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As Juliana Bordereau
sat there before me,

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my heart beat as fast as if the
miracle of resurrection

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had taken place solely for my
benefit.

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Her presence
seemed somehow to contain his,

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and I felt nearer to him at that
first moment of seeing her

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than I ever had before,

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or ever have since.

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I felt an irresistible desire
to hold in my own, for a moment,

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the hand that Jeffrey Aspern
had pressed.

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One doesn't defend one's god.

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One's god is in himself a
defence.

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Today Jeffrey Aspern shines high
in the heaven of our literature

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for all the world to see.

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He is a part of the light
by which we walk.

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He had been not only one of the
most brilliant poets of his day,

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but one of the most genial men

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and one of the handsomest.

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His early death had been the
only dark spot in his life,

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unless the papers
in Miss Bordereau's hands

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should perversely bring out
others.

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By what passions
had he been ravaged?

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By what sufferings
had she been blanched?

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Our house is very far from the
centre,

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but the little canal is comme il
faut.

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Very respectable.

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It's the sweetest corner of
Venice.

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I can imagine nothing more
charming.

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There's no need to raise your
voice. I can hear you perfectly.

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Please do sit down over there.

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Do tell me
what you might expect from me.

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Well...

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Perhaps the young lady who so
kindly received me yesterday

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explained to you about the
garden.

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Your garden gave me the courage
to take a step so unconventional.

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I thought I might find lodgings
here.

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Mr Edward Sullivan.
To see Miss Bordereau.

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Excuse me.

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The garden.

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Is it yours?

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The garden?

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Nothing here is mine.

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But surely the garden
must belong to the house?

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Yes, but the house doesn't
belong to me.

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Then would you tell me
to whom I must address myself?

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You know...

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I'm looking for a garden.

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It's absurd if you like,
for a man, but...

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I can't live without flowers.

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There are none to speak of down
there.

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It costs too much to cultivate
them.

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One has to have a man.

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Why should I not be that man?

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You shall have
the finest flowers in Venice.

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But I don't know you.

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Oh, you know me as much as I
know you.

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That is to say much more,
as you now know my name.

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If you're so fond of gardens,

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why don't you go to terra firma
,

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where there are so many
far better than mine?

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It's the combination.

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The idea of a garden
in the middle of the sea.

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It's not in the middle of the
sea!

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It's many years

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since I have been
in one of the gondolas.

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Well, let me assure you of the
pleasure

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at which I would put mine at
your service.

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You're English, are you not?

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If you are, I'm almost a
countryman.

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We're not English.

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You don't mean to say
you're an American?

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I don't know.

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Used to be.

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Used to be?

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It's been so many years...

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We're... nothing now.

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I'm not going to take anything
from you.

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I have some writing to do.

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I would like some quiet over a
period, possibly all winter.

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I also need a great deal of open
air.

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I find a garden is really...

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indispensable.

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Nothing will change for you
all...

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except, of course, the flowers.

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For us all?

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I mean all your family...

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However many you are.

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There's only one other...

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She's very old.

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Only one other,

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in all this place?

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Surely then you have space to
spare.

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If you could let me two, three
rooms, it would greatly assist me.

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Er... I can't decide anything.

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You must see my aunt.

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The young lady who received you
so kindly, as you say,

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is my niece.

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Her name is Tina.

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She will come in, but I wished
to see you alone for a moment.

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I'll be delighted
to see your niece again.

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Miss Tina was so very courteous
to me.

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She has very good manners.
I bred her up myself.

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I imagine she must have thought
me very odd.

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It matters little
how odd you are.

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I don't care who you are.

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It signifies very little today.

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- Am I to understand...?
- There's nothing to understand.

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Just listen... carefully.

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You may have

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as many rooms as you like...

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if you will pay me
a great deal of money.

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I will pay with pleasure

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and of course in advance

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whatever you think it proper
to ask of me.

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Well, then, a thousand francs a
month.

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A thousand...

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My dear lady,
your views perfectly fit my own.

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Tomorrow I shall have the
pleasure

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of putting three months' rent
into your hand.

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- Three thousand...
- Three thousand francs?

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Oh, did you mean francs or
dollars?

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I think francs were what you
said.

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Oh... that seems to be very good
to me.

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What do you know? How do you
know?

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You have always been ignorant
of these matters, praise God.

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That's quite true.

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I know nothing about money.

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Nothing at all.

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You have your own branches of
knowledge, I'm sure.

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Well, she had
a very good English education

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when she was young.

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But she's learned nothing since.

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That's because
I've always been with you.

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But for that...

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What time will you come tomorrow
with the money?

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If it suits you, I'll come at
noon.

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It suits me.

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I will see you at noon, with the
money.

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I'll be punctual.

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May I shake your hand
on our contract?

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I belong to a time
when that was not the custom.

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And you, miss,

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will you shake my hand?

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Surely you accept the custom of
our day.

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Will you bring the money in
gold?

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In gold?

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Aren't you a little afraid to keep
such a sum in gold in the house?

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Of whom should I be afraid
if I'm not afraid of you?

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Quite.

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I'll bring gold if you prefer.

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Yes.

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I prefer, since I asked.

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Hm.

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This conversation has tired me.
I want you to go now.

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The strange thing is

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I've discovered Juliana
Bordereau is still alive.

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It's as if I've discovered
the famous Lady Hamilton is.

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And she belongs
to a generation just as extinct.

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Every one of Aspern's
contemporaries has passed.

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I haven't been able to look
into a single pair of eyes

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that his might have looked into.

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Or transmitted contact from an
aged hand that his has touched.

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In all my years of research,

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I've encountered phantoms,
ghosts,

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echoes of echoes,

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when the one source of information
that has lingered on into our time

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has been unheeded by me.

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Why don't you simply offer them
a sum of money?

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In that way you might obtain her letters
without so many sleepless nights.

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She would never accept money
for anything so valuable.

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The world has recognised Jeffrey
Aspern,

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and I've recognised him most.

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I've done more for his memory
than anyone else,

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and I've done it by shinning a
light into his life.

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And into yours.

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"Ere Babylon was dust,

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the Magus Zoroaster, my dead
child,

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met his own image walking in the
garden.

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That apparition,

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sole of men,

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he saw."

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One of Aspern's poems?

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Of course.

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You're too fond of mystery.
That's your great fault.

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But you'll have to change your
name.

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Juliana lives out of the world
as much as it's possible to live.

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Nonetheless, she's probably
heard of Mr Aspern's editors.

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She may know
about what you've published,

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may even have read it.

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I've thought of that.

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Duplicity is my only course.

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First I have to sit down with
her,

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then tackle the main job.

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Or else seduce the niece.

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Isn't it charming?
It's grey and pink.

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It hasn't got an air so much of
decay as of... quiet discouragement.

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Quite, I'll say.

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Even though you can pass on foot,
scarcely anyone thinks of doing so.

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Perhaps the people are afraid
of the Misses Bordereau.

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They have the reputation of
witches.

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Wish me luck.

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I've had better fortune
than I hoped.

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Tell me, how did you manage to
convince her?

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Oh, it was the idea of the money
that convinced her.

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That was your only argument?

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And that I said that I
thought she'd get a good deal.

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That I thought you were rich.

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And what put that idea into your
head?

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I don't know...
The way that you talked.

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Oh, dear.

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I think I must talk differently.

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I'm afraid my voice has deceived
you.

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Do you think it's too much?

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That depends on the amount of
pleasure I get for it.

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Pleasure?

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There is no pleasure in this
house.

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So, this is where your aunt
would like me to be?

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She said your rooms
ought to be very distinct.

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Apart. You know?

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That would certainly be best.

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I don't know if it'll make
any difference to you,

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but the money is for me.

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Money?

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The money you are going to
bring.

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You'll make me want to stay
three years.

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Well, that would be
very good for me.

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She wants me to have something.

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She fears that she's going to
die.

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Not soon, I hope.

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Why do you say that?

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Not soon.

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It's as if you feared something.

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No, no, no, no.

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I hope she's not seriously ill.

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For her sake.

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And for yours.

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No.

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She's just very tired. That's
all.

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She's tired of everything.

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She's lived so many years, she said
she'd like to try dying for a change.

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All her friends died long ago

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and either they ought to have remained
or she ought to have gone with them.

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- That's what she says.
- Hm.

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But people don't die when they
want, do they?

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I guess she won't have much to
say to me while I'm here.

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No.

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There's nothing to tell.
We live such a quiet life.

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I don't know how the days pass,
I...

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You're very trusting.

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- Trusting?
- Mm-hm.

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I... I suppose that I am a
trusting person.

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As soon as my rooms had
been arranged, I surveyed the place,

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looking for my opportunity.

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Yet you can push through a
breach

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but you can't batter down a dead
wall.

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00:16:39,399 --> 00:16:41,299
They were like two hunted
creatures

256
00:16:42,202 --> 00:16:43,801
feigning death.

