"The Charterhouse of Parma" ""Principality of Parma"" "Halt!" "Monsieur, I have to honour to wish you a good day." "The honour is all mine." "Well, pretty boy, lend me a napoleon (gold coin)." "I you want to appeal to my courtesy, I'd let myself be murdered with pleasure." "I said one napoleon." "I'm returning this trifle to you if they don't hang me before." "You think I'm mad?" "By the way, you're not mistaken, I am mad." "I'm in love." "I'm madly in love with the most wonderful of women." "This is just talk." "I love without hope." "Monsieur, I admire you." "I have personally known many pretty women... but still I prefer a ride on a beautiful horse." " You're going to Parma?" " l am." "You'll see her, you'll fall in love with her too." "lmpossible to see her and not fall in love with her." "But why am I telling you this?" "In fact, to whom to I owe that small sum?" "If you insist." "Well, you owe one napoleon to the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo." "A relative of the Duchess of Sanseverina?" "Yes, I'm her nephew." "Excuse me, I haven't introduced myself." "Ferrante Palla, a free man." "Delighted to make your acquaintance." "In times like these, free men have to go into hiding." "It is a sad, Monsieur." "Excuse me." "I was a doctor in Milano." "I have conspired against tyranny, I have been sentenced to death" "Alas!" "You see over there?" "Parma." "The Farnese Tower." "This is Italy's most sinister prison." "The Prince Ernest lV. is a monster." "The liberals are hunted down, bound in chains, hanged." "And one day the martyrs will be revenged." "I'd like to be of service to you." "The only service you could do me, Monsieur, would be... not to mention me to the Duchess of Sanseverina." "You are quite taciturn, my dear Gina." "Are you worried?" "No." "Do you know what they say at court about the Countess Balden?" " The one who is getting married." " Yes." "They say she leaves the imprint of a pincer on the chairs she's sitting on." "This is funny... if one is in the mood." "I'm boring you with this court gossip." "You don't." "It's only that I'm worried because of Fabrice." "I hope he hasn't had an accident." "He should have been here three days ago." "This delay isn't normal." "Not normal?" "On the contrary." "It's a long way from Naples." "But that's the point." "If Fabrice had traveled by carriage I wouldn't have worried." "But on horseback he might have a fall, meet some disagreeable men." "Reckless like he is, trusting everybody... perhaps attacked?" "By brigands!" "Do you really believe those stories about brigands?" "But after all, just imagine, that poor child all alone on the roads." "But Gina, Gina, listen to me." "But the child is 23 years old." "So what?" "A child will never grow up for his parents." "You're not his mother." "I'm not, but I've replaced her." "The orphan wasn't even six years old when I took care of him." "And when I close my eyes... it is only the child I'm seeing." "Which crime have they committed?" "I know nothing, Monsieur." "In trade, the less one knows the better." "They've committed the worst of all crimes." "The crime of disliking the regime." "They are being thrown into prison because of that?" "Among the citizens of this county, even off the streets, they are being thrown into prison." "Madame la Duchesse!" "Fabrice!" "Gina!" "At last!" "I have been crazy with worrying." "I've imagined all sorts of bad encounters." "No, I only had sympathetic ones." "So that's why you're so late." "Let me look at you." "My Fabrice." "The Count Mosca." "Prime Minister to His Highness Ernest iv, and my great friend." "I hope to become yours too." "I'm touched, Your Excellency." "No need to, those titles are only good at court." "All my life I've been a character out of a comedy." "The priests have taught me all about the comedies of this low world." "I mean, the religious comedies, of course." "We've a malicious turn of mind, it seems." "You see, I may be young, but I despise hypocrisy." "All those courtiers, that's so low, that war of the smiles, that stupid court..." "A propos war, I don't advise you to allude to your trip to Waterloo." "It wouldn't amuse the Prince." "Ah, Waterloo." "I've seen so little of the battle." "But at least there, I've seen some real men." "Around the Prince I expect to find only puppets, more or less." "But this is a serious accusation you're making there, young man." "I'm afraid you won't be a success at court." "You have the annoying habit of saying what you really think." "You're horrible." "And him having only just arrived." "True." "You ought to be spared." "But no. I still have the look of the country roads." "Jackie!" "Show the Marquis to his room." "Good-bye." "So, you like my Fabrice?" "Yes, he's perfect." "But you were always talking of him as if he were a child." "The child has grown up." "Will I still count for you, at the present?" "They say that love gives "esprit" to the stupid." "But you're making me believe that love makes men of "esprit" stupid." "I adore you." "The hour has come for me to turn myself into His Excellency the Prime Minister" "Till tonight." "Come in." "Are you content?" "You haven't changed." "And yet you're changed." "You're another man." "After all, you're a man." "I really like His Excellency, you know." "He's not taking things seriously, but..." "He would have been Prime Minister much earlier if he had wanted to be serious." "But let's talk about us." "About yourself." "How long did you stay in Naples?" "Four years." "Four years." "And why didn't you write more often?" "Because you've had far too much fun to worry about me." "I'd like to see you with the Jesuit priests, studying Greek and Latin." "You'd realize how much fun that is." "But one must learn Latin if one wants to become a priest." "Once you're a priest..." "Count Mosca will soon have you appointed Bishop." "Your Eminence." "Have you been here for a month now?" "More than a month and a half, my dear." "His presence has obliterated time for you." "But I've forbidden Jackie a 100 times..." "Oh, it's you who has my face cream." "Pardon." "He's adorable, isn't he?" " Who?" " Fabrice." "Ah, Fabrice." "It seems there's only him who exists for you." "You live only for him, I can't see you alone any longer, you never leave his side, you show him off everywhere." "I want him to have a brilliant future." "A future, hum!" "Me, I have a brilliant past." "You're rather tragic today, my friend." "I'm not blind." "But you're youth itself." "Whereas I..." "My mirror tells me disagreeable things every morning." "The wrinkles, the look of the eyes grown old... the tired complexion..." "And Fabrice has a complexion of a freshness to despair of." "You're marvelous." "So, we're leaving?" "No, I'm not ready." "You have all the privileges at court, my dear friend." "But the Prince would never tolerate it if I keep him waiting." "Especially on a day like this." "We'll see you at the palace." "But what are you doing?" "You were looking fine." "My profoundest respects, M. le Chancellier." "My homage, General Conti." "Politics go in the direction you want it to?" "The earth is spinning round, General, that's the main thing." "And how's the citadel?" "Your prisoners make you happy?" "Mlle Clelia." "Your Excellency." "You've abandoned your dear solitude to descend into the world." "I was just explaining to her the hounour the Prince does her by inviting her... especially on a day like this." "But the honour is all on the side of the Prince, General." "Excuse me." "Couldn't you smile a bit?" "We're not in church." "I'm trying to, but it's hard." "One would think this is a cemetery." "Ouf, cemetery!" "All those people only exist because they have the dead behind them, ancestors." "At least be amiable with Crescenzi..." "He doesn't have ancestors, if this is annoying you, he bought his title with sacks of grain... and he has the kindness to be in love with you." "My dear Marquis, good evening." "Good evening, General." "I am happy that you've come, even though you