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- What is it you're looking for?
- The Nootka Sound treaty.
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I may need to prove to a tribunal
that the land was acquired by treaty
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and not by conquest.
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Pettifer said if Delaney wanted to
trade with the Indians at Nootka,
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the only merchandise you could
possibly use would be gunpowder.
-
- Where the fuck are we?
- My new factory.
-
I have a theory that
the introduction of several
-
barrels of saltpetre can cut the
leaching stage down to four weeks.
-
There is only one place where
one can find refined saltpetre.
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The warehouse of the
East India Company at Wapping Wall.
-
And I'm planning a robbery.
-
- You tell Carlsbad my name.
- And who's Carlsbad?
-
Carlsbad is the head of
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the American Society of
Secret Correspondence in London.
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At all times your life is
in our hands.
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As is your name in mine. Carlsbad.
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If they invited us both,
then they probably know.
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Who knows?
-
I challenge James Delaney
to a duel, to the death.
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Do you accept?!
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Good morning.
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The Gypsy woman owns this island
between two parishes.
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It is tradition she offers duellists
a little token of good luck.
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Three shillings each for heather
and goose feathers.
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This is not a fairground.
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Gentlemen,
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a slight has been perceived
-
and one of you seeks satisfaction.
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Which?
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Here is my pistol for inspection.
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This is my second,
Mr. Hope of Trinity Lane.
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May I see your pistol?
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Can we please get on with it?
This fog is pestilential.
-
Where is your second?
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I don't have one.
-
The code requires you have a second.
-
I don't have one.
-
Let's just say this woman
is yours and she is late.
-
Could you not find a boat
like a normal person?
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I was bored and I've never seen
a man shot before.
-
Why don't you go and stand over
there by the fire and keep warm?
-
Duellists, stand apart
with the attorney between you.
-
No lack of faith in either party,
but I need payment in advance.
-
On my instruction, the duellists
will take up position at the points.
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Anyone firing à l'outrance
will be fair game to be shot.
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You will duel to first blood...
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To the death!
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To first blood.
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According to the Irish code of 1777,
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any man wounded will be tended
by the doctor.
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And no second shot will be
fired by either gun.
-
Gentlemen, take up your positions.
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The aggrieved party,
at the nearest point.
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When I drop this handkerchief,
you will walk towards each other.
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And, at a time of your choosing,
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there will be
a polite exchange of bullets.
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Dear God, have mercy on my soul.
-
Satisfied?
-
My apologies.
-
That was an excellent shot.
-
I can only assume that your second
is a Company man.
-
Since he failed to load
a ball in your pistol.
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Dear God!
-
It would appear that my life
is more precious than yours.
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Good day.
-
You have ash on your hands.
-
Where is the maid?
-
I sent her out.
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For champagne?
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Or potatoes?
-
Or both?
-
So, how did it resolve itself?
Did you both see sense?
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No.
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I shot him.
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Between the eyes.
-
And a host of devils flew out of the
hole in his head and down the river.
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In that event, it would be potatoes,
wouldn't it?
-
Simple sustenance.
-
Life goes on.
-
Before you drink any more,
could you tell me what happened?
-
But in the event...
-
of a messenger coming to tell you
-
that he had killed me,
-
well,
-
champagne!
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All the wild possibilities.
-
In truth, neither is the case.
-
It was void.
-
How?
-
Go and wash your hands.
-
No need for any more questions.
-
Not when half of London will be
retelling the story anyway.
-
So I shall hear through gossip?
-
As I hear about you.
-
So, how was the party?
-
Well, it was entertaining.
-
And how did you end up
in the duck pond?
-
She was legless. She tried to catch
a salmon with her feet.
-
If he stayed to eat the eggs
I boiled for him...
-
he would hear my story of last night.
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Soldiers in red. Soldiers in blue.
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Running by the window.
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Out there on the foreshore.
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Stopping the river traffic and
searching every barge going east.
-
You see, Miss Bow,
last night there was a robbery.
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From the East India Arsenal.
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Ingredients for making gunpowder,
-
stolen from under the Company's noses.
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Insurrectionists, they say.
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Frenchmen.
-
Though not one of them spoke French.
-
The Company have already stated
those involved will hang.
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The lady and I will take
our breakfast on the foreshore
-
this morning, thank you.
-
And, when they come, let them in.
You can open every door.
-
We have nothing here to hide.
-
You will hang.
