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Lux Radio Theatre - "Jane Eyre" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery head the cast as Jane
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  Speaker 1: Eyre and Edward Rochester. On June 14, 1948, Lux Radio
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  Speaker 1: Theater brought Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to CBS in episode 620.
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  Speaker 1: its third known presentation of the novel. Set in 19th
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  Speaker 1: century England, the drama follows Jane's growing bond with Rochester
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  Speaker 1: as a grave secret surrounds his household. Marlene Ames, Ann Carter,
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  Speaker 1: Frances Robinson, Janet Scott, and Martha Wentworth are also heard.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you
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  Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater, starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery
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  Speaker 3: in Jane Eyre. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. If you've ever visited
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  Speaker 4: the moors of Yorkshire, with their threatening crags and weird,
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  Speaker 4: mysterious fogs, their towering, moss-covered mansions steeped in age and legend,
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  Speaker 4: you'll realize why those Yorkshire moors have been the setting
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  Speaker 4: for so many strange and gripping dramas. Such dramas, for example,
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  Speaker 4: as tonight's immortal story, Jane Eyre. Filmed by 20th Century
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  Speaker 4: Fox from Charlotte Bronte's famous novel, Jane Eyre is truly
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  Speaker 4: a screen classic, calling for great actors to interpret it.
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  Speaker 4: And such are the players whom we have tonight. Robert
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  Speaker 4: Montgomery co-starred with Ingrid Bergman in the title role. A
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  Speaker 4: biographer of the fabulous Bronte sisters, perhaps literature's most gifted family,
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  Speaker 4: describes them as being plainly and unfashionably dressed. with the
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  Speaker 4: exception of Charlotte, who had a taste for delicate lace
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  Speaker 4: shawls and mantles. Although how she cared for her fine
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  Speaker 4: fabrics without Luxe Flakes, the writer fails to mention. If
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte were alive today and doing her own housework as
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  Speaker 4: she did in Yorkshire, I'm sure those new tiny diamonds
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  Speaker 4: of Luxe would prove a helpful blessing to this family
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  Speaker 4: of geniuses. But back to 19th century England with Act
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  Speaker 4: One of tonight's play, starring Ingrid Bergman as Jane Eyre
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  Speaker 4: and Robert Montgomery as Edward Rochester.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Jane Eyre.
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  Speaker 6: I was born in 1820, a time of harsh changes
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  Speaker 6: in England.
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  Speaker 7: Money and position were all that mattered.
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  Speaker 6: Charity was a cold and disagreeable word, and religion too
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  Speaker 6: often merely a mask to cover bigotry and meanness.
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  Speaker 7: As a child, I had no one, only an aunt.
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  Speaker 6: I cannot remember that even once did she speak a
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  Speaker 6: single word of kindness to me. When I was 10,
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  Speaker 6: she sent me away to school to a place called Lowood.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want?
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  Speaker 8: I am the new girl, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Jane Eyre.
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  Speaker 2: You are aware of my identity, Eyre?
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  Speaker 7: They told me you are Mr. Brocklehurst, sir.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct. I am the supervisor of this institution.
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  Speaker 7: Institution, sir?
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  Speaker 9: Did I give you leave to question me?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Perhaps the word institution annoys you.
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me, sir. I thought this was a school.
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  Speaker 2: Lowood is a refuge, Eyre.
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  Speaker 9: A refuge for paupers and orphans who but for these portals.
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  Speaker 2: are without homes. Here we give everything. In return, we demand.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing short of absolute obedience and humility.
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  Speaker 7: I have tried to be a good girl, sir.
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  Speaker 9: You have tried only to torment your poor aunt from
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  Speaker 9: what she told and from what is readily observed.
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  Speaker 2: You're a wicked, worthless child.
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  Speaker 7: That isn't so.
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  Speaker 2: In all the earth, there is no sight so terrible
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  Speaker 2: as a wicked child. But I promise, all wickedness will
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  Speaker 2: be driven from you here.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Get to your knees. We shall pray together for the
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  Speaker 2: salvation of your soul.
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  Speaker 7: That was my introduction to Lowood. It was like a prison,
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  Speaker 7: dark and cold, but never so dark nor cold as Mr. Brocklehurst.
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  Speaker 7: His hand reached everywhere through those.
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  Speaker 6: Somber walls and in the guise of Christian charity tormented
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  Speaker 6: body and soul alike. Two weeks after my arrival, he
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  Speaker 6: found cause to assemble all the children and ordered me
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  Speaker 6: to stand before them on a stool.
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  Speaker 2: Pupils, observe this child. Be on guard against her. Shun
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  Speaker 2: her example and avoid her company. And you, the teachers,
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  Speaker 2: watch her well.
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  Speaker 9: Punish her body to save the soul, for already the
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  Speaker 9: evil one has found in her a willing servant.
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  Speaker 2: She will remain on this stool for twelve hours. Return
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  Speaker 2: to your classes.
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  Speaker 6: If we who were children at Lowood did not flourish,
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  Speaker 6: at least we survived. True, we had nothing to cling to,
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  Speaker 6: save each other. But the very anguish that was Lowood
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  Speaker 6: bound us together still more closely.
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  Speaker 7: Life was bearable.
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  Speaker 6: I know because I was there for ten years. Shortly
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  Speaker 6: after my 20th birthday, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Brockler sent for me.
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  Speaker 2: This is a solemn moment, dear.
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  Speaker 9: Little did I imagine that the unregenerate child I received.
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  Speaker 2: Under this institution.
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  Speaker 9: would in ten short years become one.
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  Speaker 2: Of its teachers.
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  Speaker 7: A teacher, sir?
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  Speaker 9: The trustees have seen fit to bestow that honor upon you.
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  Speaker 7: But I... I cannot accept the offer, sir.
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  Speaker 2: And why not, pray?
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  Speaker 7: I do not wish to stay at Lowood.
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  Speaker 2: This is unheard of, the ingratitude.
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  Speaker 6: I've had ten years of harshness and tragedy, sir. For
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  Speaker 6: that I can have no gratitude.
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  Speaker 9: Willful, stiff-necked as ever. I see we've been sadly deceived
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  Speaker 9: in you. And where do you intend to go?
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  Speaker 7: Into the world, sir. I have never seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how the world treats young paupers? Friendless,
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  Speaker 2: without connections?
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  Speaker 7: I intend to find a position as a governess. I
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  Speaker 7: have advertised in a newspaper.
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  Speaker 9: Doubtless you have been overwhelmed with demands for your services.
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  Speaker 1: No, sir.
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  Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. You have no talents? Your appearance is insignificant?
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  Speaker 2: I warn you, heir.
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  Speaker 9: If you persist in this folly, this haven will never
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  Speaker 9: again be open to you.
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  Speaker 7: I am leaving Lowood, sir.
