"____Empty_____" "I was wandering about the wide world," "And I knew a lot of people " "There is happiness and there is no happiness," "There is love and there is no love." "Fedos!" "What?" "All right?" "All right." "I mean are you all right?" "Yes I am." "When are you going to die?" "Ha-ha!" "On Wednesday." "This Wednesday or next?" "[?" "] nned if i know?" "but it will happen on Wednesday as sure as [?" "]" "The most appropriate day." "Aha." "I'll die in the morning." "No, in the afternoon." "Well, they'll wash me." "You will wash me." "Only with the water from this well." "But it's cold." "It's cold for you, but for me it's ideal." "Well, I'll be lying all Thursday long." "Then they'll get me to the cemetery." "And you'll have a funeral repast all weekend long." "You'll be on a spree till Monday." "I'll leave two hundred for that." "You tell lies." "Do I?" "I don't believe it'll be so." "And you are afraid of it." "You should be afraid." "Ha." "Well, what evil have you seen in your life?" "To accept death so easily?" "What have you done in your life?" "What?" "I was cocking a snook at death for 80 years." "I've done it almost every day for 80 years." "But if one did it more often..." "Oh, big business." "I gave birth to 3 sons." "I brought them up, I set them on their feet." "Set them on their feet?" "Big business." "Three sons?" "Does Sasha write letters to anybody?" "He writes to me." "My sons don't write." "I see." "So your son shouldn't write either." "Really?" "Go home, Timofey." "If one has a talk with you -- he'll have bad dreams all night long." "What are you doing?" "It's cold!" "You'll kick the bucket because of your spite ahead of time." "Don't hope." "Of course I'll kick the bucket." "Sure." "But I'll outlive you." "Sure." "How'd you like that!" "I'll do everything possible." "Yeah." "I'll outlive you." "You will." "Only if you do all you can." "Come on, come on" "I do." "I do." "Eh!" "Damn it all." "Sasha, Sasha!" "Sasha." "Sasha!" "Have you hung yourself in there?" "Oh." "Jump out quickly." "What's the matter?" "The nature will kill you!" "Sasha!" "Oh, shit, I can't find my trousers." "Here they are." "Go without trousers." "Yeah, sure!" "Devil!" "I go." "Help me, do you see -- the door is lopsided." "What are you doing there?" "The ceiling is falling down!" "It'll crush you!" "Jump out!" "How should I jump out?" "Through the window!" "Mishuk, do you have a mother?" "No." "A father?" "Nope." "Are they dead?" "Who knows." "They may be dead or alive." "They loved each other." "But they didn't love me." "When daddy left mommy, she left me in maternity hospital." "I'm a foundling." "But don't you fear being alone in this great big world?" "I got used to it." "You know, sometimes I think -- gee whiz!" "There are so many people around, but I live as in the space [?" "]" "What a boob you are!" "Why don't you marry?" "Why don't you make your own relatives yourself?" "You wander in this world as in the cobweb." "But what about you?" "I have a village!" "A house, a father, brothers." "As in a fairy-tale." "A peasant had three sons." "The eldest son was smart." "The middle son was so-so." "The youngest one was a complete fool." "I'm the middle one." "I'm so-so." "Actually I'm nothing." "Turn it off, it lasts all morning long!" "Where have you recorded it?" "Don't touch." "It warms my soul." "Well, why are we here?" "It's a stone's throw to Japan." "What for?" "For chasing the big money." "But what for?" "The big money?" "Yes." "Well, Sasha, I don't know." "Oh." "I thought about death today, Mishuk." "About what?" "About death?" "Are you completely mad?" "What do you think about?" "And I'm thirsty." "I need water." "Well-water." "At least a sip of it." "A drop." "I'll run for it." "To hell with all these things." "Easy!" "Why are you blinking?" "Why are you blinking, iron fool!" "We'll carry you a little ways." "Are you a lunatic?" "No, I'm not, I've been at the wedding." "I say -- sit!" "No, I won't do that anymore!" "Leave him." "Turn around." "Stop!" "Let's go." "What place d'you need?" "Well, straight to the avenue." "I'm from White Dew." "Is it not demolished yet?" "They are going to demolish it, they say -- in this month." "I'll be a city-dweller soon." "And I'll spit down from the balcony onto people's crowns." "Where do you work?" "In the collective farm in the meantime." "Who got married?" "My friend from the army." "He's gotten married for the third time and for love." "Come on!" "Gimme