Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2017)

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WOMAN: We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;

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We took a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;

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We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;

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We're now grown up to riper age -
Are they withered in the sod?

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Are they blighted, failed and faded?
Are they mouldered back to clay?

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For life is darkly shaded
And its joys fleet fast away.

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What the hell is going on?

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Qui sont ces gens?

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They'll tear us limb from limb.

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I've crossed the Arctic
and seen nothing like it.

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Down on them instantly.

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Run!

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Know you that I give into
your protection, but not for your own,

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these martyrs
whom you hold in your hands.

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- What's yours called?
- Wellesley.

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This is Gravey,
because he looks a bit grave.

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- Mine's called...
- Waiting Boy.

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Is it? Why?

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Because he's a queer-looking
little thing, Anne, much like yourself.

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- Look who's talking.
- This is Sneaky.

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Thou art under my protection.
I will watch over thy life.

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Pray tell you all,
one day you shall be kings.

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ALL: Yes!

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(CHURCH BELL RINGS)

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WOMAN: Dear Ellen.
It was ten o'clock when I got home.

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I found Branwell ill.

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He is so very often these days,
owing to his own fault.

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I was not therefore surprised at first,

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but when Anne informed me of the
immediate cause of his present illness,

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I was greatly shocked.

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(MAN SHOUTING)

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- Charlotte, how was the journey?
- Pleasant.

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How was Miss Nussey?

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Well. Did my box arrive safely?

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In our room.
We took it up, me and Emily.

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- What's?
- Branwell, he's been drinking.

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He's had a letter from Mr Robinson
this last Thursday.

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- He's been dismissed.
- How does he do it?

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- It's every job he's ever had.
- I know, but this is different.

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How?

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Nothing was spelled out in the letter,
but he...

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Him and Mrs Robinson,
I had reason to know that they were...

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carrying on with one another
and, I don't know,

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I can only assume that Mr Robinson's
found out and that's what it's about.

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Carrying on? How?

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Congress? Mr Robinson's wife?

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It's why I resigned.

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I couldn't look people in the face.
I've known for months.

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Papa doesn't know. He just knows he's
been dismissed. He doesn't know why.

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Emily does. I told her. And of course
we don't know that that is the reason.

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Where is Emily?

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MAN: You must have some idea
what this is about.

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Do you think repeating the question
enough times, over and over,

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is gonna make me able to answer it?

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And if not, then someone must write
to the man and ask for an explanation.

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He hates me. He's not gonna give
any kind of an explanation.

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It's an excuse to get rid of me.

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He's a monster. He's a bully.
He's a law unto himself.

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- He's an idiot!
- Why does he hate you?

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Why does he need a reason
to get rid of you?

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Because... he's old, he's ill
and he's jealous of me.

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No, no, no, that doesn't make any sense.

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There must have been
a misunderstanding, hm?

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Has someone misrepresented you to him?

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Just... God, this house!

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Just go to bed
and stop asking me fucking questions.

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If you don't like this house,
don't stay in it.

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There's none of us who'll miss you,
not when you're like this.

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I need to know what happened!

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Tell him.

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Branwell's been at it
with his employer's wife.

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She was lonely.

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She was lonely.

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(THUNDER)

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(SCREAMING)

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Tis a shame you're embarked on
this course of myopic self-destruction,

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for I imagine you and I might,
under better circumstances,

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have made very stimulating company
for one another!

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I despise everything you stand for.

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Revolution is in the air, and only
a fool like you, sir, would ignore it.

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If the parson and your Aunt Branwell
were in, you'd not make so much din.

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They all think you're right quiet and
studious down in t' village, you know.

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Oh!

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(YELLING)

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Mr Brown's here.

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(CHARLOTTE READS ALOUD)

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- You fit, lad?
- Yeah. I'm just...

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Conducting themselves with propriety...

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(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

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John's here. We're off.

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- Don't get up.
- No, no, I... I'd like to see him.

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- How are you today, John?
- Very well, thank you, Mr Bronte.

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MR BRONTE: Good, good.
Well, travel safely.

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It's a fine day for it, eh?

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You look after yourself.

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Thank you.

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Well, I think with kindness

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and understanding and prayer,

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we might still be able,

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in spite of his naivety
and his nonsense,

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be able to get him back
onto a proper path.

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Will you bring us all something back
from Liverpool, Father?

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You behave yoursen and then we'll see.

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You dozy bastard. Getting caught.

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EMILY: Anne left her situation at Thorp
Green of her own accord, June 1845.

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Branwell left.

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We are all in decent health, only
that Papa has a complaint in his eyes,

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and with the exception of Branwell,

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who I hope will be better
and do better hereafter.

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I am seldom more ever troubled
with nothing to do

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and merely desiring
that everybody could be

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as comfortable as myself
and as undesponding,

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for then we should have
a very tolerable world of it.

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They've set off.

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Good.

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Call me old-fashioned, but I think
it's nice having everybody back at home.

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Mm. In theory.

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- What happened?
- You heard the shouting.

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Had me pillow over me ears,
so I didn't catch the details.

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Lucky you.

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So he's... been mucking about
and by way of punishment

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he's packed off on holiday for a week
with Martha's father?

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Packed off on holiday for a week
or got shot of for a few days.

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It's all a question of how you might
choose to look at it, Tabby.

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- Oh, well, if that's how you feel...
- (BARKS)

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- EMILY: Have you nothing better to do?
- TABBY: Oh, I've got plenty to do.

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Sit down.

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- Do you still write stories?
- Sometimes.

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About Gondal?

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When we can.

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Emily as well?

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You've been here with her
more than I have.

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- We never talk about it.
- Never?

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Do you... write still?

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- Not so much.
- What about the infernal world?

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I relinquished my pen.

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- Why?
- Because it frightened me.

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Threatened to make
the real world seem...

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pointless and colourless and drab.

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And that way lies madness.

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You know, the real world is what it is,
but we must live in it, so...

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You should write if it makes you happy.

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I worry about my eyes.

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And I think as well,
when I got that reply from Southey,

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"Literature cannot be the business
of a woman's life."

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At the time I brushed it off,

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but the longer I've dwelt on it,
the older I've got,

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the more I've thought...
what's the point?

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The point, for me...

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is I'm never more alive
than when I write.

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You're the same surely.

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But with no prospect of publication...
it's just playing at it, isn't it?

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Are we playing, then, or what?

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Does it ever bother you that we might be
getting a bit old for that?

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You weren't saying that
two weeks ago in York.

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No, well...
I didn't want to spoil things in York.

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It's something I've been thinking
for a while.

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Well, what did you
come out with me for, then?

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- To talk.
- What about?

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Things, about our home.

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- Do you never think about...
- What?

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The future.
What are we without Papa and Branwell?

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Papa won't... he won't live forever,
and he's blind.

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And that house, our house, it belongs
to the church trustees, not us.

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And Branwell, what's he doing,
what's he thinking

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that he has such a hopeless grasp
on the realities of what comes next?

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Are we nothing to him?
Does he even see us?

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If we don't make something of ourselves,
and God knows we've been trying...

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I've been trying. I was a governess
at that ludicrous place for five years.

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What will we do, Emily?
What will... What will we be?

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EMILY: It was when I came back
from Roe Head and he was there,

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at home, Branwell.

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And he wasn't supposed to be.

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You'd gone, you and Charlotte,
gone off back to Roe Head,

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and he was supposed to be in London

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trying to get his foot in the door
at the Royal Academy.

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That's when I knew what a liar he was.

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- Sharpers?
- Thieves!

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So, what, they attacked you?
You were robbed?

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- Four of them?
- I think four.

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In broad daylight? That's...
Well, surely someone saw what happened.

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MR BRONTE:
What, you didn't even get there?

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No, it was just after I arrived at
the coaching inn at St Martin le Grand,

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and I knew my way around
from the maps in my head,

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but London, the whole thing
is so much bigger than I imagined.

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And you didn't tell me how big it was,
did you?

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And I didn't know who to turn to
with no money, so I came home!

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Well... witnesses. Surely someone
must have seen what happened.

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No, there were no witnesses.

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Everyone just turned around
and went about their business.

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So all 30 shillings... gone?

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Yes!

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Then when Aunt Branwell went to bed
and Papa went back to his study,

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I said to him, "You're lying."

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And he admitted it.

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He didn't even make it to London, never
mind any business at any Royal Academy.

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He said he was about to get
on the Highflyer in Bradford

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with his paintings and his sketches.

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But then, when he was faced with
the reality of setting off for London,

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he realised that they just...
weren't that good.

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They might look well enough at home, but
next to a Lawrence or a Gainsborough...

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So he fortified himself, he said,

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to get the courage to get on
the next coach, which was his intention.

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But he didn't.

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He spent four days in Bradford, drunk
and miserable and dreaming up some trash

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that he thought everyone at home
would be blown enough to believe.

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He spent 30 shillings on drink
in four days?

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I could have cheerfully murdered him
to start with, and then...

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actually, I felt sorry for him.

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They always expected so much of him,

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more probably
than he was ever capable of.

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And I just thought,
"Thank God I'm not you."

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It's disappointing, I know.

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I'm angry with him too.

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He humiliated me at Thorp Green,
and he knew what he was doing.

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- But we shouldn't give up on him.
- No, we shouldn't give up on him.

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But we should see him for what he is,
not what he isn't.

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It's not fair on him.

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I sometimes think
Charlotte despises him.

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Mm.

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Well, Charlotte has her own demons.

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What demons?

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Look, you know how low she's been,
for months,

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to the point of making herself ill and
convincing herself she's going blind?

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Yes.

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Well, you know
when we were in Brussels...

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- Monsieur Heger.
- Yes.

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Well, she was very... taken with him.

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Not when I was there.
This was after Aunt Branwell died,

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when I stayed at home.

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She became... obsessed with him.

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He was married.

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That's why she left, at finish.

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BRANWELL: My dear Leyland.