despise this kind of festivities... I told her she'd meet you, my dear friend." "And I'm not a man of the world either." "Then we're not alone in this... in this desert." "Look at this." "A new face." "The little Conti girl." "The prettiest girl of Parma with the richest man of Parma." "They are made for each other." "Good evening, Governor." "I am happy to pay my respectful homage to Your Highness." "I am delighted to meet you, Mlle." "Your father is a great soldier." "What an exquisite woman." "That Conti is the king of fools." "The girl isn't ugly." "She's a bigot." "Pardon, Monseigneur." "If the Prince were here, he'd tell me again that I only open my mouth to utter stupidities." "Charmed, Ambassador." "A propos, where is the Prince?" "He's late." "This is astonishing!" "Especially on a day like this!" "Your Highness, there is absolutely nobody in here." "But it seemed to me I heard some breathing." "All security measures have been taken." "You want to insinuate that I'm trembling for nothing!" "That I'm behaving like a cowardly little bourgeois?" "But is isn't cowardice, Your Highness, to take precautions if one owes it to one's people." "They are a pretty lot, my people!" "But one must admit... I can't find out anything, those anonymous letters." "only this morning..." "What was that?" "What was that?" "Anonymous letters?" "This is amusing!" "I mean, this is despicable." "And what do those anonymous letters say?" "Alas, allusions coming from the gutter... and of a private nature." "Really?" "Insults from the gutter?" "And are you offended by those insults?" "I'd be offended if I were Prime Minister." "But I'm just the Director of the Police, that's what I am." "It's only because of Mme Rassi, she is just Mme Rassi, but after all, she's a woman." "If they assassinate, she'll be Mme the widow Rassi." "But it's a matter of my own life!" "My own life!" "Everybody conspires." "Everybody wishes for my death." "Especially on a day like this." "The day of my anniversary." "It's true that one often has bad thoughts on the day of an anniversary." "I've had them secretly watched, perquisitions, preventive arrests... I've takes such measures... exceptional!" "Exceptional?" "So that they might assassinate me on another day, and then it won't matter!" "There's somebody there!" "Another one of my precautions, Your Highness." "What was that?" "What was that?" "You utter fool!" "I can understand your annoyance." "M. Rassi's guardian angels aren't very "rassurant"." "(don't inspire much confidence)" "But that animal dreams of being made a Baron by me!" "A Baron!" "Never, do you hear!" "Never!" "And you'll never be Prime Minster either!" "That scum dreams of taking over your post... on Prime Minister, you know." "Come with me, Count." "Your Highness." "What is this?" "An application for pardon from the convicts, on the day of your anniversary." "But this is the limit!" "All they think of is suppressing me, and they want me to grant them pardon?" "Yes, I am a tyrant!" "My genius!" "No pardon, and that's final!" "Deliver the good news to the prisonders concernced, cretin!" "Yes, Your Highness." "Try to smile, do it for me, for my promotion." "Of course I'll do it for you." "He looks like he's going to a funeral." "It's because the Sanseverina isn't here." "Just imagine, my friend..." "What stupidities are you going utter again?" "Your Highness, I wish you a long and happy reign." "I thank you, Ambassador." "I thought you'd forgotten me." "How beautiful you are." "Especially beautiful." "Isn't today a special day?" "You see, I haven't forgotten you." "Adorable!" "Good evening, young man." "Your Highness." "So this is the hero of Waterloo." "He's fought like a lion." "You exaggerate." "I'm really asking myself if I've assisted at a battle at all." "Yes. lf Napoleon had won at Waterloo... I'd be in exile." "Or I'd be dead." "You're a Latin scholar, I heard." "In Latin?" "A little." "The Princess will be delighted to meet you." "She adores Latin." "I'm afraid the Prince didn't like me." "One cannot please everybody." "What's the use of being a Prince... since you're still resisting me." "But Your Highness!" "What about Mosca?" "I'll lock up my dear friend Mosca in the citadel for the rest of his days, it's easy." "You look at everything from above... so everything seems very easy to you." "Here's the Grand-Duchess." " Tell me, cousin..." " What did you say?" "I shall leave you." "Gina." "I'm getting more and more fed up with this ridiculous court." "Like I am of the Prince's wooings." "Let's leave together, abandon everything." "I can't offer you an annuity of 15.000 pounds, but... we'd be free." "My friend, you know why I've stayed in Parma after my husband's death." "Because of me." "We've gotten on very well for five years." "We could wait a bit longer, surely?" "Because of Fabrice's future." "He's an orphan." "Yes, true." "Fabrice's future." "Look at him." "The poor boy." "He must be really bored." "I'll come to his assistance." "My dear Chancellor, you haven't answered me yet on the question regarding the Saint Alliance." "I think it'd be best to leave a door open." "In war." "Thank you for delivering me." "I'd like to leave with you, getting away from all those phantoms." "The Sanseverina is carrying herself like a Queen." "Yes, like a Queen-Mother." "The little Del Dongo might be her son." "I call this incest!" "Let's leave." "Are you bored?" "But one doesn't go out in society just for fun." "Let's go home, I'm begging you." "I present my wishes for a long and happy reign, Your Highness." "May Heaven preserve you in good health for a long time." "I present my most ardent wishes..." "At ease!" "Turn left!" "Present arms!" "Present arms!" "Arms down!" "Turn left!" "Shoulder arms!" "Forward march!" "What kind of an outfit is that?" "You call yourselves soldiers?" "I won't congratulate you." "You too are laughing about it?" "You fool." "You think life is beautiful?" "Don't laugh!" "Intolerable!" "Everybody is amusing himself." "What about me?" "Me!" "I am the absolute master!" "My profile is on the coins." "I'm bored." "I'm bored." " You're ready?" " Yes?" "If you don't want to be hanged, don't you ever forget that you know neither to read nor write." "Write." "Monsieur le Comte." "has it... no, but..." "Monsieur Mosca." "One may be a great Minister... but nevertheless be unfortunate in love." "Don't laugh!" "I am profoundly sorry to announce to you if you ignore it that you're a cuckold." "Don't laugh!" "What was I saying:" "that you are a cuckold." "Cuckold." "It's normal." "The little Del Dongo is only 23 years old." "and you're older than 50 underlign" "and 50" "That's enough." "sign..." ""a friend of the truth"" "add a P.S." "If I were in your place I wouldn't let the turtle doves go carousing on their own all over the place... in the country... in the theatre" "Take this ?" "The letter is taking effect." "Which letter, my friend?" "Don't talk nonsense." "I haven't written a letter!" "I wouldn't know." "Everything you utter is plain stupid." "I'd like to... you'll laugh at me I'd like to live alone with you on a desert island." "If it became know that you're walking around on an island, it won't remain deserted for long." "This a phrase you must have often been telling to others in Naples." "In Naples?" "Come on." "You've been in love there, at least once." "First of all, being in love doesn't mean one may say stupidities." "And then, you see, Gina... I haven't managed to fall in love yet." "Nature has protected me from this sublime foolishness." "Still I thought that Fausta... had been able to excite you." "Fausta?" "Let's say she amused me, that's all." "This is extraordinary!" "That young man over there, he bears a strange resemblance to... that other man who followed you around and courted you... in Naples." "You see him everywhere." "But you're obsessed, this is an idee fixe." "Don't be ridiculous." "Why make the Count suffer for nothing?" "For nothing?" "You're right." "We're being seen together far too