the accordion." "What for?" "I'll try to play it." "Stop!" "What's wrong?" "It's not for you." "Go on." "Why do you squeeze it like this?" "Who plays it like this?" "You twitch it and you are yourself twitching all over." "Maybe we'll take this composer?" "He becomes impudent." "But what did I say?" "What did I say?" "You know, I held it before the army for the last time." "I can play heavily if you want." "You are good fellows, strike me!" "Hey!" "The village is on the left, the village is on the right." "The village is everywhere!" "Are you absolutely crazy?" "Hi, Andrey!" "See what a beautiful morning, come out, let's smoke." "Let's listen to the roosters' singing." "Where is your cobra?" "Is she still warming herself on the health resort?" "Andrey!" "All sane people are still sleeping." "She's arrived." "Close the window, or else he won't leave you alone all day long." "Give me one more." "Stop playing the fool!" "You are already 35 years old, but you are the same." "Yes, and I have a nickname -- the Lamb." "I have a nickname for myself and for Sasha." "And I'm not playing the fool." "I had a hard childhood." "A lack of vitamins." "But I'm not offended, word of honour." "Do you know that Mishka" " Kissel has come back?" "What do you say!" "He has returned!" "Why are you grinning?" "He didn't leave his house while you were dancing there." "What?" "What?" "All the village knows that." "Except you." "What a brother he has!" "Has Kissel dropped by?" "No." "Don't be afraid, Marusya." "I'm not going to banish you." "We lived together for 6 years." "You could bear it." "It appeared again." "They'll demolish our place soon." "I say -- they'll demolish it." "We chase you all summer long." "You live here, but they'll demolish your sweet home." "And what then?" "Will you take offence at the people for ages?" "Shoo!" "Hi, father!" "Hi." "Well, have you walked enough?" "Sure." "Will you drink some milk?" "Sure." "Things are rotten." "She intends to divorce me." "Why the hell did he come here!" "You shouldn't have gotten married!" "I told you, fool." "But you wanted to get married anyway." "Stop that, father." "What?" "Did you try to beat her?" "Try that, but do it without the rage." "It's all in vain." "There is no way to beat the stone." "You are out of this world, Vaska." "Everything is the wrong way out." "Yeah." "All right, I'll go on creating." "Time will show." "I don't have neither a wife nor a home of my own," "I have no luck..." "Stay here, Shrimp!" "Marusya, come here." "You've been leaving together for 6 years." "What a disgrace!" "What kind of love do you need?" "A woman needs children and a man." "You'll soon be forty." "You decided to fall in love." "You have a daughter." "You'd better think about her!" "How will she live without a father?" "She is Mishka's daughter." "You are a damned wretch." "Yes I am." "Listen." "Don't spill the beans to Vaska." "I don't want to hear this from you or anybody else." "Do you see it?" "Sure." "Oh my god!" "Well, have you done it?" "Yes I have." "Excellent." "What are we to do, Masha?" "Don't torment me, go to extract your gold." "Let it go to hell!" "At first one extracts the gold, then -- he fells trees." "Think about yourself!" "Before I had time to leave, you got married!" "So why didn't you take me with you?" "To where?" "Do you think there is a wonderland?" "There is a mire, sand and coldness." "But we could have lived here like other people." "Masha, I can't ." "Your Vasya can... [?" "] can see the sun in the morning and then he is happy all day" "But you need gold." "You might have waited till my return home." "To wait?" "To be alone for 6 years?" "With a baby?" "It's your daughter, Misha." "What?" "As soon as the people believed that I begot her seven-month." "Masha, why you didn't tell me?" "Why didn't you ask me?" "You left and disappeared." "No letter." "No word." "Vaska heaped my disgrace upon himself." "He loves the daughter dearly." "I should adore him till the end of life, but I..." "Masha, I want to tell you..." "You deserted me, Misha." "No, I didn't ." "Old love never dies." "Forever dies." "Masha, mark it well, I love you as I did." "Mark it well." "Oh." "I go, I go." "What's the matter with you?" "Why you..." "What's happened?" "Why you left me?" "You are already adult!" "Hey!" "Are you adult or not?" "What are you?" "I'm small." "Small, wow!" "You are not small." "You started the waterworks again!" "Now we'll clear all your tears away like