Oscar and Lucinda Page #6

Talk to them!

How goes life in the ladies' compartment?

What do you say to this countryside?

If it was my country, sir...

I'd be feared to see you coming.

God, man, surely you're not

going to drink with them?

I have already traveled with them.

He's a padre...

Come to bring God

to all you bastard sons of Bellingen.

- Bastard sons and daughters.

- The Lord help us.

Take this over to him.

Keep your eye on him. He's not to leave.

Step through.

Dip your wee white toe in the holy well.

Compliments of Sir Roger Rogerer...

And Lord Pupslaughter.

He's going walkabout.

How thin my wrist is.

This wrist God made me.

How could I smite you?

That's right, Father.

Give us a sermon on the mount.

I will...

Play you poker.

And I will win.

This money will be your gift

to God's work in Bellingen.

No!

I have a pot of 100.

I forbid this!

I would shoot you dead

and go to hell for it.

You murderer.

"The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

"He makest a table for me

in the presence of mine enemies. "

- Out.

- I warn you.

Percy?

Did I not murder a man?

We did.

- Where is our party?

- They're off. Gone south.

In pursuit of Mr. Jeffris.

He went off with their pay,

so they believe.

So they've chased after him.

Oh, Lord.

You must not fear.

- I have killed a man.

- It is a bad man we have killed.

Your maker will forgive you.

In truth, I have felt more sorrow

to have slain a beast.

They were nice enough

to leave us tea, sugar, and a billy.

For the rest,

they were in too much of a hurry.

Our church.

Look around you.

I'll take Bubba, Miriam.

Alice, bonnet, please.

It's tempting fate

to have thrown away your widow's weeds.

Why? I have no one left to mourn.

My father, my mother, my husband:

All gone.

If you'd nabbed young Rev. Hasset...

I did not attempt to nab him.

Although he's been properly nabbed now.

Jealousy killed the cat.

"Curiosity. "

Don't forget to do the butter.

Not "jealousy. "

O Lord...

All thy glory surrounds me...

But I am afraid.

O Lord,

I thank thee for granting me this day.

The newly-married Dennis Hasset

thought many things at once:

That it was a miracle...

a broken thing, a tragedy...

a dream.

Lucinda.

- Are we there, Percy?

- Yes.

They're all waiting.

There you are, Mr. Hopkins.

- Safe and dry.

- Thank you, Percy.

I will go alone now.

Sir.

The Rev. Mr. Hasset?

Yes.

Then it is my pleasure, sir...

To present this splendid glass church

to you.

It is a gift to the people of Bellingen...

All these people...

From the most...

Wonderful woman in New South Wales!

How you can stand there, sir...

While Miss Leplastrier pines in Sydney...

Is quite beyond my...

Come with me.

- Mrs. Chadwick, could you help us?

- Yes, certainly.

I must hurry home before my wife

hears all this puffed up by gossips.

Would you be a good Samaritan?

Here's a crown.

Buy bandages, whatever he needs.

And here are the keys

to the meeting room.

Lock the door to keep out the busybodies.

Can you manage?

Will Mrs. Trevis permit you?

Dear Dennis,

you must hurry home to Mary.

Leave this wounded soul to me.

You poor man.

What trials have you been through?

There, there.

Up we go.

Although his whole heart

cried out for Lucinda...

Oscar believed that he would have to

marry this woman he had compromised.

It did not occur to him

that she had compromised him.

Till tomorrow.

That he had been nabbed.

Forgive me...

Almighty God...

For the murder of the blacks.

Forgive me for...

The death of Mr. Stratton.

Forgive me for the murder of Mr. Jeffris.

Forgive me, Almighty God...

For the seduction of Mrs. Chadwick.

Forgive me for my pride.

Forgive me for my ignorance.

Forgive me...

For betraying Lucinda...

And my father.

Will we never again stand together?

Forgive me.

Help!

Help me!

"... always abounding

in the work of the Lord...

"as much as you know that

your labor is not in vain.

"Man that is born of woman

hath but a short time to live...

"and is full of misery.

"He cometh up,

and is cut down like a flower.

"He fleeth as it were a shadow,

and never continueth in one stay.

"In the midst of life, we are in death.

"Of whom may we seek for succor,

but of thee, O Lord...

"who for our sins are justly displeased?

"Yet, O Lord God most Holy...

"O Lord most mighty,

O holy and most merciful Savior...

"deliver us not

into the bitter pains of eternal death.

"Thou knowest, Lord,

the secrets of our hearts.

"Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer...

"but spare us, Lord most holy...

"O God most mighty,

O holy and merciful Savior...

"that thou most worthy judge eternal...

"suffer us not in our last hour

for any pains of death to forfeit. "

Would you care for our church?

We could surely have it made useful...

With some weatherboards attached,

or some such...

What a gift that would be.

I shall hold you to that.

Thank you.

If Miriam had known

of Oscar's wager with Lucinda...

she would have moved heaven and earth

to claim Lucinda's fortune.

Before my great-grandmother died...

she had time to see that her baby

had the same red hair as his father.

Oscar Theophilus Peter...

I baptize thee...

In the name of the Father, and of the Son...

And of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

We receive this child

into the congregation of Christ.

When Dennis Hasset told Lucinda

the baby's history...

she had only one thought in mind.

A dream, a lie...

a wager, love.

This is the story Lucinda gave

to my grandfather...

and I give to you.

All right, let's go home, yeah?

Check for rocks.

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