TABLE OF CONTENTS

EPISODE 1
Prelims 1  Scene 1/1  Scene 1/12a/b  Scene 1/2c  Scene 1/2d  Scene 1/3  Scene 1/5  Scene 1/6  Scene NS1  Scene 1/19a  Scene 1/13  Scene 1/13a  Scene 1/14b  Scene 1/15  Scene 1/7  Scene 1/8  Scene 1/11  Scene 1/11a  Scene 1/12  Scene 1/16  Scene 1/17  Scene 1/18a  Scene 1/18b  Scene 1/19  Scene NS2  Scene 1/21  Scene 1/23  Scene 1/24  Scene 1/25  Scene 1/26  Scene 1/27  Scene 1/28  Scene 1/29  Scene 1/30  Scene 1/31  Scene 1/32  Scene 1/33  Scene 1/50  Scene 1/51  Scene 1/53a  Scene 1/53b  Scene 1/36  Scene 1/37  Scene 1/39  Scene 1/38  Scene 1/40  Scene 1/46  Scene 1/47  Scene 1/56  Scene 1/57  Scene 1/58  Scene 1/59  Scene 1/60  Scene 1/61  Scene 1/62  Scene 1/63  Scene 1/64  Scene 1/65  Scene 1/66  Scene 1/48  Scene 1/49  Scene 1/67  Scene 1/68  Scene NS3  Scene 1/69  Scene 1/71  Scene 1/72  Scene 1/75  Scene 1/76  Scene 1/77  Scene 1/78  Scene 1/79  Scene 1/83  Scene 1/74  Scene 1/74a  Scene 1/74-contd 

EPISODE 2
Prelims 2  Scene NS4  Scene 1/85  Scene 1/86  Scene 1/87  Scene 2/2  Scene 2/4  Scene 2/5  Scene 2/8  Scene 2/1  Scene 2/9  Scene 2/10  Scene 2/11  Scene 2/12  Scene 2/11b  Scene 2/12b  Scene 2/17  Scene 2/17a  Scene 2/18b  Scene 2/19  Scene 2/20  Scene 2/21a  Scene 2/23  Scene 2/24  Scene 2/25  Scene 2/26  Scene 2/27  Scene 2/28  Scene 2/29  Scene 2/34  Scene 2/46  Scene 2/47  Scene 2/48  Scene 2/49  Scene 2/50  Scene 2/51  Scene 2/52  Scene 2/54  Scene 2/37  Scene 2/37a  Scene 2/38  Scene 2/39  Scene 2/44  Scene 2/40a  Scene 2/72  Scene 2/45  Scene 2/57  Scene 2/55  Scene 3/5  Scene 3/6  Scene 3/7  Scene 2/62  Scene 2/65  Scene 2/66  Scene 2/70  Scene 2/71 

EPISODE 3
Prelims 3  Scene NS5  Scene 3/10  Scene NS6  Scene 3/11  Scene 3/12  Scene 3/13  Scene 3/15  Scene 3/16  Scene 3/17  Scene 3/18  Scene 3/19  Scene 3/20  Scene 3/21  Scene 3/22  Scene 3/23  Scene 3/24  Scene 3/25  Scene 3/27  Scene 3/28  Scene 3/29  Scene 3/30  Scene 3/32  Scene 3/33  Scene 3/36  Scene 3/41  Scene 3/37  Scene 3/39  Scene 3/43  Scene 3/44  Scene 3/47  Scene 3/48  Scene 3/49  Scene 3/50  Scene 3/51  Scene NS7  Scene 3/52  Scene 3/53  Scene 3/54  Scene 3/62  Scene 3/63  Scene 3/64  Scene 3/65  Scene 3/67  Scene 3/68  Scene 3/69  Scene 3/70  Scene NS8  Scene 3/71a  Scene 3/72  Scene 3/76  Scene 3/76a  Scene 3/78  Scene 3/79  Scene 3/80  Scene 3/81  Scene 3/82  Scene 3/84 

EPISODE 4
Prelims 4  Scene 4/1  Scene NS9  Scene 4/2  Scene NS10  Scene 4/3  Scene 4/4  Scene 4/17  Scene 4/9  Scene 4/10  Scene 4/20  Scene 4/13  Scene 4/15  Scene 4/21  Scene 4/6  Scene 4/7a  Scene 4/11  Scene 4/12  Scene 4/22  Scene 4/23  Scene 4/25  Scene 4/26  Scene NS11  Scene 4/33  Scene 4/46  Scene 4/47  Scene 4/49  Scene 3/56  Scene 4/30  Scene 4/31  Scene 4/32  Scene 4/32a  Scene 4/50a  Scene 4/34  Scene 4/35  Scene 4/60  Scene 4/61  Scene 4/36  Scene 4/37  Scene 4/38  Scene 4/43  Scene 4/44  Scene 4/50b  Scene 4/51  Scene 4/54  Scene 4/56  Scene 4/27  Scene 4/62  Scene 4/63  Scene 4/64  Scene NS12 

EPISODE 5
Prelims 5  Scene 5/9  Scene 5/10  Scene 5/2  Scene 5/4  Scene 5/11  Scene 5/8  Scene NS13  Scene 5/12  Scene NS14  Scene 5/34  Scene 5/13  Scene NS15  Scene 5/14  Scene 5/27  Scene 5/28  Scene 5/47  Scene 5/29  Scene 5/31  Scene 5/33  Scene 5/50  Scene 5/53  Scene 5/54  Scene 5/57  Scene 5/58  Scene 5/55  Scene 5/15  Scene 5/16  Scene 5/17  Scene 5/18  Scene 5/19  Scene 5/20  Scene NS16  Scene 5/24  Scene NS17  Scene 5/21  Scene 5/25  Scene 5/35  Scene 5/36  Scene 5/37  Scene 5/45  Scene 5/46  Scene 5/40  Scene 5/41  Scene 5/42a  Scene 5/43 

EPISODE 6
Prelims 6  Scene 6/3  Scene 6/4  Scene 6/44  Scene NS18  Scene 6/13  Scene 6/8  Scene 6/10  Scene 6/6  Scene 6/14  Scene 6/15a  Scene 6/15b  Scene 6/17  Scene 6/18  Scene 6/19  Scene 6/21  Scene 6/23  Scene 6/16  Scene 6/24  Scene 6/25  Scene 6/27  Scene 6/28  Scene 6/31  Scene NS19  Scene 6/32a  Scene 6/32b  Scene 6/32d  Scene 6/36  Scene 6/37  Scene 6/38  Scene 6/43  Scene 6/48  Scene 6/46  Scene 6/51  Scene 6/54  Scene 6/55  Scene 6/57  Scene 6/56a  Scene 6/56b  Scene 6/61  Scene 6/61a  Scene 6/63  Scene 6/64  Scene 6/65  Scene 6/68  Scene 6/69  Scene NS20  Scene 6/71  Scene 6/72a  Scene 6/77  Scene 6/78  Scene 6/79  Scene 6/80  Scene 6/74  Scene 6/75  Scene 6/84  Scene 6/85  Scene 6/86 

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POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT [...] UK/WGBH VERSION Programme number: 50/LDL R331S/01X [...] BBC TELEVISION Tape No: DR 17181 Programme Dur: 79'59"

MIDDLEMARCH

by GEORGE ELIOT

Screenplay for television in six parts

by ANDREW DAVIES

EPISODE 1

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PRODUCER ... LOUIS MARKS
Associate Producers ... ALISON GEE
... CAROLE BISSET
Script Editor ... SUSIE CHAPMAN

DIRECTOR ... ANTHONY PAGE
First Assistant Director ... ROB EVANS
Production Manager ... JULIE EDWARDS
Location Manager ... SAM DRECKMAN
Location Manager ... JEFF GOLDING
PA/Script Supervisor ... JANE GRIFFITHS
Co-ordinator ... UNA SAPLAMIDES
Assistant Floor Managers ... CLARE SOLLY
... KATY BRIERS
Second Assistant Director ... TANIA NORMAND
Third Assistant Director ... ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Production Secretary ... LUCY HOARE

Lighting Cameraman ... BRIAN TUFANO
Sound Recordist ... DICK BOULTER
Film Editor ... JERRY LEON
Film Editor ... PAUL TOTHILL

Production Designer ... GERRY SCOTT
Costume Designer ... ANUSHIA NIERADZIK
Make-up Designer ... DEANNE TURNER
Special Effects Designer ... STUART BRISDON
Casting ... GAIL STEVENS

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A BBC-TV PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH WGBH/BOSTON

Filmed in Italy, Lincolnshire, Somerset - January to August 1993

FIRST TRANSMISSION DATE: WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY - BBC-2 NARRATIVE REPEAT TRANSMISSION: MONDAY 17 JANUARY - BBC-1

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NB: Please note that programme does not start at T/C 10:00:00. Cut to black from VT clock at 09:59:44. Opening titles fade up at 09:59:47 with music.

OPENING CAST CREDITS

Opening Title Music
T/C In: 09:59:47

T/C Out:
Duration: 00'47"

Incidental Music
Music Cue - IMI
T/C In: 10:00:34

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1M1 continues

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1M1 continues

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T/C Out: 10:03:42
Duration: 03'08"

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CELIA
We're late. Let's go back through the woods.

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CELIA
Come on, Dodo. We're going to be late.

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DOROTHEA
I believe I shall give up riding, Celia.

CELIA
Oh, Dodo. Horses need exercise you know. And Pimble needs employment.

DOROTHEA
Yes, I know, but is that all we can do: exercise horses and employ servants?

CELIA
Well, I don't know, Dodo.

BROOKE [across this]
Yes, that's all very fine, Roach, but fences cost money, you know.

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ROACH
It'll cost you a lot more money in the long if you let 'em rot, Mr. Brooke.

BROOKE
Ah, now I think you'll find there's a middle way, Roach, a middle way ...

ROACH [Ad lib]
Mr Brooke, the matter's urgent. The cattle are getting out.

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1/19a. INT. LYDGATE'S LODGINGS. OCTOBER 1829. NIGHT.

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SA (NURSE)
His system needs purging. Shall I move him downstairs and have him bled?

LYDGATE [to the NURSE]
No. No. No purpose. It's relieving to the spirit to be active but in these cases there's nothing to be done but observe the progress of the fever.

LYDGATE
I shall look in again tomorrow.

FAREBROTHER
Lydgate! How are you?

LYDGATE
Reverend Farebrother! Well enough, as you see.

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FAREBROTHER
Finding your feet, then.

LYDGATE
I feel as if I've been here all my life.

FAREBROTHER
Good. I've just been chatting with old Mrs Hislop, she's some tales about this place in the old days, before you came, make your blood run cold, Lydgate.

LYDGATE
I doubt that very much.

FAREBROTHER
Aye, you medical men, takes a good deal to shock you. You see all sides of life.

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FAREBROTHER
Oh, I ran into a friend of yours the other day -Trawley was the name.

LYDGATE
Trawley. I knew him when I was studying in Paris! He was such a political idealist ­ he wanted to found a utopian community in the forest - did he ever do it?

FAREBROTHER
I think not. He'd been a doctor at a German spa, married his richest patient, and retired before he was thirty. More of a realist than an idealist, I'd have said.

LYDGATE [shocked]
What a damned shameful waste of a life.

FAREBROTHER
Some might not say so. Not everyone has your moral fibre, Lydgate. But I'm late for a christening, shall I be forgiven? I doubt it.

LYDGATE
Mr. Bulstrode.

BULSTRODE
Ah!

FAREBROTHER
Good day to you!

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BULSTRODE
Mr Farebrother. Dr. Lydgate. Will you do me the great favour of walking across to the Bank with me? The plans for the new hospital are ready for your inspection.

LYDGATE
Are they? Good. Good. Of course.

BULSTRODE
Excuse us.

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LYDGATE
How soon will it be ready for use?

BULSTRODE
A matter of months.

LYDGATE
Excellent. Excellent.

BULSTRODE
And I believe I can assure you it will be dedicated as a fever hospital. I have advised that it should.

HAWLEY
That's the new sawbones, is it?

STANDISH
Lydgate, yes. Very well spoken of. Clever man, good family too they say.

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LYDGATE
Mmm, this is an excellent design, Mr. Bulstrode. The architect has vision and, and he's been well instructed. [he looks inspired]
You know in a few years time we could have a first class medical school here in Middlemarch - why should London and Paris and Edinburgh have it all? I am convinced that the causes and treatment of typhoid and cholera will very soon yield to rigorous scientific investigation - and why should they not yield to it here, in Middlemarch? Where are the kitchens? Ah yes. I see. Good. Good.

BULSTRODE
You will continue to give your services without payment?

LYDGATE [preoccupied with the plans]
Yes of course. [he straightens up ]
I have my general practice, Mr. Bulstrode, and my wants are modest. I know I can do good here. My aim is to do good small work for Middlemarch, and great work for the world. You see I am ambitious.

BULSTRODE
I am glad to hear it, sir. As you know, I mean to entrust to you the super-intendence of my new hospital.

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BULSTRODE
But you recognise the existence of spiritual interests in your patients?

LYDGATE
Yes, of course. This room here would make an excellent laboratory, don't you think?

BULSTRODE
I refer to the chaplaincy of the hospitals. am proposing to the committee that the Reverend Mr. Farebrother should be replaced by the Reverend Mr. Tyke.

LYDGATE
Oh, what's wrong with Farebrother?

BULSTRODE
He is a man deeply painful to contemplate. Oh, I suppose there is not a clergyman in this country who has greater talents.

LYDGATE
Really. I haven't yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch.

BULSTRODE
I mean that Mr. Farebrother has great talents but he dissipates them shamefully. He lacks spirituality. He... he brings his calling into disrepute.

