
Emma
- PG
- Year:
- 1996
- 120 min
- 630 Views
SCENE 1 -HIGHBURY
NARRATOR:
In a time when one's town was one's town was one's world...and the actions
at a dance excited greater interest than the movement of armies, there
lived a young woman, who knew how this world should be runned.
EMMA:
The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made, and a happy
marriage to you both.
MRS WESTON:
Oh, thank you Emma. Your painting grows more accomplished every day.
EMMA:
You are very kind, but it would be all the better if I had practiced my
drawing more, as you urged me.
MRS WESTON:
It's very beautiful.
MR ELTON:
I should never take sides against you, Miss Woodhouse, but your friend is
right. It is indeed a job well done.
EMMA:
The job well done, Mr Elton was yours in performing the ceremony.
MR WOODHOUSE:
Must the church be so drafty, Mr Elton? It is very difficult to surrender
the soul when one is worried about one's throat.
MR ELTON:
Perhaps some tea and cake would revive you, Mr Woodhouse.
MR WOODHOUSE:
Miss Taylor! Surely you are not serving cake at your wedding! Far too rich!
You put us all at peril. And I am not alone in feeling so. Where is Mr
Penning, the apothecary, he will support me.
MRS WESTON:
He's over there, Mr Woodhouse, having some cake.
MR WOODHOUSE:
What?!
EMMA:
I have to take father home, but dear Miss Taylor-Oh, no! You are dear Miss
Taylor no more! You are dear Mrs Weston now! And how happy this must make
you. Such happiness this brings to all of us.
MRS WESTON:
My dear Emma!
SCENE 2-HARTFIELD
MR WOODHOUSE:
Poor Miss Taylor! She was so happy here. Why should she give up being your
governess, only to be married?
EMMA:
I am grown now. She cannot put up with my ill humors forever. She must wish
for children of her own.
MR WOODHOUSE:
You have no ill humors. Your own mother, God rest her, could be no more
real than Miss Taylor. Can she truly wish to give life to a mewling infant
who will import disease each time it enters the house? No, I say poor Miss
Taylor, and poor indeed she is.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
As an old friend of the family, I had to ask as soon as I got back: Who
cried the most at the wedding?
(later)
EMMA:
And how is my sister? Is your brother giving her the respect we Woodhouse
ladies deserve?
MR WOODHOUSE:
Poor Isabella. She was the first to leave me. No doubt that is where Miss
Taylor got the notion to go.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
Don't be too hard on Miss Taylor. It must be easier for her to have only
one to please than two.
EMMA:
Especially when one of us is such a troublesome creature.
MR WOODHOUSE:
Yes, I am. Most troublesome.
EMMA:
Dear papa, I could never mean you! Mr Knightley loves to find fault with
me, that's all. It's his idea of a joke.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
I am practically a brother to you Emma. It is not a brother's job to find
fault with his sister?
MR WOODHOUSE:
But where is the fault with you? Emma bears it well, but she is most sorry
to lose Miss Taylor.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
We would not like Emma so well if she did not miss her friend.
MR WOODHOUSE:
Thank you.
EMMA:
I shall miss her so. I do not know what I shall do without her.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
She's not far.
MR WOODHOUSE:
Almost half a mile.
EMMA:
Her obligations are there now. She cannot sit and talk with me in the old
way, or walk with me, or urge me to better myself.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
Well, that should not matter, as you always did just as you pleased.
EMMA:
Yes, but I shall miss her urging me. She was a selfless a friend as I have
ever had, and I hope to say someday that I have done half so much for
someone as Mrs Weston did for me.
MR KNIGHTLEY:
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