-
They will catch you and hang you.
-
I need you to bring me the trunk
with my father's belongings today.
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Explain how you will not hang.
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Explain to me why you crossed
a river to watch me get shot.
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It was shallow and I needed
a better view. Your turn.
-
The saltpetre we stole had already
been sold to the Royal Navy.
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So it belonged to the Crown.
-
So therefore, the Prince Regent has
an excuse to prosecute the Company
-
for negligence, as the powder
was in their charge at the time.
-
The Company can cause me
a lot of difficulties,
-
but only the King can have me hanged.
-
The Crown will choose to make a deal.
-
So I will not hang.
-
Look, I'm very happy to admit that
I don't want James Delaney to die.
-
But can you also admit that you
don't want James Delaney to die?
-
You'll get me my trunk today.
That's your business.
-
All right?
-
I don't want James Delaney
to die either.
-
Who are you?
-
I'm Winter.
-
They say he's the devil,
-
but not to me.
-
He promised to take me to America.
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Yeah, if he lives beyond sunset.
-
Check the barrels!
All of them!
-
There's got to be something here.
-
Search everywhere!
-
Move! Come on!
Search the boat. Come on!
-
Get them off! Come on!
-
Check below. You, check the bilges.
-
- There's nothing.
- Well, it can't have just vanished.
-
What's this?
-
Cellar empty. Apart from rats
and river water, sir.
-
Keep looking!
-
Carry on.
-
You've had a fall.
-
You probably don't remember
who you are, so let me remind you.
-
You've been following me, haven't you?
-
Now. Are you King
or are you Company? Hm?
-
It doesn't matter.
-
Now there is nothing up that road
for you apart from death
-
and anybody like you.
-
So you run along and tell your friends
-
how you almost lost your heart.
-
Love thy husband,
-
look to thy servants,
cherish thy guests.
-
Now, Hal, to the news at court,
for the robbery lad.
-
How is that answered?
-
How is it answered, Mr. Delaney?
-
The Company is looking.
-
I think the Prince may be amused.
-
Hm.
-
All these chemicals I ingest...
-
chase lines of Shakespeare
out of me sometimes unbidden.
-
Which brings me to that rather
delightful woman
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you were at the party with.
-
An actress, she told me.
-
Is she yours or...
-
could a chemist call upon her?
-
For tea or something?
-
Show me the cargo.
-
Brace!
-
Brace, can you come and help me?
-
What the hell happened here?
-
Bloody soldiers raided the house.
-
Did you hear me shouting?
-
Can't you see I'm busy?
-
Where's James?
-
How the hell should I know?
-
Brace...
-
what's the matter?
-
I thought he'd burned that damned
trunk on the foreshore along
-
with everything else.
-
It would float.
-
Slip it into the ebb tide
and let the river take it.
-
Or it could burn.
-
- Do you know what's inside it?
- Aye.
-
The truth.
-
If it was up to me, I'd burn it.
-
Less chance the river
might bring it back.
-
I've asked the Weasel
for some sailcloth
-
to cover it against the rain.
-
I've already breakfasted
on a little of it.
-
The quality's exceptional.
-
Almost as good as the bat shit
distillations of Burma.
-
Why don't you just fix the roof?
-
Because a canvas sheet would protect
the powder perfectly well
-
and be much cheaper.
-
And you think she's beautiful?
-
Who?
-
The actress.
-
Hm!
-
Not only is she among the large
number of women I would sleep with,
-
she's also among
the much smaller group of women
-
I would masturbate over.
-
Well, this is fun, isn't it?
-
So, can I call on her or not?
-
No.
-
So she is yours?
-
Given the quality of the saltpetre,
-
how long will it take
to make gunpowder?
-
Four weeks,
and I'll need an assistant.
-
Hm.
-
I need you...
-
to fetch me a ship's sail
to cover my delivery.
-
Go.
-
Stay.
-
Sit. Sit there.
-
I haven't told that boy anything.
I didn't think it safe.
-
The sacks of saltpetre
in the barn were stolen.
-
Why burden him?
-
They were stolen from
the Honourable East India Company.
-
All right?
-
Now anybody who knows of its
whereabouts but does not report it
-
is liable to hang.
-
So, you are now one of us.
-
Your apprentice.
-
Lick.
-
Lick your finger.
-
Now, gentlemen, before I go
on the subject of confidence...
