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Just think, he'll just be on
his way to the station now.

In a few hours, we'll
be together.

And papa knows nothing about it.

That's five, five's the bet.

He's got you fair and
square, me boy.

Never mind that.

A class horse will always
win in the end.

I say, Felix, didn't you say
you had a train to catch?

Never mind the damn train.

One more hand.

Still be in time.

What for?

Didn't you know?

He's eloping with
Marie Melmotte,

sailing to New York with her.

Is he, by God?

I thought she was supposed
to be marrying me.

Look here, you fellows,

this is all supposed
to be secret.

I take it your game to
play on, Grendall?

Absolutely.

Deal, then.

Come and watch the sun
go down with me.

I came to tell you I'm leaving.

Obeying your friend's
instructions, no doubt.

No, I should never
have come here.

I should never have
agreed to it.

And you blame me for that?

No, I blame myself.

So you should.

Not for coming away
with me, but for looking

at another woman while
you were bound to me.

When will you accept that
this is over between us?

It is not over between us!

Don't you understand?

I say when it is over, not you.

And if I defy you?

Then you should fear
for the consequences.

Don't think that I'd
hesitate to do in England

what I did in Oregon.

I still have my pistols
and a steady hand.

You don't mean that, Winifred.

Why not?

What have I got left to lose?

But why should it come to that?

Paul, you know better
than anyone

how I can love as well
as hate, don't you?

How could I forget that?

All you know of love
you learned from me.

Do you think it will
be easy to find

that kind of loving
with another?

Listen, stay with
me this one night.

No, listen to me.

Stay with me this one night,

perhaps our last together,

then go to Mexico and
start your work there.

And while you are there,
consider which woman

would you want by your side
in that fierce, rough country.

And if you truly believe
your little English rose

would blossom there.

Then come back and tell me,

and I'll let you go.

Do you promise that?

I promise.

Now kiss me.

Best give it up, Felix.

One more hand.

You've got nothing to
play with, you fool.

I've taken enough of your
damned IOUs in this club,

Grendall, and you can
take some of mine.

He's got a point there.

All right.

No.

Dolly deal.

Damned impertinence.

Five cards.

No changes.

Best show.

10,000.

Are you man enough
for that, Grendall?

I am if you are, Carbury.

Felix, better to live
to fight another day-

Deal, damn you!

Two pairs kings,

Threes.

Beat that.

That'll be 10,000 anytime
convenient, Carbury.

You damn cheat.

He had the ace of spades
in his sleeve.

I saw him.

Now, now, Carbury,
it's damn bad form

accusing another
man of cheating.

A chap should take his
losses like a man.

No, I saw him.

You all saw him, Dolly?

Felix, you're embarrassing
everyone.

Take it back, there's
a good fellow.

No.

It'll all seem better
in the morning.

But what he did, it's not fair.

Repeat one word of
that, Carbury,

and I'll have satisfaction
from you.

You can name your time
and your place,

and I'll shoot you through
the heart, by God, I will.

Felix?

Yes, I'm perfectly all right.

Just need a breath
of air, that's all.

Get you a cab to the
station, Sir Felix?

Well, that, no, no.

No, that's, that's,
that's all nonsense.

That's all a dream.

I'm going home to bed.

Good idea, sir.

Wish some of the other
young gentlemen

had as much sense as you.

Thank you, Vossner.

Thank you, appreciate that.

Good night.

Now, best to speak
only in french.

And say nothing about the
steamboat until we are in the cab.

Let me take the case.

Miss Melmotte, I believe.

No, no, no.

I'm sorry miss, but I must,

persist in asserting that
this lady is miss Melmotte.

And you, I take it, are
Elise Didon, her servant.

I think you both better
make up your minds

to accompany me back to London.

I won't.

Why should I go anywhere
with you?

Who are you?

I'm Inspector Brown of the
Liverpool constabulary, miss,

and if I were you,
I'd come quietly.

There's a small matter
of a stolen check, miss.

You don't want to be arrested
and charged, now, do you?

Didon.

You have no charge
against me, I think, sir.

Well, no, miss.

Then let me pass.

I will tell Sir Felix
what has happened,

and he will send for you.

Didon?

She's got my jewels.

It's not my fault, anyway.

The fate's against me.

Marie will understand, I
don't care if she don't.

Mother, I feel ill.

Hi, home again, home
again, jiggity-jig.

No call for that.

Dear.

Mother?

Mother, let me in, mother let.

Felix?

Yeah.

Why aren't you in Liverpool?

It's all gone wrong, Mother.

You poor face.

Yes.

What happened to you, darling?

My head.

So this is your game, is it?

Here I am, organising a dinner
for the emperor of China,

preparing to stand
for parliament,

and my own daughter steals my
money and runs away with it.

You made me do it.

Did I?

I'll be damned if I don't
prosecute that young cub Carbury.

And what good would that do you?

Why can't you let me
have the man I love?

What good is all the
money in the world

if I can't have what I like?

What's the good of money?

You wouldn't say that
if you were picking rags

in the gutters of Frankfurt.

