decoration? I've got an account of my own to settle. Well, real independent, aren't we? There're some girls I can't understand. - You mean me? - Yes, that's right. They already told you? All right, give me a lecture. You prefer to do it now or keep till later? - I had a husband, Zhenya. - Another girl stole him? Don't try to cry on my shoulder. No, he was killed on the third day of the war. While he was freezing in the snow on the Finland front, his wife was making it with the regiment horse doctor. He got the custody of his son through the court. And he put him at his mother's. The garrison under my command has the right to a bath tomorrow. Report to me for a soap issue. That's why I volunteered to come on this post. To be near my son and mama. I'm not alone now. I'll go again tomorrow. You're a lucky girl. I've got no one in the whole world. My brother and sister and mother - all of them were massacred. - There was an air-raid? - No, they shot them. The high-ranking officers' families were all executed. An Estonian woman hid me at her place. I've seen everything. How about that colonel, Zhenya? How could you do it, Zhenya? Well, I did it... Major Luzhin reporting for duty. Welcome. This is my daughter, Zhenya. I did it. Give me two rations, for me and Tatiana. - Who's going to scrub my back? - The Senior Sergeant. Well, he's one who wears pants. Let's draw lots for him. Oh, he's just an old boor with a 20-word vocabulary, and all of it Regulations. In any case his housekeeper's not complaining. That's not true! Did you hear that? She's fallen for him! Our Brichkina got a case for that Chocolate Soldier! When's the wedding? Shame on you! Keep to yourself everything those women tell you. Sure, you know best, a hero's widow! You'd better shut up. You yourself... I think I ought to warn you, Comrade Senior Sergeant, you're getting on my nerves and I have nothing to lose. What did you say? Let's not start quarreling, girls. Let me read a poem for you. All right? What's the matter, you silly one? I don't know, Rita. I don't know anything... We lived all alone on the edge of the forest. My father was a ranger. My mother always said to me, "Just have faith, daughter. Maybe your happiness is just around the corner. Anyway, it won't pass you by. " So you are leaving? Yes, tomorrow. - Who's there? - It's me. Feeling lonely? That's right. You mustn't do silly things, even if you're lonely. In the spring he sent me a postcard. You should study, Lisa. Come to the city in August. I'll get you into a technical school. That was last year, in 1941. Have faith, Lisa. Don't give up hoping. Maybe you will find happiness around the corner. And maybe it will be tomorrow. Only I have already turned my corner. Sonya, read another poem. I loved you once: Of love, perhaps, an ember Within my soul is not extinguished yet; But let that be no prompting to remember, Or be a cause of sadness or regret. I loved you once, quite hopeless, dumbly tender, By jealousy and diffidence oppressed; I loved you once with such complete surrender As may God grant you may again be blessed. What is it? What's the matter? Ossyanina's so lucky. She had the time to get married and to have a child. And I've been a prisoner of this uniform since I was 18! Don't say that. You'll have everything one day. Zhenya, he's a married man. But I love him, Dad. Stop it! - Comrade Colonel! - What do you want? Here, sir! Zhenya! What are you doing here, Zhenya? What are you doing?! Stop it! Murderers! What's wrong, Zhenya? You're not the only one with an account to be settled. - Who's next? - Komelkova. - And next? - Chetvertak. - Take this, Rita. - No, you shouldn't. Take it. - Next one. - Yolkina. Thank you. Don't be mad at me, girls, I... I overheard everything you said yesterday. I promise I'll keep it a secret forever. I've ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Daenseo-ui sunjeong на английском - текст Снежная королева на английском - текст Торжество на английском - текст Мистер Блисс на английском - текст Аленький цветочек на английском |