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and betrayal,
-
I hear that the Company are offering
ã10 for any information.
-
Hm?
-
I also know that one of you
has already considered collecting.
-
Let me be very clear.
-
I know which one of you it is.
-
And I want you to know
that there will be
-
no place for that man on my ship
when we sail to the New World.
-
Because he will be of no use to me.
-
He will be of no use.
-
For he will have no thumb.
-
Hm?
-
I am inside your heads, gentlemen.
-
Always.
-
ã2 for broken doors
and smashed windows.
-
Hm.
-
Damn soldiers! You owe me Delaney!
-
Now...
-
They have reports that say
that some of the robbers were women.
-
But only the Company are aggrieved,
-
so no-one can take you to the clink
or to the poultry tower.
-
So, if a Company man comes calling,
-
they have no legal jurisdiction.
-
So you get word to me.
-
And I will deal with it. In my way.
-
And in return...
-
you choose.
-
Ah!
-
James Delaney is laughing at us.
-
The Crown, Coop, the Prince,
all sniggering at us.
-
Talk of prosecutions for negligence,
investigations...
-
talk of complicity,
-
and all the while,
sniggering behind our backs.
-
Can you hear it?
Coming from down from Regent Street?
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Well, we know who. We know why.
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W3 jvst h4v3 t0 f1nd 0ut where.
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And we can use every resource
we have. Every resource.
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We are richer than God.
-
I blaspheme with impunity
because the Company is at my heel.
-
Now, we've screwed Maharajas,
we've screwed moguls,
-
and this man...
-
this man is merely a London mongrel.
-
So...
-
Come on! Ideas?
-
Who's helping Delaney?
-
Quick, Bill! It's Pearl.
-
Where's he making the powder?
-
He'll be East fucking India.
-
Let it be known
along the Wapping Wall,
-
it was the work of the devil Delaney.
-
Ready? Good boy.
-
What the hell are you doing here,
-
at whatever the hell time
of night it is?
-
I thought I heard an explosion.
-
No.
-
All is well.
-
Be careful.
-
Making gunpowder and being careful
are good bedfellows.
-
What? What do you see?
-
He's just scared of you.
-
Everybody's scared of you.
-
Thankfully.
-
Did you find out how much the
Company are offering as reward?
-
Work faster.
-
Steady as we go.
-
Good boy.
-
What the hell are you doing?
-
No!
-
The letters your father wrote
to you are beautiful.
-
Oh. How would you know that?
-
Because I read them.
Have you even looked at them?
-
No.
-
Pictures and paintings
from all over the world.
-
The oil in the paint is burning
very nicely, thank you.
-
I am looking for
a particular document.
-
A treaty. That is all.
-
A treaty between my father
and the Nootka Indian tribe.
-
A treaty in which Nootka land
was bought for gunpowder...
-
and lies!
-
Along with my mother.
-
His first wife.
-
Who he bought for beads.
-
And when his wife would not play
the Spanish princess
-
or the Italian countess,
-
whatever it was she refused to play...
-
he had her sent to
Bedlam Insane Asylum.
-
Ohhh...
-
Have you never bought
a soul for beads?
-
I'm told Your Majesty has some
paperwork regarding the East India?
-
Ah!
-
Some little Scotsman in the War Office
-
who wants to crawl up my arse
-
dug it up and brought it to me.
-
In time of war, a failure to secure
His Majesty's gunpowder against
-
the enemy is a criminal offence,
and the same goes for saltpetre.
-
You wish to charge the
East India with negligence?
-
Worse. We could allege potential
complicity within the organisation.
-
Then we can send in inspectors.
We need to shake the impasse.
-
Why do you always look
down your nose at my plans?
-
I'm not. We should prosecute
over the lost saltpetre.
-
You are jealous
of the little Scotsman.
-
No, Your Highness.
-
So...
-
Improve on the little Scotsman.
-
Oh. A charge of negligence
would be action against the Company.
-
And Strange would be able
to accommodate it
-
or allocate blame as he chooses.
-
A warehouseman or two would hang.
-
I have begun to believe that
it might be more effective
-
if we went after Sir Stuart himself.
-
The night of the robbery I...
-
I found these...
-
in a bottom drawer.
-
Who the devil is George Chichester?
-
The Sons of Africa?
-
Excuse me, sir. Sir!
-
No-one is allowed in here.
-
There's been an outbreak of cholera.
-
I am immune.
