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50/LDL S066L TRANSMISSION SCRIPT

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

by

Jane Austen

Screenplay in Six Episodes by Andrew Davies

EPISODE SIX

DURATION: 50'05" (ENTERPRISES)

52'42" (UK VERSION WITH RECAPS)

PRODUCER: Sue Birtwistle. Rm DG03. Centre House. Ext. 61080

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

by

Jane Austen

Screenplay in Six Episodes by Andrew Davies

EPISODE SIX

RECAP OF EPISODE 5:

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Dur: 02'37"

DARCY:
May I introduce my sister, Georgiana.

MISS BINGLEY:
I understood that certain ladies found the society of Mr. Wickham curiously agreeable.

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ELIZABETH:
I'm so sorry I'm neglecting you. How can you play with no-one to turn the pages?

WICKHAM and LYDIA rush to their carriage as they run away from Brighton.

LYDIA: [V.O.]
Don't send them word at Longbourn of my going, it will surprise them all the greater when I write to them and sign my name Lydia Wickham.

ELIZABETH:
I've just received a letter from Jane with such dreadful news. My youngest sister has thrown herself in the power of Mr. Wickham.

DARCY:
I'm afraid you have long been desiring my absence. I shall leave you now.

ELIZABETH:
Yes. Thank you. I shall never see him again.

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ELIZABETH:
Has anything been heard?

JANE:
No, not yet, but now our uncle is come I hope everything will be well.

MRS. BENNET
Oh brother, we are all ruined for ever.

ELIZABETH:
The chances of any of us making a good marriage were never very great. No I should say they're non-existant.

MR. COLLINS:
This false step in one sister must be injurious to the fortunes of all the others. For who will connect themselves with such a family?

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LYDIA: [O.O.V]
Lord, what In the world is he doing here?

WICKHAM:
What?

LYDIA:
What a joke!

WICKHAM:
Who? Who is it?

LYDIA:
You will never guess.

WICKHAM:
Who is it?

LYDIA:
Mr. Darcy!

ELIZABETH
What news? Have you heard from our uncle?

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MR. BENNET:
Yes, yes. I've had a letter from him.

ELIZABETH:
I have seen them both.

JANE:
It is as I've always hoped. They are married.

ELIZABETH:
They are not married. Nor can I find there was any intention of being so. But if you are willing to perform the engagements, I have ventured to make on your side, I hope it will not be long before they are.

MR.BENNET:
But there are two things I want very much to know. One is how much money your uncle laid down to bring this about, and the other, how am I ever to repay him?

ELIZABETH:
I wish I'd never spoken a word of this whole affair to Mr. Darcy. I know I shall probably never see him again. I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

by

Jane Austen

Screenplay in Six Episodes by Andrew Davies

EPISODE SIX

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Dur: 00'45"

OPENING TITLES

S/I CAPTIONS

1. COLIN FIRTH JENNIFER EHLE

2. DAVID BAMBER

CRISPIN BONHAM CARTER

ANNA CHANCELLOR

SUSANNAH HARKER

BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT

3. ADRIAN LUKIS

JULIA SAWALHA

ALISON STEADMAN

BENJAMIN WHITROW

CAPTIONS -cont.

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4. in

Jane Austen's

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

5. Screenplay by

ANDREW DAVIES

6. Music by

CARL DAVIS

7. Directed by

SIMON LANGTON

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MRS. BENNET [V.O.]
Oh, I knew it would all come out right in the end!

MRS. BENNET
My dear, dear Lydia! She will be married. Oh, my good, kind brother! I knew how it would be - I knew he would manage everything! Oh, but the clothes, the clothes - and of course she must be married from Longbourn, this is all nonsense about her being married from Cheapside! She must be married in Longbourn church where all her friends can see her!

ELIZABETH
No, ma'am, that is not possible, you must see that.

MRS. BENNET
I do not see that! Why should I see that? Why should that be?

ELIZABETH
Because that she has been living with Mr. Wickham in London and if she were to arrive home unmarried still ...

MRS. BENNET
Oh well! I suppose it must be, if you put it like that. But it is all very vexing and your Uncle has been most highhanded! I don't see why he should take so much upon him!

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JANE
Mamma, we are greatly indebted to Mr. Gardiner.

ELIZABETH
He must have laid out a great deal of money to pay off Mr. Wickham's debts - more than we can ever repay.

