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In Autumn 1794, John Halifax arrives in the town of Norton Bury in the county of Gloucestershire to seek his fortune. The young man's struggles to find work and establish themself. Starring: Robert Coleby – John Halifax, Gwen Taylor – Ursula March, Tony Calvin – Phineas Fletcher.
In Autumn 1794, John Halifax arrives in the town of Norton Bury in the county of Gloucestershire to seek his fortune. The young man's struggles to find work and establish themself. Starring: Robert Coleby – John Halifax, Gwen Taylor – Ursula March, Tony Calvin – Phineas Fletcher.
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01:00The meeting has made me 23 minutes late.
01:19Phineas, my son, how am I going to get the own?
01:23Shall I call for one of Sally Watkins' boys,
01:26or wilt thou go with me to the tan yard?
01:30Father?
01:34Can I earn a penny, sir?
01:36What's thy name, lad?
01:38John Halifax.
01:40Thee'at a stranger?
01:41Sir, I've travelled near a hundred miles.
01:44Hast thee parents?
01:46No.
01:47What wilt thou do with thy wage?
01:50Buy some food.
01:51Thee'at hungry?
01:52Yes, sir.
01:53Art thee to be trusted?
01:57Well,
01:58he shall take my son over.
02:00And I will give thee a grot.
02:02When I've earned it, sir.
02:04I will.
02:04I say I will.
02:05I will.
02:18I say I will.
02:19You shan, Miss Ursula.
02:20I will.
02:22Wait.
02:24Wait.
02:24Come back here.
02:25What's your name?
02:26Take it, baker boy.
02:29You look hungry.
02:30I've been watching you.
02:32Here.
02:33Miss Ursula,
02:34you come back here at once.
02:52When did you last eat?
02:55Yesterday.
02:55I'll take you on.
03:02When you've finished it.
03:04No, I'll take you on first.
03:09Come then.
03:14Hi, Sophie.
03:15We're lost.
03:16The boy took me round by the abbey walk.
03:18It was so pleasant.
03:20Reg a muffin's bigger.
03:22Oh, madam, you mistake.
03:23I never begged in my life.
03:26I'm a person of independent property,
03:28which consists of my aid and my two hands.
03:31Out of which I hope to realize a large capital someday.
03:34Jail, I'm perfectly safe here with John Halifax.
03:37You needn't stay.
03:38That's the father.
03:40Now we'll see.
03:45Are they here?
03:46Pinius wanted me to go out and leave him.
03:49They'll be safe enough now.
03:50I've been perfectly safe here, father, all this time.
03:55Ask thee.
03:59John Halifax.
04:00If thee has no parents, how hast thee lived?
04:05Doing what I could to earn a living.
04:07Tell me.
04:08Hot picking, apple gathering, harvesting.
04:11Only I'd got typhus fever and I couldn't work.
04:13What did you do?
04:14Where I lay in a balm till I got well.
04:17Don't be afraid.
04:17I'm free of it now.
04:18It wasn't in my mind.
04:20It was in mine.
04:21Are they sure?
04:22I'm sure.
04:24And did Phineas give thee thy growl, trad?
04:26Oh, no.
04:26I forgot.
04:27Your good master always remembers to pay his workman, Phineas.
04:36Ah, indeed hungry.
04:38Go to the kitchen and have thy dinner.
04:40Oh, thank you, sir.
04:42Does he want work?
04:45I do, sir.
04:47What canst thee do?
04:49Anything, sir.
04:50They need not call me sir.
04:53I'm Abel Fletcher.
04:54I will be thankful for any work you can give me, Abel Fletcher.
04:58One of my men at the tanyard is enlisted.
05:01Gone to be a paid cutthroat against the French.
05:05And he can have his place.
05:07Oh, thank you, sir.
05:08Abel Fletcher.
05:09Don't ask, sir.
05:10I'll give you thy dinner.
05:15Who has enlisted, father?
05:17Bill Watkins.
05:18But he drove the skin cart.
05:20Aye?
05:21But father...
05:22Ah, dear to fool.
05:23The lad will go about his business for me.
05:26He that won't work, won't eat.
05:34Get out of the way!
05:35Well, I see a change.
06:05Well, Phineas should be up and about soon, and that should help things along.