LYDGATE
Does he indeed? Well, I've no knowledge in these matters - if this room were a laboratory ...

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BULSTRODE [more softly but insistently]
Dr. Lydgate, the matter of the chaplaincy will be referred to the medical board. It will be voted on. You will be required to vote. I trust I may ask of you this at least ­ in virtue of the association between us which I now look forward to - that you will not be influenced by my opponents in this matter.

BULSTRODE
Let me boldly confess to you, Dr. Lydgate, that the affairs of this temporal world are as nothing to me when they are in conflict with my spiritual duty. I trust I make myself clear?

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DOROTHEA
I'm not sure if I've made the fireplaces big enough.

CELIA
Farmworkers cottages: a new design. Yes, very nice, but you know Uncle. They'll never be built Dodo. [so much for that]
Do you think we might look through Mamma's jewels now, and divide them between us? I think it would be lacking in respect to Mamma's memory if we were to put them by and never look at them ... and you know Uncle has invited Sir James Chettam and that other gentleman to dine with us this evening ...

DOROTHEA
Mr. Casaubon. [she pronounces his name with awe]
Uncle says he is the most learned man in the county.

CELIA
What do you think about Mamma's jewels?

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DOROTHEA
You mean you would like to wear them?

CELIA
I thought we both might.

CELIA
Look.

DOROTHEA
You can wear that with your Indian muslin, Kitty.

CELIA
And Dodo I thought this cross for you ­

DOROTHEA
Not as a trinket. No - you have it - have them all.

CELIA
Dodo how can I wear ornaments if you never will?

DOROTHEA
Celia, it is too much to ask that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance.

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DOROTHEA
They are lovely though. It's strange how deeply colours seem to ... penetrate one . . . like scent. They look like fragments of heaven.

CELIA [seizing her chance]
Here's a bracelet to match it. Try it. Please, Dodo.
[She passes her a bracelet]

DOROTHEA
They are lovely.

CELIA
And necklaces are quite usual now, really, Dodo. Even for Christians -surely there must be women in heaven now, who wore jewels!

CELIA
You must keep these, if nothing else. Say you will, Dodo.

DOROTHEA
Perhaps I shall.

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BROOKE
Sir Humphrey Davy, now! I dined with him years ago at Cartwright's ­ Wordsworth was there, you know, Wordsworth, the poet, Davy was a poet too, did you know that, or, as you might say, Wordsworth was poet one and Davy was poet two, d'ye follow? Wordsworth was poet one, and Davy was poet two.

BROOKE
Do you know Davy, Casaubon?

CASAUBON
No, sir, I regret that I do not.

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BROOKE
Chettam here has studied Davy, and his Agricultural Chemistry, but it won't do.

CHETTAM
I am reading the Agricultural Chemistry, Miss Brooke, because I want to take one of my farms into my own hands, and see if I can set a good pattern of farming amongst my tenants. Do you approve of that?

DOROTHEA [warmly]
Why yes, very much indeed, Sir James - I wish you could persuade my uncle to do the same!

BROOKE
No, no, no, it won't do. Fancy farming I call it, the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy. You may as well keep a pack of hounds.

DOROTHEA [with some energy]
But surely it's not a sin, Uncle, to spend money in finding out how to make the most of the land that supports us all?

BROOKE [to CASAUBON]
Ladies don't understand political economy, you know.

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BROOKE
No, a little light literature is more to their taste ...

DOROTHEA [almost an undertone]
Uncle.

BROOKE [undeterred]
Novels, you know, poetry, Scott, Shelley, Southey, now, do you know Southey at all, Casaubon?

CASAUBON [shakes his head]
I have at present little leisure for modem literature. I live too much with the dead, perhaps.

BROOKE
Casaubon's engaged upon a great work, y'know, isn't that so, Casaubon?

CASAUBON
I believe I am, yes. Perhaps too great a work for the mind of one man to compass.

DOROTHEA
May I know what it is, Mr. Casaubon?

CASAUBON
I am compiling a Key to All Mythologies, Miss Brooke. I am seeking to elucidate those elements which underpin every system of belief know to man. [He seems really fired up and intense ­ then he recollected himself]
It's not, perhaps, a subject of great interest to young ladies.

DOROTHEA
On the contrary - to me that seems a wonderful endeavour.

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CASAUBON
You are very kind, Miss Brooke. I'm much encouraged.

BROOKE
How do you arrange your documents?

CASAUBON
Pigeonholes partly.

BROOKE
Ah, pigeonholes will not do. I never know whether a paper is in A or Z.

DOROTHEA
I wish you would let me sort your papers for you Uncle. I would letter them all and then make a list of subjects under each letter.

CASAUBON
But you have an excellent secretary at hand, you perceive.

CHETTAM
I hear you are determined to give up riding, Miss Brooke - surely that isn't true?

DOROTHEA
t is true, Sir James.

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CHETTAM
Oh, but why? You're such an accomplished horsewoman and it is such healthy exercise - and every lady should be a good horsewoman, you know, that she may accompany her husband. Surely it isn't possible you should think riding is wrong?

DOROTHEA
It is quite possible that I should think it wrong for me.

CHETTAM
Oh, why?

DOROTHEA
Well, I simply feel that there ought to be a better way to live.

CHETTAM
But surely ...!

CASAUBON
Perhaps we should not inquire too closely as to motives. I believe I understand your response, Miss Brooke.

DOROTHEA [softly]
Thank you.

Incidental Music Music Cue - 1M2A/B
T/C In: 10.15:53

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Incidental Music 1M2A/B cotinues

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Incidental Music 1M2A/B continues

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1/12. EXT. TIPTON. OCTOBER 1829. DAY.

CASAUBON's carriage stands in front of Tipton.

BROOKE

[AD LIB]
Now, then, a good journey to you and a safe one. They're full of oats. They'll take you a good crack.

The carriage pulls away.

BROOKE
Well, well, he's not such a bad fellow after all ...

He mooches back into the house.

DOROTHEA still looking after CASAUBON starry eyed, CELIA looking at DOROTHEA in some puzzlement.

T/C Out: 10:18:34
Duration: 02'41"

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HIRAM [across this]
Eighty nine ....

BAMBRIDGE
Luck of the devil, Mr. Farebrother. Lovely little player, though - could have made a living at it. Does make a living at it near enough, pays for his butter if not his bread, eh my lads? Well that vicaring's not a paying game, I don't blame him - well done Mr. Farebrother!

MRS DOLLOP
Found another lamb to fleece I see Mr. Farebrother, more fool you Mr. Fred for playing with a clergyman, the clergy always wins you know for God's on their side ....

BAMBRIDGE
... and so He is Mrs. Dollop. Thank you.

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MRS DOLLOP
Here you are.

BAMBRIDGE
Master Vincy! Over here!

FRED
I'm afraid I can't afford to pay you just yet, Mr. Bambridge.

BAMBRIDGE
No? I'm not surprised. I hope I shan't have to speak to your father about it.

FAREBROTHER
Mr. Bambridge.

BAMBRIDGE
Mr. Farebrother, your winnings sir.

FAREBROTHER
Very good! Good evening! [he turns to leave]
Evening! Evening Mrs. Dollop!

MRS DOLLOP
Evening Mr. Farebrother.

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FAREBROTHER
Lydgate! Excellent! Well met! Are you busy this evening? Where are you off to?

LYDGATE
Just a solitary supper in my lodgings with a book for company - there's an experiment I want to think about.

FAREBROTHER
Postpone it. Come home and take your supper at my house. No, I insist. Then you can inspect my collection. What do you say to that?

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FIRST OLD LADY
Here are the glasses, Camden. Goodnight!

SECOND OLD LADY
Goodnight, Camden dear.

FAREBROTHER [to the old women]
Goodnight Mother!

OLD LADIES
Goodnight.

FAREBROTHER
Goodnight all!

LYDGATE
Formidable. You're a scientist.

FAREBROTHER [shrugs]
I keep my mind alive. You have no hobbies yourself?

LYDGATE
So much I want to achieve in my profession. Both practically and in theory. I have the ocean to swim in here.

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FAREBROTHER
Many men would call Middlemarch a backwater.

LYDGATE
It's ideal for my purposes. I want to work on fever - the prevention and the treatment. I think I will be able to show dramatic results in a town of this size. D'you see? ... and by example I want to bring about a general reform in practice - we shouldn't still be making our money by selling panaceas that are as useful as bottled ditch water.

FAREBROTHER
I believe you'd like to make Middlemarch a model for all England to follow.

LYDGATE
That's exactly what I want to do ... and in the country, you can follow your own course more easily. People let you alone. You can get on with your own life.

FAREBROTHER
Lydgate ... I think I should warn you. You're new to Middlemarch. It's not the simple place it seems. For example: you're my friend, I hope. But if you vote for me as the chaplain to the new hospital, you'll make an enemy of Bulstrode. And that is something no one should do lightly. He can do you harm.

LYDGATE
I hope I act on my beliefs, not out of petty expediency. Life's too short for that sort of ... provincial moral shabbiness. But what does Bulstrode have against you?

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FAREBROTHER
That I don't teach his opinions, which he calls "spiritual religion" - it's the sort of Christianity that does more to make people feel uncomfortable than to make them feel better. It makes me shudder. And he says I haven't the time to look after both hospitals. That's true - but I could make the time, and I should be glad of the forty pounds. I should be happier to earn it in the exercise of my vocation rather than ... in the billiard room or at the card table.

FAREBROTHER
But let's dismiss all that. Just remember ­ if you do vote with Bulstrode, you're not to cut me in consequence. Idealists and intelligent men are thin on the ground in Middlemarch. I simply can't afford to do without you, Lydgate.

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Establisher.

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1/21. INT. VINCY HOUSE. BREAKFAST/DRAWING ROOM. OCTOBER 1829. DAY.

MRS. VINCY
Thank you Pritchard. Knock at Mr. Fred's door again, Pritchard, and tell him it is gone half past ten.

PRITCHARD
Yes, Mrs. Vincy.

ROSAMOND
Mamma when Fred comes down I wish you would not let him have red herrings. I cannot bear the smell of them all over the house.

MRS. VINCY
Now, Rosamond my love. A red herring's not much is it. We women must learn to put up with little things, and if it's only the smell of a red herring you can count yourself lucky. You'll be married some day.

ROSAMOND
Yes but not to anyone like Fred. And not to anyone who has red herrings. And not to anyone at all from Middlemarch

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MRS. VINCY
So it would seem, my dear, for you have as good as refused the pick of them!

ROSAMOND
Mamma!

MRS. VINCY
What is it, Rosie?

ROSAMOND
I wish you wouldn't say 'the pick of them'. It is a rather vulgar expression.

MRS. VINCY [a bit long suffering]
Yes, very likely, my dear. What should I say, then?

ROSAMOND
The 'best' of them.

MRS. VINCY
Well I never. D'you know that sounds just as plain and common to me. But with your education you must know, dear.

FRED
Good morning, Mother! Rosie!

ROSAMOND
Rosamond.

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FRED [surveying the well-stocked table]
Ham, toast, potted beef . . . is there nothing else for breakfast, Pritchard?

PRITCHARD
Should you like eggs, sir?

FRED
Eggs ... no! Bring me a grilled bone!

PRITCHARD
Yes, sir.

ROSAMOND
Really, Fred. What would you think of me if I came down at half past ten and ordered grilled bone?

FRED [grinning: he's already tucking in to what's there ]
I should think you were an uncommonly fast young lady.

ROSAMOND
I don't see why brothers have to be so disagreeable.

FRED [rather brilliantly]
Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings, Rosie, not my actions.

ROSAMOND
I think it describes the smell of grilled bone.

FRED
Not at all. It describes the sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions acquired in Mrs. Lemon's finishing school. [going on fast to forestall her reply]
Mother! I shall ride over to Stone Court this morning.

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ROSAMOND
Oh, to see Mary Garth, I suppose.

MRS. VINCY [coming in again]
It's a pity you have not the patience to go and see your Uncle more often, Rosie, so proud of you as he is, and wanted you to go and live with him, and now Mary Garth has got in there ...

ROSAMOND
Mary Garth can bear Stone Court because it was that or becoming a governess. I would rather not have anything left to me if I must earn it by enduring my uncle's cough and his ugly relations.

MRS. VINCY
Now Rosie, neither you nor Fred can afford to be so proud. Uncle Featherstone is fond of you, but he'll leave you nothing unless you show yourselves agreeable. Those horrid relations of his are camped out in that parlour night and day like carrion crows - the least you could do is go and sit with him an hour, Rosie. He's not long for this world.

ROSAMOND
Very well, Mamma. I'll go with Fred this morning, just to please you. I'll even sing Ye Banks and Braes for the hundred and thirty seven thousandth time, if my Uncle requests me to.

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ROSAMOND
Mamma said that there's a new doctor attending Uncle Featherstone.

FRED
Yes, Lydgate: clever fellow too .... aha! I see!

ROSAMOND
What do you mean by that?

FRED
Now I know why we're going to Stone Court.

ROSAMOND
Fred!

FRED [as he sees the other guys on their flash mounts]
Damn it, I wish I had a halfway decent horse.. . [patting his]
There, there, never mind, Sugar ... Come on!

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FEATHERSTONE
Ah! Aha! Very good, missy! Just like a little blackbird! And what would she know of departed joys? Not much I hope! Haha! hahaha ha!

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FEATHERSTONE [grins]
Fred Vincy. Come here. Be off with the lot of you. Off with you, off with you! I've got a bone to pick with this boy here.

FEATHERSTONE
That's it, sit close, good boy. Now then. A little bird has told me that you have got into debt with your constant playing at billiards for high stakes, and the same little bird tells me that you've been borrowing on your expectations. That you've been telling folks that old Featherstone is leaving you his land and you've been raising ready cash on the strength of it, haven't you, sir?

