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In 1811, Lord Byron and Hobhouse leave the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Caliphate; they return to England where Byron meets with John Murray to sell his poems.
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Jonny Lee Miller, Oliver Milburn
In 1811, Lord Byron and Hobhouse leave the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Caliphate; they return to England where Byron meets with John Murray to sell his poems.
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Jonny Lee Miller, Oliver Milburn
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00:00:00It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:00:29true.
00:00:30Especially if it's true.
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00:01:26It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:01:42It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:43true.
00:01:44It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:45true.
00:01:46It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:47true.
00:01:48It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:49true.
00:01:50It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:51true.
00:01:52It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
00:01:53true.
00:01:54It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's true.
00:01:55It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's true.
00:02:10It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:12It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:14It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:16It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:18It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:20It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:22It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:24It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:26It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:28It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:30It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:32It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:34It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:36It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:38It's impossible, John, for the sake of the man's reputation, his family, even if it's
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00:02:41precisely the same as a feisty, possibly built by the same man.
00:02:46When Greeks were men, not slaves to the Turks.
00:02:49Well, I'd like to sketch it.
00:02:50Later.
00:02:51Later.
00:02:52Later.
00:02:54I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
00:02:55I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
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00:02:59I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
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00:03:30What is that?
00:03:52By order of the governor of Athens, let us pass.
00:03:55It is filth. Greek filth.
00:03:57I ordered her to throw it into the sea.
00:04:04I am a peer of the realm.
00:04:06Open it.
00:04:25If you please, you bastard.
00:04:47Open it.
00:04:55Byron.
00:05:13You obstructed an officer of my guard in the pursuance of his duty.
00:05:17Were you an ordinary man, Lord Byron, you would not be sitting here now.
00:05:21How very fortunate then, when I was ten I inherited a peerage.
00:05:26Have you enjoyed your time in Turkey?
00:05:29I had thought myself in Greece.
00:05:32To us the whole empire is Turkey and has been for 300 years.
00:05:41What is the purpose of your visit here?
00:05:45Merely to observe the manner of life in the East.
00:05:48I should not believe what they say then.
00:05:51That in your land true pleasure is forbidden, only women are allowed.
00:05:57Customs vary.
00:05:59So you come here.
00:06:02Tonight, Your Excellency, I have come to plead for a woman's freedom.
00:06:07Women are worthless.
00:06:09Possibly so, yet to take a life for an hour of lust.
00:06:14She is guilty.
00:06:16I am but a brutal man, but the law of the Sultan is specific.
00:06:22How much would it take to make it less specific?
00:06:52The last of the money is gone.
00:07:15It's time to go home, Hobie.
00:07:18Well.
00:07:21And what shall we find there, I wonder?
00:07:26What shall we do with our lives?
00:07:44It is very unusual.
00:07:46The lands of the Mediterranean, Mr. Murray, are rich in mystery.
00:07:51Hints from Horace is a pretty title, but I confess I have reservations as to its merit.
00:08:00You won't publish it?
00:08:02I regret to say that the taste of the town has changed during your two years abroad.
00:08:13You may keep the tortoise, Mr. Murray, as a small beam of sunshine in the murk of your grub street life.
00:08:20My Lord, are these hints and this creature the sole product of your tour?
00:08:26You have seen exotic places.
00:08:28Did you not write about them?
00:08:29I did.
00:08:30But I have another poem.
00:08:32May I read it?
00:08:34What is it called?
00:08:36It's called Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, though I doubt it will suit.
00:08:41The taste of the town being so damn modern.
00:08:47Where are you headed?
00:08:48To Newstead.
00:08:49My mother claims to be unwell, but as I have never known her not to claim to be unwell, I make no particular haste.
00:08:56She will still be her usual malignant self when I get there.
00:09:26Fetch the gloves.
00:09:40Fetch the gloves.
00:10:10And when, alas, our brains are gone, what nobler substitute than wine?
00:10:37I think I should give up poetry, Fletcher, don't you?
00:10:40Yes, my Lord.
00:10:45Why the devil are you yawning?
00:10:48It's three o'clock in the morning, my Lord.
00:10:50And you want to crawl back under the blankets with Mrs. Fletcher, do you?
00:10:56Mrs. Fletcher is dead, my Lord.
00:11:00Dead?
00:11:02When?
00:11:04It was when we were on our travels, my Lord.
00:11:07Dammit, man, you should have told me.
00:11:15What about the serving girl, the young one?
00:11:18Susan, my Lord.
00:11:20Is she married?
00:11:23Susan is unattached.
00:11:27I don't suppose Susan could prepare me a plate of eggs.
00:11:32She is retired to bed, my Lord.
00:11:37But I don't think she's asleep.
00:12:02Susan.
00:12:05I don't see you, Lordship.
00:12:07I'm Susan.
00:12:11Ah.
00:12:21And I swam the Hellespont from Cestos to Abydos.
00:12:24You swam the Hellespont?
00:12:25He did. He swims like a fish.
00:12:26And the women, were they fair?
00:12:29Dark in the main.
00:12:30And above all, cheap.
00:12:35It was two years of bliss.
00:12:37Bliss and debauchery.