06:09I'm glad to hear thee say so, Doctor.
06:12How long has it been now, Phineas?
06:14Three weeks, Doctor.
06:15Hmm.
06:16Do you have enough interests?
06:18My books.
06:20Yes.
06:22When he's strong, he'll come to the tanyard again.
06:25Take his place beside me.
06:27Learn how to manage it.
06:28Aye, friend.
06:29But not too soon.
06:30Take it gently, Phineas.
06:32All my young invalids seem to want to get up and rush around.
06:35In fact, my next call is on the little girl who wouldn't stay in bed.
06:39She cut her arm with a carving knife three weeks ago.
06:43Now, that wound would be healed by now if she had rested.
06:46What's her name?
06:47Ursula.
06:48Ursula March.
06:49She ran across the street to give a beggar boy some bread, and when she got back, she
06:54accidentally cut herself with the knife.
06:57Anyway, Phineas, take it gently for the next few days.
07:01Hmm?
07:01Hmm?
07:01Hmm?
07:02Hmm?
07:02Hmm?
07:02Hmm?
07:03Hmm?
07:03Hmm?
07:03Hmm?
07:04Hmm?
07:05Hmm?
07:06Hmm?
07:07Hmm?
07:08Hmm?
07:09Hmm?
07:10Hmm?
07:11Hmm?
07:12Hmm?
07:13Hmm?
07:14Hmm?
07:15Hmm?
07:16Hmm?
07:17Hmm?
07:18Hmm?
07:19Hmm?
07:20George!
07:21Eden!
07:32Oh, shall I go up the means again, Jacob?
07:34No.
07:35We have enough for today.
07:36Go on, put up the horse.
07:38Right.
07:49All right, Gus?
07:58I'm fine.
08:04So long, lassies.
08:06I'm out with that bark.
08:07I've got an old cartload of hide waiting to be cured.
08:10Now, come on, take across as much as you can.
08:12All right?
08:19John!
08:25John Halifax!
08:32It's good to see you, John.
08:34Are you not ashamed to shake hands for me?
08:39Have you got used to the smell?
08:41Almost, except when I come in with a cart.
08:43It isn't a pretty place.
08:45No, but it's my work.
08:47I hope it never is mine.
08:49Where are you lodged?
08:51Where are you lodged?
08:52Here.
08:53This is my old home.
08:55I wouldn't like to live here.
08:57Where do you eat?
08:59Here.
09:01I spend a lot of food, Phineas.
09:03I'm paid vitamins a day.
09:08And I eat through it, Miss Abbott.
09:09It's hard to be hungry.
09:11But where do you sleep?
09:12Here.
09:14Well, Tom's don't get much lodging, do it?
09:15I'm better here.
09:17Well, I scoop out the nest in the bark.
09:19Have the lawn of this rug from Jacob Baines.
09:22But what will you do in the winter?
09:25I expect I shall have some cold nights.
09:29John, the man whose job you were given.
09:32His mother has an empty room.
09:33I know her.
09:34She's poor and may be glad of two pence.
09:36Shall I ask her for you?
09:38You're very kind, Phineas.
09:39You can read and write.
09:42Yes.
09:53I can't read much of that.
09:55It's Greek testament.
09:56It's the beginning.
10:00Guy Halifax.
10:02His book.
10:03Guy Halifax, gentleman, married Muriel Joyce Spinster, May 17th, in the year of our Lord,
10:101779.
10:12John Halifax, their son, born June 18th, 1780.
10:16Guy Halifax died January 4th, 1781.
10:19You're 14, and your father died when you were six months old.
10:27Will you write something for me?
10:29Of course.
10:30What shall I write?
10:32About my mother.
10:34Write, Muriel Halifax died January the 1st, 1794.
10:49Will you teach me to read and write?
11:01Yes.
11:03How long is Phineas to be weak?
11:06Illness after illness.
11:09Is he to spend his whole life on a sick bed?
11:12That I cannot tell you, Abel Fletcher.
11:14When will they tell?
11:16He's a young man now, 21.
11:19And I have a decision to make.
11:21Dr. Jessup, must I take an apprentice?
11:25Wait one more year.
11:26I cannot say more than that.
11:29But let him get up.
11:30The more he's up, the stronger he'll be.