FRED
Indeed I have not, sir.

FEATHERSTONE
Oh, I hear Bulstrode the banker tells a different tale.

FRED
Then he's mistaken, sir, or he's lying, or your little bird is.

FEATHERSTONE
Oh, I can alter my will yet, you know. And I shall, mark my words, unless you contradict the story, Fred.

FRED
I have contradicted it, Uncle Featherstone.

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FEATHERSTONE
Ah, yes, but I want dockimentation. From Bulstrode the banker. Saying in black and white that he knows nothing against you in this respect.

FRED
I couldn't go and beg Bulstrode for that. It's not a thing a gentleman should ask.

FEATHERSTONE
Suit yourself, young squire. There's plenty of others I can leave my money to. Ay, money's a good egg.

FEATHERSTONE [when he's over his bout]
You're a good girl, Mary. You've got a plain face and a sharp tongue and I daresay you'll never get a husband but you're a good girl.

FRED [warmly]
She's the best girl I know.

FEATHERSTONE
Oh! Is she now?

FRED
Did you get those books I sent you Mary?

MARY
Yes, thank you.

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FEATHERSTONE
What do you want with more books, Mary?

MARY [sharply]
Because I'm fond of reading, of course, what do you think?

FEATHERSTONE
Too fond! You've got the newspaper to read out loud to me every week. That's enough for any young girl I would have thought.

MARY
I like to read to myself as well. And I shall, too.

FEATHERSTONE
You shall not. I can't abide to see her reading to herself. It's not natural for any young girl. You mind not to bring her any more books, do you hear?

FRED
Yes, sir, I hear.

FEATHERSTONE
Ah, my little blackbird, we haven't had "Home Sweet Home" yet.

ROSAMOND
Oh, I'm sure everyone thinks I've sung quite enough, Uncle Featherstone. I'll sing it to you next time I come.

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FEATHERSTONE
Next time you come? I may be in my coffin next time you come. Home Sweet Home, if you please, and quick about it.

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Home Sweet Home
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FEATHERSTONE
Ah, very pretty, very nice, ah, here he comes at last, the man of the moment! Dr. Lydgate, this is my niece, Miss Rosamond Vincy!

LYDGATE
How d'ye do, Miss Vincy?

LYDGATE
I had heard Miss Vincy was a musician. I confess I hadn't expected she would be quite so ... talented.

FEATHERSTONE
The best in Middlemarch, I'll be bound!

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ROSAMOND
Middlemarch has not a very high standard, Uncle. I'm afraid we must be leaving ... I promised Mamma - Fred - where is my whip? Oh ...

ROSAMOND [softly]
Thank you.

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ROSAMOND
They say his uncle is a baronet with a great estate in Yorkshire.

FRED
Yes, there was a Lydgate up at Oxford spent no end of money ... but rich men may have paupers for cousins, Rosie.

ROSAMOND
It always makes a difference to be of a good family.

FRED
Did Mary say anything about me?

ROSAMOND [not without some pleasure]
Yes, she said she thought you were very unsteady, and that if you asked her to marry you she'd refuse.

FRED
Well, she might have waited till I did ask her.

ROSAMOND
I don't know what you see in her Fred. I should never have thought she was a girl to fall in love with.

FRED
And how would you know what men fall in love with? Girls never know. [pause ]
Did she really say that?

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ROSAMOND
I always tell the truth.

FRED
She's right. I am unsteady. But I do love her, Rosie.

FRED
Oh, Lord, now I shall have to talk to Father and get him to butter up Uncle Bulstrode.

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CHILDREN [OOV]
Miss Brooke! Miss Brooke!

DOROTHEA
Morning, Lucy!

CHILDREN
Can I have some of these, Miss Brooke?

DOROTHEA
Of course. Could you look after Monk for me, Ben?

DOROTHEA
Morning, Mrs. Barnacle.

MRS. BARNACLE [curtseying]
Morning, Miss Brooke.

DOROTHEA
How is your husband?

MRS. BARNACLE
Still bad, Miss Brooke.

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DOROTHEA
May I come in?

MRS. BARNACLE
Very honoured, Miss.

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DOROTHEA
Try and give him some of that jelly. That room is so damp - I have spoken to Mr. Brooke about the roof, and I shall remind him again.

MRS. BARNACLE
Thank you, Miss Brooke, it's very good of you.

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CHETTAM
Miss Brooke! I was on my way to see you! I have a little petitioner for you, if you'll accept him.

DOROTHEA
What is it?

CHETTAM
A little Maltese gentleman.

DOROTHEA
I'm sorry, but I cannot bear toy breeds - I should be terrified of treading on it - my eyesight is rather poor, you know.

CHETTAM
Well, well, no matter - here, John, take this will you?

CHETTAM
Can't stand the things myself, but they tell me ladies like 'em . . . may I walk with you?

DOROTHEA
Yes, of course.

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DOROTHEA
It's terrible the way we live in ease while we let our tenants rot in pigsties. We deserve to be beaten out of our beautiful houses with a scourge of small cords!

CHETTAM [a bit alarmed]
You think that?

DOROTHEA
Yes, I do.

CHETTAM
You have your own opinion about everything, Miss Brooke. Do you know I ­ I envy you that? Lovegood was telling me you have made a plan for new cottages, he was full of praise for your ideas.

DOROTHEA
I'm afraid they will come to nothing. Uncle won't consent to anything on the estate that costs him money. It's shameful.

CHETTAM
Miss Brooke, I should like to consult your plans if I may. You see I am determined to build new cottages at Freshitt ...

DOROTHEA
How very good of you, Sir James! Nothing would please me more! How wonderful it would be if we could set a pattern about here.

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BROOKE
Sir James Chettam is setting a thoroughly bad example to his neighbours in my view. These cottages he proposes to build ... it's folly and madness.

BROOKE
Well, of course he's a rich man, and I daresay he can afford to pay for his follies, but he should think of the consequences to others, you know ... we shall all end up out of pocket, I make no doubt. Well, so be it. I shall go over to Lowick today. I thought I might ask Casaubon to dine with us again ... would that be agreeable?

CELIA [sighing]
Oh no!

BROOKE
Hm, well, perhaps not. Yes, yes, carry on . .. carry on ...

DOROTHEA
Uncle, I hope you will invite Mr. Casaubon as often as he is willing to come.

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CELIA
Oh, Dodo ...

DOROTHEA
At least with Mr. Casaubon one can be sure of an intelligent conversation.

CELIA
You don't like Sir James? He seems determined to do anything you wish.

DOROTHEA
Sir James is a good creature, and more sensible than anyone would imagine.

CELIA
I suppose you know he's in love with you.

DOROTHEA
Celia!

CELIA [calmly]
Anyone with eyes can see that he is very much in love with you, and that he thinks you return his affection.

DOROTHEA [horrified]
How could he think that? I have never agreed with him about anything but the cottages.

CELIA
Well I thought it right to tell you, because you went on as you always do, never looking about you, never seeing what is quite plain to everybody else.

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DOROTHEA
I must have no more to do with the cottages.

CELIA
It is hard ... I know it's your favourite fad to draw plans.

DOROTHEA
Favourite fad? Celia! D'you think I only care about my fellow creatures' houses in that childish way? How can one do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

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BULSTRODE
You must understand, Vincy, that I stretch my tolerance towards you and your family because you are my wife's brother. As to your son Frederick, it was entirely from worldly vanity that you sent him to University, and destined him for the Church. Now you are reaping the reward of your own folly and his.

VINCY
There's no going back. It's a good British feeling to try to raise your family a little. It's a father s duty to try to give his son a chance in life. If you mean us to come down in the world, say so.

BULSTRODE
I am not at all sure that I should be befriending your son by smoothing his way towards the acquisition of Featherstone's property.

VINCY [angry now]
If you mean to hinder anyone from having money but saints and evangelists, you'll have to give up some profitable partnerships, that's all I can say! It's this sort of thing, trying to play bishop and banker everywhere - that makes a man's name stink.

BULSTRODE
Let me remind you, Vincy, it was not your prudence or judgment, but my material help that has enabled you to keep your place in the trade.

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VINCY
Well, you like to be master, there's no denying that. You're my sister's husband, we ought to stick together. If you won't put a stop to this rumour about Fred you might as well slander him yourself. I consider it unhandsome of you to refuse to write this letter, Brother Bulstrode. I consider it very unhandsome.

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FEATHERSTONE [reading]
"And I distinctly affirm that I have no information that your son borrowed any money on any property that might accrue to him on Mr. Featherstone's demise". Accrue? Property? Demise? Fine words for a speckilating man! Come from nowhere, that one, too. Mind you, I hear he owns your father lock, stock, and barrel, or his bank does. So. What d'ye expect now? A little fortune, eh?

FEATHERSTONE
There we are. There ... and there ... and there ... and ... that's all ... well, you might show a little gratitude.

FRED
Thank you, sir. I am very much obliged to you.

FEATHERSTONE
I should think you are.

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FRED
Mary.

MARY
Am I wanted?

FRED
No, no, I came to see you, Mary.

MARY
What's the matter?

FRED
Oh, Mary, you'll think I'm a despicable fellow. Uncle Featherstone has just made me a present of a hundred pounds.

MARY
A hundred pounds?

FRED
Yes, it's very generous of him, and I should be grateful - I am grateful - but I was hoping it might be more, because I am in debt for a hundred and sixty pounds, and a friend - a very good friend - has signed a bill of security for me making himself responsible for the whole sum. I was hoping Uncle's gift might clear it, and then I could start afresh with a clean slate. You see I confess everything to you.

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MARY
And that makes everything better?

FRED
No. I thought you looked so sad when I came in just now. It's a shame you should stay here and be bullied.

MARY
Oh, I have an easy life in comparison to some. I tried being a teacher, but I wasn't fit for that - me mind's too fond of wandering on its own way.

FRED
Well, I couldn't be a good clergyman, any more than you could be a good governess.

MARY
I never said you ought to be a clergyman. There are other sorts of work, aren't there? Oh Fred, why can't you just resolve on something sensible, and stick to it?

FRED
I'll never be good for anything, Mary, unless I know you love me.

MARY
Me father says an idle man ought not to exist, much less be married.

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FRED
Then what am I to do? Blow my brains out?

MARY [exasperated]
No! [pause, then with some humour]
On the whole, I think you'd do better to pass your examination [pause, then as a sideflick]
Mr. Farebrother says it is disgracefully easy.

FRED
Oh, everything's easy to him! [pause]
But it's not cleverness really. I could pass. I'm ten times as clever as some of the men that pass.

MARY
Oh, are you? Then you must be ten times as idle as they are.

FRED
But if I did pass, you wouldn't want me to go into the church, would you?

MARY
Fred it shouldn't be the question, what I want you to do. You have a conscience of your own, what do you think you should do?

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FRED
Mary, I do know this: if you won't give me any encouragement, I shall just get worse.

MARY [angry]
I won't give you any encouragement! It would be a disgrace if I accepted a man who got into debt and wouldn't work!

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DOROTHEA
What news have you brought, Uncle?

BROOKE
News? News about what?

DOROTHEA
Why, about the sheep stealer. Were you not at the Assizes?

BROOKE
Ah, yes. Poor John Bunch. It seems that we can't let him off. He's to be hanged.

DOROTHEA's face. She feels it sharply.

DOROTHEA Uncle!

BROOKE
There's nothing to be done about it. Let's go in. There's a sharp air, driving. I feel it, you know. A very sharp air.

BROOKE goes inside. DOROTHEA watches.

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BROOKE
I came back by Lowick, you know. I talked with Casaubon and saw his library, that kind of thing. It seems he greatly enjoyed his visits here over the last few weeks. Yes.

DOROTHEA
Yes, Uncle?

BROOKE
Well, he seems to have a high opinion of you, my dear. A very high opinion indeed.

BROOKE
The fact is, he asked my permission to pay his addresses to you ... I told him you are very young, and so forth . . . I felt that I had to tell him that there was very little chance, you know. But there you are, in the end I had to promise the poor fellow that I would speak with you, so there you have it.

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DOROTHEA
I am very grateful to Mr. Casaubon. If he makes me an offer, I shall accept him.

BROOKE [standing]
That's very well Dorothea, but Chettam, now, have you not thought of him? He is a vwey good match. Our lands lie together, and
[in almost a confidential manner]
I believe my dear that Chettam too wishes to marry you. I mention it, you see. There!

DOROTHEA [rising]
It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam. If he thinks of marrying me, he has made a great mistake.

BROOKE [gobsmacked]
I should have thought Chettam was just the sort of man a woman would like, now.

DOROTHEA
Please do not mention him in that light again.

BROOKE [baffled]
Casaubon, now. Well, he's a good match in some ways ... he's a clever man, a scholar. I never got anything out of him, you know - any ideas, However he's a tip­ top man, may be bishop. But you know he's over five and forty, and his health's not strong. Marriage can be a noose, my dear. And you're fond of your own opinions, but a man likes to be master, you know. I only mention these things to you, I just mention them.

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DOROTHEA
Uncle, I don't want a husband of my own age. He should be above me in judgment and experience, knowledge ... and I know I must expect trials. I've never thought of marriage as mere personal ease. Uncle, I admire and honour Mr. Casaubon more than any man I ever saw.

BROOKE [she's convinced him]
Well, my dear, that being so, I have a letter for you from Mr. Casaubon here in my pocket. Yes, here it is ...

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CELIA
Uncle tells me Mr. Casaubon has been asked to dine again. I hope there is someone else there; then I shan't have to hear him eating his soup.

DOROTHEA
What's so remarkable about his soup eating?

