"Golder and Marcus shares at 885" "Watch out, Golder is a rogue" "Golder, old chap, is a fine fellow" "Mr Marcus is awaiting Sir in the office" "I thought you'd had a fatal bust-up with Marcus" "So, Soifer old boy, you'll dine with me this evening?" "With pleasure" "I'm in no hurry to re-encounter Mrs Soifer" "What is it now?" "I told you 'No' yesterday, before I left for London" "Isn't that enough for you?" "But no, David..." "we were partners for 26 years... always shared equally, in everything ... so... now..." "Your memory is lacking, Marcus" "Last year, in the Mexican petrol business..." "Don't you remember the millions which passed from my pocket.... to yours?" "We were partners, for all that" "Business!" "Ah yes..." "Now old Golder's needed, eh" "People know the Soviets are negotiating with him on petrol" "Dare to tell me that for the last year... you haven't been trying, behind my back... to do a deal with General Petroleum" "The Soviets WILL do a deal with General Petroleum" "No" "General Petroleum had options...." "but they expired yesterday evening" "You know that too?" "As you see" "General Petroleum is stuffed" "The Russians will deal... with Tubingen... and me" "Equal shares, Golder!" "No" "I need money terribly, Golder" "Everyone needs money, old chap" "So... you're ruining me" "I couldn't care less" "Bastard" "Yes indeed" "Mr Soifer isn't tired... of constantly walking on tiptoe?" "A question of habit!" "That way, I don't wear out my soles" "Are we eating?" "Yes Sir, it's ready" "You think a Jew needs all this to live?" "Why did you go to London?" "I bought emeralds, a wonderful thing" "That's money!" "Better than all your filthy paper... are diamonds, safely locked up in a safe!" "But your money, your millions... you sit on them like an old hen!" "And you, you fritter them away" "I enjoy it" "Today a millionaire, tomorrow poor like... like Soifer!" "Like little Golder, disembarking forty years ago from Poland... with his cardboard box and his ringlets!" "That's life..." "And Marcus?" "It's fixed" "You work too much." "You should rest" "Ah yes, I..." "I am... a bit tired" "Yes, I've had enough" "Tomorrow, I leave for Biarritz" "Ten days of calm... otherwise I'll croak" "She's at Biarritz now, your wife?" "Yes... with Joyce" "It's a long time since I saw Joyce" "How old is she now, your daughter?" "Seventeen... seventeen years old" "I hope... she doesn't resemble her father" "She's beautiful, old chap" "She'll make a fine match" "Yes... as she'll have money" "Look" "So, business is going well?" "Yes, I've just completed a tough deal" "For ten days I was in Berlin a meeting with Tubingen" "From there to Baku, negotiating with the Soviets and... they'll be talking about old Golder" "A telegram" "The kind of news I've been getting from my wife for the last 30 years" ""LACK MONEY" " GLORIA"" "150,000 in rent here" "A million on furnishings" "And all that for whom?" "For me alone" "She never comes here" "Deauville, Biarritz, Cairo, the yacht, all that: yes" "It's the destiny of all men to kill themselves working, so that their wives get rich" "Take my wife..." "Didn't she buy herself a new hat the other day?" "Seventy two francs!" "Some kind of reversed hide" "If at least it would last... but it won't even do her for two seasons" "and at her age..." "What?" "It's not possible" "What's up... a misfortune?" "A fool" "Does one kill oneself?" "Marcus!" "You ruined him, just a tiny bit, eh?" "How ruined?" "Ruined... ruined!" "You start over again!" "I've started again twenty times, me!" "I've started over again!" "And it's for that one kills oneself, eh?" "To end up there" "What an idiot!" "What is that car?" "It's the new Rolls Madame bought" "Madame was bored with the Hispano" "Miss Joyce isn't here?" "Ah, no Sir, she's receiving guests" "Mmm... a little more gin, Fred" "Coming up, Miss Joyce!" "You know you owe me a foxtrot, eh?" "No, little old papa Fishl !" "Why not?" "I don't like old men" "Now, look here..." "Very well..." "I'll come back" "Give me a Manhattan...." "Coming up!" "You'll come to my place, this evening?" "No, I'm too tired" "But you're not too tired... for Joyce!" "You're ridiculous, my dear friend!" "The love of young men, my dear Joyce..." "Scumbag!" "Men of my age are more dependable" "Alec!" "Here!" "I'll get some fresh air" "Fishl !" "You'll make up the fourth?" "...and the most fantastic thing is that she believed it." "No!" ".." "Gloria!" "I swear to you" "These stories give me a thirst" "Madam, Sir has just arrived" "Tell me, you wouldn't have a little cash?" "Lost again?" "You're decidedly