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  Speaker 6: My advertisement brought me a solitary answer, a letter signed
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  Speaker 6: by a Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Fairfax.
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  Speaker 6: It bore the crest of Thornfield Hall. I was a
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  Speaker 6: whole day in reaching the estate. At the nearest village,
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  Speaker 6: a coachman met me, and for two hours we rode
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  Speaker 6: through the desolate moorlands.
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  Speaker 7: Then, in the deep shadows of evening, it loomed before me,
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  Speaker 7: ancient and huge beyond anything I had visioned.
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  Speaker 6: Its great towers stretched into the darkness and its massive
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  Speaker 6: stone walls butted out into the misty gloom like the
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  Speaker 6: ramparts of a fortress.
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  Speaker 7: I had arrived at Thornfield Hall. You are Miss Ayo,
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  Speaker 7: my dear? Yes, madam. I'm Mrs. Fairfax.
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  Speaker 10: Well, there's a nice cozy fire burning inside. Come, warm yourself, child.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you. I'm so glad you've come, Miss Eyre.
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  Speaker 10: Living here with no company but the servants, it's none
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  Speaker 10: too cheerful, I tell you. Only the postman and the
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  Speaker 10: butcher to have a word with, since this hard weather
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  Speaker 10: has set in.
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  Speaker 6: Shall I have the pleasure of seeing Miss Fairfax tonight?
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  Speaker 7: Miss Fairfax? Oh, you mean Miss Adele. Is it not
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  Speaker 7: your daughter to whom I shall be governess? Oh, gracious, no.
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  Speaker 7: Adele is French. You will see her in the morning.
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  Speaker 7: She's Mr. Edward's ward. Mr. Edward? Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Edward Rochester, the owner of Thornfield.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: I'm only the housekeeper. Will he wish to see me
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  Speaker 7: this evening? No, he is not here. He's very seldom
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  Speaker 7: at Thornfield... And then his visits are always sudden and
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  Speaker 7: unexpected and brief. Oh, but this is such a beautiful home, Mrs. Fairfax.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it is hard to understand why Mr. Rochester
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  Speaker 7: would choose to remain away. It is strange.
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  Speaker 10: But then, Miss Eyre, Mr. Rochester is a strange man
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  Speaker 10: in many ways. Let me show you to your room.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I spent all the next day with Adele. A beautiful
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  Speaker 6: and charming child. Like myself, she too was an orphan.
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  Speaker 7: She won me over so quickly. That night, as I
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  Speaker 7: was making her ready for bed, she showed me one
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  Speaker 7: of her dolls.
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  Speaker 8: This is Mimi, mademoiselle.
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  Speaker 7: Such a beautiful dress she has, Adele.
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  Speaker 8: Mama had it dressed like that. It is a dancing dress, mademoiselle.
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  Speaker 8: Mama was a beautiful dancer. I also can dance. Do
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  Speaker 8: you wish me to dance for you?
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  Speaker 7: Now, Adele? This very moment?
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  Speaker 8: Now you speak like Monsieur Rochester. For him, it is
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  Speaker 8: never the right moment.
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  Speaker 7: Does that make you sad, Adele? Sometimes, mademoiselle.
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  Speaker 8: I love you.
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  Speaker 7: I should like it, too.
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  Speaker 8: A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see Mama dance.
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 7: Where was that? In Paris.
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  Speaker 8: But when Mama had to go to heaven, then Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Rochester came and brought me here. Mademoiselle, do you like
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  Speaker 8: Monsieur Rochester?
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  Speaker 7: I have not yet met him.
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  Speaker 8: That big, huge chair downstairs, that is his chair. He
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  Speaker 8: sits in it and stares into the fire and frowns.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm sure he's very kind to you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, sometimes he brings me beautiful presents. But when he
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  Speaker 8: is angry, that is terrible.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: But do not be concerned, mademoiselle. Tonight I shall pray
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  Speaker 8: to God to make him be polite to you so
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  Speaker 8: you will stay with me forever.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Adèle. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Later that week, quite early in the evening, I went
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  Speaker 6: for a walk alone. It was cold and huge clouds
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  Speaker 6: of mist clung to the ground.
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  Speaker 7: It was like walking through a dream, with the road
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  Speaker 7: ahead inviting and invisible. There must have been a turn in.
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  Speaker 6: The road, for I saw nothing and heard nothing until
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  Speaker 6: it was upon me. And then out of nowhere there
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  Speaker 6: was a fearful clatter of.
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  Speaker 7: Roofs and a man frantically shouting.
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  Speaker 6: Out of the way!
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  Speaker 13: Out of the way!
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  Speaker 7: And then both, horse and rider, crashed to the ground.
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  Speaker 6: Oh!
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  Speaker 2: What the devil do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm so sorry. I must have frightened you, Horace.
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  Speaker 7: Can I do anything?
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  Speaker 2: Apologies won't mend my ankles. Stand out of the way.
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  Speaker 7: But you're hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I told you to stand aside.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't until I see that you're fit to ride.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you from?
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  Speaker 7: From Mr. Rochester's house just below.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know Mr. Rochester?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: I've never met him.
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  Speaker 2: You're not a servant at the hall?
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  Speaker 7: I'm the new governess.
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  Speaker 2: The new governess?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you're satisfied now that I've broken no bones,
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  Speaker 2: hand me my whip and get out of my way.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, if you will kindly stand clear for
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  Speaker 2: a moment.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Jane. Jane.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Fairfax. Quickly, dear. He's been asking to see the new governess. Who? Mr. Rochester,
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  Speaker 7: of course. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Rode in on us without warning and in such vile humor.
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  Speaker 7: Where is he? Inside before the fire. In his chair.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well? Well, Miss Eyre, have you no tongue?
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  Speaker 7: I was waiting, sir, until I was spoken to.
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  Speaker 2: Come here. Next time when you see a man on
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  Speaker 2: a horse, don't run out in the middle of the
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  Speaker 2: road until he's passed.
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  Speaker 7: I assure you, sir, it was not deliberate.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, Miss Eyre.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you from?
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  Speaker 7: Lowood Institution, sir.
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 7: A charity school. I was there ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Ten years in a charity school. You must be tenacious
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  Speaker 2: of life. No wonder you have rather the look of
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  Speaker 2: another world about you. When you came on me in
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  Speaker 2: the mist, I found myself thinking of fairy tales. I'd
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  Speaker 2: half a mind to demand whether you'd bewitched my horse. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure yet. Who are your parents?
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  Speaker 7: I have none, sir.
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  Speaker 2: And your home?
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  Speaker 7: I have no homes.
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  Speaker 2: Who recommended you here?
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  Speaker 7: Mrs. Fairfax answered my advertisement.
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  Speaker 2: I see, and you rushed here just in time to
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  Speaker 2: throw me off my horse. You play the piano?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, a little.