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I returned yesterday from a week's
journey to Liverpool and North Wales.

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But I found during my absence
that wherever I went,

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a certain woman robed in black and
calling herself Misery walked by my side

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and leant on my arm as affectionately
as if she were my legal wife.

239
00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,429
Like some other husbands,
I could have spared her presence.

240
00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,476
MR BRONTE:
For the food we are about to receive,

241
00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,478
may the Lord make us truly thankful.

242
00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,591
- Amen.
- Amen.

243
00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,195
- Is she feeding those dogs again?
- EMILY: No.

244
00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,991
Chicken, please.

245
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,116
My tea.

246
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,037
- Branwell.
- Yeah.

247
00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:58,153
Well, tell us something about Liverpool.

248
00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,192
Ah. Well, the docks were extraordinary.

249
00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,436
- Uh-huh.
- We saw a black man.

250
00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,674
A blackamoor, a Creole.

251
00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,199
He really was black.

252
00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,197
- So dark, Papa.
- Uh-huh.

253
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,472
And I spoke to him, didn't really
understand what he was saying,

254
00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,478
and I don't think he understood a word
I was saying either,

255
00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,670
but it was just fascinating.

256
00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,870
I think he was something
on one of the ships.

257
00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,751
(BRANWELL CHUCKLES)

258
00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,631
(CHUCKLING CONTINUES)

259
00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:53,468
Yes?

260
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,792
If you...

261
00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:12,391
If you don't... get on top of...
of this habit

262
00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:17,638
when things don't go right for you,
if you can't exercise some restraint,

263
00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,273
it'll take over your life, Branwell.

264
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,198
- Don't be ridiculous.
- I'm not being ridiculous.

265
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,270
- It'll destroy you.
- Mm.

266
00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,720
Potentially you still have
so much to offer, Branwell.

267
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,517
- You need a plan.
- I've got plans.

268
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,631
Have you?

269
00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,428
- And can you share them with anyone?
- D'you know what I've realised?

270
00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,872
What?

271
00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,911
There's no money in poetry.

272
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,953
Novels, that's where the money is.

273
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,955
Whilst the composition of a poem

274
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,153
demands the utmost stretch
of a man's intellect.

275
00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,992
And for what? Ten pounds at best.

276
00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:11,918
I could hum a tune, smoke a cigar
and I'd have a novel written.

277
00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,474
No one will publish a novel
by an unknown author.

278
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,831
I've had nine poems published
in the Halifax Guardian.

279
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,595
It's only Halifax, I know,
but it is widely enough read.

280
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,951
- You'd need a good story for a novel.
- Oh. When was I ever short of a story?

281
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,150
EMILY: Are you still thinking
about going to Paris?

282
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,356
CHARLOTTE: I don't think it's likely...
at the moment.

283
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,869
EMILY: Why? It might do you good.

284
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,032
Are you still hell-bent
on making yourself poorly?

285
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,516
I'm not poorly.

286
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,638
I'm just struggling to...

287
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,316
Why is it that a woman's lot
is so very different to a man's?

288
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,039
I've never felt inferior,
have you, intellectually?

289
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,913
Why is it that we have
so very few opportunities?

290
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,235
You or I could do almost anything
we set our minds to,

291
00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:24,478
but, no, all we can realistically plan
is a school, a modest enough school,

292
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,795
that no one wants to come to.

293
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,111
Why is it that the woman's lot
is to be perpetually infantilised?

294
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,670
Or else invisible
and powerless to do anything about it?

295
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,395
Did he never write back to you, then?

296
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,471
Heger?

297
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,071
No.

298
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,229
Mm.

299
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,996
Anne says you've written some poems.

300
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,038
Have you thought about publishing them?

301
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,354
No.

302
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:21,394
It's just the...

303
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,790
The thing is, you see,

304
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,957
I've written some verses too,
and if between us,

305
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,513
we could accumulate enough material

306
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,278
to think about publishing
a small volume...

307
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,436
And have it pored over
and rubbished and ridiculed

308
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,915
by anyone who might choose
to waste their money on it?

309
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,031
Not likely.

310
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:47,353
EMILY: He comes with western winds,
with evening's wandering airs;

311
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,029
With that clear dusk of heaven
that brings the thickest stars,

312
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,635
Winds take a pensive tone
and stars a tender fire,

313
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,719
And visions rise and change
that kill me with desire.

314
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,316
High waving heather
'neath stormy blasts bending,

315
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,477
Midnight and moonlight
and bright shining stars

316
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,273
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,

317
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,039
Earth rising to heaven
and heaven descending,

318
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,232
Man's spirit away
from its drear dungeon sending,

319
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,920
Bursting the fetters
and breaking the bars

320
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,755
Then dawns the Invisible;

321
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,269
The Unseen its truth reveals;

322
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,029
My outward sense is gone
My inward essence feels

323
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,073
lts wings are almost free,
lts home, its harbour found,

324
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,749
Measuring the gulf,
it stoops and dares the final bound.

325
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,032
O dreadful is the check...
intense the agony...

326
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,799
When the ear begins to hear
and the eye begins to see;

327
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,798
When the pulse begins to throb,
the brain to think again,

328
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,356
The soul to feel the flesh
and the flesh to feel the chain.

329
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,278
Yet I would lose no sting,

330
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,550
Would wish no torture less,

331
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,116
The more that anguish racks,
the earlier it will bless,

332
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,995
And robed in fires of hell
or bright with heavenly shine,

333
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:09,954
If it but herald Death,
the vision is divine.

334
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:44,709
(DOOR SLAMS)

335
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,831
(HEAVY FOOTSTEPS)

336
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,437
What's the matter? What's the matter?

337
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,994
- Somebody has been in my room.
- Somebody?

338
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,157
Somebody has been through my things and
not had the wit when they put them back

339
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,271
to realise that everything
was in a certain order.

340
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,879
Well, who? We haven't. I haven't.

341
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,958
You haven't. You wouldn't. I know that.
Branwell's in Halifax.

342
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,231
It's safe to assume Papa couldn't see to
do it, and anyway why would he bother?

343
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:15,272
Tabby's got better things to do
and Martha can't read that well yet.

344
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,473
She also has too much dignity
and respect for other people's things!

345
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,716
I shouldn't have.

346
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,751
I know.

347
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,996
But I'm not sorry. I mean I am sorry.

348
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,516
But, look, Emily, your poems are...

349
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,470
They're extraordinary.

350
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,512
I know they're private, personal,
they're a thousand and one things,

351
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,108
but they're not something
to keep hidden.

352
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,438
I... I admit it was curiosity,
but not idle curiosity, I hope,

353
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,152
but something more noble.

354
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,431
Noble? Going in people's bedrooms?
Going through people's things?

355
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,189
No woman, no one,
has ever written poetry like this.

356
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,436
Nothing I've read,
nothing I can think of,

357
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,120
nothing published, is its equal.

358
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,755
Emily, they're exceptional.
They're astonishing.

359
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,269
I couldn't breathe
when I was reading them.

360
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,918
I know you're angry
and I know what I did is unforgivable,

361
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,031
except please see that it isn't.

362
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,678
You disgust me.

363
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,189
You can't begin to imagine how much.

364
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,675
You stay out of my room
and you don't speak to me.

365
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,951
You don't speak to me generally
and you don't speak to me specifically

366
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,629
about your misguided, tedious,
grubby little publishing plans.

367
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,351
What on earth is the matter?

368
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,711
She has been in people's bedrooms,
going through people's things.

369
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,478
I'm putting a lock on that door.

370
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,795
She? What happened?

371
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,911
- Charlotte?
- Nothing.

372
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,311
It was nothing.
I... I went in her bedroom.

373
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,470
(CHUCKLES)

374
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,591
(SIGHS)

375
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,713
And, um, where is Branwell?

376
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,353
- Halifax.
- He's where?

377
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,235
- Halifax.
- Oh. Is he due in tonight?

378
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,920
Or have we to lock the back door?

379
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,191
- I'd imagine he's taken a key.
- MR BRONTE: Right.

380
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,799
Alright, I made a mistake.

381
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,511
Except I didn't.

382
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,952
They're...

383
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,752
Have you read them?

384
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,916
No.

385
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,792
She's never asked me to.

386
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,557
What did she mean about
your grubby little publishing plans?

387
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,113
They're not without charm.

388
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,750
It's not just the poems, you see.

389
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,469
I've been writing this too.
It's a novel.

390
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,591
It's not Gondal and Gaaldine.

391
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,632
It's more about how things are
in the real world.

392
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,074
It's about being a governess.

393
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,351
It's all things I've seen
and heard and witnessed.

394
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,112
- The thing is, you see, I...
- This is beautifully written.

395
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,511
I would be ready to try and publish.
I would be ready to risk failure.

396
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,952
And who knows? This is what
we've done all our lives, write.

397
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,638
We've lived in our heads.

398
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,554
I don't regard the attempt
to do something with it as venal.

399
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,750
It's more venal
selling ourselves as governesses

400
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,791
when we find it such a trial.

401
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,629
So long as
we approached it carefully, wisely,

402
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,591
not make fools of ourselves,
then surely...

403
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,635
The plan would be to try to publish
a volume of poetry first.

404
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,872
And then if that met
with a modicum of success

405
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,355
and something of a name was established,

406
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,755
then we could each risk
a work of fiction.

407
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,592
I've toyed with writing something
about Brussels.

408
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,552
I mean, I don't even know
if that's the etiquette,

409
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,797
but perhaps I can write
to a publishing house and find out.

410
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:50,508
Your poems are competent and charming,
and I'm no great poet myself,

411
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,077
but Emily's contribution
could elevate a small volume

412
00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:00,274
into something... actually worth
spending a few shillings on.

413
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,153
- I feel sorry for her.
- Why?

414
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,309
Same reason I feel sorry for Branwell.

