"Give him to us out of the question" "I baptise you balthazar in the name of the father, son and holy ghost amen" "receive the salt of wisdom" "jacques marie" "see you next year" "years pass" "that one" "property for sale" "marie, come and look" "look at that" "five hundred acres ready for sowing and I, a school teacher, swotted it up from books but the land isn't ours never mind, we'll be all right" "super donkey fast modern" "she may be in love with him, and he with her and he with her?" "That's right you don't say" "a donkey?" "In mythology" "solicitor i'll never return now that my daughter is dead" "I haven't sold the farms, so why don't you run them yourself?" "You once told me you'd like to try" "you'd have to give up teaching to do it" "read on enclosed is my formal authorisation to work the farms my solicitor will advance you the money to start with" "I give you an entirely free hand you don't have to render accounts to me and now i'm told I must render accounts to you that's right i'm not obliged to." "What if I refuse?" "I wouldn't advise that." "There's enough gossip already gossip?" "Take the donkey home." "I'll walk" "anonymous letters they began to arrive after the sale of the wood they alleged that your father - without proof" "how vile the price of your father's success:" "Envy and jealousy my father has nothing to be ashamed of i've come to sort it out does your father believe these letters?" "My father has never asked for thanks." "Now he's hurt" "yes, it's balthazar marie, nothing's changed" "except you, marie prettier and more beautiful than ever remember what I once told you here?" "You'd be my only love" "but i'm not sure I love you, jacques is it so hard to know?" "If I don't love you, I don't want to mislead you aren't you happy with me?" "Very happy" "speak to him alone." "I'll wait don't let this business come between us" "won't we meet again?" "If you weren't so proud the matter would be settled why should I make a gesture?" "The boy was on your side and you threw him out" "give them the accounts they're my business." "I'm not obliged to give accounts anyway, I can't find them that's just the attitude which helps your enemies the courts will decide who's right" "why keep the donkey if marie hides and doesn't feed him?" "That old-fashioned donkey makes us look ridiculous we must avoid ridicule at all costs" "balthazar... they say he does many odd jobs for him like cutting firewood he's very obliging our priest, in return excuses his pranks why take him?" "Only on trial for a week" "good night, gerard" "get out!" "At once!" "I say so" "where are you going?" "Nowhere go back, then" "what have you come here for?" "Looking for what's mine." "I'm no thief clear off!" "What's wrong?" "Gerard's wonderful; he's got everything ready for baking" "you, gerard?" "Me?" "Don't deny it you should ask" "of course if you need something, say so." "I don't want you to go short i'd brought you a present, to say thank you" "look there" "but i'll take it all back if I see you with marie again" "where were you?" "Summons to the police station" "i'll hide you you can escape over the frontier" "don't make fun of me don't scorn my tears" "why shouldn't I speak out?" "You're on the wrong track no one's asking you they couldn't do it, those snotnoses it's a frame-up" "hand them over." "You'll get them back later your thumbs" "are you arresting me?" "Not yet, but we're keeping an eye on you" "you can go drop dead, bastard!" "I won't answer." "It concerns my private life your friends answered easily." "Can you explain that?" "Explain that?" "Is it up to me to explain?" "Since you suspect me, maybe i'm your man what's that?" "The murderer how?" "When?" "Alone?" "These gentlemen had no part in it you said you'd never even thought of smuggling and you'd never been near the frontier" "I wanted to draw the fangs of the police enough of this arrest him i'm innocent obstructing the law." "Charge:" "Idiocy get out!" "What do you want?" "You know too much about us, arnold informer" "get going" "I defended you." "Get going you tried to involve us, but you're the murderer rubbish!" "Rubbish?" "A drunk like you!" "The next day you wouldn't remember you'd done it why do you think they fingerprinted you?" "Murderer" " why didn't they arrest me?" " The law moves slowly how slowly?" "Months." "Maybe a year liar!" "Say that again" "stop!" "Coward" "look how he's shivering" "poor beast." "Two months and no improvement it'll soon be over stop!" "Murderer!" "I'll take him off your hands he's incapable of getting up i'll take him" "the road could have killed him, but it cured him" "...a multitude of structures on my canvas each with its own dialectic, beyond my control" "I don't see a waterfall, it dictates to me without any logical harmony between us its fall activates me a sort of thought painter?" "An action painter" "can one be held responsible for an unwitting crime?" "Something one doesn't remember consciously because of the effects of stress or drink?" "The "unconscious" conceals everything and the criminal doesn't know he is one" "not the scaffold." "My poor head" "I swear by the virgin, jesus and all the saints that I will never drink again" "afraid?" "Afraid of what?" "Fear... you're crazy to leave at the height of the season" "misfortune-harbouring devil!" "Don't leave the court, I beg you he's insulting me a real court wouldn't allow me to be