Nicholas Nickleby

00:43:11,998 --> 00:43:13,715 I was afraid of him. 745 00:43:14,478 --> 00:43:16,080 But then they made me more afraid of them. 746 00:43:16,158 --> 00:43:17,683 (CHILDREN YELLING) 747 00:43:25,358 --> 00:43:26,874 (CHOKING) 748 00:43:28,038 --> 00:43:29,438 (LAUGHING) 749 00:43:29,598 --> 00:43:32,159 Tremendous. Positively tremendous. 750 00:43:32,198 --> 00:43:35,478 That'll be a double encore if you take care, boys! 751 00:43:35,517 --> 00:43:38,682 Don't you concur? Was that not the very picture of excitement? 752 00:43:39,038 --> 00:43:40,601 It was very good. 753 00:43:41,638 --> 00:43:42,597 Although... 754 00:43:43,038 --> 00:43:44,036 Although? 755 00:43:44,518 --> 00:43:48,114 They might be better matched in terms of size. 756 00:43:48,398 --> 00:43:51,160 How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience, 757 00:43:51,198 --> 00:43:54,478 if there isn't a little man contending against a bigger one? 758 00:43:55,038 --> 00:43:57,598 I confess, I had not considered that. 759 00:43:57,678 --> 00:43:59,673 We have had a long day's walk without much... 760 00:44:00,477 --> 00:44:01,638 Without much? 761 00:44:02,397 --> 00:44:03,481 Well, food. 762 00:44:03,918 --> 00:44:05,164 Dear me. 763 00:44:05,238 --> 00:44:09,276 Let it never be said that any man went hungry here or here 764 00:44:09,358 --> 00:44:11,113 when he was with Vincent Crummles. 765 00:44:11,198 --> 00:44:13,240 Boys, set the table at once! 766 00:44:13,598 --> 00:44:16,398 We shall adjourn to the dining room. 767 00:44:16,797 --> 00:44:19,205 NICHOLAS: My friend and I shall try for a berth on a ship. 768 00:44:19,238 --> 00:44:20,399 Ah! 769 00:44:20,798 --> 00:44:23,166 Does no other profession suggest itself 770 00:44:23,198 --> 00:44:25,711 to a young man of your figure and bearing? 771 00:44:25,758 --> 00:44:27,350 NICHOLAS: I think the sea offers a great many... 772 00:44:27,398 --> 00:44:28,673 What about the stage? 773 00:44:28,758 --> 00:44:29,803 NICHOLAS: The stage? 774 00:44:29,878 --> 00:44:31,240 The theatrical profession! 775 00:44:31,318 --> 00:44:33,562 I am in the theatrical profession myself. 776 00:44:33,598 --> 00:44:35,276 My wife is in the theatrical profession. 777 00:44:35,678 --> 00:44:38,076 My children are in the theatrical profession. 778 00:44:38,158 --> 00:44:40,757 I had a dog that lived and died in it, 779 00:44:40,797 --> 00:44:44,797 and the pony that pulled us here today is 3rd generation. 780 00:44:45,158 --> 00:44:47,517 His mother could fire a pistol 781 00:44:47,558 --> 00:44:49,476 and get in bed wearing a nightcap. 782 00:44:49,798 --> 00:44:50,920 But... 783 00:44:51,478 --> 00:44:53,396 There is tragedy in the family. 784 00:44:54,638 --> 00:44:56,480 In the pony's family? 785 00:44:56,798 --> 00:44:57,958 CRUMMLES: Yes. 786 00:44:58,278 --> 00:45:00,196 (WHISPERING) The father drank. 787 00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:02,879 Ended up in the circus... 788 00:45:03,358 --> 00:45:05,717 Drinking port wine with the clowns. 789 00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:07,353 (PIGEONS COOING) 790 00:45:07,438 --> 00:45:09,394 Got greedy, couldn't quit... 791 00:45:10,398 --> 00:45:12,566 And choked on the bottle. 792 00:45:15,917 --> 00:45:18,152 At any rate, I'd love to bring you and your friend out. 793 00:45:18,237 --> 00:45:20,031 He has a capital countenance! 794 00:45:20,157 --> 00:45:21,797 Why, as he is now, 795 00:45:21,878 --> 00:45:25,119 he would make such an apothecary in <i>Romeo and Juliet,</i> 796 00:45:25,158 --> 00:45:27,757 that he would be certain of three rounds of applause 797 00:45:27,837 --> 00:45:30,551 the minute he put his face out of the practicable door! 798 00:45:30,597 --> 00:45:31,633 And you! 799 00:45:32,118 --> 00:45:33,115 Me? 800 00:45:33,158 --> 00:45:35,594 You were born for the lamps! 801 00:45:35,678 --> 00:45:36,684 NICHOLAS: No, sir, I think... 802 00:45:36,757 --> 00:45:38,359 You could be useful in a hundred ways. 803 00:45:38,397 --> 00:45:40,152 You could write plays! 804 00:45:40,558 --> 00:45:41,718 Well... 805 00:45:42,078 --> 00:45:44,150 I dare say, I could scribble something, now and then. 806 00:45:44,238 --> 00:45:48,160 Whatever you write, please include a pump and two washing tubs. 807 00:45:48,198 --> 00:45:50,077 I just bought them at a sale. 808 00:45:50,438 --> 00:45:52,279 Could I live by such a trade? 809 00:45:52,478 --> 00:45:56,679 Ooh, like a prince! With your own salary, and your friend's, 810 00:45:56,758 --> 00:46:00,364 and your writing, you could make a pound a week! 811 00:46:00,798 --> 00:46:03,310 With a good run of houses, double that. 812 00:46:04,438 --> 00:46:06,884 Then I accept, and happily! 813 00:46:06,917 --> 00:46:08,154 (LAUGHS) 814 00:46:08,238 --> 00:46:09,964 Arise, young man. 815