MRS. BENNET
And why should he not? Who else should lay out money but her own Uncle?

ELIZABETH
Mother -
But it's no good trying to get her to see her obligations.

MRS. BENNET
Oh well! I am so happy! A daughter married! And only just sixteen! "Mrs. Wickham!" Oh! How well that sounds! Oh, but the wedding clothes! Lizzy, my dear, go down to your father, and ask how much he will give her.

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MRS. BENNET [O.O.V.]
Oh Jane, as soon as I am dressed I shall go to Meryton and tell my sister Phillips. Ring the bell for Hill. An airing will do me a great deal of good I'm sure, and I shall call on Lady Lucas and Mrs. Long. Oh Jane! ...

ELIZABETH
Papa.

MRS. BENNET [O.O.V. still in full flow]
... Jane, it's such wonderful news!

MRS. BENNET [O.O.V.]
Oh where is Hill? Oh Hill have you heard the good news?

BENNET
Shut the door Lizzie.

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MRS. BENNET [O.O.V.]
Lydia is going to be married, and you shall have a bowl of punch to make merry at her wedding!

BENNET
Someone, at least, finds pleasure in these events.

ELIZABETH
But considering what we thought, only a few hours ago, it's not so bad, is it? [pause] Do you think my Uncle had to pay out a great deal of money?

BENNET
I do. Wickham's a fool, if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds.

ELIZABETH
Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid! How is half such a sum to be repaid?

BENNET
I wish I had laid by an annual sum to bribe worthless young men to marry my daughters - but I have not, I confess. The reason was, of course, I intended to father a son. The son would inherit the estate, no part of which would be entailed away, so providing for my widow and any other children. By the time your mother and I had abandoned hope of producing an heir, it seemed a little late to begin saving!

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ELIZABETH
You could not have foreseen this, father.

BENNET
I should have taken better care of you all. The satisfaction of prevailing upon one of the most worthless young men in Britain might then have rested in its proper place. As it is, the thing is done with extraordinary little inconvenience to myself. When you take into account what I shall save on Lydia's board and pocket allowance, I am scarcely ten pounds a year worse off.

BENNET
I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy, but don't despair, it will pass, and no doubt more quickly than it should.

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LYDIA
Where is everyone?

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PRIEST
Dearly beloved. We are gathered here in the sight of God.

GARDINER [V.O.]
Mr. Wickham, is to resign from the Militia, and go into a Northern regiment, happily there are still some among his former friends who are willing to assist him in purchasing a commission.

GARDINER [V.O.]
I have written to Colonel Forster, to request that he will satisfy Mr. Wickham's creditors in Brighton, for which I have pledged myself.

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BENNET [reading]
"... Perhaps you will be so good as to do the same for his creditors in Meryton ... of whom I enclose a list according to his information".

BENNET [reading]
"I hope at least he has not deceived us". Let us all hope so. "As soon as they are married they will journey directly to join his regiment in Newcastle - unless they are first invited to Longbourn!"

MRS. BENNET
Oh, yes, my dear Mr. Bennet, of course they must come here, I long to see my dear Lydia, and dear Wickham too, of course! But it is shocking that poor Lydia should have been sent away from Brighton - and such a favourite among all the officers! There were several of the young men there you know that she liked very much, and they will miss her as much as she will miss them! These Northern officers may not be quite so pleasant!

BENNET
My dear Mrs. Bennet, I am sure our youngest daughter will have no difficulty in finding friends as silly as she is in Newcastle - she has a talent for making a spectacle of herself wherever she goes.

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MRS. BENNET
But if they are to leave Brighton, they should come to Hertfordshire and reside in the neighbourhood - Haye Park might do, if the Goldings would quit it - or the great house at Stoke, if the drawingrooms were larger ...

KITTY
Or Purvis Lodge.

MRS. BENNET
Oh, no dear, not Purvis Lodge -the attics there are dreadful!

BENNET
Mrs. Bennet, before you take any, or all of these houses, let us come to a right understanding. Into one house in the neighbourhood they shall never have admittance.

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BENNET [V.O.]
Mr. and Mrs. Wickham will never be welcome to Longbourn.

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LYDIA
Lord! It seems an age since we were at Longbourn! And here you all are, just the same!

