"Full steam ahead!" "Enough, idiot!" "You're using up all the steam!" "Mmm!" "Mwah!" "Mm." "Glad to have had you aboard." "Oh!" "Mm." "Bah!" "Ah!" "Good morning, Panisse." "Oysters!" "Muscles!" "Beautiful sardines!" "Isn't anybody hungry today?" "Morning, ladies." "Hi, Miquel." "Are you going to buy something, or just stand there?" "These oysters are very small, aren't they?" "If it's monsters you want, go the aquarium." "Two dozen, please." "Morning, Honorine." "Morning, Escartifique." "Where is your beautiful daughter?" "It's Fanny's day off." "Mm." "It's all right, Cesar." "It's me, Escartifique." "Is your son tending bar?" "Marius, I am here." "My glass of wine, please." "Ah!" "Mm." "Hm." "Hm." "Thank you, Marius." "Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum" "Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum." "Ha, ha!" "Ahoy, there, mate, what time is it?" "11:30." "Ho, ho!" "Hey, Marius!" "Marius!" "Marius!" "Uh, Marius!" "Oh, Marius, she's do in any minute, Marius." "Shh!" "You want the whole world to know?" "It's your big chance." "Will you be ready?" "Come here." "Hurry up!" "Ah!" "Oh!" "Ho, ho." "Already packed, huh?" "And your papers?" "Oh, ho, ho." "You'll get away!" "Oh, ho!" "Oh, what a beautiful sound, eh?" "That's the Saigon." "She wants a pilot." "It's whistling, Marius." "Yes, it's the Saigon." "Chump!" "It is the percolator!" "Is that coffee for him?" "Yes." "Want a cup?" "No." "Why not?" "Because if we drink everything free," "There will be nothing left for the customers." "If you meant to insult me, you succeeded." "Insult?" "What insult?" "Hey, if at the age of 20 I can't offer a cup of coffee" "To a friend, what am I, huh?" "You're barely 19 in 2 months." "Now don't be in such a hurry to 20." "Oh, we have an appointment later, right?" "Uh, I don't know." "Maybe." "Ship ahoy!" "Aha, ha, ha, ha." "Oh, ha, ha, ha." "I congratulate you on your choice of friends." "A half crazy..." "The Admiral is completely crazy." "But is my friend." "Oh!" "Hot today, isn't it?" "Ha, ha." "Well, isn't somebody going to say something?" "Your poor mother will allow you to sell fish in, uh, that?" "I sell no fish today." "It's my birthday." "Oh, of course." "Heartfelt congratulations." "Ha, ha, ha." "Thank you, Cesar." "Here, inhale." "It's not sardine." "It's perfume!" "Oh!" "Is it very expensive?" "Of course not." "But is perfume." "Mama give it to me." "She said, uh, today, daughter, you are a woman." "I'm still not married." "Ha, ha, a woman!" "Marius, how long ago was it that you and Fanny were playing" "On the floor together, with both your noses running?" "A cup of coffee, please." "Marius, don't you think it's nice to be 18?" "Not particularly." "It's so, well, in between." "I mean, at 17 one is young, at 19 a man." "But 18..." "Well, I have no desire to be a man." "Have another whiff." "Delicious." "Fanny, don't pay any attention to my son." "You're beautiful." "Soon you'll get married and have children," "So they can poison your existence." "Oh, now I poison his existence!" "I do half your work." "Half my work?" "Ha, ha!" "Whenever you're needed, you're not here." "You're a dreamer, that's what you are." "You were born right upstairs and you can't even" "Learn how to proportion a decent lemon pecan coureso." "You don't make two of them the same!" "Well, since the customer's drink only one at a time," "They can't compare them." "What have you got to answer to that, Cesar?" "Now, you keep out of this." "You're only 18." "Now what's so difficult about this?" "Now look, one third coureso... now pay attention!" "Yes, sir." "A little fare." "Ah, and one third lemon." "See?" "I see." "Now, a good third pecan." "See?" "And now, add a big fare of water." "There." "Now..." "That makes four thirds." "Well?" "A glass only holds three thirds." "It depends on the size of the thirds!" "Well, the... that's not arithmetic!" "And a drop on the bottleneck, is that arithmetic, too?" "Now look!" "You should pour it like this." "And push the last drop back with a cork." "Cesar!" "Cesar!" "Cesar!" "Cesar, hurry!" "It's time for the hunt." "I'm really for this!" "Quickly, quickly!" "Come on, hurry!" "They always hide it under the hat." "Ha, ha." "Look at them!" "Grown men!" "Hey, there is one." "Aha!" "We didn't hurt you, sir?" "Oh!" "Good morning." "A lovely day." "Uh-oh, look." "Morning." "Good morning." "Oh, no!" "Nice to see everyone out this morning." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Why weren't you at the dance last night?" "Well, I can live without dancing." "I danced practically every dance with Victor." "A very good dancer." "Very polite and clever, too." "Victor!" "Is he that little boy with the large pimples?" "Oh, the pimples are all gone." "I'm glad to hear it." "They've given way to boils." "Not too bad a fight." "Ha, ha." "Should I tell Victor that I can't go with him next Sunday" "Night?" "Why should you tell him that?" "I thought you might want to take me." "No." "Don't disappoint Victor." "I might ruin what's left of his complexion." "You're dense." "Or hopeless!" "Or both!" "Still playing the same imbecilic game, I see." "Why, it's Monsieur Brun." "Yes, aha!" "Welcome back from Paris, Monsieur Brun." "Thank you." "It's easy to see you're an Englishman," "You didn't kick the hat." "Now we can have our card games again!" "Aha, ha, ha!" "Sit down." "Sit down." "We'll drink to your homecoming." "Oh, thank you." "Marius, another glass!" "Fanny, it's lunch time." "A plate of delicious muscles, hm?" "Ha, ha, ha." "Not for me." "Where did he go in such a hurry?" "To get dressed." "Today is Monday." "Is Monday something special?" "Don't you remember?" "On Monday's at 12:30 my father lunches with his girlfriend." "Oh." "Oh, yes, of course." "Tell me, is it still the same, um, uh, voluptuous Dutch lady?" "There's a new one." "She is Spanish." "And monumental!" "Oh, hoo, hoo, hoo." "That will be four francs each." "Four francs for that?" "My mother says four francs." "And from that high court, there's no appeal." "Ha, ha." "Ah, to you." "Why don't you have lunch with me, Fanny?" "There's enough for two." "Why, I'd be delighted." "Marius, two anisettes." "It is not often that a lonely old widower" "Gets to have lunch with such a pretty girl." "Mm." "And it isn't often I'm told I'm such a pretty girl." "Ah, I see you are still wearing your mourning band, Panisse." "Yes." "It will be four months tomorrow." "Poor Felicity." "On Friday, she ate an enormous dish of bouillabaisse." "And on Sunday, ptt!" "Oh, don't, Panisse, don't." "Such memories hurt." "Don't talk about her." "No, no, no." "No, no." "On the contrary, I enjoy talking about it." "How soft your hand is." "And how cool." "Hm, mm." "Remarkable." "Oh, why is that remarkable?" "Your hand must be just as... ah, no." "As a matter of fact, it's quite warm." "Marius, two more anisettes." "If you're going to drink, I suggest" "That your free your hands." "We'll manage, you pour." "Atta boy, atta boy." "Fill our glasses." "They're full." "Liar." "What did you say?" "Careful!" "Careful, you're spilling it." "He is a little nervous today." "What manners!" "Such a pretty hand." "Papa Panisse." "You have already praised my hand." "Your right hand." "I am now referring to your left hand." "Oh, so delicate." "What an agreeable sample of what the rest of you must be like." "Oh, ho, ho." "Panisse!" "Ha, ha." "Ooh!" "What the devil are you doing?" "Oh, I think it's quite obvious." "I'm cleaning the table." "What?" "Do you always clean tables while customers are sitting them?" "You must excuse Marius, Papa Panisse." "He is young, probably in love." "Congratulations on being in love." "I must confess that from time to time" "I have even thought to remarry." "Does that shock you?" "Nope." "I mean, it's only been four months." "Oh." "My conscience would be clear." "Phew, I have cried more in four months than other" "In... in five years." "Oh!" "And... and... and..." "And tears of that big." "Oh!" "Not only quantity but quality." "How understanding you are for a young girl." "Fanny, your mother is calling." "Hm?" "I did not hear her." "Did you, Panisse?" "I doubt if I could hear anything right now." "Mm." "Her hands have been fully discussed," "Everybody is agreed they're beautiful!" "Nnn!" "I was admiring this ring." "Is it gold?" "Oh, no." "Barely copper." "Oh, but this necklace, though, is practically silver." "Hm, hm." "It was a gift from Mon Zuey for my first communion." "Oh, it looks a lot like silver from here." "And it gets