415
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,193
So much is expected of her,
being the eldest,

416
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,436
and not even the eldest,
by accident the eldest.

417
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,358
Bossiest. She was bossy when Maria
and Elizabeth were still alive.

418
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,471
I remember it vividly.

419
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,958
It's being so bossy
that's stunted her growth.

420
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:33,154
She's ambitious for all of us.
I can see nothing wrong with that.

421
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,390
I realise some people
might think it's vulgar,

422
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,990
but, Emily, we were born writing.

423
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,588
And if we're cautious,
if we're clever, and we are,

424
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,075
and if we disguise our real selves
and our sex...

425
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,159
Right, that's done.
Tabby, I'm off down the... hill.

426
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,593
It's wonderful how quiet
they all think she is in t' village

427
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,154
and how loud she is at home.

428
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,071
You can come with me if you want.

429
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,677
Have you ever thought about
writing something that's not Gondal?

430
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,075
Something more.
Not princesses and emperors,

431
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,760
more just what happens
in the real world?

432
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,070
You know when I worked in Halifax?

433
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,031
- At that school at Law Hill?
- Yes.

434
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,754
Miss Patchett that ran it,
she told me this tale

435
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,474
and I've often thought
it would make a story, a novel.

436
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:26,669
What was it about?

437
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,633
This man, this lad, Jack Sharp.
Have I never told you this?

438
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,877
It serves us well enough, but it's not
an attractive building, I know.

439
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,911
It has a rather curious history.

440
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,998
It was built out of spite,
apparently, 60 years ago,

441
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,076
by a man called Jack Sharp.

442
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,758
So, there's this family, the Walkers.

443
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,440
They own Walterclough Hall,
this big house just above Halifax.

444
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,198
It's been in the family for generations.

445
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,356
They're woollen manufacturers.
Aren't they all?

446
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,198
Anyway, John Walker has four children,

447
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,517
two boys and two girls,
and he's adopted this nephew Jack Sharp.

448
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,999
Richard and John, the two sons,
were educated well,

449
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,395
and they ended up
making their livings in London.

450
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,636
Jack stayed at home with the girls,
Grace and Mary,

451
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,991
and he was trained up to take over the
family business, which suited everyone,

452
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,317
because it seems he'd always been
old Mr Walker's favourite,

453
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,793
the truth be told.

454
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,276
Then when Richard, the eldest son,
dies in some tragic accident somewhere,

455
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,277
old Mr Walker decides
to leave the district

456
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,676
and he leaves Jack in charge
of his business and Walterclough Hall.

457
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,429
Eventually, some years later,
old Mr Walker himself dies,

458
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,597
and the remaining son, John, in London,
inherits everything

459
00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:29,995
and gives Jack Sharp,
who he'd never liked,

460
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,315
notice to vacate the property forthwith.

461
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,749
But John Walker Junior
has the law on his side,

462
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,836
and after enough wrangling in court,

463
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,713
Jack Sharp has to vacate the property
whether he likes it or not,

464
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,478
but not before he'd trashed the place

465
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,353
and taken anything of value,
furniture...

466
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,550
...the silver, the plate, the linen.

467
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,240
You can only imagine
what they all went through,

468
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,237
the anger and the bitterness.

469
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,592
And then he built his own home,
a new house, here at Law Hill.

470
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:58,154
EMILY: The spot chosen very carefully,
people believed,

471
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,191
because it looks down
on Walterclough Hall.

472
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,153
And then he filled it with the stash
he'd purloined from the hall,

473
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,113
like he was goading John Walker
to come and fetch it if he dared.

474
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:07,275
And did he dare?

475
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,119
I doubt it,
but the worst thing that Jack Sharp did,

476
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:13,835
one of old Mr Walker's sisters had a
son, grown up by then, called Sam Stead,

477
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,757
and Jack Sharp
apprenticed him in the trade,

478
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,553
just like he himself
had been apprenticed by old Mr Walker.

479
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,672
And he cleverly,
calculatedly, bit by bit,

480
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,837
indulged and degraded Sam Stead
with gambling and drink,

481
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,190
and the lad was too feckless
to know any better.

482
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,309
Why would you do that?

483
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,510
He did it to cause
as much misery and humiliation

484
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:31,868
to the Walkers as he could.

485
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,479
- That's...
- I know.

486
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,309
All that anger, it's so rich.

487
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,913
Anyway, if we're writing novels,
I imagine we'll need more paper.

488
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,311
(CHURCH BELLS RING)

489
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,751
Of course we're not going to use
our real names.

490
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,199
But must they be men's names?

491
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,993
When a man writes something,
it's what he's written that's judged.

492
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,680
When a woman writes something,
it's her that's judged.

493
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,268
We must select the poems we want to use,

494
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,951
and then, yes, if we're to be taken
seriously and judged fairly

495
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,390
and make anything resembling a profit,

496
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,511
we must walk invisible.

497
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,397
What about names
that are neither men's nor women's?

498
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,511
(CHURCH BELLS RING)

499
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,314
CHARLOTTE: Dear Ellen.

500
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,035
I reached home a little after two
o'clock all safe and right yesterday.

501
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,435
Emily and Anne
were gone to Keighley to meet me.

502
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,149
Unfortunately I had returned by the old
road while they were gone by the new,

503
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,271
and we missed each other.

504
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,952
- I'm back home.
- Ah, Charlotte.

505
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,908
Miss Bronte.

506
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,234
Mr Nicholls.

507
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,517
I went into the room where Branwell was
to speak to him.

508
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,790
It was very forced work to address him.

509
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,559
I might have spared myself the trouble,
as he took no notice...

510
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,669
Branwell.

511
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,358
... and made no reply.

512
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,515
Branwell.

513
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,995
He was stupefied.

514
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,428
What's this?

515
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,630
Branwell, what's this?

516
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,637
That's for you.

517
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,752
I opened it by mistake.
It said "Esquire".

518
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,152
Give me that.

519
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,998
Proof pages.

520
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,396
How much are you paying 'em
for the privilege of being published?

521
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:39,230
I assume you're paying them.
I assume you've all clubbed together.

522
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,793
I assume they're not paying you, hm?

523
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,911
You've been sick.

524
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,589
I didn't confirm or deny.
I made no reply.

525
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,917
I don't care about him knowing we're
paying them. It's a means to an end.

526
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,031
I care about him
talking to people about us.

527
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,230
Where's he got the money from
to get into that state?

528
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,476
He screwed a sovereign
out of Papa yesterday.

529
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,875
He claimed to have some pressing matter
and Papa said no.

530
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,434
Next thing you know, he's given it
to him, God knows how or why,

531
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,835
and he's trotting off
to get it changed at the Black Bull.

532
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,997
Perhaps when he's sober he'll not even
remember he's seen our proof sheets.

533
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,314
I'll write to Aylott and Jones

534
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,432
and ask them to address their
correspondence differently in future.

535
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,074
Was he angry, Branwell?

536
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,555
What can we do?
We can't include him the way he is now.

537
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,717
He's unmanageable.
We'd never get anything agreed or done.

538
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,752
And anyway, why would Northangerland
want to publish with his sisters?

539
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,678
Well, he certainly couldn't afford
to contribute to the costs.

540
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,756
We're doing the right thing, Anne.

541
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,110
It's hard, it's tough, but, I'm sorry,

542
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:37,912
he'd drag us down with him
if we let him.

543
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,391
Right, come on, you big oaf.

544
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,475
That way. Shift.

545
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,271
Hello, Joe.

546
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,520
Well, I never.

547
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,312
Eh?

548
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,035
How you doing, lad?

549
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,914
I've resolved this morning to...
keep myself busy.

550
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:10,989
Good.

551
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,318
Good. Me too.

552
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,840
I thought I would go and see
John Frobisher.

553
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,838
I thought I might write something
to set to music and he'd be the man.

554
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,713
He... And he's still here, isn't he,
at the church?

555
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,512
So far as I know, yeah.

556
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,029
Have you not thought any more
about going abroad?

557
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,913
Not... No.

558
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,396
I haven't seen any vacancies,
at least nothing, you know...

559
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,750
Not with the way
things are at the moment.

560
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,911
How are things at home?

561
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,828
Ah.

562
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,794
It's like living with people who don't
speak the same language as I do.

563
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,435
Honestly, Joe,
I could be with some tribe

564
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,235
from some far-flung corner of the globe
for all I have in common with them.

565
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,999
They despise me, and I...

566
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,073
I only live there
because I'm such a fucking pauper.

567
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,635
They need to get married, those three.

568
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,831
Only who'd have 'em?

569
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,951
Who'd have any of us?

570
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,870
What a ridiculous set we've become.

571
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,229
And we used to be
quite a nice little family.

572
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,069
She... She does love me,
you know, Joe, Lydia.

573
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,915
Yeah, well...

574
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,031
You know, I don't know.

575
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,551
I wasn't there. I can't say.

576
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,230
I know everyone thinks I'm... God knows.

577
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,112
But if you saw her,
if only for a moment,

578
00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:07,719
you'd get it, you'd see.

579
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,558
What would I see?

580
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,719
That she's the kind of woman
that can change a man's life,

581
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:14,909
his whole everything.

582
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,759
You've gotta look forward, though, eh?
Not back.

583
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,031
We've talked about this.

584
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,635
Am I boring you, Leyland?

585
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,910
No, lad, no, you're not boring me.

586
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,315
- I worry that you're kidding yourself.
- Eh?

587
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,954
Awoman her age, in her position...

588
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,348
My only hope is that he'll be dead soon
and I'll be asked back.

589
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,392
EMILY: Hello.

590
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,672
Hello.

591
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,152
Look.

592
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,391
BRANWELL: I know.

593
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,111
(GROANS)

594
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,640
Ah, it's beautiful.

595
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,116
The same moon that's shone down
since we were children,

596
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:47,754
since our ancestors were children.

597
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,554
We're so tiny, really... aren't we?

598
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,717
So... So unimportant.

