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ENTERTAlNMENT

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Fyodor Mikhailovitch
Dostoevsky

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lDlOT

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Evgeni MlRONOV
As prince Muishkin

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Starring

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Vladimir MASHKOV

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Lidiya VELEZHEVA

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Olga Budina

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lnna CHURlKOVA

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Alexei PETRENKO

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Vladimir lLYlN

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Michael BOYARSKY

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Alexander LAZAREV

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Larisa MALEVANNAYA

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Maria KlSELYOVA

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Written and directed by
Vladimir BORTKO

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Photography by
Dmitri MASS

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Design by

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Vladimir SVETOZAROV
Marina NlKOLAYEVA

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Original music by
lgor KORNELYUK

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Producer
Valery TODORORVSKl

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Episode 8

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When you open this letter

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look first at the signature.

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The signature will tell you all,

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so that l need explain nothing,
nor attempt to justify myself.

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However, observe,
that although l couple you with him,

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yet l have not once asked you
whether you love him.

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He fell in love with you,
though he saw you but once.

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He spoke of you as of 'the light.'
These are his own words

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l heard him use them.

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But l understood without his saying
it that you were

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all that light is to him.

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l lived near him for a whole month,

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and l understood then
that you, too, must love him.

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l think of you and him as one.

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How she has dared to write to her?

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How she could write about it?

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And how could such mad idea
arise in her head?

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But the dream this is, is already carried out.

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And it is more surprising than all,
that l almost believe in an opportunity

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realization of this dream.

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Why do l wish to unite you two?

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For your sakes or my own?

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For my own sake, naturally.

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l have thought so for a long time.

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l have renounced the world.

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You think it is strange that
l should say so,

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for you saw me decked
with lace and diamonds.

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''Take no notice of that;
l know that''

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l have almost ceased to exist.

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God knows what it is
dwelling within me now

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it is not myself.

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l can see it every day
in two dreadful eyes

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which are always looking at me,
even when not present.

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These eyes are silent now,
but l know their secret.

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l am convinced that in some box
he has a razor hidden,

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tied round with silk.

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He is always silent,

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but l know well that he loves me
so much that he must hate me.

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''My wedding and yours
are to be on the same day;''

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so l have arranged with him.
l have no secrets from him.

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l would kill him from very fright,
but he will kill me first.

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How did you come here?

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l... l... came in

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Mamma is not very well,
nor is Aglaya.

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Adelaida has gone to bed,
and l am just going.

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We were alone the whole evening.

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l have come to you... now... to...

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-Do you know what time it is?
-N--no!

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Half-past twelve.
We are always in bed by one.

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l thought it was half-past nine!

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Never mind!
But why didn't you come earlier?

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Perhaps you were expected!

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l thought

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Au revoir! l shall amuse them all
with this story tomorrow!

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Get up!
Get up at once!

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What?

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Are you happy?

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Are you happy?

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Get up! Get up!

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Say this one word.
Are you happy now?

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Oh, be calm... be calm!

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Today, this moment?

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Have you just been with her?
Are you happy now?

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-What did she say?
-Get up! Get up!

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l am going away tomorrow,
as you bade me

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l won't write
so that this is the last time

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l shall see you, the last time!

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This is really the last time!

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Good-bye!

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Wait a minute, prince,
l shall be back in five minutes.

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l've put her in the carriage,

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it has been waiting round the corner
there since ten o'clock.

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She expected that you
would be with them all the evening.

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l told her exactly what you wrote me.

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She won't write to the girl any more,

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and tomorrow she will be off,
as you wish.

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Did she bring you with her
of her own accord?

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Of course she did!

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And l saw for myself
what l knew before.

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You've read her letters?

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Did you read them?

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Of course...

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She showed them to me herself.

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You are thinking of the razor?

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Oh, she is mad!

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Who knows?
Perhaps she is not so mad after all.

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Well, good-bye.

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l'm off tomorrow too, you know.

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Remember me kindly!

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Did you answer
her question just now?

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Are you happy, or not?

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No, no, no!

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Ha, ha! l never supposed
you would say 'yes.

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Upon my honour, l really believed
l had fancied something of the kind,

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after all. At first, it seemed a new idea,
and then, somehow,

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it looked as familiar as possible.

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To me affairs are not present that
lvan Fedorovich seems to you

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Was all this good or bad?

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lf bad -which was hardly doubtful,
Wherein, especially, bad?

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lf good
which might be the case, of course,

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Why good?

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Of course,
you know all this is very strange,

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''if true, which l cannot deny; but...
But, on the other hand,''

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if one looks things in the face,
you know... upon my honour,

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the prince is a rare good fellow...

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and... well, his name,
you know... your family name...

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all this looks well,
and perpetuates the name

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and title and all that...

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which at this moment is
not standing so high as it might...

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from one point of view...
don't you know?

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The world, the world is the world,

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And the prince has property, you know...
if it is not very large...

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The whole thing had been one huge,
fantastical, absurd, unpardonable mistake.

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Forgive me dear, it is time...

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Why am l driven to think,
and foresee, and worry for everybody,

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while they all sucked their thumbs,

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and counted the crows in the garden,
and do nothing?

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And why is not the prince
such a husband

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as you would have desired for Aglaya.

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First of all, this prince is an idiot,
and, secondly, he is a fool,

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knows nothing of the world,
and has no place in it.

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What will old Bielokonski say?

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We never thought of such
a husband as that for our Aglaya!

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Father's remark may be not so far out.

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ln the eyes of the world, probably
the choice of the prince

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as a husband for one of the Epanchin girls
would be considered a very wise one.

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''The prince is by no means a fool,
and never has been;''

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and that as to place in the world,
no one know what the position

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of a respectable person
would imply in a few years...