shinier, ha, ha, and shinier, and... and..." "Oh." "What are you up to, you old billy goat?" "Oh, my ears, Marius." "Marius." "Hm?" "Remember to whom you're talking." "I'm talking to a 70-year-old lecher!" "I'm a young 54." "The truth is somewhere in between." "And now don't argue with embryos." "If I chopped your nose it would run milk." "There's my nose." "Try it!" "Hold my hat." "Marius, Panisse, please!" "Well, I'm ready." "Well, me too!" "Poor thing." "Shopkeeper!" "You talk, you talk, but you start anything." "Nor do you." "I'm controlling myself." "Lecher!" "What?" "Eunuch!" "Oh, Marius, be consistent." "He can't be both." "Debaucher of young girls!" "Oh!" "That is the last straw!" "Huh!" "Agh!" "Panisse!" "Marius!" "May I ask just what you have in mind?" "Choking a boy one third your age?" "Your son is a lout!" "And with or without your permission," "I intend to kick him in the behind!" "Argh!" "Just you try, and I kick you so hard" "That all your teeth... front and back, real or false..." "Will rattle!" "What's going on here?" "If you touch Marius, you will wake up" "Tomorrow morning in a hospital." "If I'm in the hospital, I'll be visiting you!" "Then you'll find yourself in a cemetery!" "Yes, putting flowers on your grave!" "Panisse, you have a customer!" "I'm busy!" "He wants a full set of stays for a racing sloop." "Go-o-o." "I know what money means to you!" "All right, I'll leave." "But it goes without saying that I'm not" "Setting foot in this place again." "Your word is good enough for me." "I don't ask for anything in writing." "Fanny, I'll be speaking to you very soon." "Now just a minute." "What about our card game?" "Oh, I'll be back for that." "What has one thing to do with another?" "Four anisettes." "Here are 10 francs." "Keep the change, waiter!" "Honorine, Honorine." "Uh, I have a very important customer to attend to." "After that, I'd like to talk to you" "About a matter very crucial to both of us." "Why of course, Panisse." "Any time." "Any time!" "Mm." "Are you just a little ashamed of yourself?" "Huh?" "Leading that poor old man on that way." "Don't you realize, you could have killed him?" "Ptt!" "When he looked down that..." "That skimpy dress of yours," "He went red as a beet root!" "Hm." "You were redder." "Marius!" "Marius!" "Marius!" "Oh, she's coming in, Marius!" "She's coming in!" "Hey, you, get the cases put away then take care of the bar." "I'll be back in 20 minutes." "Thanks." "Ah, ha, ha!" "Oysters!" "Muscles!" "Beautiful sardines!" "Oh, Fanny!" "Come here." "Here!" "Where were you running in such a hurry?" "Oh, I don't know." "I was just, uh, curious as to Marius was off to, and, uh..." "Shh!" "Do you want the whole port to know" "You're chasing that good-for-nothing bartender?" "Ha!" "The whole port's known it for a long time." "Only Marius is in the dark." "You watch your step, young lady." "Oh, uh, just a few minutes ago, Panisse" "Asked for the honor of speaking to me" "On a very crucial subject." "You can guess what it's about?" "Yes, I can guess." "When he does come to speak to me," "I think I should be wearing something" "A little more..." "Kee-kee... seductive." "Also, I'd like to do a little something with my hair." "So you watch the store." "Oh, but this is my birthday." "You said I could have the whole day off." "How was I to know Panisse would be pick" "Your birthday to propose marriage to me?" "Oh!" "Mama, are you sure this is what he has in mind?" "It's what I have in mind." "Hm, hm." "So what chance has poor Panisse?" "Mm, hm." "This time I saw that look in his eye." "It was as close to passion as you" "Can expect from a man of his age." "Never too late, too late for love!" "Never too late for love!" "A square rigger!" "Look at the cut of her sails!" "What's it being used for now, a training ship?" "No." "She's going on a scientific expedition." "A sailing boat?" "Oh, yes." "It has to be, to study winds and tides." "She's coming slowly around the world." "Think of it." "Five years under sail." "Five years, Dunkirk, Madagascar..." "The isles beneath the winds." "The isles beneath the wind!" "Has he really been to those places?" "No." "His mother didn't want her little boy to go to sea." "And look at the result." "You will meet the first mate tonight." "The sailors will do anything for me, if they meet some girls." "I want to be on that ship." "I want to be on that ship." "You will, Marius." "You will." "You'll get away from here!" "Honorine, Panisse is here!" "Come on up." "Come on up!" "Mm." "Ah!" "Oh, Panisse, come in." "Come in!" "Cockerels!" "Could I offer you a glass of wine?" "You could." "Ha, ha." "I just concluded a deal for a full set of sails" "At an outrageous price." "And I'd like to drink a toast to my shrewdness." "That calls for two toasts!" "One, to your genius." "And one to our great happiness to together." "Ha, ha." "You said, to our great happiness together?" "By that, do you mean that you intend to come and live" "With Fanny and me, after we are married?" "You would be... you would be welcome, of course." "You mean, it's not me you want?" "It's Fanny?" "Oh!" "Um, well, she's 40 years younger than you." "Well, yes, but that is not my fault." "Oh, I admit, um, I am no spring chicken." "But I also admit that, uh, I have 600,000 francs." "Hm." "My poor Panisse." "Nightgowns have no pockets." "I'm speaking for your own good." "Have you ever thought about what sometimes happens when" "An old man marries a young girl?" "And you would be worse off than the usual deceived husband," "Because Fanny will tell you." "But if I don't ask her, she won't have to tell me." "Hm." "Well... well, it's a fine match for Fanny." "If she says yes, hm, hm." "Mm, I say yes, too." "Oh, ha, ha, ha." "Ah, ha, ha." "I'll bring her to the table." "Do that." "Do that!" "First mate, second mate, Marius." "Hello." "Gentlemen, Sarodi." "Sit down, Sarodi." "No, I'd like to dance." "You are not dancing?" "Mm, not yet." "Well, I'm not bashful." "Come on, Sarodi." "Here we go." "Chief, what do you say?" "Is there a berth for my friend?" "Mm, well, we have a Corsican practically signed," "But he wants more money." "In the meantime, just in case, are your papers in order?" "Show him your papers." "What?" "Oh, yes, uh, my papers." "Here." "Pardon me." "We're going to win this game." "We're going to win this game." "Bum, bum, bum, Oh ho, oh ho." "Bum bum bum bum bum." "Well, lead." "And now let me see." "Should I lead a spade or a heart?" "What's the matter?" "Oh, it's all right." "I..." "I had a slight, um, clutching at my heart." "You know, like you do when you eat too much." "A flutter of the heart." "They are cheating." "Do you accuse me of cheating?" "Not you, stupid!" "You haven't got the brains." "Brun, you watch this counter figure, I'll cover Cesar." "Are you implying that I am a cheat?" "I, your childhood friend?" "Ha!" "Thank you, very much." "Oh, ho, ho." "Clumsy of me." "Ho, ho, ho, ho." "I've hurt his feelings." "Oh, ho, ho, ho." "Ho, ho, ho, ho." "Hurt my feelings?" "Aha, ha, ha." "It practically breaks my heart." "Ha, ha, ha." "Isn't that true, Escartifique?" "He breaks our hearts!" "Ah, yes." "Yes." "And he breaks our..." "I'm stupid!" "Ha, ha, ha." "There." "This game does not count!" "Why?" "Look into to your own heart, and you'll see why." "Oh, you must take me for a fool, no?" "I thought it was very clever, the way he did it." "What's the matter?" "The Melody sails right after dawn," "But you don't see terribly excited." "Are you afraid to tell your father, huh?" "Or is it Fanny?" "Knock on my window, I told you." "I'll be ready." "Marius." "Tomorrow, you..." "I'll be ready." "Goodbye, Mama." "Oh, I'll be back tomorrow by the noon train!" "Goodbye, darling." "Sleep late!" "You know, Marius, I think it's about time you got married." "Me?" "Why?" "Oh, now, Marius." "Don't take me for an idiot." "I know you love Fanny." "Who told you?" "My little finger." "But that little finger is not so bright." "If you don't, why did you go for Panisse like a wild beast" "This morning?" "Ha!" "I needed the exercise." "Ah, you're lying." "You love Fanny and you can't bear" "To see another man want her." "And yet, you..." "Listen, is there another woman?" "Is it one of the young Millers girls?" "No, it's not any girl." "It's... it's nothing I can talk about now." "Nothing you can talk about now." "All right." "We'll discuss it in the morning." "Yes." "In the morning." "I plan to think about it all night." "Aw, how can you think when you yawn so much?" "Hm." "Good