unlucky" "Ah yes, I forgot to tell Sir that his room is occupied" "Madam said to make up Sir's bed in the linen room" "Flatterer!" "Go into my room" "Take it from my bag on the dressing table" "I'm fed up with you going with that old hag" "But you know that it's only you who matters" "Hey, Golder!" "Business all right?" "Bad" "I'll stick" "Me, I'm very happy, all's going well" "The fish are swarming in the harbour at Monaco!" "I thought they'd chucked you in jail" "Certainly... the Court of Assizes and all the rest..." "But now things are going better" "Hey there, Papa!" "Hello, my little sweetie, hello!" "Hello, Papa" "I'm happy to see you" "Yes you need money, no?" "Of course... it flows out...." "Tell me, I didn't see you... when my plane landed" "No, I couldn't, you see, with all these people...." "Look at it, it's like an inn on market day" "Alec..." "Here is Papa" "Alec" "Do you like him?" "He's nice" "He's a Prince, you know" "I'll be called Highness" "Would that suit me?" "Wonderfully" "Highness... imperial..." "A glass of port" "The house is becoming less good" "Is it your first time here?" "Oh no" "Ah, you're part of the household" "Oh yes" "I'm the idiot who's paying, Sir" "Hey there David!" "Say, I need to talk to you." "You found it?" "Ho, hello David" "Still here, you?" "You know very well I'm part of the furniture" "What is he, Alec?" "He's handsome, eh?" "No, where's he from?" "He's the nephew of King Alexander, the son of Pietro di Caroli, assassinated in 18" "Gloria, I'm going to change" "Shall we have a dip?" "Yes, my costume is downstairs" "All right?" "You didn't reply to my telegram of last Thursday" "How do you find this?" "It's slimming, eh?" "What a face!" "You look like a corpse" "Are you tired?" "Yes" "Have a rest" "How is business going?" "So so" "You know I badly need money" "Again" "How do you mean, again?" "You don't know how you irritate me by saying that" "Do you think life here costs nothing?" "Your daughter, first of all" "Your Joyce" "That one!" "Money burns her fingers" "Still, these's always money for her" "You think only of her, you live only for her" "Me, I don't count, right?" "I'm expected to live on fresh air" "Just so" "You've got something interesting in prospect?" "Yes" "What is it?" "Hey... what is it?" "You're annoying me!" "Do you know anything about business?" "No." "Well, then..." "And Marcus?" "He's well?" "Very well." "They buried him yesterday." "He's dead?" "How?" "He wasn't old" "He was ruined." "He killed himself" "What cowardice!" "Don't you think so?" "And his wife?" "I saw her the next day" "Around her neck she wore pearls the size of nuts" "And what would you have wanted?" "Oh nothing, I couldn't care less" "Naturally" "Anyway..." "You'll write my cheque for me, eh?" "We're dining this evening at the Casino with the whole gang" "Again!" "You want us to live cloistered here all alone?" "Oh no" "The bill" "Come here, you" "I've hardly seen you since I arrived" "You like it?" "You like my new dress?" "It's too low-cut!" "What have you brought me from Paris?" "Take this" "That's all?" "Isn't that enough?" "No, I want a new car" "And your car?" "Oh, it's too small, look at it!" "A Bugatti, 150 per hour, you remember?" "Very well." "You'll do without it" "Oh no, Papa, give it to me, I'll be good" "It's impossible, business is bad." "Next year" "Always the same answer." "Fix it!" "Go, that's enough now." "Go on!" "If you had the money, you'd buy it for me?" "What?" "The car!" "Yes, at once, but I'm broke" "I'll help you win it" "What?" "Come and play Baccarat" "I'm tired" "You'll see, you always say I bring you luck" "Come, I'll stay with you" "I sense you'll win - come!" "Fishl told me about it just now" "Your husband's business affairs are pretty awful right now" "Really, they're saying that?" "It seems that to keep himself afloat he's depending on a deal with the Soviets" "Bank without limits!" "We have a banker for Bank without limits" "Place your bets" "All bets are on" "Papa, I'm here you know" "Okay, leave me in peace" "I'm not speaking for myself" "Yes... you rogue" "But if he died..." "Him?" "He's a rock." "He'll bury us all" "Oh, more surprising things have happened" "So, if he were to die have you thought about your situation?" "Nine" "Eight" "Six." "Bank pays all" "Have the bets laid!" "Lay your bets" "The bets are laid" "Five... two... seven for the Bank" "Lay your bets 50,000 each way" "Card!" "Six!" "Four for the Bank" "Six... four... we pay" "50,000 on the first pile 100,000 on the second" "Card... card... eight for the Bank" "Lay your bets!" "75,000 on the