often." "You're looking for a pretext to get away from me." "I'm not!" "But you keep on watching over me as if I were still a child." "You must realize..." "But I do realize." "Listen, Gina." "Leave me." "Listen to me." "If ever that nincompoop has the impertinence to show himself below our windows..." "What would you do?" "Don't push me to extremes." "I'm capable of terrible things." "My poor friend." "The only terrible thing about you are your moustaches and your whiskers." "Just relax, Your Highness, you might get hurt." "You'll pay for this!" "You've only to get inside, Your Highness." "The cold night air might harm your voice." "You don't know whom you're dealing with." "But I do, Sir." "The hero of the battle of Waterloo." "You all admire the noble Seigneur Fabrice del Dongo." "The hero of Waterloo." "The man who helped Napoleon lose the battle of Waterloo." "Admire the Seigneur Fabrice del Dongo." "The hero of Waterloo." "The man who helped Napoleon lose the battle of Waterloo." "Open up, will you!" "Well, my little Cure." "I hope this has cured you from the habit of incommodating ladies who are the property of another." "Not everyone can steal the goods of another man." "You'll give me satisfaction for this, Monsieur." "A duel?" "What are you saying?" "The little Cure wants to fight a duel." "With which arms?" "The thurible (incense burner)?" "The crucifix?" "If you want to fight with d'oremus in Greek or Latin... I instist on getting one coup in advance." "With swords, Monsieur." "I'm not an assassin." "You wanted it so." "We'll cross arms tomorrow." "Your Lordship." "How can I be of service?" "Prepare us a good breakfast." "The best you have." " l don't know..." " lt's a breakfast for one person only." "As to the other one ... a single one will do." "The other person is..." "Monsieur" "No time to explain." "Let's sit down at the table." "But Your Lordship." "But seriously, you want to fight in the yard of this inn?" "I already told you I wasn't an assassin." "I make it a point of letting it be known that everything had been proceeding according to rules." "Hurry, be quick!" "Clear out the ?" "and tables!" "You, your family, your servants!" "Out with you, everybody out!" "Behind the walls." "You'll be the witnesses." "is your soul ready to appear before God, my little Cure?" "It is?" "Then... take up position." "Not bad for a little Cure." "By the devil!" "They've taught you to wield the sword in the convents." "So it seems." "I have something to tell you, my dear Count." "Don't worry, I'll be brief, I won't hold a sermon." "I knew that one too." "I'd like to tell you, my dear Count that I had the pleasure and the honour to make you wear horns." "It happened in Naples." " ln Naples?" " Yes." "Eh bien, Fausta is a ravishing person." "I didn't intend to pursue that adventure." "You may tell her, she won't believe you." "But it seems that you've already thought of me, so I'll continue to make you wear horns." "You're letting yourself be distracted, my dear Count." "Pick it up." "Conclusion:" "I've waited till you're stupid and angry, and I desire to provide for a man who keeps us busy with a bit of freedom." "He shall find me under the obligation to fix you up so that you won't get out of bed for several weeks." "Finished off by ?" "take the blessings of the little Cure." "You may serve breakfast anytime now." "Yes, Your Lordship." "And fetch me something to write." "Take that gentleman away." "He's too ugly." "Get going, all of you!" ""Theatre Giletti Farces and pantomimes ... the ravishing MARlETTA"" " With whom were you?" " with my lover" "Your lover?" "But you're my lover, Pierrot." "I'd been thinking of you." "You're still with Harlequin!" "With every breath you're lying." "Watch out, Colombine!" "I'm not blind." "is the audience any good?" "It's charming." "If you know how to take him, he'll cover you with jewels." "And I hope you won't forget your good old Manamaccia." "There he is." "I'll break your back, do you hear!" "I'll turn you into a bedside rug." "Take that!" "And that!" "I'll spit in your face." "You're going to make me wear horns, Colombine." "And I'll take my revenge." "Excuse me." "You slut!" "You want to make me think that individual has only applauded you because of your talent." "I've watched you!" "I'd like to see her again." "That won't be easy." "Giletti is worse than a tiger." "But I only wish for the child's happiness." "And Marietta already likes you a lot." "Let me manage it." "Bring us some nice presents." "We other women adore pretty things." "Do you like it?" "I've never seen anything so beautiful." "But I don't want you to think... I'm so distressed when that old woman asks me for money." "I don't believe a word." "Giletti's on his way." "He mustn't know that you're here." "He's furious." "Save yourself, he's capable of killing you." "But I couldn't leave Marietta... I beg of you, if you leave I don't run any risk, but if you stay ... save yourself!" "Alright, I'll leave." "This is the first time a Del Dongo flees through a window." "Leave us." "What is it?" "I'll kill the little gentleman, do you hear!" "I'll kill him." "This is Marietta." "And her lover." "The illustrious Giletti." "But the girl isn't bad at all." "And you really think Fabrice is in love with her?" "Alas, he is, Your Excellency." "A Del Dongo!" "I'm paying you to report on the Duchess' nephew." "Not to make comments." "Excuse me, Your Excellency." "On the 7th, M. del Dongo gave Marietta a bracelet." "On the 8th, a Kashmir scarf." "On behalf of which Giletti made Marietta a scene which ended in him slapping her face." "And yesterday he left to visit the ruins of Villegia." "He left alone?" "Alone, yes, Your Excellency." "But 2 km beyond Parma, Marietta had been waiting for him and got into his carriage." "Leave me now." "I'm delighted." " Delighted?" " Delighted by your services." "That way." "Hurry." "Guess what I've just learned." "Fabrice exasperates me." "He's engaged himself in another affair." "At least, the Fausta had been an actress." "But now he's besotted with some circus girl." "You don't say!" "A small love affair of the basement." "Just another one of his whims, like with Fausta." "I can't bear to see him lower himself to such a degree." "Come, come, my dear friend, calm yourself." "If he had been a bourgeois' son, he'd lower himself... but he's a gentleman." "And then, what can we do about it?" "The child has grown up." "Could you ask that troupe of comedians to take their talents elsewhere?" "They won't resist when the Prime Minister asks them to." "Still we'd need a pretext." "So what?" "Fabrice's life." "Wouldn't that be sufficient?" "Fabrice's life?" "What's it got to do with it?" "But the girl has a protector." "The troupe's director." "Giletti, a man to be feared." "He's sworn he'd kill Fabrice." "The words of a comedian." "But don't you understand?" "I'm besides myself with worries." "Fabrice has left for a few days with that Marietta, I'm sure of it." "So tonight or tomorrow they may bring him back to me with a knife in his chest." "Here, let me present you with this medallion." "You'll surely go to hell." "I'd love to go too to be with you." "It'll only be tiresome if we encounter Giletti." "Don't mention him." "Let's go back to Parma." "No!" "Not to Parma!" "They'll throw you into prison." "They won't." "It's been him who has attacked me." "I'll make a statement and they'll believe me." "No, they won't believe you!" "Let's run away, anywhere, but not to Parma." "They've seen us." "I beg you, let's run away." "There's the border." "On the other side of the Po there's Austria, where we have nothing to fear." " You'll cross first." " No, don't leave me!" "But you know very well that you have a passport and I don't have one." "You'll cross over first, I'll rejoin you." " What if they arrest you?" " They won't." "Go. I'll be with you presently." "Go." "Alarm!" "A man in the river." "Everybody outside!" "After you, M. le Marquis." "You could have been more friendly with