re a sorceress! Your "Slave of Love" has conquered all the peoples. Trample upon us, we're yours, Olga Nikolayevna! Where are you going? Wait! Please! How many fools there are in the world! You know what I thought? It's amazing that when the window is dirty, everything behind it seems dirty, too. The same thing happens in life. When you come across something unpleasant, you feel like all life is dirty. Isn't it so? And when a window is with bars, the sky behind it seems checkered. Did you ever notice? Why can't you talk seriously for a minute? Why are you like that? Like what? Come on, like what? Really, I don't know you at all. However, my dear, I've lived too many other womers lives for any man to be able to deceive me. What? Why are you looking at me like that? Well, let's go. - Where would you like to go? - I don't know. To Botanical Gardens. As you wish. I've been thinking of talking to you for a long time. About what? No, better some other time. It must be damp in Moscow now. Raining all the time. I'm sure Maksakov will come with a cold, he will be capricious, with a running nose. Do you miss him very much? I miss Moscow. So you want to go to Moscow? I do... But what will I be doing there? Starring in the movies. There's nothing there either for me or Maksakov. No more cinema there. Why? There is. Stop pestering me with your talk of Moscow. My mother... went blind sewing lace. All her life she was dreaming of going to Paris. And she's still dreaming. Let me turn the wheel! Come on, let me! Let me! Oh, it's so frightening! We're going to run into something! - Now on your own. - No, no, I won't! Do you want me to say who you are? Do you? You're a Bolshevik! You know what it means? - Tell me. - No, I won't. When I got wounded in 1914, I was put in an infirmary. One day I was told that to another ward an artillery man had been brought, the actress Voznesenskaya's husband. I wanted very much to take a look at him, but never had a chance. Yes, Vladimir was a wonderful man. He died in 1914. I know. Olga Nikolayevna, listen to me. I wanted to say it long ago, but was afraid you wouldn't understand. You want to live in a comfortable world you've been used to. But it's no more. It's been caught by the throat, in a deadly grip. You can't even imagine that! A new world is being born, a new system, a new country. You... Thousands of people die for that. And you're dying of an abominable boredom and ruin! You shouldn't live like that! I wish very much that you understand that. My dear, my wonderful, my enigmatic Victor Ivanovich, you are justjealous of Maksakov. Well, after they've come, we'll go on with our morning rides anyway. Remember that! Anyway! Anyway! Anyway... Oh God, at last! Oh, I feel so happy! Alexander Alexandrovich, my dear! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Savva dear! Savva! Ladies and gentlemen, this is my new husband, Stasik. Glad to meet you! Glad to meet you! Oh, I'm famished. My goodness, Ivan Karlovich! You brought your family! Never leave behind what's my own. Ivan Karlovich, how are you? - Welcome! Welcome! - Olga Nikolayevna. - Well, how was it? - How? Havert bathed for 10 days. How is everything there? Is it for long? I'm afraid, for good. Everything's been nationalized. - How about film stock? - What about film stock? All private owners have been dispossessed of film and chemicals. All except me. - No. - Yes! I brought 47,000 meters of film and all the chemicals. I've brought everything. Ivan Karlovich, my dear man, you've saved my life! You can't imagine what I have gone through. There was no milk for the children, I had to somehow procure bread, but I was literally sitting on the film stock, lest it was stolen. Oh God, I couldn't stand it any more! Telephone isn't working, no light. And hunger, absolute hunger! Oh, it's so wonderful! You remember my dog, Rex? We ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Брат на английском - текст Возвращение на английском - текст Плутовство на английском - текст Тринадцатый апостол на английском - текст Руководство на английском |