599
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,831
All of us.

600
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,311
That's right.

601
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,714
(DOGS BARK)

602
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,992
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

603
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,313
BRANWELL: Bloody dogs.

604
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,951
(HOWLS)

605
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,957
(HOWLS)

606
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:20,877
(BOTH HOWL)

607
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,356
(DOGS HOWLAND BARK)

608
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,709
There's a fella in t' Black Bull
looking for thee.

609
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,718
- Who?
- He says he's from Thorp Green.

610
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,111
Who?

611
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:19,759
I'm gonna get my coat.

612
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,472
Shift.

613
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,631
- Is there a fella looking for me?
- Aye, he's through there.

614
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,073
Mr Bronte.

615
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,277
- Someone's dead.
- Mr Robinson.

616
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:59,429
He passed away
three weeks this last Tuesday.

617
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,073
Did you not know?

618
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,599
No. How could I?

619
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:06,993
Well, it's been in t' papers.

620
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,759
We don't get the York papers.

621
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:35,239
You're advised... to stay away.

622
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,479
Does she not... want me to go to her?

623
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,591
- She didn't say that.
- No, it isn't her.

624
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:57,829
It's Mr Evans, one of the trustees
of Mr Robinson's will.

625
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,236
Apparently he's said if he sees you,
he'll shoot you.

626
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:09,952
- Did he send you?
- No. No. She did.

627
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,079
She was concerned you might turn up

628
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,796
and Mr Evans might feel obliged
to do as he's threatened.

629
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:26,276
But as well as that, you should know,
by the terms of the will,

630
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,914
that if she marries again,

631
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,555
she'll forfeit any right
to her husband's fortune.

632
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,233
What?

633
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,672
Every penny... and the house.

634
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,552
She, um...

635
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,674
She asked me not to tell you
how wretched she is.

636
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,315
You'd not recognise her, Mr Bronte.

637
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,354
She's worn herself out these past
few months in attendance upon him.

638
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,471
And then the last few days
before his death,

639
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:15,153
his manner was so mild,
so... conciliatory.

640
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,874
It's a pity to see her
kneeling at her prayers in tears.

641
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,472
I suppose we can only guess
at what torments of conscience

642
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:31,993
she might be going through... now.

643
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,353
But she sent you.

644
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,072
Hmm.

645
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:47,233
To beg you to think of your own safety,
Mr Bronte...

646
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,355
and her sanity,

647
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,836
which, below stairs,

648
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,115
we fear hangs by a thread.

649
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,909
I don't give a damn about my own safety.

650
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,552
(MAN) No.

651
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,551
But the thing is...

652
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,229
it's never going to happen, Mr Bronte.

653
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,638
Do you understand?

654
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,674
You're advised to stay away.

655
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,757
Mr Brown!

656
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,950
Mr Brown!

657
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,310
- Mr Brown!
- What do you want, you little bugger?

658
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,399
You've to come. Mr Thomas
at t' Black Bull says you've to come.

659
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,830
- Now what?
- God knows.

660
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,190
- There were a fella here and...
- Paddy? Come on, lad.

661
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,197
- I thought I'd best send for thee.
- What's up?

662
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,276
- The state he's in...
- No, you've done right.

663
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,472
- Come on, lad.
- (SOBS)

664
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,591
Come on, you're alright.

665
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,634
Nothing I do, John...

666
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,274
- You're just tired.
- Nothing I do works.

667
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,073
Eh? Let's get you home, come on.

668
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,638
Why are we going up here?

669
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,479
- It's where you live.
- I don't wanna go home.

670
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,149
- I don't wanna go home.
- Well, where d'you want to go, then?

671
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,713
Keighley.

672
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,751
I think meself
you'd be better off at home.

673
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,714
No. No. I need to go to Thorp Green,
John. I need to go to Thorp Green.

674
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,992
Fair enough, but not just now,
not today, not in this state.

675
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,112
BRANWELL: Yes, in this state.
This is the right state.

676
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,268
Well, you can. I can't, obviously.

677
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,631
It's two o'clock in the afternoon.
I've to get to work.

678
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,914
Ah, Mr Nicholls. He's...

679
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,956
He's had a bad do.
He's had a bit of bad news.

680
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,191
Down you go.

681
00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:28,711
Nearly there.

682
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,752
- Careful.
- Nearly there.

683
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,075
(SOBS)

684
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,031
- NICHOLLS: Calm down.
- BRANWELL: Get off me!

685
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,277
- NICHOLLS: Please keep your voice down.
- BRANWELL: Shut up! I hate you!

686
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,075
Don't tell me to calm down
in my own house! I will kill you!

687
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,475
- Get your hands off me!
- NICHOLLS: Calm down.

688
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,115
Don't tell me to calm down.
I don't want you telling me anything.

689
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,359
My house.

690
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,835
Nothing wrong with me.

691
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,915
Look at 'em all looking at me.

692
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:10,276
You're always looking at me
with your stupid, empty faces!

693
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,155
Just please stop looking at me! Stop!

694
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,880
And him. Him.

695
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,913
What do you want, huh?
You've had everything.

696
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:33,912
You've had everything you're getting.

697
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,797
Will you just stand there
staring at me all the time?

698
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:40,034
Come on.

699
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:41,957
I hate you!

700
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,553
(SOBS)

701
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,998
JOHN: Come on upstairs, have a lie-down.

702
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,751
Have a few knock-out drops, eh?

703
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:00,875
Eh?

704
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,353
- (GROANS)
- Eh?

705
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,072
I feel sick.

706
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,479
Come on. Up we go.

707
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,068
BRANWELL: You heard him. Up. Help me up.

708
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:11,831
BRANWELL: I can do it.

709
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,389
(MUTTERS)

710
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,552
- Sorry.
- Sorry.

711
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,671
CHARLOTTE: Dear Ellen.

712
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,872
We have been somewhat more harassed
than usual lately.

713
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,560
The death of Mr Robinson
has served Branwell for a pretext

714
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,035
to throw all about him
into hubbub and confusion.

715
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,036
He has become intolerable.

716
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,276
To Papa he allows rest
neither day nor night

717
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,914
and he is continually
screwing money out of him,

718
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:01,238
sometimes threatening that he will
kill himself if it's withheld from him.

719
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,239
BRANWELL: I need some money.

720
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,591
MR BRONTE: You need to get a situation.
You need to pull yourself together.

721
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:12,757
- Morning, Miss Bronte.
- Thank you.

722
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,589
BRANWELL: Are you stupid as well
as blind? There's nothing out there!

723
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:19,553
Not for someone
who's fit for nothing like me...

724
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,716
CHARLOTTE:
He says Mrs Robinson is now insane,

725
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:23,193
that her mind is a complete wreck,

726
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,039
owing to remorse
for her conduct towards Mr Robinson,

727
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,515
whose end, it appears,
was hastened by distress of mind,

728
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,631
and grief for having lost him.

729
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,073
I do not know how much to believe
of what he says.

730
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,988
He now declares that he neither can
nor will do anything for himself.

731
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,475
Good situations have been offered
more than once,

732
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,751
for which by a fortnight's work
he might have qualified himself,

733
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,269
but he will do nothing except drink
and make us all wretched.

734
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,391
BRANWELL: Tell me where it is!

735
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,677
MR BRONTE: There is no more money,
Branwell, not for you.

736
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,190
I beg you to recognise that you are ill.

737
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,830
Two reviews, one from the Critic,
one from the Athenaeum,

738
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:15,159
both anonymous but both really...
really quite good, especially about you.

739
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,392
"Refreshing, vigorous poetry,

740
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,511
no sickly affectations,
no namby-pamby,

741
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,552
no tedious imitations
of familiar strains."

742
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:29,711
Are... Are they still fighting?

743
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:39,111
Are you going to be alright
when I go to Manchester with Papa?

744
00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:41,276
It's only three weeks.

745
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:45,279
I'm more concerned about when he comes
back. He'll need rest and quiet, not...

746
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,756
Did you get what you wanted? Yeah, you.
Are you proud of yourself, eh?

747
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,394
Wangling money out of a blind man?
A man practically in his 70s.

748
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,751
- Fuck off.
- Eh, come back here and say that.

749
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,757
Yeah, go on, have a go,
see what happens.

750
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,677
- I haven't time.
- No?

751
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,313
Just the blind and the elderly, is it?

752
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,032
Otherwise I would.

753
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,037
Course you would.

754
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,473
- It's nothing.
- Did he just hit you?

755
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,594
Don't make a fuss.

756
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:56,677
I am still aiming to get my story
finished by the end of this week.

757
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,758
There's a handful of passages
I'd like to look at again,

758
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:02,269
but then, depending on where
you and Anne are with yours...

759
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,870
Oh, The Professor's finished,
as much as it ever will be.

760
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,115
Perhaps we could aim
to get them off to a publisher

761
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,356
before you set off for Manchester.

762
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,469
- Emily.
- Right?

763
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,591
Yep. Straight.

764
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:29,272
Straight. Straight down.

765
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,599
Emily. Good luck.

766
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:39,349
And you.

767
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,313
- Keep him wrapped up, see?
- MR BRONTE: Are all the bags on?

768
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,670
- Everything's under control, Papa.
- Has she heard?

769
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,791
- Yes, I've heard.
- Emily, Emily.

770
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,359
- You know where the gun is?
- Yes.

771
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,399
- We're all in, thank you.
- Right you are.

772
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,432
I'll send you the address
as soon as we know what it is.

773
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,391
DRIVER: Walk on.

774
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,870
Branwell doesn't know where the gun is,
does he?

775
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,399
Not any more.

776
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,114
Is he still i' bed?

777
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,231
Daft question.

778
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,070
You give him no money,
whatever sob stories he comes up with.

779
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:35,751
Alright?

780
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:38,638
He won't hit you.

781
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,274
And if he hits me,
I'll hit him back... harder.