night." "Papa, Papa, I like you very much." "What did you say?" "I..." "I like it very much, you know?" "Well, me too." "I..." "I like you very much." "Ha!" "What did you say that to me?" "Well, I..." "I don't know." "I..." "see you think of me," "You... you worry over me." "And it reminds me that I like you very much." "That's all." "Ha, ha, ha." "Of course." "You idiot." "Goodbye." "I mean, good night, Papa." "Good night." "Good night, my son." "You know, ha, sometimes I say that you make" "My life miserable, but it's not true." "Marius." "Oh!" "I must speak to, Marius." "Marius!" "Who is there?" "No one." "Lock up, then, and go to bed!" "Now what is it?" "Oh, Marius!" "Check the beer barrel." "I don't think I've turned the tap tight enough." "All right, Papa." "Um, me... meet me at the pontoon, huh?" "What are you doing up this late?" "Does your mother know you're running all over town?" "My mother is spending the night at my Aunt Rodina's... attacks." "Do you know where I've just come from?" "No." "Panisse's." "I told him I could not marry him." "Are you sure you did the right thing?" "Oh!" "After all, he is rich." "And you know know how your mother feels about money." "Now listen to me, Fanny, I..." "I want" "To talk to you like a brother to a sister." "Well, you're not my brother, and I'm not your sister." "Oh, Fanny, what's the matter." "Oh, Marius!" "Marius, it's you I love." "It's you I want." "No!" "Now that I've said it, please have" "The decency not to look at me." "Well, who else can I look at?" "Hm." "Oh, you don't love me?" "Oh, yes, Marius, I know you do." "I know." "What's the difference if I love you or not?" "Ah!" "I can't marry." "Why?" "Do you dislike me then?" "Do you hate me?" "Am I something ugly to you?" "Fanny!" "I'm gonna go away." "I have to." "I'm trapped here among people who maybe love me too much." "Look at this harbor, these boats." "Every man who walks across one of those gangplanks" "Is a freer man than I am." "And it... it's driven me almost crazy." "Once, when I was a little boy, the Admiral and I" "Watched a strange ship come into the harbor." "We went aboard and we met an old sailor with a beard" "Like a snow storm." "He told us about the isle beneath the wind," "Where black trees grow." "And when you cut them, they are gold inside" "And smell of camphor and pepper." "That's when it happened, this deep painful wish I have." "Whenever I see a boat steaming out of the harbor," "It makes me dizzy, as though I were" "Falling forward..." "Always to the sea." "Oh!" "I would wait for you, Marius." "Five years?" "Five years?" "You see the Malazee?" "She's leaving In the morning and I'll be on it." "Oh, in the morning?" "Oh!" "You're young." "You'll forget me." "Forget you?" "Me forget you?" "How can I?" "I've always loved you, even when I was a child." "Oh, when I saw you talking to a little girl," "I'd wish she were dead." "I couldn't wait to grow up to become your wife." "Every morning, I'd wake up and I'd think, today he'll ask me." "Oh!" "I know you do love me." "I know you do." "Yes." "The reason I haven't gone before was you." "Here we are!" "Here we are... oops!" "Ha, ha." "Oop!" "Ha." "Thank you so much for the lovely ride." "Lucky we met in the square." "Lucky for me." "That train takes hours." "Fanny will be so surprised." "Well, goodbye." "Goodbye, yeah?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Oops." "Goodbye, and thanks again." "Oh." "Uh-oh." "Woo." "Oh, my." "Oh, my god." "My god, my god!" "My god!" "Mm, hm." "It's his belt all right." "We must get them married at once!" "Oh!" "She's 18, Cesar, 18!" "Ah, don't cry, Honorine." "Everything will be all right." "Have something." "A little wine." "More." "It's annoying, but things will work out." "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Don't cry into the rolls." "No, they're salty enough." "Now drink up, and we'll decide what to do." "I've decided!" "I'll beat her till she's black and blue!" "Aw, stop it, Honorine." "It's Marius climbing back through the window." "Oh, I'll tear him apart!" "Oh, no you won't." "You'll go home and bring Fanny here." "I give you my word, they'll be married in two weeks." "Oh, beautiful hat, Norine." "Now you go." "Ha, ha." "Marius!" "Marius, are you up yet?" "Good morning, Papa." "You overslept this morning, didn't you?" "Yeah, I read rather late last night." "I've told you 20 times not to read late in bed." "Oh, your eyes look tired." "Must be a very exhausting book." "You know, if I hadn't seen you come from your room," "I'd wonder where you had been." "Uh..." "Losing your trousers?" "Maybe I'm getting thinner." "You should wear a belt." "Oh, all right." "I'll buy one." "You have a good appetite." "Not bad." "Your reading makes you hungry, huh?" "You know, Marius, a woman's honor is like a match." "You can use it once." "There, a little present from Fanny's mother." "It will save you the trouble and expense of buying a new one." "Come on." "Come on!" "Oh, no." "Don't, Mama, don't." "Here is the good woman now." "You can thank her in person." "Oh, Marius!" "Marius!" "Hm!" "There they are Cesar!" "Romeo and Juliet." "You will ask her to marry you right now, or I get a pistol" "And kill you." "Oh, Mama, don't." "Please." "Madame, if I ask your daughter to marry me," "It won't be because of your threats," "But because I love her." "If?" "If?" "What do you mean if?" "Don't worry, Honorine." "He's just saving face." "I'll help him out." "Madame Cabernice, may I ask for the hand of your daughter Fanny" "For my son Marius?" "I'll have to think it over." "Perfectly understandable." "You'll want to do a little face-saving, yourself." "Fine with me." "Well, Sit down, Honorine." "I'll get some paper, pen, and ink." "What for?" "Well, the dowry." "The dowry you're giving your daughter." "We'll want everything in black and white, won't we?" "Very well, pen and ink." "And while you're at it, a bottle of wine!" "We'll drink to it, too!" "He's a scoundrel, your son." "Ha, ha." "Quite a reader, too." "You haven't got much time." "She's going to sail." "I'm not going." "Not going?" "No." "Now, what are you giving your child?" "All the shellfish in the shop." "If she looks after it, she can make" "As much as 40 francs a day, net profit." "And you?" "What will give them?" "Well, uh, Marius can help me in the bar until I retire." "Look." "After I die, Marius will have this bar all for himself." "Ha, ha, ha." "By that time, he should be able to make" "A decent lemon pecan coureso." "They'll have a wonderful life, Norine." "I've been very happy behind this bar." "And Marius will have a fine life behind it, too." "If you don't sail on the Malazee," "You will be stuck here the rest of your life." "Hey!" "We're going to have a show!" "Cappy!" "Oh, how exciting." "Oh, thank you." "Go back a little more." "Go." "Cesar!" "Cesar!" "Look it!" "Think what you're giving up!" "Hey, Marius!" "I'm going to see that ship sail." "You take care of the bar." "The scoundrel!" "Come on!" "How long do you think you will keep him?" "He will clean baths, wash bottles, breed children," "And grow to hate the woman who tied him to this life." "He will never hate me." "You wait and see." "Ha!" "Monsieur the Captain, distinguished scientists," "Ladies and gentlemen..." "Some scientists." "We are all here today..." "Ha, ha." "Not one a day over 35." "No beards!" "Not even eyeglasses!" "It is going on the scientific expedition" "To the far corners of the earth." "We will stay here in our humble surroundings" "And spell out our hum-drum lives," "While you sail the seven seas, smell the perfumes of Arabia," "Plunders depths of the Coral Seas." "What's the matter?" "I saw your face when my mother and your father" "Were planning your life." "Why talk about it?" "It's settled." "Do you really want to marry me that much?" "Marriage is for ones who love, you know?" "I know that." "Are you sure you love me enough?" "Look, there's the Malazee." "All you have to do is cross the cape." "Don't tempt me, Fanny!" "You heard what I told the Admiral, I'm staying." "For how long?" "If you help me, forever." "Marius, I don't want you to stay" "Because you think you have to." "You don't owe me anything." "I ran after you." "What are you trying to do, force me to go?" "No!" "I just want you to be happy." "I want you to do what you really want to do." "I don't understand you, Fanny." "If you really, really loved me, you would try to hold me back" "With every ounce of your strength, wouldn't you?" "What's changed you since last?" "Alexandria!" "Do... don't