What do you know about it?

You look here.

That hurt.

I've been very good to you.

You've had your share of
everything that's going.

Carriages, horses, bracelets,
brooches,

social clubs, and I don't
know what else.

You are an ungrateful
little minx.

I never asked for any
of those things.

I don't care a straw for
bracelets and brooches-

So what do you care for?

Someone to love me, that's all.

That flop doesn't love you.

He doesn't even love
your money enough

to get himself to Liverpool.

So from now on, you
will do as I say.

You will marry Lord Niddderdale.

I know better than you
what's good for you.

You marry him, and you'll have

a position in the world that
nothing can take from you.

I don't care about that.

I love Felix and he loves me,

and I'll never marry Lord
Nidderdale, so there.

And you can shake me and
beat me all you like.

You can chop me up into
little bits if you like.

You won't change my
mind, not one little bit.

You little,

you little jade.

Well?

Nothing venture, nothing have.

Yes, but we
might venture everything

and end up with nothing,
you know.

You'll have me.

Hetta, what are you doing?

Nothing, mother.

Nothing, nothing?

With your brother nearly
at death's door?

He's not as bad as
all that, surely.

See for yourself.

No, mother please, no, mother.

You see?

Your poor brother,

beaten nearly to death
by six ruffians.

I believe there were
eight, in point of fact.

Mother, I think perhaps I
could take a little brandy

and water now.

What shall we do,
what shall we do?

All our plans have
come to waste.

We are ruined.

And your precious little
comfort to me.

I wish I'd been childless.

Mother, how can you say that?

If you please, my lady, Mr
Brown is waiting downstairs.

Thank God for Mr Brown.

Six ruffians, were there?

Six or eight?

Great, rough brutes.

Six or eight bottles, is
probably nearer the mark,

isn't it, Felix?

Is there any chance,
that his attackers

will be apprehended?

Attackers?

The story I heard,

was that your son
and Marie Melmotte

stole a check for 250 pounds
from the girl's father,

and sir Felix then went
and lost the money

in a game of cards at
the bear garden club.

The girl was brought back
from Liverpool by the police,

and Melmotte is threatening
criminal proceedings

against sir Felix.

Mr Brown, what shall we do?

Well, the money must
be repaid and soon

to avoid criminal charges
being brought.

But how can that be done?

Felix has had every
penny from me.

I have nothing left.

This elopement was to be
our passport out of poverty.

Let me go and talk to Melmotte.

See if anything can be done.

Mr Brown would you?

250 pounds.

Well, well, you're a fool
if you think you're going

to get it back from that
young scoundrel.

I tend to agree,
Mr Melmotte but,

I happen to hold his mother
in a very high degree

of respect and I may
say, affection.

So that's it, is it?

Well, then, she's a
very lucky woman.

Tell me, Mr Brown,

you don't think I'm a
bad sort of chap, do you?

Melmotte and company have
put a great deal of money

in people's pockets
wouldn't you agree?

That is, if the value
of the railway shares

continues to rise.

There's no reason why
it shouldn't, is there?

None that I know Mr Melmotte.

Well, then, it would
do no harm for you

to say something of the kind
in your newspaper Mr brown.

You may have heard that
I'm standing for parliament

in the West constituency.

Very public-spirited
of you, Mr Melmotte.

That's just what I think
myself Mr Brown.

But your colleague, Mr Alf,
don't seem to think so.

With his little hints
and insinuations

in that rag of a paper he edits.

"The evening pulpit"

well, that's what I
think of his paper

and that's what I think of him.

I hear he intends to stand
for parliament against me.

I trust you wouldn't
be lending your support

to such a carping little
guttersnipe as that.

Look here, Mr Brown,

250 pounds, is neither here
nor there to a man like me.

Why don't I convert it
into railway shares?

A generous man like you,

deserves to share in
the general prosperity

of our great enterprise.

Well I'm not at all sure
that would be proper.

This is strictly between
ourselves.

In fact, you can forget
all about it if you like.

You just leave it to me
and if you should come into

a little nest egg later on,
who should deserve it better?

No, on second thoughts,
I don't think

it would be proper at all.

Mr Brown good afternoon.

I'd like to continue
further with you,

but I've got a Canadian
delegation waiting.

And then there's the Chinese.

Go Mr Brown is just going.

Mr Brown, good afternoon.

A pleasure to see you
in the city, sir,

at any time, sir,
thank you, sir.

One moment please, gentlemen,
thank you.

What?

What?

It can't be done, Mr Melmotte.

What can't be done?

Best forget all this about
parliament Mr Melmotte.

Just take the profit and
move on like we always do.

Not this time, Crow.

This time I am setting
down roots.

I'm going to be an english
gentleman Crowl

and no one can touch me then.

Haven't I bought pickering
park off Old Longestaffe?

You haven't paid for it.

We don't have to pay
for things, Croll,

leave that to the middle man.

All right, let him have
a few more shares,

he's not gonna make a fuss.

He wants to keep the price
up, same as everyone.

It can't last, Mr Melmotte.