257
00:16:46,072 --> 00:16:50,875
I made a point of spending as much
time as possible in the garden

258
00:16:50,877 --> 00:16:55,046
to justify the picture I had originally
given of my horticultural passion.

259
00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:03,454
And I not only spent time,
but considerable money.

260
00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:05,123
We got a lot of work to do.
Come with me.

261
00:17:06,192 --> 00:17:08,726
I had to be consistent.

262
00:17:08,728 --> 00:17:12,530
Keep my promise that I would
smother the house with flowers.

263
00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:18,469
I had formed this project that
by flowers I would make my way.

264
00:17:24,978 --> 00:17:28,679
I used to watch,
as long as I thought decent,

265
00:17:28,681 --> 00:17:33,451
the door that led to Miss
Bordereau's part of the house.

266
00:17:33,453 --> 00:17:38,389
A person observing me might have thought
I was trying to cast a spell on her door

267
00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:43,561
or was attempting some odd
experiment in hypnotism.

268
00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:47,965
But I was not rewarded with a
glimpse of the tail of her dress.

269
00:17:47,967 --> 00:17:52,103
It was as if she had never
peeped out of her apartment.

270
00:18:05,785 --> 00:18:08,453
What store of passionate
memories

271
00:18:08,455 --> 00:18:13,191
had Juliana laid away
for the monotonous future?

272
00:18:13,193 --> 00:18:16,227
"A secret
known to none but thee

273
00:18:16,229 --> 00:18:18,996
and no one else of living
things..."

274
00:18:28,241 --> 00:18:32,243
She was the daughter of an
artist, a painter, a sculptor

275
00:18:32,245 --> 00:18:34,912
who had left America
when the century was fresh.

276
00:18:37,217 --> 00:18:39,817
Upon her arrival in Europe,

277
00:18:39,819 --> 00:18:43,087
she surrounded herself
with poets and writers.

278
00:18:45,558 --> 00:18:47,658
There was an implication

279
00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:50,561
that she'd had an adventurous
and fascinating character.

280
00:19:32,705 --> 00:19:36,641
I'm so glad you've
come!

281
00:19:36,643 --> 00:19:39,644
You speak as if you were lost in
the woods.

282
00:19:39,646 --> 00:19:41,846
How you manage to stay out of
this charming place

283
00:19:41,848 --> 00:19:44,382
when you have only three feet
to get into it...

284
00:19:44,384 --> 00:19:46,717
It's more
than I've been able to discover.

285
00:19:48,488 --> 00:19:49,887
Tell me.

286
00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:52,823
How do you manage without air,

287
00:19:52,825 --> 00:19:54,792
without movement,

288
00:19:54,794 --> 00:19:57,728
without any sort
of contact from outside?

289
00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:01,933
We go to bed very early.

290
00:20:03,169 --> 00:20:05,603
Well... earlier than you'd
imagine.

291
00:20:09,142 --> 00:20:11,342
Do you know...

292
00:20:11,344 --> 00:20:14,312
I've never been out here
at this time of day.

293
00:20:14,314 --> 00:20:15,213
Never?

294
00:20:16,683 --> 00:20:18,316
In this fragrant place,

295
00:20:18,318 --> 00:20:20,952
blooming right here under your
nose?

296
00:20:20,954 --> 00:20:23,354
It was never nice till now.

297
00:20:23,356 --> 00:20:24,555
You know,

298
00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:27,225
I must confess...

299
00:20:27,227 --> 00:20:30,828
I've wondered why you've never
given me the slightest sign.

300
00:20:30,830 --> 00:20:34,398
You've never thanked me in any way
for the flowers I've been sending up.

301
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,167
I didn't know they were for me.

302
00:20:36,169 --> 00:20:39,237
They were for you both.
Why should I make a difference?

303
00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:45,810
Why do you want to know us?

304
00:20:48,248 --> 00:20:50,147
Now, that question is your
aunt's.

305
00:20:50,149 --> 00:20:51,849
It isn't yours.

306
00:20:51,851 --> 00:20:53,884
You wouldn't ask it
if you weren't put up to it.

307
00:20:53,886 --> 00:20:56,387
She didn't tell me to ask you
it.

308
00:20:57,724 --> 00:21:00,124
Well...

309
00:21:00,126 --> 00:21:03,828
does your aunt see anything wrong with
the idea of two intelligent people,

310
00:21:03,830 --> 00:21:06,230
living under the same roof as we
do,

311
00:21:06,232 --> 00:21:08,566
occasionally exchanging a
remark?

312
00:21:10,303 --> 00:21:14,405
You know, we share some of the
same tastes.

313
00:21:14,407 --> 00:21:18,409
Like you, I am intensely fond of
Venice.

314
00:21:18,411 --> 00:21:22,213
Oh, I'm not in the least bit
fond of Venice.

315
00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:24,248
I should like to go far away
from it.

316
00:21:25,518 --> 00:21:27,785
You don't like Venice?

317
00:21:27,787 --> 00:21:29,787
And you wish to go far away from
it

318
00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:32,290
when you won't even go
to Piazza San Marco?

319
00:21:32,292 --> 00:21:35,026
Has your aunt always
held you back so?

320
00:21:35,028 --> 00:21:38,696
No. She's the one
that told me to come out today.

321
00:21:38,698 --> 00:21:40,564
It was I that didn't want to
come.

322
00:21:40,566 --> 00:21:42,800
I didn't want to leave her.

323
00:21:42,802 --> 00:21:45,169
Is she unwell?

324
00:21:45,171 --> 00:21:48,539
She hasn't been very well
recently.

325
00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:52,710
Sometimes she's so motionless
that I fear she's dead.

326
00:21:52,712 --> 00:21:55,846
But she insists
on getting up every morning.

327
00:21:55,848 --> 00:21:58,049
She clings to her old habits

328
00:21:58,051 --> 00:22:00,484
as if it would keep her steady.

329
00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:02,553
She makes a point
of sitting in the parlour

330
00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:05,189
as if she was expecting a
visitor.

331
00:22:05,191 --> 00:22:09,327
- She used to receive visitors, then?
- Oh, yes.

332
00:22:09,329 --> 00:22:14,365
When we first came to Venice
we had a brilliant life.

333
00:22:14,367 --> 00:22:18,903
We visited all the palazzi,
the churches, the galleries...

334
00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:22,840
- Who did you know?
- Oh, so many.

335
00:22:22,842 --> 00:22:25,676
And nice ones. Um...

336
00:22:25,678 --> 00:22:30,047
The Cavaliere Bombicci
and the Contessa Altemura.

337
00:22:30,049 --> 00:22:32,350
We had a very great friendship
with her.

338
00:22:32,352 --> 00:22:36,987
The Chiltons, the Goldies...
Oh, and Mrs Stokes.

339
00:22:36,989 --> 00:22:40,191
Oh, I loved her so much.

340
00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:43,994
She's gone now, as are most
people from that circle.

341
00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:49,600
Mm... it's getting late now.

342
00:22:50,837 --> 00:22:52,169
You really have to go?

343
00:22:52,171 --> 00:22:54,739
Yes. I must.

344
00:22:54,741 --> 00:22:56,674
When shall I see you again?

345
00:22:56,676 --> 00:23:00,411
I would like to come out
tomorrow night but...

346
00:23:00,413 --> 00:23:03,214
Well, I'm so far
from doing what I'd like.

347
00:23:03,216 --> 00:23:05,116
You might do something I like.

348
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,186
I don't believe you.

349
00:23:09,188 --> 00:23:12,022
Why? Why don't you believe me?

350
00:23:12,024 --> 00:23:13,891
I don't know, I...

351
00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:16,293
I suppose it's because I don't
understand you.

352
00:23:16,295 --> 00:23:19,663
That is just the sort of
occasion to have faith.

353
00:23:21,667 --> 00:23:23,801
Have faith in me.

354
00:23:51,497 --> 00:23:52,563
Mother.

355
00:23:54,233 --> 00:23:58,135
You've arrived just in time

356
00:23:58,137 --> 00:24:01,872
to meet the most mysterious man
I know, Mr Morton Vint.

357
00:24:01,874 --> 00:24:03,908
Good morning, ladies.

358
00:24:03,910 --> 00:24:07,178
Valentina, you look lovely, and Emily,
you look like a flower in bloom.

359
00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:10,080
May I tell it to Mother?

360
00:24:10,082 --> 00:24:11,482
Well, don't mind Mr Vint.

361
00:24:11,484 --> 00:24:13,951
He's well practised in keeping
secrets.

362
00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,821
- Emily is to be married.
- How can this be?

363
00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:19,156
The last time I saw you,
you were with the nuns.

364
00:24:19,158 --> 00:24:23,027
I often wonder if the nuns shouldn't
have kept her a few years more.

365
00:24:23,029 --> 00:24:25,029
And who might this man
be

366
00:24:25,031 --> 00:24:27,231
that has broken you from the
shackles of the convent?

367
00:24:27,233 --> 00:24:28,532
It's Lord Fullerton.

368
00:24:28,534 --> 00:24:30,468
Mother chose him for me.