00:12:41And now what?
00:12:42What, indeed.
00:12:44At 23, the best of life is over and it's bitters double.
00:12:48After the East, England seems a pale imitation of life.
00:12:52Aren't you writing?
00:12:53I have a couple of cantos concerning the adventures of one child, Harold.
00:12:59A manly specimen, rather passionate, who journeys to Greece and Albania.
00:13:04Hobby may recognise a deal of it.
00:13:06Does he sigh a lot and mope after girls?
00:13:08Does he have a limp, by any chance?
00:13:14Thank God it does me good to see you.
00:13:17Thank you for coming all this way.
00:13:23I bring bad news.
00:13:27Matthews is dead.
00:13:30He dived into the cam and was caught in a bed of wheat.
00:13:34But Charlie Matthews was a fine swimmer.
00:13:36Well, he drowned.
00:13:38At least that's the Cambridge version.
00:13:40Suicide.
00:13:41He was an atheist, a republican and something too fond of small boys.
00:13:45What future had he?
00:13:47Here.
00:13:55Let us just say that he drowned in the cam.
00:14:01To the dead.
00:14:02To the dead.
00:14:04To the dead.
00:14:12And now what's left to live for?
00:14:15Well, I have my dice and cards.
00:14:18You, your scribbling.
00:14:20I wish often that I were a gambler.
00:14:22Win or lose, you feel something.
00:14:24But I feel nothing.
00:14:26And I'm sunk as a poet.
00:14:28Hobhouse has his politics.
00:14:30Hobhouse, as we all know, is a fool.
00:14:32And what's wrong with politics?
00:14:34Nothing wrong with them, Hobby.
00:14:36Provided you remember they are a futile pursuit.
00:14:39I addressed the House of Lords the other day.
00:14:42Rather finely wrought speech, as a matter of fact.
00:14:45But one which may bugger all difference to anything.
00:14:48You don't make a difference in a day.
00:14:50And your theme, George?
00:14:52Well, do you see?
00:14:53The learned Fletcher informed me
00:14:55that the machines in Nottingham are putting our stocking weavers out of work.
00:14:58The men are rampaging at night, smashing the new equipment.
00:15:01The government wants to make this frame-breaking a capital offence.
00:15:05Well, we cannot have the wanton destruction of private property, can we?
00:15:08Yes, but they're starving, don't you see?
00:15:12They're starving.
00:15:14It is a disgrace to a civilised country!
00:15:19I may have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey,
00:15:23but never, even under that most despotic government,
00:15:27did I behold such wretchedness as I have seen since my return!
00:15:32And how will your lordships implement this bill?
00:15:35Hmm?
00:15:37Erect a gibbet in every field?
00:15:39And hang up men like scarecrows?
00:15:42Bravo!
00:15:44Oratory of the old school.
00:15:47I must be good at something, mustn't I, Scrooge?
00:16:01Are you familiar with the doctrine of predestination, Fletcher?
00:16:04Not as to the detail, my lord.
00:16:06Well, I am.
00:16:07Wouldn't expect no less, my lord.
00:16:09My mother made it very clear.
00:16:12We are the damned of Aberdeen.
00:16:17Put Mr Davies in his bed.
00:16:23Gently, man!
00:16:25I owe him £4,800.
00:16:32Tambourgi!
00:16:37Tambourgi!
00:16:47Tambourgi!
00:17:17Tambourgi!
00:17:25Lord Holland's compliments to Lord Byron.
00:17:38Hobby!
00:17:43Solved the Irish question yet?
00:17:45Working on it, George.
00:17:46What use is going on? Half of London has left its card.
00:17:49I awoke one morning to find myself famous.
00:17:52Famous? For what?
00:17:54For Childe Harold, the gloomy little ponce.
00:17:57Murray published it, and it sold.
00:18:00It sold out.
00:18:02In three days.
00:18:04One is very much in demand.
00:18:07I search in vain for its appeal.
00:18:10I mean, it reads like a map of the Mediterranean,
00:18:14guarded with gods and heroes from a schoolboy's grammar,
00:18:19and the half-rhymes and the dedications...
00:18:24Horrors!
00:18:26Lord Byron...
00:18:30and Captain Hobhouse.
00:18:45Lord Byron...
00:18:48will you take tea?
00:19:06I assure you I have seen mankind in various forms.
00:19:11I assure you I have seen mankind in various countries,
00:19:15and I find them all equally despicable.
00:19:18If anything, the balance is slightly in favour of the Turks.
00:19:22But they're not Christian.
00:19:24Oh, dear.
00:19:26Your friend is much in demand, Captain.
00:19:30So it appears, Lady Melbourne, I will have nothing to do with your immortality.
00:19:35Are we not miserable enough in this life
00:19:37without the absurdity of speculating upon another?
00:19:41Besides, if we are meant to live forever,
00:19:46why do we bother to die at all?
00:19:48Then are you a Platonist, Lord Byron?
00:19:51I am nothing at all.
00:19:53You must be something.
00:19:55Just a poor poet.
00:19:58And how did you learn to be that?
00:20:01For a man to become a poet,
00:20:04he must be in love...