11:33Who is that?
11:34John Halifax.
11:35Come in, John.
11:37Oh, good day to you, John.
11:38Good day, Dr. Jessup.
11:39I'll find my own way out, Abel Fletcher.
11:41Thank you, thank you, doctor.
11:44I've just been to the bank.
11:47You're a C.
11:49How is Phineas?
11:51Is he well enough to go out yet?
11:53I could take him for a walk down by the myad for some fresh air.
11:57It would cheer him up.
11:59They get back to thy work, John Halifax.
12:02When I want thee, I'll ask thee.
12:05Very well.
12:09Phineas, let me help you.
12:11No, thank you, John.
12:12You may catch me if I fall, well.
12:15Take care of Phineas.
12:16The doctor said I could come downstairs today.
12:19I'll help you.
12:20No!
12:20Bravo!
12:29Bravo!
12:30You really are well again.
12:33Abel Fletcher, may I take him for a walk?
12:35Well, I've finished my work for this morning.
12:37I'll be back directly.
12:38When I want thee, John Halifax, I'll call thee.
12:41They're but a tannery lad yet.
12:43Please, father.
12:44Let me go out with John.
12:45Be back at four.
12:52I think it's marvellous you teaching yourself to read and add up.
12:56You started me off, it is.
12:58You taught me the beginnings.
12:59Without your help, I never would have done it.
13:01You did most of it yourself, John.
13:03I don't know how you found the time.
13:04Oh, it's astonishing what a number of odd minutes one can catch during the day,
13:08if one really sets about it.
13:09And I had Sunday afternoons.
13:11I didn't think it wrong.
13:12No!
13:13What books have you read?
13:15All of your scent?
13:16Program's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and the Arabian Nights.
13:19You've done marvellous!
13:21I must learn.
13:23Your father says how clever you are, Phineas.
13:25I wish I was clever as that.
13:27It's little I can teach, John, but if you like, I'll teach you all I know.
13:39See the sparkles on the water?
13:41You like looking at beautiful things.
13:43Ha, ha.
13:44Don't I?
13:45When I look through my window, what I see keeps me alive through the winters.
13:51Help!
13:52Help!
13:53You ain't here, Phineas.
13:58Help!
14:07Touched for them.
14:07Help!
14:08Holder!
14:09Give it up!
14:26Get up!
14:30There he is!
14:32Hold her!
14:33Let it be!
14:33Come here.
14:34Come here!
14:35Hold that.
14:49Right.
15:05Well, it's all over with her, poor thing.
15:23We might have lost our lives.
15:25Who pulled us out?
15:29Young man!
15:31Sir?
15:32Was it you that pushed us out?
15:34We owe him much.
15:37Not more than a ground to pay.
15:39I know him, Cousin March.
15:41He works in Fletcher the Quaker's town yard.
15:54Well, don't know why I have liked.
15:57My name is John Halifax, and I work in the town yard.
16:00I told you so, Cousin.
16:02I once ran him down in his skin cart.
16:05Bah!
16:06Well, you've done me a good turn for an ill one.
16:08Here.
16:09Fine, I'll bring it.
16:13Here's a guinea for you.
16:14I'd rather not take any money, sir.
16:16Not take it?
16:17Come on!
16:18Leave him!
16:21My name is March.
16:22Henry March.
16:24If ever I could...
16:25Thank you very much, sir.
16:34I don't think much of the younger one's manners.
16:36Richard Brithwood.
16:37He's the son of the Squire at Mythe House.
16:38He'll be Squire himself one day.
16:39I hope he's nicer by then.
16:40Who's Henry March, the old man?
16:41A cousin of the Squire.
16:43We'd best start for home.
16:50We best start at home.
17:20Wake Abel Fletcher.
17:22What is two o'clock?
17:23He must be gone up, he must.
17:25What's the matter?
17:26John?
17:27The river's overflowed.
17:28The waters are rising.
17:29I've come to fetch your father.
17:30Please, rouse him.
17:32John Halifax, what does he hear?
17:34He must come to the tanyard.
17:36The river's overflowed.
17:38Can't you find Jacob Payne from the others?
17:40Yes.
17:41Get along, then.
17:42Tell him I'll come.
17:44Come up, Phineas.
17:45What harm will the river do?