369
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:33,337
It's just like your mother
to have such ideas.

370
00:24:33,339 --> 00:24:35,339
- Elizabeth.
- Adriana.

371
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:39,844
- You look stunning.
- Oh, thank you.

372
00:24:39,846 --> 00:24:42,680
You two must have
many more secrets to exchange.

373
00:24:42,682 --> 00:24:45,616
And Morton has some things
he'd like to share with me

374
00:24:45,618 --> 00:24:49,320
and I can see he's getting quite
impatient to do so.

375
00:24:49,322 --> 00:24:52,289
He's lodging with the Misses
Bordereau.

376
00:24:52,291 --> 00:24:56,994
I haven't heard that name for years.
How is the niece? How do you like her?

377
00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:58,529
Morton, do tell.

378
00:24:58,531 --> 00:25:01,499
What news, if any,
of your dear Miss Tina?

379
00:25:01,501 --> 00:25:04,535
His interest in some papers
has become quite a fixed idea.

380
00:25:04,537 --> 00:25:07,371
What papers of value
could they possibly have?

381
00:25:07,373 --> 00:25:09,573
That
is what I'm trying to find out.

382
00:25:09,575 --> 00:25:11,642
I mean,
these two are from another age.

383
00:25:11,644 --> 00:25:14,545
Yes, their manner
has very little to do with ours.

384
00:25:14,547 --> 00:25:17,882
So, what more have you learned
from her?

385
00:25:17,884 --> 00:25:21,151
I've learned that her mind
is essentially vague about...

386
00:25:21,153 --> 00:25:23,487
dates and the order
in which events occurred.

387
00:25:23,489 --> 00:25:26,323
Her story doesn't quite hang
together.

388
00:25:26,325 --> 00:25:29,627
I've even asked myself if she's
trying to lay a trap for me.

389
00:25:29,629 --> 00:25:31,629
To make you show your hand, you
mean?

390
00:25:31,631 --> 00:25:33,797
Mm-hm.

391
00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:37,902
I mean, perhaps she doesn't even know
of the existence of these... papers.

392
00:25:39,505 --> 00:25:40,571
I wrote to her.

393
00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:43,173
You never told me that.

394
00:25:43,175 --> 00:25:44,909
Six months before I arrived.

395
00:25:44,911 --> 00:25:46,744
Did she answer?

396
00:25:46,746 --> 00:25:48,646
Yes.

397
00:25:48,648 --> 00:25:50,514
To the second letter.

398
00:25:50,516 --> 00:25:52,349
She answered in six lines.

399
00:25:52,351 --> 00:25:54,385
And what did she say?

400
00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:59,189
Miss Bordereau requested that she
had none of Mr Aspern's papers.

401
00:25:59,191 --> 00:26:02,359
And even if she did, she would not
think of showing them to anybody

402
00:26:02,361 --> 00:26:04,695
on any account whatsoever.

403
00:26:04,697 --> 00:26:08,365
Maybe after all this they don't
have any of his things.

404
00:26:08,367 --> 00:26:11,802
If they so flatly deny it,
how can you be sure?

405
00:26:11,804 --> 00:26:13,170
I am sure.

406
00:26:13,172 --> 00:26:14,805
On what evidence?

407
00:26:14,807 --> 00:26:16,740
Her calling him "Mr Aspern".

408
00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:19,176
I don't see what that proves.

409
00:26:19,178 --> 00:26:25,215
It proves familiarity, and familiarity
implies possession of mementos.

410
00:26:25,217 --> 00:26:29,887
You don't say "Mr Byron"
or "Mr Shakespeare", do you?

411
00:26:29,889 --> 00:26:33,190
Would I, any more, if I had a
box full of his love letters?

412
00:26:33,192 --> 00:26:37,494
Yes, if you had been his lover

413
00:26:37,496 --> 00:26:39,463
and someone wanted them.

414
00:26:44,837 --> 00:26:46,570
It was part of my idea

415
00:26:46,572 --> 00:26:49,573
that there had been another love
affair,

416
00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:52,810
broken by some tragic rupture.

417
00:27:31,851 --> 00:27:33,283
I thought you wouldn't come.

418
00:27:33,285 --> 00:27:36,220
I wanted to tell you
that...

419
00:27:37,289 --> 00:27:40,024
I shall like the flowers better

420
00:27:40,026 --> 00:27:43,494
now that I know they're also for
me.

421
00:27:43,496 --> 00:27:46,230
How could you have doubted it?

422
00:27:46,232 --> 00:27:49,133
Shall I send up a double lot of
them to prove it to you?

423
00:27:49,135 --> 00:27:53,537
Don't go to the
trouble, the idea's enough.

424
00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:59,810
Do you study at night?

425
00:27:59,812 --> 00:28:03,380
When you go up to your room,
do you read and write?

426
00:28:03,382 --> 00:28:06,984
Not at night. The lamplight
brings in the insects.

427
00:28:09,321 --> 00:28:12,990
But... in winter do you work at
night?

428
00:28:12,992 --> 00:28:15,526
Yes, I do.

429
00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:19,396
I read a great deal
but I usually don't write.

430
00:28:19,398 --> 00:28:23,233
Before I go to sleep,
I usually read some great poet.

431
00:28:23,235 --> 00:28:26,103
Nine out of ten times
it's a volume by...

432
00:28:27,306 --> 00:28:29,206
Jeffrey Aspern.

433
00:28:30,509 --> 00:28:32,509
Oh...

434
00:28:32,511 --> 00:28:34,078
We read him.

435
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,846
We have read him.

436
00:28:35,848 --> 00:28:38,782
He is my poet of poets.

437
00:28:38,784 --> 00:28:40,551
I know him almost by heart.

438
00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:43,353
By heart - oh, that's nothing.

439
00:28:43,355 --> 00:28:45,656
My aunt used to know him.

440
00:28:45,658 --> 00:28:47,191
As a visitor?

441
00:28:47,193 --> 00:28:50,661
Yes. He used to come here and
take her out.

442
00:28:52,798 --> 00:28:54,565
But he died a hundred years ago.

443
00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:57,568
That's nothing,
my aunt's a hundred and fifty.

444
00:28:59,805 --> 00:29:02,673
Why have you not told me this
before?

445
00:29:02,675 --> 00:29:04,908
I should like to speak to her
about him.

446
00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:07,911
You should have come
twenty years ago, then.

447
00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:09,913
She still spoke about him.

448
00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:11,415
And what did she say?

449
00:29:12,651 --> 00:29:14,718
She said that...

450
00:29:15,621 --> 00:29:17,688
he liked her immensely.

451
00:29:17,690 --> 00:29:20,090
And she didn't like him?

452
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,593
She said he was a god.

453
00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:31,335
Has she got a portrait of him?

454
00:29:31,337 --> 00:29:35,706
It would be a true find.
They are very rare.

455
00:29:35,708 --> 00:29:37,040
Tell me this, please.

456
00:29:38,010 --> 00:29:40,177
A portrait...

457
00:29:40,179 --> 00:29:42,746
Um... I've never seen one.

458
00:29:42,748 --> 00:29:45,182
Surely you would know if she had
a portrait of the god?

459
00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:49,019
I don't know what she has.
She keeps her things locked up.

460
00:29:50,656 --> 00:29:52,723
Then she cannot have one.

461
00:29:52,725 --> 00:29:54,792
She wouldn't keep it locked up.

462
00:29:54,794 --> 00:29:58,629
She would hang it in a place
of prominence in her parlour.

463
00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:02,499
Any admirer of Aspern would do
the same. I would do so myself.

464
00:30:02,501 --> 00:30:05,335
I would be only too glad
to work under his gaze.

465
00:30:05,337 --> 00:30:08,839
I would be encouraged by his
presence.

466
00:30:08,841 --> 00:30:11,542
When dejected, I would console
myself with his example.

467
00:30:11,544 --> 00:30:13,110
His example?

468
00:30:15,181 --> 00:30:17,314
Do you write about him?

469
00:30:17,316 --> 00:30:19,683
Do I write? Oh, please.

470
00:30:19,685 --> 00:30:23,487
Let us not discuss my writing
when we talk about Jeffrey Aspern.

471
00:30:23,489 --> 00:30:25,722
Do you pry into his life?

472
00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:30,694
Now I seem to hear
your aunt's voice again.

473
00:30:30,696 --> 00:30:33,363
It's not like you to use such
terms.

474
00:30:33,365 --> 00:30:35,299
Do I pry into his life?

475
00:30:35,301 --> 00:30:37,801
Then all the more the reason
that you should answer plainly.

476
00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:39,837
Tell me.

477
00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:42,139
Are you prying into his life?

478
00:30:42,141 --> 00:30:43,440
Yes.

479
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:46,310
I write about him.

480
00:30:46,312 --> 00:30:49,146
I have written about him and I
will write about him again.

481
00:30:50,149 --> 00:30:52,482
Please tell me.