MRS. BENNET
Oh, my dear, dear Lydia, at last! Oh I do believe you've grown! Oh how we have missed you.

LYDIA
Oh, we've been far too merry to miss any of you! Well, here we are! Haven't I caught myself a handsome husband?

MRS. BENNET [falling on WICKHAM]
Indeed you have my love - you are very very welcome, sir!

WICKHAM
You are all goodness and kindness, ma'am, as always.

MRS. BENNET
Let me give you a kiss, then ...

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BENNET
Well, shall we go in?

LYDIA
No, Jane! I take your place now! You must go lower, because I am a married woman! "Mrs. Wickham!" Lord! How droll that sounds.

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LYDIA
How do you like my husband, Lizzy - I believe you envy me, for was he not a favourite of yours once?

ELIZABETH
Not at all, I assure you.

LYDIA
What a pity we didn't all go to Brighton - I could have got husbands for all my sisters!

ELIZABETH
Thank you for my share of the favour - but I don't particularly like your way of getting husbands.

LYDIA
Isn't my husband a fine horseman? Colonel Forster himself said he has as good a seat as any officer in the regiment. I wished he could wear his red coat at the wedding, and have a guard of honour, with their sabres drawn - but the officers could not be spared from their duties, and in the end there was no one there but my Aunt and Uncle and Mr. Darcy.

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ELIZABETH
Mr. Darcy? Mr. Darcy was at your wedding?

LYDIA
Oh, yes! For someone had to come with Wickham and be groomsman - I had much rather it had been Denny or one of our other friends - oh Lord.

LYDIA
Oh, Lord, I forgot - I wasn't to say a word, and I promised them so faithfully! Ooh, what'll Wickham say now? It was supposed to be a secret!

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ELIZABETH [V.O.]
My dear Aunt, pray write and let me understand how he of all people should have been there - unless you too are bound in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary.

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6/9. INT. GARDINER HOUSE. DRAWING ROOM. AUGUST. DAY 61. [11.15]

MRS. GARDINER [V.O.]
My dear niece, I must confess myself surprised by your letter. If you are indeed in ignorance of the part that Mr. Darcy played in bringing about the marriage, let me enlighten you at once ... Mr. Darcy paid us an unexpected visit ...

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MRS. GARDINER [V.O.]
And so, my dear Lizzy, Mr. Darcy would brook no opposition - he insisted on doing everything himself and bearing the entirety of the expense.

MRS. GARDINER [V.O.]
Nothing was to be done that he did not do himself - and your Uncle, instead of being allowed to be of use to his niece, was forced to put up with having the credit of it.

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DARCY
I must be allowed to insist on this: the fault is mine, and so must the remedy be. It was through my mistaken pride, my reserve, that Mr. Wickham's character has not been made known to the world. Had I not thought it beneath me to lay my ... private actions open to the world, his character would have been exposed, and this elopement could never have taken place.

GARDINER
Mr. Darcy, I really believe you take too much upon yourself.

DARCY
I must insist on this, Sir. I assure you that in this matter, argument is fruitless. The responsibility is mine. I must have it, Sir. I shall not give way.

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WICKHAM
My dear sister! I am afraid I'm interrupting your solitary reverie.

ELIZABETH
You are, indeed - but it doesn't follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.

WICKHAM
I should be sorry if it were. You and I were always good friends.

ELIZABETH
True.

WICKHAM
Then shall we take a turn together, sister?

WICKHAM
I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month. We, ah - we passed each other several times. I wonder what he could be doing there.

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ELIZABETH
Perhaps preparing for the wedding ... [then after a pause] with Miss de Bourgh.

WICKHAM
Yes! Yes! Perhaps!

ELIZABETH
It must have been something particular, to take him there at this time of year.

WICKHAM
Undoubtedly. Did you see him while you were at Lambton? I thought I understood from the Gardiners that you had.

ELIZABETH
Yes: he introduced us to his sister.

WICKHAM
And did you like her?

ELIZABETH [looking him in the eyes]
Yes, I did like her, very much indeed.

WICKHAM
Well I have heard, indeed, that she is uncommonly improved within this last year or two. When I last saw her, she was not very promising. I am glad you liked her - I hope she will turn out well.

ELIZABETH
I dare say she will - she has got over the most trying age.

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WICKHAM
Did you go by the village of Kympton?