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  Speaker 2: I see. That's the established answer, isn't it? Go into
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  Speaker 2: the drawing room. I mean, if you please. Go on.
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  Speaker 2: Take a candle and leave the door open and play.
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  Speaker 7: What do you wish me to play?
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  Speaker 2: Anything. Anything you wish.
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  Speaker 14: That's enough.
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  Speaker 2: That's enough. You play a little, I see, like any
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  Speaker 2: other girl. Perhaps better than some, but not well. Good night,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Eyre.
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  Speaker 7: Good night, sir. What sort of man was this master
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  Speaker 7: of Thornfield?
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  Speaker 6: So proud, so cynical, so unmannerly. Instinctively, I felt that
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  Speaker 6: his harsh mood had its source in some cruel cross
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  Speaker 6: of fate... I was soon to learn that this indeed
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  Speaker 6: was true. After he said good night, I went to
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  Speaker 6: my room. I had scarcely fallen asleep when I heard it.
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  Speaker 6: Like a voice in a nightmare.
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  Speaker 7: A wild, insane laughter.
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  Speaker 6: A woman's laughter that seemed to come from somewhere in
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  Speaker 6: the tower of Thornfield Hall.
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  Speaker 7: I opened my door.
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  Speaker 6: At the end of the long hall, in front of
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  Speaker 6: the stone steps leading to the tower, I saw Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Fairfax. She was talking to someone. It must be Captain.
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  Speaker 7: I've told you time and time again. It can be
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  Speaker 7: heard all over the house.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 7: Yes. Good night. Oh, Jane, did I disturb you, my dear? No,
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  Speaker 7: there's nothing wrong. Wrong? Oh, dear, no. I was talking
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  Speaker 7: to Grace Poole.
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  Speaker 10: She's a person we have to do the sewing.
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  Speaker 7: She does excellent work, but she's a little peculiar.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 7: How did you get on with Mr. Rochester, my dear?
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  Speaker 6: Why, is he always so changeful and so abrupt?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he has his moods. But then allowances should be made. Why,
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  Speaker 7: for him more than anyone else.
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  Speaker 10: Partly because that's his nature and partly because he has
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  Speaker 10: painful thoughts.
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  Speaker 7: Mrs.
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  Speaker 10: Perfix, I don't mean to be curious, but Emily troubles James.
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  Speaker 10: I think that's why he so seldom comes here to Thornfield.
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  Speaker 10: It has unpleasant associations for him. Good night, my dear.
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  Speaker 7: Good night.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, Miss Eyre. Tell me, you have been here now...
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  Speaker 2: How long is it?
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  Speaker 7: Eight days, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Eight days. You puzzle me a great deal, and from
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  Speaker 2: the way you stare at me, it's apparent that I
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  Speaker 2: also am something of a puzzle to you. Examine me,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Eyre. Do you find me handsome?
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  Speaker 7: No, sir. Indeed. Well, I'm too blunt. I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't turn away. Don't turn away. What does my
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  Speaker 2: face tell you? Am I a fool?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the face of a kindly man? Hardly that, sir. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a kindly man, although I did once have
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  Speaker 2: a sort of tenderness of heart. You doubt that?
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  Speaker 7: Please, I.
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  Speaker 2: I have been knocked about by fortune, Miss Eyre. She
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  Speaker 2: has kneaded me with her knuckles till now I flatter
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  Speaker 2: myself I am as hard and as tough as an
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  Speaker 2: India rubber ball with perhaps one small sensitive point in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the lump. Does that leave hope for me?
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  Speaker 7: Hope for what, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Of my transformation from India rubber back to flesh. You
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  Speaker 2: are silent, Miss Eyre. Keep your silence then and listen.
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  Speaker 2: What I want you to know is this. I do
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  Speaker 2: not wish to treat you as an inferior, but I've
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  Speaker 2: battled through a varied experience with many men of many nations.
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  Speaker 2: I've roamed over half the globe while you've spent your
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  Speaker 2: whole life with one set of people in one house.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you agree that that gives me the right to
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  Speaker 2: be a little masterful?
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  Speaker 7: You pay me 30 pounds a year for receiving your orders.
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  Speaker 7: Do as you please, sir.
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  Speaker 2: 30 pounds? I'd quite forgotten that. Yes, well, on that
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  Speaker 2: mercenary ground, won't you agree to let me bully you
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  Speaker 2: a little?
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  Speaker 7: No, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Only on the ground that you inquired of my feelings
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  Speaker 6: as your equal.
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  Speaker 10: Good.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll not think me insolent?
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  Speaker 7: I should never mistake informality for insolence, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Now, where are you going?
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  Speaker 7: It's time for Adele's lessons.
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  Speaker 2: You're afraid of me. You want to escape me. You
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  Speaker 2: look at me and you hesitate to smile, even to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Admit it, you're afraid.
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  Speaker 4: I am bewildered, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I'm certainly not afraid.
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  Speaker 8: Mademoiselle, Mademoiselle, it's time for my lessons.
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  Speaker 7: You see, it is time, sir. I'm here, Adele. Look
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: at me, Mademoiselle. You too, monsieur. See?
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: It's the ballet dress you brought me.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: Do I not look beautiful, monsieur?
• 18:18
  Speaker 15: See?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Go upstairs.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: But, monsieur.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I said go upstairs.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Come, Adele, come with me.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Monsieur, I've not finished talking with you.
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: Now go to your nursery, darling. Yes, mademoiselle. I'll come
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: up in just a moment.
• 18:29
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me like that, monsieur?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: I don't care what your past misfortunes were.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: You have no right to avenge yourself upon the child.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You're quite right, of course. I was thinking only of myself,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: my own private memories and feelings. I'm a battleground when
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: nature and circumstance tear at each other's throat. Nature intends
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: me to be a good man, Miss Eyre. Circumstances decree otherwise.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You may leave now.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: Thank you. I, uh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I hope you will be happy here at Thornfield.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: I hope so, too, sir.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I'm glad.
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: I'm glad.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Three nights later, I was again awakened by that awful laughter.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: And a noise in the hall, like the padding of
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: running feet.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: I threw a rope over me, lit a candle, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: opened my door. I could see no one in the hall,
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: but faintly I heard a sort of crackling noise. It
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: seemed to come from his room, Mr.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Rochester's.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: As I drew near his door, I saw it was
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: partly opened, just a crack, but through it came a
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: strange light, and then.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Then suddenly I could see it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Smoke.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Smoke and fire. Mr. Rochester! Mr.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Rochester!