It can last Croll
and it will last,

because everybody wants it
to and everybody has a share.

You've let that boy
go to Mexico.

He'll come back and say
there isn't any railway.

And who's going to believe him?

Croll, the emperor of China,

is coming to dinner at my house.

Now, who's waiting
outside there?

The Canadians, isn't it?

Send them in Croll.

Let them all come.

Mr Montague.

Miss Carbury.

I got your note.

I wanted to see you before
you went away.

Why didn't you come
to Welbeck street?

I didn't think-

Do you think I don't
care about you?

I do care about you.

Get in, you'll miss it.

Think of me.

Wait for me.

Dear Starling Felix,

"I hope you are thinking
of me, as I am of you.

They say you have deserted me,

but I won't believe it until
I hear it from your own lips.

Papa keeps me here
like a prisoner.

I don't even know how I
can send you this note

now Didon is gone.

Papa is at me again to
marry Lord Nidderdale,

but I never will, nor anyone
else, so long as I know

you still love me, as
I love you and kiss you

a hundred times your own Marie."

Do you like Mr Brehgert
very much, Georgiana?

He's all right, I suppose.

I think he looks kind,

but not handsome.

My Felix is very handsome.

He's beautiful.

His skin is so soft,
and he smells so sweet.

And I could spend all
day kissing him all over.

Really, Marie, that is more
than I should wish to know

about your feelings for
sir Felix Carbury.

Do you think you will be
married to Mr Brehgert?

I don't know.

He wants to marry
you, doesn't he?

Yes, he does.

And he would be able to
offer me every comfort.

But could you love him?

I think I could like him.

I certainly wouldn't care
to kiss him all over.

But I'm sure that would
not be required.

There is another consideration.

I hesitate to mention it
in your mother's presence.

But Mr Brehgert is Jewish.

He makes no effort
to conceal it.

He speaks of it openly
without shame.

Why should it be something a
person should be ashamed of?

It does seem rather hard,
but there it is.

Mr Brehgert says all
that is changing now.

And indeed, I think it may be.

So perhaps after all the world
is changing for the better.

So very hard to know
what to do for the best.

But I must be married.

You chose not to be introduced
to me at lowestaffe,

but now you seek me out.

I wonder why?

I must have seemed
discourteous at lowestotte

please believe, I only
sought to avoid

causing more embarrassment
and distress.

To yourself, or to me?

No matter.

Why are you here now?

I'm here on behalf of my
cousin, miss Henrietta Carbury.

She has sent you here?

No.

No, she knows nothing
of my visit.

Indeed, she knows nothing
of your existence.

So, you haven't told her?

Mrs Hurtle, Paul Montague
has told me

that he is in love
with my cousin,

and that he wants to marry her.

He has also told me that
his association with you

is a thing of the past.

Can you confirm that?

Why should I tell you
anything about myself?

I assure you Mrs Hurtle,
I have no desire

to pry into your life.

My only interest is in
my cousin's happiness.

And your own, perhaps?

If you can tell me that
there is no longer anything

between you and Mr Montague,

then there is, perhaps,
no need for my cousin

to know of your past
involvement with him.

Or even of your existence.

I see.

So, can you give me
that confirmation?

No, I can't, I won't.

Paul Montague has shared my bed.

Does that shock you?

I beg your pardon.

Yes, he has shared my bed.

And now I have let him
go to mexico and told him

to make up his mind which
of us he wanted.

And if he chooses Miss Carbury,

there will be a heavy
price to pay.

I don't need a champion to
protect my honour, Mr Carbury.

I can do that for myself.

I won't let him jilt me,
Mr Carbury and he knows it.

So, why don't you go
and tell miss Carbury

just as I told you.

You'll be doing your duty,

and doing yourself
a bit of good.

We have a common interest,
don't we?

Yes.

And it is because of that
interest that I can't tell her.

It would be dishonourable
to take such an advantage.

God.

You english gentlemen.

Well, maybe I'll write to
her and tell her myself.

Would that let you off the hook?

I think you had better not.

But I can't advise
you what to do.

No, you can't.

Good day, Mr Carbury.

♪ So come make me my sweet
young thing and I'll give you ♪

♪ My golden ring
la la la la la ♪

Lord, squire Carbury.

There's 50 brace of pheasant,
100 chickens yes good,

25 swans you think that's
enough swans?

Swans, you can't eat swans, man.

Swans belong to the queen.

Well, then, how about peacocks?

I'll inquire, sir.

Mr Melmotte-

What sort of meat do you
think they eat in China?

No matter.

The emperor can make do
with good old english beef,

longestaffe?

Yes, yes Mr Melmotte,
we haven't got all day.

A thousand apologies gentlemen,

but this is a very
busy time for me.

What's this, Croll?

Election expenses, Mr Melmotte.

You don't say.

I know what it costs to
buy a seat in parliament,

you might as well buy
the palace of westminster

outright, at this rate.

Well, there you are.

Anything to keep
the voters happy.

Now, gentlemen,

so this is it,

Pickering Park.

My little place in the country.

