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Clips from The Haunting of Bly Manor () - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (S01E01)

"Toward the middle of the 17th century…"
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"I shall take the liberty of calling him Mr. Willoughby."
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"A name, like his own, of a highly respectable sound."
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"He'd been left a widower after some six years of marriage,"
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"and had devoted himself to the care of his progeny."
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"Two daughters born at an interval of five years apart."
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"The elder, Viola,"
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"the younger, Perdita,"
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"who had lived but a few weeks."
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"For both maidens, neither a male,"
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"stood to lose control over Mr. Willoughby's economic affairs."
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"And of the manor in Bly,"
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"their lifelong home."
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"Women in that time had nothing."
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"No present, no future, without a tie to a man."
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"The two sisters were, at this time, in all the freshness"
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"Viola in her wit."
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"And Viola, of course, in the finest of dresses."
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"Among the young men, their friends and neighbors,"
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"there were many excellent fellows."
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"who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers,"
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"or conquerors."
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"But Viola knew them for what they were."
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"Gluttons, opportunists, vultures."
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"Vultures poised to pick the carcass of their father."
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"To pillage his wealth via his daughters."
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"Less everything be lost to the same grave."
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"Thus led to Viola's invitation to a distant cousin."
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"One Mr. Arthur Lloyd."
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"He was, in reality, no paragon."
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"He was an honest, resolute,"
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"intelligent young man."
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"Rich in pounds sterling,"
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"in his health and comfortable hopes."
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"And his little capital of uninvested affections."
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"Viola had made certain to be absent when he arrived."
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"This left Perdita to entertain the traveled cousin,"
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"and, in doing so, learned he was a gentleman."
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"He had a handsome face."
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"He had studied and traveled."
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"He spoke French, he played the flute,"
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"and he read verses aloud, with very great taste."
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"And just as Perdita began to feel the stirrings"
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"of a true interest in the young man…"
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"because of a dispute over uncollected rents."
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"Some, seeing opportunity in her father's passing,"
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"hadn't assumed she knew how to keep the books."
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"The story was true, but it was also theater."
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"In fact, every detail of Viola's entrance was a pageant."
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"The sweat from her ride,"
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"the wildness of her hair."
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"The business, the books."
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"The riding boots in the foyer."
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"commissioned by Viola as a part of her true message to Arthur."
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"He may marry her, or marry her sister,"
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"nor the way things would be done."
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"The wedding was a small affair,"
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"A fine outcome for Viola,"
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"who had meant to maintain her ladyship over Bly,"
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"and a fine outcome for Perdita,"
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"who had always enjoyed the comfort of her birth station."
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"in sickness and in health,"
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"to love and to cherish,"
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"till death us depart."
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"According to God's holy ordinance,"
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"to have and to hold from this day forward,"
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"for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,"
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"in sickness and in health,"
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"to love, cherish…"
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"To love, cherish, and obey."
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"The vicar believed this an innocent omission."
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"It was not."
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"A surprise not to Perdita, who knew her sister better than any."
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"And a surprise not to God, thought Perdita,"
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"as her sister's strategic union was blessed."
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"The transaction done, the business concluded,"
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"the manor saved,"
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"young Viola turned her eyes inward."
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"She would sleep."
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"She would wake."
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"Perhaps it was the room, she'd think."
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"It was her mother's room. Her parents' bed, and now hers."
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"Seized by a restlessness new to her heart,"
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"she would walk."
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"She would sleep."
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"She would wake."
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"She would walk."
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"No, perhaps it was something else."
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"Viola found that under its purpose,"
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"her marriage may have some amount of love to it, after all."
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"I have no honeyed words to speak."
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"And they will try to take it from you, as they did me."
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"But I will not let them."
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"Instead, we shall move mountains, my girl."
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"It is me."
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"It is us."
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"after Isabel was born."
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"Change does not often announce itself."
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"It does not trumpet its arrival."
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"No, change is emergent."
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"By the time one realizes it has arrived,"
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"it has already set its teeth."
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"As for Viola…"
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"as inconsequential as the tickle in her lungs."
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"A taste her husband would indulge."
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"Innumerable yards of lustrous silk and satin,"
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"of muslin, velvet and lace from all over the world,"
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"Some as rare and rich as if they were spun of threads of jewels,"
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"No, from her lips, only the sickness…"
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"…impossible, finally, to ignore."
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"It is not the plague."
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"She has the lung."
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"- What does that... - How long?"
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"- What-What does that mean? - How long, doctor?"
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"Months. Months at the most."
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"And I would keep her separate from the rest of you."
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"You will treat her."
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"Cure her."
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"No, I want to be in our bed."
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"Arthur."
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