison.
00:23:13Transportation for ten years.
00:23:14Ah, Bradshaw.
00:23:15How long have you, sir?
00:23:16Fifteen months, Your Worship.
00:23:17Have you any complaints as to your treatment here?
00:23:18Oh, no, Your Worship.
00:23:19Except, if I might make so bold as to say so, Your Worship, I only wish me sentencing was longer.
00:23:29And why, my man?
00:23:30Because, Your Worship, it's been my salvation.
00:23:31It's, it's pulled me up in a evil career, what must have been the ruin of me body.
00:23:34Not that that matters, but also of me immortal soul, what belongs to me maker.
00:23:38I've always regarded you.
00:23:39I've always regarded you.
00:23:40I've always regarded you.
00:23:41I've always regarded you.
00:23:42I've always regarded you.
00:23:43I've always regarded you.
00:23:44How long have you, sir?
00:23:45How long have you, sir?
00:23:46How long have you, sir?
00:23:47Fifteen months, Your Worship.
00:23:48Have you any complaints as to your treatment here?
00:23:49Oh, no, Your Worship.
00:23:50Except, if I might make so bold as to say so, Your Worship,
00:23:52I only wish me sentencing was longer.
00:23:53And why, my man?
00:23:54My mortal soul, what belongs to me maker.
00:23:57I've always regarded you as the most promising of my children.
00:24:02Oh, God bless you for those words, Your Worship.
00:24:04God bless you.
00:24:05I only wish that I was staying here all the rest of me life,
00:24:08so as I could learn all of them texts and collects,
00:24:11what the chaplain, God bless his reverence, has taught me.
00:24:14I think we might be a little lenient with this prisoner.
00:24:16He seems quite penitent.
00:24:19Yes.
00:24:20What do you think of work?
00:24:21Yes, Your Worship.
00:24:22You've decided that you need do no more work here.
00:24:26And spend the rest of the time of your sentence in meditation.
00:24:29He might also have an extra ration of tea and grow.
00:24:33I agree.
00:24:34I'll see that that is attended to.
00:24:36Oh, thank you, Your Worship, and bless you.
00:24:39Every one of you.
00:24:40That will be all, thank you.
00:24:42Next place, Omar.
00:24:43Woman convict number 74.
00:24:58Out.
00:24:59Hallows, Judith, extorting money.
00:25:02Five years prison, transportation for three years.
00:25:05Oh, and what has our Judith been doing?
00:25:08Unruly conduct, Your Worship.
00:25:10Singing in her cell.
00:25:11A little too full of the joy of life, eh?
00:25:14We must curb that.
00:25:16No doubt five days of bread and water will tend to take the happiness out of your disposition.
00:25:24That will be all, thank you.
00:25:26Next.
00:25:27Mark.
00:25:28Number 15.
00:25:30Mark.
00:25:31Take off your cap.
00:25:33Joseph, Matthew.
00:25:35Petty Larson.
00:25:36Sentenced three years prison.
00:25:37Five years transportation.
00:25:38How old are you?
00:25:39Fifteen, Your Worship.
00:25:40Disgraceful.
00:25:41Petty Larson at fifteen?
00:25:42What will he be up to at fifteen?
00:25:43He'll be swinging on the gallows before then.
00:25:44What did he steal?
00:25:45A loaf of bread, Your Worship.
00:25:46Scandalous.
00:25:47Why?
00:25:48It wasn't for me, Your Worship.
00:25:49It was for my mother.
00:25:50Why couldn't your mother steal for herself?
00:25:51She was dying, Your Worship.
00:25:52Of starvation.
00:25:53And I thought she might live if I...
00:25:54Top for nonsense.
00:26:23I have no patience with people who are starving.
00:26:26We've done it for. Suit you?
00:26:28Admirably, by dear sir. Admirably.
00:26:30Have you any complaint as to your treatment here?
00:26:36Well, Your Worship, I think that 1,600 revolutions of the crank
00:26:41is too much for a boy like me.
00:26:43Oh? And since when have you been asked to decide what your work is to be?
00:26:47But I can't do it so really. I chose my best.
00:26:50Then you'll have to do better than your best.
00:26:53Make it 1,800 a day.
00:26:54But I can't do it, sir. Really, I can't.
00:26:56Then you'll have to take a rest in the straight jacket.
00:26:59Oh, no, sir. No, sir. No, sir. No, sir.
00:27:02No, sir. Don't put me in the jacket. It's bleeding.
00:27:04Don't laugh out of me. No, sir.
00:27:06Take him away.
00:27:08No, sir. No, sir. Please, I love the jacket.
00:27:11I've got to do it. I've got to do it.
00:27:13Are there any more?
00:27:14Yes, sir.
00:27:15Then we'll have to leave them.
00:27:17I'm feeling hungry.
00:27:19We have a six-mile drive to do,
00:27:21and if that sucking pig is spoiled, I'll never forgive myself.
00:27:24You can safely leave the rest in my hands.
00:27:27Good day to you.
00:27:28Good day, sir.
00:27:29Good day, sir.
00:27:31Good day, sir.
00:27:32Good day, sir.
00:27:37Now for a little relaxation.