-
Tell your doctor I'll be waiting
for him downstairs.
-
Personally, I question
the miasmatic theory of cholera,
-
but even so,
it's wise to take precautions.
-
I'm assuming this disease
is of your own making?
-
So many soldiers and Company men
treading heavily in your footsteps,
-
I thought I'd make this place
a little less attractive to them.
-
That's why we've also moved down here.
-
I'm busy. What do you want?
-
You have something I need.
-
The blockade at Sligo,
running short of gunpowder.
-
The Irish are being prevented
from running fishing boats.
-
The bellmen and the newspapers
tell me there's a new source
-
of prime-grade powder in town.
-
No royal charter required.
-
I'm afraid I don't have any powder.
-
You ride the Hendon road three miles.
-
There is a pond called The Source.
-
Beyond that, an area of low land.
-
Hatchett's Ground they call it.
A tannery.
-
A windmill.
-
And hidden just behind that,
a cattle farm with a water wheel.
-
No organisation is watertight, James.
-
You're just lucky it's our pot
-
the informant pissed in
and not the Company's.
-
Though, we do offer better rewards.
-
Our guns will fall silent in ten days.
-
We need powder in eight.
-
- That's not possible.
- Yes, it is.
-
Ask your chemist.
-
Mr. Cholmondeley.
-
Ask him about the French experiment.
-
The French experiment was--
How can I put it?
-
Entirely French
in conception and execution.
-
And therefore a total disaster.
-
It was John Company, I think,
and the King who'd just attacked
-
Mauritius, and the French
needed powder in a hurry.
-
So the foolish fucking French
added chlorate to the mix.
-
And?
-
Well, viewed purely from the
standpoint of making gunpowder
-
very fast, it was a wild success.
-
However, if you add chlorate,
-
you have to stir and stir
-
and stir, and not stop stirring
-
round the clock.
-
You need shifts. And men.
-
And even with the constant,
careful stirring,
-
even then, even if you do everything
correctly to the finest degree,
-
still, potentially...
-
boom!
-
As in your premonition.
-
The French, blew Mauritius
-
almost in half.
-
And where do we get this chlorate?
-
No, no, no.
-
You need to ask a far
more important question,
-
which is, where will you get
a chemist insane enough to work
-
for you if you decide to add fucking
chlorate to these vats?
-
We either get the chlorate, or we
will all hang in about eight days.
-
You'd risk the life
of your son for chlorate?
-
He is, isn't he?
-
Mm-hm.
-
They have your name, Mr. Cholmondeley.
-
They have your name,
-
and you will be first on the list
of their conspirators.
-
How do they know so much?
-
Hm.
-
Get the chlorate.
-
Yes?
-
I will get you men.
-
James...
-
You said his name!
-
In your sleep.
-
You said his name.
-
You said his name!
-
Get him out.
-
I want him out.
-
Out! Get him out. Out!
-
That's right, good girl. Spit him
out, spit, spit, spit him out...
-
No, no! No!
-
No, no, no!
-
Ah!
-
You need a priest, my dear.
-
Come.
-
Mr. George Chichester, Esquire.
-
I don't.
-
In the day?
-
Or the night.
-
For nine years, Mr. Chichester,
-
you have been writing to my office
on an annual basis.
-
Every year, July 10th.
-
July 10th is the anniversary
of the sinking...
-
Of the sinking of the sloop
The Influence.
-
Not the ship's real name, of course.
-
Its name was changed and papers
altered when it took on human cargo
-
in the port of Cabinda.
-
280 souls.
-
120 men, 84 women...
-
- Yes, yes, and what is it--
- And...
-
What is your--
-
And, sir...
-
76 children.
-
All lost.
-
Drowned.
-
And what is your interest
in the sinking?
-
Did you have relatives aboard?
-
Mr. Coop,
-
even though I am black,
-
I am not related by blood
to every slave stolen from Africa.
-
So, The Sons of Africa.
You write on their behalf.
-
I write on behalf of humanity.
-
As a man concerned with injustice.
-
Against your people.
-
Against people.
-
For nine years, you have been
campaigning for a Royal Commission
-
to investigate the drowning
of these 280 slaves,
-
which you say was done deliberately.
-
It is my belief that some
very powerful men in London
-
were involved in an illicit shipment
of slaves for personal profit,
-
were complicit in the deaths
of those slaves
-
and in the subsequent
concealment of the facts.