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Whether it would depend on successes
in the government service,

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on the old system, or what.

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You are a freethinker,
and that all this is due to that

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cursed woman's rights question.

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Very simply indeed!

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''l found it under the chair
upon which my coat had hung;''

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so that it is clear
the purse simply fell

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out of the pocket
and on to the floor!

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-Under the chair?
-So.

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Why, you told me yourself
that you had searched

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every corner of the room?
How could you not have looked

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in the most likely place of all?

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Of course l looked there,
of course l did! Very much so!

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l looked and scrambled about,
and felt for it, and wouldn't believe

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it was not there,
and looked again and again.

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l don't quite understand,

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You say it wasn't there at first,

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and that you searched
the place thoroughly.

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So.

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And yet it turned up on
that very spot!

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Yes, sir on that very spot.

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And the general?

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How do you mean, the general?

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Oh, good heavens!
l mean, what did the general

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say when the purse turned up
under the chair?

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l thought better to say nothing
about finding it.

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l found it alone.

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And the money?
Was it all there?

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Right to a single rouble.

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l wanted to appear, myself,
to have found nothing.

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l took the purse, and opened it,
and counted the money,

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and shut it and put it down
again under the chair.

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What in the world for?

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l was half in hopes the general
might find it.

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l moved the chair several times
so as to expose the purse to view,

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but the general never saw it.

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Well, but have you taken
the purse away now?

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No, it disappeared from under
the chair in the night.

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Where is it now, then?

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Here, in the lining of my coat.

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Look, you can feel it
for yourself, if you like!

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''l took it out and had a look at it;
it's all right.''

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l've let it slip back into the lining now,
as you see,

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''and so l have been walking
about ever since yesterday morning;''

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it knocks against my legs
when l walk along.

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-And you take no notice of it?
-Quite so, l take no notice of it.

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And the general?

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''Ah, very angry all day, sir;
all yesterday and all today.''

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He shows decided bacchanalian
predilections at one time,

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and at another is tearful and sensitive,
but at any moment he is liable

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to paroxysms of such rage that
l assure you, prince, l am quite alarmed.

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l am not a military man, you know.

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Yesterday we were sitting together
in the tavern,

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and the lining of my coat was
quite accidentally, of course

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sticking out right in front.

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The general squinted at it,
and flew into a rage.

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''l intend to find the purse tomorrow;''

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but till then l am going
to have another night of it with him.

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What's the good of
tormenting him like this?

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l don't torment him,
prince, l don't indeed!

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l love him, my dear sir,
l esteem him.

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And believe it or not,l love him all the better
for this business, yes and value him more.

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-Love him and torment him so!
-Yes.

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And tormenting him like this?

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Why, by the very fact that
he put the purse prominently

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before you, first under the chair
and then in your lining,

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he shows that he does not wish
to deceive you, but is anxious

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to beg your forgiveness
in this artless way.

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Do you hear?
He is asking your pardon.

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He confides in the delicacy
of your feelings,

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and in your friendship for him.

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And you can allow yourself
to humiliate so thoroughly

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honest a man!

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Thoroughly honest, quite so, prince,
thoroughly honest!

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And only you, prince, could have found
so very appropriate an expression.

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l honour you for it, prince.

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Very well, that's settled

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l shall find the purse now
and not tomorrow.

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Well, take care, you don't tell him
to his face that you

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have found the purse.

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Simply let him see that it is
no longer in the lining

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of your coat,
and form his own conclusions.

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l know, prince, of course

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l know, but l'm afraid
l shall not carry it out.

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for to do so one
needs a heart like your own.

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He is so very irritable
just now, and so proud.

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At one moment he will embrace me,
and the next he flies out at me

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and sneers at me, and then l stick
the lining forward on purpose.

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Well, au revoir, prince,
l see l am keeping you,

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and boring you, too,

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interfering with your most interesting
private reflections.

245
00:18:43,989 --> 00:18:45,957
Go and take this hedgehog
to the prince from me,

246
00:18:46,058 --> 00:18:48,026
and ask him to accept it
as a token of my profound respect.

247
00:18:48,093 --> 00:18:50,061
Certainly l shall pass.

248
00:18:53,665 --> 00:18:55,633
Colia, dear, please
take care not to drop him!

249
00:18:55,934 --> 00:18:58,528
No, l will not drop him!
Don't be afraid, Aglaya lvanovna!

250
00:18:58,704 --> 00:19:00,672
What does the hedgehog mean?

251
00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:06,038
What is the meaning of such a present.

252
00:19:07,412 --> 00:19:09,380
Mum - a hedgehog its simply a hedgehog

253
00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:21,520
Good afternoon general.

254
00:19:21,693 --> 00:19:24,025
l have determined, prince,

255
00:19:25,430 --> 00:19:27,694
to leave this house,
Mr. Lebedeff's house.

256
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:28,891
Why?

257
00:19:29,034 --> 00:19:33,698
l do not need his hospitality.
having my own family at Pavlofsk.

258
00:19:34,806 --> 00:19:37,502
l leave Lebedeff's house,
my dear prince,

259
00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:39,635
because l have quarreled
with this person.

260
00:19:39,978 --> 00:19:41,946
l broke with him last night,
and am very sorry that

261
00:19:42,047 --> 00:19:44,015
l did not do so before.

262
00:19:44,149 --> 00:19:46,117
Prince, l have often
given away my heart,

263
00:19:46,218 --> 00:19:48,880
and am nearly always deceived.

264
00:19:48,987 --> 00:19:51,683
This person was quite
unworthy of the gift.

265
00:19:51,790 --> 00:19:54,759
There is much that might be
improved in him,

266
00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:56,828
but though amid them one cannot
but discern a cunning nature

267
00:19:56,995 --> 00:19:58,963
reveal what is often a diverting intellect.