482
00:30:52,484 --> 00:30:54,885
Does your aunt have any poems,

483
00:30:54,887 --> 00:30:57,888
letters, papers, unpublished
documents, anything...

484
00:30:57,890 --> 00:31:00,157
belonging to Jeffrey Aspern?

485
00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:10,500
Do you find him handsome?

486
00:31:10,502 --> 00:31:12,469
I don't know. He seems strange.

487
00:31:16,308 --> 00:31:18,342
I know who I would rather have
as my husband.

488
00:31:18,344 --> 00:31:20,043
You like him that much?

489
00:31:22,181 --> 00:31:25,048
What might you ladies be laughing about?
Would you mind sharing it with us?

490
00:31:28,554 --> 00:31:31,221
Morton, whatever is happening?
You look like a mad man.

491
00:31:34,793 --> 00:31:38,161
Five days I've been sitting
in that garden waiting for her.

492
00:31:38,163 --> 00:31:40,898
Sending flowers up by the
bushel. And nothing.

493
00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,868
What am I to do? I can't
exactly break into her room.

494
00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:49,740
You might have to come up with something
new, then, to trigger a reaction.

495
00:31:49,742 --> 00:31:53,310
And what would make you react?
As a woman.

496
00:31:53,312 --> 00:31:54,912
As a woman?

497
00:31:57,449 --> 00:32:00,017
I don't think Miss Tina
is quite a woman,

498
00:32:00,019 --> 00:32:03,053
but Miss Bordereau definitely
is.

499
00:32:03,055 --> 00:32:05,122
Ladies, what would you say?

500
00:32:05,124 --> 00:32:07,224
You send her flowers every day?

501
00:32:07,226 --> 00:32:08,859
I would like that very much.

502
00:32:08,861 --> 00:32:11,295
I do so love flowers.

503
00:32:12,564 --> 00:32:14,364
Tell the gardener to stop the
flowers.

504
00:32:40,526 --> 00:32:44,361
I sent for you because my aunt
would like to see you.

505
00:32:44,363 --> 00:32:46,463
Really?

506
00:32:46,465 --> 00:32:49,299
And what's made her change her
mind so suddenly?

507
00:32:51,503 --> 00:32:55,238
Perhaps because she's so old.

508
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,875
People often become capricious
when they get so old.

509
00:32:58,877 --> 00:33:01,311
This is certainly true.
However...

510
00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:05,949
have you repeated to her
what I told you the other night?

511
00:33:05,951 --> 00:33:09,186
If I had told her what you said,

512
00:33:09,188 --> 00:33:11,421
do you think that she'd want to
see you?

513
00:33:26,372 --> 00:33:28,638
Miss Bordereau,

514
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,908
it's a great pleasure for me
to see you again at last.

515
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:34,911
I trust you are in good health,
despite the hot weather.

516
00:33:34,913 --> 00:33:39,149
I'm always cold. The hot weather
makes no difference.

517
00:33:39,151 --> 00:33:43,020
But my health
is good enough, good enough...

518
00:33:43,022 --> 00:33:45,489
It's a great thing to be alive.

519
00:33:45,491 --> 00:33:47,290
It depends on what you compare
it with.

520
00:33:47,292 --> 00:33:49,292
I don't compare.

521
00:33:49,294 --> 00:33:54,464
If I did that I should have
given up living long ago.

522
00:33:59,171 --> 00:34:00,704
About the flowers.

523
00:34:02,508 --> 00:34:05,242
I ought to have thanked you
before.

524
00:34:06,145 --> 00:34:07,411
But...

525
00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:11,114
I don't write letters.

526
00:34:11,116 --> 00:34:13,683
I'm delighted you enjoyed them.

527
00:34:13,685 --> 00:34:15,385
I shall send some more this
evening.

528
00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:17,854
What else should you do with
them?

529
00:34:17,856 --> 00:34:19,623
Hm?

530
00:34:19,625 --> 00:34:24,027
It's not a manly taste
to make a bower of your room.

531
00:34:24,029 --> 00:34:26,530
Why don't you come
into the garden yourself?

532
00:34:26,532 --> 00:34:28,799
You can pick what flowers you
like.

533
00:34:28,801 --> 00:34:32,769
Wouldn't it do you good to sit
in the shade, in the sweet air?

534
00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:42,012
Oh, my dear sir...

535
00:34:44,349 --> 00:34:49,286
If I move from this,
it won't be to sit outside,

536
00:34:49,288 --> 00:34:52,856
and then the air
that may be stirring around me

537
00:34:52,858 --> 00:34:55,625
won't be particularly sweet.

538
00:34:58,897 --> 00:35:02,199
It will be a very dark shade
indeed.

539
00:35:03,669 --> 00:35:06,837
I'm not afraid of what lies
ahead.

540
00:35:06,839 --> 00:35:10,273
But it will not be soon, I
suppose.

541
00:35:15,047 --> 00:35:17,047
Why don't you make her go out?

542
00:35:17,816 --> 00:35:20,383
Aunt, please.

543
00:35:20,385 --> 00:35:23,386
Do you pity her?

544
00:35:23,388 --> 00:35:27,157
Do you teach her to pity
herself?

545
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:31,661
She has a much easier life than
I did when I was her age.

546
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:33,230
Miss Bordereau.

547
00:35:33,232 --> 00:35:35,532
What you say seems to me
perhaps...

548
00:35:36,668 --> 00:35:38,001
a little unkind.

549
00:35:38,003 --> 00:35:39,102
Unkind?

550
00:35:40,339 --> 00:35:43,373
Perhaps you mean "inhuman"?

551
00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:48,812
That's what the poets used to
call women a hundred years ago.

552
00:35:48,814 --> 00:35:51,515
"Inhuman".

553
00:35:51,517 --> 00:35:54,484
Don't try to imitate them.

554
00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:56,586
You could never do as well.

555
00:35:59,358 --> 00:36:02,726
There is no more poetry in the
world.

556
00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:05,962
At least not around me.

557
00:36:07,232 --> 00:36:09,499
But I won't bandy words with
you.

558
00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:11,835
Well, then.

559
00:36:11,837 --> 00:36:14,371
I won't impose any longer
upon your kindness.

560
00:36:14,373 --> 00:36:16,640
Kindness?
I don't have to be kind to you.

561
00:36:16,642 --> 00:36:19,543
I don't have to be kind
to anyone any more.

562
00:36:20,646 --> 00:36:22,412
Thank God.

563
00:36:22,414 --> 00:36:23,880
Sit.

564
00:36:26,018 --> 00:36:29,452
Why don't you make that girl
go out and see the place?

565
00:36:29,454 --> 00:36:32,656
Dear Aunt,
what do you want to do with me?

566
00:36:32,658 --> 00:36:34,357
I... I know the place.

567
00:36:34,359 --> 00:36:39,629
He can show you the famous
sunsets, if they go on.

568
00:36:39,631 --> 00:36:40,730
Do they still go on?

569
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,867
Hm.

570
00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:47,804
Take her to San Giovanni
Evangelista.

571
00:36:47,806 --> 00:36:52,409
Take her to the Piazza.
It was so pleasant in my time.

572
00:36:52,411 --> 00:36:57,314
Let her listen to the music,
let her look at the shops.

573
00:36:59,351 --> 00:37:01,785
She can have some money.

574
00:37:01,787 --> 00:37:03,353
She may buy...

575
00:37:04,623 --> 00:37:07,090
something she likes.

576
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,368
I would be honoured
to accompany Miss Tina.

577
00:37:18,370 --> 00:37:20,704
And if she'd rather go alone,

578
00:37:20,706 --> 00:37:24,374
my gondolier is entirely at her
service.

579
00:37:24,376 --> 00:37:26,876
Shall I have the pleasure
of seeing you again soon?

580
00:37:26,878 --> 00:37:29,479
Is it very necessary to your
happiness?

581
00:37:30,716 --> 00:37:33,383
It diverts me more than I can
say.

582
00:37:33,385 --> 00:37:36,152
You're full of flattery.

583
00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:39,990
Don't you know
this talk almost kills me?

584
00:37:39,992 --> 00:37:41,891
Now, how can that be

585
00:37:41,893 --> 00:37:44,561
when you are more animated,

586
00:37:44,563 --> 00:37:46,129
more brilliant

587
00:37:46,131 --> 00:37:47,731
than when I first came in?

588
00:37:47,733 --> 00:37:49,733
It's quite true, Aunt.

589
00:37:49,735 --> 00:37:51,835
I... I think it does you good.

590
00:37:51,837 --> 00:37:53,803
Isn't it touching,

591
00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:58,708
the solicitude we each have that
the other may enjoy herself?

592
00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:00,877
If you think me brilliant today,

593
00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:05,448
then you have never met
an agreeable woman.

594
00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:08,018
Don't try to pay me any
compliments.

595
00:38:08,020 --> 00:38:10,920
I have been spoiled in this
respect.

596
00:38:38,717 --> 00:38:41,251
- Are you all right?
- Yes.

597
00:38:48,126 --> 00:38:50,493
It was a splendid
afternoon.