this and like this." "Now, blow your nose." "Oh, god, what a cry-baby you are!" "That's okay." "All is clear." "Now, do it a bit stronger." "Oh!" "Were you scared?" "No." "I just dislike being home alone." "Where is mom?" "Mom?" "She is probably at her work." "Will we go to meet her?" "Will we?" "We'll go to meet mom." "Okay, here is a blanket to keep you warm." "We didn't see you for a long time." "Are you going to spend the winter here?" "nd a bride for yourself and find another place, is it clear to y" "Your nest won't be here in spring, a cultural center will be here." "Give it to me." "Take." "When I came, she was in tears." "You shouldn't have left her alone in the dark." "She can be scared." "They'll write out the deeds for apartments soon." "[?" "] oday I've been in their office, they've already made a decisio [?" "]" "In what areas will they have apartments?" "I don't know at this time." "I wish they wouldn't send us to the outskirts." "It'll be far for me to go to mother's grave." "Dad, it's time to sell everything we don't need." "I'll sell Shrimp." "May it be better to sell her to the slaughterhouse?" "She is old, you won't get much money for her." "I'll sell her." "Now it's about the house." "They'll give us the lot in the country." "I'll move my house there -- it'll be a summer cottage." "Oh, I decided what I would do with mine." "My chief is buying it for demolition." "You can't do it!" "It warmed us for so many years." "You were born and grew up here, mother died in it." "Anyway it will all be under the bulldozer." "Nope." "I won't sell it." "It's a sin." "This sin costs some hundred rubles." "Why do you count other peoples' money?" "Count yours." "Well, be silent for a while." "So-called heirs, damn it." "Father, before your die, make your will to leave everything to the world fund." "They'll stop visiting you at once." "Oh God, what are we talking about." "You know." "If you wanna sell it -- it's up to you, but we came here to talk about other things." "About what?" "We live separately, so they'll give us separate apartments." "We'll have two-room apartments, you'll have a one-room apartment." "Father, don't agree!" "Shut up." "Say!" "What should I say?" "It'll be difficult for you to leave alone." "In short, if you agree to live with us, we'll have a three-room apartment." "I already had a talk about it in their office." "No, Andrey." "If I agree, I'll incite you to sin." "You will be waiting for my death." "No way." "We won't talk about it anymore." "When Sasha arrives, where will he live?" "You won't let him live in your apartment." "He was going to come here for 15 years!" "But if he does it?" "Who will register him here?" "Damn it, he is your brother!" "What's going on with you?" "A hero!" "He'll divorce her." "Where shall he go?" "He'll come to live in my house." "How?" "Will he divorce her?" "Well, right now?" "But what about the apartment?" "Will you change it or will you leave it to that woman?" "I'll leave it to my daughter." "What?" "What daughter?" "Shut up!" "If you are ignorant, I'll enlighten you." "What the devil have you to do with three-room apartments'" "You don't have children, and you will never have them." "You have left the unborn ones in clinics." "Recently I dreamt about nonsense." "About colored nonsense." "Today, at the hayfield." "When I was laying down." "I don't have dreams at all." "Good night." "Hello." "Hi." "Here is the telegram to Vorkuta for my son." "I wrote him that they were going to give us apartments." "In city, with all conveniences." "That I would kick the bucket soon." "That it would be for you." "What's that?" "What?" "What did you write about?" "It's for him to understand." "Granddad, it's not a letter, it's a telegram." "You should write it in a civilized manner." "Why don't you prompt to me how to do it?" "Like this: arrive urgently!" "Dad." "He won't arrive." "I wrote him, but got no answer for 15 years." "Well, write again sometime." "I will." "Do you feel bad, granddad?" "No, I'm okay." "I'm okay, my dear." "Hey, are you ready?" "The last welding." "Hell!" "You've pressed me as if you stuck me with nails!" "Fedos, soon you'll jump as a young sheep." "It's the ancient falk medicine." "During the war our commander suffered from radiculitis." "Everybody tried to help him, but it was all in vain." "He was doubled up with pain until I took him in hand." "[?" "] ook my treatment, and as a result the regiment attacked for [?" "]" "Be quick!" "Just