tell me you're... you're sorry" "Now you said no to Panisse?" "Oh!" "Are you?" "Are you sorry?" "Marius, while Cesar are my mother were planning your life," "They were planning mine, too." "And I couldn't help it." "A different sort of life was flashing before my eyes." "A beautiful home, not to belong behind a bar and a maid" "And dresses and everything." "Then it's true." "You are sorry you said no to Panisse." "And I wasn't just thinking of myself." "My mother is getting old and tired." "There are other things to life than love, aren't there?" "Are there?" "Last night meant nothing to you?" "Were you lying to me last night." "Oh, no." "I wasn't lying to you last night." "Well, Th... then you're lying to me now." "Oh, god help me!" "Help you?" "Help you?" "Help me make you understand." "Last night there was moonlight on the water," "There was... there was music from the boats... there" "Was the fresh scent from the sea." "Today... today, there's only the smell" "Of... of dishwater and fish stalls." "The smell of money, you mean!" "Marius?" "Oh, Marius, go, before we say things to each other that..." "When I was... when I was struggling with myself," "You were only thinking of all the things" "That go with Panisse!" "Marius, go!" "Go!" "Hurry!" "Leave me alone, will you?" "Fanny, only you can stop me." "Now tell me that you love me, and tell me now." "Marius, I tell you, you are free to go." "All right, then it's settled!" "Each to his love." "You marry Panisse's money, and I will marry the sea!" "Ha, ha!" "will profit by this important mission." "Gentlemen, we salute you." "We wish you well." "Come back when your noble mission is accomplished." "Cesar, can I speak to you a minute?" "Of course." "Ha, ha, ha." "Fanny, my daughter-in-law." "Ha, ha." "Ah, it's happened." "Now, what is it you wanted to talk to me about?" "Cesar..." "Marius, oh please, hurry!" "Marius and I will have to find an apartment." "What do you mean?" "You... you will both live with me." "Huh!" "I don't to live alone." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "So long now." "Have you seen my big room upstairs?" "Ah, come!" "I'll show it to you." "Just a little money, and some taste, it can be fixed up." "Brum brum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum" "Brrum brum brump a bum bum bum bum." "Brump a bum, brump a bum." "Cesar!" "Brum brum brum bum bum bum" "Brump a bum brum bum brum brum." "Ha?" "Quite a view from that window." "Ha, ha." "I'll take Marius' room, and you two can have this one." "Cesar!" "Cesar!" "I'm here." "I'm up here." "Listen, Fanny, uh, just one thing." "Leave the bed where it is." "Marius was born there and his mother died there." "Cesar!" "Well, what is it?" "The Malazee's sailing." "Did you know that..." "Is that what you ran all the way for?" "Now, look, Fanny." "You see this little door?" "It leads to a little room." "Ah, if you like... ha, ha, ha, it would please me..." "You could put a little bed in there." "Oh, not a very big bed." "You know, a tiny one." "In fact..." "Fanny!" "Marius, Marius!" "My god, where is he?" "I'll get some rags." "Marius!" "Marius!" "Marius, where are you?" "Marius?" "Marius!" "Kick it!" "Kick it!" "Shh!" "Uh!" "Pstt!" "A tourist." "Idiot!" "Nincompoop!" "Moron!" "How many times have I pounded it into your thick skull?" "One third lemon." "No more, no less!" "Now, watch me." "Since Marius left, there's been no living with him." "Poor Cesar." "I think he's going crazy." "Is it possible?" "In 10 weeks?" "Certainly." "I knew someone that, he had a softening of the brain," "You see?" "It... it... it just melted away in... inside." "And at the end, when he would shake his head to say no," "One would hear, gulm, gulm." "It was splashing!" "Waiting for the postman." "It's hard to believe, Marius hasn't written to him once." "Oh, Cesar." "Cesar!" "You are waiting for someone?" "Why should I be waiting for someone?" "Why are you spying on me, Monsieur Panisse?" "Who pays you?" "Cesar, I'm not spying on you." "Then why do you fix your beady eyes on me" "And asked me if I'm waiting for someone?" "May I have the honor to inform you" "That I don't give two snaps of the finger?" "Cesar, forgive me." "I have the feeling that you are waiting for the postman." "That's enough!" "I forbid you to meddle in my private affairs!" "Do I ask you if your wife is deceiving you" "With the president of Chamber of Commerce?" "You're not asking me, you're telling me." "Oh!" "All you gentlemen together." "That will save me a bit of travel." "Ha, ha." "Monsieur Escartifique, three for you, nothing but bills." "A postcard from your bother Louie, Monsieur Panisse, sir." "All is well." "I'm afraid I have nothing for you, Monsieur Brun." "Hey, uh, uh, today is the day for my Bartenders Journal," "Is it not?" "Oh." "Uh, oh, yes, uh, here it is." "And... and a letter, too." "Oh." "Let's see, Port Said." "Oh, I was never there, but I'm told I'm not missing anything." "Ha, ha." "Oh, Cesar, are you trying to make" "Us believe that you don't love your son?" "I never said that." "I worship him." "But after what he's done to me, it's finished." "And actually, what has he done?" "What has he done?" "He deserted me, that's what he's done!" "Cesar, with all due respect, you are a big egotist." "I mean, if a boy wants to sail, let him." "He can sail where ever he likes, but not on the sea!" "Where else can he sail?" "Well, he can sail like you, in the harbor!" "Huh!" "Good lord, does he have to sail for a living?" "Does Monsieur Panisse sail?" "Ha, ha, ha." "Oh, no." "He's not so stupid." "He makes sails." "Yes, so that the wind can take away other people's children!" "Grown men playing this silly, childish, asinine game!" "I heard you got a letter from Marius today." "Yes." "Did you?" "How is he?" "Fine." "Happy, I think." "Here." "You read it to me." "Every time I read it I get first so angry, and then so sad." "I can't make head or tail of it." "I was having a first taste." "No more service." "We're closed." "But why?" "Ahh!" "Because all the bottles are poisoned." "Poisoned?" "Yes!" "Go ahead, Fanny." "My dear Father, please forgive me for the pain I" "Have caused you." "I want you to know that I think of you every evening." "Ha, ha!" "Thinks of me every evening!" "But I'm stupid enough to think of him all day long, too." "Go on." "At first, they made me assistant cook." "Ha!" "Ha, ha." "Assistant cook!" "But after several days they replaced me." "Naturally!" "They were all starving to death!" "Ha, ha, ha!" "A crew of skeletons!" "At Port Said..." "Oh, yes, yes." "Terrible here." "Oh?" "A sailor got some mysterious illness." "They thought it was the plague." "The plague!" "Oh!" "When his schoolmates had the measles," "I kept Marius home a month!" "And now, he's on a boat with the plague!" "The Black Death!" "The neck swells up, the eyes pop out," "The tongue hangs out like a beef tongue, and the navel..." "But they found out it wasn't the plague." "All right, then say so at once, you stupid!" "We are now engaged in measuring..." "Oh, yes, it, uh, it gets scientific here." "In measuring the depths of the Indian Ocean." "Eh?" "Ha, ha, ha, ha." "Oh, this boy... this boy who couldn't even" "Measure a lemon pecan coureso." "He's now measuring an ocean." "Ah." "Please don't worry about me, Father." "I'm as happy as a fish in water." "I embrace you with all my heart." "Your son, Marius." "Your son, Marius." "Uh, there is a postscript, is there not?" "Please write me about Fanny, how" "She is, and about her marriage..." "Her marriage to Panisse." "Oh, yes." "This, um, this confuses me." "Why does Marius think that you are marrying Panisse?" "Because I told him so." "I lied to him." "You?" "You lied?" "Ha, ha, ha." "Ah, I don't believe it." "You're lying to me now." "What's the difference anyway?" "He's as happy as a fish in water, isn't he?" "He'll write to you soon, I'm sure." "Holy Mother, forgive me." "And forgive my sin, but I love him so." "Oh, please let him return to give me his name for his child." "Give me courage, Holy Mother, to live," "And strength to tell my mother." "Fanny, what is it?" "What are you doing back here?" "Where have you been?" "Mama," "What is it, Fanny?" "Mama, I'm going to have a baby." "It's true, Mama." "Oh, no!" "No!" "I am not going to scream here, on the boat." "I am going to the house where no one can hear me!" "Dear God!" "Dear God!" "Don't come into my house!" "Mama!" "Or I'll lock the door in your face!" "Mama, beat me, do anything, but let me stay