598
00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:53,797
I saw that she enjoyed it
even more than she showed.

599
00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:57,033
She was agitated with the
multitude of her impressions.

600
00:38:57,035 --> 00:38:59,135
It was so...

601
00:38:59,137 --> 00:39:01,871
She had forgotten what
an attractive thing the world is.

602
00:39:01,873 --> 00:39:03,473
I did think that...

603
00:39:03,475 --> 00:39:05,408
And it was coming over
her

604
00:39:05,410 --> 00:39:08,912
that somehow she had, for the
best years of her life,

605
00:39:08,914 --> 00:39:11,481
been cheated of it.

606
00:39:11,483 --> 00:39:13,483
This did not make her angry,

607
00:39:13,485 --> 00:39:17,687
but her face had, in spite of
its smile of appreciation,

608
00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:23,326
the flush of a sort of wounded
surprise.

609
00:39:23,328 --> 00:39:26,329
As if she were thinking
with a secret sadness

610
00:39:26,331 --> 00:39:29,566
of opportunities, forever
lost.

611
00:39:29,568 --> 00:39:33,203
I've found out what's the matter
with my aunt.

612
00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:35,205
She's afraid that you'll go.

613
00:39:37,075 --> 00:39:39,075
I suppose you mean because of
the rent.

614
00:39:39,077 --> 00:39:43,113
Oh, yes, it is shameful
but she wants me to have more.

615
00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:46,549
- - How much does she
want you to have?

616
00:39:46,551 --> 00:39:49,619
She ought to fix the sum. Then I
could stay till it's all gone.

617
00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:54,524
No, that wouldn't please me,
you going to all that trouble.

618
00:39:57,195 --> 00:39:59,696
The other day...

619
00:39:59,698 --> 00:40:02,799
I seemed to understand you might
help me with my search.

620
00:40:02,801 --> 00:40:04,901
Was I wrong?

621
00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:10,540
I... I couldn't do that
without being false to my aunt.

622
00:40:10,542 --> 00:40:13,843
She'd never consent to what you
want.

623
00:40:13,845 --> 00:40:15,645
She'd been asked before.

624
00:40:17,516 --> 00:40:21,251
So she does have documents...
papers of value.

625
00:40:23,388 --> 00:40:25,722
She has everything.

626
00:40:27,125 --> 00:40:29,359
She has everything.

627
00:40:33,732 --> 00:40:36,866
There clung to her name
some scent of a reckless passion,

628
00:40:38,069 --> 00:40:40,970
an intimation that, for some
people,

629
00:40:40,972 --> 00:40:44,841
Juliana hadn't always acted
respectably.

630
00:42:01,286 --> 00:42:02,919
You play beautifully.

631
00:42:05,724 --> 00:42:07,724
I haven't practised in ages.

632
00:42:07,726 --> 00:42:09,392
You should resume.

633
00:42:10,896 --> 00:42:13,696
It's the only piece I know.

634
00:42:13,698 --> 00:42:15,832
It's my aunt's favourite one,

635
00:42:15,834 --> 00:42:18,401
though I've never played it
well enough for her.

636
00:42:20,405 --> 00:42:21,871
Um...

637
00:42:23,308 --> 00:42:26,276
I want to thank you. For today.

638
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,481
It was my pleasure.

639
00:42:31,483 --> 00:42:35,285
And for my aunt as well,
though she'll never say it.

640
00:42:35,287 --> 00:42:38,454
She doesn't often reveal
her true thoughts.

641
00:42:40,325 --> 00:42:43,560
What has made her this way?

642
00:42:43,562 --> 00:42:47,830
I don't know, it was on account
of something...

643
00:42:47,832 --> 00:42:50,967
years ago, before I was born.

644
00:42:52,137 --> 00:42:53,870
Something?

645
00:42:53,872 --> 00:42:55,605
What kind of something?

646
00:42:57,008 --> 00:43:00,476
She never told me.

647
00:43:00,478 --> 00:43:04,013
Do you suppose it's something to which
Aspern references in his letters?

648
00:43:04,015 --> 00:43:06,015
I've never read them.

649
00:43:06,017 --> 00:43:09,085
But I did see them once
when she had them out.

650
00:43:10,655 --> 00:43:12,555
Are they letters?

651
00:43:12,557 --> 00:43:14,891
Are they poems?

652
00:43:14,893 --> 00:43:16,292
Does she look at them often?

653
00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:19,295
She used to.

654
00:43:19,297 --> 00:43:21,064
She's very fond of them.

655
00:43:21,066 --> 00:43:22,732
Even though they may be
compromising?

656
00:43:23,702 --> 00:43:25,368
Compromising?

657
00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:28,871
Well, they may contain
some painful memories.

658
00:43:30,642 --> 00:43:33,042
I don't think that they're
painful in that way.

659
00:43:34,479 --> 00:43:37,513
You don't think
they may affect her reputation?

660
00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:39,482
Do you think that she did
something bad?

661
00:43:39,484 --> 00:43:43,820
Well, things were different
then.

662
00:43:43,822 --> 00:43:47,690
The morals of our day
may judge her badly.

663
00:43:47,692 --> 00:43:52,795
If they were compromising,
why would she keep the papers?

664
00:43:52,797 --> 00:43:56,633
Why would she not just...
destroy them?

665
00:43:56,635 --> 00:43:59,202
Well, she might. Towards the
end.

666
00:44:00,205 --> 00:44:01,537
Don't say that.

667
00:44:01,539 --> 00:44:05,074
- You must prevent it.
- How?

668
00:44:05,076 --> 00:44:09,212
- You could get them away from her.
- And give them to you?

669
00:44:09,214 --> 00:44:12,348
Well, you might just
let me look at them.

670
00:44:13,618 --> 00:44:17,286
They would be of such importance

671
00:44:17,288 --> 00:44:19,989
as a contribution to the history
of Jeffrey Aspern.

672
00:44:22,527 --> 00:44:25,128
There was a gentleman once

673
00:44:25,130 --> 00:44:28,865
that wrote to her
in very much those words.

674
00:44:28,867 --> 00:44:31,467
He said...
What was it? Let me remember.

675
00:44:31,469 --> 00:44:33,736
Ah! Yes...

676
00:44:33,738 --> 00:44:36,739
"They would be
of immeasurable importance."

677
00:44:40,512 --> 00:44:42,845
And what did she reply?

678
00:44:42,847 --> 00:44:45,715
After he'd sent her
two or three letters,

679
00:44:45,717 --> 00:44:49,118
she became fearfully angry.

680
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,320
She tore them up.
She put them in the fire.

681
00:44:51,322 --> 00:44:53,056
Mm.

682
00:44:53,058 --> 00:44:55,258
She said that he was a devil.

683
00:44:57,195 --> 00:44:58,261
Well,

684
00:44:59,531 --> 00:45:01,197
I hope you won't see me as a
devil.

685
00:45:02,867 --> 00:45:05,535
It depends
what you ask me to do for you.

686
00:45:08,406 --> 00:45:12,575
I only ask that you prevent her
from destroying the papers.

687
00:45:13,678 --> 00:45:14,977
But how?

688
00:45:17,115 --> 00:45:19,982
It's she who controls me.

689
00:45:25,557 --> 00:45:28,591
I don't think that you have to
be too frightened.

690
00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:33,696
She... She loves them.

691
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,300
She loves them so much.

692
00:45:49,948 --> 00:45:53,282
I'll do what I can to help you.

693
00:46:40,565 --> 00:46:43,199
"Destruction marks
thee!

694
00:46:43,201 --> 00:46:45,668
O'er the blood-stained heath

695
00:46:45,670 --> 00:46:48,304
is faintly borne

696
00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:51,641
that stifled wail of death.

697
00:46:51,643 --> 00:46:54,310
Millions to fight compelled,

698
00:46:54,312 --> 00:46:56,145
to fight or die

699
00:46:56,147 --> 00:47:01,117
in mangled heaps
on war's red altar lie."

700
00:47:15,733 --> 00:47:19,335
Tina is a very nice girl.

701
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:23,706
I hope you did not take her out
because you were obliged to,

702
00:47:23,708 --> 00:47:27,210
but that you...
you have some feeling for her.

703
00:47:29,180 --> 00:47:30,413
Yes.

704
00:47:39,724 --> 00:47:41,524
Have you come to tell me

705
00:47:41,526 --> 00:47:45,094
that you wish to take your rooms
for six months more?

706
00:47:47,498 --> 00:47:50,399
I am a simple man of letters.

707
00:47:50,401 --> 00:47:52,401
I live from day to day.

708
00:47:52,403 --> 00:47:54,103
So do you find your rooms too
dear?

709
00:47:56,407 --> 00:47:59,508
I've treated myself
to three months in Venice.

710
00:47:59,510 --> 00:48:01,711
It has been an immense luxury.

711
00:48:01,713 --> 00:48:04,380
But if you find your rooms too
dear,

712
00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:08,517
you can have more rooms
for the same money.