782
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,996
CHARLOTTE: Dear Ellen.
Papa and I came here on Wednesday.

783
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,714
We saw Mr Wilson the oculist
the same day.

784
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,229
He pronounced Papa's eyes
quite ready for an operation

785
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,828
and has fixed next Monday
for the performance of it.

786
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,518
(GROANS)

787
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,995
Think of us on that day, dear Nell.

788
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,795
Mr Wilson says we will have to stay here
a month at least.

789
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,036
It will be dreary.

790
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,755
I wonder how poor Emily and Anne
will get on at home with Branwell.

791
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:29,549
(KNOCKING)

792
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,671
(BELL RINGS)

793
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:40,552
Thank you.

794
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:07,754
"Not able at present
to consider publication."

795
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:12,876
Do you think they actually read them?

796
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,391
Do they look like they've been read?

797
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,031
Who's next on the list?

798
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,237
Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, London.

799
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,031
(THUNDER)

800
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,114
CHARLOTTE: There was no possibility...

801
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,271
of taking a walk that day.

802
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,552
Do you think it's wrong to write about
something that's very close to home?

803
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,671
Like what?

804
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:35,514
Awoman forced to abandon her home,
a good, well-off home,

805
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,234
to protect her child and herself

806
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,430
because of a change
in her husband's character

807
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:46,635
when he sinks into...
you know, addictive behaviour,

808
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,269
and then forced to make her own way
in the world.

809
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,994
No, I don't think it's wrong.

810
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:55,959
I'd never have invented Hindley

811
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,436
if I hadn't been set
such a fine example at home.

812
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,435
- Have you seen Branwell today?
- No.

813
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:14,788
Have you heard him?

814
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,119
BRANWELL:
I see a corpse upon the waters lie

815
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:28,036
With eyes turned,
swelled and sightless, to the sky,

816
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:33,510
And arms outstretched
To move as wave on wave

817
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,837
Upbears it
in its boundless billowy grave

818
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,913
Not time but ocean
thins its flowing hair,

819
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,236
Decay, not sorrow,
lays its forehead bare

820
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,956
lts members move
but not in thankless toil,

821
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,997
For seas are milder
than this world's turmoil;

822
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,909
Corruption robs its lip
and cheeks of red,

823
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,873
But wounded vanity grieves not the dead,

824
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,917
And though those members
hasten to decay,

825
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,316
No pang of suffering
takes their strength away

826
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:14,356
With untormented eye
and heart and brain,

827
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:18,439
Through calm and storm
it floats across the main:

828
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,997
Though love and joy
have perished long ago,

829
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,439
lts bosom suffers not one pang of woe,

830
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,710
Though weeds and worms
its cherished beauty hide,

831
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:33,798
It feels not wounded vanity or pride.

832
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,631
Where's you going, lad?

833
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:11,352
Haworth.

834
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,551
Whoa, whoa.

835
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:19,958
Go on.

836
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:13,589
Oh, hello.

837
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:20,268
Branwell.

838
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,632
Branwell's here.
He's collapsed. He's outside.

839
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:31,388
Branwell.

840
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:34,791
Branwell.

841
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:36,512
Branwell.

842
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:40,431
One of you go and fetch Dr Wheelhouse.

843
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:43,552
- Get a cloak on.
- Here, let's get him inside.

844
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:45,998
Branwell, eh?

845
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,358
Come on, son, sit up. There, eh?

846
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:51,913
Let's get him in the house, come on.

847
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:57,078
- You know where I am.
- Yes, yes.

848
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,071
Thank you for coming, Doctor.

849
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,191
There is hope.

850
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,720
He's home, he's back with us,

851
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:13,752
and with nourishment and abstinence

852
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:17,714
and prayer and peace and quiet,

853
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,798
we may yet hope for better things.

854
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:26,995
His body has suffered the ravages
of gross neglect and abuse.

855
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,551
Self-inflicted.

856
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:36,438
And I cannot in all conscience
do other than blame that woman,

857
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,836
that sinful, hateful woman...

858
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,680
who with her more mature years
and social advantages

859
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:48,031
surely should have shown
better responsibility.

860
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,594
He has come very low,

861
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:57,396
but, you know, sometimes a man
must sink to the bottom

862
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:00,273
before he can turn his life around,

863
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:06,350
and perhaps that's what's happened,
or what's happening here.

864
01:09:06,480 --> 01:09:09,438
- Where's he been?
- ANNE: How's he been living?

865
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:13,678
- Does he want to abstain?
- Oh, he has to. He has to abstain.

866
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,030
Halifax, I assume. I don't know.

867
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,879
That's where
John's always imagined he was.

868
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,355
Or where John knew damn well he was.

869
01:09:22,480 --> 01:09:25,074
Have you talked to him,
about abstention?

870
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,832
Um, he's asleep.

871
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:31,316
It'll only work
if he's determined to do it himself.

872
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,594
Yeah. Well...

873
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:43,359
Anne.

874
01:09:43,480 --> 01:09:45,471
Shh.

875
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:48,995
Anne.

876
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:53,517
I should have done more at Thorp Green.

877
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:57,394
I should have stopped him. I should have
told someone. I should have...

878
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,075
I'm complicit in their sin.

879
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,033
- No, you're not.
- You were in an impossible position.

880
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,151
I let it happen.

881
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,269
All I did was leave in the end.

882
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:18,951
I was a coward,
a moral coward before God.

883
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,551
(DISTANT LAUGHTER)

884
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:40,871
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)

885
01:10:56,440 --> 01:10:58,431
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)

886
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:07,269
You alright, lad?

887
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:41,639
Lydia.

888
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,396
Wake up. Wake up.

889
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,670
There's a fire.

890
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:03,315
- I think I've put it out.
- MR BRONTE: Branwell. Branwell.

891
01:12:03,440 --> 01:12:06,398
Branwell. Branwell, look at me!

892
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:07,509
Branwell!

893
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:09,631
Delirium tremens.

894
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,872
It's when someone who's been drinking
solidly for weeks suddenly stops,

895
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,199
either through choice
or, more usually, lack of funds.

896
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,198
The body doesn't know how to respond,
so it goes into spasm.

897
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,831
Will it happen again?

898
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,075
DOCTOR: With care, no.

899
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,875
- But you do need to keep an eye on him.
- Yeah.

900
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,399
DOCTOR: He's lucky.

901
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:42,229
You could've been sending for
the undertaker this morning, not me.

902
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,112
I think rather than come back in here,

903
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:07,270
he should stay in my bedroom
with me, hm?

904
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,038
For the time being.

905
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:29,831
I wrote a rhyme for you.

906
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,195
Did you?

907
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:37,233
Well, I wrote it and I was thinking
about you after I'd written it, so...

908
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:42,672
It goes... Do you want to hear it?

909
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:45,192
Yes.

910
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:49,271
It starts... It's, um...

911
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:54,352
The first line is... It goes...

912
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,151
No coward soul is mine

913
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,711
No trembler in the world's
storm-troubled sphere

914
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:06,592
I see heaven's glories shine
and faith shines equal

915
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,039
Arming me from fear

916
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:10,151
Take your time.

917
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,191
O God within my breast,

918
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:19,830
O God within my breast,

919
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:21,916
Almighty ever-present deity!

920
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:25,476
Life that in me hast rest

921
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,239
As I, undying life, have power in Thee!

922
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,914
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts,

923
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:37,591
unutterably vain;

924
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:43,992
Worthless as withered weeds
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,

925
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:46,111
To waken doubt in one

926
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:52,358
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;

927
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:56,839
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of immortality.

928
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:01,513
With wide-embracing love

929
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,068
Thy spirit animates eternal years,

930
01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:09,159
Pervades and broods above,

931
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:13,478
Changes, sustains, dissolves,
creates and rears

932
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:20,832
Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,

933
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:23,751
And Thou wert left alone,

934
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:28,116
Every existence would exist in Thee.

935
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:32,271
There is not room for Death

936
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,714
Nor atom that his might
could render void

937
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,149
Since Thou art being and breath

938
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,109
And what Thou art
may never be destroyed.

939
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:49,275
There's nothing to be frightened of...

940
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:53,390
not for someone like you.

941
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:04,391
I love you.

942
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:09,232
Good.

943
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,191
I love you.

944
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,318
- MR BRONTE: Who?
- POSTMAN: Currer Bell.

945
01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:25,192
MR BRONTE:
There's no one of that name here.

946
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:28,517
POSTMAN: No, I know that, Mr Bronte,
only it's addressed to here, so I...

947
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,073
MR BRONTE: That's a mystery.

948
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:33,954
There's no one of that name in
the entire parish as far as I'm aware.

949
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,469
POSTMAN: No, well,
that's why I thought happen a visitor.

950
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:41,469
MR BRONTE:
No, no, no visitors, not at the moment.

951
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,910
POSTMAN: Fair enough. I'll take it back
to t' sorting office then.

952
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,268
(FRONT DOOR CLOSES)

953
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:49,198
(FOOTSTEPS)

954
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,356
(STUDY DOOR CLOSES)

955
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,519
- Oh, morning, Miss Bronte.
- Did I hear the name?

956
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:07,678
- Currer Bell?
- Yes.

957
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,917
Good. That's not me, obviously.

958
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:15,158
But if I could take it,
I can make sure it reaches him. Him.

959
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,231
You see, Papa, he forgets.

960
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:25,478
He's... Uh, Mr Bell,
he's... he's not here.

961
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:28,910
Um, he was here,
but... but now, he isn't.

962
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,600
So I can forward it to him.
I have his address.

963
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:35,638
It's a funny name, Currer.

964
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:38,752
I thought happen it were summat to do
wi' Mr Nicholls, Arthur Bell Nicholls.

965
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:42,759
No. No, no, no. That's... It's just...
That's just coincidental.

966
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,233
- Can I take?
- Good.

967
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:47,158
Well, that saves me filling in a docket
back at t' sorting office.

