4. Most Women Are Dull and Stupid (第1季)【完整台词】

1 ANN WALKER: Would you like to come for dinner? And then stay all night? MAN: Miss Lister's been playing some impenetrable game.

My brother and I thought that you might be more reasonable.

ANNE LISTER: Oh, you mean softer? Now you know me better.

- She's a fella.

- You're drunk, Sowden.

Thomas, I want you to take your father home, and then I want you to come back.

You're going nowhere! You said a hungry pig will eat anything and everything.

Miss Walker might make a companion for me.

I don't want you to be hurt.

(WALKER GASPS) You're playing with fire.

[TV STATIC DRONES] [BRIGHT TONE] [SPRIGHTLY MUSIC] I have defended that woman ever since she was in her teens.

Ever since she began staying with her aunt and uncle at Shibden Hall, I have defended her against the vilest insults and innuendo, through thick and thin, because I never once thought any of it was true, because I was fond of her.

And, of course, now I realize only too vividly what a laughingstock I've been.

- Good Lord.

- I told them.

I said, "You're playing with fire.

" Your cousin laughed as I left.

I could hear her.

She laughed.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

Do you think I could make up something like that? Two men were hanged outside York Jail - just three months ago - I know.

In front of a crowd of 6,000 people for unnatural acts.

I know.

I know that.

You mustn't repeat it to anyone, any of it, ever.

- Why? - Because you can't let yourself, either of us, or my cousin, Miss Walker, be associated with that sort of talk.

I didn't do anything.

Anne Lister is clever.

She'll twist it.

She'll turn it.

She'll make it reflect more badly on you than on herself.

[SCOFFS] She could run rings around Lord Grey and his cabinet if she got anywhere near them.

She did try to deny it, even in the room, as though it was all in my imagination.

The best thing, the only response, is to be rather more cool in future, to establish some distance, and certainly not to refer to them in company.

The thing is, about not mentioning it to anyone, I was at Stoney Royd a few days ago, and so I may have mentioned it to elderly Mrs.

Rawson.

I did mention it to elderly Mrs.

Rawson.

And Mrs.

Stansfield Rawson, she was there, too, with Miss Catherine and Miss Delia Rawson.

And then to your Aunt Ann at Cliffhill.

So I'm afraid yes, it has been mentioned.

[JAUNTY MUSIC] Gentleman Jack 1x04 Most Women Are Dull and Stupid - To York? - Yesterday.

In your cousin's carriage.

- Both of them? - Why? To consult a doctor about her spine and her nerves.

Nervy nerve business.

She has a doctor here.

Miss Lister's line was that Dr.

Belcombe is "no provincial quack.

" Dr.

Kenny is a very properly trained medical man.

It's an excuse to get her away from her family and on her own.

The unspoken, William, is not always the unknown.

She'll have her in Paris before we know it.

[BELL TOLLING] [EASYGOING MUSIC] [INDISTINCT CHATTER] Would you like a posy? [SIGHING] [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] [WARM MUSIC] [SIGHS] [LAUGHS] [BOTH LAUGH] Uh-oh.

Dr.

Belcombe will be here in 20 minutes.

- Oh.

[LAUGHS] - Oh, Ann, no.

[LAUGHS] - [MOANS SOFTLY] - [LAUGHS] [DOOR CLICKS OPEN] She's getting dressed.

It was good of you to see her at such short notice, Steph.

Ah.

Well, I've examined her, and we've had a good long chat about her family and so forth.

I can give her something for the pain in her back, but its root cause is nervous hysteria.

Does that mean it's all in her head? That's not to dismiss it, of course, and I've explained this to her.

Mental suffering is just as acute as physical suffering, but of course, we can't see it in the same way that we can see physical suffering, so we tend to dismiss it.

She's had a lot of sadness to contend with in her life.

We all cope with things in different ways, of course.

Some people are better equipped to deal with it than others.

Hmm.

Tell me what I can do to help.

I think you're doing it, Anne.

I think you're probably the best thing that's ever happened to her.

She says she feels like a fraud now she's here, because she's felt so different since you befriended her.

Did you say you were thinking of traveling abroad? Yes.

Well, then if you can persuade her, it'll do her more good than anything I can prescribe.

Oh, she wants to go.

Well, then that's half the battle.

Have you heard from my sister lately? Yes.

Yes, I wrote to her, told her we were coming to see you.

What scintillating chitchat from Miss Lister? Oh, she's in York.

She's taking someone to see Steph one of her neighbors, a Miss Walker.

A Miss Walker? Of course.

Is there no end to Miss Lister's selflessness? [JAUNTY MUSIC] Must've shaken you, William.

The accident above the hall the other week.

Yes, ma'am.

It wasn't pleasant.

The little boy lost a leg.

Did you hear? Sounds like the idiot driving the gig didn't know how to handle the thing.

Couldn't say, ma'am.

It all happened so fast.

You were facing him, as I understand it, as he approached.

Like I say, it was all over and done with before we knew what was going on.

James Mackenzie told me that just after it happened, you said you recognized the man driving the gig as Mr.

Christopher Rawson.

They're my tenants the Hardcastles.

They're my people, and I'd like to know the truth.

Both my brothers work for Mr.

Rawson, ma'am, and with him being magistrate himself, it [SIGHS] Well, it's not as if it'd even do any good, is it? There are other magistrates in Halifax.

Oh, aye, and they all p piss in the same pot.