The Way We Live Now S01 E03 - Episode #1.3 Vol. 02
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00:00Is that it? That's exactly what I'm going to do.
00:11The Bank of Todd Bregerton Goldsiner to advance the sum of seven hundred and
00:16fifty thousand pounds at seven percent per annum to a new company, the Melmott
00:21Submarine Cable Company. The security being an equivalent sum in Mexican
00:26railway shares at present valued four pounds ten shillings. You understand of
00:31course that in the event of the railway shares declining in value we should ask
00:35for other security or even call in the loan. That's perfectly all right. In any
00:44case they're not going to fall are they? You think the railway is all right don't
00:55you? I wouldn't be risking the bank's money if I didn't Mr. Melmott but it is
00:59my duty to point out the conditions of the loan you understand. Of course.
01:03Crowell.
01:15Come on get on with it Crow.
01:29Take a glass of brandy with me Mr. Bregert. Not for me. Thank you. Not now.
01:35Ah yes of course. Miss Longest. I shall walk with you. A happy event soon? I hope so.
01:46A perfect match. I never saw a woman so more in love. You flatter me. I think she
02:02likes me well enough and I have love enough for the two of us. And money eh?
02:06Well this is the real world we live in. I think we can make each other happy.
02:19Who's this doll? Do we know you? I am Heta Carpery Mr. Melmott. I am here to see
02:26your daughter. Oh yes I know you. You're that young rogue's sister aren't you? You
02:31come to plot another elopement eh? No sir. I didn't think they'd try that game twice.
02:36Well come on. Young lady for Miss Melmott. Young gentleman for Miss Longest.
02:47You came. You were so good. I knew you'd keep your word.
03:01Tell me the truth now. Whatever it is. Has he given me up? Yes I'm afraid he has.
03:26What is it? Has he lost his courage? I don't think he has much of that has he? But I have
03:33enough for two. Tell him that. I'm ready to try again. He will. Miss Melmott I don't mean to be
03:40cruel but you asked me for the truth. Yes say it out. He told me to tell you that he doesn't care
03:53for you. That he never cared for you. I'm so sorry. He doesn't care for me. Then why did he tell lies
04:07about it? What a brute he must be. What a wretch. Why should he break my heart like that? I hate to say this
04:19about my own brother. But he isn't worth breaking your heart over. He was never worthy of you. He
04:29wanted my money. That was all. And all the rest was lies. What brutes men are. I think you should
04:38forget about him Marie. Forget about him? How should I do that? I must think of him. But I'll hate him. Tell him. Tell him I say he's a false hearted
04:48liar. 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 revives me and I can bear that. And he could have beaten and revived me. And I'd have borne it if only he'd loved me. Well that's all done.
05:19I'll marry Ninderdale 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 and laugh in his face about it. I will never truly love anyone.
05:38I'm sure that you will. Not all men are like my brother.
05:49Do you love someone? Yes I do. And does he tell you the truth? I think. No I'm sure he does. I was sure of Felix. I shan't ever fall in love again.
06:05Your brother has ended all 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 wasn't dead.
06:35Mr. Adolphus Longstaff and Mr. Adolphus Longstaff.
06:51Ah, dommage monsieur, my husband is not here. No madame, madame, please don't disturb yourself. I am here to see my daughter.
07:00Papa, Dolly, I wish you had told me you were coming. I could have introduced you to Mr. Bregert. He's just left. Bregert? Papa, I wrote to Mama this morning and Mr. Bregert was to come to you. Come to me? Why should he come to me?
07:19Papa, Mr. Bregert and I are engaged to be married.
07:25You mean to tell me you've engaged yourself to a Jew? Mr. Bregert is a very well respected banker,
07:32Papa, and a very wealthy gentleman. He is a regular visitor to this house and has made himself
07:38most agreeable. I knew I should never have let you come to Melmott. You are pleased to do business
07:43with 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.
07:51He is 50, father. And you've written to your mother? I have. It'll kill her.
08:01Now listen to me. You'll go home to Caversham and you'll stay there and you'll not see that man
08:05again. Father, I am of age. I can make my own decisions. Well, if you persist in this, that's
08:10the last you'll see of your mother and me. And me, Georgie. It's not on. Heaven on earth, you of all people
08:16that used to take such a pride in yourself. I'll take you down to Caversham myself tomorrow.
08:22You'd better leave this house today and come to my hotel in German Street. I won't do it, Papa.
08:27You can and you shall. You'll go and pack your things this minute.
08:32Papa, I should be very sorry never to see you and Mama again. But if that is the condition you make,
08:39so be it. I have engaged myself to Mr. Bregert and I intend to go through with it.
08:46I should have thought you would be glad to get me off your hands.
08:50Mr. Bregert cares for me. And as his wife, I shall never want for anything material.
08:55He is not as I should have chosen. But beggars can't be choosers. At least I shan't be withering
09:02away at Caversham. Damn you, girl. Do as I say. No, Father. I should rather be buried alive.
09:12You will take your daughter away with you now, monsieur? No, because she refuses to go with me.
09:34Dommage.
09:35Telegram from Mr. Fisker. It didn't work, Mr. Melmott. Mr. Montague is coming back
09:44and he's got his rats up. I should think Fisker would have had the knows to handle a fellow like
09:49Montague. But no matter. What can he do? What can he do? He can bring down the company.
09:57And ruin himself in the process. I don't think so. I say we should be thinking about shutting up
10:03shop, Mr. Melmott. Shut up shop? No, I'm not shutting up shop. The day after tomorrow I should
10:12be a member of Parliament for Westminster. I am indispensable to the nation's prosperity crawl.