00:27:39I think this will be an excellent opportunity
00:27:42to see that the correct punishment
00:27:44is duly administered
00:27:46to our untidy friend number five.
00:27:49Come, my friend.
00:27:51No time like the present.
00:27:53Send them back to their nice, comfortable cells.
00:28:01I have a little matter of duty
00:28:03to attend to.
00:28:07The prisoners will return to their cells!
00:28:10March!
00:28:11March!
00:28:12Come on, Forty-one. Come on.
00:28:14Come on, Forty-two!
00:28:15Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:16Come on, get a new one.
00:28:18Get a new one.
00:28:19Come on.
00:28:20Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:21Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:22Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:23Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:24Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:25Come on, Forty-one.
00:28:26Good afternoon.
00:28:27My name is Eden.
00:28:28I am the new chaplain.
00:28:29Oh, good afternoon, Your Reverence.
00:28:30I was expecting you.
00:28:31Where can I find the Governor?
00:28:32Well, Mr. Orson with the visit and justices at the moment, sir,
00:28:34but I'll tell him you're here.
00:28:35Good afternoon. My name is Eden. I am the new chaplain.
00:28:42Well, good afternoon, Your Reverence. I was expecting you.
00:28:44Where can I find the Governor?
00:28:45Well, Mr. Orson, with the wizard injustices at the moment, sir, but I'll tell him you're here.
00:28:49Oh, don't disturb him. I think I'll just have a look round the prison until he's ready to see me.
00:28:52Oh, step this way, Your Reverence. I'll be glad to show you round.
00:29:00What a cheerless, comfortless place it is.
00:29:03We ain't been put in here to be comfortable, you know, Your Reverence.
00:29:06Why are all these galleries wired in like this?
00:29:09Well, there were so many of them used to try and do their cells in by chucking their cells over that we had to do something about it.
00:29:14Are they as wretched as all that? Did they prefer death to prison?
00:29:17Wretched? No.
00:29:19They only did it to give us trouble.
00:29:22What curious construction. Why is it built like this?
00:29:25Proper labour saving, you know this is.
00:29:27Why, one warder up there with a gun's got them all ways.
00:29:30But did they really shoot at them?
00:29:32Well, the orders is to aim at their legs.
00:29:35But you know how it is, Your Reverence, when you've got a gun in your hand and you see something running,
00:29:38and the sportsman walks in at all and gets the better of us, don't it?
00:29:41Now, where are all the prisoners?
00:29:43Oh, they're at dinner now.
00:29:44Like to see one of them feeding?
00:29:45Yes.
00:29:46What's he eating?
00:29:56Oh, he's on punishment, he is.
00:29:57He's on bread and water.
00:29:59But for the rest of them, seeing as though it's Wednesday, it's skilly.
00:30:02What's skilly made of?
00:30:03Well, that comes under the official secret, Sector Reverence.
00:30:06We ain't allowed to say.
00:30:07I see.
00:30:08Do they get skilly every day?
00:30:09Lord bless you, no wee changes.
00:30:11They'll mean you every day, yeah?
00:30:13On Monday it's skilly.
00:30:14On Tuesday it's pea soup.
00:30:16On Wednesday it's skilly.
00:30:17On Thursday it's pea soup.
00:30:19On Friday it's skilly.
00:30:20And Sunday it's pea soup.
00:30:22And on Sunday there's a special treat.
00:30:24Yes?
00:30:25Bean ash.
00:30:26Then they look forward to Sunday?
00:30:27No, they mostly prefer skilly.
00:30:30But can their health stand such a diet?
00:30:32It don't matter very much if it don't.
00:30:34We have a fine hospital here.
00:30:35Are there many in hospital?
00:30:37No, they don't stop in there long.
00:30:38They soon ask to be put back in their cells.
00:30:41And here comes our principal visit in justice.
00:30:44Squaw and Meadows.
00:30:48How do you do?
00:30:49And so you've left our peaceful parish.
00:30:52And have come to labor in the vineyards of our county jail, eh?
00:30:55Yes, I can do more for my fellow creatures in here.
00:30:57I admire your sentiments.
00:30:59But remember it is your duty to minister to their souls only.
00:31:03Their bodies are in the hands of the governor.
00:31:05And the visiting justices.
00:31:08Justices visit once a month, I believe.
00:31:11I come here nearly every day.
00:31:13This jail is my hobby.
00:31:15I regard the prisoners here as my children.
00:31:18Naughty children, it is true, who have to be punished.
00:31:21But believe me, it hurts me more than it hurts them.
00:31:26But you know what it is.
00:31:28You spare the rod and you spoil the child.
00:31:30Why is there no number on that door?
00:31:33That is our black hole.
00:31:36The most effective of all our punishments.
00:31:40It is dark in there.
00:31:42No light.
00:31:43No furniture.
00:31:45And it is silent too.
00:31:47As silent as the tomb.
00:31:49In there you are shut off from your fellow men.
00:31:52No sign of life reaches you.
00:31:54After one hour, so I've been told.
00:31:57You lose all count of time.
00:31:59The seconds drag on and seem like hours.
00:32:02The hours, days.
00:32:03The days, years.
00:32:05After one day in there, I've seen the most violent men emerged.
00:32:10As cowed and broken as a whipped dog.
00:32:13Which is horrible, awful.