Crescenzi, I am a poor man, my girl, you keep forgetting... he has millions, he wants to marry you, I don't see what you can possibly have against him." "It's nothing, only I don't like him." "You don't like to live in that prison, you don't like to go out into society," "M. le Marquis is nothing but a common assassin." "I forbid you to touch me!" "I don't need your permission." "Search him!" "That's no way to behave!" "Wait for me." "Do you imagine this is a stable?" "Director of the Police." "M. le Marquis, what's going on?" "Almost nothing." "M. le Marquis has been behaving a bit naughty." "He has assassinated a comedian." "I only acted in self-defence, Governor." "That scoundrel had attacked me." "This is admirable!" "A poor wretch and his miserable life." "He has just one precious possession in his life: a woman" "Monsieur desires her." "He takes her." "It's only natural." "He's a Marquis." "The poor wretch isn't happy about this." "So Monsieur bleeds him just like that with a knife, like a pig." "It's only natural." "He's a Marquis." "The morality is that the poor wretch had been nothing but a scoundrel." "And when I say morality... I won't lower myself to discussions with a policeman." "You know, it's not a discussion which interests a policeman." "It's a confession." "So for the moment, till I have proof... I demand the handcuffs to be removed, my name is Del Dongo." "You approve of this, Governor?" "Handcuffs?" "Indeed..." "Well .. it's ..." "let me see..." "But the regulations are explicit:" "they prohibit the use of handcuffs inside the fortress." "Take them off." "I'm only obeying the regulations." "I have been ill treated and I shall inform the Prime Minister." "Sure, sure." "He'll get you out of here, you'll thank him by putting some more horns on him." "What did you say?" "But you too aren't exactly a saint." "When one has a Duchess one can sit pretty." "The snotty-nosed brat!" "You'll tell all that to the judges." "The judges." "They don't count much more than you do." "The master and the servants alike, despicable, all of them!" "Did you hear that?" "You're all witnesses!" "Public outrage against our Sovereign." "A man has been hanged for less than that." "I'll swear you all to secrecy." "He'll be put under close arrest." "Let's go." "I am like you." "I don't sympathize with policemen. I'm a soldier." "Take this." "It's not true. I'm not a murderer." "I'm sure you believe me, Mlle." "My home." "She's marvelous." "(she: the girl or the house) lf you'll forgive me, the cells are over there." "I'm sure you won't be there for long." "Don't apologize." "I've had this old tower completely overhauled." "And I may brag to have constructed a modern prison." "You'd need a cannon to break those walls." "One feels secure." "Just one handle removed and everything falls into the void." "A genius must have thought of it." "The most accomplished are the cells." "I must confess I'm rather proud of the cells." "Lepante ..." "Paverini ..." "Venti ..." "De l'Agua" "Varga ...." "Menotti..." "Bagliotti... lt's the inspection round." "The prison guard's hourly roll call." " Even at night?" " Especially at night!" "This is where you'll stay." "The guard will bunk here." "And look at this: my masterwork!" "A cell on a raised platform, made entirely out of wood." "At the prisoner's slightest movement it squeaks and warns the guard." "Check it out yourself." "Grillo, what am I doing?" "You're walking towards the window, Governor." "You're sitting down on the bed." "You're getting up again, Governor." "hein?" "I myself have designed this." " But this is of such an invention..." " One must be kind to the prisoners... so I don't leave them even the slightest hope of evasion." "No illusions, no disillusions." "This is more human, isn't it?" "One couldn't possibly be more human." "My respects, M. le Marquis." "M. Rassi." "Ah, Prime Minister." "I didn't notice you." "You've seen me perfectly well." "So, you dare arrest the Duchess' nephew without informing me." "A precautionary arrest." "I'll speak to His Highness." "His Highness hasn't arrived yet?" "But His Highness left this morning very early." "Left?" "Where?" "On a voyage." "I see." "Barberini ..." "Mercini ..." "Present." "De l'Agua ..." "Pontanna" "Mademoiselle's birds." "The poor Mademoiselle." "She's bored a lot." "I too love birds." "A small thread of music which can be squashed between two fingers." "So fragile." "Unfortunately there are the regulations." "What is he going to do in here?" "Putting up boards in front of the window." "At this height." "So I won't be able to see the birds any longer?" "You won't." "The Governor thinks that it's very good for the health of a prisoner's soul to watch the sky." "That hammering, it's almost like for a coffin." "They are only putting up planks in front of a prisoner's window." "This is despicable!" "is it not enough to be locked up behind bars, like an animal!" "The prisoners are criminals." "Not all of them!" "Some are also victims." "Be silent!" "What is it?" "This concerns the little Del Dongo." "He'll appear before the judges tomorrow." "They have worked fast." "They've realized that he's not guilty and they'll liberate him." "That would surprise me." "He will be judged by a Special Court of Law." "And?" "That means that they don't care at all about the Giletti affair." "The Special Court is only judging political crimes." "And politics... this smells bad." "After deliberation, the Special Court, considering the great youth of Fabrice del Dongo... and the name he bears, recommends to His Highness the simple punishment of incarceration in the fortress for 20 years." "The tribunal hopes that the Prince, in his clemency, will not raise the sentence." "We did the best we could for you." "You're perfect domestics." "Next case." "Your Highness, this can't be true about my nephew!" "That condemnation to 20 years in the fortress." "But that's not possible, Fabrice for 20 years..." "This would be monstrous!" "But unfortunately he has assassinated a man." " But he didn't murder!" " Calm yourself." "But he hasn't been condemned for that." "Why before a Special Court?" "Fabrice is no conspirator." "He's been one for a long time." "He's been talking to one of my judges with such contempt." "You're calling those men judges?" "Some wretches who only want to take revenge." "What did you say!" "Calm yourself ..." "I ..." "But your nephew has also said that... that I had been despicable." "As sovereign I mustn't overlook this, but... but as a man insulted... as a man insulted... I might forgive him." "I cannot bear to see your beautiful eyes look so sad." "Your Highness, I know very well that your concern about justice..." "You know very well, Madame... that I must yield..." " a friendship..." " What do you mean, Your Highness?" "A friendship to which I had been desiring for some time to give another name." "This is not the Prince speaking now." "We'll return your Fabrice to you." "There ..." "Duchess... I find you more beautiful every time." "Look at this." "Beauty and power have always made a pretty couple." "Gina." "So that's why you did it!" "To be able to make this bargain." "What?" "What?" "Your hasty departure was just a flight." " A flight?" " To enable Rassi to enact his comedy with the Special Court." "And you'd promised me that Fabrice would be set free." "But you've cheated me like a coward." "You've acted like a coward." " You're forgetting whom you're talking to." " l'm not!" "To a coward." "A coward." "A coward who gets up at night to look under his bed!" "Be careful!" "Fabrice's life is in my hands... and the gallows are erected very quickly." "Come here." "That was a great idea of yours, those 20 years of incarceration." "You fool." "Do you hear." "Someone has spat in my face right now." "Those things demand good thinking..." "She's not going to yield to me." "And all this is your fault." "And I am to make you a Baron!" "So, you haven't been saving on the garlic... and given a good spanking to half a dozen