00:20:09or miserable.
00:20:13Which are you?
00:20:19Now Harold felt himself at length alone,
00:20:22and, bad to Christian tongues, a long adieu.
00:20:26Now he had ventured on a shore unknown,
00:20:28which all admired, but many dread to view.
00:20:32His breast was armed against fate, his wants were few.
00:20:36Peril he sought not, but ne'er shrank to meet.
00:20:40The scene was savage, but the scene was new.
00:20:43This made the ceaseless toil of travel sweet,
00:20:47beat back keen winter's blast, and welcomed summer's heat.
00:20:53It is splendidly written.
00:20:56But all of society is asking,
00:20:58is it you enjoying these adventures?
00:21:01I have done some odd things in my time.
00:21:04They say it came that you procured a bear.
00:21:06Oh, my bear was adorable.
00:21:09But what did you intend to do with the creature?
00:21:11I intended it should sit for a fellowship.
00:21:14But I was afraid it would be too late.
00:21:18I intended it should sit for a fellowship.
00:21:21But the Dons disagreed.
00:21:24Thought the bear had a good chance myself.
00:21:29I will take no mutton, thank you.
00:21:31Will you take fish?
00:21:33Not fish, no.
00:21:36Then what may I offer you?
00:21:38I eat only potatoes,
00:21:40mashed in a little vinegar, if they could manage that.
00:21:44And a glass of soda water.
00:21:49You're vain, I think.
00:21:52I detest fat.
00:21:54My mother was fat.
00:21:59I fear for you, Byron.
00:22:02You have leapt to a sudden celebrity.
00:22:06Your youth, your looks, your wanderings in Greece
00:22:10combine to make your prize a trophy.
00:22:14But be cautious.
00:22:16Be cautious?
00:22:18In what respect cautious?
00:22:21In respect of falling in love.
00:22:24Oh, I fall in love before breakfast.
00:22:28I fall in love with my dogs.
00:22:31Nevertheless, certain things are allowed,
00:22:35certain things are not.
00:22:38Usually go for the latter.
00:22:40Usually so do I.
00:22:44My dear Lady Melbourne,
00:22:47were there fewer years between us...
00:22:50Were there fewer years between us,
00:22:52dinner would have ended long ago.
00:22:59Lecture!
00:23:01Hock and soda.
00:23:03And a plate of meat.
00:23:06My lord, the post.
00:23:09And my lord, um...
00:23:11There's a naked lady in the bedroom.
00:23:15I'll have it in a minute.
00:23:42SIGHS
00:23:56SIGHS
00:24:03MUSIC PLAYS
00:24:11MUSIC CONTINUES
00:24:20Good evening, Miss Milbank.
00:24:22Do not dance, Lord Byron.
00:24:24Does it look like I do?
00:24:26This new music is monstrous.
00:24:29Oh, I understand.
00:24:33May I inquire what you are writing?
00:24:35No, you may not.
00:24:37I have a black soul, Miss Milbank.
00:24:39I would rather not risk its corrupting you.
00:24:41If you could endeavour to control your natural sarcasm, my lord,
00:24:44I dare say I should judge you quite sincere.
00:24:47You are too good for me, Miss Milbank.
00:24:50I am dreadfully perverted.
00:24:52The newspapers have it in black and white.
00:24:54I do not read the newspapers.
00:24:56And I do not think you are such a dangerous person.
00:25:00Your excellent pie improves, you can feel nobly,
00:25:03but for some reason you discourage your own good nature.
00:25:06I think you play a part for the ladies, if the truth be known.
00:25:09What is it from such frankness?
00:25:11My Christian duty, merely.
00:25:13If I could persuade you to look inside yourself...
00:25:15Do you think that there is one person here who would dare to do that?
00:25:20I have some friends desire your acquaintance.
00:25:26This is Miss Milbank's first season.
00:25:29She seeks a husband.
00:25:32Could she not find one in Jane Austen?
00:25:36My niece is a most intelligent woman,
00:25:39and I have no doubt that she will find one.
00:25:42I have no doubt that she will find one.
00:25:45Jane Austen?
00:25:48My niece is a most intelligent young woman.
00:25:51She stands to inherit.
00:25:53And her figure is, I would say, passable.
00:25:56She is perfect.
00:25:59I'd like her more were she a little less perfect.
00:26:04I'm sure you know Tom Moore, also a poet.
00:26:08No, I don't. No more at last.
00:26:11Oh, have you met my daughter-in-law, Lady Caroline?
00:26:15No.
00:26:23I'd leave it go, my lord.
00:26:25Plenty more where that one come from.
00:26:27It was a snub, Fletcher.
00:26:29Every other woman in London wants to know me.
00:26:46Wait a minute.
00:26:52A rose in March.
00:26:54How unusual.
00:26:57I am told your ladyship likes everything that is new and rare.
00:27:01For a moment.
00:27:05You have the face of an angel.
00:27:08Bad angel.
00:27:16Why did you run away?
00:27:18I saw you whispering with my cousin.
00:27:20I was jealous.
00:27:23I deny whispering with your cousin.
00:27:27Who is your cousin?
00:27:29Annabella Milbank.