CELIA
Really, Dodo. Can't you hear how he scrapes his spoon?

DOROTHEA
Celia, please don't make any more observations of that kind.

CELIA
Why not? They are quite true.

DOROTHEA
Many things are true which only the commonest minds observe.

CELIA
Then I think the commonest minds must be rather useful. I wish Mr. Casaubon's mother had a commoner mind, she might have taught him better.

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DOROTHEA
Celia! Please!

DOROTHEA [quieter]
It is right to tell you, Celia, that I am engaged to marry Mr. Casaubon.

CELIA [on a suppressed sob]
Oh, Dodo, I hope you will be happy!
[muffled]
I beg your pardon if I said anything to hurt you.

DOROTHEA [going to hug CELIA]
Oh, never mind, Kitty, don't grieve - we should never admire the same people.

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CHETTAM
Engaged! To Casaubon! Good God, it's horrible!

LADY CHETTAM
It's very vexing, James.

CHETTAM
You've seen the man, Mother. What business has a shrivelled old bachelor like that to marry a young girl? He has one foot in the grave!

MRS. CADWALLADER
He means to take it out again, I suppose. Apparently she says he has a great soul - a great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!

LADY CHETTAM
It does seem most unfair.

CHETTAM
Unfair! Brooke ought not to allow it. He should insist at least on its being put off until she comes of age!

MRS. CADWALLADER [across him]
Whoever heard Brooke insist on anything except not spending his money?

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CHETTAM
It is horrible, Mrs. Cadwallader ... it is. don't think of myself - not entirely - I think of her.

MRS. CADWALLADER
Well, I throw her over: there was a chance, if she'd married you, of her becoming a sane sensible woman. But now I wish her joy of her hair shirt.

MRS. CADWALLADER
Very perverse in her, very perverse indeed. However, Chettam if I were a man, I think I should prefer Celia ...

CHETTAM
Celia.

MRS. CADWALLADER
I think you'll find she admires you as much as a man expects to be admired.

LADY CHETTAM
She is a sweet girl, very fond of geraniums, more docile than her sister, though perhaps not quite so fine a figure. I think I should prefer Celia if I were a man.

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CASAUBON
This is my library. As you may well imagine, a great deal of my time is spent in here. And these are my notebooks. For my own work. The Key to All Mythologies.

DOROTHEA
I think I should begin to learn Latin and Greek, Edward. I could read them aloud to you, as Milton's daughters did to their father?

CASAUBON [smiling]
If I remember rightly, the young ladies you have mentioned regarded that exercise in unknown tongues as a ground of rebellion against the poet.

DOROTHEA
I hope you don't expect me to be rebellious, Edward.

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CASAUBON
Latin and Greek. I fear it might be rather wearisome for you. Certainly it would be a great advantage if you could learn to copy out the Greek characters, and to that end, yes, it might be very well to begin with a little reading.

CASAUBON
Education is a possession which none can take away. DOROTHEA's very happy.

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BROOKE
Who's that youngster sketching over there, Casaubon?

CASAUBON
That is a young relative of mine - the grandson, in fact, of the lady whose portrait you noticed, my Aunt Julia.

BROOKE
You're an artist, I see?

LADISLAW
No, I only sketch a little. There's nothing fit to be seen there.

BROOKE
Oh, come now.

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CASAUBON
Allow me to introduce my cousin, Mr. Ladislaw. Will, this is Miss Dorothea Brooke, Miss Celia Brooke.

DOROTHEA
How do you do, Mr. Ladislaw?

LADISLAW [there's something almost mocking there]
How do you do, Miss Brooke.

CASAUBON
Mr. Brooke.

BROOKE
This is a nice bit, is it not?

BROOKE
I did a little myself in this way at one time, did you know that?

BROOKE [to DOROTHEA]
Oh now, look: this, this is what I call a nice little thing, done with what we used to call brio, eh?

DOROTHEA
I am no judge of these things, Uncle. am never able to see the beauty of pictures that are much praised. They're a language I don't understand.

BROOKE
Well, now, there we are.
[handing it back to LADISLAW]
You will come to my house, I hope, one day, and I'll show you what I've done in this line.

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LADISLAW [bit of an ironic smile]
Thank you.

CASAUBON [after a pause]
Well, shall we walk on?

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BROOKE
What's that young man going to do with himself, Casaubon? Is he going to be a painter? Or a poet? He has the look of a poet. Shelley had that look, you know, about the eyes.

CASAUBON
The answer to your question, sir, is painfully doubtful. My young cousin is many things, but nothing in particular. To put it more charitably, he has not yet found his vocation. His present purpose is to travel abroad - to what end I do not know. Culture, he says. Well, I have agreed to support him for a year or so: he asks no more. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom.

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MRS. CADWALLADER
Arabella, my dear. Brooke has invited half the town as well as the county! What a to-do! He was never one to spend his money like this. That's Bulstrode the banker, the new young sawbones Lydgate ...

LADY CHETTAM
One hears very well of him.

MRS. CADWALLADER
He is a gentleman. He talks well. But I can remember when medical men knew their place and kept it. With the servants. Hicks, for example.

LADY CHETTAM
He was coarse and butcher-like, but he understood my constitution.

MRS. CADWALLADER
But this is too much - Brooke is asking us to sit down with tradespeople! Middlemarch bagmen! There's Vincy the ribbon manufacturer. Well, I'm quite happy to peruse his pattern book, but I don't want to eat my dinner with the fellow or his awful wife!

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CHETTAM
It'll be some whim of Brooke's, he means well enough.

MRS. CADWALLADER
I'll tell you what he means, he means to go into politics and stand for Parliament! And as a Liberal as like as not. That's what all this is got up in aid of, toadying to the hoi polloi!

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BROOKE
Friends! A few brief words on this happy occasion. We are met together to celebrate the betrothal of my dear niece Dorothea to my good and learned friend the Reverend Edward Casaubon, and to share their happiness. Marriage, you know, is a joining, a union, a sort of closing up, d'you see, and yet in another sense it is a reaching out, an exploration, if you will, and so forth. Progress, now. That is going to happen whether we like it or not and that is why I am for it. That's why I'm happy to welcome progressive men here, men who have the well-being of their fellow-men at heart, and women, too, of course. Here's Mr. Bulstrode of the bank, you're very welcome to my table, sir, and Mayor Vincy who ... excellent, yes. And Doctor Lydgate, who studied in Paris and so forth, all the new ideas for the new hospital. Progress, d'you see, progress and reform. But in a spirit of temperance and moderation. Let it never be said that Brooke was not for progress and reform. Excellent. Yes.

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BROOKE
Oh, I quite forgot. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the toast: the happy couple!

EVERYBODY
The happy couple!

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CASAUBON
My thanks once again, sir. A most delightful occasion in every way.

BROOKE
Well, you know, Casaubon, I'm very fond of my nieces - fonder than I can say - I've tried to do my best for the girls since their poor father and mother died, as far as a bachelor can. D'you know, I don't think anything means more to me than that they should be happy.

BROOKE
I hear you intend to extend your wedding journey as far as Rome.

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CASAUBON
I think the weather will be mild enough. And, of course, there are some manuscripts in the Vatican that will be invaluable for my research.

DOROTHEA
And I long to see all the antiquities in Rome.

CELIA
And "Edward" will be able to tell you about every single one, I'm sure.

CASAUBON
I shall not detain you longer. We shall meet again very soon.

CASAUBON
I still regret that your sister is not to accompany us. You will have many lonely hours, Dorothea - I shall feel constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome, and I should feel more at liberty if you had a companion.

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MR. TEGG
The shuttle's broke ... I can't hold it ... I can't be expected.

LYDGATE
Continue to tepid sponge him like this. [Lydgate shows Mrs. Tegg how to sponge him.]

MR. TEGG
There, gone again ...

LYDGATE
He's holding his own.

MRS. TEGG
Is it the cholera, sir?

LYDGATE
No, it's an acute fever, but it isn't cholera, I can assure you of that. Your children are all well?

MRS. TEGG
Yes, sir. Thank you sir.

MR. TEGG
Do you see, it's broke again.

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LYDGATE
I wish we could make him more comfortable - the new hospital will be open soon, and then we'll be able to treat fevers of all kinds better than anywhere else in the country. But your man will be himself again long before then. That's my opinion.

MRS. TEGG
Thank you, sir.

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BULSTRODE
Good morning, Doctor.

LYDGATE
You asked to see me.

BULSTRODE
Ah. Yes. Yes, I did. I was wondering whether you had come to a conclusion as to the chaplaincy of the new hospital.

LYDGATE
Is that all?

BULSTRODE
Dr. Lydgate. It is a matter of supreme importance to me that the spiritual care of the patients be entrusted to a man worthy of the charge. Do you intend to support me and vote for Mr. Tyke?

LYDGATE
I don't know Mr. Tyke. I'm sure he's a very worthy man if you say so. But so is Farebrother, and he's done his duties unpaid for long enough. Look, I'm a medical man, Mr. Bulstrode. I have no opinion on these matters.

BULSTRODE
Then I earnestly advise you to form one, Doctor. A great deal may depend on it.

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Six Ecossaises
by Beethoven
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CHICHELY
Which way will you vote, Mr. Vincy?

VINCY
Not on the board any more, Chichely, and glad of it, whichever way I cast my vote I'd be offending someone. What do you think, Dr. Lydgate?

LYDGATE
I know very little of the case. But I don't think these appointments should be made on the basis of personal liking. If you want to get real reform, sometimes the only way is to pension off all those good fellows everybody's so fond of.

CHICHELY
Hang your reforms! There's no greater humbug in the world. What's wrong with good fellows? There's not enough of them about, I'd say.

MRS. PLYMDALE
Oh no, Mr. Farebrother, you've done it again!

CHICHELY
Will you look at that, Farebrother's won again!

NED PLYMDALE
Indeed he has - every time.

MRS. PLYMDALE [ad lib]
How much do I owe you, Fred?

FRED
Five pennies please, Mrs. Plymdale.

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MRS. PLYMDALE
You'll have me in the workhouse, you know that, don't you?

FAREBROTHER
Lydgate! I'd thought you might be avoiding me - having decided to vote against me.

LYDGATE
I haven't yet decided on my vote. In any case I should never cut you. I sometimes feel I shall starve in this town for want of intelligent conversation.

FAREBROTHER [leading him to the whist table]
Still, first things first. Here's the serious business of the evening - come and sit down to a game of whist, man.

MRS. PLYMDALE
Oh, Dr. Lydgate, please do!

LYDGATE [uncomfortable]
Thank you, no.

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DOROTHEA
Are you sure you have time, Edward?

CASAUBON
My dear, I am deeply mindful that my studies have caused me to neglect you these past few weeks. I have set aside today for your diversion.

CASAUBON
Not today. Not today.

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HORRIBLE LEWD MEN
Hai. Hai. Signorina. Bella ragazza bella gamba. Sss. Sss.

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CASAUBON
This site is regarded by many as one of the finest the continent has to offer. Indeed, I believe Rome is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied: "See Rome and die". In your case I would propose an emendation, and say: "See Rome as a bride, and live thenceforth as a happy wife."

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CASAUBON
I thought now you might like to visit the Palazzo Doria Pamphili.

DOROTHEA
Would you like to see it, Edward?

CASAUBON
It is highly esteemed by the cognoscenti.

DOROTHEA
Yes, but do you care about it?

CASAUBON
I am ready to go if you wish it.

DOROTHEA
Are you not tired, Edward?

CASAUBON
As I have said, I have set aside today for your diversion. Fatigue is neither here nor there.

DOROTHEA
Edward, I wish you did not feel that I need diversions. Why, I love to visit the antiquities, of course, but only if you enjoy it too. I would be far happier if you would let me help you with your research for the book.

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CASAUBON
Most persons think it worth while to visit the Palazzo Doria Pamphili.

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CASAUBON
The great family which created the collection reached its zenith in the Seventeenth Century, when one of the sons was elected to the chair of St. Peter as Innocent the Tenth. The God Apollo ... or Phoebus. I suspect of the Augustan period. The cult of Apollo is, of course, linked to that of Bacchus ... and inspired the appalling excesses of the Bachanalean rebels. Note how the male and female principles are combined ... the ancients believed that this combination served as an inspiration to the arts and music.

DOROTHEA [OOV]
Look at this, Edward.

CASAUBON
A common theme in fourth century Athenian sculpture. Cupid and Venus. Almost certainly an inferior copy of a Greek original.

DOROTHEA
Perhaps we have seen enough for one day. Shall we go?

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CASAUBON
It occurs to me that we are very near the Capitoline Library. I wonder if you might allow me a half an hour to consult some documents there?

DOROTHEA
Of course, why didn't you say so before?

CASAUBON
Well, there is much here of great interest for you. A half an hour then.

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MR. HAWLEY
Well, I go for Farebrother. Put forty pounds in his pockets and you'll do no harm. He's a good fellow, without too much of the parson about him!

POWDERELL
Ho, indeed, Mr. Hawley, for he spends half his days in the Green Dragon Inn playing billiards for money. Mr. Tyke, now, is a real gospel preacher, and I should vote against my conscience if I voted against Mr. Tyke.

MR. HAWLEY
Vote against Bulstrode, I suppose you mean sir, it's all the same to you I dare say.

POWDERELL [offended]
I beg your pardon, sir!

BROOKE
Good afternoon to you! Am I the last?

WRENCH
No, no, Mr. Brooke, our chairman Mr. Bulstrode hasn't arrived yet.

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CHICHELY [snide]
Nor his protege the uniquely talented Dr. Lydgate.

HAWLEY
I say it's damnable that one man should have this town in his pocket, just because half the town owes him money!

BROOKE [OOV]
Ah, here we are.

BULSTRODE [softly]
Good day, gentlemen.

