"Whoa." "Arr te." "Arr te." "Go on." "Get out." "Out!" "Well, let us see what we can do here." "Melmotte." "Melmotte?" "Well, what about him?" "Only that he's brought his whole business to london--office, family, taken a house in grosvener square." "What is his business?" "Money." "Makes it work for him, makes it sit up and beg like a circus dog." "Wait a minute," "I've heard of this man." "Didn't his bank collapse in vienna?" "I daresay it did, but melmotte got out scot-free with a cool million." "I've heard the man's a jew and a swindler and a scoundrel, and I shan't know him." "( Chuckles ) that's all very well, longestaffe, but can you afford not to know him?" "I'm damned if I can." "Your five and another ten." "Apparently there's a daughter." "What does she look like?" "Hardly the point, felix." "She's supposed to be worth a hundred thousand." "I hear it's twice that." "Anyway, don't look at the mantelpiece when you're stoking the fire, what?" "That's caddish, grendall." "I beg your pardon, sir felix." "Come on!" "Are you in or are you out?" "Out." "Out." "I'll see you." "Uh... damn!" "Damn and blast!" "Perhaps you had better go and have a look at miss melmotte after all!" "Yes." "Very amusing." "Lord!" "What a long face." "( Knock on door )" "( knock on door )" "( knock )" "( knock ) who is it, hetta?" "It's mr." "Wakeham, the wine merchant." "At this hour?" "That's quite beyond the pale!" "( Knock ) simpson!" "Shh!" "( Knocking continues ) he's going away." "( Knock on door ) who is that?" "It's mr." "Broune and mr." "Alf." "The two cleverest men in london, hetta, here in my poor little salon." "No, no, lady carbury, you're too kind." "Too kind." "Not a bit of it." "Not a bit of it." "Without your great newspapers to tell us, how should we know what to think?" "But will you be kind to my poor little book?" "Criminal queens." ""Cleopatra, mary, queen of scots," ""marie antoinette-- powerful women as the playthings of love."" "Ha ha!" "Good heavens!" "Mr. Alf, I quake already in anticipation." "Will you be as cruel to me as you were to poor mrs." "Effington stubbs?" "Will you tell me i'd much better sit at home and darn my stockings?" "I have to speak as I find." "Well, no amount of critical severity will make me receive you otherwise than with a smile, but do, I beg you, bear in mind that authorship is my only means of providing for my poor children." "I don't see how it bears on the literary merit of the work, ma'am." "As for your son," "I'd have thought he'd be providing for himself by now." "He's not crippled or an imbecile, I take it." "No, no, alf." "Good evening, lady carbury." "Be gentle with my literary effort, as gentle as you can be." "( Chuckles ) oh, dear." "Just wait a moment, my dear friend." "There's something I'd like to consult you about." "I've received an invitation from someone called melmotte." "Madame melmotte of grosvener square is holding a ball." "Who is this person, mr." "Broune?" "Should one accept her invitations?" "I understand that all london has been invited, and all london intends to go." "The prince will be there." "Shall you be there, mr." "Broune?" "I shall indeed, lady carbury." "Then I shall follow your lead." "I value your guidance so much in this perplexing modern world." "Supporting my family single-handedly as I do with nothing but my pen," "I sometimes feel so very alone and unprotected." "You will never be unprotected while I am here, lady carbury." "Oh." "Mr. Broune." "Ha ha ha!" "Beg your pardon!" "How do you do, mr." "Broune?" "Carry on, carry on." "Don't mind me." "Little bit of spooning don't shock me, you know." "Oh, felix!" "I'll take my leave, lady carbury." "I think it's best." "If you think so." "Bient t, then." "Yes." "Yes." "Good night." "Must you, felix?" "Yes, hetta, I find I must." "Oh, felix, I wish you'd leave your tobacco behind when you come in here." "Well, for you, mother." "Dear boy." "I wonder, mother, could you let me have 20 pounds?" "I can't afford to pay the wine merchant." "I'm not giving you 20 pounds to fritter away at the beargarden club." "Who said anything about the beargarden club?" "Mother," "I--I am about to recover the family fortunes." "Aren't you always telling me i've got to find myself a nice rich girl and marry her?" "Well, I've found one." "Name's maria melmotte." "Quarter of a million, guaranteed." "Now, I intend to try for her, but I'll need a little something, you know, to set up my shopfront, shan't I?" "I can't go round to grosvener square like a beggar, can I?" "Felix... hmm?" "Do you really think you can bring this off?" "I'll try, mother, for you...and hetta." "You are a good, dear boy!" "( Chuckles ) ohh!" "Yes, hetta, what is it?" "Don't you know he'll go and lose it at cards?" "You might as well throw your money out the window." "Can't a fellow have a game of cards, now?" "I'd be happy for you to play if you won, and I'd be happy for you to lose if it were your own money, but it's all we have to live on." "And should you encourage him to be such a shameless fortune hunter?" "Shouldn't marriage have something to do with love?" "I married for love, hetta, and watched the man I loved turn into a heartless brute." "If your brother is generous enough to put his wishes last so you can have the freedom to please yourself, then I think you should be grateful rather than otherwise." "Well put, mother." "There's no need to thank me, hetta." "See you tomorrow morning, then." "Where are you going to at this hour?" "Urgent, unfinished business." "Don't forget we're going to the country tomorrow." "( Sighs heavily )" "I'm back!" "I'm back!" "New blood at the table!" "Look lively, lads!" "Deal me in." "Count them." "( Raucous chatter )" "( distant bell chimes ) well, well, well, well." "Would you believe it?" "Lucky at cards, unlucky in love." "Looks like a damn fine, clear, cold day." "Fancy a spot of hunting, felix?" "( Groaning ) oh, god." "Are you sure you're up to it, longestaffe?" "Three things I can do in any condition-- ride, shoot..." "I forgot the other one!" "Anyway, what do you say?" "Sorry, dolly." "Promised to my cousin today, your neighbor." "A beastly bore, but there we are." "Old roger carbury?" "Finest fellow in england." "I won't hear a word said against him-- heart of oak and so on." "Bit of a dull dog, for all that." "Exactly." "Mind you, there's some pretty scenery thereabouts." "( Rifle cocks )" "( uncocks hammer )" "well, why didn't you shoot?" "Why didn't you?" "Thank you, bain." "Oh, good lord." "Only just in time." "I'm so glad you could be here when they came." "Here we are." "You made good time." "The great thing about the railways is, they're so reliable." "Lady carbury, do you know my ward paul montague?" "Mr. Montague." "The last time we met you, you were 12 years old and getting into fearful scrapes at school, as I recall." "And my son, sir felix." "My daughter hetta." "Hello, roger." "Miss carbury." "Mr. Montague." "The last time you saw hetta, she must have been very small." "Do you think she's turned out well?" "Mother." "Yes." "Well, uh, shall we go inside?" "Ah, carbury, thought I might borrow a mount off you, admire the local scenery." "Yes, certainly, if you wish." "Why, ruby, what a pleasant surprise." "Surprise, my foot." "I've been waiting and waiting for you." "Roger carbury is the best man I know." "I owe so much to him." "Well, he could see that oxford and the bar meant nothing to me." "I wanted a different life-- get into engineering and go west." "Go west?" "Yes." "New york first, then the midwest, then california, texas, new mexico." "How I should love that!" "What did you do there?" "Cattle, property, roads and bridges, stringing the telegraph way up into the sierras." "But railways are still the biggest thing out there," "I'm convinced of it." "I've put all my inheritance into a partnership, and we're going to build a railroad right down into mexico, from salt lake city" "2,000 miles to vera cruz." "And if it weren't for roger carbury," "I should probably be cooped up in some poky chambers in the city." "( Chuckles ) yes, he is a dear, good man." "Why do you smile?" "I don't know." "Because I'm having a good time, I guess." "Why do you?" "The same, I suppose." "I know she has feelings of...of fondness for me." "Perhaps she's still too young to experience the kind of passionate attachment that I feel myself." "No, roger, don't think she's too young." "In fact, if I were you," "I'd make my bid as soon as possible, before anyone else does." "You must take your courage in both hands, my dear friend." "Faint heart never won fair lady." "Yes." "Yes." "What are you doing in england now if your business is in mexico?" "We had to meet melmotte." "Hear he's a great man for raising money." "Melmotte." "Strange that everything should revolve around him." "Shall you be at madame melmotte's ball?" "Yes, I..." "I guess so." "Shall you?" "Yes, I shall." "Well, I look forward to seeing you there." "Longestaffe, yes, father and son." "Grendall, yes." "Nidderdale... ( groans ) yes." "Ah." "Prime minister's declined." "Well, he'll regret that, but we've got two cabinet ministers and a couple of ambassadors." "Here, you make sure you dance with young nidderdale." "Don't ung nidderdale, pa." "He's got nothing to say, and he's got a funny neck." "You'll like who I tell you to like." "His father owns half scotland." "He's land-rich, cash-poor, like all the rest of these dukes and lords." "They'll come cap in hand to melmotte." "But I won't like him, whatever you say." "Ah, dommage." "( Hisses ) stupid woman!" "Cannot you get one simple thing right?" "And as for you... you'll do as I say, do you hear?" "And you'll like who I tell you to like, do you hear?" "Not listening." "Do you hear?" "Not listening." "Not listening." "It will be magnificent." "They will come." "They will." "( Distant laughter )" "( orchestral music plays ) welcome." "Good evening." "You're very welcome." "Mr. Melmotte." "Mr. Melmotte." "Enchantez, madame." "This is my daughter." "Thrilled to meet you, sir." "Thrilled to meet you." "Is lovely u." "Oh, no, no." "Really." "Andrew!" "Good evening." "I hardly know a soul." "Melmotte:" "Very welcome." "Very welcome." "Please." "Good evening." "You're very welcome." "My daughter." "Very welcome." "( Music ends )" "( applause ) miss carbury." "Mr. Montague." "( Orchestral music begins ) may I request the pleasure of this dance?" "Don't think i know this one." "I'll gladly teach you, if you like." "Round." "One...two... three...round." "You're a very quick study, mr." "Montague." "It's easy to learn with such a good teacher." "( Modest chuckle ) very good." "So, tell me, what are the balls like in california and texas?" "Not quite so formal." "In texas, they often end in fisticuffs and gunplay." "( Hetta chuckles )" "( music ends )" "( applause ) lady carbury, ain't it?" "The well-known authoress, am I right?" "Yes?" "Mr. Melmotte!" "You flatter me." "Oh, no, no, no." "Not at all." "I just make it my business to know who's who and what's what, ma'am." "Very happy to see you here at grosvener square." "Happy indeed." "...Shadow on the bedsheet, which looks exactly like... these fingers here are the teeth, and they go up and down and they chew." "Do you see?" "I can make them open and shut." "( Imitates dog barking ) that's awfully good." "What a strange creature marie melmotte is." "She seems to have plenty of admirers." "Should you like to have so many?" "One that I truly liked would be quite enough." "Shall we dance again?" "I've already danced with you twice." "Is there a law around here about dancing three times?" "Not that I know of." "Is there in texas?" "There aren't many laws of any kind in texas." "Even less in mexico." "I think I'd like texas and mexico." "I think they'd like you." "( Orchestral music begins )" "( gasps ) and carbury goes into an early lead." "Nidderdale lengthens to 7-to-2, grendall, 20s, longestaffe, nowhere." "Well, good luck to him." "Melmotte won't come up to my governor's price." "She's a queer little thing, ain't she?" "Thought we'd get a little fresh air." "How well you dance." "Do I?" "No one ever told me that before." "No one ever tells me anything-- anything nice, I mean." "Well..." "let me see." "I'll tell you what you would like best in all the world." "And what is that?" "Someone who liked you best in all the world." "But who would like me best in all the world?" "No one, I think." "Oh, yes." "There is someone." "Don't you know?" "Can't you tell?" "Don't tease me, sir felix." "Nobody will ever like me best in all the world." "Oh, but you're wrong." "You're wrong." "I do." "Oh, felix!" "Felix!" "( Music ends )" "( applause ) lady carbury." "You--here?" "Why not?" "The evening pulpit goes everywhere." "Oh, look." "Here comes the prince." "( Chuckles ) what will they do with him now they've caught him?" "I wouldn't have missed this for anything." "( Orchestral music plays )" "( malevolent chuckle ) lady carbury... may I have the pleasure?" "Would you care to dance?" "( Groans )" "I really think i should be going." "Come on, alfred." "One more hand won't hurt you." "It's lord alfred, if you don't mind." "Call people by their proper names." "If you want me to make you rich, alfred, you'll take me as you find me and do what I ask of you." "Now... one more hand?" "( Chuckles heartily ) good!" "Here!" "Now... deal the cards, my boy." "( Door opens noisily )" "( slurring ) there's something wrong with this door, mother." "Shh!" "Roger's in there with hetta." "Ah!" "Oh." "'Nuff said." "Fat chance." "( Snickers )" "I've loved you for so long." "I've watched you change from the loveliest girl into the loveliest woman in the world." "Could you love me as I love you?" "Could you be my wife, the mother of my children?" "I'm so sorry, roger." "I don't think I could." "You refuse me." "Roger, I do love you." "I always have done, ever since i was a little girl, but not in the way that you mean." "But that could grow." "I don't think so." "I don't think I could ever love you as you would wish, and it would be wrong for us to marry if I didn't love you in that way." "Perhaps I'm not one of those girls who ought to marry at all." "At any rate," "I should like to do something with myself, something in the world, before I settle down." "What sort of something?" "Hetta, are you being entirely honest with me?" "Is there someone else who has gained your affections?" "No." "No one has spoken to me of love but you." "Then I can still hope?" "I wish you would not." "I don't think you understand me." "All I care about in life is bound up in you." "Don't say that!" "I can't bear... hear me out, I beg you." "You have to know that only you have the power to make me happy... and I would move heaven and earth to make you happy too." "I can wait, so long as there is a shred of hope." "( Door opens )" "I have proposed to hetta, and she has refused." "Silly, silly girl." "I'm so sorry." "But she has given me leave to hope." "I shan't give up." "Well, mind you don'T." "Now, would you have that word with felix, as you promised?" "Please... please... dear friend." "Very well." "( Door opens ) oh, carbury. 'Morning." "I was just on my way out, actually." "You can spare ten minutes from your busy life." "Sit down." "Very well, but it won't do any good, you know." "It's all very well, preaching to people who... are good, but nothing will come of preaching to people who ain't good." "Water off a duck's back." "Can't be helped." "It can be helped, and it will." "This can't go on, felix." "You've wasted all your inheritance, and now you appear to be set upon wasting your mother'S." "If you're talking about the 20 pounds i had off her the other evening, that's laid out in a very good cause indeed." "Why don't you just sit down with me and eat a grilled chop like a good fellow?" "Get any luck with hetta, by the way?" "Never mind that." "I do know that every penny you lay your hands on goes straight into your friends' pockets at the gaming table." "I know very well what I'm doing." "Yes." "Bringing your mother and sister to beggary." "You know nothing of my affairs." "In fact," "I hope to be able to support them both very soon, and in a finer style than they have ever known." "I don't suppose you've heard of miss melmotte?" "I've heard of a swindler called melmotte who has lately come over from paris and is buying his way into society." "Hmm." "Just so." "And he can buy or sell you or me 100 times over." "Well, I expect, very soon, to be able to announce my engagement to his daughter, with a fortune of half a million, all right?" "All right, is that enough to satisfy you?" "You're a fool, felix, if you're setting all your hopes on that." "If melmotte could buy anyone he liked for his daughter, why on earth should he choose you?" "Because she loves me, old boy!" "And I am a baronet, after all." "I know, I know." "Virtue ought to triumph and all that, but that ain't the way the world works." "Sorry." "Enjoyed our chat." "You'll ruin your sister and break your mother's heart." "( Knocks on door ) ah." "For miss melmotte, from sir felix carbury." "I won't come in." "Pressing affairs of business." "Good day to you." "Merde!" "...Tomorrow to set up the business side of things." "I'll be overseeing the thing itself-- the planning, surveying, building the railway." "And you want to get this melmotte involved?" "He's the only man in europe for raising capital, so everyone says." "( Sighs heavily )" "I don't like what I've heard of him." "People say all sorts of things." "He's a bit coarse," "I daresay." "I was at his house last night." "Huge place." "Your cousins were there." "Yes, I know." "What a lovely girl hetta carbury is." "Yes, she is." "She's the loveliest girl in england." "There's something i ought to tell you, paul." "I've offered my hand to hetta carbury in marriage." "And has she accepted?" "No." "Not as yet, no." "She needs time to get used to the idea, but everything in life to me depends upon it, paul." "Oh, uh...sorry." "I think I may count on your sympathy." "I wish you'd told me this before, roger." "Before?" "Why should I have told you before?" "Before what?" "Before you introduced us." "Oh, come on!" "Come on, paul." "This isn't a joking matter." "I'm not joking, roger." "You've barely spoken to the girl." "Hetta carbury is the one and only love of my life." "And she loves me too." "She said so." "Promise me you will abandon this fancy, paul." "Anyway, aren't you involved with a woman whom you told me you wanted to marry just as much only a year ago?" "That's all over." "Oh." "Hardly a model of constancy." "Roger, let's not break our friendship over this." "If hetta really loves you and wants to marry you," "I shan't try to interfere." "Anyway, I've got my work cut out with this railway business." "I shall stay out of your way for a while." "Fisker!" "Over here!" "( American accent ) here's where we break off from the san francisco line, here at salt lake city, and then it is down through arizona and then new mexico and all the way through mexico city," "and then out at the gulf at vera cruz." "Look at that!" "That is one helluva railway, boy." "And we're really going to build it." "It's you and me, pal." "And look at this." "You see this?" "This is the detailed business plans, forward investment and profit forecasts." "But you don't have to worry about any of that." "Let me deal with that." "That's my department." "We've got the concession from the U.S. Congress." "I'm all set up to open up offices in mexico city, vera cruz." "So, when can i go out there and get some work started?" "Just as soon as we get our finances sewn up here." "All that we have to do now is sell it." "( Distant bells tolling )" ""melmotte  company."" "Rather poky premises for the greatest financier in europe, don't you think?" "These great men have their own way of doing things." "Good morning, gentlemen." "Mr. Hamilton K. Fisker and mr." "Paul montague to see mr." "Melmotte." "He's expecting you." "( Knocks on door ) the south-central pacific and mexican railway." "Would anyone want to take a train from salt lake city to vera cruz?" "No." "I wouldn'T." "Yes, but there are thousands who would, sir, and we're talking about opening up a whole continent for trade." "Hmm." "That's so." "You have a very nice turn of phrase, but I'm just a plain man of business." "I like to stick to practical matters." "All right, there, mr." "Fisker, how far have you got?" "Well, we've got the concession from congress, in principle." "We're to have the land for free, of course, and we are all set up to float the company in new york, san francisco, st." "Louis, and chicago, and I can tell you that they are going wild." "The price of shares is forecast to go right through the roof as soon as this issue goes public." "Oh, is it?" "So, what do you want me for?" "Ah." "Chairman of the english board of directors, I suppose." "Exactly, sir." "And I can assure you that, if you gave yourself up to it heart and soul, it would be the finest thing out." "There would be such a mass of stock." "And the rest of the board?" "Up to you, sir." "Well, we'll get a few names-- lords, dukes, baronets, that sort of thing." "That's just about what I thought myself." "This kind of thing... it can only be brought off once in a lifetime, you know." "That's it, sir, exactly." "That's what's so splendid about it." "Or, perhaps one should say, only once in each continent." "Hmm." "Ha ha ha!" "That's very good, mr." "Montague!" ""Once in each continent"!" "I would say you were just about right, eh, croll?" "All right, gentlemen," "I'll look into it." "I won't say any more just now, but... if this thing is properly set up... we could do business together." "( Indistinct whispering )" "( clicks his tongue disapprovingly ) what?" "It's no good, mr." "Melmotte." "Who says?" "It's too big, too risky." "I know it's a big idea." "It's a beautiful idea." "A railway across half a continent?" "I should say." "But the cost of building it could soak up ten times the value of the capital raised and bankrupt us all!" "It's all a matter of confidence, croll." "This is the kind of opportunity that happens once in a lifetime, and who better than melmotte  company to bring it off?" "I tell you the truth now," "I can't resist it!