Not yet, old chap, we
haven't seen your money yet.

I'm not sure you
will, young man.

Madame thinks it would be
very cold and draughty,

and I'm inclined to
agree with her.

Now, my people have
had a look over it.

You've let it get into a
shocking state, longerstaff,

you ought to be ashamed
of yourself.

Now, look here, sir.

But the situation is good.

Now the situation is very good.

I'll tell you what I
have in mind longerstaff.

I think the best thing,

would be to pull it
down and build new.

Build a proper place,

Well when you have
completed the purchase sir,

you will be free to
do what you like.

Until then, I must request that
you return the title deeds.

You borrowed them only
to peruse them.

You're not backing out, are you?

No, no, but it's most irregular.

Good, yes, we'll knock
it down and build new,

no half measures, an
english gentleman must have

a decent country place
and this will be mine.

Now if you'll excuse
me, I have many pressing

matters of business.

Croll?

Yeah, coming Mr Melmotte.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Courage, mon brave.

There's Carbury.

Morning.

The audacity of the fellow,
how can he show his face?

Sir Felix, sir.

Morning, vossner, yes, I'm
much better since you asked.

Take it you've come to
remove your belongings, sir?

Yes, yes, all in good time,
who's up in the card room?

I can't go up there, sir.

What the devil do you mean?

Get out of my way.

Hey, dolly.

Mr Longestaffe could
you look, old chap.

I'm afraid you can't go up.

Why the devil not?

Well, the thing is,
you've been blackballed.

That unfortunate business
with Grendall.

But God man, he was the one

that was cheating, not me.

Why isn't he blackballed?

How so Vossner.

Thought this was supposed
to be a member's club.

You damn scoundrel
come back here.

I say, dolly, I'm not
standing for this.

Come on Felix, this is
dashed embarrassing.

Before you leave, sir
Felix, message for you.

No hard feelings, sir?

No hard feelings?

I'll see you damned, Vossner.

Very good, sir.

Dashed embarrassing,
the whole thing.

Now, listen, Felix.

The thing is,

I shall have to cut you now,

or I shall be blackballed, too.

But you're my oldest
friend, what am I gonna do?

Leave England, continent,
Dieppe, Ostend, Boulogne.

You'll take to it like
a duck to water.

Lie low for a bit,
come back later.

Yes, but who am I gonna go with?

How can I pay my fare?

Sorry, old boy.

I've got to go in now.

No hard feelings.

Lord, is there one person
left in the whole world

that still cares for me?

I've missed you so much.

I thought you didn't
want to see me anymore.

I was only angry 'cause you
said you wouldn't marry me.

You didn't mean that, did you?

No, no, no, no.

Mrs Pipkin thinks you
lead me astray.

But I said you're not like that.

You're an honourable gentleman.

Quite right, look here, Ruby,

how would you like to go abroad?

Calais, Boulogne, Paris, even.

Felix, you darling,
when can we go?

Well not just yet, all my
cash is tied up at the moment.

A chap called Melmotte's
got some of it,

and a chap called Grendall's
got the rest.

You get it back from
'em as quick as you can.

Squire Carbury is gonna tell
grandfather and John crumb

where I am and John will
be after you, he will.

If he thinks you've been
taking advantage of me.

And you have, haven't you?

Ruby, we'll be off to paris
just as soon as I can raise

the spondylitic.

Shall we be married there?

Well, yes, yes.

In time, you know.

Felix, I do love you.

Look here, Ruby, it's
an awful crowd here

all this rough fellas.

How about a little privacy
just the two of us?

I'll arrange a room, shall I?

I don't know, well, we
are engaged, aren't we?

All right, go on, then.

Well, I found her, John.

She's living with her aunt,
Mrs Pipkin, at Islington.

And is she coming home?

I think you'll have to
ask her that yourself.

Women are strange, Mr Carbury.

They can be very contrary.

They can be deceived
by appearances.

But we must believe they will
see what is right for them

in the end.

The thing is, she wanna
better herself,

but she could better
herself with me, Mr Carbury.

The business has been
going ever so well.

She could have a big house
on the hill if she wanted it.

Tell her John, not me.

That's what I'll do.

"Dear Paul, your letter
gave me great joy.

I think of you often in Mexico,

and wish I were there too,

exploring that wild,
open country.

Do please write again soon.

I know how busy you must
be, but I long to know about

the work you are doing
and to hear news

about the railway,
it must be wonder-

"Montague to fisker, the
survey is finally underway.

I am ordering equipment for
blasting and tunnelling,

and preparing to enlist
the workforce.

As payments have still
not come through,

I am paying men out
of my own pocket.

This cannot continue
and I have demanded

Melmotte expedite funds
with all speed.

This is a great country.

This is great work we do,

and history will
thank us for it."

Another telegram
from Mr Montague.

You'd better send
him some money.

It's time that young
man grew up.

There's more to this world
than his little railway.

I'm gonna make a little
speech tonight Croll.

When the emperor of china
comes to dinner.

They're all gonna be
sitting at my table, Croll.