17:47Why, it'll flood.
17:48The tanyard?
17:49What does he know about the tanyard?
17:51What John was saying?
17:52John Halifax had better hold his tongue.
17:55Now get thee to bed.
17:56Will you send word?
17:57Send John.
17:58Phineas, the lad is a good lad.
18:01A very decent lad.
18:03If thee doesn't make too much of him.
18:06But remember, he is but my servant.
18:09He had my son.
18:10My only son.
18:11Now get thee to bed.
18:13Here, he's over here with those bad crickets coming over the top.
18:16Come on over here, quick, sir!
18:18Here, where the bend is?
18:19Leave that.
18:20I'll bring the car down.
18:21I don't realize there are more bags over here.
18:23If I stole them.
18:24Tick up against the wall.
18:25Pronto.
18:26Leave it ahead.
18:27Pronto.
18:28Leave it ahead.
18:29No, it's back.
18:31Anything to hold it.
18:33That's it, sir.
18:35Hold on.
18:36Hold on.
18:37Well, Abel's ledger.
18:38Father.
18:39Here, top early.
18:40Get back to bed at once.
18:41They'll catch thy dead.
18:42Tis a cold morning for thee.
18:43Come on down.
18:44What?
18:45Has they made up the fire?
18:46Well, of course I have.
18:47Have I sat by it all night.
18:48Come on down.
18:49Oh, my father.
18:50Oh, my father.
18:51Sit thee there.
18:52By the fire.
18:53Oh, my father.
18:54Sit thee there.
18:55By the fire.
18:56Tell me what happened.
18:57I'm going to get back to bed at once.
18:58I'm going to get back to bed at once.
18:59They'll catch thy dead.
19:00Tis a cold morning for thee.
19:01Come on down.
19:02What?
19:03Has they made up the fire?
19:04Of course I have.
19:05Have I sat by it all night?
19:07Come on down.
19:08By the fire.
19:09Oh, my father.
19:17Sit thee there.
19:18By the fire.
19:19Tell me what happened.
19:24Nothing, my son.
19:27Save that the giver of old worldly goods.
19:30Seen fit to take back a portion of mine.
19:33I, like many another in this town, are many hundreds poorer than when I went to bed last night.
19:38It might have been worse, father.
19:40Oh, surely.
19:41I should have lost all I had in the world.
19:44Safer, John?
19:46Come to the fire, John.
19:47I do.
19:48Take off thy cloak.
19:50Has they heard any more news of the flood?
19:53Both bridges, Darren.
19:55I don't know how many bolts washed away.
19:58The houses at Luxmore flooded.
20:01Mrs. Yates and her son drowned.
20:04Mrs. Yates drowned.
20:07Aye, but the floods have turned.
20:10Jill, bring us some food with the lad and me.
20:13Had a hard night's work together.
20:16I should have lost everything I had if I hadn't been warned.
20:22So it was well that John came.
20:24He's been useful.
20:25He has an old head on young shoulders.
20:28Lad!
20:29They told me they saw the river rising by the light of the moon.
20:33What was they doing then out of thy honest bed?
20:35Answer.
20:36I'll not be hard on thee.
20:37Today, at least.
20:38I was doing no harm.
20:39I was in the tenure.
20:40My business there?
20:41Well, I spent yesterday afternoon with Phineas, and I didn't finish the days it counts as you told me always to do.
20:51So I went back to finish them.
20:53There's bread and cheese and ale.
20:55Bring another plate and another mug.
20:56All the lad will come down to the kitchen.
20:57Is he waiting for him there?
20:58Woman, do as I desire.
20:59Bring another plate and another mug.
21:00And done all effects.
21:01It has been a great service to me this night.
21:02How can I reward thee?
21:03It's enough reward to know I've been useful to my master, and that he acknowledges it.
21:24Where am the right lad?
21:26I shall not forget it.
21:28I'm obliged to thee.
21:31Phineas, canst thee think of nothing that will give the lad pleasure?
21:37Could I suggest that John spends every Sunday here?
21:40Would he like that?
21:42Yes, Abel Fletcher.
21:44Then thee shall.
21:55Do you know why Father gave you a day's holiday?
21:58Because of your birthday.
22:00And because the Russian hides hadn't come in yet.