ELIZABETH
I ... cannot recollect that we -

WICKHAM
I mention it because that was the living I should have had.

ELIZABETH [with obvious irony now]
And how should you have liked making sermons?

WICKHAM [a bit on his high horse]
Exceedingly well.

ELIZABETH [pressing it home]
I did hear that there was a time when sermon making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present - that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders and were compensated accordingly!

WICKHAM
Well.

ELIZABETH
Oh come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Let us not quarrel about the past.

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MRS. BENNET
Oh, Lydia, when shall we meet again?

LYDIA
Lord, I don't know. Not these two or three years perhaps.

MRS. BENNET
Not these two or three years, Oh, what shall I do, and Mr. Bennet so cruel as to refuse to take us into the North Country!

MARY
I should refuse to go in any case.

MRS. BENNET
Oh hold your tongue girl, who asked you? Oh, Lydia! You will write to me often, won't you?

LYDIA
Well, I don't know - we married women don't have much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing better to do, as I shall!

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MRS. BENNET
Oh, Lydia! Oh, Mr. Wickham, take care of my girl!

WICKHAM
I shall, Ma'am, to the very best of my ability - and thank you, Ma'am, and to you, Sir, for your continued kindness and hospitality and to you, my dear sisters in law, and now as dear to me as sisters ever could be - but the carriage awaits, duty and honour call me to the North - and so, come my dear

WICKHAM
Let us say not farewell, but as the French have it - au revoir!

BENNET
He is as fine a fellow as ever I saw. He simpers, and smirks, and makes love to us all. I am prodigiously proud of him. I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce such a son-in-law.

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MRS. PHILLIPS [V.O.]
Sister! Sister! Have you heard the news? Mr. Bingley is coming back to Netherfield ...

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MRS. PHILLIPS [O.O.V.]
... and the whole town is talking about it.

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JANE
No, I do assure you - this news does not affect me - truly, Lizzy.

JANE
I am glad of one thing, that he doesn't bring ladies - if it is merely a shooting party, we shall not see him often. [pause] Not that I am afraid of myself - but I dread other people's remarks, Lizzy.

ELIZABETH
Then I shall venture none - however sorely I am tempted!

ELIZABETH
After all, it is hard, that the poor man can't come to a house he's legally rented, without raising all this speculation!

JANE
That is just what I think.

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ELIZABETH [firmly]
Then we shall leave him to himself.

JANE [firmly]
Yes.

JANE
Stop it, Lizzy.

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Six variations on the Duet "Nel car piu non mi sento" from "La Molinara", by Paisello. Beethoven.

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MRS. BENNET
Three days he has been in the neighbourhood, and still he shuns us! I say it is all your father's fault - he would not do his duty and call, and so you shall all die old maids, and we shall be turned out by the Collinses to starve in the hedgerows!

BENNET
You promised me last year that if I went to see him he'd marry one of my daughters but it all came to nothing, and I won't be sent on a fool's errand again.

KITTY
Mamma! Mamma! Look! I think he is coming!

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MRS. BENNET
It is really him? I believe it must be! He is come, Jane! He is come at last! Run and put on your blue gown! - No, no, stay where you are!

KITTY
Who's that with him?

MRS. BENNET
Oh Lord, I don't know dear, some acquaintance I suppose.

KITTY
It looks like that man who used to be with him before. Mr. Oh what's his name. You know, that tall proud one.

MRS. BENNET
Mr. Darcy! I believe it is! Well, any friend of Mr. Bingley's will always be welcome here to be sure; but else I must say that I hate the sight of him.

MRS. BENNET
But I am determined to be civil - if only because the man is a friend of Bingley's, but no more than civil - sit up straight Jane. Pull your shoulders back, a man could go a long way without seeing a figure like yours if you would only make the most of it ...

HILL
Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy ma'am.

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MRS. BENNET
Mr. Bingley, you are very, very welcome.

BINGLEY
How do you do, Mrs. Bennet. I ...

MRS. BENNET [over-riding him]
It is far too long since you were here, and very, very kind of you to call. Mr. Bennet of course would have paid his addresses before this were it not - well here you are! am delighted! And Mr. Darcy you are welcome too.