with you." "Go!" "Go!" "Mama!" "Walk the street!" "Walk the streets!" "Oh!" "Oh, Mama." "No, Mam..." "Mama, Mama!" "I said, get out!" "Get out!" "Out!" "Out!" "Fanny, Fanny." "Fanny, my darling girl, oh, don't die my baby!" "Oh!" "I forgive you anything." "Just don't die." "Oh." "Ah." "Are you all right, my baby?" "Well, who was it, you wicked girl?" "Marius, I suppose." "Oh!" "That Marius with his dreamy eyes!" "Now we know what he was dreaming about." "Well, when can we expect this disgrace?" "In March." "March!" "Perfect!" "The month of March hails in lunatics!" "Oh, Mama, what am I to do?" "Do?" "Do?" "Marry Panisse." "Oh!" "He asks for you every day." "Oh, couldn't I go on earning my living" "And... and... and not marry anyone?" "Raise my baby with... with the money I can put aside?" "Listen, Fanny." "If you refuse Panisse, we would have" "To move away... the disgrace!" "The disgrace!" "Oh, good God help me." "But would he still want me?" "Well, fortunately, he doesn't know about the baby." "Hm?" "Oh, well, you mean, I shouldn't tell him?" "Don't bother Panisse with details like that." "Oh, oh, no." "I must tell him." "It would be criminal not to." "Why?" "Are you even sure it's true?" "Oh, it's true, all right." "Dr. Venelle said so." "Aah!" "Dr. Venelle, that idiot!" "He's at least 70 years old." "Well, then if it isn't true, I don't" "Have to get married, do I?" "You can get married without being pregnant." "Lots of girls do it!" "On an expensive hat like this, couldn't you" "Have used, at least, a... a... a fresh orange?" "I'm sorry, Sir Panisse, but I took you for an American." "An American?" "From behind." "All right." "It's quite possible, but in the future," "When you see an American, make sure it is not me, eh?" "Fanny." "Oh!" "Panisse, can I talk to you a minute?" "Certainly, Fanny." "Come in, please." "You must excuse the way I'm dressed." "I've just come from the wedding of a friend." "Oh." "Lunch, everybody." "Monsieur Panisse, we have already had lunch." "Lunch!" "Well, Fanny?" "Monsieur Panisse, my mother tells me that" "You've come several times to ask her..." "Fanny, you haven't come to say that..." "Yes, except..." "Except that you hesitate." "Because of you and Marius?" "Fanny, the morning Marius sailed," "I was up in front of my shop early." "I saw him coming out of your house." "Oh!" "Don't feel bad about it." "Fanny, w-w-wuh when a man of my age marries a... a young girl," "The... the scales are not quite in... in balance." "But if the young girl has been discreetly indiscreet," "Well, it restores a little the balance." "Oh, Panisse, how good you are." "I would work like a slave to make you happy." "I would be a servant to you." "I'm not asking you to be my servant." "I'm asking you to be my wife." "I accept you, Panisse." "Oh!" "Ho!" "Fanny!" "Fanny, I'll devote myself to you for completely." "I'll be so tender, so considerate," "And make you so happy you'll forget all about Marius." "Oh!" "I can't marry you, Panisse." "I'm very sorry I said I could." "Why not?" "I haven't even the right to kill myself." "Is it a baby?" "Are you sure?" "The doctor told you?" "Is that why you look so pale?" "Oh, Panisse, please don't tell my mother that you know," "And that's why you refused me." "You'll give me the baby?" "He'll have my name?" "Oh." "Monsieur Panisse, do you mean, do mean you still want me now?" "Oh, come with me, Fanny." "Look up there." "Henri Panisse." "You notice how... how the letters are squeezed together" "On the left, and on the right side, nothing?" "Do you know why?" "Come with me." "Now, now, now, uh, uh, now, I..." "I" "Will show you what it would spell." "Thirty years!" "For thirty years they have been on this shelf, see?" "Ha, ha, on this shelf, and..." "And... and now they will..." "They will go up where they belong." "Look, look!" "Panisse and son!" "And son!" "Aha, ha, ha!" "Does anyone else know your... your... your secret?" "The doctor knows." "Well, doctors don't talk because they're doctors." "And mothers can't talk because they're mothers." "Anyone else?" "No one, I swear." "Oh!" "Fine, fine!" "Fine!" "Fine!" "Fine!" "A very good day!" "Ah, ha, ha." "And now, uh, now when is my little one due?" "In March." "March!" "The month of geniuses!" "March!" "Ha, ha!" "A seven month baby." "Eh!" "That rather makes me out to be, ha, ha, a rake, you know?" "Ha, ha!" "Panisse, are you sure you won't regret this?" "L-I-listen, Fanny." "There hasn't been a... a baby in the Panisse family" "For 50 years." "They were all counting on me." "My poor wife, it was impossible for her to... to have a child." "Oh, ho!" "The doctors we saw!" "Ha, ha!" "All the... the mineral waters we drank..." "The candles we... we lit, the..." "The calisthenics we... we tried." "Ha, ha." "And now, now blessed mother, everything is changed." "A wife and a son of my very own." "Oh, ho, ho." "Fanny!" "Fanny, we'll give him everything!" "But if it's a girl?" "We'll give her almost everything." "And besides, it's very unlikely." "There are only boys in my family." "Panisse!" "Panisse, I want to show you something." "A picture of Marius he sent me from Madagascar." "Doesn't it... well, I'm sorry, Fanny." "I didn't see you." "It's all right, Cesar." "You can mention Marius in front of me now." "Panisse and I are going to be married." "I don't believe it." "I believe it." "It's your mother!" "Ha, ha!" "Your mother loves Panisse's money." "And she has sold you like a..." "Like a little African slave!" "No, it's not my mother's decisions, it's mine!" "Well, it's my decision that this marriage" "Will not take place!" "And who's going to stop it?" "I am!" "I'll see you in church." "Yes!" "And my first word to you will be, have a blow to your skull!" "I'll come right up to the altar, and I grab you" "By your stiff collar, and I'll scatter you" "All over the Rhone Valley, do you hear?" "Don't you bully me." "Or I'll tell you something that would shut your mouth forever!" "Your bullying days are over, Cesar!" "This is my shop!" "My name is Panisse!" "And Fanny's going to be Madame Panisse." "And what's more, you extinct rooster..." "Panisse, be careful of what you're saying." "What's more, we are going to have a baby!" "Panisse!" "And what's more, it's going to be a 7 months baby!" "Panisse, please!" "And do you know whose baby we're going to do have?" "Panisse, be quiet!" "We're going to have Marius' baby!" "That's whose baby we're going to have!" "You're a mad dog, and you ought to be shot." "This is the gun, shoot!" "Put that gun down." "But before you pull the trigger, know this." "When you shoot me, your shooting the father of your grandchild!" "You're shooting the husband of your poor grandchild's mother!" "Now shoot!" "At least you've murdered that poor fellow." "Let that be a lesson to you." "Fanny, you're not going to do this." "Oh, Cesar, if I have a child without a husband," "My family will be dishonored." "My mother will die of shame." "I'll write to Marius." "He'll come back." " He won't come back, Cesar." " Of course he will." "Why not?" "He's as happy as a fish in water, isn't he?" "That boy's crazy, measuring the depth of the Indian Ocean!" "Ha!" "He's written to you twice, he sends you photographs." "Not a word to me." "He's forgotten me." "Ahem." "Wh-wh-when... when people ask me how much I'm worth," "I usually lie to them." "I tell them 600,000 francs." "Ah, ha." "Actually, uh, am I worth one million and a half." "Uh, I only bring this up now because, uh, it" "Seems to fit into the conversation." "Well, it doesn't fit me!" "I don't care if you have a billion francs." "I'm not selling you my grandson!" "Now come, Fanny." "Let's go." "Let..." "Can you guarantee that Marius will come back in time?" "Can you guarantee the winds and tides?" "And be very careful, Cesar, what fate" "You decide for your grandson." "The child of Fanny Cabernice will be an illegitimate child," "A shame and a disgrace to her family," "But the child of Madame Panisse will" "Be born in a wonderful old bed, covered with fine linen sheets." "And the child, Cesar, the child will" "Be enthroned on top of a family tree," "Like a cross on a church steeple." "Is that position too high for your grandson, Cesar?" "No position is too high for my grandson." "But the son of Madame Panisse will not be my grandson!" "Uh!" "Well, I couldn't even brag about him." "I would have to smuggle myself in here at night," "Pretending to be a casual acquaintance!" "Why couldn't the child's godfather" "Come and visit him any time he liked?" "Take