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "( Chamber music plays ) well, mother," "I'm going to be a director of the mexican railway." "( Playing halts ) invited by melmotte himself." "Oh!" "Felix, what wonderful news!" "Mr. Melmotte must think very highly of you." "Ha!" "I can't think why." "Are you sure they haven't made a mistake?" "I'm rather good with money and all that sort of thing." "Rather good at losing it... very amusing." "And begging for it, and stealing it out of other people's purses." "I shan't stay and listen to this!" "I hope mr." "Melmotte's safe has a stout lock on it!" "Really, hetta, that was rather unkind." "This new post might be the making of felix." "Now I think it's time i invited marie melmotte to call on us." "And... ( chamber music playing )" "( indistinct conversation )" "( glass dings ) my lords, gentlemen... this inaugural dinner is to celebrate the formation of the english board of directors of the south-central pacific and mexican railway company." "( Huzzahs )" "I'd like to extend our warmest wishes to our american partner, mr." "Fisker." "Wish him a safe journey across the atlantic to new york, where he will be talking up the shares over there." "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "Those of you who know me will know that I am a man of few words." "All I want to say is... this is going to be... the biggest thing ever seen on either side of the atlantic for 50 years!" "We'll be making history, gentlemen... and making money, too." "Ah!" "Bravo!" "( Huzzahs ) to the south-central pacific and mexican railway." "To the south-central pacific and mexican railway!" "You're a good fellow, montague." "We're all damn good fellows." "This is a great thing we're on, you know." "Glad you agree." "Yes, and the great thing about being directors, you know, is that we don't have to work." "Money just comes in by itself." "It's wonderful, it's wonderful." "I'm afraid i'll have to do quite a bit of work for my money, actually." "Really?" "Really?" "Yes." "That's a shame, good fellow like you." "You're a good fellow." "( Indistinct conversation ) broune:" "I think she should be a counsel's writer." "She shows great promise." "I have the utmost respect for our hostess, but her book is a bad book." "It is a thoroughly rotten book, and I, for one, refuse to tout it." "I have more respect for my readers than that." "But to praise a friend's book-- it's just the way of the world." "Everyone understands that." "You seem to think it's the greatest historical work of the age." "Oh, come, come." "I didn't quite say that." "Mr. Broune, may I have a word?" "I'll never forget what you've done for me, never." "No more than my duty." "Much, much more, and I hope you'll learn to know that a woman can really be grateful." "Hmm." "Mr. Alf?" "I forgive you, and I'm so glad you feel you can still come here as my friend." "Madame melmotte." "Your mama's not much of one for talking, is she?" "No, and nobody's much for talking to her, either." "Anyway, she's not my mama." "She's my stepmother." "Papa got rid of my real mama when I was just a little girl." "Got rid of her?" "I say!" "How?" "Don't know." "She was there when we lived in frankfurt, but we were so poor then, and then we were in new york, but by the time we were in paris he was married to her." "My poor, sweet darling." "I know what you need." "You need someone to take care of you and love you, don't you?" "Yes, I most certainly do." "I'm not sure we should... come on." "Marie: ( Faintly ) oh, felix!" "Will you be that someone?" "Will you love me and take care of me?" "Will I?" "Yes, if you want me to." "If it were up to me, but... papa settles everything." "Lord, haven't i done enough?" "You must make sure of her, felix." "Now, madame melmotte told me they're going down to the country to stay with the longestaffes for whitsun." "Is that so?" "I didn't think they were that thick." "Lady pomona won't like it, or georgiana, the biggest snob in england." "I hope they're not thinking of adolphus for marie." "Dolly?" "No, no." "No." "Don't think so." "They say at the club that melmotte wants to buy one of their old properties, pickering park, and dolly's not so keen to sell." "It's come to him, you see." "Maybe melmotte's thinking of throwing in marie as part of the bargain." "But he mustn't!" "Well, now that you've... it's quite distasteful that the poor girl should be used as a bargaining counter in a property sale!" "She has a heart, and she's entrusted it to my only son." "I believe she has." "There's no need to make those faces, hetta." "We shall be there, too." "We can stay with roger and get ourselves invited over to caversham for dinner." "You can ask papa then." "All right." "Oh, felix, you are becoming quite a treasure." "Dear, dear boy." "I hope you're not expecting me to come as well, mother." "Of course." "Why not?" "It might be awkward for me, and for roger, too." "That's nonsense." "You've been going there since you were a girl, and if roger asks you again," "I hope you'll have the good manners to accept." "Really, hetta, it's most ungrateful of you, and it's not as if you've had other offers, is it?" "( Snickers ) no, not as yet, mother." "Well, then." "Really, you must learn to behave with more consideration... dear." "He's invited the melmottes?" "All of them?" "So I understand, georgiana." "But that... foreign woman... who can barely speak a word of english, and that strange, monkey-faced daughter!" "I can understand going to a crush at their house in town when everybody else goes-- one doesn't speak to them, and one needn't see them afterwards-- but to have them in one's own house!" "For how long?" "A week, I believe." "Well, they are very wealthy, you know." "It would be an idea if adolphus could marry the daughter." "Dolly will never marry anyone." "He'd never take the trouble to ask." "I'm sure I don't know what your papa is to do, or how there is never any money for anything." "I don't spend it!" "It really is too bad of papa." "( Door opens ) oh, my dear adolphus!" "I didn't think you'd come down." "Pa wouldn't leave me alone till I said I would." "Give him some tea, georgiana." "I'd sooner have a soda and brandy." "Oh, lord." "Here's the governor." "Now for a row!" "Well, adolphus?" "Have you changed your mind?" "Well... no." "Matter of fact," "I haven't, pa." "Pickering park's my inheritance, and I shan't see it sold to pay debts on caversham." "It ain't right, and it ain't fair." "Very well, then." "You leave me with no alternative." "My dear, we shall not be going back to london for the rest of the season." "We cannot afford the expense." "But, my dear, our ball is fixed!" "Then it must be unfixed!" "He doesn't mean it." "He can't, can he?" "I fear, my love, he does." "We must be in london for the rest of the season." "I don't like to be indelicate, but if I'm to be married," "I must meet men, and london is the only place where they are to be found." "Do you really want me on your hands for the rest of your life, mother?" "Oh, dear." "Perhaps, after all, mr." "Melmotte will do something for us." "Here you are." "This is so kind of you." "What must you think of me, inviting myself and my children without so much as a by-your-leave?" "Only that I am delighted you should like to come again so soon." "You can't imagine how it has raised my spirits." "'Morning, roger." "Still here, then?" "There's more to life than carbury, you know." "You ought to get out more." "All right if I borrow a horse?" "Perfectly." "Take as long as you like." "Thanks." "I will." "( Sounds of passion )" "( laughing ) ahh!" "Ahh." "Ah, ruby." "You know, I've never done that before, not with anyone, ever." "I should be sorry to hear that you had, ruby." "And you do love me, don't you?" "Of course I do, more than anything else in the whole world." "You'd better, 'cause there's ever such a lot of men wants to be my sweetheart, so you better behave yourself." "Well, don't I always?" "I wish you'd come and see me more often." "Yeah." "Oh, you've got such soft skin, soft as a little baby." "Oh, I say, ruby, draw it mild." "You know what?" "I think I'm going to let you do it again." "I love you that much." "Look here, I'm not at all sure that I can." "Oh, I am." "I'm certain sure." "I'm afraid" "I haven't been able to arrange much entertainment for you." "My dear cousin, it was to escape the eternal parties that we came down here." "The bishop will be pleased to come and dine tomorrow." "I shall be glad to see the bishop once more." "This article is about mr." "Montague." "He left it with me when he came." "Could I borrow it?" "Of course, yes, if you wish." "I have asked the longestaffes for friday, but they won't come." "I daresay they are going to have guests themselves." "Yes, I did know they were to have guests." "The melmottes are coming to them." "The melmottes?" "I fancy he wants a little pecuniary assistance, roger." "I should have thought he would have kept such a man as melmotte out of his wife's drawing room." "Why should you dislike the melmottes so much?" "I don'T." "Why should I-- why should I dislike people I never saw?" "No, but I do dislike those who seek their society simply because they are rich." "Meaning me, I suppose." "No." "Of course i don't dislike you, as you very well know." "No, I meant the longestaffes then." "But I can't say i'm happy to discover that you are come down to the country just because you knew the melmottes are to be at caversham." "Not just." "You know how I love to be here." "But I will admit to partly, not for my own sake" "I should never run after such a man-- but for my poor son." "Felix has spent every penny of his inheritance, as you know, but he does have other assets." "He's good-looking, he's a baronet, and I must say the girl seems quite in love with him." "So he'll save his bacon by marrying for money." "Well, what is wrong with that?" "It's nothing less than stealing her money." "Oh, roger, how hard you are!" "Does he feel anything at all for the girl?" "Well, I never... it's beside the point," "I suppose." "I have nothing more to say on the matter." "It's no affair of mine, but when I'm told a girl is in the neighborhood, and that felix has come to be near his prey, and that I am asked to be a party to such a thing," "I can only say what I think!" "Felix is welcome here because he is your son and my cousin, but I wish he'd chosen some other place for the work he has in hand." "If you wish it, we will return to london." "I had hoped you'd be glad to see us, perhaps particularly glad to see my hetta." "But we have offended you, and I think we should leave." "You are very harsh, and it crushes me." "You mustn't leave." "If I've hurt you," "I regret it very much." "Let me beg your pardon." "Please, no more about going away." "I shall return to my room." "My head hurts so i can hardly speak." "Shall I come with you?" "No, no." "I shall be well." "Stay with your cousin." "Oh, that was badly done." "No." "You said what you thought, that was all." "A gentleman should never be rough to a lady, and a man should never be rough to his guests." "I hope she will forgive me." "Sir felix!" "How delightful!" "Lady pomona." "Madame melmotte." "Beautiful gardens." "For myself, I don't care much for gardens, but if one is to live in the countryside, this is the sort of place one would like." "Carbury's a very poor place." "For a small place, carbury is very pleasant and pretty, though it isn't extensive." "No, by jove." "It's as poky as a prison." "You were in prison?" "Hmm?" "No." "No, no." "That was jus-- is that your daughter there, madame?" "I must just...ah... miss longestaffe." "Miss melmotte." "I'm sure you two would like to be left together." "She doesn't like me." "She doesn't like any of us." "How every imperceptive of her." "I like you very much indeed." "I wonder-- am I to believe that?" "Well, of course you are." "Haven't I come all this way just to tell you so?" "And to ask you again, will you accept me?" "Do you really love me well enough, felix?" "Of course I do." "I'm not good at making pretty speeches and all that, but you know i love you." "Then I will love you, too." "I will with all my heart." "Ohh, felix, no one ever kissed me like you do." "I don't know what papa will say when we tell him." "Think he'll be angry?" "Yes, I expect so." "But you will speak to him, won't you?" "Yes, of course, yes." "( Distant laughter ) well, there he is." "Who's that chap with him?" "Lord alfred grendall." "Oh." "Spends a lot of time with old grendall, don't he?" "Papa says he can make old grendall do anything he likes." "He says old grendall will jump through hoops for him." "Does he?" "Have to be pretty big hoops, what?" "( Giggles ) you're so funny." "I do love you so." "Look here, I don't think now is the time to talk to papa, not in the country in another man's house." "It's not quite the thing." "I never know what the thing is, but you will speak to him soon, won't you?" "Oh, yes, yes." "Very soon." "Mr. Melmotte's given his consent?" "No, not in so many words, no, but it's all settled apart from that." "Oh, felix." "It's almost too good to be true." "Darling!" "Darling boy!" "Oh, leave off, mother, do." "I ain't quite sure I care about being married and all that." "You will care very much when you have enough money to do anything you like." "I suppose you're right." "So you must come with us to the longestaffes' tomorrow." "If you run away now, it will be an affront to her, and might set mr." "Melmotte against you just at a time when you should be laying yourself out to please him." "Oh, bother." "All right, mother," "I'll come." "Dear boy!" "Please, please!" "Please!" "I've had a very tiring day." "( Dog wheezing )" "( indistinct conversation ) lady carbury:" "There's your inamorata, felix." "I know, mother." "Why don't you go and talk to the father now?" "Not in front of all these people." "He might cut me." "Well, if you won't," "I shall." "( Sotto voce ) oh, lord!" "Mr. Melmotte." "Lady carbury." "My lords, ladies and gentlemen, dinner is served." "I hope you like suffolk, mr." "Melmotte." "Pretty well." "It's a very nice place for fresh air." "Thinking of getting a place down here myself." "I'd sooner be in london, though." "It's a very nice place, is london." "It is if you have plenty of money." "And if you haven't, it's the best place to get it." "You written any more books?" "Wicked women of history, wasn't it?" "How kind of you to remember." "I know a bit about wicked women myself, and girls." "There are books i could write, lady carbury, if I had a mind to." "Your son is sir felix carbury, ain't he?" "Sitting over there with my daughter?" "Happy fellow." "He sits on the same board with you, I believe." "I trust he's diligent there?" "He don't trouble me much," "I don't trouble him much." "Oh." "I've told mama." "Did she say anything?" "Yes." "A lot." "She says papa will think you're not rich enough, but I don't care about that." "Talk about something else or people will hear." "Have you been riding?" "Nope." "I don't really know how to ride." "You ride beautifully." "What, on that old screw of roger's?" "I think you do." "When are you going back to town?" "Tomorrow." "We go on wednesday." "You will come and see me, won't you?" "Hmm?" "Uh, yes," "I expect so." "And you'll go and see my father." "He's in the city every day." "Best to go there." "Right." "You will stick to it, though, marie, won't you?" "I always stick to things when I've made my mind up." "Papa knows that." "You're a good girl, marie." "I'll be a very good girl to you." "What a lovely couple they make." "Whatever happens, we shall always be friends." "Yes." "That's what I want, too." "I shan't tell you that I love you again." "You know that already." "I shan't press you to make a sacrifice of yourself." "But I think you may come to love me... unless your heart is already given elsewhere." "What do you mean?" "You seem very interested in my friend paul montague." "Who would not be?" "He has done such extraordinary things, and may do more." "Yes, but... he is rather wild, you know, and just now he's engaged in a risky and possibly a dishonest venture in what I regard as very bad company." "You'd speak this way about your friend, your prot g ?" "Yes, because I care very much about his welfare and his happiness, and I care even more about yours." "Then we must hope that your fears are misplaced, mustn't we?" "Here you are, sir." "Would you like anything sent up?" "No." "Thank you." "I won't be staying very long." "( Southern accent ) paul." "You came." "You came to me." "I knew you would." "I can't stay very long." "You can't stay long?" "I see." "I don't think we have much to say to each other, not now." "Paul," "I came 3,000 miles to see you." "I think you owe me a little more than that." "Good morning." "Would you follow me, please, sir?" "( Dog barks )" "( sighs ) good?" "Excellent, mr." "Melmotte." "Begin." "Good morning, mr." "Wakeham." "Shall we go in the morning room?" "Thank you, miss carbury." "I was hoping to see lady carbury or sir felix." "My brother is out and my mother is unwell." "How can I help you?" "It occurred to me that perhaps your mother has overlooked the payment of accounts for wines and spirits." "It's been seven months now." "I see." "Sir felix was kind enough to honor us with another order just the other day." "Sir felix is expecting to draw a substantial sum of money very soon." "He has become a director of the mexican railway." "Ah, the mexican railway." "I had thought of going in for that myself in a small W." "So you should not have to wait much longer." "Ould g we should be so very sorry to have to go to another wine merchant." "Of course we shall hear from you at your convenience." "Thank you, mr." "Wakeham." "( Door closes ) has he gone?" "Yes." "Oh, I hate having to do that." "Why should the poor man not be paid?" "Because we have nothing to pay him with." "We know whose fault that is, don't we?" "You would see me throw you onto the street rather than marry your cousin roger, who is a dear good man and has loved you since you were a girl." "I wish I could love roger the way he would like me to." "It would be most convenient." "But I can'T." "He's been most generous to us, helped us with small sums on numerous occasions." "Are you suggesting he's agreed to buy me in installments?" "I shall marry for love if I marry at all." "I would rather work the telegraph or be a nurse in a women's hospital or be a writer like you than marry simply for security." "At least I should be earning my keep honestly." "To marry without love is nothing better than prostitution." "Hetta!" "It's