713
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:10,486
We can arrange something,

714
00:48:10,488 --> 00:48:12,688
we can combinare, as they say.

715
00:48:14,492 --> 00:48:17,193
Evidently you suppose me
much richer than I am.

716
00:48:17,195 --> 00:48:20,129
- You write books. Don't you sell them?
- A little.

717
00:48:21,065 --> 00:48:23,499
Not as much as I'd wish.

718
00:48:23,501 --> 00:48:26,402
Writing books such as mine
is the last road to fortune.

719
00:48:26,404 --> 00:48:29,639
Perhaps you don't choose good subjects.
What do you write about?

720
00:48:29,641 --> 00:48:32,375
I write about the books of other
people.

721
00:48:32,377 --> 00:48:35,278
I'm a critic, a biographer.

722
00:48:37,682 --> 00:48:41,317
What do you say about these
writers?

723
00:48:41,319 --> 00:48:44,754
I say they sometimes attach
themselves to very clever women.

724
00:48:46,624 --> 00:48:49,859
Do you think it's right
to rake up the past?

725
00:48:51,663 --> 00:48:54,897
How can we get to the past
if we don't dig a little?

726
00:48:54,899 --> 00:48:57,967
The present has such a rough way
of treading on it.

727
00:48:57,969 --> 00:49:00,703
I like the past. I don't like
critics.

728
00:49:00,705 --> 00:49:03,172
Neither do I.

729
00:49:03,174 --> 00:49:04,573
But I like their discoveries.

730
00:49:04,575 --> 00:49:06,208
Mostly lies.

731
00:49:06,210 --> 00:49:08,844
The lies are
what they sometimes discover.

732
00:49:08,846 --> 00:49:10,780
They lay bare the truth.

733
00:49:10,782 --> 00:49:14,116
The truth belongs to God,

734
00:49:17,221 --> 00:49:18,688
not to man.

735
00:49:18,690 --> 00:49:21,123
We'd best leave it alone.

736
00:49:21,125 --> 00:49:24,093
Who are we to judge? Who can
say?

737
00:49:28,499 --> 00:49:33,235
But if we stop trying, what
becomes of these great works?

738
00:49:33,237 --> 00:49:34,904
People forget them.

739
00:49:34,906 --> 00:49:37,173
We need the tools to measure
them by.

740
00:49:37,175 --> 00:49:39,408
"To measure them by."

741
00:49:42,146 --> 00:49:44,280
You speak like a tailor.

742
00:49:51,656 --> 00:49:54,490
What do you know about
curiosities?

743
00:49:54,492 --> 00:49:56,325
Curiosities?

744
00:49:56,327 --> 00:50:00,396
The gimcracks that
people pay so much for today.

745
00:50:00,398 --> 00:50:03,799
Do you know
what kind of price they bring?

746
00:50:03,801 --> 00:50:06,802
- Do you want to buy something?
- No. I want to sell.

747
00:50:08,406 --> 00:50:12,575
Do you know
what an antiquaire might give me

748
00:50:13,878 --> 00:50:15,244
for this?

749
00:50:31,162 --> 00:50:33,562
It's a very striking
face.

750
00:50:33,564 --> 00:50:36,632
Tell me. Who is it?

751
00:50:36,634 --> 00:50:39,068
A friend of mine.

752
00:50:39,070 --> 00:50:41,871
A very distinguished man.
He gave it to me.

753
00:50:43,574 --> 00:50:46,475
But you never mind his name.

754
00:50:46,477 --> 00:50:50,012
You would probably
never have heard of him.

755
00:50:50,014 --> 00:50:52,815
The young generation
know nothing of their elders.

756
00:50:52,817 --> 00:50:56,752
He was all the fashion
when I was young.

757
00:50:58,790 --> 00:51:00,089
The face looks familiar.

758
00:51:02,026 --> 00:51:06,695
You express doubt about this
generation knowing him but...

759
00:51:06,697 --> 00:51:11,567
he strikes me for all the world
as a celebrated man.

760
00:51:11,569 --> 00:51:15,237
Perhaps I've seen other
likenesses, other portraits.

761
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,906
When he was older, perhaps.

762
00:51:19,310 --> 00:51:20,443
Who is he?

763
00:51:23,481 --> 00:51:25,214
I can't put a name on it.

764
00:51:25,216 --> 00:51:28,484
Only the person who knows who he
is

765
00:51:28,486 --> 00:51:31,387
would give me the price that I
ask.

766
00:51:32,290 --> 00:51:33,556
Then you have a price?

767
00:51:34,692 --> 00:51:36,759
I know the least I would take.

768
00:51:37,895 --> 00:51:41,263
I want to know the most I can
get.

769
00:51:42,667 --> 00:51:44,633
I should like to have it for
myself,

770
00:51:45,570 --> 00:51:47,403
but with your ideas,

771
00:51:47,405 --> 00:51:50,339
I could never afford it.

772
00:51:50,341 --> 00:51:53,342
You would buy the likeness
of someone you don't know

773
00:51:53,344 --> 00:51:55,778
by an artist who has no
reputation?

774
00:51:55,780 --> 00:51:58,013
The artist may have no
reputation,

775
00:51:58,015 --> 00:52:00,649
but that portrait
is painted wonderfully well.

776
00:52:00,651 --> 00:52:04,120
Oh, it's lucky you say that.

777
00:52:04,122 --> 00:52:05,788
The painter was my father.

778
00:52:05,790 --> 00:52:08,023
That makes it all the more
precious.

779
00:52:08,025 --> 00:52:10,559
I hope you'll tell me before you
offer it to anyone else

780
00:52:10,561 --> 00:52:12,394
and give me notice.

781
00:52:12,396 --> 00:52:14,230
I am a possible buyer.

782
00:52:14,232 --> 00:52:15,798
I want my money first.

783
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,034
I have no doubt of that.
I know your ways.

784
00:52:19,036 --> 00:52:20,636
My ways?

785
00:52:20,638 --> 00:52:23,372
What do you know of my ways?

786
00:52:23,374 --> 00:52:25,141
Do you observe me,

787
00:52:25,143 --> 00:52:26,876
do you spy on me?

788
00:52:26,878 --> 00:52:31,614
You be careful, my friend,
because I observe you.

789
00:52:31,616 --> 00:52:36,452
You say you want to see me,
but I spy on you.

790
00:52:37,455 --> 00:52:39,555
I can see you.

791
00:52:39,557 --> 00:52:41,857
Do you make speeches to her?

792
00:52:41,859 --> 00:52:46,228
What do you talk about
when you go out together?

793
00:52:46,230 --> 00:52:49,131
You speak as if we were in the
habit of going out every night.

794
00:52:49,133 --> 00:52:50,866
Certainly I wish we had.

795
00:52:50,868 --> 00:52:52,568
But if that were the case,

796
00:52:52,570 --> 00:52:55,037
I'd feel greater scruple
at betraying her confidence.

797
00:52:55,039 --> 00:52:56,906
Her confidence. Oh!

798
00:52:56,908 --> 00:53:00,409
Oh, does she have confidence in
you now?

799
00:53:00,411 --> 00:53:04,513
Miss Tina,
do you have confidence in me?

800
00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:06,482
Your aunt so very much wants to
know.

801
00:53:06,484 --> 00:53:09,718
It's no good. She's dreadfully
excited.

802
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,554
I see you, I see both of you.

803
00:53:11,556 --> 00:53:13,522
I see you from here.

804
00:53:15,860 --> 00:53:17,860
I dare say you think I'm ill.

805
00:53:17,862 --> 00:53:21,463
Oh, you think I'm losing my
mind, hm?

806
00:53:21,465 --> 00:53:24,833
You may like to think so.

807
00:53:24,835 --> 00:53:28,337
That is not the case,
that is not the case.

808
00:53:28,339 --> 00:53:29,805
I'm not ill.

809
00:53:46,791 --> 00:53:49,525
At this moment,
in the stillness,

810
00:53:49,527 --> 00:53:52,294
after the long contradiction of
the day,

811
00:53:52,296 --> 00:53:55,531
Miss Bordereau's secrets
were in the air,

812
00:53:55,533 --> 00:53:58,801
the wonder of her survival
more palpable.

813
00:54:28,699 --> 00:54:30,899
I ask for your pardon.

814
00:54:30,901 --> 00:54:33,636
Not to leave you now,
but to have stayed so long.

815
00:54:49,453 --> 00:54:50,886
You must go now.

816
00:55:29,060 --> 00:55:31,727
- Hm. Very elegant.
- Thank you.

817
00:55:31,729 --> 00:55:33,629
- Thank you, sir.
- Mm-hm.

818
00:55:41,472 --> 00:55:44,373
All living creatures
have a spirit double.

819
00:55:44,375 --> 00:55:46,375
A doppelganger

820
00:55:46,377 --> 00:55:49,378
who is invisible but identical
to the living individual.

821
00:55:51,215 --> 00:55:54,450
Sometimes they are described
as the spiritual opposite,

822
00:55:54,452 --> 00:55:57,019
or negative,
of their human counterparts.