Duchesses." "Have you ever seen a Director of Police sent to prison?" "You'll see one soon." "But not you, boss?" "You're joking." "I am nothing, but... if I can do something for you?" "I know what I owe to you." "You owe me your life, that's all." "Give me something to drink." "Oh boss, I am content to invite you to dinner." "Don't pay any attention." "They won't search at my place, I'm so seldom here." "Wine is a comfort to a man's heart." "Good man, evil man bonum vinum edificat cor hominum." "in seculas seculorum" " Amen" "This reminds us of old times, eh my reverend father?" "No, I had been a sacristan." "True." "And man is nothing but dust." "But fortunately dust can be watered." "And this is a solace to many worries." "is it something serious?" "Are you in trouble?" "Oh well, if they throw me into a prison cell you'll bring me little delicacies." "Speaking of prison cells... our little friend Fabrice... he must be jumping about in his cell like a rat by now?" "No, he is very calm." "He's a nice boy." "Providing he doesn't fall ill." "You know, one man's misfortune makes another man's luck." "Yes I know." "It would be sad if he died." "He's so young." "But one sees them die at all ages." "And it takes very little." "A few grains of arsenic." "Isn't it true?" "Let the bells ring for a christening or for a funeral." "The essential is that they're ringing." "Isn't it true, my little rabbit?" "No!" "Not that, boss!" "Not that!" "Did I ever tell you the tale of little red riding hood?" "Once upon a time there was a little girl..." "This is a fairy tale." "It's true, one also finds tales like that in the police files." "The tales of little girls who encounter some bad men." "And the wolf ate her up." "I beg of you." "Me who wanted to forget so much." "You clown!" "I'm sure this is among your most precious memories." "What was her name again?" "Ah, Carlotta." "The poor little angel." "You scoundrel!" "You know very well that I hushed up the whole affair." "Only, if I have to jump (am found out), you'll jump too." "And the end of a rope lt's either Fabrice... or us." "I'll do as you wish." "Of course our little friend must die of an illness." "I have some opium from Perouse." "It leaves no trace and is completely tasteless." "I trust you entirely, my good master." "But tell me, doctor..." "Will that illness be for long?" "Whatever suits you best." "Just a question of the dosis." "One month would be right." "Kill Fabrice." "What will happen?" "The Sanseverina will leave Parma." "No more Sanseverina." "What will happen?" "Mosca will follow the Sanseverina." "No more Mosca." "No more Mosca." "No more Prime Minister." "The office is vacant." "Prime Minister!" "I've had a royal dinner." "Are there many sick men in the fortress at the moment?" "Really sick?" "About 10 men." "See to it that the Lord will call some of them to His side." "They'll have special food." "It'll be easy." "Perfect." "And when an ill man has a seizure it's only natural for him to die." "Nobody will be surprised." "In fact, they'll believe in a sort of epidemic." "Nothing remains hidden from you." "Good night, my dear sacristan." "Carlotta!" "Eat quickly. lt isn't hot any more." "Did you manage to finish your little job?" "?" "This will be a bit more according to regulations." "You knew about it?" "Why didn't you denounce me?" "I have a weakness for little birds and for young lovers." "Don't get angry." "Mlle Clelia has charged me with a commission for you." "Clelia?" "For me?" "She's unhappy." "Because you've been condemned to 20 years of prison." "She's unhappy!" "You'll carry a letter to her at once." "And tomorrow you'll be asking for a ladder." " Don't count on me." " Just to write her something." "A few lines." "I'd transmit to her an answer by word of mouth, that' all." "Thank you." "And I'm not ungrateful." "I'm not doing this for money." "But for pleasure." "At the time, I too had somebody in my life, you see?" "It had been ... a little girl." "A little bird from paradise." "So fragile..." "She's dead?" "The Lord has called her to His side." "Bon appetit." "M. del Dongo asked me to tell you that you shouldn't be unhappy." "He's very happy in his cell." "Since he can see you." "My God." "This is madness." "No." "He loves you." "That's all." "First of all, he mustn't..." "but this isn't true!" "The truth is, he's bored in this cell, so my presence distracts him." "If he were free, he'd forget me very quickly." "If you could hear him speak, you'd believe him." "But who am I next to a Duchess of Sanseverina?" "Nothing." "Mademoiselle!" "You're a little bird from paradise." "So fragile." "But those are not my words, but the words of M. del Dongo." "Another dead?" "Who is it?" "A prisoner." "He had been very ill." "But still it's sad, only 25 years old." "Especially with such beautiful weather." "Drive by the fortress." "The fourth in ten days." "Who might it be?" "They don't even reveal their names." "The moment he's dead he becomes one of us." "Adieu comrade!" "You'll be revenged." "Death to the tyrant!" "Death to the tyrant!" "If you call out I'm lost." "I'm an enemy of the tyrant." "Then we're allies." "Faster." "Faster" "And turn right." "But you are the Duchess of Sanseverina?" "is it possible?" "You?" "Excuse me, I didn't introduce myself." "Ferrante Palla, a free man." "So it had been you I've heard so much about." "He did that?" "Divine Grace." "And I've begged him to tell you nothing." "So you know that... that I have the audacity to love you." "I don't think it's the right moment to..." "To the right, then turn left" "I've loved you for years, Madame." "What do I care if they arrest me... of if they kill me, since I'm near you." "Do stop talking such nonsense." "Again turn left." "We'll go to the Count." "They won't be looking for you at the Prime Minister." "Forgive my troubled state, it's been so long since I've seen beautiful white hands." "In my devotion to defend liberty, I live in the woods." "I'm sure to die at the end of a rope." "I know that your nephew too is a victim of the tyrant." "My only desire is to help you." "I can only give you my life." "I'm offering it to you." "The gentleman is a robber of the high roads and a friend of mine." "I'm asking you to hide him for a few days." "Monsieur, make yourself at home." "Let me introduce myself." "Ferrante Palla, a free man." "I can't say as much." "I'm only a Prime Minister." "For a Prime Minister the word "liberty" is a crime." "In days like these, liberty is a luxury one has to pay for." "But you don't seem to understand what's at stake here!" "You're just talking about politics and ideals, and another prisoner has died." "I hope it isn't Fabrice." "Now now, my dear friend, let's be reasonable." "Fabrice's life is the only pawn the Prince has against you." "Therefore Fabrice is in no danger." "All that reasoning." "Each day another dead anonymous prisoner leaves the fortress and you want me to be reasonable!" "But we don't need reasoning or big phrases anymore!" "We need action!" "I can raise the people." "All the liberals are on my side." "We could start a revolution." "A revolution?" "I can see you've never really looked the inhabitants of Parma in the face." "One cannot found a Republic without Republicans." "Then let's help Fabrice escape." "It's dangerous but not impossible." "A man of heart may die perhaps, don't reject a man of heart who wants to save him for you." "I have friends who can provide for everything one needs to escape." "But how to inform Fabrice?" "We'd need an accomplice in the fortress." "I've already tried to bribe the guards." "But their fear is stronger than their greed." "You'll be taken to your room now." "Show Monsieur to his room." "I understand your anguish... and I'm in as much pain as you are, Gina." " but I assure you that Fabrice..." " Be silent." "Be silent, since you're incapable of action." "Waiting..." "Always waiting... I would have moved heaven and earth to save Fabrice." "But you'd given me your word that he wouldn't be