268
00:19:59,064 --> 00:20:01,692
Oh, that he possesses good traits,
l was the first to show,

269
00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:03,735
a present of my friendship.
l have drunk with this man,

270
00:20:03,902 --> 00:20:05,870
and perhaps l deplore the fact now,

271
00:20:05,971 --> 00:20:08,405
l was attracted by his good qualities.

272
00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:13,808
But when the fellow declares
that he was a child in 1812,

273
00:20:14,012 --> 00:20:17,641
and had his left leg cut off,
and buried in the Vagarkoff cemetery,

274
00:20:17,749 --> 00:20:19,717
in Moscow, such a cock-and-bull story
amounts to disrespect, my dear sir,

275
00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:23,218
to impudent exaggeration.

276
00:20:23,488 --> 00:20:25,979
Oh, he was very likely joking,
he said it for fun.

277
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,616
l quite understand you.

278
00:20:27,793 --> 00:20:30,227
But when a man makes
use of extravagance in order to show

279
00:20:30,495 --> 00:20:34,693
the intimacy bores him, it is time
for a man of honour to break off

280
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:39,496
the said intimacy, and to teach
the offender his place.

281
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:45,802
Oh, but Lebedeff cannot have been
in Moscow in 1812.

282
00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:47,879
He is much too young,
it is all nonsense.

283
00:20:49,181 --> 00:20:51,649
but even if we admit
that he was alive in 1812,

284
00:20:51,783 --> 00:20:58,154
can one believe that a French chasseur
pointed a cannon at him for a lark,

285
00:20:58,857 --> 00:21:00,825
and shot his left leg off?

286
00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:03,156
He says he picked his own leg up
and took it away

287
00:21:03,295 --> 00:21:05,991
and buried it in the cemetery.

288
00:21:06,131 --> 00:21:08,099
He swore he had a stone put up over it
with the inscription:

289
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,168
'Here lies the leg of
'Rest, beloved ashes,

290
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:12,237
till the morn of joy.'

291
00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:15,598
and that he has a service
read over it every year,

292
00:21:15,707 --> 00:21:18,801
which is simply sacrilege,

293
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:20,912
and goes to Moscow once a year
on purpose.

294
00:21:21,146 --> 00:21:23,740
He invites me to Moscow in order
to prove his assertion, and show me

295
00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:25,783
his leg's tomb, and the very cannon
that shot him, he says it's the eleventh

296
00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:28,977
from the gate of the Kremlin.

297
00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:32,023
And, meanwhile both his legs
are still on his body.

298
00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:35,260
l assure you, it is only
an innocent joke,

299
00:21:35,327 --> 00:21:36,794
and you need not be angry about it.

300
00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:42,798
Well, if you were one
of Napoleon's pages in 1812,

301
00:21:43,201 --> 00:21:46,659
you might let me bury my leg
in the Moscow cemetery.

302
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:49,774
Why, did you say...

303
00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:53,067
''l am rather young-looking,
l know; but l am actually older''

304
00:21:53,245 --> 00:21:56,009
than l appear to be.

305
00:21:57,849 --> 00:22:02,752
l was ten or eleven in the year 1812.

306
00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:07,823
And with 10 years child it is possible
to explain adventures age.

307
00:22:08,026 --> 00:22:10,051
Had l been fifteen years old l should
probably have been terribly frightened,

308
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,824
but as l was only just ten
l was not in the least alarmed,

309
00:22:13,965 --> 00:22:17,731
and rushed through the crowd
to the very door of the palace

310
00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:20,066
when Napoleon alighted from his horse.

311
00:22:20,238 --> 00:22:24,072
Undoubtedly, at ten years old
you would not have felt

312
00:22:24,209 --> 00:22:26,074
the sense of fear, as you say.

313
00:22:26,211 --> 00:22:27,906
Yes, it's quite true, isn't it?

314
00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:30,709
A small boy, a child,
would naturally realize no danger,

315
00:22:30,849 --> 00:22:33,249
he would shove his way
through the crowds to see the shine

316
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:36,150
and glitter of the uniforms,
and especially the great man

317
00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:39,089
of whom everyone was speaking.

318
00:22:39,825 --> 00:22:45,923
Napoleon, passing a couple of paces
from me, caught sight of me accidentally.

319
00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:50,967
l was very well dressed,
and being all alone, in that crowd,

320
00:22:51,069 --> 00:22:53,037
as you will easily imagine...

321
00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:55,173
Oh, of course!
Naturally the sight impressed him.

322
00:22:55,841 --> 00:23:01,211
Just so just so!
When his eagle eye fell on me,

323
00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:04,349
mine probably flashed back
in response.

324
00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:08,718
Voila un garcon bien eveille!
Qui est ton pere?

325
00:23:09,254 --> 00:23:11,882
l immediately replied,
almost panting with excitement,

326
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,582
A general, who died
on the battle-fields of his country!

327
00:23:14,693 --> 00:23:17,719
Le fils d'un boyard et d'un brave,
pardessus le marche.

328
00:23:17,829 --> 00:23:20,889
J'aime les boyards. M'aimes-tu, petit?

329
00:23:23,168 --> 00:23:27,969
To this keen question
l replied as keenly,

330
00:23:28,273 --> 00:23:32,767
The Russian heart can recognize
a great man even in the bitter enemy

331
00:23:32,878 --> 00:23:34,846
of his country.

332
00:23:35,213 --> 00:23:37,704
At least, l don't remember
the exact words.

333
00:23:37,916 --> 00:23:39,884
Napoleon was struck.

334
00:23:42,254 --> 00:23:50,855
l like that boy's pride,
if all Russians think like this child,

335
00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:53,087
then he didn't finish,

336
00:23:53,331 --> 00:23:55,299
hut went on and entered the palace.

