"A STORMY NIGHT" "Adaptation for the screen after the [homonyme] play written by l.L. Caragiale" "[The grammar and spelling errors are intentionally made]" "Is that you, sir Dumitrache?" "It's me, John my friend, are you still awake?" "I'm waiting for someone to bring me some herbal medicines, my wife complains about her heartaches." "Do you go to inspect the Cotroceni area, Boss?" "Sure, I am on duty, don't you see?" "Is the madam ok?" "Ok!" "Go then!" "It's after eleven;" "what if he is suddenly coming?" "He have two hours left for the round." "We must take good care." "Tomorrow I must be awake before sunrise." "And I have to go to the court tomorrow cause my sister is getting a divorce." "Come on, kiss me once again, and go!" "All right, I'll go." "Bonsoir!" "Chiriac, the bind!" "Good that I saw it!" "What if he had found it here?" "We would have been in trouble." "My dear auntie, it's so good I am free now!" "Couldn't live with him, bastard." " See that he does not hear you!" " Who?" "Who?" "your husband over there." "So, you did it to me, friend Nae." "I beg your pardon, friend Ghitza, you did it alone to yourself." "First, he's not my man, what should I care?" " Don't you see how sour he is?" " He might confront us." "Me, a merchant, I don't want to confront him in public." "It's no use." "Now you can breathe free, God bless you." " I am a delicate person." " Logical." "Don't be upset, Zita, you'll find your luck, the good days will come." "It is your time." "She had her life, she saw enough." "I wouldn't have stayed any longer with m." "I'm glad you helped me get rid of him." "Even if I had to go to the monastery I wouldn't have eaten anything with him." "I have to go now, sir." "I've to go to the tribunal solving some affairs." "Wait, I have some affairs in the city, we accompany the ladies to the bridge, and then we could have a drink together." "She could't live any more with that pick." "He couldn't maltreat her with any good word." "If the man is not gentle anymore, what kind of marriage is that?" "I write down the report when he insulted and maltreated her." "Pretty girl, trandy, 3 years at a pension, and now destroying her youth with him." "I was thinking when it started:" "he's young he'll get along." "But no way!" "I, as older brother in law, was givin' to the girl all sort of advice not to divorce, to wait" "She endured a lot, but in the end she could not bear such a life." "Logical." " Is our gentle friend inside?" " Which gentle friend?" " Mr Rica Venturiano, the archivist." " Ah, the poet." "Yes, he is." " Hello, honourable sir!" " Hello, citizen!" "Sir, I took profit of this ocasion to be in order to ask the permission to felicitate you for the article." " Merci, have a sit!" "It can't be, honourable sir!" "I can't sit while you don't!" "My citizen, we stand under the sign of liberty, egality and fraternity." "The one can't be higher placed than the other." "The constitution does't permit it." "It's logical!" "I was at the Court altogether with citizen Dumitrache Titirca," "A friend of mine, you don't know him, a comersant, captain in the civil guard." "He's with us." "I'd to give oath at his sister in law's divorce." "She was married with a guy, who didn't care at all about his family honor." " The family is the little country as the country is the big family." "The family is the ground of the society." "You know all!" "I like you." "One can see you are a student, you learn well the laws." "As I said, I took profit I was out in town - sit down, honourable!" " to come here to greet you for your newspaperarticle." "You fight well against the reactionists." "God give you speed so you can rid the nation of them, the reactionaries!" "Mr. Ipingescu, our only God is the people: box populi, box Dei." " What is wrong with you?" " lt's nothing, I am just sleepy." " Bonsoir!" " He left the light on." "My greetings, auntie." " Spiridon, are you asleep?" " Not yet, I am going right now to bed." "Then go to bed, I hear the dogs barking." "Take care, the boss could come earlier." "God be praised, that house at what is it good at?" " I left Zita in your hands." " She's very close to our place." "Did you want to let her alone?" "She needs a human soul besides her." "It's better that you stay with her." "I know what I'm saying." "Why did you turn off the light?" "Don't you know it stays on all night?" "Do you want me to fall on those steps and break my neck?" "I see there is light at Spiridon." "Let open the door." "Is he not asleep yet?" "How it was at the saloon, boss?" "Well, sir Spiridon, are you not sleeping at this hour?" "Tomorrow morning the