823
00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:20,275
Drop it.

824
00:56:24,615 --> 00:56:25,714
Good boy.

825
00:56:33,824 --> 00:56:37,059
She's very ill.

826
00:56:37,061 --> 00:56:39,161
She's having great trouble
breathing.

827
00:56:39,163 --> 00:56:41,697
I... I thought that she was
dying.

828
00:56:41,699 --> 00:56:43,665
Don't say that.

829
00:56:43,667 --> 00:56:46,034
I didn't know what to do. I sent
the maid to get the doctor.

830
00:56:46,036 --> 00:56:48,170
I couldn't find you anywhere.

831
00:56:48,172 --> 00:56:49,705
I am sorry.

832
00:56:53,677 --> 00:56:55,811
I must go back to her.

833
00:56:55,813 --> 00:56:59,581
- May I help you in watching over her?
- No.

834
00:57:00,317 --> 00:57:01,550
No.

835
00:57:03,020 --> 00:57:06,088
She ought to be spared the sight
of you.

836
00:58:22,666 --> 00:58:25,467
She's calmer. She's sleeping.

837
00:58:25,469 --> 00:58:26,802
May I see her?

838
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,455
She kept the papers... over
there.

839
00:58:48,492 --> 00:58:50,259
In that trunk?

840
00:58:51,629 --> 00:58:53,362
Where are they now?

841
00:59:34,338 --> 00:59:37,706
That green box, the one you
pointed out to me in her room.

842
00:59:40,311 --> 00:59:43,445
You said the papers had been
there.

843
00:59:43,447 --> 00:59:46,214
You implied
that she had transferred them.

844
00:59:46,216 --> 00:59:48,116
They're not in the trunk.

845
00:59:48,118 --> 00:59:52,120
I have looked. I have looked for
you.

846
00:59:52,122 --> 00:59:57,125
Would you have given them to me
if you had found them?

847
00:59:57,127 --> 00:59:59,795
I don't know what I would or
wouldn't have done.

848
01:00:02,333 --> 01:00:04,466
I must tell you the truth.

849
01:00:04,468 --> 01:00:06,134
The truth?

850
01:00:07,071 --> 01:00:08,704
Yes.

851
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,407
A confession, if you will.

852
01:00:16,013 --> 01:00:18,847
I sailed under false colours.

853
01:00:18,849 --> 01:00:21,016
I gave you an invented name.

854
01:00:22,219 --> 01:00:24,019
Why?

855
01:00:24,021 --> 01:00:25,454
I had to.

856
01:00:28,225 --> 01:00:29,524
There.

857
01:00:30,461 --> 01:00:31,793
See for yourself.

858
01:00:41,872 --> 01:00:44,773
I feel that you're a new person
now,

859
01:00:45,542 --> 01:00:47,676
with a new name.

860
01:00:47,678 --> 01:00:49,311
It's not a new one.

861
01:00:49,313 --> 01:00:52,414
Just a very good old one. Thank
God.

862
01:00:53,484 --> 01:00:54,683
I like it better.

863
01:01:04,695 --> 01:01:07,162
Do you think me a devil,

864
01:01:07,164 --> 01:01:08,764
as your aunt says?

865
01:01:11,068 --> 01:01:13,869
I think that you want
the papers very much.

866
01:01:15,506 --> 01:01:17,339
I do.

867
01:01:17,341 --> 01:01:18,607
Then be patient.

868
01:01:20,277 --> 01:01:21,710
All is still possible.

869
01:01:25,816 --> 01:01:27,949
You must do as you wish.

870
01:02:19,403 --> 01:02:21,236
Perhaps he's married already.

871
01:02:21,238 --> 01:02:23,705
That could be the reason
why he doesn't look at you.

872
01:02:23,707 --> 01:02:26,708
Give a man a mask
and he'll tell you the truth.

873
01:02:31,515 --> 01:02:34,049
- Are you married?
- No.

874
01:02:35,319 --> 01:02:37,285
I walk alone.

875
01:02:37,287 --> 01:02:41,656
Doesn't it make you sad
to live your life without love?

876
01:02:41,658 --> 01:02:43,692
No.

877
01:02:44,495 --> 01:02:46,528
I have my work.

878
01:02:46,530 --> 01:02:49,431
But I wouldn't expect ladies
of your youth to understand.

879
01:02:51,535 --> 01:02:55,303
I am the Princesse de Lamballe,
Marie Antoinette's closest friend.

880
01:02:57,574 --> 01:03:00,942
That was just the
jealous gossip of people at court.

881
01:03:00,944 --> 01:03:02,844
My head has just been cut off...

882
01:03:04,448 --> 01:03:06,214
Morton!

883
01:03:06,216 --> 01:03:09,117
Morton, where are you?
The princess is speaking to you.

884
01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:12,687
Oh, he's still thinking
about those dusty papers. Come.

885
01:03:14,391 --> 01:03:15,590
What is there to find?

886
01:03:18,796 --> 01:03:20,061
The truth.

887
01:03:20,063 --> 01:03:22,931
The truth? About what?

888
01:03:24,201 --> 01:03:25,267
About myself.

889
01:03:26,737 --> 01:03:29,204
About... desire.

890
01:03:31,742 --> 01:03:33,241
About God.

891
01:04:54,291 --> 01:04:56,124
There are things
that must stay in the past.

892
01:05:52,182 --> 01:05:53,782
You!

893
01:05:53,784 --> 01:05:55,784
Publishing scoundrel!

894
01:06:02,859 --> 01:06:04,826
Aunt... Olimpia!

895
01:06:04,828 --> 01:06:07,529
Aunt... Olimpia!

896
01:06:07,531 --> 01:06:08,930
Olimpia!

897
01:06:11,134 --> 01:06:12,100
Aunt...

898
01:06:13,537 --> 01:06:15,136
Olimpia!

899
01:08:10,387 --> 01:08:13,588
So, what are you gonna do now?

900
01:08:14,558 --> 01:08:16,191
Have you thought about it?

901
01:08:16,193 --> 01:08:19,561
I have but er... nothing's
settled yet.

902
01:08:21,298 --> 01:08:23,465
What I was asking

903
01:08:23,467 --> 01:08:27,635
is whether the reasons I took the
rooms in the first place still exist.

904
01:08:27,637 --> 01:08:29,037
Have you settled my fate?

905
01:08:30,173 --> 01:08:32,173
Your fate?

906
01:08:32,175 --> 01:08:34,476
The Aspern papers.

907
01:08:34,478 --> 01:08:36,511
Well, there are a great many.

908
01:08:36,513 --> 01:08:38,146
More than I supposed.

909
01:08:38,148 --> 01:08:40,181
When can I see them?

910
01:08:40,183 --> 01:08:43,718
I don't know that you can.

911
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,454
You don't mean to say
you've made a deathbed promise?

912
01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:48,656
Not a promise...

913
01:08:48,658 --> 01:08:49,724
What is it, then?

914
01:08:53,196 --> 01:08:55,864
She wanted to burn them

915
01:08:56,700 --> 01:08:58,800
and charged me to do it.

916
01:08:58,802 --> 01:09:01,536
But I took them away and locked
them up.

917
01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:04,973
Did you say that you would burn
them?

918
01:09:04,975 --> 01:09:08,143
No, I didn't. On purpose.

919
01:09:08,145 --> 01:09:10,378
On purpose to gratify me?

920
01:09:10,380 --> 01:09:12,947
Yes, only for that.

921
01:09:15,018 --> 01:09:18,786
I don't know what good that'll do
me now if you won't let me see them.

922
01:09:18,788 --> 01:09:20,855
I know. I know this.

923
01:09:22,292 --> 01:09:24,292
I don't understand.

924
01:09:24,294 --> 01:09:27,028
If you didn't make a promise,
what can possibly tie you now?

925
01:09:27,030 --> 01:09:30,698
Because... she hated
this.

926
01:09:32,235 --> 01:09:34,502
She hated this so much.

927
01:09:36,206 --> 01:09:38,072
She could be so jealous,

928
01:09:38,074 --> 01:09:40,975
so covetous.

929
01:09:43,180 --> 01:09:45,713
But there is the portrait.

930
01:09:45,715 --> 01:09:47,215
You can have that.

931
01:09:48,485 --> 01:09:51,519
- You're giving it to me?
- Yes.

932
01:09:53,323 --> 01:09:54,722
It's worth a lot of money.

933
01:09:54,724 --> 01:09:56,191
Take it.

934
01:10:01,498 --> 01:10:03,031
You're very generous.

935
01:10:03,033 --> 01:10:04,732
So are you.

936
01:10:04,734 --> 01:10:06,367
I don't know why you should
think so.

937
01:10:07,571 --> 01:10:09,737
You've made a great difference
to me.

938
01:10:14,477 --> 01:10:16,010
As much as I value the portrait,

939
01:10:17,514 --> 01:10:20,114
the papers are what I should
prefer.

940
01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:24,285
But you would understand
if you really knew her.