convicted." "And now you're advising me again to wait." "And he may be dead." "How unfair you are with me." "I may well be the Prime Minister... I'm under the impression to be nothing at all anymore." "Rassi triumphs." "And I can't find out what's happening in the fortress." "The Prince avoids me since you've insulted him." "I should have been more subtle, shouldn't I?" "You're nothing but a courtier with the instincts of a courtier." " Gina!" " This is all your fault." "If you had ordered Giletti to leave town as I'd asked you to, nothing would have happened." "But you had been hoping perhaps that Giletti might kill Fabrice." "You couldn't believe such a thing!" "You abhorred him, you were jealous of him, it's true, jealous of his youth." "Go away, I can't bear to see you any more, go away." "This is gay, all those bells." "That one, yes." "But not those of the fortress." "They only ring for the dead." "What holiday are they celebrating today?" "The procession of Notre Dame de la Visitation." "All the aristocracy will be there." "You're not going?" "No. I prefer to say my prayers in my little chamber." "Father..." "Why did so many prisoners die in the last days?" "I know nothing and I care less." "One might think those idiots had conspired among themselves to die in a series." "And to play into my enemies' hands." " Which enemies?" " The Prince, Mosca, Rassi, everybody." "They are only looking for an excuse to force me into retirement." "Father, is this all you can see?" "Your own interests?" "But still, those prisoners are men like all the others." "And what of it if they made you retire?" "Then the two of us would lead a sweet quiet life." "That's it." "To linger in a sort of barn, and you'll become an old maid." "Didn't I tell you that I desire only one thing:" "to stay near you." "Listen to me, my little girl, listen to me, I'm saying all this is only for your own happiness." "If you married Crescenzi..." "But since I don't love him." "But after all, he's a handsome man!" "He's rich, he has a million." "He'll give in to all your whims." "You talk as if I were on sale." "Of course I only think of you." "And you wouldn't even lift your little finger to help your father." "All you can do is say your prayers." "Only if one wants to succeed in life, one must visit the drawing rooms." "Since you only love solitude, you abhor good society and you refuse all good marriage candidates... you're nothing but a little egoist." "I won't marry Crescenzi." "You'll marry him, I'm telling you!" "And we're going to set the date for the wedding at once." "Never!" "Listen, Clelia." "There's a limit to my patience." "You shall marry Crescenzi or I'll have you confined to a convent." "Chose!" "I prefer the convent." "Maria." "Maria, pack Mademoiselle's things at once!" "You shall leave tomorrow." "Do you hear!" "Tomorrow!" "M. del Dongo has asked me to tell you many things." "Always the same things." "I don't see him at his window any more." "is he ill?" "It's only that... in the last days he's been looking poorly." "He has a bit of a fever but nothing serious." "And I'm there." "Oh thank you." "Then I can rely on you." "Only at the moment, with that sickness spreading... one can never be sure..." "There are even people who say it's... some kind of poisoning..." " Poison?" " But no!" "No, more like food poisoning." "But I'll be on the look-out." "Over there." "The Conti girl." "Perhaps we can learn some news about Fabrice through her." "A little savage who only leaves her house for church." "I'm sure she knows nothing." "And then, why should she be interested in Fabrice?" "For her he's a total stranger." "Madame." "I absolutely must speak to you." " lt's like this, Madame...." " He's alive, isn't he?" "Be reassured, Madame." "I had been beside myself with worrying." "I know that you love him." "But I am very worried too." " Fabrice..." " Fabrice?" "M. del Dongo has fallen ill." "And I'm afraid." "But what's going on in the fortress." "I don't know, but there's talk of poisoning." "Madame, you must do something as soon as possible." "Are you the Governor's daughter?" "Tell me." "Clelia." "Would you agree to help me?" "Yes, Madame." "Don't bother." "I'm staying." "The General Conti is triumphing shamelessly!" "She's a perfect woman." "Come with me, my dear Vouillain." "What an ugly gentleman.." "Yes, but what a ravishing fiancee." "My dear Crescenzi, you're going to marry an angel." "An angel, that's the word." "Crescenzi, you're going to take away from me what is my most precious possession." "Excuse me." "My congratulations, Mademoiselle." "You've certainly earned this happiness, my dear girl." "Thank you." "Oh, Mademoiselle." "All my best wishes, Mademoiselle." "Are you still determined to help us?" "Mademoiselle." "I'm not going to wish you happiness." "Why do say this, Your Excellency?" "Real happiness demands silence." "Sadness too." "And I propose to raise our glasses... to one who is absent." "Father!" " Heaven is punishing me!" " Calm yourself, Clelia." "Fetch a doctor, quick!" "This gentleman is a doctor." "He was just passing by, it's very fortunate." "This is serious." "He must be taken away from here at once!" "I'll go with you." "No, stay, you have guests to entertain." "Wait." "The head mustn't hang too low." "He's better now." "He must rest now." "Doctor, I hope it's nothing serious?" "Not all all, he'll be well soon." "What is it?" "Come with me." "Mademoiselle, I'm a friend of Fabrice." "In this pillow there is everything he needs to escape." " Ropes, files" " Yes?" "My father!" "This wasn't an accident?" "We couldn't be too choosy with our means, we've poured him a bit of laudanum." "But I'm really a doctor." "I ought to have you arrested." "If you do this... you'll murder Fabrice." "It's not your father whose life is in danger." "It's Fabrice's." "Oh immaculate Virgin, you who are all purity I am ashamed." "Don't look at me." "an ugly soul... I love... I love Fabrice." "For him I've become a criminal, I've betrayed my father." "All the same, I beg you to help me." "Because they want to kill my Fabrice." "Help me." "If you save him, I swear upon own punishment that I won't see him again after this." "I will never again look at him." "A rendez-vous in a chapel... isn't perhaps very suitable, but... but Christ has said: "Love each other"." "Clelia." "Clelia." "I have dreamed so much about you in my cell and now that you're here I don't even know how to say your name." "Oh Clelia." "You're pale." "You cried?" "It was nothing." "Listen to me." "They are preparing your evasion." "My evasion?" "But I would need wings to flee from this tower." "Careful!" "But I don't want to flee." "I am happy here." "Before that I didn't know what it meant to love." "I don't have the right to listen to you." "I love you." "And you too, you love me." "I've become engaged to the Marquis Crescenzi." "This isn't true!" "You must be joking!" "Don't torture me." "So you're like all the other women." "Fabrice, if you only knew... ls it because of this that you've had me come here?" "You could have left me the illusion..." "Only you're carrying into execution your father's theories:" "no illusion, no disillusion." "Be silent." "My father had threatened to send me to a convent if I refused to become engaged." "I knew that your life was in danger." "I only accepted in order to stay near you, to try to protect you." "You love me, still you want me to leave?" "But you must realize: they want your death!" "I'd rather die next to you than live elsewhere." "If you die, I'll die too." "Listen to me." "I've met the Duchess, she's prepared everything." "You'll promise to obey the Duchess?" "I promise to obey you." "Very soon they will celebrate my father's recovery, the guards will drink a lot." "Take this." "You'll escape tonight with this." "And you'll rejoin me later?" "An engagement is no marriage and can be broken." "You'll rejoin me as soon as possible, Clelia?" "Yes, Fabrice." "An engagement is no marriage." "What's going on." "This is from