00:32:15And without a hand being laid on him.
00:32:17All done by kindness, as it were.
00:32:20No, let me get away from here.
00:32:21By all means.
00:32:22Have you seen our labour yard yet?
00:32:24No.
00:32:25Then allow me to be your guide.
00:32:31I wonder where he is now.
00:32:33He's been gone nearly two months.
00:32:35With favouring winds, he should be about here.
00:32:38In another month, he will arrive at Sydney.
00:32:40And when shall I hear from him?
00:32:42He said he would write to me from the Cape.
00:32:44And send his letter by some homeward bound East India man.
00:32:47From the Cape, he said.
00:32:49Two weary months.
00:32:51I don't know how I could have supported myself,
00:32:53but for your kindness and frequent visits.
00:32:55I have done nothing.
00:32:56You have comforted me by speaking of him.
00:32:58Would I have been able to do more?
00:33:00Would I have been able to help him when he was pressed for money?
00:33:02But I just assisted your father and it was not in my power.
00:33:06I shall never forget your kindness to me.
00:33:08Never, never.
00:33:09Please don't mention it.
00:33:11So he said he would write from the Cape, eh?
00:33:15Then his letter should be here before long.
00:33:20But squire, you won't prostitute me.
00:33:22It's the first time I have ever tampered with any letter that has been placed in my charge.
00:33:26It is not the first time.
00:33:28It's the third.
00:33:29I set three traps for you and you fell into them all.
00:33:33It will mean prison for me.
00:33:35Have mercy on me, squire.
00:33:37Have mercy.
00:33:38A man that can tamper with letters three times can do so again.
00:33:41No, squire, never again.
00:33:43Never again.
00:33:45And I say yes.
00:33:46And I mean yes.
00:33:49Now, a letter will arrive here shortly from the Cape of Good Hope.
00:33:53Addressed to you?
00:33:54No, not addressed to me, but I require it.
00:33:57And also all subsequent letters that come from Australia.
00:34:00You will bring them to me here directly with your own hands.
00:34:05Yes, squire.
00:34:06Oh, George, when shall we meet again?
00:34:28Susan, when shall I see you again?
00:34:31Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:34:52Too weak to do his 1800 revolutions, is he?
00:34:56And put him in that jacket.
00:34:58Do you hear me?
00:34:59Take him away.
00:35:05Put him in that jacket.
00:35:08Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:35:16Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I'm miserable.
00:35:23One, eighteen hundred and two, eighteen hundred and three.
00:35:39Power's up.
00:35:39Eighteen hundred and four.
00:35:44Eighteen hundred and four.
00:35:45You've only got eighteen hundred to do.
00:35:48I'll check you up.
00:35:51Eighteen hundred and four's right.
00:35:53Well, well, you are a glutton for work, aren't you?
00:35:56Better give him extra weight tomorrow.
00:35:59He's got ten pounds already.
00:36:00Then you'd better give him twelve.
00:36:02Yes, sir.
00:36:02Now take him to his cell to rest, so that he'll be nice and fresh when I want him again.
00:36:13Number nineteen, stand up.
00:36:17Come on.
00:36:18Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:36:36Give him another bucket of water.
00:36:43What are they doing?
00:36:44Some more water.
00:36:45That'll bring him round.
00:36:46He'll be all right now.
00:36:58Good for a few more hours.
00:37:00We'll come back later.
00:37:01And if you start shamming again, my friend, the worse it'll be for you.
00:37:12I regard them all as my children, my naughty children.
00:37:15And what is better for children than a little punishment now and again?
00:37:20It don't do none of them any harm.
00:37:37Save me, save me.
00:37:38Mother.
00:37:39Mother.
00:37:39Mother.
00:37:39Mother.
00:37:49Why did you die?
00:37:50Why did you die?
00:37:51What's this?
00:37:52What have a swine done to you?
00:37:54Let me alone.
00:37:55Let me alone and they'll give it to me one and they'll give it to you too.
00:37:57But you'll die.
00:37:58Oh, if only I could die.
00:38:02I'm not altogether satisfied with the condition of the cells.
00:38:05Is your discipline getting lex, Governor?
00:38:07They're coming back again.
00:38:09Si.
00:38:10There's a door open.
00:38:10Oh, so this is how we occupy our spare time when we're not on the crank, is it?
00:38:20You devil.
00:38:21You fiend.
00:38:22You inhuman fiend.
00:38:23I think the black hole is needed, eh, Mr. Hawes?
00:38:26Something that'll give us time to think and bring us to our senses.
00:38:33Keep away.
00:38:33You're driving me to murder.
00:38:37Keep away, I say.
00:38:38Is there no mercy, no compassion, no Christianity in this hell?
00:38:46In the name of the Christianity he calls upon, hold your hands.
00:38:50What place is this?
00:38:51Is it a prison or a torture chamber?
00:38:53Are you men?
00:38:54Are you human beings?
00:38:55Man back in the name of the law.
00:38:57The law?
00:38:58What law is this?
00:38:58The law which is administered not by you, my friend, but by me as justice of the peace.
00:39:03I see no justice and no peace here.
00:39:06Take him to the black hole.
00:39:07No.
00:39:08Now I...
00:39:09You...
00:39:09Release that man.