10:18And by the time young Montague comes back, I'll be dead.
10:21I am indispensable to the nation's prosperity crawl.
10:26And by the time young Montague gets back to England, I shall be a national treasure.
10:35They're expecting me at the hustings.
10:43There's a funny smell been wafting over London this last year.
10:47I'll tell you what it is. Pie in the sky. That's what it is.
10:52Mr. Melmott's pie in the sky. And a lot of people believe that it's full of money.
11:00You and I know honest men have to work for their money. Don't come raining down out of the sky.
11:08I believe there's nothing in Mr. Melmott's pie but a lot of hot air.
11:14Is there really a railway in Mexico?
11:22Nobody knows. I mean for certain nobody's seen one. But I did hear of a bank in Vienna
11:29had to close down in a hurry because it couldn't pay its creditors.
11:33Not long after that, it's pie in the sky in London.
11:37My friends, do you want to be represented in Parliament by a foreign speculator?
11:46I stand for truth and honesty in Parliament. My opponents say the same.
11:56Electors of Westminster, the choice is before you. Use your common sense.
12:03Give your vote to Ferdinand Alf.
12:21Gentlemen, if anyone has any accusations against me, let him give his evidence.
12:27Let him put up or shut up. Some men do things. Other men stand by and carve and criticize.
12:40Which kind of man would you like to see representing you in Parliament?
12:48Electors of Westminster, the world is changing fast and some of us understand it better than
12:55others. We are entering a new age of communication and commerce. We've had the Ottoman Empire and the
13:04Austrian Empire and the British Empire, but now there's going to be a new kind of empire.
13:13A vast empire of trade
13:17that knows no boundaries or borders, no need for armies and navies and wars and conquests.
13:25There will be riches for all.
13:35And you will all have a share in it.
13:41But you need a special kind of man.
13:47A man who understands the way we live now to lead you into that new world of peace and prosperity.
14:03Well, I say to you, comes the age, comes the man.
14:17Mama is out at her publisher's. I didn't come here to see Mama. I know. You look so well.
14:42Well, was it exciting? It was all for nothing. For nothing? Yes, the money's not there. The men haven't been paid.
14:56The Mexican railway's a sham. What will you do? Challenge Melmode and try and drag it all out into the open.
15:06But in the short run, things may turn very bad for me. If the company goes to the wall, I shall be penniless.
15:18For 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.
15:32And what was that? Can't you guess? I'm in love with you. I have thought of you every day since we were born.
15:46Oh, I 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.
15:59And 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.
16:11Everything quite satisfactory? Go away!
16:27You think that you can cast me off as easily as that, do you? You set me free to choose.
16:39I chose that. Then you shall have to accept the consequences. What will you do?
16:49I haven't decided, Paul. I may expose you for the blagger that you are. Perhaps I shall call on your little English rose and tell her what sort of a man she is marrying.
17:02I might simply call you out and kill you like I did that other man that betrayed me. He never betrayed you.
17:09But 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.
17:19Aren't they taught to be graceful losers? But I'm not used to losing, and I don't care for it.
17:28Then you must do as you see fit. Yes. That will be my consolation.
17:35I still have feeling for you, Paul. But take care. I am your enemy now.
17:43So, how did your fare in Mexico? Not so well as I'd hoped. I'll tell you all about it.
17:56If you're still willing to hear it. You've heard my other news. And what news is that?
18:05I have asked Heather to marry me. And she has consented. I see.
18:17We 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.
18:30How 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. You know that.
18:39Don't talk about her feelings as if you own them. Let me speak of my own feelings.
18:43Yes, your feelings. They must ride over everyone else's. Do you think no one else has any feelings for you?
18:49Oh, what use is all this to me now? All my life I dreamed of her being here with me, bearing my children.
19:16Why did it have to be her? It was her choice. Not yours. Not mine.
19:27Will you at least accept that I've done no harm to you? Please, Roger, will you at least shake hands with me? Please.
19:46You have engaged yourself to poor Montague without consulting me.
19:59I love him, Mama. Why can't you be happy for me?
20:02How 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.
20:12No. He may even be penniless. But I don't care about that. I don't want a society life.
20:19You silly girl.
20:21No, I am not a silly girl. Not anymore. I'm a young woman now, Mama. I understand much more than you think I do.
20:30I shall marry poor whether you approve it or no, but I wish you could be happy for me and give me your blessing.
20:36What's all this, Mother? Little sister asking for blessing? What do you want blessing for?
20:40She's gone and got herself engaged to poor Montague.
20:43Has she, by God? Well, she'd better unengage herself then as quick as she likes.
20:48Why should I?
20:49Why should you? Because I disapprove, that's why. And as your elder brother and the head of the family, I forbid the match.
20:56You, the head of the family, a waster like you. You think you have the right to disapprove of poor Montague, who's a hundred times more worthy than you?
21:04Oh, a hundred times more worthy, is he? Is he?
21:06Yes, he is.
21:08Yes, well, I suppose you know he keeps a mistress in a house in Islington.
21:15Felix?
21:16Tis. American woman. Name of Mrs. Hurtle. Widow. Very handsome.
21:24He was supposed to be marrying her, but she couldn't get him up to the altar.
21:28No doubt he was intended to keep her on after he'd married Hetta.
21:31I don't believe you. It isn't true. It can't be.
21:35Can't it? I'm told that your precious poor Montague had her down at Lowestoff, living together as man and wife, and that was just before he went off to Mexico.
21:44Now, 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 blaggard, so you'd better call it off, all right?
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