00:27:31You and she were stationed in a corner.
00:27:33Discussing the purification of my soul, if I recall.
00:27:36You've never discussed that with me.
00:27:39Lady Caroline, I've only this minute met you.
00:27:42Lady Caroline, I've only this minute met you.
00:27:44That's no excuse.
00:27:46Are we to be lovers?
00:27:51I said, are we to be lovers?
00:28:00Are you mad?
00:28:02I don't know.
00:28:04You?
00:28:06Do you keep abreast of the latest stuff?
00:28:08Why, yes.
00:28:10Whenever I hear of a good new book, I rush out and buy an old one.
00:28:14Hello, Tom.
00:28:16I hope you don't mind. I've brought a guest.
00:28:18Mr Murray, you know.
00:28:20And this is a fellow scribbler, Rogers.
00:28:23Lord Byron.
00:28:26We are all somewhat in awe of you, my lord.
00:28:29You have found that rare treasure.
00:28:32Your own voice.
00:28:34By accident, I assure you.
00:28:37I don't think Childe Harold my very best work.
00:28:40I rather like hints from Horace.
00:28:44We meet every Thursday.
00:28:46I and my most famous authors.
00:28:48We were your most famous authors.
00:28:50Some upstart has come and knocked us off our perch.
00:29:01Well done.
00:29:03Well done.
00:29:05Well done.
00:29:09Thank you, gentlemen.
00:29:16Night.
00:29:36Carrow.
00:29:38I want you.
00:29:40If you're seen, you're ruined.
00:29:43I don't care.
00:29:47Well, seduce me, then.
00:29:52I dare you.
00:30:06No.
00:30:11You know why you do boys with tight little arses, don't you?
00:30:31Good morning, Miss Milbank.
00:30:33You were leaving Lady Caroline's very early, Lord Byron.
00:30:36I hope she has not been rude.
00:30:39She can be, you know.
00:30:41I'm just on my way to discuss with her
00:30:43some mathematical problems I've been attempting.
00:30:45Are you keen on mathematics, by any chance?
00:30:48I am content to admire them at an incomprehensible distance.
00:30:52I know that two and two make four,
00:30:54and should be glad to prove it if I could.
00:30:56Though I must say, if I could get them to make five,
00:30:59it would give me much greater pleasure.
00:31:01Why ever would you wish to do that?
00:31:04I have told you before, Miss Milbank.
00:31:07Perverted.
00:31:10What would it take to convince you?
00:31:13You will never convince me, Lord Byron.
00:31:16The tea.
00:31:21Carrow, you not up?
00:31:32CARROW SNIFFS
00:31:44Carrow?
00:31:47CARROW SNIFFS
00:32:00My coat, please.
00:32:11Hello, Georgie.
00:32:13Is it true you're famous?
00:32:17Will you not come up?
00:32:19To a gentleman's apartment? Alone?
00:32:22It is no impropriety, I think, for me to entertain my sister.
00:32:27Just been to the bank. Nothing in it.
00:32:30And, shh, secret.
00:32:32Another babydew.
00:32:34You're to be an uncle again.
00:32:36But I don't absolutely know how to cope.
00:32:39Where's the colonel?
00:32:41Following the horses.
00:32:43He has an incurable passion for losing money
00:32:46and only returns to Sixmile Bottom when new market races are on.
00:32:50Don't think I made a very clever match, George.
00:32:53Still, on with the show, et cetera, silver linings and all that.
00:32:58I myself am in debt to the tune of 25,000 or thereabouts.
00:33:03I shall have to sell Newstead.
00:33:06Perhaps then I may be in a position...
00:33:08Perhaps then I may be in a position...
00:33:10Oh, I didn't come to beg for help.
00:33:12I'm a silly old goose, but I'll manage.
00:33:15Brain like boiled cabbage.
00:33:17But never mind.
00:33:19Will you quit your dandkringkumkrankum, you lunatic?
00:33:28Oh, Georgie.
00:33:31How long's it been?
00:33:33113,000?
00:33:36Come on, come on.
00:33:38Any advance on 113,000 guineas for Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire,
00:33:42with its park, grounds and...
00:33:44I hear rumours of you and a certain lady.
00:33:48Any further bids?
00:33:51Gentlemen, for the last time, any further bids?
00:33:54I think she's spreading them herself.
00:33:57Then I declare the lot withdrawn,
00:34:00as the reserve price has not been reached.
00:34:03Oh, bad luck.
00:34:05Still, I'm sure some...
00:34:07little lamb will console you.
00:34:33Hi.
00:34:57Stop! Stop! Stop!
00:35:03Stop!
00:35:16Lord Byron does not care to waltz.
00:35:27But you loved her once.
00:35:29After a few days, it went away.
00:35:32Rather like a sore throat.
00:35:35Her reputation's pretty well shot to pieces.
00:35:38Watch out for your own.
00:35:40I can't get rid of her, Hobbie.
00:35:42She hangs around my neck like Coleridge's wretched bird.
00:35:46She thinks if she's with me, she has to be outrageous.
00:35:49Well, we can't have that, can we?
00:35:51Oh, don't be cross.