second pile 200,000 each way" "Card... card... nine for the Bank" "I have a run" "There's a run" "A run anyone?" "1,300,000 francs" "No run?" "The game is over" "It's old Golder." "He's won a million" "You won, eh?" "I lost a million..." "I won another with 100,000." "Take this!" "Papa!" "My Bugatti!" "I love you!" "I love you!" "So, how is it?" "Will he die?" "Not immediately, my dear Madame" "What has he got?" "An attack of angina" "The window...." "Why those bells?" "Who is it... being buried?" "No-one Sir, it's Sunday" "Oh, he could live a long time, five, ten years, with a diet... and a lot of care" "Of course, he'll have to give up business" "Not too much emotion;" "complete and utter rest" "Give up business?" "He'll never be able to" "But yes, yes" "But... but... how will we live?" "Of course, don't tell him anything now" "Wait until the attack is over" "Besides, I'll come back" "Goodbye" "It's... it's serious, eh?" "It's my heart?" "No, no" "I don't want to die" "No, no" "When... when can I get up?" "Not at once." "You must be calm" "Tubingen..." "Tubingen is waiting for me... in Berlin" "Hello!" "What is it, Papa, you're not alright?" "It'll pass." "Don't carry on so!" "What?" "No, no..." "Thank you for the Bugatti" "Are you happy?" "Oh yes" ""More than you think..." "I love you"" "See you soon" "Go on, say "Goodbye, Papa"" "Good!" "Goodbye, Papa" "What did I tell you yesterday?" "Just imagine ten years of this useless dying man on one's hands...." "And living, clothes, eating, they cost nothing?" "As far as I'm concerned..." "I adore this country" "I'd be very put out if this house were sold" "You're mad" "What are you saying?" "Oh yes, it could happen" "This house isn't in your name, right?" "Well... in your place..." "I'd try to make him understand" "Don't delay, make sure you have a roof!" "Monsieur is tired, he's going to sleep" "Very well" "What's going on?" "How do you feel?" "Better?" "What did the doctor say?" "An attack... it will pass" "So..." "It was the doctor... who made me think about this" "A misfortune can occur so quickly, one never knows..." "Have you put your affairs in order?" "But I'm your wife, I've a right to know" "They tell me you're badly placed right now" "So what would I have if... you were to... disappear?" "Creditors assailing me?" "I don't have a penny!" "Ah, but..." "I'm not dead yet" "Clearly you want to see nothing, and understand nothing" "Enough, be quiet!" "You have angina, my dear!" "You could die tomorrow!" "Why do you look at me like that?" "Don't make that face!" "You could live another twenty years" "But we must look things in the face" "And, as a start... you've only to put this house in my name" "You should have done it long ago" "I've nothing of my own, nothing!" "Nothing?" "And this?" "Is this nothing?" "This is worth a million, my girl!" "And these diamonds, these jewels?" "You dare to claim that I haven't ensured you have a fortune, eh?" "Beast, filthy swine!" "You're still the same, you haven't changed... the little Jew who sold rags and scrap in New York with a pack on his back" "Look at you, you're bursting... with the money you've stolen from me, eh?" "Look at you!" "The servants will hear!" "I don't give a damn about the servants!" "You dare to protest, eh?" "Do you remember the ghetto at Kichiniev, eh?" "The shop of your father, the little usurer?" "Be quiet!" "At that time, you're name wasn't Gloria... but Havki!" "Havki, Havki!" "You ran through the snow, with holes in your shoes and feet sticking out of your stockings!" "Shut up, or I'll kill you!" "Havki!" "Now you're Gloria with your jewels, your clothes, your cars, paid for by me with my health and my hide!" "All you've stolen from me... you think I don't know about." "Hoyos and you shared 300,000 francs commission on this house, bought by me" "Hoyos and you!" "Hoyos!" "Hoyos!" "You'll get ... you'll get..." "you'll get nothing more from me!" "Don't talk any more." "It's painful to listen to you" "Yes, my affairs are arranged..." "As long as I live, alright, but... after my death you'll get no more, nothing!" "I've arranged things so that..." "Joyce will have everything" "What!" "I want Joyce to be rich" "You won't receive a further penny - nothing!" "You want to leave it all to Joyce... because you think she loves you, perhaps?" "But she too wants only your money" "Old fool!" "She's incapable of hurting me...she's... my daughter" "She's the only thing I still have in the world... my daughter" "Your daughter!" "Your daughter!" "You're sure?" "You don't know that, you who know everything" "Your daughter... she's