a friend of the Governor." "What's happening?" "Le vivat." "The Governor is our true friend." "Come down and join us." "There's a new delivery." "That's it, we're coming down." "Let's go boys, downstairs." "Grillo, have a drink with us." "Hurry up, get down." "Everybody downstairs." "Here they are." "Well?" "Everything went very well." "They've totally lost the sense of equilibrium and if they go on there won't be a single one left standing." "Thank you." "One for the poor of the parish, if you please." "Look, musicians!" "We're employed by the Marquis de Crescenzi to give a serenade to Mlle Clelia." "Oh, there must be something fishy inside, what are you carrying inside your instrument cases?" "Fire-arms?" "Will you dance with me, Grillo?" "Little bird from paradise." "Yes, little girl." "All this isn't quite regular." "A guard must remain at his prisoner's side." "I'll be back soon." "No, let's dance." "Crescenzi has arranged everything very well." "You won't regret to have followed your father's advice... my little girl." "You're always moving about." "What's the matter with you?" "Nothing." "You should go to bed now." "You've been up since this morning, aren't you tired?" "I feel great." "But I'll go and lie down a bit." "To tell you the truth, I... all that music..." "Good night." "Unless it's military music, of course." "That's better, isn't it?" "Here" "Don't be afraid, we'll soon be reunited." "Let me look at you once more." "No, this time it's serious, I must go back up there." "A guard mustn't leave his prisoner." "I can't want to stay." " You're leaving us?" " Yes, it's over." "Fabrice." "Every minute is precious." "They're ringing the alarm." "Well?" "We've won, Minister." "Yes, won." "My congratulations!" "Once the fugitive is caught, I order to hang him at once." "I said, hang him, Minister." "And I advise you to refrain from any comments." "As to you, General Conti..." "My career is in shatters." "My life is finished." "The dishonour." "Because of your treason." "You miserable girl." "And I, the old fool." "I had been asking myself why you were interested so much in the prisoners." "Who's there?" "It's only I." "Come on, don't let them defeat you." "I will never recover from this." "Such a disgrace." "Come with me." "A General... thrown out into the street... like a beggar." "Clelia," "You know I'm not a courtier." "I'm a simple man." "And I say things in a simple way." "Well... I had been crazy with happiness." "I thought... she likes me in spite of my money." "God knows I would have done anything to make you happy." "But I love you enough to understand a lot of things... and to guess the rest." "So... if you wish, Clelia... you're free." "The best proof of love one can give at my age... is to know how to erase oneself." "I'll be your wife... whenever you wish." "The time is passing slowly for you, isn't it?" "But you'll be able to walk in a few days." "Will I be able to ride a horse?" "To go to Parma?" "You're mad." "I haven't received any news since I'm here." "But it would be suicide." "Yes, I too don't care about being alive, I could give mine." "But for something useful, for a great cause." "But there's more than just love." "There's also liberty to defend." "So what?" "There's the liberty to love." "He's better, isn't he?" "You'll see, we'll make some nice excursions very soon." " Our Piedmont is so beautiful." " That's true." "Are you in pain?" "No." "Are you better like this?" "Yes, thank you." "Don't think." "It's over, Ernest, Rassi and his clowns." "I didn't think about them." "You are very far away from me, I can feel it." "It seems you're still in that prison." "I think I'll sleep a bit now." "But shouldn't it be me to help you?" "Get in." "Be careful with your leg!" "But I am." "Do you remember our trip on the lake when you came her on a holiday?" "It seems like yesterday to me." "Yes." " You're not cold?" " No." "Do you remember the fishermen?" "The fishing lines we lifted secretly." "But that was 15 years ago." "But they are the same little bells." "It's the same sound, nothing's changed." "The fisherman have, they aren't the same." "And this place, doesn't this remind you of something?" "You'd fallen into the lake." "And you threw yourself into the water to save me, you thought I had drowned." "Yes." "You loved me at that moment." "But I've never ceased to love you, in the same manner." "You've stayed my great and wonderful friend." "Let's get back, shall we?" "Who would have thought I'd take such a sad walk with you on this lake?" "Ah yes, I'm your great and wonderful friend." "But you're there, indifferent." "I know what you're thinking." "I've never mentioned her to you, haven't I?" "She's only 20 years old." "and I... we must end this." "But you're absurd." "I'm not." "You only think about her." "It's only she who counts." "And everything I say gets on your nerves, irritates you." "Even when I'm silent you can't stand me anymore." "Very well, I love her, I love her." "is it my fault?" "But Clelia is everything to me, everything." "I can't live far away from her." "No I couldn't!" "Every minute is an ordeal." "You'll end up reproaching me to have saved you from prison." "But I do!" "You'd much better leave me there." "But this is terrible, you spend your life saving me against my will." "Every time, at every step." "You love is the worst of prisons." "You dare tell me that!" "I didn't want to escape." "I had been happy in my cell, I saw her." "And now..." "Now she will marry Crescenzi." "You're lying!" "Do you imagine she's waiting for you?" "Crescenzi is nothing but a grain merchant." "But he is the richest man in the principality." "Jealousy makes you say that, but it isn't true." "Perhaps it's been done already, you stupid fool." "Fabrice!" "Well..." "What a ceremony it had been!" "I'm very happy, my children." "Yes, I'm tired." "One marries off one's daughter just once." "Especially an only daughter." "I'll leave you now." "And now, Clelia I'll say good night to you." "And good-bye." "Good-bye?" "Yes, I'm leaving... on an inspection tour of my estates." "I have many properties in different provinces of Italy." "And they are immense." "I'll be away for quite a long time." "You're leaving on our wedding day?" "Exactly, Clelia." "My friend." "You'll think about me once in a while?" "You'll slowly get used to the idea that you're... the Marquise Crescenzi." "And I'll let you know about my doings." "You'll always know where you can find me... on the day you're ready for it." "I want to kiss you." "Have you understood correctly?" "You'll place your men as you see fit, you'll operate only when you're sure the coup will succeed." "The fellow mustn't escape us." "Let's go." "If necessary, I'll have the whole town searched, but we'll catch him." "And it'll be my pleasure to have him hanged, that pretty little Marquis." "You know, he's sure to return to roam around my girl's palace." "She takes a walk in the park daily." "Just like the moth who gets burned at the flame." "Be assured, General, that I appreciate your patriotic initiative." "Here you are, ladies, attention, number, another winner." "31 wins." "Ladies and gentlemen, who's got the 31?" "Ladies and gentlemen, the game continues, take your numbers." "Attention, 28 wins." "The gentleman wins." "Beautiful weather." "Yes, isn't it." "Won't you take your little walk in the park now?" "I'm cold, I'm more comfortable in here." "What are you looking at?" "Me?" "Nothing." "Are you expecting someone?" "What a funny idea." "I had just been looking at the sun." "The weather is magnificent." "You should make use of it." "This will surely please the Prince." "What will?" "It's true, you don't know yet." "The Sanseverina is within our city walls." "She's come back?" "This will be a great pleasure to Count Mosca." "Especially since he's been a bit in disgrace these days." "Ah, our dear Prime Minister." "The Sanseverina will raise him again in the Prince's esteem." "You're sure you won't go out?" "What a pity to neglect such a