00:35:53I know I'm a fool.
00:35:56How's the army? Fought any battles?
00:35:59God, I fancy a battle.
00:36:01It's a stepping stone, that's all.
00:36:03As soon as I inherit, I shall resign my commission and run for Parliament.
00:36:07I reckon I can get elected.
00:36:09Just need to consolidate my politics.
00:36:11I've managed to consolidate my politics
00:36:13into an utter detestation of all governments.
00:36:16I cannot bear!
00:36:19Page below with a letter for your lordship.
00:36:22Must be given personal, he says.
00:36:29Bit late for Page, isn't it?
00:36:31I've recently had mail from my sister.
00:36:33She may be back in town.
00:36:34Had no idea you had a sister.
00:36:36Half-sister. Different mothers.
00:36:38Hadn't seen her for 13 years.
00:36:42Caroline!
00:36:43Out, Fletcher! Get off me!
00:36:47I have a gig waiting. We're going to lope tonight.
00:36:50Lope? What a stupid idea!
00:36:53Oh, are you tired of me?
00:36:55Yes, I am tired of you, Caroline. Yes, I am!
00:36:58I love you!
00:36:59Get off me! Get out!
00:37:01Let me try and reason with her.
00:37:03There's no reasoning with her! She's insane!
00:37:09Please, please, let me go!
00:37:12Please, please, let me go!
00:37:29She was never my type.
00:37:33Too small and thin.
00:37:38And thinks herself intellectual,
00:37:40having once read the preface to a novel.
00:37:49William has removed her to Ireland,
00:37:52where she threatens to kill herself.
00:37:54Or you, or both.
00:37:56However, nobody believes her.
00:37:58Her stratagem's all too charmingly familiar.
00:38:01Now, what will you do?
00:38:02I shall leave town.
00:38:04Have you fallen in love?
00:38:08I am quite done with falling in love.
00:38:25BABY CRIES
00:38:38George!
00:38:43I hope you like children.
00:38:47Fervent admirer of King Herod, as a matter of fact.
00:38:54BIRDS CHIRP
00:39:14Five months, I think, since you've seen the Colonel.
00:39:17Keep up! Come on!
00:39:18How do you survive?
00:39:21It's very hard.
00:39:23But we bear up, somehow.
00:39:25We'll fuddle and muddle, that's me.
00:39:30You come from a long line of financial disasters, Gus.
00:39:34To be a Byron, my mother said, is to be doomed.
00:39:38I'm a Byron. Am I doomed?
00:39:43Come and fly the kite, Uncle!
00:39:45Ah!
00:39:47Ah!
00:39:50Here we go. Right, right.
00:39:52Give me the kite. Yes, right.
00:39:54Ready? And run!
00:39:56Run, run, run! Faster, faster, faster!
00:39:58Oh! Nearly, nearly.
00:40:10Any few thoughts?
00:40:12Do be more original.
00:40:17I beg your pardon, Augusta.
00:40:22What happened to you in London?
00:40:24I was made a fool of.
00:40:28You must make plans.
00:40:30Making plans is fun.
00:40:34I want to do something with my life, and this...
00:40:37isn't it.
00:40:39Of course it isn't.
00:40:41All this Thrasybulus and Thermopylae and what have you.
00:40:45Why is everyone so fussed about Greece anyway?
00:40:48It's an ideal.
00:40:50An ideal place.
00:40:52I don't like ideals.
00:40:54I like things I can see and smell and feel.
00:41:08Come on, come on.
00:41:11Get up.
00:41:13Get up.
00:41:15Get up.
00:41:29There must have been lots and lots of girls.
00:41:34There were.
00:41:40And from each I took a little clipping of her hair.
00:41:49From here?
00:41:57From here.
00:42:06Oh, why, it's hectic life up London.
00:42:09Never get in before three in the morning.
00:42:11Three in the morning?
00:42:13What about breakfast?
00:42:15Well, we have breakfast after lunch.
00:42:19Time you give your husband breakfast.
00:42:22I haven't no husband.
00:42:32Fletcher!
00:42:34Fletcher!
00:43:05Fucking box.
00:43:10Carriage is ready, ma'am.
00:43:35You know how sinful this is?
00:43:37Sinful? Why?
00:43:39It doesn't hold to anyone.
00:43:43It is forbidden fruit.
00:43:45I am a bad man, Augusta.
00:43:47Oh, you silly goose.
00:43:50We hardly know each other.
00:43:55I'm sorry.
00:43:57I'm sorry.
00:43:59I'm sorry.
00:44:01I'm sorry.
00:44:03I'm sorry.
00:44:33Who is the woman?
00:44:35That must remain my secret.
00:44:37I don't like secrets.
00:44:39So you say there is some danger?
00:44:43Very great danger.
00:44:45Then give it up. Give it up at once.
00:44:47I cannot.
00:44:48Then she must give you up.
00:44:50She cannot.
00:44:51Then I don't think very highly of this person.
00:44:55Lady Melbourne, it is not her fault.
00:44:58It is mine.
00:45:00My fault.
00:45:01I am a thousand times more to blame.
00:45:04In my experience, the ma'am is never to blame.
