1 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,429 <i>'My dear Mr Harding, will you favour me by calling on me</i> 2 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,636 <i>'at the palace tomorrow at 9:30am?</i> 3 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,190 <i>'The bishop wishes me to speak to you touching the hospital.</i> 4 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,876 <i>'Please excuse my naming so early an hour, my time is greatly occupied.</i> 5 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,838 <i>'You will perhaps let me have a note in reply.</i> 6 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,229 <i>'Believe me to be, my dear Mr Harding,</i> 7 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,029 <i>'your assured friend, Obadiah Slope. '</i> 8 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,437 <i>'I will call at the palace tomorrow at 9:30am, as you desire.</i> 9 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,833 <i>'Truly yours, S. Harding. '</i> 10 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:25,793 My apologies for the delay, Mr Harding. 11 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,953 I realise your time is greatly occupied. 12 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,156 - Diocesan duties. - Of course. 13 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,199 About the hospital, Mr Harding. The position of warden is to be filled again. 14 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,829 - The bishop indicated that to me. - The income will be reduced, 15 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,956 450 pounds per annum instead of 800. 16 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,793 It's still a perfectly satisfactory income. 17 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,235 There will be additional duties. 18 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,953 Additional duties and responsibilities. 19 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,474 The house will, of course, remain to the warden. 20 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,791 However, the bishop feels - and I agree with him - 21 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,793 that the warden should paint the inside of the house every seven years 22 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,836 and the outside every three years. 23 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,434 That will be a stipulation, I fancy. 24 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,398 As to the additional duties, 25 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,559 hitherto, there can hardly be said to have been any duties. 26 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,397 I think I've fulfilled the duties, such as they were, 27 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,792 to the satisfaction of the late bishop, even though they were not stipulated. 28 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,235 You must be aware, Mr Harding, 29 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,073 things are a good deal changed in Barchester. 30 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,355 I am aware of that, Mr Slope. 31 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,795 And in the world at large. 32 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,599 New men are carrying out new measures, 33 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,637 casting away the useless rubbish of past centuries. 34 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,678 Work is required from every man that receives wages 35 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,150 and they that superintend doing of work and paying of wages 36 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,196 have to see that this rule is carried out. 37 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,317 New men are needed in this new world 38 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,758 and believe me, they are forthcoming in the Church of England as elsewhere. 39 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:02,550 Perhaps the bishop will prefer a new man at the hospital. 40 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,668 By no means. The bishop is anxious that you should accept the appointment. 41 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,513 But he is equally anxious, and I agree with him, 42 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,036 that you should understand the required duties. 43 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,756 In the first place, 44 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,115 a Sabbath day school will be attached to the hospital. 45 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,230 A Sunday school? For the old men? 46 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,276 Oh, no, not for the old men, 47 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,399 but for the children of the poor of Barchester such as it may suit. 48 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,914 The bishop will expect you to attend the school 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,073 and the teachers shall be under your inspection and care. 50 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,435 As to the old men and the old women, 51 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,479 who are to form part of the hospital under the act of Parliament, 52 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,199 there will be two services every Sabbath 53 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,272 and one weekday service. You shall preach on Sundays 54 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,239 and the hospital will be collected daily for morning and evening prayer. 55 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,630 It will no longer be necessary to reserve separate seats 56 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,678 for the hospital inmates in the cathedral. 57 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:15,197 But my old men have always had seats at the cathedral services. 58 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,239 - The bishop considers it unnecessary. - And you agree with him? 59 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,894 We're dealing with old women as well as old men, Mr Harding. 60 00:04:21,895 --> 00:04:24,110 It will be difficult to find seats for all of them. 61 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,997 In any case, the cathedral service 62 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,039 does not appear to be the most useful for people of that class. 63 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,874 We will not discuss that, if you please. 64 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,916 It is not a matter for discussion at the moment, Mr Harding. 65 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,778 These are the bishop's wishes concerning the hospital. 66 00:04:38,779 --> 00:04:40,630 If you are in agreement with his views, 67 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,554 it will give me great pleasure to confirm the appointment on His Lordship's behalf. 68 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:50,634 Suppose I accept the appointment but disagree with the bishop. What then? 69 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,758 I hope you do not. 70 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:55,319 But if I do? 71 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,279 I hardly expected such a line of argument from you, Mr Harding, 72 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,352 or may I say, the suggestion of such a line of conduct. 73 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,398 Nor did I expect such a proposition. 74 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,477 I shall be glad, at any rate, to know what answer I am to give to His Lordship. 75 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,790 I shall take the earliest opportunity 76 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,316 of talking to His Lordship myself. 77 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,517 It is impossible that the bishop should see every clergyman in the diocese 78 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,556 on every subject of patronage. 79 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,473 I believe he did see you on the matter. 80 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,632 We exchanged a few brief and inconclusive words 81 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,518 at Mrs Proudie's reception. 82 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,309 In which case I really cannot see why he should be troubled again. 83 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,073 Mr Slope, do you realise 84 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:46,076 for how many years I have officiated as a clergyman here in Barchester? 85 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,754 And... and during... 86 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,638 during all of that time, any clergyman, 87 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,350 not just me, but any clergyman 88 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,150 was able to consult with his bishop in matters of conscience... 89 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,556 at any time! 90 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,516 That has always been the Barchester tradition. 91 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,555 Isn't it also the Barchester tradition 92 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:27,192 that many years of cathedral service allow a man to regard as a sinecure 93 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:31,751 a situation that might, in honesty, require somebody younger 94 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,592 and more active? 95 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,916 A new man? 96 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,709 - Such a thought is possible. - Very well. 97 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,349 You may tell the bishop that I would deeply appreciate 98 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,635 an early meeting with him, but... 99 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:53,358 if the terms of the appointment are precisely as you have stated them, 100 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,275 then I have no alternative but to decline the offer. 101 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,316 Good morning, Mr Slope. 102 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,152 And he declined the appointment? 103 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,310 Categorically. 104 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,831 How much detail did you go into 105 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,434 regarding the running of the hospital? 106 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,233 I outlined some of the ideas we have discussed about possible changes, 107 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,276 but only in very general terms. 108 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,276 Would it help, do you think, if I spoke to him? 109 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,556 That would serve no purpose, 110 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,676 no purpose at all. 111 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,911 The man has been made a perfectly good offer ...
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