968
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:49,635
I'm much obliged, and so will he be.

969
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,433
How's your brother? Is he?

970
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,152
Oh, he...

971
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:56,632
He's, um...

972
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:02,515
- Till tomorrow, then, Miss Bronte.
- Bye. Bye-bye.

973
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,634
- Where's Emily?
- Kitchen. Do you want her?

974
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,836
Letter from a publisher.

975
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:47,794
Emily.

976
01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:59,711
Thomas Cautley Newby...

977
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:03,080
is offering to publish
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.

978
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,395
His terms are steep,
but he's offering to publish them,

979
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,112
which is more than anyone else has done.

980
01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:09,629
- What about The Professor?
- No.

981
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:12,677
- No, he's not offering to publish that.
- Why?

982
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:14,597
So think about
how you want to approach this.

983
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:18,759
No, that's... We should publish them
all together or not at all, surely.

984
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:23,635
That's sentimental.
It's kind, but it's nonsense.

985
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:27,196
This is a solid offer,
not a generous one, as I say, but...

986
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,550
I'll persevere in sending out
The Professor

987
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,955
and with the other one
that I've been writing.

988
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:35,152
But in the meantime,
you've got a choice to make. Read it.

989
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,516
He's asking for you to provide
an advance of 50 pounds

990
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:41,358
towards the cost of publication,

991
01:19:41,480 --> 01:19:44,392
but clearly he believes it's viable
or he wouldn't make the offer.

992
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,990
- This is addressed to Currer Bell.
- Yes. That was interesting.

993
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,190
- You didn't?
- Of course not.

994
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:54,789
I had to... fib.

995
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,037
- Fifty pounds.
- ANNE: Perhaps that's normal.

996
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:02,472
Perhaps whoever undertook to publish it
would ask for an advance of that sort.

997
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:04,556
We're a risk, we're unknown,
despite the poems.

998
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,478
Because of the poems. Two copies sold.

999
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,110
You will persist?

1000
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:14,271
Oh, yes.

1001
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:19,157
(CHURCH BELL RINGS)

1002
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:35,199
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

1003
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,878
- Yes?
- I'd like to speak to Mr Bronte.

1004
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:49,151
- The Reverend Bronte?
- Mr Patrick Bronte.

1005
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:51,794
TABBY: What shall I say it's to do with?

1006
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:54,639
- MAN: Is he in?
- TABBY: Who wants to know?

1007
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:58,753
I'm a bailiff of the county, appointed
by Mr Rawson, the magistrate at Halifax.

1008
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:02,759
I'm here about an unpaid debt.
Is Mr Bronte in?

1009
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,472
I'll...

1010
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,236
You'll just have to give me a minute.

1011
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:18,398
- (KNOCKS)
- MR BRONTE: Yes?

1012
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:27,669
There's a man at the door, Mr Bronte.
Says he's here about an unpaid debt.

1013
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,190
Says he's been sent
by a magistrate at Halifax.

1014
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,991
Now, then, gentlemen,
how may I help you?

1015
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:54,792
- Mr Patrick Bronte?
- Yes.

1016
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:57,036
I'm appointed
by the magistrate at Halifax

1017
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:59,720
to collect a debt of 14 pounds,
ten shillings and sixpence

1018
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,673
owing to Mr Crowther of
the Commercial Inn, Northgate, Halifax,

1019
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:05,234
and now outstanding
for a total of eight months.

1020
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:09,035
What's going on?
Branwell, what's going on?

1021
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:12,835
- Branwell.
- Shift, shift, shift.

1022
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,110
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Not so fast, little fella.

1023
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:23,118
Steady, now.
You don't want me to hurt you.

1024
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:25,918
And you don't wanna hurt me.

1025
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:28,554
- Cos if you do, there'll be bother.
- Get off me!

1026
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,639
I think it must be my son that you want.

1027
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,911
Your son? Right, well,
where is your son, Mr Bronte?

1028
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,508
MAN: I've got him, Mr Riley!

1029
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:42,678
Emily, get him off me! I can't breathe.

1030
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:45,030
- Stop wriggling. Stop struggling.
- Get him off me!

1031
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,879
I haven't done anything wrong!
You've got the wrong man. Get off me!

1032
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,070
What were you legging it for, then,
you little twat?

1033
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,714
- Get your hands off me!
- BAILIFF: Are you Patrick Bronte?

1034
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:54,319
MAN: Up.

1035
01:22:57,120 --> 01:23:00,317
- Are you Patrick Branwell Bronte?
- Answer the man.

1036
01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:03,159
I have no idea who these people are.

1037
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:07,478
You owe money
to some publican in Halifax,

1038
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:12,151
and if the debt isn't paid,
they'll take you to the debtors' prison.

1039
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:14,236
You'd best pay up, then, eh?

1040
01:23:17,480 --> 01:23:19,391
Take him.

1041
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,476
What? No.

1042
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,239
Papa, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.

1043
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,157
I'm sorry. Charlotte! Emily!

1044
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:30,239
We have money. We have money.
We have money. Please stop them.

1045
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,555
- Please.
- Hang on, boys.

1046
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:43,313
Bring him back.

1047
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:45,829
If it's alright with you,
my colleagues'll keep hold of him

1048
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:47,951
until I've got the remittance.

1049
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,878
I shall require a receipt.

1050
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,991
I shall give you one.

1051
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:28,632
Come on.

1052
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:36,631
It's alright.

1053
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:49,310
CHARLOTTE: Gentlemen, I have received
your communication of the fifth instant

1054
01:24:49,440 --> 01:24:51,237
for which I thank you.

1055
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,113
Your objection to the want of
varied interest in "The Professor"is,

1056
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:56,390
I am aware, not without grounds.

1057
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,080
I have a second narrative
in three volumes now completed

1058
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:01,555
to which I have endeavoured to impart
a more vivid interest

1059
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,591
than belongs to "The Professor".

1060
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:07,269
I send you per rail
a manuscript entitled "Jane Eyre",

1061
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,630
a novel in three volumes by Currer Bell.

1062
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:27,238
BRANWELL: I keep telling you,
you keep being told,

1063
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:31,069
one day one of us
is not gonna leave that room alive.

1064
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:34,237
I will either kill you
or I will kill myself.

1065
01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:36,157
Do you want me to kill myself, eh?

1066
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:40,831
Cos if I do, old man, you can rest
assured that you'll have driven me to it

1067
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,838
with your endless prayers
and your drivel.

1068
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:48,431
Can you not understand,
can you not get the idea

1069
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:53,953
that the only, only respite I have
from the misery of my existence

1070
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:57,277
is being allowed
a little bit of something to drink?

1071
01:26:57,400 --> 01:26:59,675
I'm only asking for a shilling,
for God's sake!

1072
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:01,791
MR BRONTE: Just... Just take it.

1073
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:26,354
He'll just go on and on
until he gets what he wants anyway,

1074
01:27:26,480 --> 01:27:28,471
and I just...

1075
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:34,395
I don't always have the energy any more.

1076
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,033
I know this is contradicting
what I've said before,

1077
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:11,757
but... my second thoughts are
occasionally better than my first ones.

1078
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:16,070
I think you should tell Papa
about Jane Eyre.

1079
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,278
About how successful it's been.

1080
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:22,909
Why?

1081
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:26,271
I think it would help him to know

1082
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,392
that we now seem to have found a means
of supporting ourselves, possibly,

1083
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:32,990
in the event of...
whenever something happens to him.

1084
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:35,995
Why Jane Eyre?

1085
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:40,716
No, we'll tell him about everything,
but just as a way in.

1086
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,636
But then... he'll read it.

1087
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:50,039
Now?

1088
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:55,112
MR BRONTE: Huh?

1089
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:58,871
- Papa?
- Huh?

1090
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:01,636
Have you got a moment?

1091
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:03,751
MR BRONTE: Yeah, quickly.

1092
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:08,752
I've...

1093
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:11,716
I've... I've been writing a book.

1094
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:14,792
- A book and...
- Well, well.

1095
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:20,791
- Would you like to read it?
- No, I can't. I don't have time.

1096
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:25,835
And, you know, your tiny little writing,
I can't see it. But well done.

1097
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:33,796
The thing is, you see, it's published.
It's been published.

1098
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:38,232
It's a properly published...
It's... It's a book in three volumes.

1099
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:44,997
Well, well.

1100
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,634
Currer Bell. No, he's famous, he's...

1101
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:52,988
No, that's me.

1102
01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:56,634
That's you? What's you?

1103
01:30:56,760 --> 01:31:00,673
That... I've published
under a pseudonym.

1104
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:03,515
Currer Bell, you see,
it's the same initials.

1105
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:06,757
And the thing is it's just about
to go into a second edition.

1106
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:09,394
It's sold a lot of copies.

1107
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:12,954
It's been really
quite unusually successful.

1108
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:16,994
There's a stage play of it in rehearsal
as we speak

1109
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:21,477
at a theatre in... the Victoria Theatre,
in fact, in London.

1110
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:27,272
It's been so, um, hugely well received.

1111
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:31,152
But...

1112
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:34,595
So... you're?

1113
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:38,755
- You're?
- Yes.

1114
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:42,953
And I've made money, with the prospect
of making quite a lot more,

1115
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:47,949
and if we... if I continue to work hard

1116
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,277
and produce the kind of writing that
people are prepared to pay money for,

1117
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,995
then it should furnish us
with a comfortable existence.

1118
01:31:59,440 --> 01:32:01,431
Would you like me to read you
some of the reviews?

1119
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:03,278
Well, I...

1120
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:06,949
(LAUGHS)

1121
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:08,877
Why have you kept it such a secret?

1122
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:10,797
To protect ourselves.

1123
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:14,595
We've been accused
of vulgarity and coarseness.

1124
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:17,188
I've forfeited my right
to be called a member of the fairer sex

1125
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:18,912
according to Lady Eastlake,

1126
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,679
who speculates that Currer Bell
might actually be a woman.