00:39:12And forget, my dear friend, that I am in command here.
00:39:15Take him to the black hole.
00:39:1724 hours will cool him down, while we deliberate as to what his punishment shall really be.
00:39:24Not the black hole.
00:39:26Mercy.
00:39:27Mercy.
00:39:27Take him away.
00:39:29No.
00:39:30No.
00:39:30No.
00:39:31Take him away.
00:39:31Take him away.
00:39:32Put him back in the jacket.
00:39:37Wait.
00:39:40My boy, what have they done to you?
00:39:42Your face and hands are blue, and you're so cold.
00:39:48Don't worry about me, sir.
00:39:51They've done their worst.
00:39:52Is there no one here to obey my orders?
00:39:54Put him back in that jacket, I say.
00:39:56Don't dare handle him my command.
00:39:58By what right?
00:39:59By the right of my calling.
00:40:00His body may be yours to do with what you will, but his soul is in my keeping.
00:40:06Stand back.
00:40:07He is about to meet the justice of the peace, before whom we all must stand someday.
00:40:12He's right.
00:40:13He's almost gone.
00:40:18That's two this week.
00:40:20Lucky this ain't a butcher shop.
00:40:22They don't take stock in here.
00:40:23What does one prisoner matter, more or less?
00:40:25Come, Mr. Hawes.
00:40:26We've worked it well as fast.
00:40:36How do you feel now, boy?
00:40:40I don't feel nothing no more.
00:40:42I don't seem to be here at all.
00:40:46I can see your face, but that's a long way off.
00:40:51What's your name?
00:40:53Josephs.
00:40:55Matthew Josephs.
00:40:59Mother always used to call me Matty.
00:41:03But she's gone.
00:41:07They call me number 15 in here.
00:41:11I shall call you Matty, if I may.
00:41:15Thank you, sir.
00:41:18Poor Matty.
00:41:20Say that again, sir.
00:41:22That's the first kind word I've heard spoken to me for years.
00:41:27Poor little Matty.
00:41:30Not poor, now, sir.
00:41:32Because my sentence has been reduced.
00:41:34I'm free.
00:41:37I'm free.
00:41:37Those eyes.
00:41:57Those eyes.
00:42:04He's looking at me, laughing at me.
00:42:11I'm going insane.
00:42:17What's that?
00:42:19Who's that?
00:42:22Answer me!
00:42:26Who's that?
00:42:28Who's that?
00:42:31My boy.
00:42:32Who calls me?
00:42:34The prison chaplain who tried to save you, but who failed.
00:42:39Where are you?
00:42:41Here. Can't you hear me?
00:42:44There? Are you there?
00:42:47Yes, here.
00:42:49Oh, don't go away. Don't go away.
00:42:52I won't leave you. I'll stay with you.
00:42:55Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you.
00:42:57What o'clock is it?
00:43:00Half past twelve.
00:43:02Night or day?
00:43:03Night.
00:43:04And you've given up your sleep for me, sir?
00:43:07Oh, you're a real Christian.
00:43:10I try to be.
00:43:12How do you feel?
00:43:13Oh, I'm all right.
00:43:15Don't worry about me.
00:43:17Don't leave me. Please don't leave me.
00:43:19I'll stay with you.
00:43:21Oh, thank you, sir.
00:43:22Oh, thank you, sir.
00:43:23Oh, please say something.
00:43:25So that I could hear your voice.
00:43:32Lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom.
00:43:36Lead thou me on.
00:43:38The night is dark and I am far from home.
00:43:42Lead thou me on.
00:43:43Far from home.
00:43:44Lead thou me on.
00:43:46The night is dark and I am far from home.
00:43:47The night is dark and I am far from home.
00:43:49You're a little bit more.
00:43:51Good night.
00:43:53The night is dark and I am far from home.
00:43:55But I am far from home.
00:43:57And there is a new day.
00:43:58Come last night, Squire.
00:44:12Oh.
00:44:17I'm getting uneasy, Squire, about all these letters I'm handing on to you.
00:44:21It ain't legal.
00:44:23You've done other things in your life that haven't been legal.
00:44:25As long as I say nothing, you're safe.
00:44:27But if I choose to speak...
00:44:29I didn't mean that, Squire. I didn't mean that.
00:44:32Then don't argue with me. Get out.
00:44:34Yes, Squire.
00:44:40Get out!
00:44:49My dear Susan, I know that you've waited a long time,
00:44:52but at last I've been rewarded.
00:44:53I've struck gold, plenty of it,
00:44:56and I'm now coming home aboard the Sunflower as fast as wind and sail can bring me,
00:45:01with 7,000 pounds worth of gold dust in my belt.
00:45:06Bad news, Squire?
00:45:07The worst.
00:45:09Young George Feeling is coming back home,
00:45:11a wealthy man.
00:45:11What is that a laugh at?
00:45:15I'm sorry, Squire.
00:45:16I can't help it.
00:45:17After all the trouble you've taken to win the girl.
00:45:20Yes, and I shall when I get.
00:45:22And you must help me.
00:45:23Oh?
00:45:23Do you want me to plead for you?
00:45:26I have a better scheme, even than that.
00:45:28You must be in Great Farnborough next market day.