941
01:10:24,287 --> 01:10:27,622
I can still see her looking at
me.

942
01:10:27,624 --> 01:10:31,893
Her eyes were so fine
but they could be terrible.

943
01:10:31,895 --> 01:10:34,062
I saw something of that.

944
01:10:34,064 --> 01:10:37,732
I could still see them
staring at me in the dark.

945
01:10:39,236 --> 01:10:41,336
You're very nervous.

946
01:10:41,338 --> 01:10:43,404
Yes. Yes, I am.

947
01:10:46,042 --> 01:10:49,644
She wanted to say something to
me.

948
01:10:49,646 --> 01:10:52,714
Something very particular
before she died.

949
01:10:52,716 --> 01:10:54,382
Did you guess what it could have
been?

950
01:10:55,785 --> 01:10:58,553
I think that she wanted to say
that...

951
01:10:58,555 --> 01:11:00,688
if you were a relation,

952
01:11:00,690 --> 01:11:02,857
things would be different.

953
01:11:05,061 --> 01:11:07,462
A relation?

954
01:11:07,464 --> 01:11:11,666
If you weren't a stranger,
what is mine would be yours.

955
01:11:11,668 --> 01:11:15,436
You could do with it what you
want, I couldn't prevent you.

956
01:11:28,685 --> 01:11:31,719
I will sell the portrait for
you.

957
01:11:31,721 --> 01:11:34,656
It's what your aunt
would have wanted you to do.

958
01:11:34,658 --> 01:11:37,825
I shan't get what she demanded
for it

959
01:11:37,827 --> 01:11:39,961
but I shall get something good.

960
01:11:42,065 --> 01:11:44,132
Oh, I'm so ashamed.

961
01:11:44,134 --> 01:11:45,933
I'm so ashamed.

962
01:11:48,838 --> 01:11:51,572
I would give you everything.

963
01:11:51,574 --> 01:11:53,341
Everything that you want.

964
01:11:53,343 --> 01:11:55,443
And she would forgive me.

965
01:14:10,380 --> 01:14:13,314
You will recognise
the handwriting of him

966
01:14:13,316 --> 01:14:16,150
who passionately loves you.

967
01:14:16,152 --> 01:14:19,020
I feel your fiery hand touch
me,

968
01:14:19,022 --> 01:14:21,489
take me where no other hand,

969
01:14:21,491 --> 01:14:24,125
except my youthful and
intemperate one,

970
01:14:24,127 --> 01:14:27,428
has ever gone in
with such a burning heat.

971
01:14:46,015 --> 01:14:48,850
My destiny rests with you,

972
01:14:48,852 --> 01:14:52,386
and you are a woman
seventeen years of age...

973
01:15:00,163 --> 01:15:03,064
But all this is too late.

974
01:15:03,066 --> 01:15:07,335
Think of me sometimes when the
Alps and the oceans divide us,

975
01:15:07,337 --> 01:15:10,872
but they never will, unless you
wish it.

976
01:15:28,224 --> 01:15:30,358
He was nearly my height,

977
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,227
very thin, very fair
complexion,

978
01:15:33,229 --> 01:15:35,963
dark locks and light eyes.

979
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:40,301
His voice first attracted my
attention,

980
01:15:40,303 --> 01:15:43,170
but his countenance fixed it

981
01:15:43,172 --> 01:15:47,275
and his manners
attached me to him forever.

982
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,881
I love him more than I ever
loved a living thing,

983
01:15:56,653 --> 01:16:01,589
and he, I believe,
will love me to the last.

984
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:23,177
I rejoice that the child
is amiable and pretty.

985
01:16:23,179 --> 01:16:26,614
She frowns and pouts in quite
our way.

986
01:16:26,616 --> 01:16:30,785
Blue eyes, light hair growing
darker daily...

987
01:16:36,459 --> 01:16:39,060
My dearest Juliana.

988
01:16:39,062 --> 01:16:42,530
To hear from afar
of our sweet child's death

989
01:16:42,532 --> 01:16:45,433
has shocked me more than any
preceding.

990
01:16:46,502 --> 01:16:49,370
It sits heavy on my heart

991
01:16:49,372 --> 01:16:52,039
and calls back what I wish to
forget

992
01:16:52,041 --> 01:16:54,442
in many a feverish dream.

993
01:17:07,290 --> 01:17:09,056
Our love broken.

994
01:17:09,058 --> 01:17:11,659
Myself, my own dread foe.

995
01:17:11,661 --> 01:17:14,462
I have been wandering
companionless with a joyless eye

996
01:17:14,464 --> 01:17:18,566
that finds no object
worth its constancy.

997
01:17:18,568 --> 01:17:22,036
Now, more than ever,
seems it rich to die,

998
01:17:22,038 --> 01:17:24,972
but I weary of this eternal
pilgrimage.

999
01:17:52,235 --> 01:17:55,169
I had scruples about
going back.

1000
01:17:55,171 --> 01:17:58,506
And yet I had others about not
doing so.

1001
01:17:58,508 --> 01:18:02,309
Perhaps my absence would be
a heavier burden for Tina.

1002
01:18:29,872 --> 01:18:31,372
Il signor Morton.

1003
01:18:32,175 --> 01:18:33,374
Oh.

1004
01:18:34,477 --> 01:18:35,609
How pretty.

1005
01:18:43,186 --> 01:18:45,853
I was told you were...
Well, I was wondering...

1006
01:18:45,855 --> 01:18:48,322
Forgive me if I continue.

1007
01:18:48,324 --> 01:18:50,825
I wouldn't want to impose.

1008
01:18:50,827 --> 01:18:52,927
Do you intend to stay in Venice?

1009
01:18:54,197 --> 01:18:56,063
I could stay.

1010
01:18:56,065 --> 01:18:57,732
It all depends on you.

1011
01:18:57,734 --> 01:18:59,633
Oh, I'm leaving.

1012
01:18:59,635 --> 01:19:01,335
You're leaving?

1013
01:19:01,337 --> 01:19:03,070
Yes.

1014
01:19:03,072 --> 01:19:06,474
I decided to go on a trip of my
own.

1015
01:19:06,476 --> 01:19:09,276
Well, I could accompany you.

1016
01:19:09,278 --> 01:19:11,612
It would be
a great pleasure for me if...

1017
01:19:11,614 --> 01:19:13,881
If only...

1018
01:19:16,352 --> 01:19:19,854
I realised, you were right.

1019
01:19:19,856 --> 01:19:24,458
The papers will seal our union.

1020
01:19:24,460 --> 01:19:27,461
Oh, there's nothing that you can
do to get the papers now.

1021
01:19:29,198 --> 01:19:30,264
Why?

1022
01:19:31,367 --> 01:19:34,068
I burned them after you left.

1023
01:19:38,141 --> 01:19:41,208
How could you do such a thing?

1024
01:19:41,210 --> 01:19:44,612
You should have waited for me.
You should have talked to me.

1025
01:19:44,614 --> 01:19:47,081
It's what she
would have wanted me to do.

1026
01:19:48,317 --> 01:19:50,151
And what about me?

1027
01:19:50,153 --> 01:19:52,620
Did you ever think of me?

1028
01:19:53,489 --> 01:19:54,755
I did.

1029
01:19:58,795 --> 01:20:00,861
Shall I see you again?

1030
01:20:00,863 --> 01:20:02,396
No.

1031
01:20:03,399 --> 01:20:05,633
You are inhuman, Miss Tina.

1032
01:20:05,635 --> 01:20:08,335
Inhuman?

1033
01:20:08,337 --> 01:20:10,137
As my aunt told you,

1034
01:20:10,139 --> 01:20:13,507
that's what the poets
used to say a hundred years ago.

1035
01:20:13,509 --> 01:20:16,043
Don't try and imitate them,
you'll never do as well.

1036
01:20:18,481 --> 01:20:20,147
Look, I... I simply wanted to...

1037
01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:22,650
What we want doesn't matter.

1038
01:20:22,652 --> 01:20:25,186
What matters is what we get.

1039
01:20:25,188 --> 01:20:27,588
That's what she was trying to
tell me before she died.

1040
01:20:29,792 --> 01:20:32,493
So that's what I'm to
understand?

1041
01:20:32,495 --> 01:20:35,863
One doesn't defend one's god.

1042
01:20:35,865 --> 01:20:38,933
One's god is in himself a
defence.

1043
01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:43,771
We must part now.

1044
01:20:44,740 --> 01:20:46,307
We must.

1045
01:23:04,847 --> 01:23:07,147
"Ere Babylon was dust,

1046
01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:10,818
the Magus Zoroaster, my dead
child,

1047
01:23:10,820 --> 01:23:13,420
met his own image walking in the
garden.

1048
01:23:14,390 --> 01:23:16,290
That apparition,

1049
01:23:16,292 --> 01:23:17,691
sole of men,

1050
01:23:18,661 --> 01:23:20,594
he saw."

1051
01:30:27,156 --> 01:30:27,187
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