what I believe." "You never spoke like this until you met that young adventurer paul montague." "I suppose you imagine yourself in love with him." "Things have changed." "So... you feel nothing for me now?" "No, I could never say that." "Well, look at me and tell me what it is." "You've met someone else." "That's what it is, isn't it?" "A year ago, when we parted, you promised to follow me to san francisco, but you never came." "Not a word, not a letter." "There were circumstances." "I told you everything about myself." "You told me nothing." "What was I to think except that you tired of our affair, found someone else?" "There was never anyone else." "I told myself it was over, threw myself into my work." "You've become the man i always knew you could be." "Winifred-- winifred." "At last." "I called you paul from the first moment." "Well, speak out." "Is there another woman that you love?" "Yes." "Yes, there is." "And have you promised to marry her as well?" "No." "No, not as yet." "But she loves you." "She has never said so." "And you have never told her of your love?" "Never." "Then there's nothin' that binds you to her." "Quite the reverse, in our case." "We are bound in every way, aren't we?" "Isn't it the case in your country that an offer of marriage is binding on the man?" "Only the woman may break off the engagement." "Winifred..." "I'm begging you to release me now." "And I refuse because I know what is good for you better than you know yourself." "You say I told you nothin' of myself, but I gave you everything a woman has to give." "Can you tell me that meant nothing, means nothing, to you?" "No." "Can you tell me you feel nothing for me?" "No." "Then kiss me, paul, in friendship if nothin' more." "I must go." "Very well." "I'll let you go for now, but I know you're too honorable to make love to your little english rose while you're still bound to me, and I know you wouldn't be so unkind as to leave me all alone" "and friendless in london." "So long as friendship is all you ask." "For the present." "It can be a kind of a game, you see." "Your part is to persuade me to release you, mine to make you realize you're better off with me." "A game?" "Hmm?" "You call this a game?" "A game with high stakes, played in deadly earnest." "Don't be tempted into treating' it lightly, paul, or you may wish you had never been born." "Do you hear?" "Go now." "I know you'll come again soon." "And finally, your chairman is happy to announce formally what I suppose you all know-- that the first issue of public shares one week ago went, shall we say, according to plan..." "I should say." "And that at the close of trading yesterday, the value of the shares had gone up by 500%." "Not bad." "Bravo!" "So if we wanted to cash in on our shares now, we'd get five times the amount we put in?" "Yes, you would, mr." "Longestaffe, but the best thing you could do is to buy more railway shares." "They're going to go a great deal higher." "You might as well leave your money where it is." "If any of you gentlemen have further available liquidity... what's liquidity?" "Liquidity is ready cash, my lord, and if you have any, my advice is to build up your holdings now." "This is the opportunity of the century, and I'm telling you to beg, borrow, sell all other assets and get into this now while it's going up, and then you can tell your grandchildren that you were in" "at the very start of the best thing this century." "Melmotte:" "Yes, mr." "Montague." "I assume that there is a regular release of funds into the work itself." "The surveying can go ahead immediately and the building itself as soon after that as possible." "That's it, mr." "Montague." "All in hand." "Well, gentlemen?" "Could we know what sums have been dispensed and how the payments relate to the schedule of works?" "It's all in the accounts." "Where can these be inspected?" "In the company offices in due course." "As I say, the work is all in hand." "And now if there's nothing more to discuss..." "I declare the meeting closed." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "He don't put off so easy, that one." "Run him up a set of figures, croll, set his mind at rest." "I think he really wants this railway, mr." "Melmotte." "So do we, don't we?" "Don't we?" "If you say so, mr." "Melmotte." "Come on, my old croll." "We've seen off bigger fish than him." "I saw her." "You have a beautiful house, sir." "( Gargles ) sir felix carbury to see mr." "Melmotte at once." "I'm expected." "I am expected." "Wait here, sir." "Psst." "Psst." "( Whispers ) are you sir felix?" "Felix:" "Yes." "I am didon." "Oh." "Come with me." "Come, come, quick!" "All right, if you say so." "I have got him for you." "Why didn't you come before?" "I've been longing and longing for you." "I say, steady on, steady on." "Oh, didon knows everything." "So you'll see him?" "Man said he was busy." "No, he's in for you, out to everyone else." "Oh, jolly good." "Go now." "Don't let him bully you!" "No." "Right." "Absolutely." "Absolutely." "In you go." "( Whispers ) go!" "( Snoring ) how do you do, sir felix?" "You come to see the ladies, have you?" "Yes, but I thought i'd look in on you, you know." "That's very good of you." "Well?" "Mr. Melmotte," "I'm come to" "I'm come-- oh, in short, mr." "Melmotte," "I want to propose myself as a suitor for your daughter's hand." "The deuce you do." "Well, yes, and we hope you'll give us your consent, sir." "We?" "Who's "we"?" "Your daughter and I, sir." "Oh, she knows you're coming, then?" "Yes." "I've been attached to her ever since I saw her and all that." "You know how that kind of thing goes on." "No, I'm damned if I do." "I know how it ought to go on." "The young man ought to speak to the father before the girl." "That's how it ought to go on." "Of course we know it all depends on you, sir." "Not at all." "She's of age." "She can marry you tomorrow if she chooses." "You're a baronet," "I believe." "Yes, I'm a baronet, all right." "No money cares, eh?" "Not exactly that." "I suppose you will give your daughter a fortune." "She don't get a farthing if she marries to please herself without my consent." "I had rather hoped you would give your consent, sir." "Haven't said I won'T." "It's possible." "What's your property, sir felix?" "It isn't a very large property, you know." "Not like the marquis of westminster's, then." "No, it's not quite like that." "Where's your family seat?" "Carbury hall, down in suffolk near the longestaffes." "Carbury hall?" "I didn't know that was yours." "Well, it isn't, exactly, not yet." "But I am the heir." "I see." "The heir." "Who's got it now?" "My cousin." "Mr. Roger carbury." "And he's an old man, is he?" "He's not what you'd call a young man." "( Laughs nervously ) he's not very old." "I see." "Not very old." "Able-bodied, is he?" "Able to shake a leg?" "Well, yes," "I suppose he is." "How would it be if he was to marry and have children?" "I don't know how that would be." "I don't think it's very likely that he'll marry." "And in the meantime, what is your own property?" "Mr. Melmotte, the fact is," "I love your daughter, and she loves me." "And I may not be possessed of great wealth or property, but I am a baronet and a gentleman." "And I'm not, you imply?" "No!" "That is not what I meant at all." "I think we understand each other very well." "You are to provide the rank and position, and I'm to provide the money." "That's the bargain." "I buy my daughter a place in society by paying you to marry her." "That's your understanding of it?" "Sir, I must protest." "One shouldn't cheapen it-- it's all right, sir felix." "I'll think on it." "But don't get your hopes up too high." "Money expects money, you know." "Marie:" "Isn't he lovely?" "Didon:" "He has a very pretty face." "And he's a ve good sser." "I have seen better, and nidderdale is a real lord." "Oh!" "But you like this one." "Oh, didon, I do." "I do." "I love him." "I never knew felix carbury was so found of the country." "I know I'm not." "How long are we to be kept here, father?" "I don't know what you mean by being "kept here."" "This is your home." "You might as well make up your mind to live in it." "If we're not in london, we will never meet anyone." "You know what that means for me." "I have to be in london for the end of the season." "It's my last chance." "There's no "have to"" "about it, georgiana." "I can't afford it, and that's that." "Father, if you won't take me up to town yourself, could you not let me stay with friends?" "The primeros are in town for the season." "As a matter of fact," "I have received an invitation for you to stay up in london, georgiana." "You have?" "From whom?" "The melmottes." "Those dreadful people." "Why shouldn't I go to the primeros or julia monogram?" "It's that or stay in the country, my dear." "You know your father especially dislikes the primeros." "Very well, then." "I shall go to the melmottes if it's to be them or nothing." "And the first man that comes to me with 4,000 or 5,000 a year, I'll take him, even though he came out of newgate or bedlam, and I shall always say it was papa's fault!" "Move!" "( Sighs )" "I wish we could have each other a bit longer." "So do I, by jove." "I wish you lived in town." "I could see you every day." "Wouldn't that be jolly?" "Wouldn't that?" "For two pins," "I'd do it, too." "Oh, lord, I must go." "Grandfather's asked john crumb over again." "And who is john crumb when he's at home?" "John crumb the miller." "He comes to see me." "So you come back soon, or he'll steal a match on you, he will." "Ruby!" "( Thunder rumbling )" "( door opens ) here she comes." "Late again, little hussy?" "Ah, she's worth waitin' for, though." "Why do you always have to say the same thing, john?" "N't keep a civil tongue in your head when the poor man's tryin' to pay you a compliment?" "And where's our supper we've been waitin' for?" "It was all done before." "It only wants bringing' out." "You could have done that yourself, but that's too much for you," "I s'pose!" "A damn good hidin' wouldn't do you no harm!" "Ah, no, mr." "Ruggles." "That's not the way." "That's what you think." "I say women is better for a regular beating'." "Like carpets, eh?" "Ho ho ho." "What?" "Ho ho ho." "There now." "Oh, what's this?" "Ah, ruby." "( Thunder rumbling ) very tasty, ruby." "Thank you, john." "Hold there a moment." "John has something to say to you, ruby." "Haven't you, john?" "Only, like, I've got the house all ready now, ruby." "So if you'd like to name the day, you and I shall be married as soon as you like." "Tomorrow wouldn't be too soon for me." "So say you will, and I'll always do my best to make you happy." "I can't marry you, john." "I'm sorry." "What?" "But you said you loved me, ruby." "You always said we would be married one day." "Young women is allowed to change their minds, and I've changed mine." "I'm sorry, john." "I can't help it." "Nasty, ungrateful lying' little slut!" "Treat a good man like that?" "I've a good mind to tan the hide off you!" "Don't you touch me." "I can't help it if I love someone else." "Who is that?" "Shan't tell you!" "I have a good mind to beat you!" "Come here!" "Come back!" "Come back." "If you beat me, it's the last time," "I swear it." "You'll never see me again!" "Come here." "Right!" "No!" "You'll tell me." "No!" "You'll tell me!" "( Ruby screams, mr." "Ruggles shouts )" "( snoring )" "( door creaks ) give us a kiss." "( Snoring )" "( door creaking ) ruby: "To sir felix carbury, the beargarden club." ""Dear sir," "I have done what I said," ""and sooner than I thought." ""I refused john crumb." ""Grandfather turned me out the house, so I'm a-come a-london..."" "marie: "Dearest felix, when shall I see you again?" ""Papa has said you are not to come to the house again, but I'm not frightened of him, and nor should you be."" "Melmotte:" "You stupid woman!" "Why can't you get one simple thing right?" "!" ""I don't care about money, and on my word of honor, I'll never marry anyone but you."" "Ruby: "I long for you to take me dancin'" ""and to see the music hall." "From your own loving ruby."" "Everything in order, sir felix?" "Hmm?" "Yes." "I don't see why not, vossner." "All to your liking, miss longestaffe?" "Yes, thank you, mr." "Melmotte." "How kind of you to ask." "Well, let's have a little smile on that pretty face, then." "Ha ha ha ha." "( Grunts ) oh!" "I'm buying one of your father's properties, you know." "Pickering park." "It's to be that little madame's dowry." "Oh, really?" "I thought that adolphus hadn't agreed on the sale." "Ah, that's all been dealt with." "When I want a thing," "I generally get it, you know." "Yes, miss, how would you like to live in pickering park as lady nidderdale, eh?" "I don't care where I live, but I won't marry lord nidderdale." "She fancies herself in love with that fop" "( burps ) ha ha ha ha." "( Burps ) ha ha ha." "What's a baronet?" "I could be a baronet." "Nothing easier." "I intend going into parliament, miss longestaffe." "When I get a seat, all I have to do is spend a bit of money on the proper side-- the conservative side, of course-- throw a few dinners, and the thing is done." "Sir augustus melmotte, baronet." "Well, what do you think about that?" "Most interesting." "( Slurps ) oh, dommage." "Hey!" "Oh, really." "Please." "Melmotte:" "No, no, no, no." "Oh, lord." "I'm so proud." "Forgive me." "I didn't mean to-- gentlemen, shall we go where we can talk-- unencumbered?" "Follow me, gentlemen." "( Whispering ) what's all this, niddy?" "Marie melmotte." "The stakes are on again." "I say, look here." "That's not fair." "Not my fault, old boy." "It's the two governors." "I can't do anything." "Andrew!" "Come and sit down with us." "No, he must not." "He must go at once." "Melmotte le tuera!" "Monsieur, il faut que vous retirez." "Qu'elle est m chante." "But you must go, sir." "He will kill you." "Well, yes, under the circumstances-- no, he shan't go!" "Let him kill us if he dare!" "I'll never marry nidderdale, not if he cuts me into bits!" "We'll go down to the parlor and tell him now." "He shan't make me marry anyone but you." "Oh, mon dieu!" "Felix, if you will be true to me, nothing can keep us apart." "Mrs. Melmotte:" "Oh, my god." "He's coming." "He's coming back to kill us all." "Now you be brave, and I will be brave." "Marie, I really-- felix." "No, no, no." "Now listen, you." "Sir felix, my daughter is engaged to be married to lord nidderdale." "All right?" "I am not." "I won't marry him, not if you chop me to pieces." "She will be married to lord nidderdale, so you might as well leave right now." "Papa, he is my lover." "Bosh." "It is not bosh!" "I love him, and I won't have anyone else." "You... hit me if you like." "It won't change anything." "You get to your room." "I'll go, but I still love him." "Get out!" "I'm very sorry to have had a hand in causing this disturbance, sir." "You go away and don't come back." "And you remember this-- if she marries without my consent, she don't get a single shilling." "Good day to you, sir felix." "Happy to see you in the city anytime." "Eh--oh." "It's only me, my own-- own darling felix." "You won't give me up, will you?" "Did you tell him you wouldn't give me up?" "He says he'll cut us off without a shilling, so..." "I have my own money." "When we were in france, papa put a lot of money in my name, thousands and thousands, so he could tell his creditors he had none." "We could run away together." "Good god, there's more to you than meets the eye." "Send me a note by didon." "Ohh." "( Woman singing opera ) it's so unlike life, don't you think?" "I wonder whether any girl ever sat and cried like that because her lover talked to another woman." "Women aren't all made the same." "Luckily for you men." "But, you know, there's a dash of the savage princess about most of us, so watch out." "I shall." "Are you going to see me home?" "Of course." "You needn't, you know." "I'm not afraid of taking a cab by myself." "But I should like a little more of your company." "Have you enjoyed this evening?" "Yes, very much." "Good." "So have I." "Come in for one moment." "Ruby:" "Good night, mrs." "Hurtle." "Good night, ruby." "Good night, sir." "She's a new girl just up from the country, the landlady's niece." "I don't know what she thinks of me." "I've told them we are engaged to be married." "I hope you don't mind." "Do you think that's wise?" "Well, if it avoids unpleasantness and gossip... shut the door for one moment." "( Door closes )" "I won't be separated from you." "I'll do anything for love of you, anything but lose you." "Winifred." "No, don't speak." "I understand." "Go now." "Go now." "My lords and gentlemen," "I'm able to tell you that we are prospering." "Men:" "Hear, hear." "I wish I could show you the balance sheet." "It's a sight for sore eyes." "But in affairs of this nature, great discretion is required, so, on behalf of the shareholders at large whose interests are in our hands," "I think that any detailed statement should be postponed just for a short while, and I therefore move that this meeting be adjourned to this day week." "Man:" "Seconded." "So all those in favor-- mr." "Melmotte." "Yes, mr." "Montague." "Could you at least give the board your assurance that the timetable for the building of the railway is on schedule?" "Thank you, mr." "Montague." "All in favor?" "And that all the company accounts and records be made freely available for inspection by the directors." "Against?" "Motion carried." "I think that concludes the business." "Thank you, gentlemen." "( Applause )" "( indistinct conversation)" "I understand." "You are a fine young man, mr." "Montague." "This is a great project, and I'm well aware that you brought it to me in the first place, and I'm very grateful, but you don't understand the business side of a thing like this." "You had much better leave it to me." "I'll make you rich, and you'll have your railway, too." "Trust me." "You won't regret it." "And don't cross me again or you'll be sorry." "Good afternoon to you." "You do think he's all right, old melmotte?" "I'm supposed to be marrying his daughter, you know." "Come on, nidderdale." "We're wasting valuable time here." "Um... ( door opens ) what, you're still here, then, mr." "Montague?" "Well, I'm glad you stayed." "Croll:" "Mr. Montague." "Please, take a seat, mr." "Montague." "No, thank you." "( Chuckles )" "I was a bit short with you just now." "I beg your pardon." "Good, but the thing is this-- unanimity is everything is a situation such as this." "If you and I quarrel in the boardroom, there's no knowing the amount of evil that we do." "We are carrying the hopes and dreams of thousands of shareholders on our shoulders." "They're depending on us." "Croll knows." "And there is nothing that can be done for them unless the shares keep rising, and that's what you have to understand." "You don't want to see the whole thing fall to pieces, do you?" "Look here... mm." "I'm in this to build a railway, and I don't see any signs of it at the moment." "Now, never mind the share price." "What about the survey?" "Mm." "The labor?" "Mm." "The purchase of materials, the equipment?" "( Laughs ) oh, look, all that is in hand." "Look here, montague, all this that you talk of is--is nothing!" "It's--what is it?" "A mere matter of engineering." "It's nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts." "I could find a score of fellows to build me a railway, but some of us have to set our sights on higher matters than these." "Oh, what would a mere engineer like you know about the building of a great business empire?" "Then you would have no objection if this mere engineer went down to mexico to see what progress has been made?" "No." "Go, go, go, go." "You do what you like, sir." "It's all one to me." "Then I shall." "And if I find that no preparations have been made," "I shall start the work myself." "Good day to you, sir." "( Door closes ) croll:" "He will, too." "Oh, let him go, croll." "Mexico's a long way away, and our work is here." "( Crystal beads ringing ) mr." "Montague." "I'm sorry." "I hadn't realized you were here alone." "Mama is out with roger." "Oh." "Roger is in town." "Yes." "He comes to london much more often now." "It seems so long since we last met." "Yes." "Yes, at the melmottes' ball." "I suppose you have been very busy." "Yes, I have." "With your railway?" "Yes." "Come and sit down." "I came to tell you I shall have to go out to mexico sooner than I planned, in two weeks' time." "Why do you frown?" "Shan't you like that?" "I'm not quite sure what I shall find there." "I'm beginning to think that melmotte doesn't know or care much about railways." "But there are things and people i shall be very sorry to leave behind." "Hetta... you must have thought me very remiss in not coming to see you before now." "Believe me, I have thought of you every day since we last met, but I have found myself in difficulties." "There is my friendship for roger, for one thing, and...other obligations." "I don't think your friendship for roger should make you think you can't see or talk to me." "Why should it?" "I promised I wouldn't come between you and him." "He made you promise that?" "He had no right to." "I'm not engaged to roger, though I care very much for him." "Could you love him as much as a woman can love a man?" "Because if you can," "I shall leave england at once and never return to it." "( Door opens ) it is mama." "( Indistinct conversation ) ahem." "Mr. Montague, what a very unexpected pleasure." "Yes, I'm going abroad soon, so I thought I would come up and see you before I go." "Roger." "I had no idea you were in london." "What brings you here?" "A little business, that's all." "Did you have a pleasant evening, mother?" "Very pleasant." "Did you?" "No, not at all, until mr." "Montague saved me from felix's cigar and brandy bills." "( Fakes yawn )" "I hate to be ill-mannered." "Yes, of course." "I..." "I didn't mean to stay so long." "I'll walk you back to your club." "Good-bye, mr." "Montague, and if we don't see you again before you leave, bon voyage." "Thank you." