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:20:05
Why do you do that, Mama?
It is so degrading.

:20:09
I do it so we can eat.
Hunger is degrading too.

:20:20
That is our food, Georgy!
It is not a toy!

:20:23
I hate our food.
And I have no toys.

:20:26
None that I want anyway.
:20:31
How can you be so cruel?
:20:33
Cruel?
:20:36
When he might have had
the finest education money could buy.

:20:42
When he could have been
as rich as a lord.

:20:44
And his own mother
steals his future...

:20:47
because she wants to
tuck him up in bed.

:20:50
"A mother's love is worth
more than palaces in Mayfair."

:20:52
Do you not remember
what Major Dobbin wrote?

:20:54
- Pray don't talk about Major Dobbin.
- Why not?

:20:57
What's the point,
now he's engaged?

:20:59
What?
:21:02
Oh, didn't you read Joseph's letter?
:21:09
"How are you, my dear Amelia?
:21:13
"And how is all your little family?
:21:16
"If you did but know how brightly
your image burns for me...

:21:19
"and how I dream of you
and Georgy hand-in-hand.

:21:26
"Every detail of your daily life
is precious to me...

:21:30
as I sit and write
beneath the Indian sun. '"

:21:36
"Dear William.
:21:38
"Thank you for your letter which took
three months to reach me... Mother?

:21:44
But was very welcome when it did. '"
:21:51
Mother, what are you doing here?
I was coming to see you on Saturday.

:21:55
"Georgy is in good health...
I made Georgy some shirts.

:21:59
And living with his grandfather. '"
I was going to leave them for him.


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