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Welcome to the Hall, Sir Richard.

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(Girl) Why is the new Sir Matthew's
face such a funny colour?

3
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Not Sir Matthew, child,
Sir Richard.

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New squire, new name.

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- He ain't pale enough for a lord.
- (Man) He's been in Italy.

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(Woman) The new Sir Matthew
has no lady.

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(Woman #2) Sir Richard. No lady
with him, but somewhere he has.

8
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Sir Richard.

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Sir Richard.

10
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- Sir Richard.
- Sir Richard.

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- Sir Richard.
- Sir Richard.

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- Sir Richard.
- Sir Richard.

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Your late uncle, sir.

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Old benefactor.

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Thank you, sir,
for failing to wed a wife,

16
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but I shall not be
so prodigal a nephew.

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His uncle, Master of Castringham
before him, the great Sir Matthew.

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(Sir Richard) Uncle to uncle.

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I trust the descent
shall be more direct from now.

20
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So do we all devoutly hope,
Sir Richard, sir.

21
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Soon you shall be taking your
instructions from the Lady Augusta.

22
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Aye, sir. A new mistress.
Please, God.

23
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(Sir Richard)
"Dearest, so here I am,

24
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"possessed at last
of my inheritance."

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(Whispering echoes)
'Sir Matthew... Sir Matthew...

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(Ghostly voice) 'Sir Matthew...

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'Sir Matthew...

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'Sir Matthew...

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'In this dread matter,
we...entreat thee.'

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Squire.

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Sheep under cover of a night?

32
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This may be England,
but it is far from winter yet.

33
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- For their protection.
- Protection?

34
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You'll tell me in Castringham
you have wolves next.

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From the sickness, sir.

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Once, they thrived.

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Dr Croome.

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Pray do not let me disturb you,
Sir Richard.

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You do not disturb me, sir.

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You shall bequeath an Italian palace
where you found an English house.

41
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I'm resolved to make of myself
a pestilent innovator.

42
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Pestilent, Sir Richard?

43
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Please God, not.

44
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One intention, however, I have,

45
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which you shall approve of...

46
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a new pew for Castringham church.

47
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For myself,
the future Lady Fell...

48
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...and for that progeny with which we
pray God shall be pleased to bless us.

49
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A new family pew.

50
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An earnest of hope, Sir Richard,
but I fear it cannot be altogether

51
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as you have it to the south of the nave
without disturbing hallowed ground.

52
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(Sir Richard) To the north.

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If the graves to the north side
be unhallowed...

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Not that I remember observing any
so close to the present wall...

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There is one.

56
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Would the Church object
to my disturbing it?

57
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The Church would not object.

58
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Well, then...

59
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...the lady has to die.

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Shalt thou exercise,
Sir Matthew, thy prerogative,

61
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and the lady in question
be spared the cruel rope?

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Masters,

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no joy to me to see
about the hanging of any.

64
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But the lady in question
has been found a witch.

65
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The law is the law, my sheriff's duty
is my sheriff's duty.

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The lady has to die.

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Die, Sir Richard? The lady die?

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I said nothing of die, I say the lady
in question must be removed.

69
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But when did I say
it was a woman in the grave?

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You must have done.

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Mothersole.

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Strange name.

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The farmers of that time
paid for the stone,

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that she lie not nameless
in the earth.

75
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Well, well.

76
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Well, well, it is my wife-to-be must
take possession of this plot from now.

77
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To worship and not to rot.

78
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And that progeny,
which we shall pray for.

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The dead are dead.

80
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Aye.

81
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(Sir Richard) Dearest...

82
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You find me
laying to rest the great unread.

83
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Urgh, Polyaenus?

84
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Psalms of who?

85
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Richard...
"The Adventures Of Tom Jones"?

86
00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,914
Don't misbehave in Paris.
You are there to buy your trousseau.

87
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What need have I to misbehave?

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Hurry back.

89
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The date is burned on my heart.

90
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(Echoes of baby crying)

91
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Sir? Sir?

92
00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,314
Sir!

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(Sir Matthew's voice) 'Good morrow,
Mistress Mothersole.'

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(Drumming)

95
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(Man) Sir Matthew?

