A Sense of History

00:00:03 The great house behind me is the ancestral seat of my family.

00:01:16 We came over with William the Conqueror

00:02:28 in order that the diesel-powered leviathans of modern agriculture

00:03:33 Our parents were an unfortunate couple.

00:04:30 and inale as deeply as was humanly possible

00:05:38 he was loathed and detested by every single person who worked for him.

00:06:47 I was a solitary unlovable boy, but I was blessed with a keen intelligence.

00:07:48 and left to his own devices, he would in all likelihood oversee its continuing decline.

00:09:04 would be for me to kill him, and the sooner the better.

00:10:02 and met him here, as if totally by chance

00:10:50 He wasrt looking.

00:12:01 - (Engine) - What have we here?

00:13:18 It was three days before he was found

00:14:15 But when it came to it

00:15:08 meant that I was able to immerse myself in the farm.

00:16:01 an excellent hostess

00:16:51 I fell hopelessly, wondrously in love.

00:17:42 so, a profound distaste for my lumpen wife grew to nothing short of hatred.

00:18:40 put one hand over her mouth

00:19:50 I made it look like a boating accident.

00:20:43 I acted it out for them. I got rather wet.

00:21:41 I came across the most perfect little corner.

00:22:51 the accountants, the economists, the euro-bureau-Brussels sprouts

10:00:00 of mixed arable and pasture.