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: It's out, Miss Eyre. The fire is out. Please open
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the window. Look, the fire seems only to have been
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: at my bed. The bed curtains and the sheets.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: I'll get Mrs. Fairfax.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: What the devil do you want to call her for?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Let her sleep.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: Someone started that fire.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Stay here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: I heard footsteps.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Stay here.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Where are you going?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I won't be long. Stay here and be as quiet
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: as you can.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: He took a candle and walked quickly down the hall.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: The window of his room looked out upon the tower
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: and through the vents in the.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Tower hall I could see now then a flicker of
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: the candle as it mounted higher and higher up the
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: winding stairs.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: There was something in the tower that had to do
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: with the fire.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: The light from the candle seemed to cling to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: top of the tower. And then, I don't know how
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: long later, it glimmered its way down again. There were
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: footsteps in the hall and Mr. Rochester returned to his room.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: He closed the door and looked at me.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: When you came out of your room tonight, when you
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: saw the fire and awakened me, had you seen anything else,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Miss Eyre?
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: No.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Did you hear anything?
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, a kind of laugh.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: A kind of laugh.
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: Had you heard it before?
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, once before. There's a strange woman living here, Grace Poole.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Grace Poole, yes, Grace Poole. Well, I can see what
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: must be done. Meanwhile, say nothing about this to anyone.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, Adele.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: You need not be alarmed about Adele. I looked in
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the nursery just now. Adele is all right.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, thank heaven.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: She's asleep. Next to her, her head on the pillow,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: her dancing slippers. Trying to console herself for my unkindness
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to her. The child has dancing in her blood and
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: coquetry in the very marrow of her bones. She has
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: shown you her doll, Miss Eyre?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Her dancing doll? With a dress like her mother's?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Her mother was a dancer in the ballet at the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Paris Opera. Adele is the image of her.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: But she's dead. Adele's mother is dead.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: That is what we tell her. The truth is not
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: quite so touching.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Oh. She has had so little to laugh about. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: shall try to make up for that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended?
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: When it is deserved.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Would you say that my life deserves saving?
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: I should be distressed if harm came to you, sir.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You should be distressed? What puny sort of sentiment is that?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You saved my life tonight, Miss Eyre. I knew you
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: would do me good in some way at some time.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: If I did, I'm... I'm very happy.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Good night, Jane.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Good night, sir.
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: That, too, of Jane Eyre will continue in a moment.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Say, Libby, have you seen any real thrillers lately? I'd
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: like one with plenty of gunplay, fistfights, and a few
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: chases thrown in.
• 23:05
  Speaker 17: Then Columbia Pictures has just what the doctor ordered, Coroner Creek.
• 23:10
  Speaker 17: In fact, Randolph Scott is in a fight sequence, which
• 23:12
  Speaker 17: is one of the greatest ever filmed. And besides, the
• 23:15
  Speaker 17: picture has some of the most beautiful western scenery.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: In technicolor.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I hope there's a girl in it, too.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, naturally.
• 23:21
  Speaker 17: She's Marguerite Chapman, as the owner of the Coroner City Hotel.
• 23:26
  Speaker 17: Marguerite has some elegant costumes, including ruffled petticoats that gave
• 23:30
  Speaker 17: the wardrobe department quite a headache.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a story.
• 23:34
  Speaker 17: Well, in one scene in front of the hotel, some
• 23:36
  Speaker 17: horses were tied to a horse trough. Several riders jumped
• 23:40
  Speaker 17: on the horses and dashed off, but one forgot to
• 23:43
  Speaker 17: untie his horse and overturned the trough, and poor Marguerite
• 23:47
  Speaker 17: was a recipient of a very nice mud bath.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I'll bet Lux came to the rescue.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 23:52
  Speaker 17: Those tiny diamonds of Lux freshen the ruffled petticoats just
• 23:56
  Speaker 17: as quickly as they do the modern ones.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Lux diamonds have certainly made a great.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Hit with women.
• 24:01
  Speaker 17: Why shouldn't they? There's nothing in the world just like them.
• 24:04
  Speaker 17: They're so much faster and richer.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I imagine girls appreciate, too, that the way Lux care
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: keeps colors fresh longer.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's true.
• 24:13
  Speaker 17: Tests prove colors stay lovely three times as long. So
• 24:17
  Speaker 17: that's just like getting three pretty slips for the price
• 24:19
  Speaker 17: of one. And that's a big help to the budget.
• 24:23
  Speaker 17: In fact, luxing anything safe in water saves a pretty penny.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Here's your producer, William Keeley.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: We raise our curtain on the second act of Jane Eyre,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: with Robert Montgomery as Edward Rochester and Ingrid Bergman as Jane.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: There was no sleep for me the balance of that night.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: The insane laughter, the fire, the story of poor little Adele,
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: each was a fragment of a tormenting and frightening puzzle.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: But most bewildering of all was the master of Thornfield Hall.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: This brooding, melancholy man, bitter and unpredictable, as the winds
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: that raced across the neighboring wars, and, like the winds, searching.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: And longing endlessly.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I was up early the next morning, but not early enough.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Mr. Rochester was gone. At breakfast, Mrs. Fairfax told me where.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: He said something about Millcott. Perhaps he's bound there. Perhaps not. Millcott?
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Lady Ingram's estate, the other end of the county. She
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: has a daughter. Blanche, Ingram, and Mr. Rochester are old friends.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Jane. Jane. You heard what happened during the night? Yes,
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: I was awake. Oh, it was just terrible. We might
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: all have been burnt in our beds. Did Mr. Rochester
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: tell you how the fire started? He said he was
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: reading in bed and fell asleep. The wind blew the
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: candle onto the bed curtain. I see. If you'll excuse me, Mrs.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Fairfax, I'll go up to Adele. But Adele was still sleeping.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: As I left her room, my.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Eyes turned to the tower staircase. Almost against my will,
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: I walked to the ancient stone steps and started to climb.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Halfway up, a great door barred the way, but it
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: was open and I slipped past.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: At the top of the stairs was another door. But
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: before I reached it, there came.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: A sudden screaming and snarling, half human, half animal, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: a thudding sound as if a beast were tearing at
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: the bars of its cage. I reeled under stairs and
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: started to descend, but the door behind me swung open
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: and a voice rooted me to where I stood.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: What are you doing here? Who are you? They've told
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: you who I am, Grace Poole. Never come up here, never.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: What is there? What are you hiding? No one's allowed
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: up here, do you understand? No one. Now go down.
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: Go down.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: And so, for me, the mystery of the tower continued, unsolved.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Edward Rochester remained away, and the winter weeks dragged by.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: I found a measure of contentment in Adèle' s apparent fondness
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: for me.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: And then, early in the spring, he returned. But he
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: did not come alone.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: He descended suddenly upon us with a dozen guests, among
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: them Lady Ingram and her daughter, Blanche.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Well, come in, Jane. Let me look at you. You
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: know I've been home for hours, but not a word
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: out of you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Why? You've been with your guests. I had no wish
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: to disturb you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: What have you been doing while I've been away?