96
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I am Sir Matthew, yes. Aye.

97
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I know you, who you are,

98
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but your search in Castringham,
I assure you,

99
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shall be vain, Witchfinder, sir.

100
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So far as...ye know, sir.

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(Woman) 'Richard?

102
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'Richard?

103
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'You did not answer my letter.'

104
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(Echoes of woman humming)

105
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(Echoes of twigs snapping)

106
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Now we have here,
now we see here,

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Mistress Mothersole.

108
00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,073
(Humming stops)

109
00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,870
(Sir Richard) 'Now we see you
in your night shape.

110
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'The night hare.

111
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'We shall pursue you
to your house.

112
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'We shall prevent ye there.'

113
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Mistress'. Mistress'.

114
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(Dogs barking)

115
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Mistress'.

116
00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,397
No wonder, Lady Mothersole,
ye cannot answer'.

117
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You sport in the moonlight,
still in your night shape.

118
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Two four-leg sloth,
two hind legs long.

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(Mothersole) Sir Matthew...

120
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Sir Matthew,
what can be the matter?

121
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Is someone sick at the house?

122
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Madam, I am confounded.

123
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I...
Lady, I...

124
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Richard? Dickon?

125
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Dickon'.

126
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I am confounded.

127
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You are in a fit state
to discuss these?

128
00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,549
Surely, Liam,
that is why you have come.

129
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Yes, yes, Liam, surely.

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Your extension to the church,
I foresee no difficulty there.

131
00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,673
Oh, I understand an exhumation
will be necessary.

132
00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,679
But that is not an exercise for me.

133
00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,635
I do, however, have a question about
this Greek temple you propose for...

134
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Roman temple.

135
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Roman, a facsimile
of the sibyl's temple.

136
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Roman, yes, but in the Greek manner,
you will allow me that.

137
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Though these columns as you have
them are not so much Doric as, er...

138
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(Echoes of woman sobbing)

139
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Richard, how is Augusta?

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(Echoes of weeping)

141
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Mistress Mothersole,

142
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I cannot believe it.

143
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But what I saw ye do,
that I saw.

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And that have I had to testify.

145
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I can scarce believe it.

146
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But what I have seen,
I have seen.

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Dickon...

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Should I not leave?

149
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Come back tomorrow, for example,
when you're more yourself?

150
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Leave?

151
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Why?

152
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I was saying,
you neglected to answer,

153
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how is the Lady Augusta?

154
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She writes.

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00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,595
I'm surprised
you have not cut this down.

156
00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,713
You should never persuade
any of my father's flock in Kilkenny

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to sleep in a house
with such a tree.

158
00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:29,955
They will insist there, an ash so near
drains all the goodness out of it.

159
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,152
I'm thinking rather what its root
must be doing to your foundations.

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- That must be my room.
- What?

161
00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,557
My present room, I have grown
most discontented with it.

162
00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,512
The chimney smokes so...

163
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In it, I have not slept well.

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- But you have rooms to choose from.
- No, I have looked.

165
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The view from one will become
displeasing to me.

166
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Outside another, there would
always be servants passing.

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Another faces the East,
the rising sun would wake me.

168
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,833
But Dickon was always up
with the sun.

169
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Why did Mrs Chiddock
not mention this room?

170
00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,953
Because it has not been slept in, sir,
nor so much as opened,

171
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neither door nor window, sir,
I believe, since long before my time.

172
00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:23,550
After all, it is the room in which
the great Sir Matthew died, not that I...

173
00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,793
(Sir Richard) Yes...

174
00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,838
Yes.

175
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,793
Yes.

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Cut it down'.

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(Drumming in the distance)

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00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,797
(Priest) Man that is born of a woman
hath but a short time to live,

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and is full of misery.

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He cometh up
and is cut down like a flower.

181
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He fleeth as it were a shadow.

182
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And never continueth in one stay.

183
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In the midst of life,
we are in death.

184
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(Piercing screaming)

185
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,475
Of whom may we seek for succour
but of thee, O Lord?

186
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Who for our sins
are justly displeased.

187
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Yet, O Lord God, most holy,
O Lord most mighty,

188
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,832
O holy and most merciful saviour,

189
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deliver us not into the bitter pains
of eternal death.