a minute." "You are so white, Fedos." "As a priest's wife." "But have you seen a priest's wife?" "I used to." "You tell lies." "It's so." "Okay, come on!" "I start." "That's right." "Okay." "Oh!" "O dear!" "Oh!" "Lie!" "Take it away!" "I do it for your health, fool!" "Oh!" "It must be so." "Take it away quickly!" "Oh!" " Suffer it!" "O-o-oh!" "You've risen to your feet!" "I treat you, fools, for free!" "Imagine if I have money for this." "I would have had a Mercedes!" "I'll give you what for!" "Throw the brick away." "I will." "Throw the brick away." "Now!" "I will." "I will." " Throw it away." "That's all." "He's locked himself in." "You asked to help you to rise to your feet." "I've done it." "Go away!" "Go away!" "." "Oh!" "Vermin!" "Hi, Vasily!" "Vaska!" "Why are you looking blank?" "I'm back, don't you see!" "Have you gathered all the gold in Siberia?" "No, I've left it for you." "I have no time." "It's harvesting in the collective farm." "Well, work." "Wait a little." "You know, go for diamonds, for silver or for other good." "But leave Marusya alone." "I love her." "So do I." "Leave us alone." "I love her since school years." "Here's not a school, we have a daughter." "We were living in clover." "But suddenly you appeared as a pimple, as a thorn in our flesh." "What?" "Am I a thorn?" "I love her, is it clear?" "She loves me, do you see?" "Get your peepers open." "It is my daughter, she's mine." "Little Galya is my daughter." "All right, Lamb!" "Where is little Galya?" "Right there." "Little Galya, come here." "Oh, what's this, dad?" "A bee stung me." "Does it hurt?" "Yes, it hurts." "Now, smile!" "Like this, show me your teeth, come on!" "It tickles me!" "Does it?" "All right!" "Madman." "Okay, little one, go." "Go to play with your Lusya." "Brush her hair." "Father!" "Well, have you fetched them?" "Yes I have." "Come on, attach." "Well, what is it?" "Do you feel that?" "Well, it doesn't sting me." "'Cause you are so thick-skinned, even a snake couldn't bite through it." "Make it angry." "Come on, sting him!" "Oh!" "Oh, one more." "Okay." "Oh!" "Is that enough?" "Well, that's enough." "Oh!" "It's another thing now." "It's for night." "Who has hit you?" "Don't worry about it!" "Kissel?" "Yeah." "Have it his way, may he slander Marusya." "But he said little Galya was his daughter." "He made it up, a miserable jeweller." "Yes, she looks like me ." "I couldn't stand it no longer." "Is mother in?" "She's gone to the city." "Who's in the house?" "Nobody." "Listen, did you come here to call me names?" "You'd better tell your blockhead, that if he pokes his nose..." "I'll tell him, I'll tell him immediately." "What's wrong with you?" "Let me go." "Don't move!" "D'you know what will you catch for this?" "Yes, a prison." "It doesn't matter for me where I die." "Answer my questions." "Only the truth." "Okay." "Is Marusya's daughter yours?" "Mine." "Has she come to you lately?" "Yes, she has." "We..." "Don't move!" "Do you love her?" "Yes I do." "And she loves me, too." "Stand up." "Look here, Mishka." "You'll marry her at once." "I won't allow you to dishonor her." "But little Galya is a granddaughter for me, she won my heart." "If you say something bad about her I'll cut your head off with this axe!" "Do you believe it?" "Yes." "That's the ticket." "Vaska will move to my house tomorrow." "You'll move in with Marusya and her daughter in a day or two." "And don't tell anybody that little Galya is your daughter." "Is it clear?" "And don't disturb us." "Live as others do." "Would you like to say something?" "I would." "Fedos, if you were in jail, you would strut as a king there." "Good luck!" "Ha-ha!" "Good luck!" "Fuck off, bitch!" "Divorce her!" "Hi." "Hi!" "Well, come in, come in." "Why you're here at this time of night." "Aunt Maria!" "Aunt Zina and aunt Vera were talking at the draw- [?" "]" "That your Mishka wants to kill my father." "Oh, God!" "Tell him not to do that." "I'll give him my dolly Lucy for that." "Don't , dear, don't do it." "Play with her." "I'll tell him." "Let's go, my honey, let's go." "I'll tell him necessarily." "Chuck-chuck!" "That'll do, leave me alone." "I won't have time to pray for your soul, sonny." "It's little time to live for me." "Here is the love for you, here is the gold for you!" "Mom, that'll do." "Here is the love for you." "Mom, what's happened to you?" "Here is the gold for you." "Mom, it hurts me." "Are you going to sit here for a long time?" "Lie down on the