Excellency. The army always has to consider the... You'll have my resignation in the morning. Good morning, captain. - How's Colonel Henry? - He did nothing but scream all night. Something about the honor of the army. But he seems to be quiet now. Suicide. Good morning, Mr. Zola. Oh, it's you. Good morning. Where's your papa? Will he come back from the village with my newspapers? - He'll be along presently. - Presently?! Presently! The whole world is seething, nations are crashing to their doom... ...and he'll be along presently. Oh, you cold-blooded English. You'll be the death of me. Йmile! It's happened. It's happened! Look. Listen. The Times: "Colonel Henry confesses Dreyfus forgery, then kills himself." The Daily Telegraph: "Chief of general staff resigns. Colonel Dort expelled from army. Esterhazy in flight." The Manchester Guardian: "Zola's fight for truth vindicated at last." And Dreyfus? "Dreyfus case revision inevitable." Truth is on the march... ...and nothing will stop it. "The criminal code of cessation has entered a request for revision of your court-martial. You hereby cease to be subject to penal regime." The Cruelesfax will carry you back to France. Sentries, dismissed. - Whatever induced Esterhazy to confess? - The money the newspaper paid him. After that, no one could deny you the right to come home. What a triumph. Don't you feel...? I feel neither the desire nor the need for triumph. My reward? I have it. Every time I think we saved an innocent man from a living death. The thought of seeing him free... ...of pressing his hands in mine for the first time... ...that will be reward enough. But our fight is only half won. We must work, my friends, work. By speech, by pen, by action. We of France, who gave the world the boon of liberty... ...shall we not now give it justice? Listen. The very wheels are crying: "Justice, justice, justice, justice." Please, Йmile. It's past midnight, dear. You've done enough. What's become of my military dictionary? You know, the big green one. Why, Йmile... ...isn't this it? Why, so it is. Must you drive yourself like this day and night? I must. I must, Alexandrine. I must. There's so much to do and so little time to do it. I see it all clearly now: The cause and the effect. The roots and the tree. - But, darling... - Wait. Wait a minute. The cause and the effect. The roots and the tree. I can use that. What were you saying, my dear? I said, I can't understand all this frantic hurry. - There's always tomorrow. - Always? I wonder. I wonder if in the middle of my most important work... ...there will always be a tomorrow. Darling, you're tired. What matters the individual if the idea survives? Now, you must get some rest. You have to be up early for the Dreyfus ceremony. Yes, Dreyfus. Yes, tomorrow he will be restored to the army. You know, it's a queer thing, this Dreyfus affair. Before it, I thought my work was done. I could sit back and dream a little. Cйzanne was right. I was getting smug and complacent. Then suddenly came the Dreyfus explosion, and I'm alive again... ...my head bursting with ideas! This new book is bigger than anything I've ever dared before. The world about to hurl itself to destruction... ...the will of nations for peace, a powerful break, stopping it on the brink. You don't believe it? Wait. "To save Dreyfus, we had to challenge the might of those who dominate the world. It is not the swaggering militarists. They're but puppets that dance as the strings are pulled. It is those others, those who would ruthlessly plunge us... ...into the bloody abyss of war to protect their power." Think of it, thousands of children sleeping peacefully tonight... ...under the roofs of Paris, Berlin, London, all the world... ...doomed to die horribly under some titanic battlefield... ...unless it can be prevented. And ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Терминатор 3: Восстание Машин на английском - текст Полкан и Шавка на английском - текст Как я съел собаку на английском - текст Терминатор 2: Судный день на английском - текст Новый Вавилон на английском |