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: Teaching, Adele.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, and getting a good deal paler than you were.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Nothing.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You're depressed. What about?
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: I'm not depressed, sir.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: So depressed that a few words more and there will
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: be tears in your eyes. No, they're there already, shining
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and swimming.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Jane.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Jane, you must tell me, what is it?
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Mr. Rochester.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, what the devil?
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: There's a gentleman to see you, sir.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Who is he?
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Mr. Mason, sir.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: Mason, he's out of Spanish Town, Jamaica.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Mason, Spanish... Take him to my study, Mrs. Fairfax. Yes, sir.
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: Jane.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Jane.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I wish I were on a quiet island with only you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Trouble and danger and hideous recollection far away.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: Can I help you, sir?
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: If help is needed, I'll seek it at your hands.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I promise you that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: Jane. Yes?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: If all the people gathered in that other room and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: came and spat on me, what would you do?
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I'd turn them away if I could.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Or if I were to go to them and they
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: turned away and left me alone, what then? Would you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: go with them?
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: I will stay with you, sir.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: To comfort me?
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: As well as I could.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jane.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: I was to learn a little more of Mr. Mason
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: later that night.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: It was long past midnight. The whole house was sleeping
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: when it happened again. That awful scream.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: From the tower... Her arson frightened the guests' flock. It
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: were Mr.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Rochester, but he had a convenient explanation ready for them.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: It was one of the servants, he said, a servant
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: having a bad dream.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: That's all it was, a bad dream. And now, since
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: these halls are inclined to be drafty, I suggest you
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: all return to your rooms. Lady Ingram, you set the
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: good example.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Good night to you all again. Come, Blanche. Oh, but
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: I'm quite disappointed in you, Edward. I was so looking
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: forward to seeing you shoot a robber. Weren't you, Mother? Oh,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: less of your levity, Blanche, and get back to bed. Goodness,
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: it's almost morning. Good night, Edward. And good morning.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Sweet dreams, my courageous Blanche. There will be no more disturbances,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I promise you.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Good night. Jane.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Jane, are you awake?
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Come with me quickly.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: We're going up there to the tower? Yes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You don't turn sick at the sight of blood.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: Do you? I've never been tried. I don't think so.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Give me your hand. It won't do to risk a faint.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Your hand is warm and steady. Jane, what you see
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: may shock and frighten and confuse you. I beg you
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: not to seek an explanation, only to trust me. Can
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: you do that?
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: I can do that.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: In the tower room was a bed.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: On it, bloody and unconscious, was a man. There was
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: a door on the other side of the small room.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: It was secured with a heavy chain. From beyond it
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: came a horrible sound of sobbing and scratching, and now
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: and then the voice of Grace Poole.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: But I had time neither to think nor become frightened.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Jane, I must get Dr. Rivers. This means leaving you
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: alone here with this gentleman. You will sponge the blood
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: as I do now. If he regains consciousness, do not
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: speak to him on any account. Is that clear, Jane?
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, do not move from here or open that door.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I'll be back as quickly as I can. There's your patient, Dr.
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: Rivers.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Jane, are you all right?
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: I'm all right. He has regained consciousness.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: We have 20 minutes, Doctor, for dressing the wound and
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: getting the patient out of here.
• 31:42
  Speaker 15: Yes, sir, you told me.
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: Wait a minute.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Mason.
• 31:45
  Speaker 16: I'm done for, Edward.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's nonsense. You've lost a little blood, that's all. She
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: sank her teeth into me like a tatter. It will
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: be better if you don't talk and let me get
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to work.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: She said she'd drain my heart.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Be silent, Mason. Jane.
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Go downstairs quietly. Unbolt the side passage door. You'll find Dr.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Rivers' carriage down there. See that the driver is ready
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: to leave the moment we come down.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Can I help you, Doctor?
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: This will be painful, Mason. You can't be helped.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I told you not to come here, Mason. I thought
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I could do some good.
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: You thought, you thought.
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: Fly still, please.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I tried so long to avoid exposure. I shall make
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: very certain it doesn't come now. Dr. Rivers will take
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: you to his home. You'll remain there until you're well.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: Edward.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 32:29
  Speaker 15: Let her be taken care of. Please let her be
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: treated as tenderly as may be.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I'll do my best. And I have done it and
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: will do it. Yet would to God there were an
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: end to all this. They're gone, Jane. Mason and Dr. Rivers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: And it's daylight again.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I promised I'd turn to you for help. I didn't
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: know it would be so soon.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: I'm thankful I was here.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: We... We could walk for a moment in the garden, Jane.
• 33:09
  Speaker 16: It's so fresh and clean there.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: Mr. Rochester, will Grace Poole live here still?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, Grace Poole will stay. Don't ask for explanations. Just
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: believe me when I tell you there are good reasons
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: for it. You're my friend, Jane, aren't you?
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: I like to serve you in everything that's right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And if I asked you to do something that was wrong,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: what then? Ah, I know the answer. Very quietly you'd say, Oh, no, sir.
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: That's impossible.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: Would I?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Jane, imagine you were a young man, thoughtless and spoiled
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: since childhood, and imagine yourself in a far-off land.
• 33:50
  Speaker 15: Conceive that you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: There commit a capital error, one that cuts you off
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: from all possibility of human joys. And then suddenly, imagine
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: that fate offers you the chance of regeneration and true happiness.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Are you justified in overleaping the obstacles of mere custom?
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Tell me, Jane, are you justified?
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: How can I answer that? Every conscience must come to
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: its own decision.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: But if one can't come to a decision, if you're
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: afraid that you may bring shame to what you most
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: cherish or destroy what you most desire to protect... Oh, Jane,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: don't you curse me for plaguing you like this.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: No, I don't curse.
• 34:32
  Speaker 16: Give me your assurance on that. Your hand.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Your fingers are cold. They were warmer last night. Jane,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: will you watch with me again another night?
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Whenever I can be useful.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: For instance, the night before I'm married, will you sit
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: with me then?
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: You're going to be married?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Sometime. Why not?
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: But what makes you think he's in the States? Oh,
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: what a place to be. Oh, that's Adele.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: The delectable Miss Ingram.
• 35:09
  Speaker 13: Blanche.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: Edward, is that you? Uncle Edward. What do you mean
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: by running off like this so early?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Jane. And what do you mean by rising
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: so early?
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: A correct host entertains his guests.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: My dear Blanche, when will you learn I was never
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: correct and never will be? Come along.
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: Come along.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Well, why do you stop, Blanche? Or don't you know
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: the rest of it?
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: Edward, does that person wish to see you?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Person?
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Come in, Miss Eyre.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, sir. I did not know you were occupied.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Miss Ingram will excuse me for a moment.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: Certainly. But don't forget, Edward. You promised to show me
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: the estate.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Well, Jane?