him strolling to the park, alone," "Sport him around on his shoulder, hm?" "Mm, would, um, the godfather be able to choose" "The child's name?" "If he has a... a knack for choosing names." "How would you like the name Marius?" "Marius Panisse." "It has a certain ring to it." "Uh, not much." "I have a better idea." "An important man should have three names." "Now couldn't we put a third name in front?" "For instance, Cesar." "Cesar Marius Panisse." "As a nickname, we... we could call him Cesario." "Now wait a minute, how about that million and a half?" "Would my godson inherit all of it?" "Naturally." "He'd be my son." "Well, with my bar thrown in, it would" "Come to almost two million!" "Why, when our boy will be 20 years old," "He could smoke cigars as long as your arm!" "Ha, ha, ha." "Of course, he would go to the very best schools." "Oh, not only the best, the most expensive!" "Naturally!" "Ah, ha, ha, ha." "Hurry, Honorine." "Up!" "Thank you, my dear." "Honorine looks beautiful!" "To the bride!" "Cesar!" "Cesar!" "Hey, come at once!" "What?" "Cesar Marius Panisse is getting himself born!" "Oh!" "Oh you can stop running." "They won't let us anywhere near her yet." "Is everything well?" "The doctor says, yes." "Dawn's breaking, Cesar." "The day and my child are being born at the same time." "The beautifulest morning." "Cesario will arrive to the sound of bells!" "Ah!" "Ah, ha, ha, ha!" "Ah, ha, ha, oh!" "Oh, no, no, no." "She must have quiet." "Otherwise, I won't be responsible." "Doctor, I am Luique Anais owner of the Cassius Lines," "Honorine's brother, and the eldest in the family." "I..." "I would like to see her for just one second." "Yes, doctor." "He must, he's our eldest." "Oh, yes, please" "Please, Doctor, please?" "He's beautiful." "I've seen you but once before, and that" "Was on your wedding day." "Yet I talk to you as one of the family." "It is an honest family, and a rich one," "But it is a little sad, because none of us had any children." "We would have all day taking our name with us, but for you." "So I, the oldest, in the name of all our relatives..." "Even those who are dead and gone..." "Drove all night to tell you of our inexpressible joy." "It's a boy!" "Thank you, dear sister-in-law." "Thank you." "There we are." "To Cesario!" "To Cesario!" "He's teething." "Off to bed, it's about time." "Oh, no, no, no, no." "No one carried him but his father." "Ah, ha, ha." "Good night Cesario!" "Oh!" "Who would have thought such a quiet gentleman like Panisse" "Would have produced such a child?" "Must have tucked away a little energy, some place." "I propose another toast." "Oh, no, Panisse!" "Not again?" "You're going to miss that train." "Uh, uh, Fanny will take his temperature every hour." "If it... if it goes up, I'll come back." "Oh!" "Incidentally, it's a disgrace for Panisse" "To rush off to Paris on Cesario's birthday!" "Here, here!" "Just a minute!" "I certainly think it's no disgrace for Panisse" "To get that motorcar agency for the whole of Rhone Valley." "Right!" "Yeah." "That's right!" "Shh!" "As Panisse's mother-in-law, I say, it's a disgrace!" "Oh." "As bookkeeper for Panisse  Son, ha, I say," "Don't miss that train!" "Faster!" "Hurry, hurry." "Papa." "Oh, ho." "You look good in this suit!" "Oh, Papa." "Goodbye, Panisse." "Take these flowers to my wife." "You take these flowers to my wife." "And tell her..." "Yes." "Tell her I miss her already." "Tell her!" "And tell her I miss her already." "Long live Panisse  Son." "What is it?" "It's me, Fanny." "Don't be afraid." "It's Marius." "So it's you." "I..." "I..." "I..." "Don't bother." "Uh, sit down." "Will you have a... a little glass of something?" "Yes, if you and your husband will join me." "Oh, my husband is..." "My husband is asleep." "Are you back for good?" "No, only for a few hours." "The Malazee is in dry dock in Sydney." "A French cruiser brought three of us" "Back with some scientific instruments" "That can only be repaired in Paris." "I asked to be one to three men in charge." "You were homesick?" "Yes." "Yes, for my... for my father, for Marseilles, for everyone." "Everyone." "You're not happy at sea?" "If I said, no I were not," "I'd look silly now, wouldn't I?" "I'm quite happy." "Did you see the isles beneath the wind?" "Yes." "What were they like?" "Volcanic ash." "And you?" "Are you happy?" "I have a good husband, and a fine home." "And a fine child." "Yes, a fine... who told you?" "Cesar?" "Oh, no." "The Admiral had to tell me." "Funny my father never wrote me about it." "How old is your baby?" "10 months." "What else did the Admiral say, about my child, I mean?" "What else should he say?" "Is you son such a wonder that every one must talk about him?" "Well, certainly he's a wonder." "He's walking by himself now." "At 10 months?" "Do babies walk at 10 months?" "Precocious babies do." "All turned out for the best, huh?" "Well, goodbye, Fanny." "Goodbye, Marius." "On your way back from Paris, will" "You be coming through here again?" "We'll be leaving from Cherbourg by a British boat." "Oh." "They're fast, those British boats." "Yes, they're fast." "My regards to your husband." "I..." "I don't want to disturb him, though." "Oh, lady!" "Beautiful lady!" "Beautiful lady!" "We have beautiful instructions from your beautiful husband." "Before he stepped onto the train for Paris he said to us," "Take these beautiful flowers to my beautiful wife," "And tell her that I miss her already." "Thank you, very much." "Goodbye." "So Panisse is on his way to Paris." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Are you afraid of me?" "No, Marius." "I'm not afraid of you." "Why didn't you write me?" "You didn't write me." "I wrote five or six letters, but I tore them all up." "Why?" "Because you were happily married to Panisse." "And that didn't take long, did it?" "Two months after I sailed." "Marius, why don't you go now." "Whatever you can say now can be of no use." "Why did you marry Panisse so quickly?" "Why didn't my father write to me that you had a son?" "And how is it that Panisse was never" "Able to have a child with his first wife?" "Go away, Marius!" "I bet that this child was born less" "Than seven months after your marriage!" "How do you know that?" "I left you with a child." "Forgive me, Fanny." "I forgave you long ago." "You know, at first I didn't think of your often." "I was angry with you." "I thought it was all over with us, finished." "And then, little by little it began." "At night in my hammock I started thinking about you." "I saw you standing by your shellfish stall" "In your little straw hat." "I could smell the scent of you." "Oh, Marius, stop." "I saw you everywhere." "You only said you wanted to marry Panisse to make me go." "Oh, Marius, no." "You love me, Fanny, as I love you." "No." "Yes, you love me." "No." "You love me, don't you?" "No!" "No!" "Now, Marius, now my children, don't do this." "Not here." "Panisse is a decent human being." "Don't make him look ridiculous in his own home." "Why didn't you tell me the baby was mine?" "The baby?" "He knows, Cesar." "Oh, that baby." "Listen, Papa, I like you very much." "But right now, I can do very well without you." "How well you say that, Marius, Now one" "Can see that, uh, you are a man." "You no longer respect you father." "But in the absence of Fanny's husband," "You have no right to be with Madame Henri Panisse." "Fanny!" "Oh." "You missed that train again?" "No, but in the sleeper I met Dr. Sigarond." "He tells me, point blank, that there's" "A whooping cough epidemic in town." "So... well..." "You see, we have some visitors." "Ha, ha, yes." "Marius." "Good evening, Marius." "Good evening, Monsieur Panisse." "Fanny, don't you ought to take Cesario's temperature?" "Oh, he's all right." "I just took his temperature." "So you're home now, eh?" "Only in transit." "Uh, a leave." "A long leave?" "That depends upon you and Fanny." "I don't quite understand." "Fanny is my wife, and the mother or my son." "It's not your son, Panisse." "For a long time now, I've been trying" "To go to Paris on business." "I've missed every train." "Every time I put my foot on the platform I would say," "This is the night Marius is coming back." "What if he tries to take everything from me?" "For two years, I've been preparing my answer." "And now that I see you standing there so young and lean," "I forget what I was going to say." "Perhaps I'm in the way?" "No, Panisse." "Yes, yes." "Perhaps I'm in the way, and the most gracious thing for me" "To do would be to go out