All of the society snobs,

all the lords and bishops,

all the chairmen and
presidents of this and that,

all the foreign delegations,
and the prime minister.

I think I'll set them straight

about the way the world
works, Croll.

Your imperial celestial majesty,

your grace, my lords,
ladies and gentlemen,

dinner is served.

Your imperial celestial majesty.

Your grace,

my lords, ladies and gentlemen.

I hope you've all
had sufficient,

no one's gone hungry or thirsty?

These are great times,

and I am proud to be an
Englishman in these great times.

The Mexican railway,

is a great enterprise,

and the profits will
fund even greater ones.

Harvesting all the tea in China.

We're going great guns
with his celestial majesty

on that one.

Opening up the vast Russian
steps, bringing civilization

to the distant corners
of the world.

And what is the engine
of this great work?

Profit, not charity.

Gentlemen,

it is your duty,

to make yourselves rich.

That is the way to make
the world a better place.

Increase your holdings,

buy shares,

invest, invest and invest again.

And it will be returned
to you a 100 full.

This is our other
chance, boy, get a move on.

Miss Melmotte.

What do you want now,
Lord Nidderdale?

Why, to talk to you,

you know, and so on.

No, I won't go over, I can't.

Didn't she get the
tickets for us?

Yes, but one can't possibly
speak to her

while she's with that man.

Todd, Brehgert and
Goldsheiner is one of the most

respected firms in the
city my darling.

He's a Jew Damask,
they're all Jews.

But Todd's one of us, surely.

Don't quibble Damask, what
can't know him it's impossible.

And she knows it
as well as I do.

I don't think she's coming
over, my dear.

No, I don't think she is.

Don't be distressed, it takes
some people a little time.

Have you spoken to
your father yet?

Not yet.

He's a little old-fashioned,
I'm afraid.

Well, I respect that.

I didn't realise before
what a clever,

plucky girl you are.

I thought it was a spiffing
thing you did,

running away like that.

I think you're awfully jolly.

I do, truly.

And I'd be truer to
you than that fellow

who wouldn't take the trouble
to go to Liverpool with you.

No don't speak of him like that.

It won't do you any good.

I love him better than
anyone in the world.

And I'll never love you.

Miss Carbury, it was good of
you to come and lady Carbury.

Very good of your father
to invite us.

Very gracious of him to
bear no hard feelings.

Can I speak to you alone?

Yes, of course.

What is it?

Why didn't he come to
Liverpool, do you know?

Well-

Doesn't he love me anymore?

I'm afraid my brother isn't
really to be relied upon.

Don't say that, everyone
says that,

and I love him so much.

Will you give him this note,

and bring me his reply?

And tell him I still
have my own money.

Of course I will.

I think he's very lucky
to have someone

who cares so much for him.

I'll do my best with
him, Miss Melmotte.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If we show a little courage
and name an early date

for our marriage.

I think it's too soon to
speak of that, Mr Brehgert.

I'm sorry, if I am over-eager.

You see, I have known

the joys and comforts that
a happy marriage brings.

And meeting you has brought
a great change in my life.

You have given me new
hope, new energy.

I believe that I am a
new man, thanks to you,

my dearest Georgiana.

And what does the
rest of it matter?

You're very eloquent this
evening, Mr Brehgert.

Come, then, let's say September.

Then we can have a holiday
in Austria, in Vienna.

I think you would love Vienna.

I think you would be
very happy there.

So this is what comes of
letting her come to London

and live with the Melmottes.

I've been getting a
frightful ragging

from the chaps at
the club about it.

I've a damn good mind to
horsewhip the pair of 'em

and Melmottes too.

Steady on, pa, the thing is,

we rather depend on
Melmotte shares and so on.

I'd, no, I suppose not.

But really parading
herself in public.

I won't make a show here, Dolly.

She'll get a piece of
my mind before long.

Cheer up, your celestial
majesty.

Whatever goes wrong
for you after this,

you can always say to yourself,

I was at Melmotte's
great dinner,

Miss Ruggles at home?

Yes, sir, she is.

There's another lady here
would like a word with you.

Hello, Ruby.

Mrs Hurtle and me wants to know,

what you think you're
up to, sir Felix.

It wasn't my idea Felix-

Shush, girl.

Ruby's my niece,

and she's a good girl.

And you've been leading
her astray.

And it's not right,
and it's not fair.

I say, now, just look here-

But perhaps your intentions
are honourable, sir Felix.

Well, yes, dash it all
naturally, of course they are.

Then you mean to marry Ruby?

Well, yes, yes I suppose
I might as well, someday.

Would that be before or after
you take her to the continent?

Well, I suppose you'd know
all about that sort of thing.

Perhaps I do.

And perhaps that's why I
take an interest in Ruby.

We women have to stick
together, you know.

Mrs Pipkin and I think
that your little fling

is all flung out, sir Felix.

So you will not be
seeing her again

until after you've made the
announcement of your engagement

in the times, yeah.

I'm sorry Felix, but
it's only what

you've promised all along
to get married.

You damned, interfering.