MRS. BENNET
We began to be afraid you would never come back again - people did say, you meant to quit the place entirely by Michaelmas! - but I hope however that is not true - Ring the bell for tea, Kitty - a great many changes have taken place since you went away. Miss Lucas is married and settled. And one of my own daughters! I expect you have heard of it? Indeed, you must have read it in the papers!

BINGLEY
Yes, indeed, I ...

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MRS. BENNET
- though it was not put in properly, it only said: lately, George Wickham, Esquire, to Miss Lydia Bennet ...

MRS. BENNET
- without a syllable said about who her father was, or where she lived or anything! And now they are gone to Newcastle and there they are to stay, I don't know how long ... I expect you've heard he has gone into the regulars ... well thank Heaven he has some friends, though perhaps not as many as he deserves!

ELIZABETH [to BINGLEY]
Do you mean to stay long in the neighbourhood on this visit?

BINGLEY
Our plans are not yet firmly settled - but I hope - I hope we shall stay for some weeks.

BINGLEY
I hope very much we shall stay a few weeks, at the very least.

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MRS. BENNET
Well, when you've killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley, I beg you would come here and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor! I'm sure he will be vastly happy to oblige you!
[different tone]
And I suppose you may bring your friends, if you will.

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JANE
Now that this first meeting is over, I feel at ease.

ELIZABETH [smiling]
Good.

JANE
No, I know my own strength - and I shall never again be embarrassed by his coming. We shall be able to meet now as ... as common and indifferent acquaintances.

ELIZABETH
Yes, very indifferent! Jane, take care!

JANE
Don't think me to be in any danger now, Lizzy!

ELIZABETH
I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever!

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BINGLEY
You tell me now that she was in London all those months? And you concealed it from me?

DARCY
Yes. I can offer no justification: it was an arrogant presumption, based on a failure to recognise your true feelings and Miss Bennet's. I should never have interfered. It was very wrong of me, Bingley, and I apologise.

BINGLEY
You admit that you were in the wrong?

DARCY
Utterly and completely.

BINGLEY
Then I have your blessing?

DARCY
Do you need my blessing?

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BINGLEY
No. But I should like to know I have it all the same.

DARCY
Then go to it.

BINGLEY
Bring me my horse at once! Quick, man!

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MRS. BENNET
Jane! Jane! - Oh, my dear Jane!

JANE
Mamma, what is the matter?

MRS. BENNET
He is come! He is come!

JANE
Who is come?

MRS. BENNET
Mr. Bingley of course! Make haste, make haste hurry down! Oh, gracious you are not half dressed! Hill! Hill! Oh where is Hill?

MRS. BENNET
Oh never mind - Sarah! You must come to Miss Bennet this moment - come along girl and help her on with her gown. Never mind Miss Lizzy's hair! [cont ... ]

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MRS. BENNET [cont]
Make haste! Make haste!

KITTY
Mamma! Mamma! Where is my new locket that Lydia brought me from London? Mary! Have you seen my new locket?

MARY [plodding past]
I shouldn't know it if I did see it. I care nothing for such baubles.

MRS. BENNET
Oh, never mind your locket girl. Jane, stir yourself, he is here, he is here!

JANE
Mamma, Lizzy and I will be down as soon as we can - let Kitty go down - she is forrader than any of us.

MRS. BENNET
Oh, hang Kitty! What has she to do with it?

MRS. BENNET
Jane, be quick. Oh where is your muslin dress dear? Oh Hill! Hill! Oh, where is Hill!

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MRS. BENNET
So Mr. Darcy is gone to town.

BINGLEY
Yes, ma'am; he left quite early this morning.

KITTY
What's the matter, Mamma? Why d'you keep winking at me? What am I to do?

MRS. BENNET
Wink at you? Why should I wink at you, child? What a notion! Why would I be winking at my own daughter, pray? But now you ask, it puts me in mind, I do have something I would speak to you about come, come with me. And you, Mary. Come.

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HILL
Miss Elizabeth - you're needed upstairs.

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ELIZABETH
Mother, please let me go down to Jane. I promised I would stay with her.

MRS. BENNET
Stay where you are. Five more minutes will do the trick.

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ELIZABETH
Oh I am so sorry -

JANE
No, no - don't go, Lizzy!

BINGLEY
I shall go and speak to your father.

ELIZABETH
Well?

JANE
Oh, Lizzy, I'm so happy! It is too much! It is too much! Oh, why can't everyone be as happy as I am?