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: I overheard some of the guests after luncheon. They mentioned
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: you were leaving with them in the morning... I wish
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: to ask.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: For a reference, sir.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Reference? What the deuce do you want a reference for?
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: So I might look for a new place. You as
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: much as told me you are going to be married.
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: In which case Adele would likely go off somewhere to school.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I see. Adele must go off to school and you
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: must go to the devil.
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: Is that it?
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: I hope not, sir.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: When the time comes for you to get a new situation,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I'll get one for you. Do you hear?
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: Very well. I may not see you again before you leave. Goodbye, Mr. Rochester.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Miss Eyre. Jane. Jane, is that all?
• 36:39
  Speaker 16: It seems so dry and stingy.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Won't you do more than say goodbye?
• 36:45
  Speaker 16: Oh, your hand.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: You'll shake my hand.
• 36:52
  Speaker 16: Goodbye, Jane.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Jane.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And now you've seen it all, Blanche. The fields, the forests,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and now the garden.
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's such a beautiful place, your Thornfield.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: As a dungeon, it serves its purpose.
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: Dungeon? It's a paradise. A haven. A haven of peace
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: and love.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Who's talking of love? Distraction is what a man needs.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Distraction to keep him from peering too closely into the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: mysteries of his heart.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: I sometimes wonder if you have a heart, Edward.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Have I ever said anything to make you believe I have?
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, Edward, are you never serious?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Never more than at this moment, except perhaps when I'm
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: eating my dinner.
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: Really, you can be so revoltingly coarse at times.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Can I ever be anything else?
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: Would I have come to Thornfield if I thought you couldn't?
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Well, now we have something to consider. First, Mr. Rochester
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: is revoltingly coarse and ugly as sin.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: Edward, I never.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Secondly, he's extremely careful never to talk of love or marriage. However,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: and this is the third point, the Ingrams are somewhat impoverished,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: whereas the revolting Mr. Rochester has an assured income of 8,000
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: pounds a year. Edward... Now, in view of all this,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: what attitude shall Miss Blanche be expected to take? From
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: what I know of the world, I'd surmise she'd ignore
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the coarseness, etc., etc., until such time as Mr. Rochester
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: is safely hooked.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: How dare you?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Now, now, no horseplay.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: I've never been so insulted in my life.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Blanche, I have just paid you the enormous compliment of
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: being completely honest.
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: You're a bore and a cur. Leave me at once.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: My guests have gone, Jane.
• 38:27
  Speaker 15: All gone.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And we are alone again.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: I will be leaving too, Mr. Rochester.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Soon to forget me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: I will never forget. Forget you. You know that. But
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: I see the necessity of going. It's like looking on
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: the necessity of death.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Where do you see that necessity?
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: In your bride.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: My bride? I have no bride.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: But you will have.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, I will. I will.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: So you think I could stay here to become nothing
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: to you? Do you think because I'm poor and obscure
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: and plain that I'm soulless and heartless?
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: I have as much soul.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: As you and fully as much heart.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: And if God had gifted me.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: With wealth and beauty, I shouldn't have made it as
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: difficult for you to leave me as it is now.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: For me to leave you.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: There.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: I've spoken my heart. Now let me go. Jane.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Jane, you strange, you almost unearthly thing. You that I
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: love as my own flesh and blood.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Mark.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I have no love for Blanche. It's you I want.
• 39:34
  Speaker 16: Answer me, Jane, quickly. Say, Edward, I'll marry you. Say it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 16: Say it, Jane.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Say, Edward, I'll marry you.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: Edward, I'll marry you.
• 39:44
  Speaker 16: God forgive me.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: Edward.
• 39:46
  Speaker 16: God forgive me.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: We pause now for station identification This is CBS, the
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Our stars will return with Act Three of Jane Eyre
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: in a moment. The last time I saw tonight's charming guest,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Randy Stewart, was at 20th Century Fox. where she gave
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: a fine performance in my new picture, The Street With
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: No Name, a film based on incidents in the files
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: of the FBI.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: It was a privilege to work with you, Mr. Keeley,
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: and especially to work on such an important story.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: The Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly gave a splendid cooperation,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: and it was a great satisfaction to me that their director, Mr.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Hoover, was so happy with the picture.
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: Well, I hope Mr.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Hoover will forgive me if I say that Mark Stevens
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: is still my favorite G-man.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: He agreed that Mark gave a natural and thoroughly convincing performance.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: And I think that Richard Widmark does the finest acting
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: job of his career.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: You know, Mr.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Keeley, I didn't mind being killed off in that nightclub
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: hold-up scene in the street with no name, but all
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: those trial falls on the floor were rough on my stocking.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: As I recall, the wardrobe department was standing by with
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: the replacements.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Yes, but I didn't need them. Those stockings took the
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: falls better than I did. The wardrobe girl said she
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: was sure it was Lux care that made those stockings last. But, uh,
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: isn't John Kennedy always saying something like that?
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Indeed I am, Randy, because it's true. The new tiny
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: diamonds of Lux practically work miracles with stockings. Actual tests
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: prove that these new tiny diamonds make stockings last.
• 41:55
  Speaker 15: Twice as long.
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I've laid down the law at home. From now on,
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: it's Lux for all my stockings.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Women everywhere are really thrilled about these new tiny diamonds
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: of Lux... They're so much faster and richer. The suds
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: last and last. You'll be surprised how much more they
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: do for you, too. You know, they remove kinds of
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: soil which other types of suds can't, and so leave
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: things cleaner and fresher. Thanks for coming tonight, Randy Stewart.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Back now to Mr. William Keeley.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: At the end of our play, there'll be an announcement
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: of a special interest to the ladies in our audience.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Here's Act Three of Jane Eyre, starring Ingrid Bergman in
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: the title role and Robert Montgomery as Edward Rochester.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: All my doubts, all the grim shadows that hung over
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: Thornfield Hall were shattered and gone.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: I loved and I was loved. Spring had come to
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: the earth and spring had come to my heart.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: Two weeks later, Edward and I were in the little
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: church in the village, my hand in his, as now
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: it would be forever. The minister had started the marriage ceremony.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Are you sure that if any persons are joined together
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: otherwise than as the word of God allows, then are
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: they not joined by God? Therefore, Edward Rochester and you,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Jane Eyre, if either of you know any impediment why
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: you may not lawfully be joined in matrimony, you do
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: now confess it. Edward Rochester.
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: Doth thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Wait! I declare the existence of an impediment. Proceed with
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: the ceremony. You cannot proceed.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Rochester has a wife now living. Who are you?
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: My name is Mason.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: On the 20th of October, 1824, Edward Rochester was married
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: to my sister, Bertha Mason, at St. Mary's Church, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: The record of the marriage will be found in the
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: register of that church. You swear you're speaking the truth?