337
00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:59,368
l instantly mixed with his suite,
and followed him.

338
00:23:59,738 --> 00:24:05,370
A couple of days after this,
Napoleon's page, De Bazancour, died,

339
00:24:05,744 --> 00:24:07,405
he had not been able to stand
the trials of the campaign.

340
00:24:07,712 --> 00:24:09,680
Napoleon remembered me,

341
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:12,716
l was taken away without explanation,
the dead page's uniform

342
00:24:12,884 --> 00:24:14,852
was tried on me,
and when l was taken

343
00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:17,683
before the emperor, dressed in it,

344
00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:20,718
he nodded his head to me,

345
00:24:22,093 --> 00:24:28,931
and l was told that l was appointed
to the vacant post of page.

346
00:24:30,936 --> 00:24:34,133
l was called 'page'.

347
00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:43,375
Suddenly his eye fell on me

348
00:24:44,082 --> 00:24:47,313
and an idea seemed
to flash across him.

349
00:24:48,053 --> 00:24:50,214
'Child,' he said, abruptly.

350
00:24:51,022 --> 00:24:56,358
lf l were to recognize
the Russian orthodox religion

351
00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:58,463
and emancipate the serfs,

352
00:24:58,763 --> 00:25:00,731
do you think Russia
would come over to me?

353
00:25:01,132 --> 00:25:03,726
'Never!' l cried, indignantly.

354
00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:06,003
The Emperor was much struck.

355
00:25:06,805 --> 00:25:13,074
ln the flashing eyes of this patriotic
child l read and accept

356
00:25:13,144 --> 00:25:17,444
the fiat of the Russian people.

357
00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:25,088
And, do you know,
l all but went off to Paris.

358
00:25:25,557 --> 00:25:27,525
but, alas, our destinies
were otherwise ordered.

359
00:25:31,329 --> 00:25:35,732
Heavens! it's two o'clock!
How l have kept you, prince!

360
00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:37,426
lt is really most unpardonable of me.

361
00:25:37,903 --> 00:25:39,871
Oh, not in the least,
On the contrary,

362
00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:43,201
l have been so much interested,
l'm really very much obliged to you.

363
00:25:45,977 --> 00:25:51,005
Prince, Prince, you are so kind,

364
00:25:51,283 --> 00:25:58,519
so simple-minded, that sometimes
l really feel sorry for you!

365
00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:07,464
l gaze at you with a feeling
of real affection.

366
00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:09,567
Oh, Heaven bless you!

367
00:26:11,002 --> 00:26:18,841
May your life blossom
and fructify in love.

368
00:26:19,844 --> 00:26:23,211
Mine is over.

369
00:26:24,382 --> 00:26:26,350
Mine is over.

370
00:26:34,926 --> 00:26:36,894
He has taken offence.

371
00:26:37,462 --> 00:26:40,863
that has reached such inspiration.

372
00:27:07,492 --> 00:27:09,460
Colia.

373
00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:16,630
You invite tonight,
and ask to transfer it as a token of the deepest respect.

374
00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:18,936
And what is it?

375
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:55,472
l must part forever,
l am grateful, but even from you

376
00:27:55,907 --> 00:28:04,576
l could not accept signs of sympathy
which were humiliating to the dignity

377
00:28:04,949 --> 00:28:10,979
of a man already miserable enough.

378
00:29:02,373 --> 00:29:05,604
Badly the railway works.

379
00:29:06,211 --> 00:29:09,339
Yes to repair railway it would be very useful.

380
00:29:25,396 --> 00:29:27,364
Sit prince.

381
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:30,494
Did you get my hedgehog?

382
00:29:30,802 --> 00:29:32,770
Yes, l got it.

383
00:29:33,071 --> 00:29:35,039
Tell us now, at once,
what you made of the present?

384
00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:37,267
l must have you answer
this question for mother's sake,

385
00:29:37,375 --> 00:29:39,343
she needs pacifying, and
so do all the rest of the family!

386
00:29:39,477 --> 00:29:42,310
-This is going beyond all limits!
-Look here, Aglaya...

387
00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:44,749
lt is not in the least
beyond all limits, mamma!

388
00:29:45,316 --> 00:29:47,284
l sent the prince a hedgehog
this morning, and

389
00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:49,647
l wish to hear his opinion of it.
Go on, prince.

390
00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:53,053
What sort of opinion,
Aglaya lvanovna?

391
00:29:54,092 --> 00:29:56,060
About the hedgehog.

392
00:29:57,195 --> 00:29:59,163
That is...

393
00:29:59,731 --> 00:30:02,723
l suppose you wish to know how
l received the hedgehog, Aglaya lvanovna,

394
00:30:02,834 --> 00:30:05,701
or, l should say, how l regarded
your sending him to me?

395
00:30:08,706 --> 00:30:10,674
ln that case, l may tell you...

396
00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:13,611
in a word

397
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:16,113
You haven't told us much!

398
00:30:16,214 --> 00:30:18,739
Very well, l am ready
to drop the hedgehog, if you like,

399
00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,017
but l am anxious to be able
to clear up this accumulation

400
00:30:21,085 --> 00:30:22,382
of misunderstandings.

401
00:30:22,554 --> 00:30:25,284
Allow me to ask you, prince,
l wish to hear from you, personally

402
00:30:25,423 --> 00:30:27,391
are you making me an offer, or not?

403
00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:33,631
Gracious heavens!

404
00:30:34,632 --> 00:30:36,327
Don't deceive me now, prince
tell the truth.

405
00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:37,560
All these people persecute me

406
00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:39,125
with astounding questions
about you.

407
00:30:39,237 --> 00:30:40,636
ls there any ground
for all these questions, or not?