and drown myself by accident." "Ho, ho, ho." "Only, if I'm dead, I won't" "See the little one anymore." "And so I absolutely refuse to drown myself." "Nobody asked you to." "I asked myself." "And I refuse!" "Fanny, if you want to leave me and go away" "With this young fellow, I won't stand in your way." "And what happens to the child?" "The child?" "Yes." "The child?" "But wh-why don't you ask me for my eyes," "My heart, my liver, my spleen?" "No, no, Marius." "You will never get the little one." "Never." "Marius, you are young." "You are able to have other children." "But this child, it's my first child." "My last child." "You see, Marius, if... if... if he were just an ordinary child," "Like those children you see in the park," "But this child is so unique!" "Cesar, tell him!" "He's right about that, Marius." "Uh, mind you, you were a beautiful child," "But, uh, this one..." "He coughed!" "Hm?" "He coughed?" "I didn't hear anything." "No, no." "No one hears him." "But I hear him!" "He's a clever man, that Panisse." "A very generous and clever man, who says," "I might give up the woman, but I keep the child." "Knowing that without the child, the woman won't go." "But it's my child." "I'm his father!" "No, Marius." "Before he was born, you were his father." "But since his birth, Panisse is his father." "Why, when this child came into the world," "He weighed eight pounds of his mother flesh." "Now he weighs 23." "You know what those extra 15 pounds are?" "Love." "Love doesn't weigh very much." "It's like cigarette smoke, it takes a lot of love" "To make 15 pounds." "I gave my share, and Fanny, too." "But the big weight, the bulk, Panisse gave it." "And what have you given?" "Life." "Dogs give life, too." "And bulls give life." "Besides, you were not looking to give life." "You were looking for pleasure." "And while you had your pleasure, the baby took life from you." "Who is the father, then?" "The one who gives life, or the one who buys the bibs?" "The father is the one who loves." "Fanny, tell him." "No, Marius." "You were the father of an illegitimate child." "A disaster to a family." "But that child does not exist anymore." "My child was born in a big, fine bed, on old linen," "Attended by his grandmother, his aunts, his uncle." "And you won't have that child, Marius." "He's enthroned in my family..." "Panisse's family." "So you're against me too?" "Oh, Marius." "Since your father is here to protect me," "I can tell you I love you." "Perhaps more than I ever did." "Every morning I see your face in the smile of my son." "Oh, when I saw you in that window," "I felt as if I were falling towards you." "As you used to feel you were falling towards the sea." "But there's Panisse." "The night the child was born, before the doctor came," "I held his hand and dug my nails into him." "And he said, bite me, scratch me, the more you" "Hurt me, the more the baby will be mine." "He still has the marks." "So Marius, please go away." "If it's any comfort to you, remember that there's" "A woman who thinks about you every night," "And would like to lie beside you and fall" "Asleep in the warmth of your body." "And wake in the morning with your arms around her." "Papa, what would you want me to do?" "I want not to miss your train." "It's your child who is sending you away." "Don't you like me anymore?" "Of course!" "I like you, very much." "Ha, you idiot." "Only you're big, and he's so small." "Say goodbye to Madame Panisse." "Goodbye, Fanny." "Goodbye, Marius." "I'll never love anyone but you." "I never did love anyone but you, Marius." "Cesario!" "Cesario, where are you?" "Cesario, did you hear what I said?" "Yes, Grandmama." "All right, what did I say?" "You asked me if I heard what you said." "Hello, Cesar." "How is the?" "Oh, always full." "But always empty." "Ah, come on, now." "Now... now, forget it." "Now we've got to make some plans for our boys, today." "Hm?" "What's outside that window that's so special?" "Hm?" "Papa and Cesar are planning something." "Uh-oh." "Oh, I know." "It's a birthday party for me, isn't It?" "Yes." "But you're not supposed to know." "It's to be a surprise." "I wanted to go to the circus for my birthday." "He wanted to go to the circus for his birthday." "So naturally, you bring the circus to him." "Yes, with clowns, a magician, and acrobats." "Oh, now, now." "Now let..." "let's go." "Would it make you feel any better" "If I gave you birthday present now?" "What is it?" "Hm?" "Oh, for me?" "A... a telescope." "Can we see the waterfront with it?" "Well, if we can't, I am asking for my money back." "Oh, wonderful!" "Look!" "Oh, the waterfront!" "My beautiful, wonderful waterfront." "Why do we live so far away?" "Ask your father." "Cesario." "Cesario, darling." "Mama!" "Honorine, how are you?" "Why... why don't you take Cesario to the park for a few hours?" "Or maybe she has some shopping to do?" "Please, Father, may we go to the waterfront, instead?" "Waterfront?" "No." "Why not?" "I've never seen Cesar's place, or where" "My Grandma used to sell fish." "I'd like to go there, myself." "I..." "Oh, no, the... the waterfront is..." "Is no place for a... for a well brought up boy." "It was all right for Cesar's boy, wasn't it?" "What do you know about my son?" "Not much, except that he went to sea," "And that every time his name comes up" "Everybody sneezes, or coughs, or something." "Did Marius do something bad?" "My son ran away from me." "Are you still angry with him?" "I believe so." "I think it's how I'm able to live without him." "Did you know him, Father?" "Yes, I knew him." "Didn't you like him?" "Yes, I rather did like him." "Did you know him, Mama?" "Of course." "I used to sell fish next to Cesar's bar." "Marius and I grew up together." "Did you like him." "Very much." "Well, if you all like him so much," "Why can't we invite him to come and see us?" "Well, uh, we don't know where he is." "Ha." "If I went to sea, would everybody be angry with me?" "Because that's all I want to do." "We'll tell you what you want to do, young man, when" "The time comes and we are good and ready." "In the meantime, you are going to the park" "With your grandmother, eh?" "Come." "Come on." "Oh!" "Oh, ho, ho." "Hello." "Oh, the waterfront!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Come on!" "Oh, ho!" "Remember that house there?" "The house where I was born?" "Yes, Panisse's shop!" "Now, come, come." "Come here." "Look!" "Mama used to sell fish here?" "Yes!" "Don't you like the fish?" "Well, it's the best that we have." "I'm very sorry." "What kind of a way is this to sell fish?" "Honorine!" "Oh, what a beautiful hat and belt!" "Oh, you darling, what sheik!" "You're a vision!" "Oh!" "Honorine!" "Oh, Dorene, you've got to insult customers," "Or they won't respect you." "Mm, look." "What's wrong with it?" "It's too small." "Well, massaging it won't make it any bigger." "Ha, I'll take two." "You see?" "Ha!" "Give me that apron." "I'll show you how to sell fish!" "Ah, ha, ha!" "Mm, how I've missed this filthy, smelly waterfront." "Oysters!" "Muscles, beautiful sardines." "Don't cry." "Don't cry." "Oh!" "Oysters, muscles, beautiful sardines!" "Seaweed?" "That's right." "From the bottom of the sea?" "Yes." "Hello there." "Who is this young able-bodied seaman?" "Hm?" "Hm?" "Cesario Panisse!" "Yes, sir." "How do you know my name?" "Hang on." "All hands on deck!" "I am your Admiral." "Salute!" "Follow me, march!" "Brr rum pa ta bum bum bum." "Brr rum pa ta bum pa ta bum bum bum." "Brr rum pa ta bum pa ta bum pa ta bum." "Brr rum pa ta bum pa ta bum!" "Brrum halt!" "There she is." "She's not much, but, uh, she's mine." "You've got a boat?" "Would you like to take a little sail?" "Oh, I'd love to!" "Good." "Only they're giving this party for me tonight." "Oh, we'll be back before the party." "Come on, matey." "I'll pipe you aboard." "Toodle doodle doodle doodle dude." "Ha, ha." "Ha, ha, ha." "Now... now we've got to shove off, like this." "There!" "Ha, ha, ha." "Yes, now... oh, man the oars!" "We're going through!" "Ship ahoy!" "Ship ahoy!" "You want one pound or two pounds?" "You want two pounds." "Ha!" "Ha, ha. ha." "Cesario?" "Cesario!" "Cesario!" "Ship ahoy!" "Heave ho, my hearty!" "Heave ho!" "Ha, ha!" "Ha, ha, ha." "Lighthouse to port, ahoy there!" "Panisse!" "Panisse." "What?" "What?" "What is it?" "What's the matter?" "Oh!" "What's wrong with the old..." "Oh, Panisse!" "What's she crying about?" "Forgive me, Panisse!" "I took him to the waterfront and..." "The waterfront?" "Where is he?" "Oh, Panisse, he