insulted if you leave the court they'll find you guilty by default" "i'll take him on" " a waste of time - he's the height of intelligence an absolute genius?" "Ladies and gentlemen it is our privilege to present the brain of the century" "will someone give me a three-figure number?" "834" "now any number from 2 to 9 three" "now our mathematician will do multiplication" "now a five-figure number" "run for it while there's still time!" "Too late." "Look who's here" "you fool to come back!" "Luckily i've brought a gun" "empty get up, arnold." "I've great news for you" "the drinks are on arnold!" "Arnold's standing treat!" "Has he really come into money?" "Thanks to his uncle's will, arnold's inherited a tidy sum the will is valid, no doubt of that just a few formalities" " I knew you'd come - why not?" "You spy on me" "I wanted to know what you were doing" "what do you see in that boy?" "I love him you can't explain love." "I do whatever he says poor child i'd follow him anywhere, and if he asked me i'd kill myself for him" "not breaking anything?" "Aren't you worked up?" "Drink, half-wit!" "You social parasite" "your father suffers." "He lives only for us he loves his sorrows more than he loves us" "I appeal to you for the last time come home with me" "or you'll be forced to come back" "save me!" "Take me a long way away" "your father will kill you father's sick of me" "if you want her, pay" "are you leaving us, arnold?" "Good-bye, friend condemned to stay here for ever seeing the same fools go by" "good-bye, old mate" "and you, comrade... the death certificate was sent two weeks ago if there's no heir, we'll sell off his belongings" "to the market" "he needs proper harness not worth it." "I'll scrap him in the autumn" "don't turn me away have you no shame?" "Go to your father's house" "I can't and I won't you've dishonoured him" "i've finished with gerard's lot." "I can't stand them any more just let me sleep in the straw" "how kind you are" "if you like i'll kiss you" "dry yourself" "give me your things" " no one saw you come here?" " No one" "what a dingy place" "a place to die in nothing to regret who's talking of dying?" "I am." "Do you believe in anything?" "Yes, in what i've got." "I love money, hate death but you'll die, like everyone i'll outlive them all" "you're old not so old you're ugly" "let me eat, old miser!" "I'm starving" "they say you hide your gold in your boots" "what's the good of that?" "Take it!" "You're rich and you've got no electricity we've got nothing at all." "Even the house is not ours father paid every penny to the creditors that's what happens when you put honour first your father spent his life creating obligations for what?" "Not one person in ten believes him innocent have I got any obligations?" "I'm free, obliged only to what's useful to me things which give profit, especially big profit life is a fair, a market which doesn't need words banknotes will do if you pay people, you're excused obligations to them" "it would be even better if they worked for nothing not everyone sees things the same way you can do what you like and still be respected it's a matter of cheek, self-assurance take it back" "I don't need money;" "I need a friend" "who'll give me what I need to escape i've always wanted to escape?" "Run away a friend who will share my pleasures and sorrows i'll share them, but I hope i'll have more pleasure than sorrows" "she was here an hour ago you gave her food and shelter she ate" "she'll come back, like a long-iost child yes, you'll be reconciled he's not young, but he's a good worker" "take him." "Marie will be pleased" "I haven't forgotten what I owe you though it's only a trifle more than a trifle take him and we're quits" "my daughter" "everything ruined, on the point of success everything swept away in such a short time things must be put right" "how?" "My father wants to return the damages the court awarded my father won't accept them." "He's locked up in his pride; struck dumb jacques, how often i've dreamt of someone like you someone honest, a bit silly, who'll say to me:" ""Come with me." "It's not your fault"" "what's not your fault?" "Enough to shock you, drive you mad" "now i've told you everything and you want to marry me?" "Too late." "You'll be ashamed of me will you never blame me?" "Never you'll take me for ever?" "But, jacques, marriage..." "it's out of date anyway, we'll be married." "We'll be poor, but i'll work hard you're such a bore calm down" "you still see this bench, balthazar, everything as it was but I see nothing." "I've no affections, no heart your words have no effect on me our childish declarations of love they were just fantasy, not reality" "reality is different" "I will love him" "I don't want him to be late don't go to them" "I want to have it out, once and for all" "stripped, beaten and locked in" "marie has gone she'll never come back" "he's in despair, comfort him" "there must be forgiveness for all you will be greatly forgiven on account of your suffering" "perhaps I suffer less than you think" "for the lord will not cast off for ever:" "But though he cause grief he will have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men" "dear god, don't take him from me, too you know how miserable my life will be" "let's borrow him he's worked enough." "He's old and he's all I have just for a day what's more, he's a saint" "perfumes" "stockings" "gold"