408
00:30:41,272 --> 00:30:44,332
l have not asked you to marry me yet,
Aglaya lvanovna

409
00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:49,474
but you know yourself
how much l love you and trust you.

410
00:30:51,382 --> 00:30:53,373
l asked you this, answer this!

411
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:55,486
Do you intend to ask
for my band, or not?

412
00:30:55,553 --> 00:30:57,521
l do ask for it!

413
00:31:05,263 --> 00:31:08,699
My dear girl.
You cannot proceed like this, Aglaya,

414
00:31:08,766 --> 00:31:14,068
if that's how the matter stands.
lt's impossible.

415
00:31:15,773 --> 00:31:22,838
Prince, forgive it, my dear fellow, but
Lizabetha Prokofievna!...

416
00:31:24,782 --> 00:31:28,149
Not l... not l!

417
00:31:28,853 --> 00:31:31,378
Allow me to speak, please, mamma.

418
00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:35,852
An important moment of
my destiny is about to be decided.

419
00:31:37,495 --> 00:31:39,759
l wish to find out
how the matter stands,

420
00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:42,365
for my own sake,
though l am glad you are all here.

421
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,496
Allow me to ask you, prince,
since you cherish those intentions,

422
00:31:45,703 --> 00:31:49,696
how you consider that
you will provide for my happiness?

423
00:31:51,609 --> 00:31:55,306
l don't quite know how
to answer your question, Aglaya lvanovna.

424
00:31:56,247 --> 00:31:58,215
What is there to say
to such a question?

425
00:31:58,349 --> 00:32:00,317
And... and must l answer?

426
00:32:00,485 --> 00:32:02,453
l think you are rather overwhelmed
and out of breath.

427
00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:04,889
Have a little rest,
and try to recover yourself.

428
00:32:04,956 --> 00:32:07,550
Take a glass of water, or
but they'll give you some tea directly.

429
00:32:08,259 --> 00:32:10,227
l love you, Aglaya lvanovna,

430
00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:13,330
l love you very much.

431
00:32:15,466 --> 00:32:17,434
l love only you.

432
00:32:18,336 --> 00:32:20,930
Please don't jest about it,
for l do love you very much.

433
00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:27,905
Well, this matter is important.

434
00:32:28,246 --> 00:32:30,510
We are not children
we must look into it thoroughly.

435
00:32:30,648 --> 00:32:37,918
Now then, kindly tell me
what does your fortune consist of?

436
00:32:37,989 --> 00:32:40,549
No Aglaya come, enough of this,
you mustn't behave like this.

437
00:32:40,658 --> 00:32:42,626
-lt's disgraceful.
-She's mad quite!

438
00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:44,762
Fortune?

439
00:32:44,896 --> 00:32:46,329
Just so.

440
00:32:46,664 --> 00:32:48,632
Money do you mean?

441
00:32:49,233 --> 00:32:52,600
l have now a hundred
and thirty-five thousand roubles.

442
00:32:52,737 --> 00:32:54,705
ls that all, really?

443
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,798
However, it's not so bad,

444
00:32:57,909 --> 00:32:59,399
especially if managed
with economy.

445
00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:00,535
Do you intend to serve?

446
00:33:00,611 --> 00:33:03,774
l intended to try
for a certificate as private tutor.

447
00:33:04,716 --> 00:33:06,308
Very good.

448
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:07,849
That would increase our income nicely.

449
00:33:07,952 --> 00:33:09,920
Have you any intention of being
a Kammer-junker?

450
00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:12,690
A Kammer-junker?

451
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:15,459
l had not thought of it, but...

452
00:33:29,874 --> 00:33:31,842
l knew it was all a joke!

453
00:33:32,477 --> 00:33:35,810
No, no! l cannot allow this,
this is a little too much.

454
00:33:50,728 --> 00:33:52,696
lt's really.... now could you
have imagined anything

455
00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:55,799
like it, Lef Nicolaievitch?

456
00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:58,335
Seriously now, seriously l mean.

457
00:33:59,904 --> 00:34:07,743
l only see that Aglaya lvanovna
is laughing at me.

458
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:12,710
Wait a bit, my boy, l'll just go

459
00:34:19,791 --> 00:34:21,622
But do just explain, if you can,

460
00:34:21,692 --> 00:34:27,358
Lef Nicolaievitch, how in the world
has all this come about?

461
00:34:27,465 --> 00:34:30,434
And what does it all mean?

462
00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:40,568
You must understand, my dear fellow.
l am a father, you see,

463
00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:43,474
and l ought
to be allowed to understand
the matter..

464
00:34:44,816 --> 00:34:46,784
do explain, l beg you!

465
00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:51,888
l love Aglaya lvanovna
l think she must have long known it.

466
00:34:55,526 --> 00:34:57,494
Strange. lt's strange.

467
00:34:57,995 --> 00:34:59,963
And you love her very much?

468
00:35:00,064 --> 00:35:02,032
Yes, very much.

469
00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:04,835
lt's all most strange to me.

470
00:35:05,002 --> 00:35:06,970
That is my dear fellow, it is such a surprise
such a blow that...

471
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,601
You see, it is not your financial position,

472
00:35:12,543 --> 00:35:14,511
though l should not object
if you were a bit richer,

473
00:35:14,846 --> 00:35:16,814
l am thinking of my daughter's happiness,

474
00:35:17,748 --> 00:35:25,655
and the thing is are you able to give
her the happiness she deserves?

475
00:35:26,891 --> 00:35:31,328
And then is all this a joke on her part,
or is she in earnest?

476
00:35:31,662 --> 00:35:33,630
l don't mean on your side, but on hers.

477
00:35:34,432 --> 00:35:36,400
Papa!