sofa." "I wish you'd say something, you are keeping mum as a fish." "Marusya, if I had bitten you a little, might it be better?" "It might be." "We'll go tomorrow." "Hi." "Hello, granddaddy." "Hello." "Father, keep an eye on her." "We'll go to divorce." "If we are not divorced by dinner, feed her with something." "Granddaughter, go to the house." "Give some milk to the kitten." "Have you talked to her?" "Father, I can't clear up a question with her." "I'm ashamed of it." "People are not to speak with their tongues." "With what then?" "With their souls." "But if it's impossible, it's useless to speak with tongues." "Well, go." "She loves that skunk." "How can she do that." "Don't be put out about that, I won't live alone." "I'll get marry again." "I'll marry Vera." "She loves with Sasha, but I'm his brother for all that." "I'll dye my noddle with red colour, and she'll fall in love with me." "Okay, go, fidget." "Don't forget to feed her." "I won't ." "Hi, Vera." "Hi." "Uncle Fedya, take the telegram." "Sasha is coming." "Well, what the news?" "No news." "Ooh." "It's so stuffy in the morning." "Look, they are going to demolish our houses." "Yeah." "You won't carry the mail anymore." "Why?" "They take me to the post-office # 83." "It's right there, behind the construction." "Have you sold your cow?" "Yes I have." "But we don't know what to do with hens. --Well, that's simpler question." "Yes." "Will they give you large apartments?" "I don't know, probably it'll be one-room." "Actually it's enough for us." "Don't you regret?" "What?" "A village?" "Uncle Fedya, it's become obsolete." "It's not promising." "What's up, uncle Fedya?" "You should bear a child." "I should." "So, say that he drinks." "That he isn't at home." "He doesn't care about his daughter." "It's impossible to live with him." "Only fools say that they can be unsuitable for each other." "They don't permit to divorce because of this." "The judge will say "Don't pull the wool over my eyes."" "Change your tempers and continue to live together." "I'll tell all the truth." "Don't spout nonsense." "Shame!" "I am ashamed." "And what about me?" "They'll wonder why I couldn't crack down on her." "I should contrive something too." "If I say that you don't wash my shirts -- will it work?" "Say what you want to." "And don't forget to say that I drink." "Do you think that they'll believe that you are a tippler." "Where shall they go?" "Marusya." "Wait for me there in the hall." "I'll be there soon." "Father is it 1 1 o'clock?" "It is, it is." "What the hell are you doing?" "You have broken so many bottles." "I didn't ask you!" "Fucking bastard!" "Stop, skunk!" "You won't go anyway." "Easy." "Are you mentally deranged?" "Vera, come to see our people in the evening." "And tell them not to worry." "I'm in jail." "Come on, come on." "Listen, boss." "Is amnesty possible at your place?" "I need to divorce my wife." "You'll have enough time for that." "Why you didn't say how everything was going?" "But did he ask me?" "I threw out the bottle." "I broke the window." "And I've drunk in the morning." "It's the truth." "I could get that and sign that." "And he stared at me." "He stared at if I were an ugly mug." "You may have rescued some men." "Do you imagine it's as if a baby carriage rolled out into the road." "What trouble could be stirred up!" "Yeah." "Yeah." "You were given 15 days in jail for a good deed." "I can stand it." "This is quite another matter." "The matter is that one mustn't do that." "Formerly you couldn't even touch the empty baby carriage." "It was forbidden, it was a sin." "But he carries bottles in it." "Damned tippler!" "Let's go to the room." "I'll give you a sheet of paper." "You'll write the truth." "No." "I'll be in jail for 15 days more, instead of writing the complaint." "I'm not a writer." "Well, let's go, let's go." "You don't have a right." "Come on, come on." "I don't have a right, why?" "Let's go." "What d'you need?" "Mother asked for the axe, give it back" "It's there in the inner porch, take it." "Call for Vaska." "He's in jail." "What?" "He did a lot of mischief in town." "He was given 15 days." "Have you been at Marusya's ?" "No." "Go to see her." "No." "I am wary of staying there forever." "The deed for the one-room flat is being delivered to the oldest citizen" "Of the village "White Dew" ..." "The war veteran Fedor Hodos." "Why are you sitting like a statue?" "Take, as long as they give." "Congratulations, dear Fedor!" "I hope you'll have robust health and long life." "You have the floor." "What should I say?" "Tell something about yourself." "Well, what should I say?" "I was born in..." "We know your birthday!" "Make a speech." "Don't blather(shut up)!" "It's up to me what to tell you." "I was born here, then I got married, here." "Then I was working." "I carried the first war with Semyon Budenny." "The second one in Karelia." "Then I was a partisan." "Now they give me the deed for a new flat." "It means that I'll be dying with all the conveniences." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "The deed for three-roomed flat is being delivered to..." "Hey, Fedos, you can't speak smoothly." " Instead, I have a luxuriant imagination." "Oh, everyone has it." "Petya, wait, take the cat." "Mother, what for, forget about that." "I say: take the cat, it is to be first to come in to the new flat." "I don't need it!" "Here it is." "Eat." "We'll go to the market tomorrow." "Here they've given the order." "A key for the new flat." "So, don't be offended." "The room is light, with a balcony." "The kitchen is nice." "The fifth floor." "Is Galya sick?" "No, she treated me with the candies yesterday." "Oh, I've nearly forgotten!" "Kissel has gone." "Where?" "He has left the village forever." "What a bastard!" "He has driven her head and he has gone after all." "What are we to do now?" "What?" "Live as you did before." "No." "No." "I'm proud." "I'm a difficult person, Andrey." "Oh." "Why you are sighing?" "Why you are doing that?" "Listen, you, difficult person!" "Are you hungry?" "I want beer." "All right, I'll bring some." "Take the tie off." "What's wrong with you?" "Take it off!" "Come on, come on!" "And take the jacket off.]" "Replace myself for half an hour." "Paint the fence." "And then you'll paint that one!" "Dear Andrey, just half an hour!" "I ask you, please!" "Please, sit." "I prefer beer from a wooden-cask." "I don't like bottles." "Here is the brush." "Don't be afraid." "Little Galya!" "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "Fedos!" "Have you sold her?" "I have." "Come here, I'll wipe your tears." "The waterworks again!" "She may have fallen into good hands." "How much did you gain?" "Shit!" "Deliver her to the slaughterhouse!" "You'd gain 5 times over." "I couldn't do that!" "Do you see?" "Yeah, I do, I see that you're a dolt!" "Well, don't be offended." "Let's drink, let's forget all this bustle." "I was so disappointed, that I forgot the bottle." "Here, run and bring it here." "Where should I run?" "We live in town, not in village." "I see." "Well, let's dispossess my mother-in-law." "Let's do it." "We'll make this nun!" "Fedos, one can teach you for ages, but you'll die as a fool." "The truth is above all." "Here." "Come in." "God, bless and save me!" "Let's mix vodka with water." "And let her rub herself briskly with it." "What does she rub with this?" "Her loins or something." "Who the deuce knows?" "She invents all her sicknesses by herself, and then she treats them." "She wastes vodka." "Now see what we have." "Our wives die, but our mothers-in-law live in clover." "They live persistently." "Let them live to their pleasure." "Do you begrudge them?" "No, I don't begrudge them." "I'm just curious." "Wait a little." "I'll fetch some cucumbers immediately." "I don't want them." "But why?" "I don't want them." "I rub my loins with snake's venom." "She has probably put some spurge-flax berries there." "You'll be dead before you'll know it." "No, I won't drink." "Look at him." "You are a Suvorov's coeval, but you still fear to die." "I need to wed Sasha." "Fancy that!" "He needs to wed Sasha." "Hey, Jack, take!" "don't touch it, Jack." "Away with you!" "(go out)" "Away with you!" "Die!" "Yeah, he'll die." "No way!" "He'll outlive you." "Look, he licks his lips." "He asks for more, lazybones!" "Hurry up!" "She can be back at any moment." "Come on!" "Fedos, How much would you like(about vodka)?" "Don't you see the brims?" "Sorry!" "Oh." "As they say:" "Lord helps those who help themselves." "God be with you." "Okay.