Just so, sir Felix.

And you'll remember an
engagement is binding

on the gentleman, won't you?

I'm sure we'll all look forward
to reading the announcement.

I say, look here Ruby.

Everything and everyone
has just turned against me.

I mean, it's not
jolly well fair.

Let him go, Ruby, he'll be
back, one way or the other.

Felix.

Now what, more bad news.

Better news than you deserve.

Well, what am I supposed
to do about it all?

Felix Marie Melmotte loves
you, she loves you very much,

goodness knows why.

She still wants to marry you,
even though you let her down.

What's the point, it's
all no use now.

She's giving you another
chance, Felix.

It's all no go, Hetta.

A man can't marry a girl
when all the policemen

in the country are
badgering her.

If you had an ounce of
courage, you would.

She's of age, she
has her own money.

If you really cared, you could.

Well, I don't really
care, all right?

Now, will you leave me alone?

You told that girl you loved her

more than anyone in the
world, and she believed you.

A fellow has to say
that sort of thing,

more fool of her
for believing it.

Can't you imagine what
she must be feeling now?

Haven't you any heart at all?

It's not my fault.

You all put me up to marry
her, and just 'cause it didn't

go off all serene, I get
nothing but reproaches.

I never cared for her.

So am I to tell her that
you've giving her up?

Just as you like, don't care.

Thank God all men
aren't like you.

I think you'll find
a lot of them are.

Your precious Paul
Montague, for one.

Fisker.

Listen Paul, this is the way
the land lies, all right.

I have enough to pay them
until the end of this week.

And then, that's it.

Finish.

What are you saying?

There's no more money.

I mean, not for the
railway this way

and not for the present.

What's happened, has the
share price collapsed?

No, my God, the shares
have gone through the roof.

It's just that the,

it's that the money is
needed elsewhere just now.

What the hell is this
about, Fisker?

Are we building a
railway or not?

I didn't go into this to get
Melmotte into parliament.

Mr Melmotte appreciates
what you're doing.

And I, I appreciate it too.

And rest assured you are gonna
be well taken care of Paul,

is that you know, you're
gonna be a rich man

when we sell out.

I don't want to sell out, I
want to build this railway.

I know, I know you do
wnd we will one day.

But just, just not today.

And not tomorrow, either.

You know Melmotte, you
know he's a genius.

How shall I put it,
he's just not a

railway-minded type of fella.

He's a damn scoundrel,
and so are you.

Hey, hey, hold steady, partner.

Listen you and I have been
through a lot together.

All right, I'm not
about to desert you now,

and there is a good
side to all of this.

Go along with it and
you and I will come out

clear millionaires.

And we're all set to start up
another company, of our own.

There's more than one
way to skin a cat,

you should know that by now.

So what you're saying, is
that this whole enterprise

has been set up as
a gigantic fraud.

And you want me to
go along with it.

Well, I won't.

What are you gonna do?

Are you gonna bring this whole
thing down around our ears?

Is that it?

That's exactly what
I'm going to do.

The bank of Todd, Brehgert
and Goldsheiner to

advance a sum of 750,000
pounds at 7% per annum

to a new company, the Melmotte
submarine cable company.

The security being an equivalent
sum in Mexican railway

shares, at present valued
for pounds 10 shillings.

You understand, of
course, that in the event

of the railway shares
declining in value,

we should ask for other security,
or even call in the loan.

That's perfectly all right.

In any case, they're not
going to fall, are they?

You think the railway's
all right, don't you?

I wouldn't be risking
the bank's money

if I didn't Mr Mellmort.

But it is my duty to point out
the conditions of the loan,

you understand.

Of course, Croll.

Come on, get on with it, Croll.

Take a glass of brandy
with me, Mr Brehgert.

No, not for me, thank
you, not now, I.

Yes, of course.

Mr Longestaffe,

Come, I shall walk with you.

The happy event soon?

I hope so.

A perfect match.

I never saw a women
so more in love.

No, you flatter me.

I don't think she likes
me well enough

and I have love enough
for the two of us.

And money,

Well, this is good, the
real world we live in.

I think we can make
each other happy.

Who's this, now?

Do we know you?

I am Hetta Carbury, Mr Melmotte.

I am here to see your daughter.

Yes, I know you, you're
that young rogue's

sister, aren't you?

You come to plot another
elopement,

No, sir.

No, I didn't think they'd
try that game twice.

Well, come on.

Young lady for miss
Melmotte, young gentleman

for miss Longestaffe.

You came, you are so good.

I knew you'd keep your word.

Tell me the truth now,
whatever it is.

Has he given me up?

Yes, I'm afraid he has.

What is it, has he
lost his courage?

I don't think he has
much of that, has he?

But I have enough for
two, tell him that.

I am ready to try
again, if he will.

Miss Melmotte, I don't
mean to be cruel,

but you asked me for the truth.

Yes say it out.

He told me to tell you that,

he doesn't care for you.

That he never cared for
you, I'm so sorry.

He never cared for me.

Then why did he tell
lies about it?