JANE
He loves me Lizzy! He loves me.

ELIZABETH
Of course he does.

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JANE
He told me he always loved me, all the time - he didn't believe ... I must go and tell Mamma. He is gone to Papa already! Oh, Lizzy, could you believe things would end in this happy way?

ELIZABETH
I could, and I do!

JANE
I must go to my mother. Oh, Lizzy, to know I shall be giving such pleasure to all my dear family! How shall I bear so much happiness?

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BENNET
Come back tomorrow, Sir, if you can bear to. Come and shoot with me, if you will - there are few men whose society I can tolerate with equanimity, and I believe you may turn out to be one of them.

BINGLEY
Thank you, Sir. I shall be very happy to.

BENNET
Very well, very well, get along with you.

BINGLEY
Till tomorrow then.

BENNET
Jane, congratulations. You will be a very happy woman.

JANE
Thank you, Father - I believe I shall.

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BENNET
Well, well, you're a good girl and I've no doubt you'll do very well together. You're each of you so complying that nothing will ever be resolved on ...

JANE
Papa ...

BENNET
... so easy, that every servant will cheat you.

JANE
No, indeed ...

BENNET
... and so generous that you will always exceed your income!

MRS. BENNET
Exceed their income! What are you talking about? Don't you know he has Five Thousand a Year?! Oh, my dear, dear Jane! I am so happy! Oh I knew how it would be! I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing! He is the handsomest man that was ever seen!

JANE
Oh, Lizzy if only I could see you as happy! If there were only such another man for you!

ELIZABETH
If you were to give me forty such men, I could never be as happy as you. Till I have your goodness I can never have your happiness. [cont ...]

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ELIZABETH [cont]
But perhaps if I have very good luck I may in time meet with another Mr. Collins!

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KITTY [O.O.V.]
Mamma! Lizzy! Come and look.

KITTY
The most enormous carriage has arrived.

LADY CATHERINE [O.O.V.]
What an extremely small hall!

HILL [O.O.V.]
If you'll wait here your Ladyship, I'll tell my mistress you are here.

LADY CATHERINE [O.O.V.]
No, I will not wait. Where is she? Is this the drawing room?

HILL
Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

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LADY CATHERINE [looking at MRS. BENNET]
That lady I suppose is your mother.

ELIZABETH
Yes, she is. Mamma, this is Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

LADY CATHERINE
And that I suppose is one of your sisters.

MRS. BENNET
Yes, ma'am, she's my youngest girl but one - my youngest of all is lately married ...

LADY CATHERINE
You have a very small park here. And this must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer. Why, the windows are full west.

MRS. BENNET
Indeed they are, your ladyship - but we never sit in here after dinner - we have ...

LADY CATHERINE
Miss Bennet there seemed to be a prettyish kind of little wilderness on one side of your lawn. I should be glad to take a turn in it, if you would favour me with your company.

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LADY CATHERINE
You can be at no loss to understand the reason for my journey, Miss Bennet.

ELIZABETH
Indeed you are mistaken, Madam. I'm quite unable to account for the honour of seeing you here.

LADY CATHERINE
Miss Bennet: you ought to know I am not to be trifled with. But however insincere you choose to be, you shall not find me so. A report of an alarming nature reached me two days ago. I was told, not only that your sister was to be most advantageously married, but that you Miss Elizabeth Bennet would be soon afterwards united to my own nephew, Mr. Darcy!

LADY CATHERINE
Though I know it must be a scandalous falsehood, I instantly resolved on setting off for this place, to make my sentiments known to you.

ELIZABETH
If you believed it to be impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What would your ladyship propose by it?

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LADY CATHERINE
At once to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted!

ELIZABETH
Your coming to Longbourn to see me will be taken as a confirmation of it - if indeed such a report exists.

LADY CATHERINE
This is not to be borne. Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied. Has my nephew made you an offer of marriage?

ELIZABETH
Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.

LADY CATHERINE
It ought to be so - but your arts and allurements may have made him forget what he owes to himself and all the family. You may have drawn him in.

ELIZABETH
If I had, I should be the last person to confess it.

LADY CATHERINE
Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this! I am almost the nearest relation he has, and I am entitled to know all his nearest concerns!

ELIZABETH
But you're not entitled to know mine - nor will such behaviour as this induce me to be explicit.