ALL
Good day to you.

BULSTRODE
Oh, I see we are not all yet assembled. Nevertheless, we meet today, gentlemen, as Directors of the Board of the hospital, to appoint a chaplain. The issue is between Mr. Farebrother and Mr. Tyke. I believe the qualities of each candidate are well enough known to us all by this time, but if anyone wishes to speak ... ?

BROOKE
Ah yes, well, Farebrother and Tyke now, both excellent men in their way, you know, and a chaplain with a salary, I am convinced by my friends that Mr. Tyke is everything he should be.

WRENCH
How's that?

BULSTRODE
Apostolic and so forth, you know, so I am sure we are all very happy to come here and vote for him.

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HAWLEY
Seems to me you've been crammed, Mr. Brooke, sir!

BROOKE
What?

HAWLEY
What about Farebrother? He has been doing the work without pay, and if pay is to be given it should be given to him. I call it a confounded job to take the thing away from him.

BROOKE
Yes, well, Farebrother, yes ...

BULSTRODE
Excuse me, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Brooke has been fully informed of Mr. Farebrother's character.

HAWLEY
Yes, by his enemies!

POWDERELL
I take it there is no personal hostility concerned here!

HAWLEY
I'll swear there damn well is, though!

BULSTRODE [softly]
Gentlemen. Perhaps we should put the matter to the vote now. If you would write the name of your chosen candidate on the slip provided, gentlemen?

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BROOKE
Ah, here's our man!

LYDGATE
Apologies, gentlemen.

BULSTRODE
Well, gentlemen, I perceive that the votes are equally divided at present. Dr. Lydgate: would you write down your vote, please?

HAWLEY [rising]
Well, that's settled it. Damned scandalous business.

LYDGATE
You seem to speak with some peculiar meaning, sir.

HAWLEY
I expect you to vote with Mr. Bulstrode, that's all, sir. Do you regard that as offensive, sir?

LYDGATE
It may be offensive to others. But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account.

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BULSTRODE [softly]
Gentlemen: Mr. Tyke is hereby elected to the post of chaplain. Thank you all very much.

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BBC

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POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT [...] UK VERSION Programme Number: 50/LDL R332L/01X [...] BBC TELEVISION Tape No: DR017300 Programme Dur: 58'08"

MIDDLEMARCH

by GEORGE ELIOT

Screenplay for television in six parts

by ANDREW DAVIES

EPISODE 2

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PRODUCER ... LOUIS MARKS
Associate Producers ... ALISON GEE
... CAROLE BISSET
Script Editor ... SUSIE CHAPMAN

DIRECTOR ... ANTHONY PAGE
First Assistant Director ... ROB EVANS
Production Manager ... JULIE EDWARDS
Location Manager ... SAM DRECKMAN
Location Manager ... JEFF GOLDING
PA/Script Supervisor ... JANE GRIFFITHS
Co-ordinator ... UNA SAPLAMIDES
Assistant Floor Managers ... CLARE SOLLY
... KATY BRIERS
Second Assistant Director ... TANIA NORMAND
Third Assistant Director ... ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Production Secretary ... LUCY HOARE

Lighting Cameraman ... BRIAN TUFANO
Sound Recordist ... DICK BOULTER
Film Editor ... JERRY LEON
Film Editor ... PAUL TOTHILL

Production Designer ... GERRY SCOTT
Costume Designer ... ANUSHIA NIERADZIK
Make-up Designer ... DEANNE TURNER
Special Effects Designer ... STUART BRISDON
Casting ... GAIL STEVENS

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A BBC-TV PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH WGBH/BOSTON

Filmed in Italy, Lincolnshire, Somerset - January to August 1993

FIRST TRANSMISSION DATE: WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY - BBC-2 NARRATIVE REPEAT TRANSMISSION: MONDAY 24 JANUARY - BBC-1

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NB: Please note that programme does not start at T/C 03:00:00. Cut to black from VT Clock. Programme starts with recap at 02:59:06.

MIDDLEMARCH - RECAP

Comprised of 4 clips from Episode 1.

Clip 1. LYDGATE MEETING ROSAMOND AT STONE COURT FOR THE FIRST TIME

LYDGATE How do you do Mrs Vincy. I heard Miss Vincy was a musician. I confess I hadn't expected that she would be quite so talented.

FEATHERSTONE Best In Middlemarch, I'll be bound.

Clip 2. MARY AND FRED AT STONE COURT

FRED If you won't give me any encouragement I shall just get worse.

MARY I won't give you any encouragement. It would be a disgrace if I accepted a man who got into debt and wouldn't work.

Clip 3. CASAUBON AND DOROTHEA ON ROME STEPS

DOROTHEA I would love to visit the antiquities of course but only if you enjoy it too. I would be far happier if you would let me help you with your research for the book.

Clip 4. LADISLAW SEES DOROTHEA IN THE MUSEUM

LADISLAW I don't know what I should do. I'm not so brazen as ..you.

Fade to black at 02:59:41 - Opening cast credits with opening music fade up at 02:59:43.

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OPENING CAST CREDITS

[Opening cast credits appear white on a black background with a diagonal fade L to R.]

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CASAUBON [absently]
Doubtless, my dear.

Then, more energetically, but entirely to himself:

CASAUBON
Carp is wilfully, irresponsibly mistaken on the Etruscan fish deities and the world shall know it ...

DOROTHEA
Isn't it time now to do what you used to speak of ....

CASAUBON
What?

DOROTHEA
All your notebooks. Isn't it time to make up your mind what part of them you will use, and begin to write your book, begin to make your vast knowledge useful to the world? I can do anything - write to your dictation, or copy and extract what you like - but surely, Edward it must be time to expose your great theory to the judgment of your fellow scholars!

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CASAUBON
My love: I think you may rely upon me to know the times and the seasons the different stages of a work which is not to be measured by the superficial judgment of ignorant onlookers.

DOROTHEA [tries to protest]
My judgment was a very superficial one .....

CASAUBON
Oh, it had been easy for me to gain a temporary effect, but it is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted by the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievement, being indeed equipped for no other.

DOROTHEA
My judgment was a superficial one Edward. What else could it be. You have shown me these notebooks. You have often spoken about them. You have often said they need to be condensed. But I have never heard you speak of the writing that is to be published. Those are very simple facts, my judgment went no further. I only begged you to let me be some good to you.

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DOROTHEA
If you had come a little earlier you would have seen him. He goes to read in the library of the Vatican every day.

LADISLAW
And stays there all day?

DOROTHEA
Usually, yes.
[pause]
Please sit down.

DOROTHEA
Something amuses you?

LADISLAW
Yes. I was thinking of when we first met, at Lowick. The figure I cut, when you annihilated my poor sketch with your criticism.

DOROTHEA
Surely not. I know nothing of painting.

LADISLAW
Really? I suspected you of knowing so much that you knew just how to say what was most cutting.

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DOROTHEA
That was really my ignorance!

DOROTHEA
And you have been sketching here, in Rome?

LADISLAW
Yes.

DOROTHEA
Then you do mean to make painting your profession? Oh, Mr. Casaubon will be so pleased that you have chosen a profession.

LADISLAW
On the contrary. I've quite made up my mind against it.

DOROTHEA
Oh ...

LADISLAW
I have no genius for painting. Things don't come easily to me. I never get them.

DOROTHEA [gently: she's not trying to be nasty]
I have heard Mr. Casaubon speak of your want of patience.

LADISLAW
Yes, I know Mr. Casaubon's opinion. He and I differ.

DOROTHEA [slightly miffed]
Certainly you differ. I hadn't thought of comparing you. Such power of devoted labour as Mr Casaubon's is not common.

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LADISLAW
Quite, such a pity it should all be thrown away, so much English scholarship is, for want of knowing what's being done by the rest of the world.

DOROTHEA [startled and anxious]
What do you mean?

LADISLAW
I merely mean that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries;
[LADISLAW]
they've solved most of the problems that have bedevilled English scholars for years.

DOROTHEA
Are you quite sure about this?

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CASAUBON
Doubtless.

DOROTHEA
Please don't be angry with me, Edward.

DOROTHEA
Mr. Ladislaw has invited us to see some of the studios of the religious painters here.

CASAUBON
And you wish to go, no doubt.

DOROTHEA
Only if you do.

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DOROTHEA
Please forgive me for speaking so hastily to you this morning. I was wrong. I fear I hurt you and made the day more burdensome to you.

CASAUBON
I am glad you feel that, my dear.

DOROTHEA
But you do forgive me?

CASAUBON
My dear Dorothea: who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven nor earth. You are excited and I also am feeling the unpleasant consequences of too much mental disturbance. We shall speak no more of it.

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VINCY
My Lord; Lady Medlicote; fellow citizens; as mayor of Middlemarch I am pleased and honoured to welcome you here to the dedication of the new fever hospital built entirely by public and private subscription ­ and here I might mention the singular generosity of Mr. Nicholas Bulstrode ....

VINCY
The medical supervision of the new hospital is entrusted to the care of Dr. Lydgate, who has volunteered his services gratis in the furtherance of public health and the advance of medical science ...

BROOKE
Hear, hear, excellent, yes, good ...

VINCY
The spiritual welfare of the patients is in the capable hands of the Reverend Mr. Tyke.

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HAWLEY
Should have been Farebrother, it's a damn disgrace.

VINCY
These are stirring times my friends, change is in the air,

BROOKE [Interrupts - oov]
Here, here.

VINCY
And I for one am proud to see our town so far advanced in reforms as to make life better for us all.

BROOKE [Interrupts again - oov]
A better life for everyone. Well said.

VINCY
And now ...

BROOKE
Here, here. Yes, yes. Well said Vincy. Progress and reform, the advance of science, excellent. New ideas on ventilation and diet and so forth ... what?

MR POWDERELL attracts BROOKE's attention to what is happening on the stage - LADY MEDLICOTE was about to unveil the engraved foundation stone. MEDLICOTE glares. LYDGATE is amused.

BROOKE
Oh, I do beg your pardon Lady Medlicote?

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NAUMANN
You do me great honour in taking the time to view our work here Mr. Casaubon - oh, and Mrs Casaubon, of course.

CASAUBON [with a slight bow of the head]
This has been a most rewarding visit, Mr Naumann. It is interesting to see such a colony of artists at work.

NAUMANN
Yes, well, many of us live here permanently. Others, such as my friend Ladislaw, come to study for a short while only. Please.

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NAUMANN
Mr. Casaubon, forgive me, but I have been looking at you all morning. A sketch of your head would be invaluable. Let me show you.

NAUMANN
St. Thomas Aquinas.

NAUMANN
Perhaps it is asking too much.

CASAUBON
You astonish me greatly, sir, but if my poor physiognomy can be of help to you for good doctor, I should be honoured .... that is if the operation is not a lengthy one ­ and if Mrs Casaubon will not object to the delay?

DOROTHEA
St Thomas Aquinas! What a happy thought!

NAUMANN
Allow me ... please ...

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NAUMANN
Well, come and look Ladislaw. I think it is perfect so far, hmm?.

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LADISLAW
The colour is fine: it will just suit you.

DOROTHEA
No, they are for my sister. She is light­ haired and very pretty - at least I think so.

LADISLAW
You don't seem to care for cameos.

DOROTHEA
No, frankly, I don't think them a great object in life.

LADISLAW
I fear you are heretic about art generally. How is that? I should have expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere.

DOROTHEA
I should like to make life beautiful. I mean everybody's life. And then all this huge expense of art that seems to make life no better for the world pains me.

LADISLAW
The best piety is to enjoy, when you can. It's no use to try and take care of all the world unless you allow yourself to feel some delight in it! I'm beginning to suspect you of having some false belief in the virtues of misery.

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CASAUBON
The work is progressing satisfactorily?

NAUMANN
Magnificent.

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DOROTHEA
Have there not been very valuable books written by scholars who knew nothing of these modeern things? Well, they are still used. Why should not my husband's be valuable, like theirs?

LADISLAW
Don't you see, it's no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century, and correcting their mistakes. No one cares any more, the focus of interest has moved on.

DOROTHEA
How can you speak so lightly? If it were as you say, what could be sadder than so much ardent labour all in vain?

LADISLAW
I've made you think ill of me?

DOROTHEA
No. I like you very much. Please don't mention this to anyone again. Promise me.

LADISLAW
I promise.

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CASAUBON
I fear this may be tiresome for Mrs. Casaubon.

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BAMBRIDGE
So this is Diamond.

BAMBRIDGE
Well, I'm very disappointed. Wouldn't have him as a gift, I wouldn't touch him with a toasting fork.

FRED
He looks a nasty brute to me.

HORSE DEALER
Not him sir. Only wants riding.

FRED
Lord Medlicote's man was looking for a grey.

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BAMBRIDGE
Luck of the devil, young Vincy, luck of old Nick. If you can, sell him on to Lord Medlicote, you're a made man.

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FRED
Diamond!

ROSAMOND
Steady. Fred, be careful!

FRED
Steady Diamond!

ROSAMOND [Shouting to Fred]
Is this your great bargain then?

FRED [Pursuing Diamond]
Diamond. Diamond.

ROSAMOND [Shouts after him]
I can't imagine who would buy a brute like that.

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MRS. GARTH
Fred. Mary's just been here.

FRED [OOV]
Morning Mrs Garth.

MRS. GARTH
You've missed her. Come in.

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BEN AND LETTY
It's Fred!

MRS. GARTH
Go on, you go out now.

ALFRED
I'll take them mother.

FRED
Thank you, Alfred.

MRS. GARTH
Go on outside.

BEN
But we want to stay and talk to Fred.

MRS. GARTH
Go on.
[the children reluctantly leave the room]
Sit down, Fred. Caleb will be down directly.