00:45:08When you've tired of these childish secrets, Byron,
00:45:11come and see me.
00:45:18Good evening, my lord.
00:45:22Miss Newbank,
00:45:24do you object if I rest here?
00:45:26Not if you talk to me.
00:45:29What is life for, do you think?
00:45:32It is a way to do good,
00:45:34to make people happy,
00:45:36and to serve God.
00:45:38It took me three hours to dress this morning.
00:45:41Subtract the buttoning and unbuttoning,
00:45:43the sleeping and eating and swilling,
00:45:45and what is left of real existence?
00:45:48The summer of a dormouse.
00:45:51A few minutes only of sensation.
00:45:53I do not think sensation is so terribly important.
00:45:56It is our only proof that we exist,
00:45:59and that is why we crave it.
00:46:01You seem to me extremely bewildered, Lord Byron.
00:46:04To a mind such as yours, Miss Milbank,
00:46:07I am sure I am quite unfathomable.
00:46:23George, will you write?
00:46:26It is a long day.
00:46:42You had a winning hand, you idiot.
00:46:44You had a winning hand, and you threw it away.
00:46:57I am very much afraid this weather
00:46:59will make it impossible for me to get home.
00:47:02I shall be trapped here.
00:47:05I shall burrow down like a little bunny rabbit,
00:47:08and I shall only come out for snowball fights.
00:47:13You are damned crink and crank.
00:47:18I cannot do without it.
00:47:26Oh.
00:47:48I've been thinking.
00:47:50Don't strain yourself.
00:47:52You should marry.
00:47:53Why?
00:47:55You need a wife.
00:47:57Well, you're a wife. I'll have you.
00:48:01If you marry, you might keep this place.
00:48:03What, by finding some golden dolly
00:48:05and ennobling the dirty puddle of her mercantile blood?
00:48:08No.
00:48:09A girl of equal rank, only not in debt like us.
00:48:15There is a further reason, not just the money.
00:48:21I shall be having another child.
00:48:26Behold, thou hast driven me out this day
00:48:29from the face of the earth,
00:48:32and from thy face shall I be hid,
00:48:36and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.
00:48:43You remember well.
00:48:47Did you ever meet my nurse, May Gray, from Aberdeen?
00:48:52I believe I saw her once.
00:48:56She beat scripture into me.
00:49:00A few months with May Gray and you remembered every word of it.
00:49:05I'm not sure if she was just doing her job,
00:49:08fitting you for adult life.
00:49:12Yes.
00:49:15I expect that's why she used to take her clothes off,
00:49:19get into my bed and make me spend in her hand.
00:49:26All part of the training.
00:49:30Did she?
00:49:32Yes.
00:49:35She'd thrash me in the daytime and toss me off at night.
00:49:43I have ever since then had a curious gloss on matters biblical.
00:49:50Must have been about nine, I suppose.
00:49:55Poor lamb.
00:49:58I bet you were scared.
00:50:02I was scared.
00:50:07And I was...
00:50:12thrilled.
00:50:16Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower has refused you.
00:50:19Few.
00:50:20Nurse Elphinstone you will not consider.
00:50:23Even a horse couldn't afford her.
00:50:26Which leaves us with Annabella Milbank.
00:50:29What?
00:50:30The princess of parallelograms?
00:50:32She'll want a part of my soul.
00:50:34I don't think that would do any harm, would it?
00:50:39Did you write?
00:50:41Yes.
00:50:43Very beautiful letter.
00:50:47I neither wish you to promise or pledge yourself to anything.
00:50:51I merely wish to learn if there's a possibility.
00:51:17Good morning, Mrs. Lee.
00:51:18Good morning, pleasure.
00:51:19Bear the post, my love.
00:51:25Well?
00:51:28It is from Miss Milbank.
00:51:36Does she accept?
00:51:40Never rains but it pours, does it?
00:51:44We are going to bake the cake, Papa.
00:51:47Can't eat cake. Doctor's orders.
00:51:49The wedding cake.
00:51:51Ah, the poetic wedding cake. Splendid.
00:51:55I was thinking of composing an epiphalamium in his honour.
00:51:59You will no doubt be thrilled.
00:52:01Of course, it might assist me in my labours
00:52:04if I knew a little more about him.
00:52:06Well, his last work, The Corsair,
00:52:08sold 10,000 copies on the day of publication.
00:52:11Won't go short of a guinea, then.
00:52:13Oh, no, he won't take payment for his verses, Papa.
00:52:16It is beneath a gentleman, he says.
00:52:19You see, in secret he is the zealous friend of all the finer feelings.
00:52:24But in society, he tries to disguise the best points of his character.
00:52:29So he is continually making the most sudden transitions
00:52:32from good to evil and from evil to good.
00:52:36I have heard him describe himself as half dust, half deity.
00:52:40It's fascinating.
00:52:43Hmm. Does the fellow shoot?
00:52:58Miss Elphinstone.
00:53:03How is your appetite?
00:53:05For what, my lord?
00:53:07Why, for lobster salad and champagne.
00:53:09Food? Who cares for food?
00:53:11I had half a hope your inference was indelicate.
00:53:14I fear you are too late for that.