190
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:00,633
Good sirs,

191
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,754
what I have seen,
I have seen.

192
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,395
(Drum roll)

193
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:12,914
(Priest) The Lord is my shepherd,
therefore can I lack nothing.

194
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He shall convert my soul

195
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,792
and bring me forth in the paths
of righeousness for his namesake.

196
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,550
Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death...

197
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- Croome...
- I will...

198
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,271
O, Mistress Mothersole,

199
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,076
thinkst thou I account this a joy
thus to dispatch thee from this world?

200
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,353
World?

201
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,472
What world?

202
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,113
Why, this life.

203
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,993
Life?

204
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,755
There is but one world.

205
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,794
And what life can there be
once that be...

206
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,353
Mine shall inherit'.

207
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,512
And no sweet babes...

208
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,551
...shall now mine be.

209
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,037
(Drum roll)

210
00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:31,430
(Horse whinnies)

211
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:34,511
Sir Matthew...

212
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,078
If we had thought to move
the lady without disturbing her,

213
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,476
I fear we have not achieved that.

214
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,876
We have not moved her at all.

215
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,194
Fell.

216
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,596
Where is she?

217
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,879
Dr Croome, of what did
the great Sir Matthew die?

218
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,117
No man knows.

219
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,393
Found dead in his chair
by his bed.

220
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,876
Dead and black.

221
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,992
Disordered.

222
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,192
Some poison,
though no trace what.

223
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,834
Nor how.

224
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,316
The Popish Plot, they said.

225
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,630
I had tried to close his eyes.

226
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,071
At the moment of touching
his dead eyelids,

227
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:31,753
there began in my hands
such a violent smarting.

228
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,511
For six weeks after,
my arms were so swollen.

229
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,033
The women who laid him out,
the same.

230
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,154
The hanging of Anne Mothersole
preyed much upon his mind.

231
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,320
He had done what he must,
yet her death,

232
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,514
that of the other unfortunates also,
but she especially,

233
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,597
preyed upon him.

234
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,555
He confessed
he had in his distress

235
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,799
sought an unorthodox guidance:
sortilege.

236
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,154
Eyes shut
to open a Bible at random.

237
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,320
- Place one's blind finger on the page.
- And whatever words...

238
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,879
He had so happened upon three texts:
one from Isaiah, one from Luke, Job.

239
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,592
It shall never be inhabited,
cut it down.

240
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,394
Her young ones also succour blood.

241
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,354
Yes, just such a night.

242
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,075
That night we last spoke.

243
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,114
I fancy a re-encounter
is not now far off.

244
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:47,191
We had walked, as you and I have,
to part before his door,

245
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,471
our separate ways.

246
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,152
Sir Matthew, what is that that runs up
and down the stem of the ash?

247
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,680
It is never a squirrel.

248
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,236
A trick of the moon.

249
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,715
The old prophet gave at least
one piece of sound advice.

250
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,479
Cut it down, eh?

251
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,159
I think, after all,
I shall take axe and saw to it.

252
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:17,874
Goodnight, sir.

253
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,679
(Woman humming)

254
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,393
(Baby crying)

255
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,075
(Baby cries echo)

256
00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:05,071
'Thou shalt seek me in the morning,
and I shall not be.'

257
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,836
(Baby cries)

258
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,752
(Rustling)

259
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,550
(Muffled baby's cries)

260
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,759
(Mothersole) Mine shall inherit'.

261
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,156
- (Knock at door)
- (Woman) Sir Richard?

262
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,475
- (Knocking)
- (Woman) Sir Richard'.

263
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,437
(Door opens)

264
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,117
(Muffled baby's cries)

265
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,875
(Furtive rustling)

266
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,797
(Baby's cries intensify)

267
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,715
(Man) The ash tree's on fire'.

268
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,312
(Baby cries out)

269
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,197
(Man) The ash tree's on fire'.

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00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,916
(Woman) The ash tree's on fire'.
(Man) Water'. Water'.

271
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,759
(Woman) Faster'.

272
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,519
(Frantic shouting)

273
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,950
(Baby crying)

274
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,430
(Baby crying)

275
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,919
(Gasps)