1127
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:22,789
Well...

1128
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:25,434
I'm complicit in the revolutions
throughout Europe.

1129
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:28,950
"We do not hesitate to say
that the tone of mind and thought

1130
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:32,390
which has overthrown authority
and violated every code,

1131
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:34,397
human and divine, abroad,

1132
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:36,954
and fostered Chartism and rebellion
at home,

1133
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,469
is that which has also written
Jane Eyre."

1134
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:41,192
Jane Eyre.

1135
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:44,714
- Why is it vulgar?
- It isn't, Papa.

1136
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:47,991
People are just squeamish
about the truth, about real life.

1137
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:50,714
Our work is clever, it's truthful,

1138
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:54,992
it's new, it's fresh, it's vivid
and subtle and forthright.

1139
01:32:56,440 --> 01:32:59,671
But, more importantly,

1140
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:03,998
the point is...
we didn't want Branwell to know.

1141
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,038
That's first and foremost
why we've kept it a secret.

1142
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,151
It's not that he'd be scathing.
We can stand that.

1143
01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:12,191
It's because
it's what he's always wanted to do,

1144
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:14,914
and now it looks less and less likely
that he ever will,

1145
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,759
it'd be like rubbing salt into a wound.

1146
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:20,917
No one can ever know who we are.
We've agreed.

1147
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:24,718
We didn't want you to worry that
we weren't doing anything with ourselves

1148
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:26,831
because we have been, we are.

1149
01:33:28,440 --> 01:33:31,193
- So who else knows besides me?
- No one.

1150
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:33,197
I've not even told Ellen.

1151
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:34,639
- Tabby?
- No one.

1152
01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:36,557
The publishers don't even know
who we are.

1153
01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:40,116
- ANNE: They think we're three men.
- We'd like to keep it that way.

1154
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:41,878
We just wanted you to know.

1155
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:46,271
(SIGHS)

1156
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,989
Little Helen Burns, hm?

1157
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:55,236
That's your little sister, Maria.

1158
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:58,432
Maria was our big sister.

1159
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:01,517
Yeah. Of course she was.

1160
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:06,711
Of course she was.

1161
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:11,709
(SIGHS) Not a day passes
when I don't think about her.

1162
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:16,233
And little Elizabeth.

1163
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:20,029
And your mother.

1164
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:28,752
I...

1165
01:34:33,440 --> 01:34:36,193
I am very proud of you.

1166
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:46,231
I always have been.

1167
01:34:48,480 --> 01:34:50,471
(CHURCH BELLS RING)

1168
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:01,509
BRANWELL: Sunday.

1169
01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:03,949
Dear John.

1170
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:06,230
I shall feel very much obliged to you

1171
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:11,753
if you can contrive to get me five pence
worth of gin in a proper measure.

1172
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:13,757
Should it be speedily got,

1173
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:18,351
I could perhaps take it
from you or Billy at the lane top

1174
01:35:18,480 --> 01:35:22,155
or, what would be quite as well,
sent out for to you.

1175
01:35:23,240 --> 01:35:26,869
I anxiously ask the favour
because I know the good it will do me.

1176
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,629
Punctually at half past nine
in the morning

1177
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:35,231
you will be paid the five pence
out of a shilling given me then.

1178
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:37,555
Yours, PBB.

1179
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:09,751
(COUGHS)

1180
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:29,592
Anne.

1181
01:36:57,240 --> 01:36:59,231
Have you got a minute?

1182
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:11,669
What?

1183
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:14,394
- We're going to have to go to London.
- Who is?

1184
01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:16,511
We are, all three of us.

1185
01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:18,949
- When?
- Today.

1186
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:20,638
Why?

1187
01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:30,789
Your... Mr Newby must have,
I don't know,

1188
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:33,593
sold the first few pages
of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1189
01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:34,869
to an American publisher

1190
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,434
on the understanding
that it was written by Currer Bell.

1191
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:39,357
Well, it's obviously a misunderstanding.

1192
01:37:39,480 --> 01:37:47,034
No. Will you please see
that this man is a con man, a rogue?

1193
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:50,470
How... How many mistakes did he print
in Wuthering Heights?

1194
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,637
Proofs that you painstakingly corrected
that he ignored. And now this.

1195
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:58,553
My publisher is livid that I could have
sold my next novel to another publisher.

1196
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:00,477
They have first refusal
of my next two novels

1197
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:03,160
and now they think I'm some sort
of unscrupulous double dealer.

1198
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:08,195
- Well, just write and explain.
- No. No.

1199
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:12,393
We have to go to London and give ocular
proof that we are three separate people,

1200
01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:16,308
the novels are not all the work of one
person and that this is absolute trash.

1201
01:38:16,440 --> 01:38:18,271
Well, I'm not going.

1202
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:20,434
Why?

1203
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:22,676
Because you can write a letter
and explain all that

1204
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:24,950
and just say
that Newby's made a mistake.

1205
01:38:25,080 --> 01:38:27,071
This is not a mistake.

1206
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:30,829
This is a deliberate deceitful attempt
to cash in on the success of Jane Eyre.

1207
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:31,949
Sorry.

1208
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:33,832
- EMILY: It isn't.
- CHARLOTTE: It is.

1209
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:36,599
Newby has made the mistake,
along with a lot of other people,

1210
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:39,029
of assuming that we're all one person,
that is all it is.

1211
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:41,913
Why are you so obtuse?

1212
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:44,110
Why are you so melodramatic?

1213
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:47,152
Emily, I don't want
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1214
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:51,512
promoted and sold on a deceitful
claim... misunderstanding, whichever,

1215
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,073
that it's by anyone other than me.

1216
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:58,354
We have to go to London... now, today,

1217
01:38:58,480 --> 01:39:01,153
and explain to Mr Smith
and Mr Smith Williams what's happened.

1218
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,794
It's intolerable to imagine
they think I could be so slippery.

1219
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:05,194
But wait, look, you can't.

1220
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:08,392
You can't go to London and explain
who you are because they will see you.

1221
01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:09,839
Well, that's the whole point.

1222
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:12,474
Yes, and you promised, you promised me,

1223
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:15,353
that we would never
reveal ourselves to anyone ever.

1224
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:21,194
Well, I'm afraid
because of your... Mr Newby,

1225
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:25,472
we now find ourselves in a situation.

1226
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:28,398
Emily, I think we should go.

1227
01:39:28,520 --> 01:39:29,919
No, you're not going either.

1228
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:31,234
- No, I am.
- No, you're not.

1229
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:34,397
Newby's compromised my integrity
just as much as Charlotte's.

1230
01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:36,556
I shan't publish with him again,

1231
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:40,434
and if you won't come with us,
then... that's your choice.

1232
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:42,952
We don't need to fall out
about this, Emily.

1233
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:47,517
It's about your novel and your name.
It's got nothing to do with me.

1234
01:39:49,040 --> 01:39:51,031
Don't be like that, Em...

1235
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:10,271
What's the matter?

1236
01:40:14,200 --> 01:40:15,792
Emily.

1237
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,350
Yes, but you do know her bark's
worse than her bite, don't you?

1238
01:40:31,440 --> 01:40:33,431
(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)

1239
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:48,232
Charlotte.

1240
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:50,512
Jane Eyre.

1241
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:52,952
Look.

1242
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:10,119
Could I help you, ladies?

1243
01:42:12,200 --> 01:42:13,792
Yes.

1244
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:17,472
Yes, I'd...

1245
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:25,237
We'd like to speak
to Mr George Smith, please.

1246
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:28,511
Mr Smith? Mr Smith's very busy.

1247
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:31,192
Yeah, yes.

1248
01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:35,198
But the thing is, you see,
it's... it's important.

1249
01:42:37,440 --> 01:42:39,032
Can I tell him what it's about?

1250
01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:43,551
Just... Just that
it's a matter of importance.

1251
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:49,555
I'll... I'll see what...
I'll see if he's got a minute.

1252
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:52,240
Who should I say is asking to see him?

1253
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:56,194
It's... That's delicate.

1254
01:42:56,320 --> 01:42:57,912
He is a very busy man.

1255
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:00,950
We've been travelling for 17 hours

1256
01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:03,913
and we'll take up
less than one minute of his time.

1257
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:16,715
- Sir, two ladies asking to see you.
- What ladies?

1258
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:18,592
- Didn't give a name, sir.
- What's it about?

1259
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:21,188
The only thing I could prise out, sir,
is that it's important.

1260
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:22,639
To me or to them?

1261
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,354
They've asked
for no more than a minute of your time.

1262
01:43:25,480 --> 01:43:28,119
They say they've travelled for 17 hours.

1263
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,956
Ladies, how can I help you?

1264
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:42,549
- Am I addressing Mr George Smith?
- Yes.

1265
01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:46,512
It's a confidential matter.

1266
01:43:57,520 --> 01:43:59,112
We're...

1267
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:04,157
We're here to address a misunderstanding
which, once accomplished,

1268
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,794
will be to everyone's advantage,
yours as much as ours,

1269
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:11,391
and so we apologise for what must be
an interruption to your morning's work.

1270
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:15,555
But perhaps if I gave you this,
it would clarify who we are.

1271
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:23,039
- Where did you get this letter?
- In the post... from you.

1272
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:25,196
You sent it to me.

1273
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:30,560
I am Currer Bell.

1274
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:36,156
C Bronte, that's me, and this is
Acton Bell, author of Agnes Grey

1275
01:44:36,280 --> 01:44:40,398
and, the point is, author
of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, not me.

1276
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:45,469
And Ellis couldn't come.
Ellis didn't want to come. Ellis is...

1277
01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:50,628
Anyway, the point is...
we are three sisters.

1278
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:55,389
I have not sold the first few pages of
my next novel to an America publisher,

1279
01:44:55,520 --> 01:44:57,238
as claimed by Mr Thomas Cautley Newby.