22:03More than that.
22:04He's had a talk with Dr. Jessup about me.
22:07To see if I can get strong enough to go into the tan yard.
22:11You're here to see I can get sunshine and fresh air.
22:15John, I'm sorry I haven't been a help to my father.
22:19And yet I'm very glad I haven't spent my days in the tan yard.
22:24Oh, I'm used to it now.
22:27I can take my mind off the smell with all kinds of studies.
22:30Your father says it's made me quite a good businessman, so thank the tan yard for that.
22:36Sir!
22:37Will you favor me by informing me how far is it to Coltem?
22:41Ten miles.
22:43The stage passes the road there.
22:47Will you allow me to wait with you until the stage comes and takes me on to another?
22:51Please.
22:52Excuse me while I continue my dessert.
22:54In fact, my dinner.
22:55Are you connoisseurs in turnips?
22:57No, thank you.
22:58We've dined.
22:59What lucky gentleman.
23:00Oh, I've dined on worse than turnips.
23:02May I give you my name?
23:04Mr. Edmund Charles.
23:06And you are Mr. Halifax.
23:08Halifax.
23:09Halifax.
23:10And you, sir?
23:11Fletcher.
23:12Fletcher.
23:13Yesterday I preached to the good people of Norton Burry in these fields.
23:22You're a preacher?
23:25My text was the quality of mercy being twice blessed.
23:29It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
23:32And then I spoke of the horrors of the war.
23:35And the women cried.
23:38And afterwards they gave me their pennies.
23:40More than a penny from each I refused.
23:42Then I spent it.
23:43Most of it on food, wine, and...
23:45You played them a trick.
23:46I'm sorry for that.
23:48So am I, young man, so am I.
23:50But starvation is unpleasant.
23:52And the theft of the...
23:53Excuse me.
23:54Necessity has no law.
23:56For I have to reach Coltem tonight to appear as Shylock before an admiring audience.
24:00You're an actor.
24:01Please, your worship, I am.
24:03Either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral, comical, historical, pastoral, tragical,
24:08historical, tragical, comical, historical, pastoral, scene, individual, or poem, unlimited.
24:12I am, sir, an actor.
24:16The greatest actor on the English stage.
24:19John Philip Kemble ate turnips in Nortonbury and preached in the fields of Gloucestershire.
24:26Aha!
24:27The coach!
24:28I must go.
24:29Do battle tonight for my pound of flesh.
24:31My worthy protagonist is Mr. Sarah Sidnes.
24:34Surely, gentlemen, you would not lose such a rare treat as seeing the Merchant of Venice
24:41with, I will not say my humble self, but with the divine Sarah.
24:44Shakespeare himself might lean out of Elysium to watch her.
24:46No.
24:47Well, you'd be home by midnight.
24:50What do you think, Phineas?
24:52Is it possible, John?
24:53Well, I have money.
24:54We do have so little pleasure.
24:55Let's go.
24:56Ha!
24:57Splendid!
24:58Splendid!
24:59Jeepers searched stories
25:01or whatever students had on the way through it
25:25Jacob Bains told me he saw Mr. Sidnes in this barn twenty years ago.
25:29I wonder if your father ever did.
25:31Oh, no. My father wouldn't enter a playhouse for the world.
25:35Why's that?
25:36Don't look so worried, John. He's a Quaker.
25:39But he didn't bring me up in the Society of Friends. I'm not bound by its restrictions.
25:43True. If I were alone, I'd enjoy any pleasure I believe to be a lawful one.
25:48But Abel Fletcher's my master. I'll take you home now, Phineas, if you like.
25:51No, John. I want to see the play as much as you do.
25:54I've lived in Nortonbury all my life, and this is the first time I've been ten miles from the town.
26:19Good people! Good people!
26:24Let me pass.
26:26Make way. Make way. Make way.
26:40I regret, young man, you should have had so much trouble.
26:45Here is some requital.
26:47I will keep this one, madam, if I may.
26:52As a memento that I once had the pleasure of being useful to Mrs. Siddons.
26:58I thank you, sir.
26:59Boy, a cushion for Mr. Fletcher.
27:11Miss Two Oranges.
27:12You've quite taken your place in the world, John.
27:14I've traveled more than you have, Phineas.
27:16If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces.