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "I shall think of you." "I didn't know you were in the habit of calling on hetta and speaking to her alone." "This is the first time i've seen her since I spoke to you last." "I won't try deceiving you, roger." "I love her." "What brought him here?" "He brought himself." "It wasn't arranged, if that's what you mean." "How long was he here?" "Only a couple of minutes before you came in." "There is something between you and that young man." "What is it?" "You haven't engaged yourself to him, have you?" "No, I have not." "What, then?" "I love him, mother, and I'm sure he loves me." "And this on three or four short meetings?" "What do you know of that young man?" "Nothing!" "And what about your poor cousin roger?" "I'm sorry, but you can't help who you love, can you?" "Roger:" "You seem to think you've behaved honorably, but you promised not to come between hetta and myself, and you have done." "Have mercy, paul, for god's sake." "Leave well alone." "Hetta is the only one for me." "For the sake of our friendship, paul, don't--don't take hetta from me." "I wouldn't do that, even if I could, but if she should choose of her own free will-- after all we've been to each other, you would take her from me, would you?" "For god's sake, man, she's not a piece of property for one man to take or another to keep." "She has a will of her own and a heart of her own, and in the end, she will decide, and she may not choose either of us." "Ahem." "Hello, john." "Come in." "Don't mean to disturb you, squire." "Were you just off to london again?" "No, I felt the need for a change of air and a bit of solitude." "Oh, I was hoping it might be london, sir." "Why is that?" "Well, sir, it's ruby." "She's run away, and I reckon it's to london that she's gone." "Ruby's gone, you say?" "Crumb:" "Yes, sir." "She quarreled with her grandfather." "He don't treat her very kindly, sir." "Perhaps it's as much his fault as hers." "But he's sorry now and he want her back, and so do I." "I don't mean to hold you up, sir." "I'll do what I can when I'm next there." "London's a big place, you know." "Aye, sir." "I do know that." "But you'll do what you can, eh?" "She very precious to me." "I'll do my best," "I promise." "Thank you, sir." "( Cheering, drumroll )" "( giggles ) you won't keep me out too late, will you, felix?" "Mrs. Pipkin's awful strict." "Bother mrs." "Pipkin." "She knows there's someone, but I haven't said who." "( Giggles )" "I think she'd fall down in a faint if she knew I was walking out with a baronet." "Shh." "I pass very well as one of the local ruffians." "Two glasses here, cocky." "Comin' up, me lord." "( Drumroll )" "( giggles ) you know, when I've sold my shares at a profit," "I'm going to set you up in a place of your own." "Then we won't have to bother about mrs." "Pipkin." "A place of our own, you mean." "Mm." "Yes, of course." "Oh, felix, I do love you." "( Drumroll, cymbals crash )" "( cheers and applause ) that's for you... and this is for me." "Another one standing by, please." "My dear friend, mr." "Melmotte's daughter and my felix wish to marry, though mr." "Melmotte is reluctant to give his consent." "Do you think it would be a good match?" "A very good one if they love each other." "But if the young people were to take the affair into their own hands, so to speak... if felix were to run away with her, you mean, to elope?" "Exactly." "Um, would mr." "Melmotte forgive his daughter and make them an allowance?" "Well, yes," "I believe he would." "I believe any father who loved his daughter would." "Oh, mr." "Broune, you have set my mind at rest." "I have been so worried about poor felix." "Lady carbury," "I think you know that I should like to set all your anxieties to rest." "We are not as young as we used to be." "Indeed we are not, mr." "Broune." "But I like to think that we are not too old to love." "Felix:" "Hello, broune." "At it again?" "( Laughs ) felix, what are you doing in that extraordinary costume?" "What, this?" "All the rage." "Felix, I've been asking mr." "Broune's advice, and he agrees, as I do, that it might be best to take the bull by the horns." "Which bull is this, mother?" "To run away with miss melmotte and obtain her father's consent after the marriage." "Oh, I don't know about that, mother." "He cut up pretty rough when he warned me off." "Thought he was gonna bite my head off." "Well, damn it, broune, if you're so behind me, perhaps I'll go after it after all, you know, and if melmotte makes a fuss," "I'll refer him to you." "Shall I?" "No, no, no." "My advice was couched in very general terms and given to your mother in strict confidence." "All our hopes depend on you now, darling." "If you don't bring this off, we're ruined." "( Piano playing ) georgiana:" "Grosvenor square, july 2nd." "To lady julia monogram." "Dearest julia, I wonder that you have not called to see me or invited me since I've been in london." "There is to be a small soiree here on tuesday next." "I say small, but large enough so that you need not speak to the melmottes if you should not wish to." "No, no, no, no." "( Speaks foreign language ) all: ( Laugh ) dearest julia, how I long to see you and all my real friends." "Yours as ever, georgiana longestaffe." "Lady julia monogram." "Julia, dear, you came." "I can't stop." "Sir damask doesn't even know I'm here." "Who are all these dreadful people?" "Oh, they aren't all dreadful." "Look, there's lord nidderdale." "I can't bear money-grubbing." "Georgiana, you have to understand if you stick with these... melmottes, we can't know you." "Nobody can." "You'd much better go back to the country." "Oh, my god, who's that dreadful-looking man leering at us over there?" "He's not so bad as all that." "His name is mr." "Brehgert." "He's the head of a banking firm in the city." "Darling, he looks like a jew." "Is that so very bad?" "The prime minister is a jew." "Yes, but one wouldn't have him in one's house." "Oh, he's coming over." "Georgiana," "I do feel for you, but if you will let yourself down like this, you can't expect not to be dropped." "Perhaps we'll see each other in the country." "Good-bye." "Would you excuse me?" "Yes, of course." "Good evening, miss longestaffe." "Mr. Brehgert." "Might I ask who that lady was?" "Her name is lady julia monogram." "She was my oldest friend." "And she's upset you." "Not at all." "No, I think she has, and that distresses me." "Would it help you at all to speak of it?" "You are very kind, but thank you, no." "Would you excuse me?" "( Panting, sobbing )" "( door slams )" "( sobbing )" "( whispers ) quickly!" "Use these stairs." "Come." "I'll show you." "Mais, o est lui?" "Je ne comprends pas." "Il devrait tre la." "Il n'est pas la." "Marie:" "He is not there." "I say." "Over here." "Oh, felix, my love." "You took a deuced long time about it." "I had to go to papa's horrible party and talk to lord nidderdale." "Ah, poor you." "Good job I have this." "Give it to me." "( Chuckles ) what is your plan?" "Sorry." "I don't follow." "What plan?" "To run away." "Oh, lord." "We think it best to sail to new york from liverpool." "Who's "we"?" "Didon and I. Didon has thought of everything." "She will come with me." "She will be my cousin." "I will go as a french girl." "You can be an american, should you like that." "We will call you mr." "Smith." "I say, that's clever." "We must not travel together." "We'll board separately, and the captain can marry us onboard." "They can do that, you know." "Didon says." "And then we would be together, never apart again." "Look here, marie." "This is going to need ready cash." "Should I get your papa to cash in my shares?" "He might smell a rat." "Oh, money is nothing." "Papa keeps a great pile of checks in his book room made out to "cash,"" "100 pounds each." "I can take one of those." "I say, that's useful." "That's useful." "Might as well take two while you're there." "So, it is settled." "We will go on wednesday week." "Really?" "As soon as that?" "I hadn't actually thought-- we must." "Papa is saying I must marry nidderdale in two weeks." "What if you're wrong about your own money and your governor doesn't come round?" "Where should we be then?" "Nothing venture, nothing have." "Yes, but we might venture everything and end up with nothing, you know." "You'd have me." "Didon:" "Psst!" "Come quick!" "Sir felix, you must go now." "Marie:" "Good night, my love." "Marie!" "Vite!" "Oui, je viens!" "D p chez-vous!" "Got brehgert coming to see me this morning, miss longestaffe." "His firm is brokering a loan for us." "Asked if you would be at home." "( Crunches )" "( slurps ) he's taken a fancy to you, has brehgert." "I should snaffle him up if I were you." "He's well stuffed, is brehgert." "He'd see you all right." "Mr. Melmotte," "I wish you'd avoid such coarse expressions." "Oh, uh," "I do beg your pardon." "( Chuckles ) what shall I tell him, miss longestaffe?" "Shall I set him on?" "You may tell mr." "Brehgert that I am at home and at leisure." "( Chuckles ) il faut se d p cher." "Oui." "Oui." "Attends la porte." "D'accord." "Attends la porte!" "Shoo!" "Oui." "Oh, papa." "What?" "What?" "I want to go there." "Tout de suite!" "Il arrive!" "( Whispers ) d pchez-vous." "( Footsteps )" "( whispers ) merde." "( Closing drawer )" "( sings in french ) bonjour, monsieur." "( Sings in french )" "( humming )" "( sniffing ) oh, papa, can you show me where mexico is and where the railway will go?" "Go on." "Get out of here." "I don't want girls and young women in here!" "Go on!" "I got work to do." "Work to do!" "All right, papa." "One." "( Giggling )" "( giggling ) ruby, will you tell mrs." "Pipkin we'll be home late?" "Good night, ma'am." "Good night, mr." "Montague." "Winifred, I shall be away for some time, but before I go-- no, don't say it, not tonight, not here with all these people round." "I sometimes think i shall go mad in this filthy city, everything pressing in on one." "I long to see the sky, the sea." "Take me with you, paul." "You know I can'T." "It's no place for a woman." "You forget i'm no ordinary woman." "Oh, yes--mrs." "Hurtle, who once shot a man in oregon." "That's how you were first pointed out to me." "I don't regret it." "I'd do it again if I had to." "If we have to say good-bye to each other, can't it be in some clear cold place with the sound of the sea in our ears?" "We've been on such journeys, you and I." "One last little trip to the sea, the real sea." "And then will you release me from my promise?" "Perhaps I shall." "Where shall we go?" "How far away is penzance?" "Cromer is much nearer." "Or lowestoft." "Roger carbury used to take me there as a boy." "That's a clear cold place, if you like." "Then lowestoft it shall be." "I should like to see the place where you were happy as a boy." "I won't ask you to stay, just to take me." "I can return by myself." "You couldn't refuse me that, could you?" "( Lively music playing ) ruby: ( Giggling ) felix:" "Montague, do you say?" "Mr. Paul montague?" "Yes, I knew him at once." "I'd seen him with the squire ever so many times." "I don't think he knew me." "Leastways, I hope not." "What the devil was he doing in islington?" "Same as you." "He comes to his own friend-- mrs." "Hurtle, the american lady." "You should see her." "She's a stunner." "Great big flashing' eyes and lots of money." "They're gonna be married." "Are they?" "Otherwise mrs." "Pipkin wouldn't let him upstairs." "Upstairs?" "He goes upstairs, does he?" "Well, I'm damned." "Paul montague." "The thing is, what if he did know me and tells the squire, and the squire comes after me?" "What am I to tell him?" "Mind his own business." "Brandy and water, quick." "I don't think that'll quite do, felix." "What am I to say to aunt as well?" "I've said nothin' all along just to oblige you, but I think you should have somethin' to say to me." "Oh, I mean it." "If you bother me," "I shall cut it, you know." "Cut it?" "Yes, cut it." "Why can't you wait till i'm ready to say something?" "I can't wait much longer." "Where am I to go if mrs." "Pipkin turns me out?" "I've told you I'll find a little place for you." "I've got to go to new york." "I'll be back in a month." "Then we'll see what's to be done." "I want to know whether you'll marry me or not." "M-marry you?" "( Laughs ) no, I think not." "I know a trick worth two of that." "Well, you shan't see me ever again then." "Ruby, I meant not yet." "Ruby!" "Oh, damn." "Blast it all." "Yes, this seems in order, mademoiselle... mademoiselle racine." "And this is my cousin, madame du tours." "You'll forgive me, mademoiselle." "Do you have any identification?" "Why should I need it?" "The check is made out to "bearer."" "Yes, of course." "Perhaps I should ask mr." "Melmotte to confirm the check by telegraph." "It is rather a large sum." "Not to mr." "Melmotte." "And I think he would be very angry to be bothered about so small a matter." "Of course." "Would mademoiselle like the money in bank notes?" "Notes of ten pounds." "250 pounds in 10-pound notes." "( Counting notes ) merci, monsieur." "There you are." "( Kisses felix ) now it is all arranged." "Didon has got our tickets." "We will leave on wednesday for liverpool." "You can catch a train at 7:00." "Right. 7:00." "Why aren't i coming with you?" "It would be the act of a fool to be seen together before the boat sails." "Right." "Just what I thought." "Marie:" "I have bought all my wedding clothes." "Have you?" "Jolly good." "They'll go ahead, but I shall keep all my jewels with me." "Now, here's the money for your ticket." "When we get to new york, we can write to papa." "Of course he'll make the best of it." "Do you think he will?" "He's a savage old bird." "Yes, he will." "He will have to." "Now, remember, the liverpool train," "7:00 on wednesday." "Liverpool train, 7:00, wednesday." "Don't be late." "Oh, felix, you're going through with it." "Seeing as you were so set on it, ma." "Now, it's not fair to lay all the responsibility on me." "You and that fellow broune, but don't worry about that." "Felix carbury is man enough to take the consequences when it's an affair of honor." "I suppose the worst melmotte can do is shoot me through the heart." "Oh, darling boy, don't say that." "Now, what can you do for me about money, mother?" "But I have none." "There isn't 20 pounds at the bank altogether." "Well, they'd let you overdraw 50 or 60." "Not anymore, felix." "I've done that once too often for you." "Well, well, that is a blue lookout, I must say, when a fellow's own mother won't help him out." "Never mind." "Never mind." "I must try elsewhere." "I can let you have a check for 30." "I suppose that'll have to do." "Could you have my luggage sent over to the beargarden tomorrow?" "I've got one or two affairs i want to settle there." "When do you leave?" "In the evening." "Take care, my darling." "All my heart and hopes go with you." "Felix:" "That's it." "Just over there will do." "They won't be in your way for long, herr vossner." "I shall be off this evening." "No trouble at all, sir felix." "Dolly:" "Hello, felix." "What's all this?" "Takin' a trip?" "That's it." "Matter of fact... not a word to anyone." "I'm runnin' off with marie melmotte." "The deuce you are." "That's one in the eye for nidderdale." "Keep it under your hat." "Still a few hours before I leave." "Oh, are you coming to the card room?" "Have a few hands before you go?" "I don't really care to play for money, not today." "I've only enough for my passage and expenses, you see." "Oh." "Oh, come on." "Couple of hands won't hurt you, will they?" "Well... all right, then, but just for half an hour, mind." "Good man!" "All right." "Mrs. Hurtle:" "Perfect." "I can breathe here." "Here I feel really alive again." "Well, thank you for bringing me, paul." "I'm glad I did." "Are you truly?" "No, don't answer that." "Oh, look at that funny man striding' along with his head down." "I don't believe he sees anything." "Might as well be walkin' along a city street." "Oh, god." "What?" "For god's sake, what is it?" "It's roger carbury." "Roger!" "That lady, I take it, is mrs." "Hurtle." "Yes." "Yes, let me introduce you." "No." "I never thought you were without fault, paul, but I am surprised to discover that you're a liar and a scoundrel." "Good day." "Paul:" "Roger!" "Please, roger." "This is not what you think it is." "You tell me it's all over between you and that woman." "A week later," "I find you here together." "It is all over." "I wrote to her, asking her to release me." "She came to england, sent for me, begged me not to desert her in her loneliness." "What was I to do?" "So you intend to marry her after all?" "No." "Don't you understand?" "I am trying to separate myself from her honorably." "You go about it in a very strange way, bringing her to a seaside hotel as if she were a-- has she no regard for her character?" "Have you?" "Perhaps these things don't matter anymore." "What do I know about the way people live now?" "Roger, I can't simply abandon her until she accepts that is over between us." "Meanwhile you offer yourself as a lover to a pure, innocent girl like hetta carbury." "Have you told hetta about this woman and your relations with her?" "No." "No, I thought not." "Do you think she'll be happy to be dragged into this-- this mess that you have made for yourself?" "You think so little of me." "Are you so proud of your own dealings with hetta?" "What do you mean by that?" "You think of her and speak of her as a child, roger." "All your intercourse with her has been as a grown man with a child, and now you offer yourself to her as a lover." "How could she regard your advances to her with anything but-- but embarrassment and disgust?" "!" "That's what I mean." "I don't see how our friendship can survive this, paul." "Just think-- he'll just be on his way to the station now." "In a few hours, we'll be together." "And papa knows nothing about it." "Shh!" "Man:" "I've got to win back some money." "Man 2:" "Five." "Five's the bet." "He's got you fair and square, me boy." "Never mind that." "The class horse will always win in the end." "I say, felix-- didn't you say you had a train to catch?" "Never mind the damn train." "One more hand, eh?" "Still be in time." "What for?" "Oh, didn't you know?" "He's eloping with marie melmotte-- sailing to new york with her." "Is he, by god?" "I thought she was supposed to be marrying me." "Look here, you fellows-- this is all supposed to be secret." "I take it you're game to play on, grendall?" "Absolutely." "Deal, then." "( Train whistle blows ) come and watch the sun go down with me." "I came to tell you i'm leaving." "Obeying your friend's instructions, no doubt." "No." "I shouldn't ever have come here." "I should never have agreed to it." "And you blame me for that?" "No, I blame myself." "So you should." "Not for comin' away