00:45:31Oh, I won't be there on market day.
00:45:32Then you must spread the news abroad to the villagers that George Field...
00:45:36Okay, excellent.
00:45:38They'd say as how we'll find gold in Australia,
00:45:40so much as he don't know what to do with it all.
00:45:42Then he'll be coming home and making Miss Susan Merton his bride.
00:45:46Not if he don't want to commit bigamy, he won't.
00:45:48For why?
00:45:49Because he had found himself a bride out there,
00:45:51and took to himself a wife,
00:45:53in that there's Sydney, as they'd call it.
00:45:55Though I don't know for why.
00:45:56She bet.
00:45:57Where did you pick up all this news from?
00:45:59I don't pick it up.
00:46:00It be thrown at me from mouth to mouth.
00:46:10Oh, Betty.
00:46:12No letter for me at the post office?
00:46:14No, Miss.
00:46:14Oh, I can't believe it.
00:46:21Still no news.
00:46:23There's news, Miss, but...
00:46:25But what?
00:46:26Oh, Miss, it mayn't be true, but they're all saying it.
00:46:29Pray to heaven it ain't true.
00:46:31Betty, you frighten me.
00:46:33What do you mean?
00:46:34Well, Miss, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Bartholomew were talking down at the inn,
00:46:38and they said that...
00:46:39Well, Martin, how are you?
00:46:45My dear squire, sit down.
00:46:48I'm sorry you should have had the trouble to come here.
00:46:50I was just about to call on you.
00:46:51Oh, is that so?
00:46:52I hadn't forgotten the date,
00:46:54or that loan of 500 pounds you were good enough to grant me,
00:46:57a year ago today.
00:46:58Is it a year ago today?
00:47:00God bless my soul, how time flies it.
00:47:02But, uh, hadn't you remembered?
00:47:04Oh, my word, no.
00:47:05I have the money here.
00:47:07It's been a bit of a squeeze, but a promise is a promise, and, uh...
00:47:10But, my dear farmer, if it suits you better,
00:47:13why not renew the bond for another 12 months?
00:47:17That is indeed kind of you, but, uh, the interest...
00:47:21I want no interest from you.
00:47:22But I couldn't allow...
00:47:23That is for me to say.
00:47:25If I had my way,
00:47:26I would ask you the favor of destroying this bond altogether.
00:47:29Then, uh, you have the bond with you?
00:47:31Yes, yes.
00:47:32Quite a coincidence.
00:47:33Have I your permission?
00:47:34No, no, sir.
00:47:35I've always met my obligations,
00:47:37and from one on whom I, uh, have no claim...
00:47:40True.
00:47:41Were I but related, I should have insisted.
00:47:44But there, there, the dear child has made her choice.
00:47:47Who am I to try and come between?
00:47:49Then you have not heard the news?
00:47:51What news?
00:47:51The whole village, has it?
00:47:52I thought that you...
00:47:53I've heard nothing.
00:47:54It is said that young George Fielding has found gold.
00:47:57Is coming back home to claim his bride?
00:47:59No, has found a bride out there.
00:48:02Never.
00:48:02I'll not believe that.
00:48:03But believe me, it's true.
00:48:06Poor child.
00:48:07My heart bleeds for her.
00:48:09You are generous.
00:48:10I am human.
00:48:11But surely there must be some mistake.
00:48:12It is to your advantage, my advantage,
00:48:14that there be no mistake.
00:48:16Poor child.
00:48:17How is she taking the news?
00:48:18At first she was prostrated with grief,
00:48:20and for now her wounded pride.
00:48:22Poor child.
00:48:24I'd like her to show some spirit.
00:48:26Take her revenge.
00:48:28How can she?
00:48:28In what way?
00:48:29Don't you see that this is your chance?
00:48:32She is so grateful to you for what you have done for me.
00:48:35I'll send for her.
00:48:36You speak to her yourself.
00:48:38She is so grateful to you for what you have done for me.
00:48:53Free.
00:48:57At last, free.
00:49:01Thank you, sir, for all you have done for me.
00:49:03I shall never forget.
00:49:05I never forget a kindness or a wrong.
00:49:09But there's one I'll never forgive.
00:49:11Squire Meadows.
00:49:12We should forgive our enemies.
00:49:15Goodbye, my boy.
00:49:17Goodbye, sir.
00:49:18And thank you.
00:49:33You will make me the happiest of men.
00:49:38I can never love any man but George.
00:49:40Even though he has broken my heart.
00:49:44But I am grateful to you for all your goodness to my father and I.
00:49:49And of affection and respect.
00:49:51I will be content with those.
00:49:54For I know that when we get to understand each other,
00:49:57love will surely follow.
00:50:02So she's off with the old love and on with her new pretty quick.
00:50:05Aye, the young ones don't wait long for anything these days,
00:50:08hurrying and scurrying about.
00:50:10Aye, it's them there new steam railway trains.
00:50:12What's doing on it?
00:50:13Rushing around at 15 and 20 mile an hour?
00:50:17No wonder.
00:50:18Folks can't live their lives calm and peaceful like we do's.
00:50:21That's right.
00:50:22But I did think as how she'd went a bit longer for young George Fielding.
00:50:25Don't talk so daft.