00:53:19Who is that?
00:53:22Oh, that's Shelley, Miss Shelley.
00:53:24On the scrounge for money.
00:53:26Got sent down from Oxford, apparently.
00:53:29For what?
00:53:32Atheism.
00:53:38It is your sister.
00:53:40Mystery woman.
00:53:42You were alone with her in Newstead.
00:53:44Besieged up for harm when her husband was away.
00:53:47It is your sister, Augusta Lee.
00:53:49Half-sister.
00:53:51Have you entirely lost your wits?
00:53:54On the contrary, I am only...
00:53:56You may not consult with your sister.
00:53:59It is a thing abhorrent to a person of such a rank.
00:54:02I am a woman.
00:54:04It is your sister.
00:54:06It is a thing abhorrent to persons of taste.
00:54:09Standard practice in ancient Greece.
00:54:11We're not in ancient Greece. We're in Mayfair.
00:54:18What are your feelings towards Mrs Lee at the present moment?
00:54:22At the present moment?
00:54:24Half good, half diabolical.
00:54:29What do you propose to do?
00:54:32I have gone off with her abroad.
00:54:35However, my sister is not so delinquent as I.
00:54:39She will not abscond.
00:54:42And so I am shortly to be married...
00:54:45to Annabella Milbank.
00:54:48I am only doing it for the pleasure of calling you aunt.
00:54:54That is not a sound basis for marriage.
00:54:57Marriage is a holy bond.
00:54:59I find it hard to accept your authority on the subject, Lady Melbourne.
00:55:05Good evening.
00:55:22I saw Byron.
00:55:24He has settled on your cousin from Yorkshire.
00:55:28Good.
00:55:30Marriage will be his salvation.
00:55:32Oh?
00:55:34I cannot see him pulling with a woman who goes to church punctually,
00:55:37understands statistics and has a rotten figure.
00:55:40Can you?
00:55:42I thank you very much for your suggestion on religion.
00:55:46But I must tell you, at the hazard of losing whatever good opinion you have of me,
00:55:51that it is a source from which I never did, and believe I never can, derive comfort.
00:55:57Why I came here, I know not.
00:56:00Where I shall go, it is useless to inquire.
00:56:03In the midst of myriads of living and dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity,
00:56:10why should I be anxious about an atom?
00:56:15But I will read what books you please, hear what arguments you please.
00:56:20You shall be my guide, philosopher and friend.
00:56:24And does he say he loves you?
00:56:27Oh, yes, he says that.
00:56:29Somewhere.
00:56:31And when does he set out?
00:56:36He will set out...
00:56:38today.
00:56:40Mama, he's setting out today.
00:56:47Hobby, would you mind spending Christmas in Cambridge?
00:56:51Cambridge?
00:56:54You've no objection, have you?
00:56:56But they expect us at Seaham House.
00:57:00Well, the princess of parallelograms can square some roots while she waits.
00:57:23Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:57:26Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:57:51Gas.
00:57:57Colonel Lee.
00:58:01My respects.
00:58:03You are welcome, my lord.
00:58:05There is no racing, then?
00:58:07At Christmas? Oh, no.
00:58:09We husbands must return home sometime.
00:58:16I am on my way to get married.
00:58:19Congratulations.
00:58:21I must, of course, reform thoroughly.
00:58:24I betrothed is such a good person that, in short, I wish I was a better.
00:58:40Go to Yorkshire.
00:58:42You must.
00:58:45It is the purest folly.
00:58:49How can I marry this girl?
00:58:52I do not possess you.
00:58:54I have no desire to possess you.
00:58:56I simply want you to be happy.
00:59:01Only you make me happy.
00:59:23Grr. Grr.
00:59:26Grr.
00:59:57Once knew a fella.
00:59:59But he was a vintner.
01:00:01Took 16 days to travel from London to Norwich.
01:00:06Ran into a party at Chelmsford, apparently,
01:00:09who hailed from the Low Countries.
01:00:14Importunate little tramp she was, too.
01:00:16And in two shakes of a lamb's tail, he's on the dock at Harwich.
01:00:26Oopsie.
01:00:57It's a very decent place.
01:01:02Devilish hot.
01:01:09Yeah, that's half the coal mines in Yorkshire.
01:01:27Miss Milbeck.
01:01:31It is a long time since we met.
01:01:34At last.
01:02:05Society must advance, my lord, surely.
01:02:08Society never advances beyond a certain point.
01:02:11Look at us now, Reverend.
01:02:13Retrograding to the dull, stupid old system in Europe,
01:02:16putting kings back on their thrones.
01:02:18We ran so far and then turned back.
01:02:21We ran nowhere in England, as best I may recall.
01:02:24Lord Byron is a great champion of Bonaparte, Lady Milbeck.
01:02:28That filthy little bandit.
01:02:30Impossible.
01:02:32It may be affectation, naturally.
01:02:35Not at all.
01:02:37Any devotion to a noble cause I admire.
01:02:40Give me a republic or a despotism of one like ancient Rome,
01:02:44rather than the ridiculous muddle of twos and threes we have here.
01:02:48It is a confounded muddle, you're quite right.