beautiful sun." "I've already told you that I don't feel like going out." "Ah, the letters." "It's for you." "Your husband, as usual." "With his mania to write you every day." "I always think the letter is for me." "But it's never for me." "It's only normal." "A General in retirement." "A finished man." "One doesn't write letters to the dead." "What is the dear man doing?" "The Marquis has left Lombardy for Bologna." "Always on the high roads." "It's funny." "Weird even." "What is weird?" "As a son-in-law he might pass, but as a husband ... isn't it time for him to come back?" "Husband and wife, they are made to be together." "If he didn't like you... he shouldn't have married you." "After all, do you think it normal?" "You're going out?" "Fabrice." "So it's true." "If they find you they'll kill you." "You didn't wait for me, you told me you loved me." "You shouldn't have come here." "You're afraid I might cause a scandal." "But why did you marry him?" "Because I didn't want you to die." "So I've made a vow." "I've sworn an oath to the Madonna that I won't see you again if she would save you." "My love." "I have no longer the right to look at you." "I want to die." "So that's what it was." "And I have doubted you." "Save yourself!" "They'll arrest you." "Fabrice!" "No, let him go!" "Fabrice!" "Fabrice!" "Let him go!" "Let him go!" "I love you." "Yes, yes, I love you." "In the meantime he'll wriggle at the end of a rope." "There is a God after all." "So it's been you!" "But now I see it all." "You knew that he had returned." "That's why you spied at the window... lt wasn't enough that I had to be a jailor's daughter... I also had to be the daughter of the basest of all men ... a squealer!" "It's been you who arranged everything!" "It's you who has prepared everything, you turned him over to them." "Go away, go away!" "I don't want to see you any more, I hate you... I hate you." "I must see the Duchess." "I must talk to her at once!" " They've arrested him?" " Yes." "You must save him." "They've arrested him near me." "It hadn't been my fault." "I didn't encourage him to return." "But it's because of me that he returned." "And because of me they've arrested him." "They'll kill him." "And I am helpless." "But you..." "Once you've asked me to help you." "Now I'm asking you." "But you're not even listening." "But it's not possible, you can't let him die!" "You too love him." "You can save him, you can do anything if you want to." "I've told you he'll die!" "He won't have to." "Let her come in." "No, let her wait." "Fabrice is saved." "I'd like you to transmit this to your nephew." "A gold piece?" "A napoleon he lent me when I had been a robber on the high roads." "If I meet with an accident, and accidents may happen very easily... and one doesn't want to make one's peace with debts." "Palla!" "How long it takes till daybreak." "You'll have beautiful weather for your voyage." "But it's cold in the morning." "One must take good covering." "What time is it?" "Almost 7 o'clock." " Everything's ready for Madame's departure." " Very well Jackie, we'll leave in a moment." "Once you've arrived in Naples, I'll terminate all our affairs here... and I'll hand in my resignation." "Two weeks later I'll rejoin you." "What are you thinking of, Gina?" "Excuse me." "I've thought about Palla." "Ah, the free man." "We too shall be free very soon." "I hope you'll forget Parma and its miserable little court quickly." "Be assured." "The Countess Mosca won't remember the Duchess of Sanseverina." "Speaking of souvenirs..." "No thank you." "I thought you held it in great affection." "One always holds one's youth in affection." "But one must let it go one of these days." "One must end things." "Growing old beside you will comfort me." "Madame la Duchesse." "What is it?" "Well, what is it?" "The luggage has been loaded, everything's ready." "I'll be down soon, don't disturb me right now." "What time is it?" "A few minutes past 7." "That early?" "You're waiting for Fabrice?" "I won't see him again." "What's the use?" "One may save people from prison... but one cannot save them from themselves." "The prison they are carrying inside themselves." "What do you think of Palla?" "He's really fortunate." "The madmen are happy." "In fact, the really mad are quite reasonable." "No, what I meant was... do you think Palla is a man of courage?" "Look at this!" "This is how a free man dies!" "Long live liberty!" "Death to the tyrant!" "Long live the Republic!" "Do you hear this?" "No." "Listen to those shouts." "What's happening?" "The Prince is dead." "Now I can leave." "And you'll give this to Fabrice." "From Palla." "Let's burn down the palace." "Long live the Republic!" "My poor sir." "But it's of no use to come here, I've already told you." "Madame is as unhappy as you are, but she cannot see you, as you very well know." "I absolutely must speak to her, only once." "Since I'm telling you that she cannot." "Just once!" "Long live liberty!" "Long live the Republic!" "M. le Cure!" "M. le Cure!" "They've hanged me." "Justice has been done." "Don't be frightened, Your Highness." "But this is terrible, M. Rassi, a revolution!" "No, just a touch of fever, that's all." "But evidently, once it aggravates..." "Where is Count Mosca, why doesn't he do anything?" "But this is inconceivable, one must act at once, M. Rassi!" "It's only that... I'm not the Prime Minister." "Prime Minister?" "Would you accept the office, M. Rassi?" "I?" "A commoner?" "If only I were... a Baron..." "But I'm going to give you the Riva estate and I'll make you a Baron." "Baron Riva?" "Do you hear?" "This is frightening!" "You know, Your Highness... the good people must from time take it out on somebody." "But they content themselves with easy targets." "But who will profit by it?" "Because..." "But what must one do?" "I have already had to take some precautions, because of Count Mosca's negligence." "and by tomorrow ... everything will be returned to order." "What would I do without you, Prime Minister." "In nome de patris et filii et spiritu sancti, amen." "My brothers." "I propose that we shall meditate together today... on a passage from the imitation of Our Lord Jesus Christ." "The passage where it says that nothing is stronger than love." "because love has come from God." "Lord, help me listen to Your voice deep in my heart... how sweet it is to love." "It's you?" "At last you are here before me." "Come closer that I may see you." "I've made you suffer." "How I've tormented you." "God will punish me, but I don't have the force." "And how shall I keep my vow?" "The Madonna hasn't saved you, she did nothing." "I've come to take you with me, Clelia." " Take me with you?" " Yes." "But this is impossible." "Nothing is possible anymore." "But this is monstrous nothing is keeping us from escaping, being happy together since we love each other." "We couldn't be happy, Fabrice." "One doesn't create happiness by being a coward." "I knew you would say that." "I've already made up my mind." "I'm seeing you tonight for the last time." "We'll be far away from each other, but our hearts are united." "I won't see you again?" "Never again?" "We shouldn't, Fabrice." "I don't have the right, not anymore." "The others don't have the right." "My love, could it be a sin?" "We could commit only one sin, the sin of not loving each other." "Forgive me." "I have perjured my vow." "And I've betrayed all my duties as a spouse." "And yet I don't feel remorse." "But you wouldn't understand me." "Prepare my baggage." "I've decided to leave Parma today." "Thus, while Clelia rejoins her husband the Marquis Crescenzi in Bologna... and the Sanseverina travels to Naples... where she'll wait for Count Mosca..." "Fabrice del Dongo will shut himself lt hadn't been my fault." "I didn't encourage him to return." "There ends that short happiness of which Stendhal has written that one achieves it rarely and that its pursuit is well worth one's whole life." "The end" "KG subtitling forum serdar202 - knappen" " JM2L"