478
00:35:38,536 --> 00:35:40,504
Wait for me here, my boy will you?

479
00:35:40,905 --> 00:35:46,866
Just wait and think it all over,
and l'll come back directly.

480
00:35:56,554 --> 00:35:59,387
There, look at her now
lvan Fedorovitch!

481
00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:02,387
Here she is all of her!
This is our real Aglaya at last!

482
00:36:04,061 --> 00:36:06,029
Papa!

483
00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:15,398
Oh, you cruel little girl!
How will you treat us all next,

484
00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:17,541
l wonder?

485
00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:19,643
Cruel? Yes, l am cruel,
and worthless, and spoiled

486
00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:30,988
My darling, my little idol,
so you love this young man, do you?

487
00:36:31,088 --> 00:36:35,081
No, no, no, can't bear him,
l can't bear your young man!

488
00:36:35,593 --> 00:36:37,561
And if you dare say that
once more, papa

489
00:36:40,898 --> 00:36:43,867
l'm serious, you know, l'm,
do you hear me

490
00:36:46,103 --> 00:36:48,731
lf that's the case, darling
then, of course,

491
00:36:48,806 --> 00:36:51,070
you shall do exactly as you like.

492
00:36:51,576 --> 00:36:54,101
He is waiting alone downstairs.
Hadn't l better hint to him gently

493
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:55,736
that he can go?

494
00:36:55,846 --> 00:36:58,144
No, no, you needn't do anything
of the sort,

495
00:36:58,482 --> 00:37:00,450
you mustn't hint gently at all.

496
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:04,087
l'll go down myself directly.

497
00:37:06,958 --> 00:37:10,450
l wish to apologize to this young man,
because l hurt his feelings.

498
00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:12,529
-Yes, seriously.
-Seriously.

499
00:37:12,663 --> 00:37:14,631
Seriously.

500
00:37:15,132 --> 00:37:18,966
l'll just go in and then
you can follow me almost at once.

501
00:37:19,837 --> 00:37:21,805
That's the best way.

502
00:37:25,643 --> 00:37:27,611
l shall laugh

503
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:30,647
l shall die of laughing.

504
00:37:37,855 --> 00:37:41,586
Well, what does it all mean?
What do you make of it?

505
00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:44,628
l hardly dare say.

506
00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:47,561
But l think it's as plain
as anything can be.

507
00:37:47,698 --> 00:37:52,897
l think so too, as clear as day,
she loves him.

508
00:37:53,070 --> 00:37:57,973
She is head over ears in love,
that's what she is.

509
00:37:59,243 --> 00:38:02,576
Well, God bless her, God bless her,
if such is her destiny.

510
00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:05,943
Her destiny it is, and there's
no getting out of destiny.

511
00:38:10,187 --> 00:38:14,590
Forgive a silly, horrid, spoilt girl
and be quite assured that

512
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:18,558
we all of us esteem you
beyond all words.

513
00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:25,233
And if l dared to turn your beautiful,
admirable simplicity to ridicule,

514
00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:28,499
forgive me as you would
a little child its mischief.

515
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,803
Forgive me all my absurdity
of just now, which, of course,

516
00:38:32,943 --> 00:38:38,313
meant nothing, and could not
have the slightest consequence.

517
00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:40,784
Who is it?

518
00:38:40,918 --> 00:38:43,887
Why do you speak so?
Why do you ask my forgiveness?

519
00:38:44,021 --> 00:38:46,615
l'm unworthy of being asked
for forgiveness by you,

520
00:38:46,824 --> 00:38:50,817
l'm perfectly happy,
that l may come and speak to you,

521
00:38:52,229 --> 00:38:54,197
and walk with you
That all this is quite enough

522
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,300
to satisfy me for the whole
of my life, and l would desire

523
00:38:56,734 --> 00:39:00,135
no more to the end of time?

524
00:39:14,218 --> 00:39:16,186
Hippolyte.

525
00:39:16,287 --> 00:39:18,084
Didn't l tell you the truth now,
when l said you were in love?

526
00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:21,058
l am glad that you look better.

527
00:39:21,926 --> 00:39:23,860
How are you?

528
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:25,655
You wouldn't believe,
they invited me there

529
00:39:25,763 --> 00:39:27,958
under the express condition
that l should die quickly,

530
00:39:28,165 --> 00:39:30,133
and they are all as wild as possible
with me for not having died yet,

531
00:39:30,601 --> 00:39:32,262
and for being, on the contrary,
a good deal better!

532
00:39:32,403 --> 00:39:34,166
lsn't it a comedy? l don't mind betting
that you don't believe me!

533
00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:36,637
l certainly thought they
invited you with quite other views.

534
00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:39,142
You are not nearly so simple
as they try to make you out!

535
00:39:39,844 --> 00:39:41,812
This is not the time for it,
or l would tell you a thing or two

536
00:39:41,912 --> 00:39:43,379
about that beauty, Gania,
and his hopes.

537
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:45,911
You are being undermined,
pitilessly undermined, and

538
00:39:46,117 --> 00:39:48,813
and it is really melancholy
to see you so calm about it.

539
00:39:49,653 --> 00:39:51,245
Why, do you think l should be
any happier if l were to feel

540
00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:52,879
disturbed about the excavations
you tell me of?

541
00:39:53,023 --> 00:39:54,684
lt is better to be unhappy
and know the worst,

542
00:39:54,792 --> 00:39:56,760
than to be happy in a fool's paradise!

543
00:39:56,861 --> 00:39:59,659
l suppose you don't believe
that you have a rival in that quarter?

544
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:06,063
Your insinuations as to rivalry
are rather cynical, Hippolyte.

545
00:40:06,303 --> 00:40:08,271
l don't know what in the world
you are driving at.