01:02:51Could never make head or tail of it myself.
01:02:54Perhaps that's why you weren't elected, Ralph.
01:02:56The fact is, riches are powerful.
01:02:59The fact is, riches are power,
01:03:02and poverty is slavery all over the earth.
01:03:05I'm not sure I can agree.
01:03:07There must be a system, after all, some right at the top.
01:03:11It is natural.
01:03:13As you wish.
01:03:16CLINKING
01:03:27We frequent the theatre quite a bit.
01:03:30Why, a fortnight ago, we saw Keane play Macbeth.
01:03:35Did you like him?
01:03:37I adored him. I adore the theatre.
01:03:41Annabella's tastes are somewhat less gaudy.
01:03:44She has always had the very finest of everything.
01:03:47She does like the old poetry, though.
01:03:57You could do a great deal worse.
01:04:00She's a most presentable young person.
01:04:05But too silent.
01:04:10I like a woman to talk,
01:04:13or I am left with the suspicion she is thinking.
01:04:28This is our last night together, Hobby.
01:04:40CLINKING
01:04:47CLINKING
01:05:10CLINKING
01:05:34Did the bride and groom come forward?
01:05:40CLINKING
01:05:46Would you please kneel?
01:05:59Can you find somewhere for this?
01:06:02Why, are you coming too, are you?
01:06:04Of course.
01:06:06So what's your name?
01:06:08Rude by name and rude by nature.
01:06:11Probably so, see you.
01:06:21The ring, please.
01:06:24CLINKING
01:06:35I now pronounce you man and wife.
01:06:42You may kiss.
01:06:44CLINKING
01:07:10Well, there we are.
01:07:15CLINKING
01:07:21Well done, George, God bless you.
01:07:23Well done indeed.
01:07:25Splendid.
01:07:27May you both be content for the rest of your days.
01:07:30I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives.
01:07:35As much as if we had never married at all.
01:07:38LAUGHTER
01:07:41CHEERING
01:07:48George.
01:07:50George.
01:07:59Excellent, excellent.
01:08:01What do you think, Judith?
01:08:04What have we done?
01:08:11CLINKING
01:08:19We ought never to have married.
01:08:24Why?
01:08:27Because I am evil.
01:08:30I have done evil.
01:08:33Tambourgi!
01:08:37Tambourgi!
01:08:57Welcome to Harderby, my lord. Brandy and soda.
01:09:01CLINKING
01:09:05Lady Barron, we are all so pleased to see you here.
01:09:18COUGHS
01:09:26Hello.
01:09:28Hello.
01:09:34What did you mean when you said you had done evil?
01:09:37Nothing. I was bored.
01:09:41We are all sinners in the eyes of the Lord.
01:09:44Our daily task is to atone.
01:09:46Shall we go down to dinner?
01:09:49You see, there are degrees of evil.
01:09:52Some would say it was bad, for example, to eat meat on Friday, whereas others...
01:09:56Look, it was merely a casual remark.
01:09:59But what did you mean by it?
01:10:01Don't you ever say things off the cuff for no particular reason?
01:10:04My ma has taught me that I should first think and not act
01:10:07until I have considered the consequences of my actions.
01:10:10Well, I favour acting first
01:10:12and hoping the consequences fall within my budget.
01:10:17Shall that not be considered irresponsible?
01:10:21Have you any sense of humour at all, Annabella?
01:10:24My mother says I have.
01:10:27Oh, you doubt her judgement?
01:10:29Absolutely not.
01:10:31Lady Melbourne has many times warned me about it.
01:10:34My aunt is a little more peppery than is apt for a lady of her years.
01:10:37I suppose that's why we go along so well.
01:10:43But when you said that we should never have married,
01:10:46that you had done evil,
01:10:48you implied a dreadful load of criminality weighing upon your mind.
01:10:52I cannot help rehearsing those words in my head and wondering...
01:10:56Come here.
01:10:58Come here.
01:11:29CLINKING
01:11:43A most satisfactory day, my lord.
01:11:47If I might, I will offer my congratulations.
01:11:51Thank you, Fletcher.
01:11:54Can't be counted an unbridled success, however,
01:11:57as I have caught a cold.
01:12:09What are you doing here?
01:12:11Why, I'm coming to bed.
01:12:13With me?
01:12:15I am your wife.
01:12:17Yes, but...
01:12:19surely you don't intend to...
01:12:23I never go to sleep with a woman.
01:12:26Very well, good night.
01:12:29Well, come back, please.
01:12:32Come back?
01:12:40You may do as you choose.
01:12:43It is only I am a little...
01:12:47inhibited.
01:12:49You?
01:12:52Oh.
01:12:56Your foot.
01:13:00I do think...
01:13:03if we are to spend the rest of our lives together...
01:13:17There.
01:13:19There.
01:13:21It isn't so horrible, is it?
01:13:31Sleep hath its own world,
01:13:33a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence.
01:13:40Sleep hath its own world and a wide realm of wild reality.
01:13:46And dreams in their development have breath and tears and tortures
01:13:53and the touch of joy.
01:14:00Oh, God!
01:14:06Oh, God, I'm in hell!
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