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LADY CATHERINE
Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?

ELIZABETH
Only this: that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he'll make an offer to me.

LADY CATHERINE
The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy, they have been intended for each other. It was the favourite wish of his mother as well as hers. While she was in her cradle, we planned the union ...

LADY CATHERINE
... and now, to be prevented by the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune? Is this to be endured! It shall not be! Your alliance would be a disgrace; your name would never even be mentioned by any of us.

ELIZABETH
These would be heavy misfortunes indeed.

LADY CATHERINE
Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you! I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.

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ELIZABETH
That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me.

LADY CATHERINE
I will not be interrupted. If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up!

ELIZABETH
Lady Catherine: in marrying your nephew I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

LADY CATHERINE
But who was your mother? Who are your Uncles and Aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition.

ELIZABETH
Whatever my connections may be, if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to you.

LADY CATHERINE [thundering]
Tell me once and for all, are you engaged to him?

ELIZABETH
I am not.

LADY CATHERINE
And will you promise me never to enter into such an engagement?

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ELIZABETH
I will make no promise of the kind. And I must beg you not to importune me any further on the subject.

LADY CATHERINE
Not so hasty, if you please. I have another objection - your youngest sister's infamous elopement. I know it all. Is such a girl to be my nephew's sister-in-law? Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

ELIZABETH
You can now have nothing further to say. You have insulted me by every possible method. I must beg to return to the house.

LADY CATHERINE
You, you have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew! Unfeeling, selfish girl! You refuse to oblige me? You refuse the claims of duty, honour ... gratitude? You are determined to ruin him, and make him the contempt of the world!

ELIZABETH
I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own happiness; without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

LADY CATHERINE
And this is your final resolve! Very well! I shall now know how to act! [cont ...]

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LADY CATHERINE [cont]
I take no leave of you Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

LADY CATHERINE
Drive on!

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BENNET
Lizzy, Lizzy, I was going to look for you; come into my room.

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BENNET
I've received a letter this morning which has astonished me exceedingly.

BENNET
From Mr. Collins.

ELIZABETH
What can he have to say.

BENNET
He begins with congratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter - but I shan't sport with your intelligence reading his remarks on that topic.

BENNET
Ah. Yes. Here, here, here. "Your daughter Elizabeth it is presumed, will not long bear the name of Bennet, after her eldest sister has resigned it, and the chosen partner of her fate may be reasonably looked up to as one of the most illustrious personages in the land". [cont ... ]

BENNET
Can you guess who he means Lizzy? Now, now it comes out: "My motive for cautioning you is as follows: his Aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, does not look on the match with a friendly eye". Mr. Darcy you see, is the man! Mr. Darcy of

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all men - who never looks at a woman except to see a blemish - are you diverted?

ELIZABETH
Oh yes

BENNET
Mr. Darcy, who probably never looked at you in his life before! This is admirable! But Lizzy, you look as if you didn't enjoy it. You're not going to be Missish, and pretend to be affronted by an idle report?

ELIZABETH
Oh - no, no - I am excessively diverted. It's all so strange.

BENNET
And pray, what said Lady Catherine de Bourgh? I suppose she came to refuse her consent eh? Well, well, what do we live for, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?

ELIZABETH
True-true.

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Hill
Mr. Bingley, and Mr. Darcy, ma'am.

MRS. BENNET
Ah!

BINGLEY
Good day to you ma'am.

MRS. BENNET
Mr. Bingley.

BINGLEY
It is a fine day: should we perhaps all walk towards Meryton?

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KITTY
Lizzy, do you mind if I just run down the lane here to call on Maria Lucas?

ELIZABETH
No not at all.

ELIZABETH
Mr. Darcy, I can go no longer without thanking you for your kindness to my poor sister. Ever since I have known of it, I've been most anxious to tell you how grateful I am - for my family, and for myself.

ELIZABETH
You must not blame my Aunt for telling me - Lydia betrayed it first, and then I couldn't rest till I knew everything. I know what trouble and what mortification it must have cost you. Please let me say this - please allow me to thank you, on behalf of all my family, since they don't know to whom they are indebted.

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DARCY
If you will thank me - let it be for yourself alone. Your family owes me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.

ELIZABETH
Oh.

DARCY
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

ELIZABETH
Oh ... my feelings -my feelings are -I am ashamed to remember what I said then, oh, my feelings are so different - in fact they are quite the opposite.