with me, but for lookin' at another woman while you were bound to me." "When will you accept that this is over between us!" "It is not over between us!" "Don't you understand?" "I say when it is over-- not you." "And if I defy you?" "Then you should fear for the consequences." "Don't think that I'd hesitate to do in england what I did in oregon." "I still have my pistols and a steady hand." "You don't mean that, winifred." "Why not?" "What have I got left to lose?" "But why should it come to that?" "Paul, you know better than anyone how I can love as well as hate, don't you?" "How could I forget that?" "All you know of love you learned from me." "Do you think it will be easy to find that kind of lovin' with another?" "Listen... stay with me this one night." "But-- no, listen to me-- stay with me this one night-- perhaps our last together-- then go to mexico and start your work there." "And while you are there, consider which woman would you want by your side in that fierce, rough country." "And if you truly believe your little english rose would blossom there, then come back and tell me, and I'll let you go." "Do you promise that?" "I promise." "Now kiss me." "Ooh... best give it up, felix." "One more hand." "You've got nothing to play with, you fool." "I've taken enough of your damned I.O.U.S in this club, grendall, and you can take some of mine." "He's got a point there." "All right." "No... dolly deal." "Damned impertinence." "Five cards." "No changes." "Best show." "Ten thousand." "( All gasp ) are you man enough for that, grendall?" "I am if you are, carbury." "Felix, better to live to fight another day-- deal, damn you!" "Two pairs." "Kings, threes." "Ha ha!" "Beat that." "Ooh!" "That'll be ten thousand." "Anytime convenient, carbury." "You damn cheat." "He had the ace of spades in his sleeve." "I saw him." "Now, now, carbury, it's damn bad form accusing another man of cheating." "A chap should take his losses like a man." "No, I saw him." "You all saw him!" "Dolly?" "Felix, you're embarrassing everyone." "Take it back, there's a good fellow." "But he did-- it's not fair!" "Repeat one word of that, carbury, and I'll have satisfaction from you." "You can name your time and your place, and I'll shoot you through the heart-- by god, I will!" "( All murmuring ) bloody miles grendall... grendall... my money... ohh!" "Vossner:" "Are you all right, sir felix?" "Uh, yes," "I'm perfectly all right." "Just need a breath of air, that's all." "Get you a cab to the station, sir felix?" "Oh, well, that-- no, no." "No, that's-- that's, uh, that's all nonsense." "That's all a dream." "I'm going home to bed." "Good idea, sir." "Wish some of the other young gentlemen had as much sense as you." "Oh." "Thank you, vossner." "Thank you." "Appreciate that." "Good night." "( Clock chimes ) now, best to speak only in french." "And say nothing about the steamboat until we are in the cab." "Ohh!" "Ooh!" "Didon:" "Let me take the case." "Constable:" "Miss melmotte," "I believe." "No, no, no" "( speaking french ) oui." "I'm sorry, miss, but I must persist in asserting that this lady is miss melmotte." "And you, I take it, are elise didon, her servant." "I think you'd both better make up your minds to accompany me back to london." "I won't!" "Why should I go anywhere with you?" "Who are you?" "I'm inspector brown of the liverpool constabulary, and if I were you," "I'd come quietly." "There's a small matter of a stolen check, miss." "You don't want to be arrested and charged, now, do you?" "Oh, didon." "Nous sommes perdues." "Pas moi." "You have no charge against me, I think, sir." "Well, no, miss." "Then let me pass." "Courage, ma chere." "I will tell sir felix what has happened, and he will send for you." "Au revoir, ma petite." "Adieu." "Didon!" "She's got my jewels!" "It's not my fault, anyway." "The fates against me." "Marie will understand" "I don't care if she don'T." "Oh, mother," "I feel ill." "Hi, home again, home again, jiggity-jig." "Unh!" "No call for that." "Oh, dear." "Mother!" "Mother, let me in!" "Mother!" "Felix!" "Why aren't you in liverpool?" "It's all gone wrong, mother." "Oh, your poor face!" "What happened to you, darling?" "Oh, my head!" "So this is your game, is it?" "Here I am, organizing a dinner for the emperor of china, preparing to stand for parliament, and my own daughter steals my money and runs away with it!" "You made me do it!" "Oh, did I?" "I'll be damned if I don't prosecute that young cub carbury." "And what good would that do you?" "Why can't you let me have the man I love?" "What good is all the money in the world if I can't have what I like!" "What's the good of money?" "!" "You wouldn't say that if you were picking rags in the gutters of frankfurt!" "What do you know about it?" "!" "Ow!" "That hurts!" "I've been very good to you!" "You've had your share of everything that's going." "Carriages, horses, bracelets, brooches, and I don't know what else." "You are an ungrateful little minx!" "I never asked for any of those things." "I don't care a straw for bracelets and brooches!" "So what do you care for, huh?" "Someone to love me!" "That's all." "That fop doesn't love you!" "He doesn't even love your money enough to get himself to liverpool!" "So from now on, you will do as I say." "You will marry lord niddderdale." "I know better than you what's good for you!" "Marry him, and you'll have a position in the world that nothing can take from you." "I don't care about that!" "I love felix and he loves me, and I'll never marry lord nidderdale!" "And you can shake me and beat me all you like!" "You can chop me up into little bits if you like!" "You won't change my mind-- not one little bit!" "You little... you little jade!" "Well?" "!" "( Snoring ) marie:" "Nothing venture, nothing have." "Felix:" "Yes, but we might venture everything and end up with nothing." "You'll have me." "( Gasping ) hetta, what are you doing?" "Nothing, mother." "Nothing?" "With your brother nearly at death's door?" "He's not as bad as all that, surely." "See for yourself." "No, no, mother, please, don't!" "No, mother!" "Aah!" "You see?" "Your poor brother, beaten nearly to death by six ruffians!" "I believe there were eight, in point of fact." "Mother," "I think perhaps i could take a little brandy and water now." "What shall we do?" "What shall we do?" "All our plans have come to waste." "We are ruined." "And you're precious little comfort to me." "Oh, I wish i'd been childless." "Mother, how can you say that?" "If you please, m'lady, mr." "Broune is waiting downstairs." "Oh, thank god for mr." "Broune." "Six ruffians, were there?" "Six or eight." "Great, rough brutes." "Six or eight bottles is probably nearer the mark, isn't it, felix?" "Lady carbury:" "Is there any chance that his attackers will be apprehended?" "Attackers?" "The story I heard- -was that your son and marie melmotte stole a check for 250 pounds from the girl's father, and sir felix then went and lost the money in a game of cards at the beargarden club." "The girl was brought back from liverpool by the police, and melmotte is threatening criminal proceedings against sir felix." "Oh, mr." "Broune, what shall we do?" "The money must be repaid, and soon, to avoid criminal charges being brought." "But how can that be done?" "Felix has had every penny from me." "I have nothing left." "This elopement was to be our passport out of poverty." "Let me go and talk to melmotte." "See if anything can be done." "Mr. Broune, would you?" "250 pounds." "Well, well." "You're a fool if you think you're going to get it back from that young scoundrel." "I tend to agree, mr." "Melmotte, but I happen to hold his mother in a very high degree of respect, and, I may say, affection." "Oh, so that's it, is it?" "Well, then, she's a very lucky woman." "Ha ha ha!" "Tell me, mr." "Broune." "You don't think i'm a bad sort of chap, do you?" "Melmotte and company have put a great deal of money in people's pockets." "That is, if the value of the railway shares continues to rise." "There's no reason why it shouldn't, is there?" "None that I know of, mr." "Melmotte." "Well, then-- it would do no harm for you to say something of the kind in your newspaper, mr." "Broune." "You may have heard that I'm standing for parliament in the westminster constituency." "Very public-spirited of you, mr." "Melmotte." "That's just what i think myself." "But your colleague, mr." "Alf, don't seem to think so." "With his little hints and insinuations in that rag of a paper he edits." ""The evening pulpit"-- well... that's what I think of his paper... and that's what i think of him!" "I hear he intends to stand for parliament against me." "I trust you wouldn't be lending your support to such a carping little guttersnipe as that." "Look here, mr." "Broune-- 250 pounds is neither here nor there to a man like me." "Why don't I convert it into railway shares, hmm?" "A generous man like you deserves to share in the general prosperity of our great enterprise." "I'm not at all sure that would be proper." "This is strictly between ourselves." "In fact, you can forget all about it if you like." "You just leave it to me, and if you should come into a little nest egg later on, who should deserve it better?" "On second thoughts," "I don't think it would be proper at all." "Mr. Broune-- good afternoon." "I'd like to continue further with you, but I've got a canadian delegation waiting." "And then there's the chinese." "Croll!" "Mr. Broune is just going." "Mr. Broune." "Good afternoon." "A pleasure to see you in the city, sir, at any time, sir." "Uh, thank you, sir." "One moment please, gentlemen." "Thank you." "What?" "Hmm?" "What?" "It can't be done, mr." "Melmotte." "( Exasperated ) what can't be done?" "Best forget all this about parliament." "Best take the profit and move on-- like we always do." "Not this time, croll." "This time I am setting down roots." "I'm going to be an english gentleman, and no one can touch me then!" "Haven't I bought pickering park off old longestaffe?" "You haven't paid for it." "We don't have to pay for things, croll!" "Leave that to the little man." "Let him have a few more shares, he's not going to make a fuss-- he wants to keep the price up, same as everyone." "It can't last, mr." "Melmotte!" "It can last, croll." "And it will last, because everybody wants it to, and everybody has a share!" "You've let that boy go to mexico." "He'll come back and say there isn't any railway." "And who's going to believe him?" "Ha ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha ha ha!" "Croll, the emperor of china is coming to dinner at my house!" "Hmm?" "Ha ha ha ha!" "( Both laughing ) now, who's waiting outside?" "The canadians, isn't it?" "Ha ha ha ha!" "Send them in!" "Let them all come." "Ha ha ha!" "Mr. Montague!" "Miss carbury." "I got your note." "I wanted to see you before you went away." "Why didn't you come to welback street?" "I didn't think-- do you think i don't care about you?" "I do care about you." "( Whistle blows ) get in, you'll miss it." "Think of me." "Wait for me, hetta." "Marie:" ""Dearest, darling felix" ""I hope you are thinking of me, as I am of you." ""They say you have deserted me, but I won't believe it" ""until I hear it from your own lips." ""Papa keeps me here like a prisoner." ""I don't even know how I can send you this note" ""now didon is gone." ""Papa is at me again to marry lord nidderdale," ""but I never will-- nor anyone else," ""so long as I know you still love me," ""as I love you and kiss you a hundred times." "Your own marie."" "Do you like mr." "Brehgert very much, georgiana?" "He's all right," "I suppose." "I think he looks kind... but not handsome." "My felix is very handsome." "He's beautiful." "His skin is so soft, and he smells so sweet." "I could spend all day kissing him all over." "Really, marie, that is more than I should wish to know about your feelings for sir felix carbury." "Do you think you will be married to mr." "Brehgert?" "I don't know." "He wants to marry you, doesn't he?" "Yes, he does." "And he would be able to offer me every comfort." "But could you love him?" "I think I could... like him." "I certainly wouldn't care to kiss him all over." "But I'm sure that would not be required." "There is another consideration." "I hesitate to mention it in your mother's presence... but mr." "Brehgert is jewish." "He makes no effort to conceal it-- he speaks of it openly, without shame!" "Why should it be something a person should be ashamed of?" "It does seem rather hard, but there it is." "Mr. Brehgert says all that is changing now." "And indeed," "I think it may be." "So perhaps after all the world is changing for the better." "So very hard to know what to do for the best." "But I must be married." "( Sighs ) you chose not to be introduced to me at lowestaffe-- but now you seek me out." "I wonder why?" "I must have seemed discourteous at lowestotte." "Please believe," "I only sought to avoid causing more embarrassment and distress." "To yourself, or to me?" "No matter." "Why are you here now?" "I'm here on behalf of my cousin, miss henrietta carbury." "She has sent you here?" "No." "No, she knows nothing of my visit." "Indeed, she knows nothing of your existence." "So...you haven't told her." "Mrs. Hurtle, paul montague has told me that he is in love with my cousin, and that he wants to marry her." "He has also told me that his association with you is a thing of the past." "Can you confirm that?" "Why should I tell you anything about myself?" "I assure you, I have no desire to pry into your life." "My only interest is in my cousin's happiness." "And your own, perhaps?" "If you can tell me that there is no longer anything between you and mr." "Montague, then there is, perhaps, no need for my cousin to know of your past involvement with him." "Or even of your existence." "I see." "So... can you give me that confirmation?" "No, I can'T." "I won'T." "Paul montague has shared my bed." "Oh-- does that shock you?" "I beg your pardon." "Yes, he has shared my bed." "And now I have let him go to mexico and told him to make up his mind which of us he wanted." "And if he chooses miss carbury, there will be a heavy price to pay." "I don't need a champion to protect my honor, mr." "Carbury." "I can do that for myself." "I won't let him jilt me, mr." "Carbury-- and he knows it." "So... why don't you go and tell miss carbury just as I told you." "You'll be doing your duty, and doing yourself a bit of good." "We have a common interest, don't we?" "Yes." "And it is because of that interest that I can't tell her." "It would be dishonorable to take such an advantage." "God!" "You english gentlemen." "Well, maybe I'll write to her and tell her myself-- would that let you off the hook?" "I think you had better not." "But I can't advise you what to do." "No, you can'T." "Good day, mr." "Carbury." "Ruby:" "Come with me my sweet young thing and I'll give you my golden ring la la la la... oh, lord... squire carbury." "There's 50 brace of pheasant, 100 chickens--yes, good." "25 swans?" "You think that's enough swans?" "You can't eat swans, man." "Swans belong to the queen." "Well, then, how about peacocks?" "I'll inquire, sir." "Mr. Melmotte-- what sort of meat do you think they eat in china?" "No matter." "The emperor can make do with good old english beef, eh, longestaffe?" "Yes, yes." "Mr. Melmotte, we haven't got all day." "A thousand apologies, gentlemen, but this is a very busy time for me." "What's this, croll?" "Election expenses, mr." "Melmotte." "You don't say." "What it costs to buy a seat in parliament, you might as well buy the palace of westminster outright, at this rate." "Well, there you are." "Anything to keep the voters happy, eh?" "Now, gentlemen... so this is it... pickering park." "My little place in the country." "Uh, not yet, old chap." "We haven't seen your money yet." "I'm not sure you will, young man." "Madame thinks it would be very cold and drafty, and I'm inclined to agree with her." "Now, my people have had a look over it." "You've let it get into a shocking state, longestaffe, you ought to be ashamed of yourself." "Now, look here, sir!" "Ah, but the situation is good." "No, the situation is very good." "I'll tell you what i have in mind." "I think the best thing... would be to pull it down and build new." "Build a proper place, eh?" "When you have completed the purchase, you will be free to do what you like." "Until then," "I must request that you return the title deeds." "You borrowed them only to peruse them." "You're not backing out, are you?" "No, no!" "But it's most irregular." "Good!" "Yes, we'll knock it down and build new, no half measures." "An english gentleman must have a decent country place, and this will be mine!" "If you'll excuse me," "I have many pressing matters of business." "Croll!" "Croll:" "Yeah, coming, mr." "Melmotte." "Excuse me, gentlemen." "Aah." "Courage, mon brave." "Man:" "There's carbury." "Felix:" "Morning." "Man:" "The audacity of the fellow!" "How can he show his face?" "Ah, sir felix, sir." "Morning, vossner." "Yes, I'm mucu ask." "Take it you've come to remove your belongings, sir." "Yes, yes, all in good time." "Who's up in the card room?" "Can't go up there, sir." "What the devil do you mean?" "Get out of my way." "Hey, dolly." "Ah, mr." "Longestaffe." "Could you... look, old chap." "I'm afraid you can't go up." "Why the devil not?" "Well, the thing is, you've been blackballed." "That unfortunate business with grendall." "He was the one that was cheating, not me!" "Why isn't he blackballed?" "!" "I say, vossner-- thought this was supposed to be a member's club." "You damn scoundrel-- come back here!" "I say, dolly," "I'm not standing for this!" "Felix, this is dashed embarrassing." "Before you leave, sir felix, message for you." "No hard feelings, sir?" "No hard feelings?" "I'll see you damned, vossner." "Very good, sir." "Dolly:" "Dashed embarrassing, the whole thing." "Now, listen, felix." "The thing is," "I shall have to cut you now, or I shall be blackballed, too." "But you're my oldest friend-- what am I going to do?" "Leave england." "Continent." "Dieppe." "Ostend." "Boulogne." "You'll take to it like a duck to water." "Lie low for a bit, come back later." "Yes, but who am i going to go with?" "How can I pay my fare?" "Sorry, old boy." "I've got to go in now." "No hard feelings." "Oh, lord!" "Is there one person left in the whole world who still cares for me?" "( Piano plays dance music )" "( sighs )" "I've missed you so much." "I thought you didn't want to see me anymore." "I was only angry 'cause you said you wouldn't marry me." "You didn't mean that, did you?" "No." "No, no, no." "Mrs. Pipkin thinks you lead me astray." "But I said you're not like that." "You're an honorable gentleman." "Quite right." "Look here, ruby-- how would you like to go abroad?" "Calais, boulogne-- paris, even." "Oh, felix, you darling-- when can we go?" "Not just yet-- all my cash is tied up at the moment." "A chap called melmotte's got some of it, and a chap called grendall's got the rest." "You get it back from 'em as quick as you can." "Squire carbury's gonna tell grandfather and john crumb where I am." "And john'll be after you, he will." "If he thinks you've been taking advantage of me." "And you have, haven't you?" "Ruby, we'll be off to paris just as soon as I can raise the spondulicks." "Shall we be married there?" "Well, yes--yes!" "In time, y'know." "Oh, felix!" "I do love you!" "Look here, ruby, it's an awful crowd here-- how about a little private supper, just the two of us?" "I'll arrange a room, shall I?" "Oh, I don't know." "Well, we are engaged, aren't we?" "All right." "Go on, then." "( Ruby giggling ) roger:" "Well, I found her, john." "She's living with her aunt, mrs." "Pipkin, at islington." "And is she comin' home?" "I think you'll have to ask her that yourself." "Women are strange, mr." "Carbury." "They can be very contrary." "They can be deceived by appearances." "But we must believe they will see what is right for them in the end." "The thing is, she want to better herself-- but she could better herself with me, mr." "Carbury." "The ness has been in' ev so o ll.." "she could have a big house on the hi if she wand it." "Tell her, john-- not me." "That's what I'll do." ""Dear paul" ""your letter gave me great joy." ""I think of you often in mexico," ""and wish I were there, too," ""exploring that wild, open country." ""Do please write again soon." ""I know how busy