is lost." "He is lost." "Lost?" "Panisse!" "Faint!" "Call the doctor!" "A relation of mine went to sea." "A relation?" "Yes, Marius, my godfather's son." "Marius?" "You know him?" "But yes." "I see him every week." "Bring him news from Marseilles." "I'm his newspaper, ha, ha." "Ah?" "Wouldn't you invite him to my party?" "Yes." "Look, look!" "There's a garage up there where Marius works." "Ah." "Hm, you can invite him yourself, huh?" "Cesario!" "Cesario!" "Hey, Monsieur." "Do you know Afique Wasou?" "The Admiral?" "I saw his crazy sail in the bay an hour ago." "He was heading west." "Was there a little boy with him?" "Could you tell?" "Hm?" "Hey, Marius!" "Ha, ha!" "Ha, ha, ha." "Hello, Admiral!" "I've brought you a visitor." "I hope you don't mind." "Ho!" "Cesario Panisse, Marius." "Marius?" "Cesar's Marius?" "Aren't you going to shake hands or something?" "Yes, of... of course." "Oh, excuse me." "It... it's just that I haven't seen" "Anyone from home in so long." "Is that it?" "The one with the star?" "Yes." "Let's go, quickly." "He's here all right." "Why don't you come back to Marseilles with us?" "They're giving me a party tonight." "Oh, I'd love to." "But... but I'm..." "I'm going to America tomorrow morning." "To America?" "Yes." "Would you take me with you?" "Take you?" "Oh, yes." "I want to go to sea, like you did." "You could teach me all about the sea." "Listen, once you leave home, you'll never have another one." "But you love the sea, and I do too." "Yes." "I love the sea." "But what happened?" "Hm?" "Chief cook and bottle washer sea at sea, jack of all trades," "A stretch in the army, a third-rate prize fighter." "No, nothing lasted." "How would you like a life like that?" "It sounds wonderful!" "Cesario!" "Cesario!" "Take me with you." "Please, please!" "Take me with you." "Will you?" "Oh will you?" "Panisse is dying." "Come on, I've got a car." "Remember, five years ago the doctor" "Told him he was finished." "He got so mad, he got right out of bed." "Yes." "Yes." "Now, how can we make him mad enough" "To get out of bed this time?" "Um, uh..." "What if we asked him to make a last confession." "That should make him furious." "Yes, yes." "Speak up!" "It adds considerably to the strain" "Of dying to try and hear what you're saying." "Who is dying?" "Ha, ha, ha." "Who's dying?" "Who's dying?" "It's not dying I mind, it's giving up life that annoys me." "You know what I'll miss most?" "What?" "The little pleasures of life." "Lunch, dinner, looking out over the old port." "Panisse." "What?" "Keep talking!" "When you keep quiet like that, uh, we" "Don't know what to expect." "Don't expect me to die yet." "Because I've not decided when." "It's not up to you!" "You're not the one who's dying." "I'll go when it's time to go, and not a moment sooner." "All right." "All right." "He's mad as hell." "Tell him about the confession." "The confession." "Oh, um, ahem, uh, just to be on the safe side, ha, ha," "What a word or two with a priest?" "No last confession." "But you've got to make a last confession!" "Otherwise, the fat will be in the fire for good." "That remark was in extremely poor taste." "Well, I'm sorry." "But it was funny." "What would the priest ask me?" "The Ten Commandments, that sort of thing." "All right, I'll do it." "How do they go?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Oh." "I'm in wonderful shape on that one." "When I think of all of the times I" "Wanted to kill you and didn't." "Oh, I ought to get an extra credit on that one." "Yes, we'll both get promoted on that one." "And what's another one?" "Thou shalt not steal." "Oh, now, these priests have got to understand" "That wh-when a man is in business..." "Ha, ha." "Now!" "Oh, oh." "Aren't we getting close to the one about, uh, hm, hm, hm?" "Yes." "How are your on that one, Panisse?" "Honorine, would you mind leaving the room?" "Oh, just when we were getting somewhere!" "Now, don't make light, huh, of this." "Fanny has always been very fond of me." "But as for, uh, passion, she never felt that for me." "And so, of course, I..." "I respected her feelings." "And I have been very undemanding, so to speak." "And so?" "Ah, the devil... the devil found in me" "A good customer, if..." "If you follow me." "He tempted you, you mean?" "You might put it that way." "Excuse me, but, um, what form did this temptation take?" "Huh?" "The form of one of my lady employees." "Oh?" "Which one?" "A car!" "He's back!" "Ha, ha!" "Cesario and Fanny and... ho!" "Will you go to bed, you old fool?" "You want to kill yourself?" "Hm." "What's the matter with him?" "Nothing." "Papa!" "Papa!" "Oh, I didn't know you were sick." "I wasn't really going to run away." "Thank god, you're safe!" "Oh, Papa, I went on a lovely boat ride." "Do you know who's here?" "Don't worry, Fanny." "I know." "It's Marius." "Yes." "Papa, could we ask Marius to stay for the party?" "Oh, no!" "I mean, your father's not well enough." "There won't be any party." "Of course, Cesario will have his party." "Fanny, please, invite him for me, will you?" "Oh..." "Please, Mama." "I like him, so much." "Now, you go around the bed and help me go on the balcony." "But, Papa, you mustn't." "Please, please, help me." "Please." "All these years not even a postcard" "To ask about my health!" "How do you know I didn't ask about your health?" "I had news through Pierre." "Pierre?" "Oh, you know, the one with the squinty eye." "Oh, Pierre." "Each time he would sail a customer to Marseilles" "He had a drink in your place." "Yes." "He used to look at me so much, we called him The Watcher." "When he'd come back at night I used to ask him," "How many customers did my father shout" "At in a period of five minutes?" "And we had answered three or four," "Then I knew that all was well with you." "Panisse knows you are here, and he wants you to stay" "Our son's... for Cesario's party." "Oh, no, I couldn't do that." "Oh, but he wants you to." "Listen, I..." "I don't resent Panisse." "Just looking at the boy makes me know" "How much he's done for him." "Well, then, stay." "All right." "For a while." "But I don't want to hear a word from anybody" "About the sacrifice he made." "What are you trying to do?" "Who are you trying to hurt!" "Your father?" "Fanny?" "I haven't any time left to hurt anybody," "You..." "I'm leaving for America tomorrow." "I'm sick of living in exile, on the outskirts of my life." "And no man can say that I'm putting on Panisse's slippers" "While they're still warm!" "Now listen, you!" "You're still..." "No, no, Cesar." "Let him have his bitterness." "We took everything else away from him." "Everything." "Oh, Marius, when I sent you to sea," "I thought I was being noble and unselfish." "But the truth is, I thought you would turn at the gang plank" "And coming back to me." "But you didn't." "So then later, Cesar, when we really" "Should have sent for him, you were angry, but I was too." "And I took my revenge." "That's what I did." "I revenged myself!" "Mama, Papa wants to see you and Cesar, quickly." "Oh." "Would you like to come and see the clown?" "Yes." "Oh, Panisse!" "Panisse, what are you doing out here?" "Look!" "Stop, Cesario!" "One, two, jumpy, oh!" "Whoa!" "Ha, ha, ha." "One, two." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Ha, they look well together." "Whoa!" "Ha, ha, ha." "Whoa!" "Fanny, I want to write a letter." "Will you take it down for me?" "Yes, of course, but..." "Dear Marius... go ahead, write." "This is a proposal of marriage." "Will you do me the honor to marry my wife?" "She will be free soon..." "Oh, no, Panisse." "And I recommend her very highly." "Oh, Panisse." "I cannot write this." "I can." "Go ahead, Panisse." "I will rest easier knowing that she has someone" "To care for her, especially if it's" "The one she has always loved." "I also feel that my son should have" "A father, even though it's his own." "Ha, ha." "Ha, ha, ha, that's good, he'll like that." "I hope you will agree and not be" "Stubborn like that old rhinoceros, your father." "Why aren't you putting that down?" "I cannot spell rhinoceros!" "All right." "All right." "Uh, leave it out." "But it, uh, it kills the style of the whole letter." "Go on." "Hastily, yours." "Now, let me sign it, quick." "Will you promise to send it the moment the time comes?" "You mustn't speak this way." "I love you, Panisse." "About the boy, Cesar, will you mind" "If you grandson keeps the name Panisse?" "Of course not." "Thanks to you, there will be others." "Woo!" "Woo!" "Hey!" "Well, welcome!"