not yours" "Your Joyce, she's not yours" "She's Hoyos's daughter" "Fool!" "The car is ready, Monsieur" "Fine" "What is today's date?" "The 25th" "I've been ill for twenty days" "Monsieur is cured now" "But Monsieur should not make such a long journey so soon" "My daughter," "Mlle Joyce, is she here?" "I believe she's been travelling for the last fifteen days" "How happy I am!" "When we're married we'll travel like this all the time" "Oh yes, we'll go to India, won't we?" "We'll have a marvellous palace with tigers and thousands of birds of all colours" "And we'll take Bobby - eh, Bobby?" "You say nothing..." "Cocktail, David?" "It's unbelievable, I'm no longer in my own house!" "What's this new whim?" "Just look at it!" "You're here?" "You're up?" "There's a constant parade of people" "What's going on?" "You're selling the villa?" "People are coming to see it" "You're selling the villa?" "You want to chuck me out?" "Answer!" "You're taking revenge, you want to deprive me of money" "That's it, no?" "That's it, that's it!" "No, my girl, you're richer than me" "But I no longer need all this to live" "The house will be sold in 15 days, and... you go wherever you like" "Thief!" "You deserve prison" "Old Golder... is retiring from business" "Does that amaze you?" "Old Golder's had enough of working for others" "Jean will send my things to Paris and I'm done with you!" "And you think we'll die of hunger... if you think I can't get along without you..." "Freedom's over, my little Bobby" "We're going back" "I would have liked this week never to end" "The week of four Sundays [meaning Paradise]" "Go slowly, eh" "I'm in no hurry" "Seems Golder's plummeting... it's turning into a crash, old chap" "Say, what's going on with Golder?" "They thought it was a ruse on your part and they all went for it" "Franco-Cambodian Bank, heavily into your shares, has gone bust" "You can congratulate yourself on having ruined a few of them" "I couldn't care less" "Tomorrow, if the weather's fine, come to the Rue des Rosiers" "There's a little Jewish restaurant there... where they eat those stuffed pike" "You know very well I don't eat fish" "You're not obliged to eat it you only have to pay the bill" "You can do that for a poor old fellow" "I'm exhausted..." "Let's take a taxi" "You take one if if you wish... for me, no bad habits" "VILLA FOR SALE" "Ah, Tubingen!" "But it's you, Tubingen, old chap!" "I'm pleased to see you" "Well, have a seat" "What's happening?" "You've obliged me to come here and chase you up" "General Petroleum has twice sent a commission to Baku" "The Soviets have refused definitively" "In six months, we can have the entire Caucasus" "It's a monopoly on Russian petrol" "Tell me, I hope... that you've kept your shares in Teisk?" "Yes" "Well, let's do this together!" "Tubingen and Golder, that's some force!" "No" "Why?" "I can no longer work" "I no longer want to" "I am ill - my heart" "If I continue in business, I'm finished" "What are you saying?" "I've killed myself working for forty years" "I believed in money..." "At my age, one doesn't need very much only to live" "and I have enough to live" "I'm seventy years old, Golder" "When the wells at Teisk are gushing 20 or 25 years from now..." "I'll have been a long time in the ground" "That doesn't matter... it's not for myself that I work... but for the one who at that time... will carry the name of Tubingen" "Yes, but ... me..." "I've no-one" "I am alone" "Come on, courage, Golder" "In three weeks you'll be in Baku" "You're the only one who can land this deal" "You know the Russians well" "I'm at the Continental" "Goodbye, Golder" "What is it?" "It's you?" "What have you come here for?" "Come in" "I was going to bed" "Oh, what do I see?" "You too, you've got yourself nicely fixed up, eh?" "Oh, they're gifts from my fiancé" "I getting married" "Congratulations" "And you know whom I'm marrying?" "Fishl !" "Fishl ?" "Yes, yes, yes!" "Fishl, that filthy old man!" "Fishl !" "And your great love?" "Alec?" "What should I have done?" "I've no more money" "Mother gives me nothing any more" "Not a penny!" "You wanted too many things, little one" "Love... money..." "In life, you have to choose" "But, after all, no-one's forcing you" "Why are you whimpering?" "It's your fault!" "You made me used to always having money" "I don't know any other way to live" "It's your fault!" "My fault?" "I'm unhappy, Papa" "If you knew..." "I'd like to kill myself!" "You want to frighten me" "You want to frighten me, eh?" "But I've nothing left myself!" "First of all, you're not my daughter, you know?" "Go and