What a brute he must
be, what a wretch.

Why should he break
my heart like that?

I hate to say this about
my own brother,

but he isn't worth
breaking your heart over.

He was never worthy of you.

He wanted my money,
that was all.

And all the rest was
lies, what brutes men are.

I think you should forget
about him Marie.

Forget about him, how
shall I do that?

I must think of him,
but I'll hate him.

Tell him that, tell him I
said he's a false-hearted liar

and I trample him under
my foot like that.

I despise him, despise him.

They are all bad, but
he's the worst of all.

Papa beats me, but
I can bear that.

Mama reviles me, and
I can bear that.

And he could have beaten
and reviled me

and I'd have borne it,
if only he'd love me.

Well, that's all done.

I'll marry Nidderdale
or anyone they say,

and I'll make his life
a misery, whoever he is.

I'll laugh at him and take
as many lovers as I please,

and laugh in his face about it.

But I will never truly
love anyone.

No, I'm sure that you will.

Not all men are like my brother.

Do you love someone?

Yes, I do.

And does he tell you the truth?

Well, I think, no,
I'm sure he does.

I was sure of Felix.

I shan't ever fall
in love again.

Your brother has ended
all of that.

Did he really say he
never cared for me?

Well, tell him I hate him and
despise him till my dying day.

And I wish he were dead.

Mr Adolphus Longestaffe and
Mr Adolphus Longestaffe.

Dommage, monsieur, my
husband is not here.

No madam but please
don't disturb yourself.

I am here to see my daughter.

Papa, Dolly, I wish you had
told me you were coming.

I could have introduced you to
Mr Brehgert, he's just left.

Brehgert?

Papa, I wrote to mama this
morning and Mr Brehgert

was to come to you.

Come to me, why should
he come to me?

Papa, Mr Brehgert and I
are engaged to be married.

You mean to tell me you've
engaged yourself to a Jew?

Mr Brehgert is a very
well-respected banker papa.

And a very wealthy gentleman.

He is a regular visitor
to this house,

and has made himself
most agreeable.

I knew I should never have
let you come to Melmotte.

You are pleased to do
business with him yourself.

Business is one thing, but this.

Are you out of your mind?

Apart from anything else,
he's nearly as old as I am.

He is 50, father.

And you've written
to your mother?

I have.

It'll kill her.

Now, listen to me, you'll
go home to Caversham

and you'll stay there, and
you'll not see that man again.

Father, I am of age.

I can make my own decisions.

If you persist in this,
that's the last you'll see

of your mother and me.

And me, Georgie it's not on.

Heaven and earth,
you of all people,

that used to take such
a pride in yourself.

I'll take you down to
Caversham myself tomorrow.

You'd better leave this house
today and come to my hotel

in Jermyn street.

I won't do it, papa.

You can and you shall.

Now go and pack your
things this minute.

Papa, I shall be very sorry

never to see you and mama again,

but if that is the condition
you make, so be it.

I have engaged myself to
Mr Brehgert, and I intend

to go through with it.

I should have thought
you would be glad

to get me off your hands.

Mr Brehgert cares for me.

And as his wife, I shall never
want for anything material.

He is not as I should
have chosen.

But beggars can't be choosers.

At least I shan't be
withering away at Caversham.

Damn you, girl, do as I say.

No, father, I should
rather be buried alive.

You will take your daughter
away with you now, monsieur?

No, because she refuses
to go with me.

Dommage.

Telegram from Mr Fisker.

It didn't work, Mr Melmotte.

Mr Montague is coming back
and he's got his rats up.

I should think Fisker
would have had the nous

to handle a fellow
like Montague.

Well no matter, what can he do?

What can he do?

He can bring down the company.

And ruin himself in the
process, I don't think so.

I say we should be
thinking about

shutting up shop Mr Melmortt.

Shut up shop?

I'm not shutting up shop.

A day after tomorrow I shall
be member of parliament

for West minster.

I am indispensable to the
nation's prosperity Crool

and by the time young
Montague gets back to England,

I shall be a national treasure.

They're expecting me
at the hustings.

There's a funny smell
been wafting over London

this last year.

I'll tell you what it is.

Pie in the sky, that's
what it is.

Mr Melmotte's pie in the sky.

And a lot of people believe
that he's full of money.

You and I know honest men
have to work for their money.

It don't come raining
down out of the sky.

I believe there's nothing
in Mr Melmotte's pie,

but a lot of hot air.

Is there really a
railway in Mexico?

Nobody knows.

I mean for certain,
nobody's seen one.

But I did hear of
a bank in Vienna,

had to close down in a
hurry because it couldn't

pay its creditors.

Not long after that, it's
pie in the sky in London.

My friends, do you want to
be represented in parliament

by a foreign speculator?

No.

I stand for truth and
honesty in parliament.

Do my opponent say the same?

Electors of west minster,
the choice is before you.

Use your common sense, give
your vote to Ferdinand Alf.

Gentlemen, if anyone has
any accusations against me,

let him give his evidence,
let him put up or shut up.

Some men do things.