00:50:27It'd be he who ain't waited for her.
00:50:29Getting married so soon and then there for him, perhaps.
00:50:32I don't believe that's true.
00:50:34Oh, and who be you young man?
00:50:35I'm a friend of George Fielding's.
00:50:37I know him well.
00:50:38I know he wouldn't look at any woman but Susan Merton.
00:50:40Why, if it ain't Tom Robinson.
00:50:43Im as was given a year in Lincester jail,
00:50:45purporting on Squire Meadows preserves.
00:50:47Well, dang me, so it ain't.
00:50:49A jailbird?
00:50:50That's what he be.
00:50:51I sit and suck no beer in a room without jailbirds.
00:50:55Neither don't I.
00:50:56Most likely we'll find better company at the Black Horse.
00:50:58Aye, we'll go along to the Black Horse.
00:51:00I ain't going to be seen with no jailbirds.
00:51:02Not in the sight of you.
00:51:16Good day, sir.
00:51:17Good day.
00:51:18Now, what can I get for you?
00:51:19A pint of brown ale.
00:51:21A pint of brown ale it shall be.
00:51:24Why, it is Tom Robinson who went to jail for poaching.
00:51:28There'll be other ends in Varnborough.
00:51:30Well, I fancy this one.
00:51:31Well, I don't fancy thee, and that's straight.
00:51:33I can't refuse to serve you, for that's the law.
00:51:37But he'll please me by drinking up quick and clearing off quick.
00:51:44That'll be Tophamson.
00:51:46I want money now.
00:51:47And you'll have it now.
00:51:49Tell me, is it true that Miss Susan Merton is about to marry?
00:51:52It is.
00:51:53And then?
00:51:54Who is it she marries?
00:51:55Squire.
00:51:56And then?
00:51:57Not Squire Meadows.
00:51:59Have he any objection?
00:52:00I have.
00:52:01Then he'd better tell Squire, not me.
00:52:05Now, if he'll drink up and clear out, I'll be better pleased.
00:52:27Oh, Betty.
00:52:31Betty, have I done right?
00:52:35Well, Miss, what does your father do when a horse has a swollen leg?
00:52:39He applies a blister, don't he?
00:52:40And the one swollen takes the other away.
00:52:43Well, that's what you're doing, dear, ain't you?
00:52:46But perhaps he isn't married after all.
00:52:48Suppose there's some mistake about it.
00:52:50Oh, no, Miss.
00:52:51There can be no mistake.
00:52:53Squire Meadows has been to all the trouble to find out, and he says it's true.
00:52:57But suppose he...
00:52:58Oh, no, Miss.
00:52:59He's an honest and straightforward gentleman.
00:53:02You can trust him.
00:53:03What is it?
00:53:06Who is it?
00:53:08Lawyer Crawley to see you, sir.
00:53:10What do you want?
00:53:11Anything ready for the wedding tomorrow?
00:53:13Yes.
00:53:13What are you grinning at?
00:53:15What amuses you?
00:53:16All the guests invited?
00:53:18You know they are.
00:53:19Don't you think you'd better have the doors guarded in case some that you haven't invited
00:53:22should try to force their way in?
00:53:24What the devil do you mean?
00:53:25Well, it's always a wise precaution.
00:53:28What's at the back of your mind?
00:53:30What do you know?
00:53:30Why, no, nothing.
00:53:32And hearsay isn't evidence in court of law.
00:53:33And what have you heard, if you must be so precise?
00:53:36I got it from a bagman who'd just come on the new railway line to Southampton.
00:53:41Got what?
00:53:42He said that the bark sunflower had just put into port from Australia
00:53:45and on board was a young man who, from his description, rather resembled George Feeley.
00:53:51Did he say it was George Feeley?
00:53:52Well, he said it looked like him, although he'd never spoken to him.
00:53:55He heard him book a room at the Dulcene for the night and order post-horses for the morrow.
00:53:59That is today.
00:54:00Post-horses for where?
00:54:02Oh, he didn't hear that.
00:54:04How long does it take to post from Southampton to hear?
00:54:06Well, with the roads as they are now, maybe two days.
00:54:11Two days.
00:54:12The wedding's fixed for twelve o'clock.
00:54:16Yes.
00:54:17Well, maybe you'll be married before he arrives.
00:54:19If it is, he.
00:54:22What a fortunate thing he didn't know about that new railway line through Southampton.
00:54:27If he should arrive first.
00:54:30I don't understand, Tom.
00:54:36You say she never received a letter from me.
00:54:37So I've heard.
00:54:38But I wrote to her every week.
00:54:40I should complain she never wrote to me.
00:54:42But I'm sure she must have done.
00:54:43Then someone intercepted our letters.
00:54:45Yes, that's just what I think.
00:54:47Have you told her so?
00:54:48No, I haven't spoken to her.
00:54:49I've been forbidding the house since I've been in jail.
00:54:51Yes, I know.
00:54:52Poor old Tom, but poaching.
00:54:54I never poached.
00:54:55I saw that Squire Meadows wanted to lay the charge on you, so I confessed.
00:54:58To save me?
00:54:59After all, you saved my life.
00:55:00Why shouldn't I save your reputation?
00:55:02Tom.
00:55:04But why should he want to lay a charge against me?