546
00:40:08,372 --> 00:40:10,840
Very well. You can't look at anything
but in your exalted, generous way.

547
00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:14,106
However, l see l must make
arrangements to die soon,

548
00:40:14,178 --> 00:40:15,406
or l myself...

549
00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:17,647
Leave me, good-bye.

550
00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:25,679
Look here.
Just give me your opinion:

551
00:40:25,823 --> 00:40:30,226
how do you think l ought to die, now?
l mean--the best, the most virtuous way?

552
00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:32,357
Tell me!

553
00:40:36,934 --> 00:40:39,869
You should pass us by
and forgive us our happiness.

554
00:40:52,349 --> 00:40:54,317
Speak!

555
00:40:54,685 --> 00:40:56,653
Speak!

556
00:40:56,754 --> 00:40:59,120
Speak under the penalty
of a father's curse.

557
00:40:59,223 --> 00:41:01,316
Oh, father's curse be hanged
you don't frighten me that way

558
00:41:01,425 --> 00:41:05,725
-Colia!
-Whose fault is it that you have been as mad

559
00:41:05,830 --> 00:41:07,991
lt is just a week,
you see, l count!

560
00:41:08,232 --> 00:41:10,325
Don't provoke me too much,
or l'll tell all.

561
00:41:10,434 --> 00:41:12,402
And you call yourself an old man,
too, with grey hair,

562
00:41:12,503 --> 00:41:14,664
and father of a family!
Nice sort of a father!

563
00:41:14,839 --> 00:41:16,830
Be quiet, Gania.
Shut up, you fool!

564
00:41:16,941 --> 00:41:18,101
And you Hippolyte be silent!

565
00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:21,234
But what have l done?
Why does he call me a screw?

566
00:41:21,345 --> 00:41:24,337
He came to me himself and began telling me
about some Captain Eropegoff.

567
00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:26,450
l don't wish for your company, general.

568
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:30,049
What have l to do with Captain Eropegoff?
All l did was to express my opinion that

569
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,748
probably Captain Eropegoff
never existed at all!

570
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:35,290
Of course he never existed!

571
00:41:35,392 --> 00:41:37,223
There, you see! Even your own son
supports my statement

572
00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:39,296
That there never was such a person
as Captain Eropegoff!

573
00:41:39,730 --> 00:41:42,756
Kapiton Eropegoff
not Captain Eropegoff!

574
00:41:42,967 --> 00:41:48,234
Kapiton major retired
Eropegoff Kapiton.

575
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:50,474
Kapiton didn't exist either!

576
00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:54,502
What? Didn't exist?

577
00:41:54,812 --> 00:41:56,780
Kapiton didn't exist!

578
00:41:57,147 --> 00:42:00,480
And this is my son
my own son.

579
00:42:00,751 --> 00:42:02,719
Whom l...

580
00:42:03,053 --> 00:42:08,081
Eropegoff
Eroshka Eropegoff didn't exist!

581
00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:10,293
Ha, ha! it's Eroshka now!

582
00:42:10,461 --> 00:42:13,225
No, sir, Kapitoshka
not Eroshka.

583
00:42:13,564 --> 00:42:17,000
l mean, Kapiton Alexeyevitch
retired major

584
00:42:17,134 --> 00:42:22,231
married Maria Petrovna Lu...
he was my friend and companion

585
00:42:25,142 --> 00:42:28,339
l closed his eyes for him
he was killed.

586
00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:31,313
Kapiton Eropegoff never existed!

587
00:42:31,448 --> 00:42:33,416
Kapiton Eropegoff never existed!

588
00:42:33,784 --> 00:42:37,083
Enough of this!
My curse!

589
00:42:37,922 --> 00:42:39,890
Away, out of the house l go!

590
00:42:40,457 --> 00:42:43,085
Colia, bring my bag away!

591
00:42:49,867 --> 00:42:51,835
What have you done?

592
00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:54,437
-What a disgrace it all is!
-Well, he shouldn't steal!

593
00:42:56,874 --> 00:42:59,434
As for you, sir,
you should at least remember

594
00:42:59,543 --> 00:43:02,034
that you are in a strange house and
receiving hospitality,

595
00:43:02,112 --> 00:43:03,909
you should not take the opportunity
of tormenting an old man, sir,

596
00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:05,346
who is too evidently out of his mind.

597
00:43:05,482 --> 00:43:07,450
l don't quite agree with you that your father
is out of his mind.

598
00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:10,418
On the contrary, l cannot help thinking he has
been less demented of late.

599
00:43:10,554 --> 00:43:13,318
He spoke to me about that Kapiton fellow
with an object.

600
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:17,994
-He wanted me to..
-Oh, devil take what he wanted you to do!

601
00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:20,964
lf you are aware of the real reason
for my father's present condition

602
00:43:21,098 --> 00:43:23,931
you had no right whatever to torment
the unfortunate man, and to worry my mother

603
00:43:24,034 --> 00:43:27,094
by your exaggerations of the affair,
because the whole business is nonsense

604
00:43:27,204 --> 00:43:29,172
simply a drunken freak, and nothing more,

605
00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:34,066
But you must needs spy and watch over us
all, because you are a...

606
00:43:34,511 --> 00:43:36,479
-Screw!
-Because you are a humbug,

607
00:43:37,414 --> 00:43:40,076
and thought fit to worry people for half an hour,
and tried to frighten them into believing

608
00:43:40,184 --> 00:43:41,947
that you would shoot yourself
with your little empty pistol,

609
00:43:42,086 --> 00:43:45,055
pirouetting about and playing at suicide!

610
00:43:45,189 --> 00:43:50,525
l gave you hospitality, you have fattened on it,
your cough has left you, and you repay all this.

611
00:43:50,861 --> 00:43:53,853
Excuse me--two words!
l am Varvara Ardalionovna's guest, not yours.