you must be," ""but I long to know about the work you are doing and to hear news about the railway...."" "paul: "Montague to fisker." ""The survey is finally underway." ""I am ordering equipment for blasting and tunneling," ""and preparing to enlist the workforce." ""As payments have still not come through," ""I am paying men out of my own pocket." ""This cannot continue," ""and I have demanded melmotte expedite funds" ""with all speed." ""This is a great country." ""This is great work we do, and history will thank us for it."" "Another telegram from mr." "Montague." "You'd better send him some money." "It's time that young man grew up." "There's more to this world than his little railway." "I'm going to make a little speech tonight when the emperor of china comes to dinner." "They're all going to be sitting at my table, croll." "All of the society snobs, all the lords and bishops, all the chairmen and presidents of this and that, all the foreign delegations-- and the prime minister." "I think I'll set them straight about the way the world works, croll." "Man:" "Your imperial celestial majesty... your grace... my lords, ladies and gentlemen-- dinner is served!" "( Gong sounds )" "( guest belches )" "( silverware rattles ) your imperial celestial majesty." "Your grace." "My lords, ladies...and gentlemen." "I hope you've all had sufficient, no one's gone hungry or thirsty?" "( Laughter ) these are great times, and I am proud to be an englishman in these great times." "( Applause ) the mexican railway is a great enterprise, and the profits will fund even greater ones." "Harvesting all the tea in china-- we're going great guns with his celestial majesty on that one." "Opening up the vast russian steppes, bringing civilization to the distant corners of the world." "And what is the engine of this great work?" "Profit-- not charity." "( Laughter and applause ) gentlemen-- it is your duty to make yourselves rich." "That is the way to make the world a better place." "Increase your holdings, buy shares, invest, invest, and... invest again." "And it will be returned to you a hundred fold." "Marquis:" "This is our other chance, boy." "Get a move on." "Ah, miss melmotte." "What do you want now, lord nidderdale?" "Why, to talk to you, you know, and...so on." "Lady julia:" "No, I won't go over" "I can'T." "Didn't she get the tickets for us?" "Yes, but one can't possibly speak to her while she's with that man." "Todd, brehgert and goldsheiner is one of the most respected firms in the city!" "He's a jew, damask." "They're all jews." "But todd's one of us, surely." "Don't quibble." "One can't know him-- it's impossible." "And she knows it as well as I do." "I don't think she's coming over, my dear." "No, I don't think she is." "Don't be distressed." "It takes some people a little time." "Have you spoken to your father yet?" "Not yet." "He's a little old-fashioned," "I'm afraid." "Well, I respect that." "I didn't realize before what a clever, plucky girl you are." "I thought it was a spiffing thing you did, running away like that." "I think you're awfully jolly." "I do, truly." "And I'd be truer to you than that fellow who wouldn't take the trouble to go to liverpool with you." "No--don't speak of him like that." "It won't do you any good." "I love him better than anyone in the world." "And I'll never love you." "Miss carbury." "It was good of you to come." "And lady carbury." "Very good of your father to invite us." "Very gracious of him to bear no hard feelings." "Can I speak to you alone?" "Yes, of course." "What is it?" "Why didn't he come to liverpool-- do you know?" "Well-- doesn't he love me anymore?" "I'm afraid my brother isn't really to be relied upon." "Don't say that." "Everyone says that, and I love him so much." "Will you give him this note, and bring me his reply?" "And tell him i still have my own money." "Of course I will." "I think he's very lucky to have someone who cares so much for him." "I'll do my best with him, miss melmotte." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Behgert:" "If we show a little courage and name an early date for our marriage-- oh!" "I think it's too soon to speak of that, mr." "Brehgert." "I'm sorry if I am over-eager." "You see, I have known the joys and comforts that a happy marriage brings." "And meeting you has brought a great change in my life." "You have given me new hope, new energy." "I believe that i am a new man, thanks to you, my dearest georgiana." "And what does the rest of it matter?" "You're very eloquent this evening, mr." "Brehgert." "Come, then-- let's say september." "Then we can have a holiday in austria-- in vienna." "I think you would love vienna." "I think you would be very happy there." "Longstaffe:" "So this is what comes of letting her come to london and live with the melmottes." "I've been getting a frightful ragging from the chaps at the club about it." "I've a damn good mind to horsewhip the pair of 'em-- and melmotte, too." "Steady on, pa." "The thing is, we rather depend on melmotte." "Shares and so on." "What?" "I'd-- no, I suppose not." "But really!" "Parading herself in public!" "I won't make a show here, dolly." "She'll get a piece of my mind before long." "Cheer up, your celestial majesty." "Whatever goes wrong for you after this, you can always say to yourself," ""I was at melmotte's great dinner," eh?" "( Fireworks exploding ) violets, sir?" "Ah, miss ruggles at home?" "Yes, sir, she is." "There's another lady here would like a word with you." "Hello, ruby." "Mrs. Hurtle and me wants to know what you think you're up to, sir felix." "It wasn't my idea-- shush, girl." "Ruby's my niece, and she's a good girl." "And you've been leading her astray." "And it's not right, and it's not fair." "I say, now, just look here-- but perhaps your intentions are honorable, sir felix." "Well, yes, dash it all-- naturally, of course they are." "Then you mean to marry ruby?" "Well, yes, I suppose i might as well, someday." "Would that be before or after you take her to the continent?" "Oh." "Well, I suppose you'd know all about that sort of thing." "Perhaps I do." "And perhaps that's why i take an interest in ruby." "We women have to stick together, you know." "Mrs. Pipkin and I think that your little fling is all flung out, sir felix." "So--you will not be seeing her again until after you've made the announcement of your engagement in the times." "Ruby:" "I'm sorry, felix, but it's only what you've promised all along." "You damned, interfering-- just so, sir felix." "And you'll remember an engagement is binding on the gentleman, won't you?" "I'm sure we'll all look forward to reading the announcement." "I say, look here, ruby-- everything and everyone has just turned against me!" "I mean, it's not jolly well fair!" "Let him go, ruby." "He'll be back, one way or the other." "Hetta:" "Ah, felix." "Now what?" "More bad news?" "Better news than you deserve." "Ohh... well, what am I supposed to do about it all?" "Marie melmotte loves you very much, goodness knows why." "She still wants to marry you, even though you let her down." "What's the point?" "It's all no use now." "She's giving you another chance, felix." "It's all no go, hetta." "A man can't marry a girl when all the policemen in the country are badgering her." "If you had an ounce of courage, you would." "She's of age, she has her own money-- if you really cared, you could." "Well, I don't really care, all right?" "Now, will you leave me alone?" "You told that girl you loved her more than anyone in the world, and she believed you." "A fellow has to say that sort of thing-- more fool her for believing it." "Can't you imagine what she must be feeling now?" "Haven't you any heart at all?" "It's not my fault!" "You all put me up to marry her, and just because it didn't go off all serene," "I get nothing but reproaches." "I never cared for her." "So am I to tell her that you've giving her up?" "Just as you like." "Don't care." "Oh, thank god all men aren't like you." "I think you'll find a lot of them are." "Your precious paul montague, for one." "Fisker." "Fisker:" "Listen, paul, uh, this is the way the land lies, all right?" "I have enough to pay them until the end of this week." "And then, uh, that's it." "Finish." "What are you saying?" "There's no more money." "I mean, not for the railway-- leastway, not for the present." "What's happened?" "Has the share price collapsed?" "No." "My god, the shares have gone through the roof." "It's just that the, uh... it's that the money is needed elsewhere just now." "What the hell is this about, fisker?" "!" "Are we building a railway or not?" "!" "I didn't go into this to get melmotte into parliament!" "Mr. Melmotte appreciates what you're doing." "And I--I appreciate it, too." "And rest assured, you are gonna be well taken care of, paul, you're gonna be a rich man when we sell out." "I don't want to sell out," "I want to build this railway!" "I know you do." "And we will one day." "But just-- just not today." "And not tomorrow, either." "You know, melmotte, he's a genius... how shall I put it-- he's just not a railway-minded type of fella." "He's a damn scoundrel, and so are you." "Hey!" "Hold steady, partner." "You and I have been through a lot together." "I'm not about to desert you now, and there is a good side to all of this." "Go along with it, and you and I will come out clear millionaires." "We're all set to start up another company--of our own." "There's more than one way to skin a cat, you should know that by now." "So what you're saying is that this whole enterprise has been set up as a gigantic fraud." "And you want me to go along with it." "Well, I won'T." "What are you gonna do?" "Are you gonna bring this whole thing down around our ears?" "Is that it?" "That's exactly what I'm going to do." "Brehgert:" "The bank of todd, brehgert and goldsheiner to advance a sum of 750,000 pounds at 7% per annum to a new company, the melmotte submarine cable company, the security being an equivalent sum in mexican railway shares," "at present valued 4 pounds, 10 shillings." "You understand, of course, that in the event of the railway shares declining in value, we should ask for other security, or even call in the loan." "That's perfectly all right." "In any case, they're not going to fall, are they?" "You think the railway's all right, don't you?" "I wouldn't be risking the bank's money if I didn'T." "But it is my duty to point out the conditions of the loan, you understand." "Of course." "Croll." "Come on, get on with it, croll." "Take a glass of brandy with me, mr." "Brehgert?" "No, not for me, thank you." "Not now, I-- ah, yes, of course." "Mr. Longestaffe, eh?" "Come." "I shall walk with you." "The happy event soon?" "I hope so." "A perfect match." "I never saw a women so more in love." "Ah, no." "Ha ha." "You flatter me." "I think she likes me well enough, and I have love enough for the two of us." "And money, eh?" "Ha ha ha!" "Well, this is the real world we live in." "I think we can make each other happy." "Who's this, now?" "Do we know you?" "I am hetta carbury, mr." "Melmotte." "I am here to see your daughter." "Oh, yes, I know you." "You're that young rogue's sister, aren't you?" "You come to plot another elopement, eh?" "No, sir." "I didn't think they'd try that game twice." "Well, come on." "Young lady for miss melmotte... young gentleman for miss longestaffe." "You came." "You are so good." "I knew you'd keep your word." "( Clock chimes )" "( labored breathing ) tell me the truth now-- whatever it is." "Has he given me up?" "Yes." "I'm afraid he has." "What is it?" "Has he lost his courage?" "I don't think he has much of that, has he?" "But I have enough for two--tell him that." "I am ready to try again, if he will." "Miss melmotte," "I don't mean to be cruel, but you asked me for the truth." "( Tearfully ) yes." "Say it out." "He told me to tell you that-- he doesn't care for you." "That he never cared for you." "I'm so sorry." "He never cared for me?" "Then why did he tell lies about it?" "What a brute he must be-- what a wretch." "Why should he break my heart like that?" "I hate to say this about my own brother, but he isn't worth breaking your heart over." "He was never worthy of you." "He wanted my money." "That was all." "And all the rest was lies." "What brutes men are." "I think you should forget about him, marie." "Forget about him?" "!" "How shall I do that?" "I must think of him, but I'll hate him-- tell him that!" "Tell him I said he's a false-hearted liar and I trample him under my foot like that!" "I despise him!" "Despise him!" "They are all bad, but he's the worst of all." "Papa beats me, but I can bear that." "Mama reviles me, and I can bear that." "And he could have beaten and reviled me and I'd have borne it, if only he'd love me." "Well, that's all done." "( Sobbing )" "I'll marry nidderdale or anyone they say, and I'll make his life a misery, whoever he is." "I'll laugh at him and take as many lovers as I please, laugh in his face about it!" "But I will never truly love anyone!" "No, I'm sure that you will." "Not all men are like my brother." "Do you love someone?" "Yes, I do." "And does he tell you the truth?" "Well, I think-- no, I'm sure he does." "I was sure of felix." "I shan't ever fall in love again." "Your brother has ended all of that." "Did he really say he never cared for me?" "Well, tell him i hate him and despise him till my dying day." "And I wish he were dead." "Butler:" "Mr. Adolphus longestaffe and mr." "Adolphus longestaffe." "Dommage, monsieur." "My husband is not here." "No, madam, but please, don't disturb yourself." "I am here to see my daughter." "Oh." "Papa." "Dolly." "I wish you had told me you were coming." "I could have introduced you to mr." "Brehgert--he's just left." "Brehgert?" "Papa, I wrote to mama this morning, and mr." "Brehgert was to come to you." "Come to me?" "Why should he come to me?" "Papa, mr." "Brehgert and i are engaged to be married." "You mean to tell me you've engaged yourself to a jew?" "Mr. Brehgert is a very well-respected banker, papa." "And a very wealthy gentleman." "He is a regular visitor to this house, and has made himself most agreeable." "I knew I should never have let you come to melmotte." "You are pleased to do business with him yourself!" "Business is one thing, but this?" "Are you out of your mind?" "!" "Apart from anything else, he's nearly as old as I am." "He is 50, father." "And you've written to your mother?" "I have." "It'll kill her." "Now, listen to me-- you'll go home to caversham and you'll stay there, and you'll not see that man again." "Father, I am of age." "I can make my own decisions." "If you persist in this, that's the last you'll see of your mother and me." "And me, georgie." "It's not on." "Heaven and earth, you of all people, that used to take such a pride in yourself!" "I'll take you down to caversham myself tomorrow." "You'd better leave this house today and come to my hotel in jermyn street." "I won't do it, papa." "You can and you shall!" "Now go and pack your things this minute!" "Papa, I shall be very sorry never to see you and mama again, but if that is the condition you make, so be it." "I have engaged myself to mr." "Brehgert, and I intend to go through with it." "I should have thought you would be glad to get me off your hands." "Mr. Brehgert cares for me." "As his wife, I shall never want for anything material." "He is not as i should have chosen... but beggars can't be choosers." "At least I shan't be withering away at caversham." "Damn you, girl!" "Do as I say!" "No, father." "I should rather be buried alive!" "You will take your daughter away with you now, monsieur?" "No." "Because she refuses to go with me." "Ohh... dommage." "Telegram from mr." "Fisker." "It didn't work, mr." "Melmotte." "Mr. Montague is coming back, and he's got his rats up." "I should think fisker would have had the nous to handle a fellow like montague." "Oh, well, no matter-- what can he do?" "What can he do?" "He can bring down the company." "And ruin himself in the process?" "I don't think so." "I say we should be thinking about shutting up shop." "Shut up shop?" "Ha ha!" "No" "I'm not shutting up shop." "A day after tomorrow i shall be member of parliament for westminster." "I am indispensable to the nation's prosperity, and by the time young montague gets back to england," "I shall be a national treasure." "( Clock chimes ) ah... they're expecting me at the hustings." "Mr. Alf:" "There's a funny smell been wafting over london this last year." "I'll tell you what it is-- pie in the sky, that's what it is." "( Laughter ) mr." "Melmotte"s pie in the sky!" "And a lot of people believe that he's full of money." "You and I know honest men have to work for their money." "It don't come raining down out of the sky." "I believe there's nothing in mr." "Melmotte's pie but a lot of hot air!" "Is there really a railway in mexico?" "Nobody knows." "I mean, for certain, nobody's seen one." "But I did hear of a bank in vienna had to close down in a hurry because it couldn't pay its creditors." "Not long after that, it's pie in the sky in london." "My friends, do you want to be represented in parliament by a foreign speculator?" "Crowd:" "No!" "I stand for truth and honesty in parliament." "Do my opponent say the same?" "Electors of westminster-- the choice is before you." "Use your common sense-- give your vote to ferdinand alf!" "( Applause ) gentlemen." "If anyone has any accusations against me, let him give his evidence-- let him put up or shut up!" "Some men do things." "Other men stand by and carp and criticize." "Which kind of man would you like to see representing you in parliament?" "( Applause ) electors of westminter, the world is changing fast, and some of us understand it better than others." "We are entering a new age of communication and commerce." "We've had the ottoman empire and the austrian empire, and the british empire, but now there's going to be a new kind of empire!" "A vast empire of trade... that knows no boundaries or borders, no need for armies and navies and wars and conquests." "There will be riches for all!" "And you will all have a share in it!" "( Cheers and applause ) but... you need a special kind of man... a man who understands the way we live now, to lead you into that new world of peace and prosperity." "Well..." "I say to you-- comes the age... comes the man." "( Cheers and applause ) hetta:" "Mama is out at her publishers." "I didn't come here to see mama." "I know." "You look so well." "Was it exciting?" "It was all for nothing." "For nothing?" "Yes, the money's not there." "The man haven't been paid, the mexican railway is a sham." "What will you do?" "Challenge melmotte and... try and drag it all out into the open." "But in the short run, things may turn very bad for me." "If the company goes to the wall," "I shall be penniless." "For myself, that doesn't matter," "I can start again and work my way up, but it puts me in a pretty poor position to say what I wanted to say to you." "And what was that?" "Can't you guess?" "I am in love with you." "I have thought of you every day since" "I've thought of you, too." "I'm almost ashamed to say how many hours I've spent thinking of you." "I think I fell in love with you the first day I met you." "And I would love you just the same whether you were rich or poor." "Will you consent to be my wife?" "Yes, I will." "I will." "Everything quite satisfactory?" "Go away!" "You think that you can cast me off as easily as that?" "You set me free to choose." "I chose hetta." "Then you shall have to accept the consequences." "What will you do?" "I haven't decided, paul." "I may expose you for the blackguard that you are." "Perhaps I shall call on your little english rose and tell her what sort of a man she is marrying." "I might simply call you out and kill you, like I did that other man that betrayed me." "I never betrayed you." "But you see i'm suffering, paul." "And maybe I'd like to see you suffer, too." "I guess you'd like to see me be a graceful loser, like boys from one of your english public schools." "Aren't they taught to be graceful losers?" "But I'm not used to losing, and I don't care for it." "Then you must do as you see fit." "Yes." "That will be my consolation." "I still have feeling for you, paul, but take care." "I am your enemy now." "Roger:" "So-- how did you fare in mexico?" "Not so well as I had hoped." "I'll tell you all about it if you're still