00:55:06Don't you see?
00:55:07To discredit you in Susan's eyes.
00:55:09And I'm sure it is he who has been intercepting your letters.
00:55:12But what is Susan to him?
00:55:13Well, he's going to marry her.
00:55:16What?
00:55:17Now, now, keep calm.
00:55:18It's her father who has persuaded her.
00:55:20When does this marriage take place?
00:55:21Tomorrow morning.
00:55:22But I'm still in time.
00:55:23Oh, I'll break his neck.
00:55:26No, no.
00:55:27Be careful how you act.
00:55:28He is a justice of the peace, and you don't know the power he has.
00:55:31I've just had a taste of it in there.
00:55:33No, George, we'll talk this over.
00:55:35An hour won't make that difference.
00:55:38We'll have a drink, and then you can go along to Merton's farm.
00:55:42New year again?
00:55:43Yes.
00:55:44Oh, and me too.
00:55:45Don't you remember me?
00:55:46George Fielding?
00:55:48Well, I be digging.
00:55:50Mr. Fielding, back from them foreign parts.
00:55:53And how are you?
00:55:54I'm fine.
00:55:54I'm glad to see you again.
00:55:57But I'd like to see you in better company.
00:56:00Tom is a friend of mine.
00:56:00If you don't like him, you don't like me.
00:56:02No, no, Mr. Fielding.
00:56:03I didn't mean that.
00:56:03No offense.
00:56:05All right.
00:56:06Can I have a room here tonight?
00:56:07To be sure, Mr. Fielding.
00:56:08I'll speak to the missus.
00:56:09Yes, and bring us two loggins of rum.
00:56:11Certainly, Mr. Fielding, with pleasure.
00:56:13But perhaps you'd like to speak to the missus yourself,
00:56:15and she'll show you the room.
00:56:16Yes, I would.
00:56:17Come on, Tom.
00:56:17Come on.
00:56:17Come on.
00:56:17Come on.
00:56:17Come on.
00:56:17Come on.
00:56:19Come on.
00:56:21Come on.
00:56:51Come on.
00:57:21Come on.
00:57:51Meadows has bought her.
00:58:04That's what he's done, Tom.
00:58:05Thank goodness I can overbuy him.
00:58:07Look.
00:58:07My father said I had to have a thousand pounds to marry her.
00:58:11Well, I seven times that amount.
00:58:13I changed my gold into banknotes in Southampton yesterday.
00:58:16You struck gold at her mistake.
00:58:17I certainly did.
00:58:18Fortune was on your side.
00:58:19Yes.
00:58:20Well, let's drink to it.
00:58:21Well, let's drink to it.
00:58:22My word, let's drink to the old country yet.
00:58:30Yes.
00:58:32Still, that's just what you needed.
00:58:35Well, here's to the squire and confound your enemies.
00:58:37Well, here's to the squire and confound your enemies.
00:58:38Well, here's to the squire and confound your enemies.
00:58:50Yes.
00:58:52That was strong.
00:58:53I didn't realize I was so tired.
00:58:55Gee.
00:58:56Neither did I.
00:59:05Well, you must tell me about your experiences on the other side of the world.
00:59:26Well, here's to the guys' home.
00:59:41Well, here's the guy where you saw on the other side of the world.
00:59:47Yes.
00:59:49I'll watch it for you.
01:00:14Quiet!
01:00:19What the devil's the matter with you?
01:00:21What's the matter with you? Are you mad?
01:00:23And why mad?
01:00:24You're going to burn these?
01:00:25Why not if I choose?
01:00:27If you don't want them.
01:00:28You think I'd keep them as evidence?
01:00:29Evidence of what?
01:00:33How did you come by these notes, squire?
01:00:36I took them from George Fielding.
01:00:38A little sleeping draught in his drink did the trick.
01:00:41So you stole them.
01:00:43What's for if you only meant to burn them?
01:00:45I wouldn't risk keeping them.
01:00:46I'll take the risk, but don't burn them. Don't burn them.
01:00:50And if I give them to you, you'll go at once?
01:00:52At once. At once.
01:00:54And never tell a living soul where you got them from?
01:00:56Never.
01:00:58I swear.
01:01:01As promised, I return you a note of hand.
01:01:03If I were a more cautious man, I should keep it until after the ceremony.
01:01:07No, no. The morning of the wedding was the agreement. Besides, we can trust each other.
01:01:11Of course we can.
01:01:12I'm sure we can.
01:01:15Do you know what slanderous tongues are saying? That I have sold my daughter.
01:01:18No.
01:01:20Well, I must go to the church.
01:01:22How is it the bells are not ringing?
01:01:23They were ordered to ring as soon as the parson came into the town.
01:01:27Came into the town? Why, he lives next door to the church.
01:01:29Ah, that's a pleasant surprise for you.
01:01:31The Reverend Eden is to officiate.
01:01:33Mr. Ren? What business is this of his? He is now chaplain at Lincester Jail.
01:01:39There's no right to leave there without permission of the visiting justices.
01:01:42I gave him no such permission. I shall demand an explanation of this.
01:01:46I did it on my own responsibility. I thought that you would be pleased.
01:01:49Pleased? I pleased. How dare he?