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: I swear it. My sister is living now at Thornfield Hall.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I have seen her there myself. Arson, close your book.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: There will be no wedding today. Instead, I invite you
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: to my house to meet Grace Poole's patient, my wife.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: It seemed without end, the journey back to Thornfield Hall.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: On the way, we stopped to get Dr. Rivers.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: Edward insisted he come back with us. That is all
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: I remember of the ride back.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: If words were spoken, I did not hear them.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: And then at length I found myself with Grace Poole
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: and the others, standing again in the tower room. There
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: was a rattle and unlocking of chains, and the door opened.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: And the wife of Edward Rochester stood before him.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Screaming, she flung herself upon him.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Her eager hands clawed for his throat.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: But she had no time to do him harm. Grace
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: Poole and the doctor sprang upon her.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: When they returned, the door was shut again, and the
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: chains fastened.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: Only then did Edward speak to us.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: The woman you have seen is my wife.
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: Mad.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: The mad offspring of a mad family to whom the
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: church and law bind me forever without hope of divorce.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: And this is what I wish to have. This young
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: girl who stands among you now, so grave and quiet
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: at the mouth of hell. Look at the difference and
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: then judge me.
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: Go on, Jane. May I come in? Jane, I did
• 45:47
  Speaker 12: not even know her.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I was married at 19 in Spanish Town to a
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: bride already courted for me. But I married her gross, groveling,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: mole-eyed blockhead that I was.
• 45:58
  Speaker 16: Jane, do you hear me?
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: I suffered all the agonies of a man bound to
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: a wife at once intemperate and unchaste. I watched her
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: excesses drive her at last into madness. Then I brought
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: her back to England, to Thornfield. Jane, I did everything
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: that God and humanity demanded.
• 46:14
  Speaker 16: Then I fled from this place.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: My fixed desire was to find a woman I could love.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: A contrast to the fury I had left here. And
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: what did I find? An actress in Vienna, a milliner
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: in Naples, a countess in Warsaw. Back in England, I
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: rode again in sight of Thornfield. Someone... Someone was walking
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: there in the mist. A strange, elfin-like creature. She frightened
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: my horse, then came up and gravely offered me help.
• 46:46
  Speaker 15: And her hand. And then later that evening.
• 46:51
  Speaker 16: Jane, do you remember?
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: I remember.
• 46:56
  Speaker 16: You came into that room.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: How shy you were. And yet how readily you answered
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: my surly questioning, and then you smiled at me.
• 47:05
  Speaker 16: And in that moment, I knew I had found you. Jane,
• 47:12
  Speaker 16: can you forgive me?
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: I do forgive you.
• 47:16
  Speaker 16: And you can still love me?
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: I love you with all my heart. I can say
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: it now, since it's for the last time.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Do you mean to go one way in the world
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: and let me go another? Stay with me, Jane. We'd
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: be hurting no one.
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: We should be hurting ourselves.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Would it be so wicked to be near me? Would it?
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: I'm leaving, Edward. Surely you know that I must.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: You will not be my comforter, my rescuer. Jane, my
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: deep love, my frantic prayer, are they nothing to you?
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: Goodbye, Edward. God bless you. God keep you from harm
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: and wrong.
• 47:54
  Speaker 15: Jane.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: Jane!
• 47:56
  Speaker 16: Jane!
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: I had only one place to go. Away from him.
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: Anywhere that would be away from him. But without references, it.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: Was impossible to find employment. I soon intimately knew hunger
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: and unsheltered nights. At last, without help or hope, I
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: turned like a beaten dog back to Lowood.
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: Brocklehurst forgot his word never to open its doors to
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: me again.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: So you're back here. Penitent and humble, I suppose.
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: Pleading for mercy and prepared, as ever I dare say,
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: to return our favors with your accustomed deceit.
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: If there's a place for me here, I'm ready to
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: beg for it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: You would like to become a teacher, eh?
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: We need no teachers. We have need of a girl
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: and a scullery. Do you want it or not?
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'll stay.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Get in the kitchen, then. Yes, sir. Wait.
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: Some months ago, I had repeated inquiries as to your
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: whereabouts from a Mr.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Edward Rochester. Obviously, I was unable to assist him.
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: I know no Edward Rochester.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I didn't ask you.
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: Makes little difference if you do or not. In his
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: last letter, thanking me for my kindness... he said he
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: was leaving England forever.
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: The summer passed.
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: It was fall again, and then one day the watchman's
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: wife came looking for me.
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: Jane, there's a gentleman to see you outside in the court.
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: I don't want to see him. I don't want to
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: see anyone. I told him you'd come right out. I
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: tell him you were mistaken.
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: Oh, girl, girl, living all to yourself, killing yourself in
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: this cheerless place.
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: Send him away if you want, but at least see him.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: Who is he? Dr. Rivers. Thank you.
• 50:05
  Speaker 15: Jane, it is you.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, Dr. Rivers.
• 50:10
  Speaker 15: What you look Forgive me. Have you been ill?
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: I mean no rudeness, but you're not here to inquire
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: about my health.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: No, Jane.
• 50:20
  Speaker 15: I'm here at the request of a friend.
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: How did you know I was at Lowood?
• 50:24
  Speaker 13: I didn't, but I've been trying to find you. I
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: received a letter about you the other day. My friend
• 50:30
  Speaker 13: asked if I, in my journeys about, would inquire after you. Well,
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: I happened to see that villain Brocklehurst.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: Have you answered your friend?
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: How could I, Jane?
• 50:41
  Speaker 15: I've just found you.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: You haven't found me, doctor. You tried, but no one
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: knows where I am.
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: Edward is back in England, Jane.
• 50:48
  Speaker 15: He's at Thornfield Hall again. He's searched for you everywhere.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: I beg you to tell him nothing.
• 50:53
  Speaker 15: But why, Jane?
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: No one knows better than you why. Yes.
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: It's for you to say, Jane. If you'd rather I
• 51:02
  Speaker 13: didn't answer him at all, well, then I will.
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: I would rather you didn't answer at all. Goodbye, doctor.
• 51:09
  Speaker 15: Goodbye, Jane.
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: Jane.
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: Jane.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: Oh, his voice. Night after night, I started to hear it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Jane.
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: Oh, I struggled to shut my ears from it, but
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: I could not.
• 51:32
  Speaker 16: Jane.
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: It was like a soul in pain. A wild and
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: urgent cry. More than I could bear. I would see
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: him once again. Speak with him again.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: And after that, I neither knew nor cared what happened
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: to me. All I knew was that I must go
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: and go quickly. I reached the estate.
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: But Thornfield Hall was no more. Fire had destroyed it all.
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: I was staring at the pile of charred and blackened
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: rubble when Mrs. Fairfax saw me. She came running from
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: the gardener's cottage.
• 52:11
  Speaker 15: Oh, Jane.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, my poor, poor girl.