willing to hear it after you've heard my other news." "And what news is that?" "I have asked hetta to marry me... and she has consented." "I see." "We both hope that you will give us your blessing." "You want my blessing, you say--my blessing?" "I beg you--for her sake, if not mine." "How could you take her from me?" "I haven't taken her from you." "She loves us both in different ways." "She will always love you as a cousin and a friend." "Don't talk about her feelings as if you own them." "Then let me speak of my own feelings." "Yes, they must ride over everyone else'S." "Do you think no one else has any feelings but you?" "( Sighs ) what use is all this to me now?" "All my life I dreamed of her being here with me." "Bearing my children... why did it have to be her?" "It was her choice." "Not yours, not mine." "Will you at least accept that I meant no harm to you?" "Please, roger, will you at least shake hands with me?" "Please." "You have engaged yourself to paul montague without consulting me?" "!" "I love him, mama!" "Why can't you be happy for me?" "!" "How can I be happy for you?" "!" "What have you got to live on?" "You can bring nothing to the marriage, thanks to your brother's extravagance." "Perhaps mr." "Montague has come into a fortune?" "No, he may even be penniless." "But I don't care about that," "I don't want a society life!" "You silly girl!" "I am not a silly girl!" "Not anymore." "I'm a young woman now, mama." "I understand much more than you think I do." "I shall marry paul whether you approve or not, but I wish you could be happy for me and give me your blessing." "Felix:" "What's all this, mother?" "What's she want a blessing for?" "She's gone and got herself engaged to paul montague!" "Has she, by god?" "Well, she'd better unengage herself, then, as quick as she likes." "Why should I?" "Because I disapprove, that's why." "And as your elder brother and head of the family," "I forbid the match." "You, the head of the family?" "A waster like you?" "You think you have the right to disapprove of paul montague, who's a hundred times more worthy than you?" "Oh, a hundred times more worthy, is he?" "Yes, he is." "Well, I suppose you know he keeps a mistress in a house in islington?" "Felix-- american woman." "Name of mrs." "Hurtle." "Widow." "Very handsome." "He was supposed to be marrying her, but she couldn't get him up to the alter." "No doubt he was intending to keep her on after he'd married hetta." "I don't believe you." "It isn't true, it can't be." "Can't it?" "I'm told that your precious paul montague had her down at lowestaffe, living together as man and wife." "And that was just before he went off to mexico." "Now, you may not think much of me, but that's a bit rich for my blood, and I won't have my sister marrying a blackguard, so you'd better call if off, all right?" "!" "Mayor of westminster:" "As returning officer for the constituency of westminster," "I declare that the votes were cast as follows:" "Ferdinand alf, 10,167 votes." "Augustus john melmotte, 10,443." "I hereby declare that augustus john melmotte is elected member of parliament for the constituency of westminster." "Brown mp:" "The house will," "I am sure, agree with me that the entire english, er, glovemaking industry is in danger of extinction if these cheap imports continue from countries whose citizens have never even heard of income tax." "( Laughter ) and that it is our patriotic duty as englishmen to demand a levy on these imports." "( Loud murmuring ) no, no... no, no." "That's all wrong." "Mr. Brown here is a city man, and he ought to know that protectionism don't work." "It never has and it never will." "You cannot stop trade that way only a damn fool would try." "Mps:" "Take your hat off!" "( Chanting "off" )" "order!" "Order!" "( Continuous chanting "off" )" "speaker:" "Order!" "Order!" "Order!" "The honorable member is not yet aware that he should not call another member by his name, but allude to the honorable member for whitechapel." "All:" "Hear, hear!" "Order!" "Order!" "And when a member is speaking, he should remove his hat." "( Laughter ) order!" "Proceed, mr." "Melmotte." "Proceed." "( Laughter subsiding ) enough." "( Laughing and cheering ) well, I've had my say." "It's all wrong, and they ought to know better." "That's all." "Speaker:" "I call on the honorable member for grimsby." "( Booing ) this is a damned stupid place." "I don't know why i went through the trouble to get myself elected." "Speaker:" "Order!" "Ah!" "Mr. Montague!" "Always a pleasure to see you in the city." "Rather busy today, as you can see." "If you would just wait for a moment-- no, I wouldn'T." "I'll go in now." "You'll go in now." "Mr. Montague." "Back from mexico." "I gather the work went well then?" "It's a shame it had to be curtailed." "It had to be curtailed because the funds you promised never materialized." "That's only temporary." "This sort of thing is usual in large undertakings." "We've many outgoings, liquidity desirable for many eventualities." "Don't worry, mr." "Montague, you'll get your railway, by-and-by." "No." "I won't be put off like that again." "I believe you have been milking the company to fund a whole number of other schemes you've floated." "I also believe you've used the company's money to buy property for your own personal use and to fund your election expenses." "Oh, you do, do you?" "I'm going to have to make public everything I know." "You don't want to do that, you know." "You're a good sort of fellow, even though you've been a bit of a thorn in my side." "But we have got a lot in common, you and me." "We can see things the other fellow can'T." "And we both know it's not about money, it's about creating something great-- changing the world, eh?" "Doing something that we'll be remembered for." "Look... public confidence is the essence in these things." "And once you've got that... you can do anything." "Mmm?" "Including robbing your own company?" "That's not worthy of you, mr." "Montague." "I tell you what's in my heart, and you answer with cheap and petty accusations!" "Well, two can play at that game!" "Anymore along those lines, and you'll find yourself in court, young man, and in jail soon afterwards!" "I tried to help you!" "But if you want to ruin yourself, you-- you go ahead." "Harm the company!" "Augustus melmotte is big enough to weather the storm." "Croll... show the gentleman out." "I can find my own way." "Thank you for your trouble." "Good afternoon, mr." "Croll." "Always a pleasure to see you, sir." "( Door closes ) he'll do for us, mr." "Melmotte." "No, he won'T." "We weathered worse than this." "( Door closes ) allow me to wish you every happiness." "Don't say what you don't mean." "You think I would wish to see you unhappy?" "What's done is done." "I may not be going to marry paul montague after all." "I don't understand." "That is why i asked you to come." "Felix told me something about paul." "Something hateful." "He says that paul keeps a mistress." "An american woman, a mrs." "Hurtle." "Is it true?" "Feeling as I do about you, how can I be fair to him?" "Easily... just tell me the truth." "Very well." "Paul montague was involved with a mrs." "Hurtle in america." "I believe they were engaged to be married." "He has told me that that engagement is over." "It's true that she is in the country now." "And that they have seen each other." "More than that," "I cannot--I cannot say." "Our friendship is over, but I won't slander him." "I think you should ask him yourself." "Mr. Alf:" "Well, mr." "Montague, this is... just about what I suspected all along." "Though I never expected to be given the evidence by one of the directors of the company." "You will swear to it?" "You won't go back on your word?" "No, I shan'T." "Whatever the consequences." "There will be consequences." "Mr. Melmotte, he'll try and muzzle us with the law." "But we shall publish all the same, and it'll just about knock the city sideways." "Mr. Melmotte's pie shall fall right out of the sky." "I imagine you will got rid of most of your shares before the price starts falling?" "No." "It was never a consideration for me." "All I wanted to do was build a railway." "And that's still what I want to do." "I'll get one of my best men on this right away." ""No railway in mexico," eh?" ""Where did the money go?"" "Not bad." "You've set the cat among the pigeons here, mr." "Montague." "( Knocking ) lady carbury." "Sir felix." "Hetta-- before you say anything more, mr." "Montague, let me tell you that you are not welcome in this house and you are to have no future conversation with my daughter." "You may regard your engagement at an end." "I don't--I don't understand." "What's this all about?" "You know damn well, sir!" "It's about that mistress you keep in islington." "Hetta:" "Felix." "Mother." "I want to speak to mr." "Montague alone." "Is she your mistress, as felix says?" "No, she is not." "Are you engaged to her?" "I was engaged to her more than two years ago." "I swear to you it was all over between us before I met you." "Were you in love with her?" "I thought I was." "But it's all over now." "I love you." "Then what is she doing in england now?" "Why are you still seeing her?" "I thought I would never see her again." "I thought it was over for her as it was for me." "And so you took her to lowestoft?" "Yes, I did." "At her request-- it was for her health." "Have you seen her since then?" "Once only." "It is truly over, hetta." "You must believe this." "And you never said a word about her-- all the time you were making love to me." "Why should I believe you now?" "Because it's the truth." "I thought I could end it with her without you ever needing to find out about it." "I see now that was the wrong thing to do." "But hetta--hetta, you must acknowledge i have tried to do the honorable thing by both of you." "You loved her once and you abandoned her." "How do I know you won't abandon me?" "No." "I think you better go back to your mrs." "Hurtle and tell her that you're ready to honor your engagement to her." "Hetta, you don't mean that." "Why shouldn't I mean it?" "Because you love me-- no, don't touch me." "You have no right to talk to me about love." "I'd like you to leave now." "You're really throwing me over?" "As you did with her." "Good-bye... mr." "Montague." "So you've published the announcement for you and our ruby, have you?" "Yes." "That's it." "Or, rather, it will be in the paper next week." "When we've read it in black and white, you can see our ruby." "Till then you don'T." "Auntie!" "When he's come all this way?" "If I were you, miss pipkin," "I shouldn't take him at his word." "I found these english gentlemen to take their promises pretty lightly." "I say, don't take that tone with me!" "I know all about you, you know!" "You and that fellow montague." "That's no business of yours, sir felix." "Oh, isn't it?" "Well, I say it is." "I have my sister's honor to protect, you know." "Your sister's honor is perfectly safe, sir felix." "There is no longer anything between me and mr." "Montague." "Oh... oh, mrs." "Hurtle..." "I think you should go now, sir felix." "I'm sure you'll be very welcome when your engagement to ruby is made public." "Witness, the great carlini always escapes." "Good evening, ma'am." "Sorry to bother you so late." "I know who you are." "Mr. Crumb, the miller." "And you've come to see our ruby." "That's right, mrs." "Pipkin." "I am and I have." "( Booing and screaming ) they were ever so mean about you felix, saying I was a silly girl to believe you." "You will be publishing the announcement and marrying me, won't you?" "Yes, yes, by and by, of course, you know." "Yes, but when?" "I want to know." "I've got things to get ready." "I haven't even bought my wedding clothes yet." "Look here, I'm just about sick of this game." "I'm very fond of you and all that, but you never really thought i would be able to marry you, did you?" "But you promised." "Look!" "I've got to marry a rich girl." "What am I going to have to live on?" "We have a jolly time, don't we?" "If mrs." "Hurtle can have her fun, then so can we." "Stop being so silly and come upstairs like a good girl." "No, I will not!" "I'm going and I'm finished with you!" "I thought you loved me, but you've just been playing around with me." "I know a man worth ten of you!" "No!" "Let go!" "( Sobbing ) ruby!" "Ruby!" "Ruby!" "Leave me alone!" "Stop being such a damn silly girl!" "Yes!" "I know now that's what you thought me all the time." "It's over now, and you shan't see me ever again!" "All right, then, damn you!" "I'll give you something to remember me by!" "Get off me, you nasty thing!" "Shut your little mouth and open your legs!" "Help!" "Police!" "No!" "Stop!" "No!" "Police!" "Police!" "Is it ruby?" "I'm here, ruby!" "Oh, john... ( coughs )" "( breathing heavily ) now, you... all right... you blackguard... come on, then!" "You're the blackguard, mister." "Oh, john... ( felix groans )" "( coughs ) come on!" "Get up, you wiper!" "No thanks." "I've had sufficient." "No, you ain't!" "( Police whistle )" "john, don't kill him!" "Look after this young lady, officer." "She's very precious to me." "You can arrest me now if you like." "I done that... and I ain't sorry." "How many were there this time, felix?" "About six, mother." "Trapped me in a dark alley." "Well, darling, you shouldn't go down dark alleys at night." "No wonder you get attacked." "It was all for hetta's sake." "I saw her, hetta, montague's mistress." "She was very rude to me, as a matter of fact." "Told me to mind my own business." "I don't care what she said." "She can have paul montague, or not, as she chooses." "I shall never see him again." "Does that mean you'll marry your cousin roger after all?" "No, mother." "How very vexing that girl is!" "( Felix groans ) he's here." "Show him in, croll." "Ah, mr." "Alf... it's very good of you to come." "Please, take a seat." "Thank you." "Dare say you're surprised i sent for you." "Not entirely." "I imagine you're stepping down as member for westminster, and you've a statement to make for the press." "( Chuckling ) no, then you imagine wrong." "I won that election fair and square, and I'm not about to step down... for anyone." "I want you to call your dogs off." "( Chuckling ) call my dogs off?" "All this nonsense." "It's irresponsible." "Have you seen the share price this morning?" "Good men are jumping out of windows because of you." "Their widows and children are starving in the streets, thanks to you." "My paper reports the facts." "The fact is you undertook to build a railway, huh?" "And the fact is... you haven'T." "But the great fact is," "I will!" "If you had come to me, man to man," "I would've explained it all to you!" "It's all a question of timing, you see." "And between you and me, if you were to buy now, you'd see the share price go up again, and those chaps that panicked will be smiling on the other side of their faces." "( Chuckling )" "I don't think so." "And I think I should tell you i've sent a man to vienna, too." "Look here, ralph, you and I, we shouldn't be enemies." "We've both come up the hard way." "Always had to fight and struggle in this world." "Not like these princes, baronets, dukes, and what have you." "We've come from nothing, but made something of ourselves." "Now, I respect you for that, and you should respect me." "I don't care for privilege anymore than you do." "But I do care about honesty, justice, and truth!" "Yes!" "And so do I!" "But in this world, a man is obliged to cut a few corners now and then, just to get the job done for the good of others." "I've never found it necessary, sir." "Then you're either a liar or a fool." "I hope I'm neither." "I just use my newspaper to tell the truth as best I can, and I don't take kindly to being insulted, so I'll take my leave now." "You think you're the great shining sword of truth, do you?" "It's easy for the likes of you, alf, standing on the sidelines, watching while better men than you change the world and move mountains." "You might find the world to be a better place if you tried to something for the good of it." "That might be a fair criticism, mr." "Melmotte, if you did change the world and move mountains." "But from what I can see, the only thing you move is money from the pockets of other men into your own!" "Good day, mr." "Melmotte." "Croll:" "Good afternoon, sir." "Always a pleasure to see you in the city." "Croll:" "They want their money for pickering park, or they want the title deeds back." "And, um, mr." "Brehgert, he's very sorry, but he has to ask to see security for the new loan." "Already?" "Feeling a little tired, croll." "I think I shall go home early." "I should use the back way, sir." "I shall." "Just a little tired, that's all." "Just a little tired of keeping it all going for them all." "Little gratitude wouldn't come amiss now and then." "I'm grateful... mr." "Melmotte." "I know you are, croll." "I know you are." "Are we going to be all right, mr." "Melmotte?" "Certainly we are." "Certainly we are." "Marquis of auld reekie:" "Is it true?" "Is he really done for?" "Don't see how he can come back from it." "No, it's that fellow, alf, and his evening pulpit." "And that fellow, montague." "How much are the shares down?" "Fifty percent?" "Forty-two percent of the issue value." "Well, I hope it's not as bad as it sounds." "He still owes us eighteen thou on pickering park." "We haven't seen a penny yet." "Sold your shares yet, grendall?" "No, not I." "No, it's all talk." "I'm hanging on." "So should you." "Ha!" "There speaks a brave man." "( Sighs ) dear mrs." "Hurtle, mr." "Paul montague has referred me to you and, no doubt, he has spoken of me." "I shall be very grateful if you would allow me to call on you on any afternoon you choose." "Well... miss carbury." "Yes..." "I am glad that you came." "One imagines so many things, but... you are very much as he described you." "Do sit down, miss carbury." "So why did you come?" "Was it simply to triumph over me?" "No." "I want to know whether you-- you still consider yourself engaged to mr." "Montague." "What does he say?" "He says it is all over between you." "Does he?" "Then he lies." "He may wish it were all over between us, but it is not." "Even though he no longer feels for you what he once did?" "What do you presume to know about his feelings for me?" "Only what he tells me." "You have no business to pry into his feelings for me or mine for him!" "He loves me now." "What good can come of an engagement where love is gone?" "And what makes you think that our love is gone?" "If paul montague had no feelings for me, do you suppose he would have visited me here again and again!" "Here, in my private lodgings!" "Do you suppose he would have taken me, unaccompanied, to a seaside place and stayed with me in the same hotel?" "He told me that he took you there... at your request for the sake of your health." "Oh, yes, I imagine he would have put it like that." "You english have a gift for that kind of thing." "Did he... did he make love to you there?" "Do you think you have a right to ask me that?" "I don't know, but I do ask it." "Well... what do you think generally happens, miss carbury, between a man and a woman staying together as a couple in a seaside hotel?" "I hope you don't want me to go into details." "No." "Thank you, mrs." "Hurtle." "Thank you for seeing me." "That is all I wanted to know." "Good-bye." "( Reporters clamoring ) mr." "Brehgert, do you have any news about the mexican railway collapse?" "Will melmotte and co." "Be hammered, sir?" "I don't think it's come to that yet, gentlemen." "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Tell him to settle his grocery bills then!" "Damn it!" "This is a solid company, mr." "Brehgert, founded on rock." "It'S...solid as the bank of england." "We shall wipe the grins off their faces, mr." "Brehgert." "I'm very glad to hear that, mr." "Melmotte." "Even so, though, with the drop in the share prices, my partners will need to see some security now." "Or we shall, very reluctantly, have to call in the debt." "Oh... you don't want to do that, mr." "Brehgert." "You might see nothing at all." "Then things really are as bad as everyone fears?" "( Chuckling ) not a bit of it." "Come on, I'm only joking." "Melmotte's got plenty of money, but it's tucked away." "Only he don't like to touch it, that's all." "He's a little superstitious like that." "But you have been a very good friend to melmotte, and