(while they are drinking vodka)" "Saints!" "Stop babbling such nonsense." "You'll outlive three more wars!" "But I'm quite another matter." "I'm nervous." "A loony." "And you know, loonies live a short life." "I told you I would die, so I would." "I was living without any conveniences." "That's not what I need." "You need the difficulties." "I'll make difficulties for you." "Don't be afraid." "Now see what we have." "Water will be near." "It'll be." "You don't need firewood anymore." "I don't need." "You don't need to work in the garden." "Damn it all!" "I fear even to think about it." "You don't need to go outside to relieve yourself." "Let's lay a bet on all your pension." "If you are first to die, I'll give you all to the last penny." "If I'm first, you'll give me all the money." "Wait." "What does it mean that'll die first?" "What about you?" "Well, all right, Fedos." "Come on, come on." "Hi, Fedos." "Hello, Maria." "Timofey, what's the matter with our Jack?" "He is happy with his life." "He'll be living on the balcony." "He seems to be dead." "What?" "So early?" "My dear mommy!" "A killer!" "A killer!" "Is it you, who sits at our place?" "Yes I am." "Be ready to go." "I haven't finished yet." "You'll finish tomorrow." "Wait a little." "Hurry up, I have no time." "Have they completely released you?" "I'll bring you a new doll." "My brother is in jail, you know!" "He sits there for nothing." "Well, he replaced me." "Don't tell me fish stories." "Are you humane or not?" "If you want to be there too, I can organize that." "You don't have the right, I'm sober." "What?" "You are confused, as I can say so." "What she has put into that?" "Drunkard!" "It might have been worse." "Jack saved our lives." "May he rest in heaven." "A drunkard!" "Did I ask you?" "You asked to have it filled to the brim." "I didn't force you." "Look, look!" "Jack!" "Ha-ha-ha!" "Lazybones!" "He just drank and fell asleep." "And he's being relieved now!" "They nearly gave us the enemas." "We wasted vodka." "Let's go there is a rest of it, let's drink it up. --A drunkard!" "You are a drunkard yourself!" "Who asked to fill the glass until it brims over?" " Get lost." "Piss off." "Jack, where are you running?" "Where is your master?" "Go, go, drink it up." "I will." "Jack, Jack!" "Andrey, forgive me." "What for?" "For our children." "Who won't be born." "And forgive me too." "Vasily, stand up!" "Hey, Andrey, are you released?" "Andrey, I didn't want to-my word of honour." "You know, I wanted to see little Galya." "I thought I would have time." "Sorry." "Take off your clothes." "I, so to say, took a couple of rubles from your wallet." "Nights got cold." "Oh, your cobra will give you what for." "I'll desert her." "Have you gone crackers?" "Let's drink." "It's too early, they won't permit us." "They'll give us some cognac." "What's the matter with you?" "I've had a dream today." "Vaska!" "Hi, father." "How long are you going to play the monkey?" "I'm a difficult person." "I'll take a stick and I'll kick you out!" "How d'you like that-he's gone on a strike!" "Father, don't meddle with my private life!" "I'll not set foot there until she calls for me." "When they demolish my house, I'll set up a tent." "I'm offended." "They mock at you and her." "They mock -- they do not cry." "Well, at least move to me and be offended, you're welcome." "That's all, father, you can go." "Vaska!" "What else?" "Are there any authorities at our cemetery?" "Sure, they have buried a minister not long ago." "No, no." "I don't mean this." "I mean the authority which manages the cemetery." "It might be." "Why do you need them?" "They say they won't bury in our cemetery anymore." "We are going to reserve vacant places with Timofey." "Should we bribe somebody?" "Our mother is buried there." "Where will I lie?" "In another district?" "Father, don't bore me." "Sasha!" "Are you my son or a stepson?" "A son." "Should you listen to me?" "I should." "Marry her." "What, right now?" "Aha." "Or else you'll leave again." "Stop chewing." "A man's heart must be attached to something." "You left me, your father, that's quite another matter." "So be it." "But you must attach yourself to somebody." "That's right, father." "'Cause you are torn off, God only knows why." "But who's suffering from that?" "I do." "Everyone does." "That's enough, father, you persuaded me." "Look for the bride." "That is another matter!" "Do you know Vera Matrunina?" "She carried the mail." "Why he doesn't know her?" "They were classmates." "He clasped her even when he was ready to serve in the Arm [?" "]" "That's good." "You like her." "Why?" "I didn't see her for 15 years." "You'll see now." "Andrey, I'll box your ears." "Let's go to the balcony." "Well, let's look at the bride." "Stop talking." "Let's marry." "Matryona, come to the balcony, if you're alive." "What d'you want?" "Is Vera