27:36It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
27:40I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.
27:47I am a Jew.
27:51Hath not a Jew eyes, hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions, fed with the same food, hurt by the same weapons,
28:08subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is.
28:16If you prick us, do we not bleed?
28:20If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
28:23If you poison us, do we not die?
28:26And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
28:32If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
28:38Then must the Jew be merciful.
28:40On what compulsion, Master?
28:43Tell me that!
28:44The quality of mercy is not strained.
28:49It droppeth.
28:51As the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
28:55It is twice blessed.
28:57It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
29:01It is mightiest in the mightiest.
29:03It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.
29:08His scepter shows the force of temporal power.
29:10The attribute to awe and majesty wherein there sits the dread and fear of kings.
29:15But mercy is above this scepter's sway.
29:19It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
29:22It is an attribute to God himself.
29:25And earthly power doth then show likest gods when mercy seasons justice.
29:31I shall go down to the grave, John worshipping, Mrs. Siddon.
29:43I thought our friend Mr. Charles did well, too.
29:45Yes, but I couldn't help thinking of turnips.
29:49Well, it's time for home.
29:51My crutches.
29:51Must be eleven o'clock.
29:57How shall we get home?
30:00I've got enough money.
30:01We'll hire a gig and drive home.
30:02Huh?
30:08Not a grove.
30:12Her shilling.
30:15A thief.
30:17In the crowd.
30:18Won't somebody trust us?
30:22Wait here, Phineas.
30:45It's no use, Phineas.
30:47I'm not so respectable as I thought.
30:51Must be done, eh?
30:53I don't know.
30:56Home by midnight, eh?
30:58Come on, Phineas.
30:59I'll help you on.
31:00Come on.
31:00You're safe at home.
31:13You will come in.
31:24I'll bear the blame.
31:27We've committed no absolute sin.
31:29Not paid dearly for any folly.
31:31Courage.
31:31Come on, Phineas.
31:45I'm all right.
31:50All right.
31:51Phineas, where has they been?
32:01At the theater at Colton.
32:03It was my fault.
32:05He went because I wanted to go.
32:06I knew where they wast.
32:09Jacob Baird, his brother, told me.
32:12He saw thee there.
32:13He told me.
32:15Why did they wish to go?
32:17Why?
32:20Abel Fletcher, were you never young like me?
32:23The temptation was hard.
32:25Life here is dull.
32:27I long sometimes for a little amusement, a change.
32:30He shalt have it.
32:32John Halifax, how long has he planned this?
32:35I didn't plan it.
32:37It just happened.
32:39Sir.
32:41Abel Fletcher.
32:42Did I ever tell you a lie?
32:46Well, if you won't believe me, then believe your son.
32:49No.
32:50Oh, don't ask him.
32:55I've been cruel, Phineas.
32:57I can look after my son.
33:00Thou shalt not lead him into harm's way anymore.
33:02Go.
33:04I have mistaken thee.
33:06But he seemed a lad to my mind.
33:09I trusted thee.
33:11This day I meant to bind thee, my Prentice.
33:14And in time, to take thee into the business.
33:16And now.
33:25I can earn my living elsewhere.
33:27No.
33:28I don't want that.
33:30Not at present.
33:31John.
33:34John, you will not go.
33:36No, if I can redeem my character, I'll stay.
33:38I won't part with you, Phineas.
33:39Thou must.
33:40But, Father.
33:41I have said it, Phineas.
33:43I accuse him of no dishonesty, no crime.
33:47But he weakly yielded and caused another to yield to the temptation of this world.
33:53I'll keep him as my clerk, but as my son's companion.
33:57No.
33:57No.
33:58No.
34:28No, Jael, perhaps tomorrow.
34:31I'll bring it to the ear, then, what there is of it.
34:35Has the kitchen defeated you?
34:36Nay, but the way thy father stints the housekeeping, that's a trial.
34:43Tis hard times, Phineas Fletcher.
34:46Tis lucky for all of us that I'm so clever it may can do.
34:49I bless my luck, Jael.
34:53Thy father sent that young man up and down the country again,
34:56seeking grain for the mill.
34:58I don't know whether he were wise to buy the mill after a poor harvest died last.
35:04John will find grain.
35:06What do you have to say to thee?