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: What happened? It was she who did it.
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: She killed Grace Poole as she slept and set fire
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: to Thornfield. Her laughing roused us. I ran to the
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: nursery and carried Adele to the gardens. As I stood there,
• 52:25
  Speaker 11: I heard the laugh again.
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: She was on the roof. Mr.
• 52:28
  Speaker 11: Edward was just coming from the house. He said nothing
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: but turned and ran back into the flames. I saw
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: him get to the roof and make his way toward her.
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: She saw him too. She ran to the edge and jumped.
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: When we reached her, she was dead. And Edward, Edward,
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: as he was coming down, the great staircase fell.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: He was badly hurt. Mrs.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Fairfax?
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: What the devil are you doing? Adele is waiting for
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: her supper.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: I'm coming, sir.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: There's someone with you. Who is it? Who are you?
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: His eyes.
• 53:02
  Speaker 15: He's... He's blind.
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: Edward. I've come back. Edward.
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: Jane. Jane.
• 53:17
  Speaker 15: Her small, soft fingers.
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: Her hair.
• 53:22
  Speaker 14: Her little, far, soft face.
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  Speaker 10: Jane.
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  Speaker 7: In her heart, too.
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  Speaker 16: Jane, all you can feel now is pity.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I won't have your pity.
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, Edward.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: You can't spend your life with the ruins of a man.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: You're young, so fresh.
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: Don't, don't, don't send me away. Please, don't send me away.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: You think I won't let you go? Oh, my darling. Oh,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: my darling.
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: As the months went by, he came to see the
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: heavens once more.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: To see first the glory of the sun, and then
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: the mild splendor of the moon, and at last the
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: evening star. And then, one day, as our firstborn was
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: put into his arms, he could see that the boy
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: had his own eyes as they once were, large and brilliant.
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: And black.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Before our stars return for their curtain calls, here's Libby
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: Collins with news for the ladies.
• 55:05
  Speaker 17: Here's your chance to get more of the handsome silver-plated
• 55:07
  Speaker 17: teaspoons Lux offered before the war. They're original Rogers silver plate,
• 55:13
  Speaker 17: made by the world's largest silversmiths. They're tops in quality
• 55:17
  Speaker 17: and will give you years of service.
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: A real value.
• 55:20
  Speaker 17: You get three for only 50 cents with the opening
• 55:23
  Speaker 17: tab from a box of Lux.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: They're the exclusive allure pattern especially designed for Lux. With
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: your spoons, you'll get an extra order blank so that
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: you can order extra spoons and matching pieces.
• 55:35
  Speaker 17: You'll be delighted with these spoons, and just as delighted
• 55:38
  Speaker 17: with the new tiny diamonds of Luxe. Wonderful as Luxe
• 55:42
  Speaker 17: has always been, it's now better than ever. Richer, faster,
• 55:47
  Speaker 17: perfect for stockings, lingerie, all nice washables.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: Your Luxe dealer has order blanks and complete details for
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: getting these spoons. or mail the opening tab from a
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: box of Lux, together with 50 cents in coin, and
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: your name and address, to Lux, Wallingford, Connecticut. Order as
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: many teaspoons as you like. Just send 50 cents and
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the opening tab from a box of Lux for every
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: set of three.
• 56:13
  Speaker 17: This offer is good only in the continental United States,
• 56:16
  Speaker 17: including Alaska and Hawaii, and is subject to all state
• 56:19
  Speaker 17: and local regulations.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: I'll repeat.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Send 50 cents and the opening tab from a Lux
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: box for each set of three spoons to Lux, Wallingford, Connecticut.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Send for them tomorrow, sure. Here's your producer. William Keeley.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: It's always a producer's dream to combine a great play
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: with two such stars as Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery,
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: whom we bring back to the footlights for a curtain call.
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: This being Flag Day, I might risk a pun and
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: say you both came through with flying colors.
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Bill.
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: And this being Flag Day throughout America, I'd like to
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: remind you listeners of an important work that's being done
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: to defend the principles for which that flag stands.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: You mean the International Rescue and Relief Committee, of which
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: you and Bob are National Committee members.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: That's right, Bill. Although it's been going on now for
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: 15 years, I don't think enough people know just what
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: the International Rescue and Relief Committee is accomplishing.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: Well, I've heard a great deal about the work it's
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: done in providing for the displaced people of Europe.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: In my native Sweden alone, we're caring for thousands of
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: refugees who want to continue the fight for freedom and democracy.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: And the same is true in France, Italy, and Germany,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: every country where they're still working for democracy.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: Which, in the long run, will protect our freedom in America.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure our audience will be grateful to know
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: that whatever you both receive for your performance here tonight
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: is going to the International.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Rescue and Relief Committee. Well, it's sort of our way
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: of showing our gratitude for living in a country where
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: they still hold free elections and political conventions.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Such as are starting to take place in Philadelphia next
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: week with the Republican Convention.
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: Incidentally, what does that do to your next Monday evening broadcast, Bill?
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: Next Monday, Lux is cooperating with the Columbia Broadcasting System
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: by relinquishing this time. But the week following that, June 28th,
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: that is, will be on the air, of.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Course, as usual. Have you picked a play and stars
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: for that date, Bill?
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, a delightful musical that brings back two stars often
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: requested by our audience. It's 20th Century Fox's current screen hit,
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: You Were Meant for Me, starring Gene Crane and Dan Daly.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: a romantic and heartwarming comedy that features some of the most.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Popular tunes of the nostalgic 1920s.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: Well, that's worth waiting two weeks for, Bill. We'll be
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: listening on the 28th, then. Good night.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Good night, Bill. Good night.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: It was a treat having you.
• 58:58
  Speaker 16: Here.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: Leave our brother's company, the makers of Lux Flakes. Join
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: me in inviting you to be with us again June
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: the 28th when the Lux Radio Theater presents Dan Daly
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: and Gene Crane in You Were Meant for Me. This
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Ingrid Bergman is currently appearing in the Enterprise production, Arch
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: of Triumph, co-starred with Charles Boyer. Robert Montgomery will soon
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: be seen co-starred with Betty Davis in the Warner Brothers production,
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: June Bride. Heard in our cast tonight were Janet Scott
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: as Mrs. Fairfax, Herbert Butterfield as Brocklehurst, Frances Robinson as Blanche,
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: and Marlene Ames, William Johnstone, Ann Carter, Stanley Waxman, Gloria Gordon,
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: Regina Wallace, Norman Field, and Martha Wentworth. Our music was
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again on Monday,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: June 28th to hear You Were Meant for Me with
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Gene Crane and Dan Daly. Stay tuned for My Friend Irma,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: which follows immediately over most of these stations. This is CBS,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater's Jane Eyre has concluded. Thank you for
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: joining us for this June 1948 broadcast, and good evening.