-
And you believe that those men
are senior directors
-
within the Honourable
East India Company?
-
Yes, I do.
-
Well then, Mr. Chichester,
I have some good news for you.
-
From the Prince Regent himself.
-
Wilton!
-
To be continued, gentlemen.
-
Did you receive the box
of bananas I sent you...
-
You will improve your game.
-
You have to improve your fucking game!
-
Those bastards at the palace
-
have opened a royal commission
into the sinking of The Influence.
-
The-The-The Influence? Why?
-
Well, it's a personal campaign.
A stab in my ribs.
-
Now, you will deal with it.
-
You and the Africa Desk. Hm?
-
A commission is not the King,
so they can't subpoena,
-
so you will deal with it
and treat them with disbelief.
-
They have appointed some educated
blackamoor to prepare the evidence.
-
Now, you take your coat off,
-
go into your office
and you write to him.
-
Offer him
"full and unfettered co-operation"
-
on behalf of
the Honourable East India.
-
No, no, no.
"Full and willing cooperation."
-
Yes, sir.
-
And then... I will tell you
which papers to burn.
-
Sir.
-
There is a Mr. Delaney
to see you, madam.
-
He's come from the river.
He's in the garden.
-
If it's someone you fuck, please
check if he came from east or west.
-
In the east, there is cholera.
-
You can catch it from fucking.
-
It isn't. And there isn't.
-
And you can't.
-
I will have your gunpowder
in eight days.
-
Powder?
-
Yes.
-
Dumbarton said the need
was very urgent.
-
Then it must indeed be urgent.
-
Hm.
-
If your business is not gunpowder,
what is it?
-
My business is the deal.
-
I sent word of your offer,
-
with my own recommendation
that we accept.
-
Accept what?
-
Nootka landing ground in return
for the tea trade to Canton.
-
Hm.
-
And safe passage
through your blockade.
-
But you must assign the treaty
before you leave London.
-
Hmm! Well, that would require me
to trust you.
-
Based on mutual self-interest.
-
Trust requires a little time.
-
Something we have very little of,
Mr. Delaney.
-
What's this?
-
A book from a Mr. Cholmondeley
for Miss Bow.
-
It came by post, with a letter.
-
- She obviously has an admirer.
- Hm.
-
She asked me a lot of questions today.
-
And did you give her a lot of answers?
-
I told her nothing.
-
And yet, you have so much to tell.
-
Oh, we need some more coal
for my fireplace. It's freezing!
-
Why would we do that?
This is the Delaney household.
-
We have no warmth here.
-
Mr. Cholmondeley is not
a suitable man for you.
-
Oh, no, no absolutely not. He's...
-
You must keep him all to yourself.
-
I shan't hinder your advances.
-
Zilpha. My love. My love.
-
This is a holy man of God.
-
He's practised in removing
and discouraging demons.
-
Your husband reports a Barbason
has been visiting you.
-
There is a ceremony of exorcism
-
which can eradicate the Barbason.
-
It's a very short process.
And quite inexpensive.
-
I told the Priest how he visits you.
-
No.
-
- He visits you. He visits you.
- No! No! Don't touch me.
-
- At least acknowledge that--
- Go to hell!
-
Goodness. A slight thing she is,
but fearful!
-
Yes, I see it. I see it.
-
Is there somewhere
we can pin her down?
-
Stop! Stop!
-
Exi ergo, transgressor.
-
Exi, seductor,
plene omni dolo et fallacia.
-
E virtutis inimici,
innocentium persecutor. Eda locum,
-
dirissime, da locum,
impiissime Eda locum Christo,
-
in quo nihil invenisti
de operibus tuis...
-
qui te spoliavit Equi regnum
tuum destruxit,
-
qui te victum ligavit,
-
et vasa tua diripuit.
-
You see those blemishes?
-
It is the evil coming to the surface.
-
It's almost done, my love.
-
Exi ergo, transgressor.
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Exi, seductor, plene omni dolo
et fallacia, virtutis inimici,
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innocentium persecutor.
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Da locum, dirissime, da locum,
impiissime.
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In nomine Patris,
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et Filii,
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et Spiritus Sancti.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Can we untie her now?
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Leave her a few moments.
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Let her reflect... and recover.
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Will you come to bed?
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Yes, of course.
I'll be up in just a moment.
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Teach me.
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Guide me.
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Zilpha?
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