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DARCY
Lady Catherine told me of her meeting with you. I may say that her disclosure had quite the opposite effect to the one she intended. It taught me to hope, that I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. I knew that, had you absolutely decided against me, you would have acknowledged it openly.

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ELIZABETH
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

DARCY
And what did you say of me, that I did not deserve? My behaviour to you at the time was unpardonable. I can hardly think of it without abhorrence. Your reproof, I shall never forget: "had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner". You know not how those words have tortured me.

ELIZABETH
I had not the smallest idea of their ever being taken in such a way.

DARCY
I can easily believe it. You thought me devoid of every proper feeling, I am sure you did. The turn of your countenance I shall never forget, as you said that I could not have addressed you in any possible way that would induced you to accept me.

ELIZABETH [embarrassed]
Oh! Do not repeat what I said then!

DARCY
No. I have been a selfish being all my life. As a child I was given good principles, but was left to follow them in pride and conceit. And such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth!

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JANE [O.O.V.]
Engaged to Mr. Darcy!

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JANE
No, you are joking, it is impossible.

ELIZABETH
Well this is a wretched beginning. If you don't believe me, I'm sure no-one else will. Indeed, I am in earnest. He still loves me, and we are engaged.

JANE
No, Lizzy. It can't be true. I know how much you dislike him!

ELIZABETH
No, that's all forgotten - perhaps I didn't always love him as well as I do now. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

JANE
Dearest Lizzy; do be serious. How long have you loved him?

ELIZABETH
It's been coming on so gradually, I hardly know - but I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley!

JANE
Lizzy!

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BENNET
Are you out of your senses to be accepting this man Lizzy? Have you not always hated him?

ELIZABETH
Papa -

BENNET
I have given him my consent. He's the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything. But let me advise you to think the better of it. I know your disposition, Lizzy. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. He is rich, to be sure. But will he make you happy?

ELIZABETH
Have you any objections apart from your belief in my indifference?

BENNET
None whatever. We all know him to be a proud unpleasant sort of man, but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

ELIZABETH
I do, I do like him. I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. If you only knew his generous nature - I didn't always love him, but I love him now, so very dearly. He is truly the best man I have ever known.

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BENNET
Well, my dear if this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you to anyone less worthy, Lizzy.

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PRIEST [O.O.V.]
Dearly beloved ...

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PRIEST
... We are gathered here in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation.

PRIEST
... to join together this man and this woman, and this man, and this woman ... in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted by God in the time of man's innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is between Christ and his church ... and therefore is not by any to be enterprised lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy man's carnal lusts and appetites ...

PRIEST
... but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God, duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained.

PRIEST
First, it was ordained for the procreation of children ...

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PRIEST [V.O.]
Secondly as a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication.

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PRIEST
Thirdly, for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity. Into which holy estate these persons present come now to be joined.

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MRS. BENNET
Three daughters married! Oh, Mr. Bennet, God has been very good to us!

BENNET
Yes, so it would seem.

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Closing Titles

Dur: 01'35"

S/1 CLOSING CAPTIONS

Roller

In order of Appearance

MRS. BENNET--ALISON STEADMAN

ELIZABETH BENNET--JENNIFER EHLE

JANE BENNET--SUSANNAH HARKER

MR. BENNET--BENJAMIN WHITROW

MR. GARDINER--TIM WYLTON

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CAPTIONS [cont]

Closing Music

LYDIA BENNET--JULIA SAWALHA

MRS. GARDINER--JOANNA DAVID

WICKHAM--ADRIAN LUKIS

MR. DARCY--COLIN FIRTH

KITTY BENNET--POLLY MABERLY

MARY BENNET--LUCY BRIERS

HILL--MARLENE SIDAWAY

MRS. PHILLIPS--LYNN FARLEIGH

MR. BINGLEY--CRISPIN BONHAM-CARTER

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SARAH--KATE O'MALLEY

LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH--BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT

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GEORGIANA DARCY--EMILIA FOX

MISS BINGLEY--ANNA CHANCELLOR

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MR. COLLINS--DAVID BAMBER

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CLOSING CAPTION [CONT]

Closing Music

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--MIKE BOOYS

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CLOSING CAPTION [cont]

CLOSING MUSIC

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