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You can hear this line at 00:46:42.534 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Tell me That bed, the four-poster...
- How odd you should mention it. It so happens, I bought it at the same sale that I got your mirror. There's a curious history attaching to them both.
- Curious?
- Well, tragic, perhaps I should say.
- I trust, by the way, you're not superstitious.
- No. No, I don't think so.
- Won't you sit down?
- Some people retain a positively medieval attitude of mind with regard to these matters.
- Please, Mr. Rutherford, will you tell me the story, I'm very interested.
- By all means.
- The bed and the mirror form part of the contents of the private apartments of a Mr. Francis Etherington, who died at Marsden Lacy in 1836.
- The apartments had remained unused and locked from that time till the sale.
- That is his portrait, by the way. He was a man of dominating character. Arrogant, reckless, handsome and of a violent temper.
- He married a very beautiful heiress, a Miss Perry. The couple retired to Marsden Lacy where they lived contentedly for a time.
- Then suddenly, disaster overtook them. Out hunting one day, Etherington was thrown by his horse, which then rolled on him.
- His spine was injured. He was never again able to do more than drag himself a few paces from this bed.
- How dreadful.
- Yes.
- Unfortunately, the effects of such constraint on a man of his enormous energy were more than his mind could endure.
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