FRED
Are Letty and Ben your only pupils now, Mrs. Garth?

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MRS. GARTH
I'm at a low ebb for pupils, but I've saved my purse for Alfred's apprenticeship. All of ninety-two pound. He can go to Mr. Hammer's now.

FRED
Mrs. Garth ...

MRS. GARTH
Caleb wants the boy to have his chance, he thinks he may turn out a famous engineer.

CALEB
What, Fred, my boy? You look poorly - is anything the matter?

FRED
Yes, Mr. Garth. I'm afraid you're going to have a rather poor opinion of me. But I've come to tell you I can't keep my word. I can't meet Mr. Bambridge's bill after all and he's demanding immediate payment. I've pleaded with him, but the man's iron. I owe a hundred and sixty and all I have are these fifty pounds.

MRS. GARTH
What do you mean?

CALEB [deeply embarrassed]
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Susan. I put my name to some bills Fred run up with Mr. Bambridge. Fred was sure he would be able to pay them himself.

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MRS. GARTH [looking at FRED]
Was he.

CALEB
It's come at a bad time. I shall need everything we have at the bank. A hundred and ten pounds.

MRS. GARTH [to FRED]
I suppose you've asked your father.

FRED
It would be of no use. He wouldn't give me a penny.

MRS. GARTH
It's clear what we must do. I shall give you the ninety-two pounds I put by for Alfred's premium. And I'm sure Mary will have saved twenty pounds by now from what Mr. Featherstone gives her.

FRED
I shall certainly pay it all back, Mrs. Garth, ultimately.

MRS. GARTH
Yes, you will, ultimately. But boys can't be apprenticed ultimately, they must be apprenticed at fifteen.

CALEB
It is my fault Susan, I'd no business signing that bill for Fred. I suppose you have tried all ... [Fred interrupts him]

FRED
I've tried everything, Mr. Garth. I had bad luck with a horse I was selling that turned out wrong - I have no horse at all now - I came on Rosy's horse. I hate having brought this on you - there is no one else I care so much for. And, and now you will always think me a scoundrel.

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CALEB
Well Fred, you must ride over to Mary and ask the child for what money she has.

FRED
I'm sorry.

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MARY [Interrupts - VO]
Fifteen ... sixteen ...

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MARY
Seventeen. One, two, three, four. You may tell father I have enough to cover the rest of your debt, and six pounds over.

FRED
Mary, I can't bear this.

MARY
Yes, you can.

FRED
I am so very sorry.

MARY
I'm sure you are now.

FRED
I didn't mean any of it - I had such terrible luck.

MARY
But when you have bad luck, other people suffer for it.

FRED
Mary.

MARY
What?

FRED
Do you hate me now?

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MARY
I don't think well of you.

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MRS. VINCY
Why, Fred, you are pale. What is is dear. Whatever is the matter?

ROSAMOND
He's drunk, Mamma.

FRED
I feel rather strange, Mother. I think you had better send for Wrench.

MRS. VINCY
Oh, my dear! Stay here.

MRS. VINCY
Pritchard! Pritchard!

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MRS. VINCY
What is it, Dr. Wrench?

WRENCH
Oh, a slight derangement is all. I apprehend nothing serious. Aaah ...

FRED
Aaah.

WRENCH
The system needs purging I warrant. A spoonful or two of Mr. Wrench's black draught will suffice. We'll have you riding to hounds again in no time, young man.

WRENCH
Good day then ma'am.

MRS. VINCY
Good day Dr. Wrench.

WRENCH
Thank you kindly.

Incidental Music
Music Cue - 2M5
T/C In: 03:22:35

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2M5 Continues

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T/C Out: 03:23:50
Duration: 1'15"

MRS. VINCY
Oh, doctor! Oh, is he - will he - oh, Fred, Fred ... Oh, Dr. Lydgate, save my boy!

LYDGATE
He has a strong constitution, Mrs. Vincy, and I have every hope of his recovery. He must have a regular nurse, and a constant supply of cold-water. I'll start him on opium and alcohol immediately to lose no time.

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MRS. VINCY
Oh, what a villain that Wrench is!

LYDGATE
You mustn't blame Dr. Wrench, Mrs. Vincy. The symptoms yesterday might have been disguising. Typhoid is difficult to diagnose in the very early stages.

MRS. VINCY
Dr. Lydgate, you must come again. You must carry on attending Fred.

ROSY
Yes, please do.

MRS. VINCY
I shall write to Dr. Wrench and explain the circumstances: I'm sure he won't be offended.

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WRENCH
Well, I say it's a damned impudence! I've attended that family for twenty years and now I'm made to read some damned scoundrelly lecture on symptoms and prognoses and I don't know what. By God it comes to something when they'll steal your patients from under your very nose and give you a scolding into the bargain. This Lydgate's no better than a quack in my opinion with his fancy foreign notions and his cant about cures. How do we know what his bona fides are, eh?

CHICHELY
D'you know what he told me - his Majesty's coroner these twenty years? - that a lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post­ mortem examination! He thinks a doctor should conduct it!

WRENCH
Man's an impostor.

POWDERELL
He has degrees from Edinburgh and Paris I understand, Wrench. He's a clever fellow for all you don't care for him.

WRENCH
A damn sight too clever in my opinion, sir.

CHICHELY
Bulstrode's fond of him.

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HAWLEY
They're a pretty pair. One all pride and principles, the other all cant and holiness ...

HAWLEY
... and both of them elbow deep in each other's pockets.

LYDGATE [acknowledging the committee]
Good day gentlemen.

BULSTRODE
Good day gentlemen.

BULSTRODE
Well, gentlemen: to business. The house surgeon has reported an outbreak on intestinal ailments amongst patients in the upper ward.

Incidental Music
Music Cue - 2M6
T/C In: 03:0[2]5:55

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2M6 continues

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T/C Out: 03:26:36
Duration: 41"

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BROOKE
How do I do? Very well indeed! But you're a little pale Casaubon you know - a little pale.

BROOKE
Oh nothing to alarm you, my dear. A little English beef and mutton will make a difference. It's all very well to look pale when you're sitting for a portrait of Aquinas - we had your letter you see. But this Aquinas now - he was a little too subtle, wasn't he? Does anybody read Aquinas?

CASAUBON [with dignified patience]
He is not indeed sir an author adapted for superficial minds.

BROOKE
Ah.

DOROTHEA
Perhaps you should rest now, dear.

CASAUBON
Perhaps you are right, my love. Miss Brooke, gentlemen: you are very welcome here, I appreciate your kind intention. But you will excuse me now.

BROOKE
Yes, yes, of course, my dear man.

CASAUBON
My wife, I'm sure, will entertain you in the proper manner.

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DOROTHEA
He's very tired: it was an arduous journey.

CELIA
Dodo, I can't wait to tell you any longer: Sir James and I are engaged to be married.

DOROTHEA
Oh, Celia. Oh, Kitty.

CELIA
Oh Dodo, it was because you went away. There was nobody but me for Sir James to talk to.

DOROTHEA [smiling]
That's wonderful.

CHETTAM
I have gone on with the cottages, Mrs. Casaubon.

DOROTHEA
I never doubted that you would. I look forward to inspecting how they progress.

CHETTAM
I know the ones here are well managed.

DOROTHEA
Roberts, leave that one here would you. I have brought some cameos for you Kitty.
[To Roberts]
Thank you.

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DOROTHEA
I wasn't sure about them - but Mr. Ladislaw advised me. Do you remember him?

CELIA
Yes! He's an artist in Rome now.

DOROTHEA
Not any more. He intends to return to this part of the country and earn his living with a pen.

BROOKE
Does he now? Excellent! Just what we need now, do you see, young men with bold ideas. Quite.

CELIA [opening the cameo case]
Oh, Dodo, they are exquisite!

Piano Piece
Song Without words No.1. in E major - Op.19
T/C In: 03:28:48

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T/C Out: 03:29:21
Duration: 33"

LYDGATE
No, please. Don't let me disturb you.

ROSAMOND
How did you find poor Fred today?

LYDGATE
He's still in a high fever, but he's ... he's coming through it well, I believe. I am almost more anxious for your mother.

ROSAMOND
Oh, yes, poor Mamma, I shall go to her. I'll take her take a little beef tea.

LYDGATE
No, I've ... I've put that in hand. Will you not let me hear you play a little more?

ROSAMOND
No. You have heard the best musicians in London and Paris and I ...

LYDGATE
I've heard nothing that charmed me so much than the music you were just playing. Will you not play it again for me?

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ROSAMOND
Oh, very well.

Piano Piece
Song Without words No.1. in E major - Op.19
T/C In: 03:30:19

T/C Out: 03:30:49
Dur: 30"

ROSAMOND [rising]
I must go and see Mamma.

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TANTRIPP
The rain's stopped, Ma'am. Why don't you take the air while you have the chance? A person could go mad, shut up here all day.

DOROTHEA
Thank you, Tantripp, but I have too much to do. I may go for a walk later.

TANTRIPP
Oh, very well ma'am.

DOROTHEA
Thank you.

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DOROTHEA
I have finished the copying you set me, Edward. Is there anything I could do for you? Could I read for you, perhaps?

CASAUBON
Thank you, no.

DOROTHEA
The weather's a little better. We could go for a walk, or we could drive towards Tipton. I am sure the air would do you good.

CASAUBON
I am glad that you have the time my dear, but I fear that I do not. I have begun work on a new pamphlet.

DOROTHEA
Edward, do you not think that perhaps today we might begin to work together on your book?

CASAUBON [uneasy]
Dorothea ...

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DOROTHEA
If I were first to copy selected passages from your notebooks?

CASAUBON
My dear, I have told you I am busy with this article.

DOROTHEA
Have you received any comments on the last one yet ... about the Etruscan mysteries?

CASAUBON
Not as yet, no.

CASAUBON
Oh, by the way Dorothea ...
[picking up a letter]
Here is a letter for you - it was enclosed in one addressed to me.

DOROTHEA
Thank you. It's from Mr. Ladislaw! What can he have to say?

CASAUBON
You may read the letter, if you please. Though I may as well say it once I shall decline the proposal it contains, to pay a visit here.
[with mounting bitterness]
I trust I may be excused for desiring an interval of complete freedom from such distractions, as have hitherto been inevitable especially from guests whose desultory vivacity makes their presence a fatigue!!

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DOROTHEA
Edward, why do you think I should wish for anything that would annoy you? When have I ever consulted my own pleasure before yours?

CASAUBON
Oh, Dorothea, you are hasty.

DOROTHEA [carried away]
No, it is you who are hasty in your false suppositions about my feelings!

CASAUBON
Well, let us say no more upon the subject Dorothea. I have neither the leisure nor the energy for this kind of debate.

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2M7 Continued

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2M7 Continued

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T/C Out: 03:2[3]6:41
Dur: 1'44"

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BROOKE
To be sure, my dear, of course! You cannot possibly receive young Ladislaw now - I shall be happy to write to him. An interesting young man ... I could possibly help him myself ... I have heard that the Middlemarch "Pioneer" is in need of a new editor ...

DOROTHEA
Uncle, I don't think that Mr. Ladislaw should come to Middlemarch at all.

BROOKE
Whatever you say my dear ... who are we to forbid him if he really wants to come? However, I shall write as you suggest ­ it seems a shame, though. Young men you know, with new ideas, I like them uncommonly well.

DOROTHEA
Uncle. Did you understand what I said. I don't think he should come here.

BROOKE [Ad Lib]
Yes, yes my dear. Yes of course. You're absolutely right. Dr Lydgate, did he ......

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FEATHERSTONE [Interrupts - OOV]
Tell Mr Farebrother I've no need of preachers yet, not the canting kind nor the card-playing kind ...

MARY [Speaking over the above]
He says he won't see you.

FAREBROTHER
How delightful. Then, I shall be able to spend more time with you, Mary, if you have any to spare for me.

MARY
You know I have ... please sit down.

FAREBROTHER
I am just come from visiting your old playfellow.

MARY
Fred! Oh, tell me ... how did you find him?

FAREBROTHER
He's very weak, and very sorry for himself ... but he is out of his delirium now, and Lydgate is confident he's turned the corner.

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MARY
So he'll soon be back to his billiards and his horses and his cards and his gambling, I suppose.

FAREBROTHER
Rather like me, Mary.

MARY [smiling]
Yes, you are two very bad characters. The only difference between you is that Fred always loses and you always win, at every game, so I hear.

Incidental Music
Music Cue - 2M8
T/C In: 03:39:48

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T/C Out: 03:40:06
Dur: 18"

Piano Piece
Allegretto by Pergolesi
T/C In: 03:40:04

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Piano continues

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Piano continues

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T/C Out: 03:42:48
Duration: 2'44"

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Piano Piece
Leichte Sonate Opus 49 by Beethoven
T/C In: 03:42:52

T/C Out: 03:39:06
Dur: 47"

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MRS. VINCY
Rosamond, your Aunt Bulstrode is here.

ROSAMOND
Good morning Aunt.

MRS. BULSTRODE
Rosamond, Mr. Bulstrode and I have heard something about you which has surprised us very much indeed: that you are secretly engaged to Dr. Lydgate.

ROSAMOND
No, I'm not engaged, Aunt.

MRS. BULSTRODE
Well how is it that everyone says so then? It's the towns talk.

ROSAMOND
The towns talk is of very little consequence.

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MRS. BULSTRODE
Dr. Lydgate is very clever and your uncle finds him useful but it's a poor profession, he's not paid for his work at the hospital, and you are not in a position to marry a poor man. You have no fortune of your own, my dear.

MRS. BULSTRODE
Now Rosamond, Mr. Plymdale is a nice young man, I have always thought, and an only son, and the heir to a great business. Surely you would not think of giving your heart to a man without a decided prospect?