35:08Only that he still holds my friendship dear and sends me greetings on my birthday.
35:14Nothing more?
35:15Nothing.
35:17Hmm.
35:17Thus they know that a quartern loaf be three shillings.
35:26I'm going to pick a meal for.
35:28Well, I'll get the dinner.
35:34Wait, woman.
35:35I've seen what they has cooked for dinner.
35:39There must be no more of it.
35:41No more of what?
35:42Pies, woman.
35:44Pastry.
35:45Cakes.
35:46And only so much bread as we need.
35:48I'll not have the neighbours saying that Abel Fletcher has plenty in his house
35:51and flour in his mill while there is famine.
35:55So take heed.
35:55I don't waste a piece of thine.
35:58And do I not eat the poor?
36:00Last Sunday, a woman cried after me about wasting good flour in starch.
36:05And now see.
36:07So that's what the change is.
36:09Don't they mock me, Abel Fletcher.
36:11And don't they preach to others when the sin lies on thy head.
36:16He still has air powder.
36:18Pies, woman.
36:18Will there be trouble, father?
36:28Yes, Phineas.
36:29And another poor hour is to come.
36:33I shall get thee away for the summer.
36:35Away?
36:35I've heard of a widow woman.
36:37A Mrs. Todd of Enderley.
36:39She has a cottage.
36:41She'll take thee in for the summer and take care of thee.
36:44Dr. Jessup says the change will do thee the world of good.
36:48Are the people starving?
36:53They're hungry.
36:55They flock around the mill and the tanyard.
36:59They must have no part of that, Phineas.
37:01We want bread!
37:03We want bread!
37:07We want bread!
37:09We want bread!
37:11We want bread!
37:13We want bread!
37:15I should be back shortly.
37:31Where are you going?
37:33Well, as that father hasn't come home, I must go and find him.
37:36Now, don't you pay no heed to the noise.
37:38He's only the poor.
37:40And there are not so many of them.
37:41We've always had enough smoke, pox, and fever to keep the poor down.
37:46And don't you open the door to anyone.
37:48Where are you?
37:49I'm on Fletcher!
37:50We want them out!
37:51Where are you, I'm on Fletcher?
37:54What do we want?
37:58Rebbe thy master, Jacob Baines.
38:00He'd gone to fetch the military, I should think.
38:02And be on a Quaker and all.
38:04They never do that.
38:05He knows the law don't help Quakers.
38:08They wouldn't want armed to come to him.
38:11Would they?
38:14Phineas!
38:14I can walk.
38:16There were scuffles in the town, but they let me pass.
38:18Let they pass, indeed.
38:19Straight off back home, Phineas Fletcher.
38:21Oh, they may not let me pass again.
38:23Oh, best they hear.
38:25Shh.
38:26Shh.
38:33John!
38:35Phineas, where's your father?
38:48Come on, up there!
38:50Let us have it!
38:51Come on!
38:51We have your bed up there!
38:53Come on!
38:54Leave it!
38:54You bring out the bags, Abel Fletcher!
38:58Us men have bread!
39:00Fire!
39:01There's no other way!
39:03We'll burn you out!
39:05Aye!
39:07Aye!
39:08What do you have?
39:16Jim?
39:19Will?
39:19Will?
39:21Let us pass.
39:23We'll talk to Abel Fletcher.
39:25Talking?
39:27I brought Master Phineas, his son, to help him see the way of it.
39:32Let us pass.
39:36We must have wheat.
39:38I know you must.
39:39Let us pass.
40:06What?
40:07I'm going to go.
40:16I'm going to go.
40:19Finish!
40:37Yes, what does he with John Halifax?
40:57We met half an hour ago.
40:58I've not broken my word.
41:00There's no time for that, able Fletcher.
41:02You must sell your corn.
41:03Tell him, Felix.
41:04Yes, the tan yard has not been thriving of late.
41:09If I sell my corn below famine prices,
41:12they'll be poor when I'm gone.
41:13You'll be poor within an hour.
41:15Have you heard those starving wretches?
41:17If those fellas have waited two more days,
41:19I'd have sold them all my corn.
41:20At famine prices?
41:22A hundred shillings a quarter.
41:23They could have bought into that.
41:25Now they shall have nothing.