you shall see it." "You shall see that melmotte and company are as sound as a bell." "Come on, sit down." "It's marie's money, do you see?" "I put it in the bank in her name, just in case, you know, and I've added to it every year, and it's a very substantial sum, and I've never cared to dip into it, that's all." "If the money is there, mr." "Melmotte, then there is no need to dip into it at this stage." "But the bank must see that it is there." "And that it is available to you." "And that's only fair." "And the railway will be built." "I stake my life on it, mr." "Brehgert." "Stake my life on it... between you and me, we are a little overstretched just now." "Because we've got so many opportunities coming so close together." "We've got india, canada, china." "These are great enterprises, mr." "Brehgert." "They could turn this little island into the greatest trading country in the world." "They should be grateful to me that I chose to become an englishman, but they're not." "They're like a--a pack of snapping dogs!" "( Mimics dog barking ) we'll put the matter of security in hand immediately." "Mr. Melmotte... ( clears throat ) you have been very kind to me." "You have been the means of making me acquainted with the lady that i hope soon to make my wife." "Now, I think you are troubled." "Tell me, is there any way in which I could help you?" "( Whispering ) you could write if off as a bad debt and say nothing about it." "Mr. Melmotte," "I think you know-- come on, come on!" "I'm only joking." "Don't worry about melmotte." "You shall get your money." "Now... go and talk sweet nothings to that lovely fianc of yours." "Go on!" "Go, go, go!" "I long to leave this house." "Then let it be soon, my dearest." "Have you had word from your family?" "Yes." "Papa's been utterly beastly about the whole affair." "I'm not sure i shall ever bring myself to speak to him again." "Your father has written to me and in very intemperate language." "Well, I have been used to that in my lifetime." "But the world is changing, and perhaps when we are married, he may change and soften, too." "But if he does not?" "Mr. Brehgert, you must understand that I may be cutting myself off from my whole family and a good part of my friends in marrying A... in marrying out of my religion." "And so it is vitally important that we are quite clear about what it is you are offering me." "Of course, I would wish everything to be quite clear, too." "As to religion," "I am very happy that you should practice your own." "And that should we be blessed with children, they might be brought up subject to your influence." "Oh, I had not thought of that." "As to the children of my first marriage" "I don't think i can be expected to have anything to do with them." "Nothing at all?" "They have a governess, but, naturally," "I was hoping-- naturally?" "I don't see what's natural about it." "They're not my children, are they?" "No, they are not." "But they are mine, georgiana." "They are, as it were, a part of me." "I would have that when you accept me, you accept all that I am, and have." "I don't see that at all, mr." "Brehgert." "You're not asking me to come and work at the bank with you?" "No." "But that isn't quite the same thing." "Please do not bring up the question of your children again." "I assume they will be living at your house in fulham, so there will be no need for me to see them." "As to that," "I am sorry to say-- you're not going back on the london house?" "Only for the present." "The fact is," "I am anticipating a very heavy loss in the next week or so." "I authorized my bank to make a large loan to a business that is likely to go under very soon." "So you are to be bankrupt now?" "Oh, no, no, no." "Far from it." "But...a second house... a london house in a fashionable location with all the furniture and servants that you would expect and deserve, that won't be possible for a year or two." "I'm very sorry." "Are you telling me you want me to go live in fulham?" "I wish it were not so, georgiana, but regrettably-- let me make myself clear, mr." "Brehgert." "When we first talked about marriage, a london house was promised." "Perhaps you did not understand then that a proper establishment is an absolute necessity for me." "I must be in town for the season." "I wonder that you should be so obtuse." "It grieves me to disappoint you, georgiana, but, as I say, it will only be for a while." "Still you say this!" "Don't you understand?" "!" "It is entirely unacceptable that I should go and live in fulham with your jew children for a week...for a day!" "You should not have proposed to me if you were not able or prepared to make the necessary financial outlay." "No, I should not." "I see that now." "Thank you for enlightening me, miss longestaffe." "You may regard our engagement as at an end." "What?" "May I say that I was never under the illusion that you had formed a passionate attachment for me." "But I did deceive myself into thinking that your interest was, shall we say, not entirely mercenary." "It seems we both made a mistake." "I wish you every happiness." "Good-bye, miss longestaffe." "Mr. Brehgert?" "( Sobbing ) he's gone." "It's all over." "I've been jilted by a jew!" "( Reporters clamoring )" "( laughing ) my dearest, hetta," "I cannot bear to think that I have lost you forever." "I have been a fool, and I realize now that I should have told you the truth from the start, but I never lied to you." "Whatever passed between mrs." "Hurtle and me... my love for her was over before I met you." "Hetta, if you really love me," "I beg you not to separate yourself from me." "My love for you is so absolute and intense that I cannot see my way to living without you." "Paul montague for miss carbury." "Hetta, you have every right to be angry with me, but you are breaking my heart and, I believe, your own." "Please let me see you again... your most affectionate, paul montague." "Mr. Longestaffe, sr.," "Mr. Longestaffe, jr.," "And a mr." "Squercum to see mr." "Melmotte as a matter of urgency." "He's not at home." "Lean on the door, mr." "Longestaffe, sir." "( Yelling and screaming ) it is a matter of urgency as I said!" "Where is mr." "Melmotte?" "The master has not risen yet." "Then it's about time he did." "Come on!" "Where's his bedroom?" "Which way do you think?" "I say, I'm not sure this is quite the thing, wandering around another man's house." "Ah, gentlemen... you're very welcome." "But isn't it rather early?" "Have I mistook the time?" "My clients have urgent business with you, mr." "Melmotte." "Oh, have they?" "And who are you?" "Squercum, sir." "Squercum and co.," "Solicitors." "Fetter lane." "Never heard of you." "But you're very welcome." "Come, let's go down to the book room." "Will you take a glass of brandy and water with me, gentlemen?" "Ah, well-- certainly not!" "We have come for our money, the purchase price for pickering park, or the title deeds." "My client puts it most succinctly, mr." "Melmotte." "The money or the deeds." "This morning." "Eighty thousand." "M. This morning." "If it has to be this mor it will have to be the title deeds." "I don't carry that much money in my waistcoat pocket, do I croll?" "No, indeed, mr." "Melmotte." "The deeds it is then." "I say hold on." "Have you seen what he's done to it?" "He's pulled it half down to rebuild it." "We won't take it back like that." "Then perhaps you'd consider payment by installments." "Squercum:" "Certainly not." "Hold on, squercum, let's see what he proposes." "Fifty thousand on friday... the rest the following friday." "He hasn't got it." "It's all over the city." "He's busted!" "He's a gone coon." "Well, then you'd better take the title deeds, hadn't you?" "Will you put it in writing, sir?" "And sign to it." "With pleasure, gentlemen!" "Draw it up, croll!" "What a pleasure doing business with you, gentlemen." "( Reporters clamoring ) dolly, get in." "This is the most embarrassing day of my life." "Give me the papers." "You'd better wait here, croll." "I'll call for you to witness the signatures." "What a pleasant domestic scene." "What do you want, papa?" "Marie, my dear... you remember just before we left paris," "I placed rather a large sum of money in your name?" "Yes, papa." "You wanted me to make sure nobody could get at it if you got into trouble." "Who says I'm in trouble?" "Everybody does." "You're a little too quick, my dear." "Madame melmotte:" "Let your papa speak, dear." "I put it in your name, marie, but, of course, I never meant to put it beyond my own reach-- it is, after all, my property." "But it's really mine." "By a quibble of the law, yes, but not so as to give you any right to it, my dear." "In any case, this is for your own benefit." "In the matters concerning your forthcoming marriage with lord nidderdale, settlements must be drawn." "All you need to do is to sign these papers in one or two places." "Mr. Croll is waiting outside." "I'll call him in to witness your signature." "No, papa." "You say no to me?" "If I'm to be married, what's mine will be my husbands." "Why should I sign it away now?" "I don't believe you." "I think you've lost your own money, and now you want to steal mine." "Steal your money?" "It was never yours in the first place, damn you!" "In that case you can do what you like with it without my signing." "Marie... understand..." "I must have this money at my disposal for use in the city tomorrow... or I shall be ruined." "Now, think of all i have done for you." "Look around you." "We have traveled all this way from the gutters of europe, marie." "I've lived off scraps like a dog so you should have the life of a lady." "And look at you now." "About to marry a peer of the realm." "I never wanted the life of a lady." "Ungrateful girl." "Petite salope!" "Don't tell me about the gutters of europe!" "I was there," "I saw it all!" "I saw how you cheated and stole and bullied, and lied, and ran away leaving debts!" "For you!" "For you!" "You never loved me!" "It was all for you!" "For yourself!" "And what did you do with my mother?" "That couldn't be helped." "Marie... will you do this one thing for me now?" "And save us all from ruin?" "No..." "I won'T." "You...ungrateful... little beast!" "No, melmotte!" "Aaah!" "Mr. Croll!" "Mr. Melmotte!" "It's not the way." "Salope!" "Of course, there's no reason why I shouldn't sign the girl's name myself." "Well, I'm her father." "It is my money, after all." "Ah, but then, in order to satisfy brehgert and the rest, the signature would have to be witnessed." "We've known each other a long time, walter." "It's a small thing to put your name to a piece of paper to say I can have my own money." "Hmm?" "Go on then." "Go, go, back to the city." "I think I shall be able to persuade her." "In any case," "I'll come to you in half an hour." "Ja whol." "Auf english, croll!" "Auf english." "English gentleman to the last." "No... we haven't come to you yet." "Give this to mr." "Brehgert, at todd, brehgert and goldsheimer." "Make sure he gets it before close of business." "Lady carbury:" "Of course, nothing can be expected of him." "But hetta, that she should be so stubborn." "Oh, mr." "Broune," "I see nothing but ruin for us all." "Felix, where are you going?" "Just thought I'd take a little air, ma." "Oh, mr." "Broune, what am I to do?" "I must bear it as best I can," "I suppose." "I...at least i still have my pen." "I shall begin a new book." "What do you think of..." ""great mothers of history"?" "Lady carbury," "I can no longer bear to stand by and see you suffer alone." "Will you let me be the one to take your troubles from you?" "Oh, mr." "Broune... you are a kind and generous man, but I cannot allow you to shoulder such burdens." "I assure you... they will be as light as feathers to me." "I seem to have fallen through in everything I do." "I do not see what I can give you in return." "Yourself." "Oh, mr." "Broune, do you really mean... if only you knew how long and devoutly i have admired your beauty, your courage... you would not need to ask." "But I have no money." "I am not proposing to you for your money." "I have enough for the both of us." "And the children?" "Your daughter i can love as my own." "And it is proof of my devotion to you if I say..." "I can attempt the same for your son." "Do you really think you can deal with felix?" "I'm sure of it." "If you will let me." "Mmm." "Oh, mr." "Broune... how good you are." "( Chatting ) hello, felix." "Come to apologize, grendall... about the cheating." "Take it all back." "What do you say?" "Let bygones be bygones." "Come on, grendall." "Chap can't say fairer than that." "Shake hands, walt." "Going to play, carbury?" "Don't mind if I do." "( Onlookers chuckle )" "( gasping ) sir felix carbury?" "Mmm, yes, what of it?" "You're off on a short trip, sir." "What?" "To the continent." "In here." "Dover port, and don't stop on the way, driver." "Croll:" "Mr. Brehgert sent for me last night." "And he told me to take this back to you." "( Sighs ) he says you forgot to get one signature... this one." "It should say" ""W. Croll" there... as well." "( Devilish laughter ) it's a pretty strong order, mr." "Melmotte." "And brehgert knows it's a forgery?" "I think he does, sir." "And, uh, he's not going to the police?" "And nor shall I, mr." "Melmotte." "But I shan't be back in the lane anymore." "( Sighs ) what, you're not back at the office, croll?" "I think not... no." "So you're leaving me?" "There's a little money owing... but you'll send it, no?" "( Chuckling ) good-bye, mr." "Melmotte." "Lady carbury:" "Oh, hetta." "There's a lady waiting for you in the sitting room." "Forgive the intrusion, miss carbury." "I'm going back to the states, and I wanted to see you before I go." "You're leaving with mr." "Montague?" "I am traveling alone." "I've been doing some thinking since last we met." "I guess I've been playing a bad hand for too long." "He's yours, miss carbury, if you want him." "And I should take him, if I were you." "And tell him he has nothing to fear from me." "I've put away my pistols and my whips." "I shan't be taking my revenge, not this time." "I only wish i could've made him love me as he did a long time ago." "But when I came to see you before-- miss carbury... when I spoke to you before i let you think that paul montague and I made love at lowestoft." "I want to tell you now that... that wasn't true." "I asked him to spend one last night with me, but he refused... for your sake." "( Relieved ) there... when I spoke to you before," "I couldn't bear to let you triumph over me, but now I find I can." "I don't want to triumph over you." "Why not?" "!" "You've got him." "Are you telling me you don't want him now?" "Oh, it's so...messy, and complicated and compromised." "When I first fell in love with him," "I thought he was perfect." "None of them are." "None of us, come to that." "But as men go, he's about as good as they come." "Roger carbury is entirely good." "Maybe... but what use is a man like that to you or me?" "No passion... no spirit, no badness." "He might as well be stuffed in a museum." ""An english country gentleman, circa 1870."" "Paul wants you." "Take a chance on him." "It might not work out, but at least you'll have an interesting ride." "And I wish you every happiness." "Good-bye, miss carbury." "I am glad to have met you." "You better pack up your jewels." "Is something going to happen, melmotte?" "Pack them up small." "Keep them ready to hand." "You might have to travel without me." "And marie, too?" "( Chuckles ) no." "The girl's all right." "( Chuckles ) she has her own money." "Are we ruined, melmotte?" "Pretty much." "We stayed too long." "I enjoyed it too much... being an english gentleman." "Perhaps I should have built that damn railroad after all." "I don't understand." "( Chuckles ) you don't?" "The shares are at nothing..." "I owe hundreds of thousands... with nothing to pay with." "So what are you staring at?" "What will you do?" "Will they send you to prison?" "Uh... if it comes to it." "I shall go down to the house... and if I fall... they shall see i can fall like a man." "( Jeering )" "( breathing heavily ) speaker:" "Order!" "A statement to the house from the chancellor of the exchequer." "Mr. Melmotte... do you wish to raise a point of order?" "( Jeering )" "( screaming and yelling ) order!" "Order!" "Order!" "( Breathing heavily )" "( growls loudly )" "( yelling and screaming )" "( people clamoring )" "( hears crowd screaming )" "( thunder )" "( sputters then laughs )" "( coughing )" "( continues laughing )" "( sniffing ) prussic acid." "( Sobbing ) is he your own doctor?" "Will he want money?" "No, no, please." "I wouldn't dream of it." "I, uh... it's all right." "I understand." "The engagement's all over." "What a life it has been." "Now it's over..." "I don't suppose i shall see you again." "I don't know why you should think that." "Yes, you do." "You like me well enough, but you have to marry fortune like all the rest." "Now, let's not pretend." "It's all right." "You can go now." "( Sobbing ) papa... croll:" "It was a bad shame, you know." "Too many things... if he'd stuck to the railway, he might have come out right." "Mr. Fisker arrived in london yesterday." "He can deal with the creditors." "Mademoiselle, your money is safe." "Nobody can touch it." "Not if he was in debt millions." "You're still a rich young lady." "You can... look after that one, no?" "If I choose to." "Thank you, mr." "Croll." "I feel as if i have to start my life all over again." "I didn't love my father." "But life will be so strange without him there." "What about you?" "Are you happy with the man you love?" "No..." "I have broken with him." "I found he was involved with another woman." "No...the beast!" "Does he love this other woman and not you?" "No, I think he loves me." "And I still love him." "Then take him." "You must." "Don't be a fool." "You don't understand..." "I understand this-- that we women must take our fates in our own hands." "I will never be like that woman in there, or my poor mother." "I will live my life to the full." "So must you." "Fisker:" "Paul... it is great to see you." "How is everything?" "I'm surprised you have the nerve to show your face here, fisker." "Hey, hey, hold heart, partner, listen." "I understand that things weren't so good the last time that we met." "But you can't blame me for that." "Things are a damn sight worse now, I suppose." "No doubt you've come over to wind up the company?" "Are you crazy?" "Have you not seen the price of the american stock?" "Paul, we're going to build the railway." "Come here." "Sit down." "Look... this is the new schedule of works." "Take a look at it." "No, go on, check it out." "After all, you're going to be the one who's in charge of it." "If that's still what you want." "Didn't I tell ya it always pans out like this." "The first wave of investors lose their shirts, but the second wave, they make their fortunes." "It's too bad that old melmotte got in too deep." "You know, I" "I had a lot of time for that man." "He made his mark in the world, all right, but he had to always push that a little too far." "I hope you held on to your shares." "So, come on, paul, what's it going to be?" "Are you in or are you out?" "Why should i believe a word you say?" "First, because we are partners." "That's why." "And second, because it is guaranteed in black and white, page 29, construction is to begin in one week's time." "And--and the money, it is in the bank." "So what's it going to be?" "Are you in or are you out?" "Hey, I thought that you wanted to build a railway." "Lady carbury:" "No, mr." "Montague," "I'm afraid that's out of the question." "Then would you tell her i came to say good-bye?" "I'm leaving the country shortly." "Probably forever." "I made a mess of things with your daughter, lady carbury." "And I dare say, she'll be as glad to see the back of me as you are." "I don't deserve her." "I know that." "But I never meant to make her unhappy." "It's a strange and complicated life-- the way we live now, and... things aren't always as clear-cut as we'd like them to be." "But one thing is as clear as day for me..." "I love hetta." "And I always will." "Will you tell her that for me?" "And that I hope she'll be happy... and that I shall be thinking of her every minute of every day." "Good-bye, lady carbury." "Good-bye, mr." "Montague." "Paul!" "Hetta!" "Paul!" "Take me with you." "Captioned by captioneering your closed captioning resource"