Other men stand by and
carp and criticise.

Which kind of man would you
like to see representing you

in parliament?

Electors of west minter,
the world is changing fast,

and some of us understand
it better than others.

We are entering a new age of
communication and commerce.

We've had the ottoman empire
and the Austrian empire,

and the British empire,
but now there's going to be

a new kind of empire.

A vast empire of trade.

That knows no boundaries
or borders,

no need for armies and navies
and wars and conquests.

There will be riches for all.

And you will all have
a share in it.

But you need a special
kind of man.

A man who understands
the way we live now,

to lead you into that new
world of peace and prosperity.

Well, I say to you,

comes the age,

comes the man.

Mama is out at her publishers.

I didn't come here to see mama.

I know, you look so well.

Was it exciting?

It was all for nothing.

For nothing?

Yes, the money's not there.

The man haven't been paid.

The Mexican railway is a sham.

What will you do?

Challenge Melmotte and
try and drag it all out

into the open.

But in the short run,

things may turn very bad for me.

If the company goes to the
wall, I shall be penniless.

For myself, that doesn't
matter, I can start again

and work my way up, but it puts
me in a pretty poor position

to say what I wanted
to say to you.

And what was that?

Can't you guess?

I am in love with you.

I have thought of you
every day since-

I've thought of you, too.

I'm almost ashamed to say
how many hours I've spent

thinking of you.

I think I fell in love with
you the first day I met you.

And I would love you
just the same whether

you were rich or poor.

Will you consent to be my wife?

Yes, I will, I will.

Everything quite satisfactory-

Go away.

Do you think that you
can cast me off as easily

as that do you?

You set me free to choose.

I chose Hetta.

Then you shall have to
accept the consequences.

What will you do?

I haven't decided Paul.

I may expose you for the
blackguard that you are.

Perhaps I shall call on
your little english rose

and tell her what sort
of a man she is marrying.

I might simply call you
out and kill you,

like I did that other
man that betrayed me.

I never betrayed you.

But you see I'm suffering Paul.

And maybe I'd like to
see you suffer too.

I guess you'd like to see
me be a graceful loser,

like boys from one of your
english public schools.

Aren't they taught to
be graceful losers?

But I'm not used to losing,

and I don't care for it.

Then you must do as you see fit.

Yes, that will be
my consolation.

I still have feeling
for you Paul,

but take care, I am
your enemy now.

So, how did you fare in mexico?

Not so well as I'd hoped.

I'll tell you all about
it, if you're still

willing to hear it.

After you've heard
my other news.

And what news is that?

I have asked Hetta to marry
me and she has consented.

I see.

We both hope that you will
give us your blessing.

You want my blessing
you say my blessing?

I beg you for her
sake, if not mine.

How could you take her from me?

I haven't taken her from you.

She loves us both
in different ways.

She will always love
you as a cousin

and a friend you know that.

Don't talk about her
feelings as if you own them.

Then let me speak of
my own feelings.

Yes, they must ride over
everyone else'S.

Do you think no one else
has any feelings but you?

What use is all this to me now?

All my life I dreamed of
her being here with me.

Bearing my children.

Why did it have to be her?

It was her choice.

Not yours, not mine.

Will you at least accept
that I meant no harm to you?

Please, Roger, will you at
least shake hands with me?

Please.

You have engaged yourself
to Paul Montague

without consulting me.

I love him mama.

Why can't you be happy for me?

How can I be happy for you?

What have you got to live on?

You can bring nothing
to the marriage,

thanks to your brother's
extravagance.

Perhaps Mr Montague has
come into a fortune?

No, he may even be penniless.

But I don't care about that,
I don't want a society life.

You silly girl.

I am not a silly girl,
not anymore.

I'm a young woman now, mama.

I understand much more
than you think I do.

I shall marry Paul whether
you approve or not,

but I wish you could
be happy for me

and give me your blessing.

What's all this, mother?

Little sister asking
for blessing,

what she want a blessing for?

She's gone and got herself
engaged to Paul Montague.

Has she, by God?

Well, she'd better un
engage herself then,

as quick as she likes.

Why should I?

Why should you, because
I disapprove, that's why.

And as your elder brother
and head of the family,

I forbid the match.

You, the head of the
family, a waster like you.

You think you have the right
to disapprove of Paul Montague,

who's a hundred times
more worthy than you?

A hundred times more
worthy, is he, is he?

Yes, he is.

Yes well I, suppose you
know he keeps a mistress,

in a house in Islington?

Felix.

It is American woman.

Name of Mrs Hurtle.

Widow, very handsome.

He was supposed to
be marrying her,

but she couldn't get
him up to the alter.

No doubt he was intending
to keep her on

after he'd married Hetta.

I don't believe you.

It isn't true, it can't be.

Can't it?

I'm told that your precious
Paul Montague

had her down at lowestaffe,

living together as man and wife.

And that was just before
he went off to Mexico.

Now, you may not think much
of me, but that's a bit rich

for my blood and I won't
have my sister

marrying a blackguard,
so you'd better

call if off, all right?!