see Hoyos, eh!" "Let him work for you." "Me, I've done enough" "I can do nothing else for you - go to Hoyos!" "No no, not Hoyos!" "You know well I've no-one in the world but you!" "No-one but you is kind to me" "In all my beautiful memories, Papa, you're there" "Why did you come?" "I was at peace" "I began to forget ...and that, that was hard" "You cannot understand..." "But I've nothing left, I've abandoned everything" "Can't you do business any more?" "No, no" "Earn money like before?" "No, no" "Say, you won't let that thing with Fishl happen?" "You haven't raised me up to now for him... for him to buy!" "So he can go around saying" ""Golder's daughter, that I took with nothing... not even a shirt on her back!"" "Say you won't let that happen!" "That toad Fischl !" "After... after all I've done for you... it's ended up here" "I love you little one, I love you" "Send this Fishl... to the Devil!" "You want money, you'll have it" "Go and find Seton, my lawyer" "He'll give you £150 a month" "For now, be content to live on that" "Then, in six months you'll be rich" "Richer than your mother ever was" "Oh Papa, I knew..." "I will go on a journey" "On my return, you'll get married with Alec!" "Yes" "If..." "I die during my journey" "Seton will tell you what's to be done and you'll sign everything he tells you to sign" "Understood?" "Hello... the Continental, please" "It's not important, you know... he's a fine fellow, all the same" "Yes, yes" "Yes, it's the Continental I want" "It's stupid to have cried" "I've got such a face... and my eyes!" "Continental?" "Give me M. Tubingen's room, would you?" "NO!" "I've been waiting for 17 weeks now!" "17 weeks is too much!" "The contract gets signed today, or never!" "Of course, have a seat!" "I'll re-read the last clause" ""Each oilfield... granted to the Tubingen Petroleum Trust Company will be of a rectangular surface area... the extent of each one... not exceeding 40 hectares and not adjoining each other"" "Delete that immediately!" "No!" "no!" "no!" "Very well, I don't sign" "The interests of the Proletariat!" "Water, water!" "Give me some water, for God's sake!" "You're ill, my dear fellow?" "Yes, but if you're counting on that to rip me off... you're mistaken!" "If you don't delete the clause, I'm leaving!" "You're unwell today, we'll talk it over it tomorrow" "Not tomorrow!" "Not tomorrow, not ever!" "For gushing wells..." "Oh, those gushing wells you've drooled about them for three days!" "No, I see where this is going..." "You've left it to the last minute... to insert this in the final contract... to have a pretext for breaking it later!" "But you're not up to it, simple as that!" "Go on, sit down there, you... and write!" "We won't sign." "I don't care!" "Be quiet!" ""The Tubingen Petroleum Trust Company... will be able to build refineries... pipelines... buildings... and all things necessary to its work" "The duration of the concession:" "99 years"" ""At the expiry of the concession... the above-mentioned facilities... and all equipment... will become... the inalienable property... of the Soviet government"" "If you like..." "In 99 years time..." "I couldn't care less" "Sign!" "Joyce..." "Joyce..." "Stop...stop your ship" "What?" "I'll..." "I'll pay what's needed" "But you're crazy!" "What is it, mein Herr?" "Ah, Yiddish?" "Oh, I'm not well" "You're ill?" "Yes... yes..." "Do you want me to help you go below?" "Yes, yes" "Give me your arm... your hand" "Your first crossing, eh?" "Yes" "From which country are you?" "Kremenetz, Monsieur, in Poland" "I know it..." "I know it" "So... you're leaving?" "Yes" "Where are you going?" "Paris, at first and when I've a little money, I'll go to New York... to New York!" "You'll suffer from hunger, you know" "What does that matter?" "I'm used to it and then, it'll soon pass" "You think so?" "It lasts... for years and years" "And afterwards..." "Afterwards... you become rich!" "Afterwards...you die!" "You die" "Alone, like a dog" "Just as you lived!" "Kremenetz..." "And you?" "No, no... it's no longer worth the trouble" "In Paris... go to the lawyer Seton in Saint-Honoré" "Write..." "Seton..." "Seton, Faubourg Saint-Honoré" "Repeat it" "Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Maître Seton" "Tell him, David Golder is dead" "Repeat it" "David Golder... is dead" "You'll hand everything over to him... my case, my wallet" "and tell him to do... everything possible for... my daughter" "That's all" "Give it to me" "Everything I have on me... all the money... it's yours" "Swear... that you'll do everything I've asked" "Before God" "the end"