1280
01:44:57,360 --> 01:44:59,954
That is not my novel. It's Acton's.

1281
01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:04,517
I, Mr Smith, have nothing,
exactly nothing, to do with Mr Newby,

1282
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:07,632
and nor will my sister now
she has seen him in his true colours.

1283
01:45:07,760 --> 01:45:11,639
We are people of...
of integrity and probity

1284
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:15,753
and that is why we are here,
to set matters straight.

1285
01:45:15,880 --> 01:45:17,871
Sorry, you're?

1286
01:45:19,600 --> 01:45:21,272
You are Currer Bell?

1287
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:24,073
What makes you doubt it, Mr Smith?

1288
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:26,634
My accent? My gender? My size?

1289
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:35,630
Oh, good heavens. Oh, good Lord.

1290
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:38,870
Forgive me. I'm... I'm sorry.

1291
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:42,959
I... I'm sorry too.
We've caught you off-guard.

1292
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,789
You see, we felt it best
to come and see you in person,

1293
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:48,512
given the tone of your letter.

1294
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:51,234
I wanted no room left for
any further misunderstanding or doubt.

1295
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:53,828
That's deeply, deeply appreciated,
Miss...

1296
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:55,279
- Bronte.
- Bronte. Sorry.

1297
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:57,960
And a great relief, of course.

1298
01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:00,071
Have you really been travelling
for 17 hours?

1299
01:46:00,200 --> 01:46:03,237
Through the night.
Such was the tone of your letter that...

1300
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:04,634
You must be exhausted.

1301
01:46:06,480 --> 01:46:08,630
Oddly, Mr Smith,
I feel extraordinarily awake.

1302
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:09,829
Where are you staying?

1303
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:13,236
We've booked into the Chapter
Coffee House on Paternoster Row.

1304
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:16,477
Our father stayed there briefly
before he went up to Cambridge,

1305
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:22,152
and my sister and I,
my other sister, Ellis, did once

1306
01:46:22,280 --> 01:46:24,077
before we travelled to Brussels.

1307
01:46:24,200 --> 01:46:27,351
You've taken my breath away,
Miss Bronte.

1308
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:29,798
Oh, you have to meet people.

1309
01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:31,638
Have you any idea how many people?

1310
01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:36,629
Thackeray. Thackeray, Thackeray.
Thackeray will have to meet you.

1311
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:37,909
Uh, Kent, Kent.

1312
01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:42,710
Kent! Fetch Smith Williams.
You have to meet Smith Williams.

1313
01:46:42,840 --> 01:46:49,473
He... He is such an admirer of... of...
of... He was... Of your genius.

1314
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:53,991
He was... He was the one that...
that read... that read The Professor

1315
01:46:54,120 --> 01:46:58,272
and saw instantly, before Jane Eyre,
which is glorious by the way,

1316
01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:03,758
um, he saw... he saw...
he saw, Miss Bronte...

1317
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:10,838
The whole of literary London,
the whole of London,

1318
01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:15,238
will fall over itself to spend a minute
in the company of Currer Bell.

1319
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:20,953
Somebody really needs to do something
about this Mr Newby, though, Mr Smith.

1320
01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:23,799
Absolutely, indeed.
It will... He will be dealt with.

1321
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:26,036
Please, please,
come through to my office.

1322
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:27,912
Ah, Smith Williams.

1323
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:32,397
This... This is Currer Bell.

1324
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:37,157
Oh, how perfect.

1325
01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:43,313
How delightful.

1326
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:46,549
And this is Acton Bell.

1327
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:49,240
- Ellis couldn't come.
- Do you like opera?

1328
01:47:55,040 --> 01:47:57,918
(DOG BARKS IN THE DISTANCE)

1329
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:03,591
(BRANWELL COUGHS)

1330
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:10,112
I...

1331
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:12,231
I'll see to him. I'll sit with him.

1332
01:48:12,360 --> 01:48:14,351
(COUGHS)

1333
01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:17,914
- Are you sure?
- You go sleep in their bed.

1334
01:48:18,040 --> 01:48:20,793
- Branwell.
- (COUGHS)

1335
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,150
I'm gonna be sick.

1336
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:25,398
(VOMITS)

1337
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:54,154
You're back. That was quick.
All the way to London.

1338
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:55,429
How are things here?

1339
01:48:55,560 --> 01:49:01,032
Oh, well, we've had sad work
with Branwell. But other than that...

1340
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:03,515
Good. Good.

1341
01:49:10,680 --> 01:49:13,877
You're the last person in the world
I want to fall out with.

1342
01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:16,232
I know.

1343
01:49:27,120 --> 01:49:29,634
We only told Mr Smith
and Mr Smith Williams.

1344
01:49:29,760 --> 01:49:32,228
Well, and Newby later. No one else.

1345
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:35,238
And we made it clear that
they hadn't to tell anyone else either.

1346
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:38,830
They took us to the Royal Opera House,
Mr Smith and Mr Smith Williams did,

1347
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:40,837
with Mr Smith's mother and his sisters,

1348
01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:42,951
and us with nothing to wear
but what we'd gone in.

1349
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:44,354
They'd no idea who we were.

1350
01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:47,597
Heaven alone knows
what they must have thought about us.

1351
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:51,512
He's...

1352
01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:55,272
What?

1353
01:49:57,800 --> 01:50:01,156
Branwell. He's been vomiting blood.

1354
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:15,715
CHARLOTTE: Dear Ellen.

1355
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:18,832
I received your letter informing us of
the time of your arrival in Keighley

1356
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:19,949
with great delight.

1357
01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:22,674
Emily and Anne anticipate
your long-delayed visit

1358
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:24,199
as eagerly as I do myself.

1359
01:50:25,080 --> 01:50:28,152
We will be outside the Devonshire Arms
promptly at two o'clock.

1360
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,271
Wishing you
a safe and comfortable journey.

1361
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:32,994
MAN: Everyone for Keighley.

1362
01:50:36,320 --> 01:50:37,594
Ellen.

1363
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:39,312
Charlotte.

1364
01:50:40,840 --> 01:50:42,478
Emily.

1365
01:50:42,600 --> 01:50:44,477
- Anne.
- Miss Nussey.

1366
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:47,239
- Which one's your box? Is it this one?
- Yes, just that one there.

1367
01:50:47,360 --> 01:50:49,510
- How was your journey?
- Long, tiresome.

1368
01:50:49,640 --> 01:50:52,791
- We haven't seen you for so long.
- I know. I've missed you.

1369
01:50:52,920 --> 01:50:54,911
- Shall we go?
- Yes.

1370
01:51:05,200 --> 01:51:08,875
CHARLOTTE: I realised we'd delay your
visit forever if we weren't careful,

1371
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:11,195
and he's so quiet now.

1372
01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:13,880
We barely see him during the day.
He just sleeps.

1373
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:17,629
I think more people have crosses to bear
than we realise,

1374
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:20,797
on the domestic side, on the quiet.

1375
01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:25,553
The oddest thing, I think I told you,

1376
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:29,309
the Robinson girls, you know
the youngest two, Elizabeth and Mary,

1377
01:51:29,440 --> 01:51:33,752
they started writing to Anne about
six months after their father died.

1378
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:38,310
I mean, they're very fond of Anne,
more than she imagines.

1379
01:51:38,440 --> 01:51:44,788
Then they wanted to visit, here,
so we let them and they came last week.

1380
01:51:44,920 --> 01:51:47,878
Of course,
Branwell knew nothing about it.

1381
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,069
What were they like?

1382
01:51:49,200 --> 01:51:55,469
Oh, you know, pretty, vacuous,
nonstop yack, yack, yack.

1383
01:51:57,200 --> 01:52:00,397
Emily popped her head in, purely
to satisfy her own curiosity, of course,

1384
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:03,512
and then after approximately
four seconds withdrew.

1385
01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:06,518
One of the few occasions
I've really enjoyed her surliness.

1386
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:14,593
Anyway, the point is, they told us
last week... that their mother...

1387
01:52:16,400 --> 01:52:18,118
What?

1388
01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:24,990
...is going to marry Sir Edward Scott.

1389
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:30,834
So much for contrition and guilt and
madness and clauses in people's wills.

1390
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,110
He's been very sadly used, Branwell.

1391
01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:36,557
You didn't tell him?

1392
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,671
What purpose would it serve?

1393
01:52:40,440 --> 01:52:42,192
I'm sorry to inflict all this on you,
Ellen.

1394
01:52:42,320 --> 01:52:45,392
Charlotte, I'm your oldest friend.

1395
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:48,197
You can tell me anything, you know that.

1396
01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:50,715
Look.

1397
01:52:55,080 --> 01:52:56,991
What is that? That's extraordinary.

1398
01:52:57,120 --> 01:52:59,111
It's three suns.

1399
01:52:59,720 --> 01:53:01,312
Well...

1400
01:53:02,240 --> 01:53:04,231
What is it? It's beautiful.

1401
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:06,834
It's you three.

1402
01:53:34,400 --> 01:53:36,709
You can go now.

1403
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:58,036
You'll have to sit him up
to get his shirt off.

1404
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:13,391
(SOBS)

1405
01:55:54,840 --> 01:55:57,308
YOUNG CHARLOTTE: Tis a shame
you're embarked on this course

1406
01:55:57,440 --> 01:55:58,953
of myopic self-destruction!

1407
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:01,435
YOUNG BRANWELL:
I despise everything you stand for.

1408
01:56:01,560 --> 01:56:06,998
Revolution is in the air, and only
a fool like you, sir, would ignore it.

1409
01:56:31,880 --> 01:56:33,871
(WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

1410
01:56:47,160 --> 01:56:52,029
This is the famous dining room table at
which the sisters used to sit and write.

1411
01:58:30,960 --> 01:58:32,951
Subtitles: BTI Studios

1412
01:59:02,760 --> 01:59:03,749
English SDH UK