ROSAMOND [bursting out]
I shall never give my heart to Mr Ned Plymdale! And Dr. Lydgate is not a poor man - he has very high connections!

MRS. BULSTRODE
I see how it is, my dear. You have allowed your affections to become engaged without return.

ROSAMOND [nearly in tears]
No! Indeed, Aunt, I have not!

MRS. VINCY
Oh, Rosy, Rosy!

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FAREBROTHER
How's your new hospital?

LYDGATE
Everything I hoped for, near enough. You must come and see for yourself.

FAREBROTHER
I wouldn't want to put Tyke's nose out of joint so soon after his appointment. But I might take you up on it one day ...

FAREBROTHER
I was thinking of looking in on Vincy later: what about you?

LYDGATE
Not tonight. I think my patient can survive a night without me. I've been neglecting my studies lately.

FAREBROTHER
Ah, you are going to get yourself lashed to the mast, and stop up your ears? Well, if you don't want to be won by the sirens you're wise to take precautions.

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LYDGATE [smiles]
I'm in no danger there, I assure you. Rosamond Vincy is an enchanting girl. Sweet, docile, everything about her full of grace and delicacy. If I were thinking of marriage I believe I'd snap her up this instant! But I'm not. And not for a long while yet - I mean to establish myself properly before I look for a bride.

FAREBROTHER
Hmm. In my experience, when a man's seen a woman he likes as much as that, his remaining a bachelor will depend on her resolution rather than his.

LYDGATE
Ha! Very good! But not true in this case.

FAREBROTHER
No?

LYDGATE
Absolutely not! In five years time I might be looking for a wife - but you know my real passion.

FAREBROTHER
What?

LYDGATE
Medicine. Science, Knowledge! If I could reveal something of the primitive tissue that underlies all life: you, me, a songthrush, Rosamond Vincy - that's what excites me, Farebrother!

FAREBROTHER
And have you told her this?

LYDGATE
No, of course not. She's a woman! You don't talk about primitive tissue when you're talking to a woman!

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BROOKE [VO]
I very much regret these circumstances, Mr. Ladislaw, as I was looking forward myself to making your closer acquaintance. I have been thinking of taking a more active part in the political life of the county, and to that end acquiring one of the local newspapers ... I should have welcomed the opportunity of consulting you in this matter. If you are anywhere near the county I would be most happy to welcome you as my guest - when we might discuss matters very much to our mutual advantage!

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BULSTRODE
Ah, Dr. Lydgate.

LYDGATE
Sorry I'm late.

BULSTRODE
Not at all. It's good of you to spare the time. May we talk as we walk?
[after a pause]
What are your intentions towards my niece, Miss Rosamond Vincy?

LYDGATE [surprised]
My intentions? I suppose that my intentions are to continue a very pleasant acquaintanceship.

BULSTRODE
And nothing more?

LYDGATE
Nothing more.

BULSTRODE
Then may I suggest to you, with the very greatest respect, that a man of your exceptional abilities should hesitate before engrossing the whole attention, and endangering the marriage prospects, of a vulnerable young girl, for the mere pleasure of the moment.

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LYDGATE [really annoyed now]
I have not the slightest intention, sir, of engrossing Miss Vincy's whole attention or endangering her prospects of marriage!

BULSTRODE [quiet as ever]
Then may I with the utmost humility suggest that you moderate your attendance upon Miss Vincy and allow her other admirers a little more opportunity of engaging her attention?

LYDGATE
You may suggest that Sir if you feel it's your place to do so.

BULSTRODE
I do, Dr. Lydgate - please do not take offence. You know I think highly of you, and wish you to prosper here. I think you will concede I have already been of some assistance to you?

LYDGATE
Yes. Yes, of course.

BULSTRODE
I wish only to help you avoid a painful misunderstanding.

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BROOKE
You should go fishing, Casaubon, or have a turning room, make toys, and tablelegs ... that kind of thing, you know!

BROOKE
... or get Dorothea to read to you ... something light ... now she may read anything she likes now she's married. Smallet, for instance, he made me laugh uncommonly once, bit about a bostillian breeches.

CASAUBON
In short Sir, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood.

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MRS. VINCY
You heard Dr. Lydgate himself say that fresh air and exercise will help you mend all the more quickly ....

FRED
Don't nag, Mother ...

MRS. VINCY
And the sooner you're well enough to go to Stone Court again the better. And you too Rosamond. Your poor uncle is weaker by the minute.

LYDGATE [To Rosamond]
Good day.

ROSAMOND
Dr. Lydgate. You have become quite a stranger recently.

LYDGATE
Yes. Fred, as you see, is well on the mend, and there have been other calls upon my time.

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ROSAMOND
Do you find Mrs. Casaubon very handsome?

LYDGATE
I suppose she is very handsome; but I have not thought about it.

ROSAMOND
No. I suppose that that would be unprofessional. How your practice is growing. First the Chettams, and now the Casaubons. It's no wonder that you have no time for us.

LYDGATE
You mistake me. I would rather attend to the poor at the hospital. There is more chance of doing good, and one has to listen to less nonsense.

LYDGATE
You must excuse me now. I am bidden to er ... I am bidden to Stone Court, and then to the hospital. Goodbye.

ROSAMOND
Oh!

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[MOVED TO EPISODE 2]

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[MOVED TO EPISODE 2]

FEATHERSTONE [OOV]
Out Solomon, out the pair of you. Will you get out!

SOLOMON FEATHERSTONE [OOV]
There's things you might repent of, brother, the Almighty knows what things.

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[MOVED TO EPISODE 2]

FEATHERSTONE
Then he knows better than I do, out you go, both of you. Out!

MRS. WAULE
Well brother when you lie speechless you may be tired of having strangers about you, and you may think of me and my children ...

FEATHERSTONE
I shan't, I shan't think of any of you! I've made my will, I shan't think of any of you! Out you go. Out.

MRS. WAULE [with some malice]
Some people would be ashamed to fill up a place belonging by rights to others.

SOLOMON FEATHERSTONE
Oh, no, sister, we must be humble and let smart folk push themselves before us.

FRED [to Featherstone]
Should my mother and I leave, sir?

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FEATHERSTONE
Well no, no! Sit down and stop where you are!
[to SOLOMON and MRS. WAULE]
Now you two ... out, out, out!

SOLOMON FEATHERSTONE
I shall be downstairs, brother. I shall do my duty and I pray that the Almighty won't be long.

FEATHERSTONE
Ah, out, out. Downstairs with you. Out.

MRS. VINCY
Ssh .....

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Piano Piece
Song Without words No.1. in E major - Op.19
T/C In: 03:51:55

T/C Out: 03:52:17
Duration: 22"

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Incidental Music
Music Cue - 2M9
T/C In: 03:52:17

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T/C Out: 03:52:56
Duration: 39"

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PRITCHARD
Oh, Dr. Lydgate. Come in. Let me take your bag.

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PRICHARD [OOV]
Dr. Lydgate, ma'am.

LYDGATE
I am come - I am come with a message for Mr. Vincy.

Incidental Music
Music Cue - 2M10
T/C In: 03:54:01

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T/C Out: 03:56:09
Dur: 2'08"

[Fades to black at 03:56:08.]

[Credits roller appears at 03:56:11 with closing music.]

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Closing Title Music
T/C In: 03:56:11

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Closing Title Music
T/C Out: 03:57:13
Dur: 1'02"

[Final caption faded to black at 03:57:14 - presentation to cut away from black]

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POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT [...] UK VERSION Programme Number: 50/LDL R333F/01X [...] BBC TELEVISION Tape No: DR 19913 Programme Dur: 60'19"

MIDDLEMARCH

by GEORGE ELIOT

Screenplay for television in six parts

by ANDREW DAVIES

EPISODE 3

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PRODUCER ... LOUIS MARKS
Associate Producers ... ALISON GEE
... CAROLE BISSET
Script Editor ... SUSIE CHAPMAN

DIRECTOR ... ANTHONY PAGE
First Assistant Director ... ROB EVANS
Production Manager ... JULIE EDWARDS
Location Manager ... SAM DRECKMAN
Location Manager ... JEFF GOLDING
PA/Script Supervisor ... JANE GRIFFITHS
Co-ordinator ... UNA SAPLAMIDES
Assistant Floor Managers ... CLARE SOLLY
... KATY BRIERS
Second Assistant Director ... TANIA NORMAND
Third Assistant Director ... ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Production Secretary ... LUCY HOARE

Lighting Cameraman ... BRIAN TUFANO
Sound Recordist ... DICK BOULTER
Film Editor ... JERRY LEON
Film Editor ... PAUL TOTHILL

Production Designer ... GERRY SCOTT
Costume Designer ... ANUSHIA NIERADZIK
Make-up Designer ... DEANNE TURNER
Special Effects Designer ... STUART BRISDON
Casting ... GAIL STEVENS

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A BBC-TV PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH WGBH/BOSTON

Filmed in Italy, Lincolnshire, Somerset - January to August 1993

FIRST TRANSMISSION DATE: WEDNESDAY 26 JANUARY - BBC-2 NARRATIVE REPEAT TRANSMISSION: MONDAY 31 JANUARY - BBC-1

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NB : Please note that programme does not start at T/C 03:00:00. Mix to black. Programme starts 03:59:13.

MIDDLEMARCH - RECAP

Comprised of 4 clips from Episode 2.

Clip 1. INT. LOWICK BEDROOM LYDGATE TALKS TO DOROTHEA ABOUT CASAUBON

LYDGATE It is essential now that he should not strain his nervous powers in anyway. In particular, I would advise you not to tell him of the seriousness of his condition.

Clip 2. EXT. LOWICK GROUNDS DOROTHEA WALKS WITH BROOKE IN THE GROUNDS OF LOWICK.

DOROTHEA Uncle, I don't think that Mr Ladislaw should come to Middlemarch at all.

LYDGATE Whatever you say my dear .... who are we to forbid him if he really wants to come?

Clip 3. INT. STONE COURT MARY TALKS TO FRED.

MARY Every chance you get you waste how could I respect you and how could I marry a man I can't respect?

Clip 4. INT. VINCY'S LYDGATE PROPOSES TO ROSAMOND

LYDGATE I wan't you to be my wife.

Fades to black at 03:59:46 and ....

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OPENING CAST CREDITS

Opening Title Music
T/C In: 03:59:48

T/C Out: 04:00:35
Duration: 00'47"

[Mix from "Directed by ANTHONY PAGE" to Opening Scene - silhouette of house:-]

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Establisher.

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FEATHERSTONE
Missy! Missy, do you hear?

FEATHERSTONE
It's three o'clock in the morning, and I've got all my faculties. Do you hear?

MARY
Yes, sir.

FEATHERSTONE
I've made two wills, and I want you to burn one of them. It's in the chest in the closet. I want you to take that one out and burn it.

MARY
No, sir. I cannot do that.

FEATHERSTONE
Cannot do it? But you must!

MARY
No. I can't. It would lay me open to suspicion. Wait till morning, sir, till your brother and sister come again.

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FEATHERSTONE
No! Now! Look here, Missy! Take this money, all of it, the notes and the gold! You shall have it all, only do as I say!

MARY
No, I won't sir, I won't touch the will or the money, please don't ask me again!

FEATHERSTONE
You'll never have the chance again. Look. It's pretty nigh two hundred, and there's more in the box, and nobody will know how much there was. Take it, and do as I tell you.

MARY
Put away your money, sir - I won't touch it or do anything else you ask me.

FEATHERSTONE
Anything else? I want nothing else.

MARY
Let me give you some cordial.

FEATHERSTONE
Damn you, Missy!

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MRS. CADWALLADER [VO]
What an extraordinary set of people! Who can they all be? Oh, there's Lydgate as doctor, I suppose ... oh, that's a really fine looking young woman with that fair young man ...

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MRS. CADWALLADER
... who are they, Sir James, do you know them?

CHETTAM
I see Vincy, the new mayor. They're probably his son and daughter.

BROOKE
A very decent family - you've seen Vincy at my house, he's a very good fellow!

MRS. CADWALLADER
One of your secret political committee I hear

BROOKE
Ho, ho, ho, ho!

MRS. CADWALLADER
And one of those who sucks the life out of those wretched handloom weavers at Tipton and Freshitt. That's how his family look so fair and sleek.

BROOKE
Well, well, he's a sound man, Vincy.

CELIA
Who's that man that's wandered into the garden?

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MRS. CADWALLADER
He looks happy enough. Well, it's time the old man died. No-one there seems to be sorry.

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CELIA [turning]
Why, Dodo, you never told me Mr. Ladislaw has come again!

BROOKE
Ah yes! He came with me! He's my guest! He puts up at Tipton, you know! He's an excellent young man: he writes well, talks well - I'd be glad to give him an opportunity at the "Pioneer", you know!

MRS. CASAUBON
I see, writes political speeches, does he?

BROOKE
Did I not mention him before Casaubon? I asked him some time ago, when you were ill, and Dorothea said you couldn't have anybody in the house, you know, and she asked me to write to him.

BROOKE [carrying on, jolly, oblivious]
And he and I have brought the picture on top of the carriage - yourself in the semblance of Thomas Aquinas! I knew you'd be pleased by this surprise!

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BROOKE
Ladislaw! Here! Here he comes! He wouldn't come in, you know, till I'd announced him! Here he comes! Excellent, excellent! Here he comes!

Incidental Music
Music Cue - 3M2
T/C In: 04:05:36

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3M2 continues

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Music Cue - 3M2
T/C Out: 04:06:20
Duration: 00'44"

MRS. WAULE
That's him ...

SOLOMON
The by-blow ...

MRS. WAULE
Lovechild.