612
00:43:53,998 --> 00:43:57,161
l believe you are yourself indebted to
Mr. Ptitsin's hospitality.

613
00:43:57,267 --> 00:44:00,498
l certainly do feel better here,
though l am not fat, nor have l ceased to cough.

614
00:44:00,904 --> 00:44:04,305
Four days ago l begged my mother to come
down here and find lodgings.

615
00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:07,069
l intend to leave the house this evening.

616
00:44:07,344 --> 00:44:09,835
l beg your pardon. l interrupted you
l think you were about to add something?

617
00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:12,278
May l ask you to be so good
as to leave this room?

618
00:44:12,383 --> 00:44:14,214
You'd better speak out.
You'll be sorry afterwards if you don't.

619
00:44:14,351 --> 00:44:16,945
Hippolyte, stop, please!
lt's so dreadfully undignified.

620
00:44:17,154 --> 00:44:19,952
Because an explanation between your brother
and myself

621
00:44:20,090 --> 00:44:22,183
has become an absolute necessity,

622
00:44:22,459 --> 00:44:25,053
ln inviting me here you yourself entrapped me
for your own use.

623
00:44:25,229 --> 00:44:28,130
You thought l wished to revenge myself
upon the prince.

624
00:44:28,532 --> 00:44:32,298
l am quite content to leave you to your conscience,
and to feel that we understand one another capitally.

625
00:44:32,503 --> 00:44:34,471
What a history you are weaving out
of the most ordinary circumstances!

626
00:44:34,638 --> 00:44:36,606
l told you the fellow was nothing but
a scandalmonger.

627
00:44:36,974 --> 00:44:38,942
Excuse me, Varia Ardalionovna,
l will proceed.

628
00:44:39,109 --> 00:44:41,509
l can, of course, neither love
nor respect the prince,

629
00:44:41,645 --> 00:44:43,613
though he is a good-hearted fellow,
if a little queer.

630
00:44:43,947 --> 00:44:45,915
But there is no need whatever for me
to hate him.

631
00:44:46,083 --> 00:44:48,449
l quite understood your brother when he first offered
me aid against the prince, though l did not show it.

632
00:44:48,552 --> 00:44:52,613
l knew well that your brother
was making a ridiculous mistake in me.

633
00:44:52,990 --> 00:44:58,394
l will proceed to explain why
l specially wished to make your brother look a fool.

634
00:44:59,329 --> 00:45:01,524
l hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely because
you are the type, and incarnation,

635
00:45:01,732 --> 00:45:04,292
and head, and crown of the most impudent,
the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar

636
00:45:04,435 --> 00:45:06,995
and detestable form of commonplaceness.

637
00:45:08,272 --> 00:45:11,571
You have no chance of ever fathering
the pettiest idea of your own.

638
00:45:11,742 --> 00:45:13,710
You consider yourself a great genius

639
00:45:13,944 --> 00:45:16,936
Although there are dark moments
of doubt and rage.

640
00:45:17,314 --> 00:45:20,408
You will never gain a certain person.

641
00:45:20,517 --> 00:45:23,315
This is intolerable! You had better stop,
you little mischief-making wretch!

642
00:45:34,598 --> 00:45:36,566
Are you off?

643
00:45:36,967 --> 00:45:38,935
Wait a moment.

644
00:45:39,369 --> 00:45:42,600
look at this.

645
00:45:52,616 --> 00:45:54,584
Gavrila Ardolionovich

646
00:45:55,352 --> 00:45:59,516
persuaded of your kindness of heart,
l have determined to ask your advice

647
00:45:59,623 --> 00:46:02,456
on a matter of great importance to myself.

648
00:46:03,293 --> 00:46:09,755
l should like to meet you tomorrow morning
at seven o'clock by the green bench.

649
00:46:10,667 --> 00:46:13,636
lt is not far from our house.

650
00:46:14,071 --> 00:46:20,135
Varvara Ardalionovna, who must accompany you,
knows the place well.

651
00:46:20,410 --> 00:46:22,378
A. E.

652
00:46:22,546 --> 00:46:25,982
Good heavens!
What on earth is one to make of a girl like that?

653
00:46:28,085 --> 00:46:30,053
And this is the very day
that they were to announce the engagement!

654
00:46:30,154 --> 00:46:32,122
What do you suppose she wants
to talk about tomorrow?

655
00:46:32,222 --> 00:46:35,157
Oh, that`s all the same!
The chief thing is that she wants to see you.

656
00:46:36,093 --> 00:46:39,722
Look here, Gania, this is a serious business.

657
00:46:40,030 --> 00:46:41,998
Very serious.

658
00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:45,557
Don't swagger again and lose the game
play carefully, but don't funk,

659
00:46:45,669 --> 00:46:49,571
As if she could possibly avoid seeing what
l have been working for all this last six months!

660
00:46:52,709 --> 00:46:54,404
We can't let him go out!

661
00:46:54,545 --> 00:46:56,172
We can't afford to have a breath of scandal
about the town at this moment

662
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,248
Run after him and beg his pardon,
quick.

663
00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,292
He'll be back here in half an hour.

664
00:47:09,526 --> 00:47:11,391
What are you up to?
Where are you off to?

665
00:47:11,528 --> 00:47:13,792
You've nowhere to go to, you know.

666
00:47:14,198 --> 00:47:16,598
''Come back, father; the neighbours will hear!''

667
00:47:22,306 --> 00:47:24,672
My curse be upon this house!

668
00:47:29,479 --> 00:47:31,447
Never!

669
00:47:31,748 --> 00:47:33,716
Which observation should always be made
in as theatrical a tone as possible.

670
00:47:34,716 --> 00:47:44,716
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