01:01:56Why, it's Mr. Fielding.
01:01:57Out of the way, Betty. I must see her at once.
01:01:59George Fielding.
01:02:00Mr. Jordan.
01:02:01George.
01:02:02What is the meaning of this?
01:02:03That's what I should like to know.
01:02:05I came back as I said I would.
01:02:06Then you can go back once more.
01:02:08For a whole year you neglected my daughter.
01:02:11Wrote her not a line.
01:02:12Broke her half for all you cared and now you think?
01:02:14I wrote her every week.
01:02:15As I did to you.
01:02:16But I never received your letters.
01:02:18Nonsense!
01:02:19What became of them?
01:02:20What do letters matter?
01:02:22Now they're beside the point.
01:02:23I agree with you.
01:02:25What does it matter if they wrote or not?
01:02:26All that affair is finished.
01:02:27Besides, I hardly think Mr. Merton would like his daughter to become the bride of a penniless adventurer from Australia.
01:02:33Oh, sir, that is what you think I am.
01:02:36A penniless adventurer.
01:02:37And let me undeceive you.
01:02:39You sell a thousand pounds at the hand of your daughter, sir.
01:02:41Well, I seven times that amount.
01:02:43We'll believe that when we see it.
01:02:45You shall see it, sir, and now.
01:02:49What's this?
01:02:50It's gone.
01:02:50I've been robbed.
01:02:53That disposes of that.
01:02:54A bluff, sir.
01:02:56And you think you can hoodwink us like that?
01:02:58I tell you I've been robbed.
01:02:59Well, if you will associate with thieves and poachers.
01:03:04Tom.
01:03:05He was the only one that knew that it was there.
01:03:07Oh, but surely he wouldn't.
01:03:08Listen, the bells are ringing forth.
01:03:13Come, Susan.
01:03:15We are wanted at the church.
01:03:16You shall not go.
01:03:17Oh, and who will stop me?
01:03:20You have found out at last, my young friend, for what you really are.
01:03:23A fraud.
01:03:24Susan, can't you see through him?
01:03:26He sends you letters which I never received.
01:03:28You're seven thousand pounds of which he's been robbed.
01:03:30Fine tales to tell the woman you say you love.
01:03:36Susan, do you believe me?
01:03:37Yes, George.
01:03:38Oh, yes, she believes you.
01:03:41But you are not dealing with credulous schoolgirls now.
01:03:43You're face to face with men of the world who know you for what you really are.
01:03:47What has your life been since you left these shores?
01:03:50Who have been your companions, transported criminals and cutthroats?
01:03:55I'm no doubt you've learned some pretty tricks from them.
01:03:59And you've brought back money.
01:04:02Who would look in your pockets for hidden gold?
01:04:05Here it is, portbread handed with the notes in his possession.
01:04:09Do you recognize these?
01:04:11These are mine.
01:04:12No, no.
01:04:12And you stole them.
01:04:13I didn't steal them, never given to me.
01:04:14And who gave them to you?
01:04:15The visiting justice of the peace.
01:04:17It was him, not me.
01:04:19Don't proceed against me.
01:04:20I'll tell all I know.
01:04:21I'll turn Queen's evidence.
01:04:23You rat.
01:04:24No.
01:04:24You dirty rat.
01:04:26Hey, take out his one.
01:04:26Yes, I have got a pistol.
01:04:29It's only one bullet in it.
01:04:31Which one of you is going to have it?
01:04:34So you've caught me, eh?
01:04:36But you'll never cage me.
01:04:38Do you think that I've lied, robbed, cheated,
01:04:40intercepted letters only to fall into your hands?
01:04:44My congratulations, George Fielding.
01:04:49I've lost.
01:04:50You've won.
01:04:51Yes, you've won the bride you've waited for so long.
01:04:56And as for you, my dear Susan, I have a wedding present for you.
01:05:02The ring I shall never place upon your fingers.
01:05:05And I have a wedding present for you too, George Fielding.
01:05:09Would you add murder to your other sins?
01:05:11Stand back.
01:05:13You dare not fire now.
01:05:17There's your man.
01:05:17Take him away.
01:05:18Squire John Meadows.
01:05:20You stand condemned in the eyes of the world.
01:05:23And you shall meet your just reward.
01:05:26And in the lonely hours of retribution,
01:05:29bear in mind that it is never too late to mend.
01:05:37He's mad.
01:05:38Yes, I am mad.
01:05:40Mad with hatred and revenge.
01:05:44Do you hear them, Susan?
01:05:46The bells.
01:05:47They're ringing out for your wedding.
01:05:50They send you a message, Susan.
01:05:52Do you know what they say?
01:05:54You don't?
01:05:55Then I'll tell you.
01:05:58He'll break your heart.
01:06:00He'll break your heart.
01:06:02He'll break your heart.
01:06:04He'll break your heart.
01:06:06He'll break your heart.
01:06:08He'll break your heart.
01:06:10Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:06:14Fourteen hundred and fifty-five, fourteen hundred and fifty-six, fourteen hundred and fifty-seven, what was it that parson said?
01:06:27It's never too late to mend, fourteen hundred and sixty, fourteen hundred and sixty-one, fourteen hundred and sixty-one.
01:06:44Amen.
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