STANDISH
Now, the will I hold here in my hand was drawn up by myself on the ninth of August 1825. But I find there is a subsequent will, hitherto unknown to me, executed in March 1828.

MRS. WAULE
Dear, dear!

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STANDISH
I shall begin by reading the essential elements of the earlier will, as such appears to be the intentions of the deceased.

STANDISH
To each of my brothers and sisters who shall survive me, I give and bequeath the sum of two hundred pounds; to my nephews and nieces, one hundred pounds.

STANDISH
To Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, fifty pounds and my gold-headed cane.

STANDISH
To Mr. Frederick Vincy, ten thousand pounds ...

STANDISH
And the whole of the residue of the estate, including the house known as Stone Court and all the lands and buildings appertaining, go to Mr. Joshua Rigg, who will take henceforth the name of Featherstone.

SOLOMON
But there's a second will - there's a further document.

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MRS. WAULE
Yes, we have not yet heard the final wishes of the deceased.

STANDISH
The second most recent document revokes all the bequests of the earlier will. It leaves Stone Court and all the land in the parish of Lowick to Joshua Rigg, with the former conditions. But, the remainder of the estate is to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's Almshouses. There are no other bequests whatsoever.

VINCY
The most unaccountable will I ever heard!

SOLOMON
If I'd known ...

ROSAMOND
Mother!

SOLOMON
... a wagon and six wouldn't have drawn me from Brassing!

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MRS. WAULE
Well it'll do him no good where he's gone. He was a bad man, and almshouses won't cover it!

VINCY
Come, Lucy.

MRS. VINCY
That vile hypocritical old man!

VINCY
Don't give way, Lucy, don't make a fool of yourself, my dear, before these people. Fred! Fred!

ROSAMOND [whispering]
Fred!

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MARY
Fred! Fred! Be brave, Fred. I do believe you're better without the money.

FRED
That's all very well, but what's a fellow to do? I thought I'd be able to pay back your father at once and make everything right. And he's left you nothing too - what shall you do now?

MARY
Find another situation.

CALEB
Mary.

MARY
I'm sorry, Fred.

VINCY [from the carriage]
Fred! Fred! Damned bad day's work!

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VINCY
Well, sir, I hope you've made your mind up now to go up and pass that examination. You built too much on your expectations, now you must face the consequences!

MRS. VINCY
Don't be too hard on the poor boy, it weren't his fault that wicked old man deceived him.

VINCY
Ha!

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MRS. VINCY
Fred will turn out well yet, I know and where is there a girl like Rosamond? Dr. Lydgate, who could have had the highest in the land, he fell in love with her at once!

VINCY
The sooner that engagement's off, the better!

MRS. VINCY [on a wail]
Vincy! She's started buying in all the best linen and cambric ...

VINCY [interrupting]
I don't care! I shall have enough to do with this idle scamp, without paying for wedding clothes! Times are as bad as can be, machine breaking and I know not what, election coming and revolution for all I know, everybody's ruined, and I don't believe young Lydgate's got a farthing to his name, for all his grand connections! If be wants my daughter he can damn well make his own way first.

MRS. VINCY [near tears again]
Oh, Vincy!

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LYDGATE [to CRABSTONE, the house surgeon]
What's this, Crabstone?

CRABSTONE
Abdominal tumour, Dr. Lydgate. Her name's Nancy Nash. Patient of Dr. Minchin's.

LYDGATE [lovely bedside manner]
Good morning, Nancy, how do you feel?

NANCY
Bad, sir.

CRABSTONE
Dr. Minchin wants me to open her up and cut it out this morning.

LYDGATE
May I take a look, Nancy? I'll be as gentle as I can. Tell me when you feel it ... there? There? And when I do this? Hmmm. Thank you, Nancy.

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LYDGATE
It's not a tumour, it's cramp. Give her a blister and some steel mixture, and send her home to rest.

CRABSTONE
What's Dr. Minchin going to say about that? Cut her open, Crabstone, that's what he said to me.

LYDGATE [realising he's got himself into a spot]
All right, Crabstone. I'll speak to Dr. Minchin.

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LYDGATE
I was as tactful as I know how to be, but Minchin took offence. He's refused to give his services to the new hospital ... well, we'll manage well enough in spite of him. I shall just have to spend more time there myself, that's all. The devil of it is, the work's unpaid.
[brightening]
Still, things can't last as they are: we'll have all sorts of reform soon, and all the young fellows will be glad to come and study here!

ROSAMOND
Tertius ...

LYDGATE
Yes, my darling.

ROSAMOND
Papa has been saying that our engagement must be given up.

LYDGATE [shocked]
But why? You don't want to give it up?

ROSAMOND
Oh, I never give up anything that I choose to do.

LYDGATE
Good!

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ROSAMOND
This is the house. It belonged to old Mrs. Bretton. Oh, I've always longed to live here and it's so near to the hospital, but Papa says it's too expensive for a doctor.

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MRS. FLETT
Handsome couple, though. No denying that.

MRS. DOLLOP
Handsome is as handsome does. I wouldn't wed a girl of mine to that one. It's a well known fact he tried to cut up Mrs. Goby after she was dead.

MRS. FLETT
No! He never, did he?

MRS. DOLLOP
Poised over her with the knife when her brother burst in, I heard.

MRS. FLETT
No!
[pause]
Handsome, though.

MRS. DOLLOP
Oh, very handsome, very smart, the pair of 'em.

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MRS. VINCY [ad lib] [taking Mr. Bulstrode away ]
Come and congratulate the bride and groom!

MRS. PLYMDALE
Not that I'm thankful for my Ned's sake, though he could afford to keep such a wife better than Dr. Lydgate, for all his grand ways. I've never liked it when strangers come into a town putting on airs.

MRS. BULSTRODE
My Nicholas was a stranger here once. Abraham and Moses were strangers in the land, and we are told to entertain strangers, are we not?

MRS. PLYMDALE
I wasn't speaking in a religious sense, Harriet.

HAWLEY
Mr. Brooke!

BROOKE
Good day to you!

HAWLEY
Vincy's had to dig deep in his pockets over this palaver.

STANDISH
You think he's got himself a bargain then?

HAWLEY
With Lydgate? No better than Brooke got when he bought himself "The Pioneer" and that young rogue he's got to edit it ... they say Brooke's putting up for Parliament, with his protege to puff him in "The Pioneer"!

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STANDISH
Who is he, then, the young sprig? Some loose fish from London I suppose.

HAWLEY
Name's Ladislaw. Some sort of foreigner I gather. He'll begin with a flourish about the Rights of Man and end up murdering some poor wench.

STANDISH [laughing]
Aye, I wouldn't wonder.

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LADISLAW [VO]
"The Pioneer" considers this to be a time when the crying needs of the country might overcome the modesty and reluctance to public action on the part of men of large experience of life, men whose minds have acquired breadth as well as concentration, dispassionateness tempered by intelligence and energy ... the name of Brooke of Tipton comes to mind in this connection, and the electors of Middlemarch would be fortunate indeed to secure the services of such a man ...

BROOKE
Aye, Ladislaw, that's good, and to the point ... dispassionateness tempered by intelligence and energy. I like that. Yes, I like that very well.

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BROOKE
No wait! I've changed my mind. I'll come with you.

LADISLAW
Oh - there is a particular sketch I wanted to take within the churchyard.

BROOKE
Ah! I'll see you at dinner, then?

LADISLAW
With pleasure, sir.

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PRATT
Master's out, sir, but Mrs. Casaubon's in. She'd be glad to see you, I'm sure.

LADISLAW
Oh, very well; I wouldn't want to be a nuisance, though ...

PRATT
She's just in the library, sir.

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DOROTHEA
I'm so glad to see you.

LADISLAW
I really just came for the chance of seeing you alone. I wanted to talk about things, like we did in Rome.

DOROTHEA
It seems strange how much I said to you then.

LADISLAW
I remember it all.

LADISLAW
And you spend all your days, shut up indoors, with these?

DOROTHEA
Not all my days. Not all the hours in any day. And I am happy to be here.

LADISLAW
You look so much paler than you did in Rome. Couldn't you get your husband a secretary? - then you could ride, and get your colour back.

DOROTHEA
How can you think of that? I should have no happiness if I didn't help him with his work.

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LADISLAW
Did you know I was his secretary for a while?

DOROTHEA [enjoying his good humour]
I should not have thought that post would have suited you.

LADISLAW
No - nor did it suit Mr. Casaubon.

DOROTHEA [smiling]
Perhaps you were not a steady enough worker.

LADISLAW [admitting it]
No.
[but wanting to get at Casaubon too ]
And I don't think Mr. Casaubon likes anyone to overlook his work and know too thoroughly what he's doing. Too uncertain of himself. I made the mistake of offering him my opinions. I am afraid he dislikes me because I too often ventured to disagree with him.

DOROTHEA [who wants to think well of them both]
And yet he overcame his dislike of you as far as his actions were concerned.

LADISLAW
Yes, he has shown a sense of justice in family matters. He understood what an abominable thing it was for my Grandmother to be disinherited, merely for falling in love with a poor man!

DOROTHEA
I wonder how she bore the change from wealth to poverty. Do you know much about her?

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LADISLAW
Oh, for the time being, I think. There is work for me to do here. And I belong to nobody anywhere else. But if you think I shouldn't stay, then I will go.

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DOROTHEA
Why should I think that? I should like you to stay very much.

LADISLAW
Then I will stay.

DOROTHEA
Perhaps you should be guided by Mr. Casaubon. I spoke without thinking of anything but my own feelings. Can't you wait now and mention it to him?

LADISLAW
No, I can't wait today. Your uncle is expecting me. I feel I need to use my body - a five mile walk to Tipton with the sun gleaming on the wet grass is just what I require!

LADISLAW
Goodbye

DOROTHEA
Goodbye.

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DOROTHEA
Did you find the bishop well, Edward?

CASAUBON
Tolerably well, my dear. He was good enough to speak very handsomely of my recent pamphlet on the Egyptian Mysteries in terms which it would not become me to repeat.

DOROTHEA
That's wonderful news. I wish you had been here earlier.

CASAUBON
Why's that, my dear?

DOROTHEA
Because Mr. Ladislaw has been here. You missed him by only a few minutes.

CASAUBON
Indeed.

DOROTHEA [not realising this]
Yes - he was hoping to speak with you. It appears that Uncle has bought one of the Middlemarch newspapers, and has asked Mr. Ladislaw to conduct it for him. Now that he is independent of your financial support he is seeking some fixed occupation. He also said that he should like to stay in the neighbourhood, because nobody cares for him elsewhere.

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CASAUBON
And did Mr. Ladislaw come on purpose to ask my opinion?

DOROTHEA
He didn't say that - but of course he expected me to tell you of it.

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DOROTHEA
Would you like me to read to you, Edward?

CASAUBON
No, thank you; not at present.

DOROTHEA
Then may I talk to you a little?

CASAUBON
Certainly.

DOROTHEA
I've been thinking all day about money ­ that I have always had too much, and, especially now with your generosity, the prospect of too much ... I've been thinking about your Aunt Julia, how she was cut off from the family only because she married a man who was poor And about her grandson Will, your cousin - it isn't right that he should live in poverty while we are rich.

CASAUBON [who has tensed up at the first mention of money, and got worse at the first mention of Will]
And no doubt Mr. Ladislaw has been speaking to you on this subject.

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DOROTHEA
No! Edward, I know that you have done everything that you thought was right, but it seems to me that more than that is right. I believe that Mr. Ladislaw should be given the money that would enable him to take his true place in society - then he need not take on employment that might be beneath him.
[pause]
Edward? Well, surely he has a just claim.

CASAUBON
Dorothea, my love: this is not the first occasion, and it were well it were the last, on which you have assumed a judgment which is beyond your scope. It is not for you to interfere between me and Mr. Ladislaw, still less to encourage communications between him and you which constitute a criticism on my procedure.

CASAUBON [VO in a tone of controlled savagery]
Dear Mr. Ladislaw, Mrs. Casaubon informs me that a proposal has been made for you.

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CASAUBON [VO cont.]
Let me inform you that your acceptance of this proposal would be highly offensive to me. There are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a near relation of mine from making himself conspicuous in this vicinity in a status far below my own. I must tell you that any persistence in this course must disqualify you from further reception at my house. Yours faithfully, Edward Casaubon.

LADISLAW
Pompous old fool! I'm damned if I'll let you drive me away!

PRINTER
What was that, Mr. Ladislaw?

LADISLAW
Nothing, Jenkins. Freedom is a noble thing, eh?

PRINTER
It is, sir. And in short supply.

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LADISLAW [VO]
Dear Mr. Casaubon, you will pardon me for not seeing that my obligation to you should restrain me from living where I choose and maintaining myself by any lawful occupation that I choose.

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LADISLAW [VO cont.]
My conscience tells me I am doing nothing wrong. If yours forbids you to receive me in your house again, so be it. I remain, with deep regret, yours in persistent obligation, Will Ladislaw.

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ROSAMOND
Tertius! You never told me how beautiful Quallingham was ... What is it like inside? Is it full of lovely things?

LYDGATE
There will be one exceptionally lovely thing in it tonight.

ROSAMOND
Oh! Did you stay here often as a child?

LYDGATE
Quite often, yes. Particularly when Sir Godwin became my guardian after my father died.

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LYDGATE [VO]
I think you'll like my uncle - he's a good­ natured old fellow, but I'm afraid my cousin's a bore.

SIR GODWIN
So, how d'ye like Quallingham now you've seen all round it, eh?

ROSAMOND
Oh, I like it very much, sir - I think it is the loveliest place I have ever been in.

SIR GODWIN
Do you? Do you? You have a lusher countryside in Loamshire I understand.