41:27It'll teach them wisdom another time.
41:29They'll burn you.
41:31They doesn't.
41:32All these sacks.
41:36It's thy fortune, my son.
41:38It's for thy sake, Phineas.
41:40Abel Fletcher!
41:43Abel Fletcher!
41:46We've waited no longer!
41:48No!
41:48No!
41:50Right, Will!
41:51Right, lads!
41:52Bring out the wheat!
42:02We must have bread!
42:04Throw down your corn, Abel Fletcher!
42:07Yeah!
42:08Aye!
42:09Aye!
42:09Abel Fletcher shall throw it down to you, your name!
42:14Thank you, Mr. Fletcher, thank you!
42:18I knew you'd see the way of it.
42:21You did think I heard.
42:25No!
42:30You can't let it down from that wind.
42:32No, it'll fall in the mill stream!
42:33No!
42:34No!
42:34No!
42:34No!
42:34No!
42:35No!
42:35No!
42:35No!
42:35No!
42:36No!
42:36No!
42:37No!
42:37No!
42:38No!
42:39No!
42:40No!
42:41No!
42:42No!
42:43No!
42:44No!
42:45No!
42:46No!
42:47No!
42:48No!
42:49No!
42:50No!
42:50No!
42:51No!
42:52No!
42:53No!
42:53No!
42:54No!
42:55No!
42:55No!
42:56Let's get it in the dry!
42:57Get it in the dry!
42:59Get it in the dry!
43:01Get it in the dry!
43:03We'll fire the mill now.
43:04Yeah!
43:04All right.
43:05Come.
43:07Phineas is here.
43:13My old father needs us helplessly, Phineas.
43:16hey bring them all together here over here
43:21no more of it put those torches out quick now
43:30we don't want you we want able's ledger you know what you're doing to burn is to hang
43:46who's a man to choose between hanging and starving nobody will get hang burning a quaker but don't
43:53you hurt him he were kind to my lad and he'd be a real gentleman he'd come dear as poor as us
44:00speak up then john be one of us no i am not i'd not come in the night to burn my master
44:09why do you do it because he would not sell you or give you his weed
44:15it was his weed not yours man may do what he likes with his own
44:21mr fletcher is not to be threatened
44:24you're starving i'm sorry for you
44:30sorry from the bottom of my heart
44:34john halifax we mean no harm to you
44:39you're a gentleman but master fletcher is a hard man and a just one
44:44if you'd gone to him and said times is hard we can't live on our wages he might
44:50he might have given you the grain you tried to steal
44:54give us bread for our children mr halifax
44:59i'll give thee bread for thy children
45:10take it
45:11take it
45:11stay
45:18there's been a good lad
45:22a kind lad
45:24i thank thee
45:26stay in the house
45:29am i welcome
45:31a bit welcome
45:32thank you father
45:34nothing to thank me for
45:35i only did what was justice
45:38or what i believe to be justice
45:41john
45:42from this day for one year
45:45i take thee as my apprentice
45:47already thou knowest as much about the business as i do
45:51when they're 21 i can either set up for thyself
45:54or come into partnership with me
45:57may god deal well with thee
45:59well phineas splendid john confess now it was you told father about rose cottage
46:15i i may have mentioned it two whole months of summer here
46:19i must be off to work i've told mrs todd when i'll be back for supper
46:25your poetry book your bookmark what have you been reading oh read it
46:30i'm late
46:31read it
46:32his cottage low
46:43and safely humble gate
46:45shuts out proud fortune with her fawns and scorns
46:49no feared treason breaks his quiet sleep
46:53singing all day
46:55his flocks he learns to keep
46:57himself
46:58as innocent as are his quiet sheep
47:01i don't see many sheep john
47:03lots of donkeys though
47:06it's worth more than a laugh phineas
47:09oh i'm sure the lodgers upstairs won't disturb you
47:14the old man's very sick and his wife won't leave him
47:17what is their name if i should meet them
47:18he's a retired man a mr march
47:21not the one you pulled from the river
47:23highly unlikely
47:24oh i beg your pardon
47:29father
47:30we have other visitors my dear
47:33i'm so sorry i was looking for mrs todd
47:36come upstairs father
47:38yes yes
47:39not mrs march i think john
47:44miss
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