So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.
6 seconds sound clip from the The Wicker Man (1973) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:44:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker.
- How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
- You're very cynical, my lord.
- So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.
- What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions.
- But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them...
- But later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter.
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