in?" "She's undressed." "Call for her." "Vera, Fedos calls for you." "Uncle Fedya, what's up?" "Hi, Sasha, welcome!" "Hi, Vera." "Look, look." "I do." "Vera, I wanted to ask you." "How are you doing?" "Fine, thank you." "Do you carry the mail?" "I do." "All right, guys, let's go to drink beer." "Oh." "Why do you press him?" "Shut up." "So what?" "Do you agree?" "Okay." "Well, it was time!" "Well done, Sasha." "Are you completely mad?" "There is no need to delay." "Let him arrange everything with her." "Let him talk to her." "Let him make himself understood." "You must not do it." "Shut up!" "What you say!" "You know too much!" "I didn't talk to your mother, I didn't tell her about love." "Nevertheless we were heart and soul to one another for 50 years." "But you speak much about love, and then you divorce." "You stopped to give birth to children." "You'll lead the country to trouble." "You won't have anybody to greet with." "Yeah." "She'll send us to devil." "Who?" "Vera!" "Dad!" "Hush, be silent!" "Vera!" "What?" "Do you want to marry?" "Well, I do." "So." "Will you marry my Sasha?" "What have you invented, you tipsy blockheads?" "Good fiances!" "You shut up!" "We don't need you." "Call for Vera." "She's weeping." "You were playing until now!" "That's enough, guys." "Andrey, there was a bottle behind the gas-burner." "I won't go." "You will." "You'll come first and you'll make the speech." "You are smart." "Put on your hat." "Let's go." "Now, Andrey is first." "Then you." "No!" "I'll follow him, then you." "Sasha, you are the last, so modest." "At first you should say..." "That the prince is here to visit you." "He actually doesn't look as a prince." "Say hello." "Father." "Welcome to the flat." "Who was hit by the saucepan?" "I was." "She's a nut." "She could have done this with iron, Your Majesty." "All right, let me go!" "That's all, go home." "Everything is all right." "Guys, the affair will succeed, I believe." "A saucepan." "What a woman!" "What a wedding it will be!" "Play, music, play gaily!" "A wedding is not a wedding without a song." "The best gift for a bride is a song!" "And our bride is beaming with the beauty!" "A long time ago one of the boyars, a traitor..." "Said that he wanted to burn this village." "Because the enemy could appear and they'd have a treachery." "What kind of enemy did we have?" "There were a lot of them." "The Germans, who else?" "But that boyar was a vermin." "We haven't ever been traitors." "He ordered this village to be burned." "'Cause it was on the bounds." "He thought the village would show the way to their princedom." "A vermin!" "Be silent!" "But the prince thought a little and said..." "That those people wouldn't betray him." "Because the white dew was living in that village." "What?" "What dew?" "Do you know what our country was called?" "Russia." "Old Russia." "No, it was later." "But before the people were called Dew." "That means they didn't call our village that, they called the people that." "Our forefathers were called that." "But why the white dew?" "Didn't we have bald-headed and red-haired?" "White --that means clean and faithful to our own people." "Have you contrived it yourself?" "And about the prince, too." "Look, our meadow is broad." "Well." "And much dew falls in autumn." "Well, what?" "What?" "That's all." "And don't distort our history." "What an odd fellow you are, Timofey!" "I don't believe it." "All right." "Who forces you?" "Who?" "You force me." "Well, take it." "Did you take it for yourself?" "For you, for myself." "For Jack." "Do you hear his barking?" "He wants to go outside." "We should take him out every day, and not once a day." "Fedos." "Everything seems to be all right." "Actually..." "Damn it all!" "Mother-in-law and Jack and these delicacies." "Tell me father, how should I avoid a dull life?" "You should drink less." "Well, tell the truth." "Live as a man and that's all." "Vasya, go home." "I will." "Please." "I told you I would." "Go." "And make bed for father, too." "He doesn't have a place to spend the night." "All right." "Father, let's drink a little." "Go, I'll sit here for some time." "I'll get some fresh air." "Well." "Okay." "That's all now." "My night has come." "Now I don't have anything to ask you." "I just wanted to thank you." "For my birth." "For torment, for joy, for tears." "For everything." "Give light and warmth to our children." "There is no life on Earth without you." "Thank you." "Thanks." "Thank you."