boss will open the little shop for you." "You've stayed till now smoking." " No, boss, I can't sleep, that's all." " Then I shall make you sleep immediately!" " Let him, boss, don't snap him!" "Forgive him this time!" "I beg you!" "You will not get out with those women and let the vagabonds follow you." "A... paper-pusher, a desk-jockey, without two coins to rub together, 's got the nerve to bust an honest businessman's marriage." "They don't stalk 'em all, boss." "See, it depends on the woman, too:" "if she gives 'em the come-hither look, ya know, sure, that's all 'em bums're waitin' for." " Excuuse me!" "I know whatcha mean..." "But my wife ain't one of 'em floozies, sir." "Heck, no, boss!" "You didn't think I's hinting' at you, did you?" "I'm sorry." "No offence taken." "Only, what I mean is, if my wife ain't one of 'em floozies, why did they stalk me?" " Was the bums after you, too?" " indeed." "Oh, have they got the wrong man..." "When it comes down to my familiar honor, I got dignity..." "Logical!" "Evenven if I'll go to cremenal!" "If I see that punk foller me one more time, just hand'im over to me." "Which punk?" "A punk like all 'em other!" "How do I know 'im?" "But if you don't know the guy, how do you know he's a punk?" "Are we like speaking' the same language here, or what?" "Yesterday we went to "The Union Gardens"." "It was me, my better-half and Zitza." "We set down at one table to watch those comedies of lonescu's." "About a quarter of an hour later who shows his tail, but one of 'em desk-jockeys, one of 'em squids..." " How do you know he was a desk-jockey?" "He wasn't dressed like a businessman." "I see him grabbing' a chair and settin' 'imself down at this table facing' us, with his back to the stage, like." "He sets leaning' on one side, and he falls to checkin' out the ladies." "Me, I got this God-given ambition, so I stand up to go." "The ladies, on the other hand, no way, because the play's not over." "I start scowling' at the punk." "I got half a mind to go over and smack 'im, but I didn't wanna start a truck." "Me, a businessman, to start a public ruckus with a nobody, it just ain't done." "Logical!" "Finally the play is over." "We stand up to go, empty-pockets gets up, too." "We leave, the swivel-neck follers." "I's watchin' 'im with the corner of my eye, but I didn't wanna tell the ladies," "I didn't wanna embarrass 'em." "Ya know how bashful my better-half is..." "Tell me about it!" "As if I didn't know 'er..." "We took St. John's Street to get to the Earthen-bridge, the skulk two steps behind us." "We veer behind Agia Str, the beggar on our tails." "We get to St. Elias Road, the royal pain on our heels." "We turn to King Michael Street to go to Cat House, empty-pockets behind us." "I was spy 'im with the corner of my eye..." "It was eatin' into my vitals, but didn't wanna tell the ladies..." "Logical!" "You didn't want to embarrass 'em." " You know how my Veta is..." " Bashful, I know." "When we was about to swing towards the Cat House, I snuck a look behind us and didn't see the empty-pockets no more." "We walked on for a while and" "I snuck another look... the punk'd finally given me a break." "Boss, forgive me for sayin' so, but I think that you got all worked up for nothin'." "Maybe the guy just lived in the neighborhood, on Spire Hill and he just happened to take the same way home." "He went to his house, and you went on to yours." "Honorable man, let me be indebted to you with a cigar." "Is this not the way I taught you to answer!" "You're not at home, by your daddy, idiot!" "You should learn to speak nice, son of a bitch!" "Go quick to lady Zitza, tell her not to go to the church, and wait for the Madam, so they can go together!" "Move on, quick!" "Chiriac, did you sent the soldier to make the call for the daily assignment?" "Yes, boss." "He should've arrived at the crossroad." "We shall hear him in a minute." "To the rrright!" "Here you are!" "Thanks!" "The lad wants our company to be top of the heap." "Do you think I'd've accepted the captainship if they wouldn't've appointed 'im sergeant?" "I told you: without Chiriac we cannot live." "Boss, I must not forget: we need from the deposit some wood planks." "There are almost over." " l'll go." "Go quick to the daily assignment, Chiriac dear." "So I won't be there before you do." "And take the nerves out of them!" " Don't worry, I'l make them wild dragons!" "Ya bought a new coat for yourself but your galloons still hangin' on ya unsewed." "I thought I would have asked your Madam to sew them for me." "If she agrees." "Do you hear me?" "Next time Chiriac should not go At the ixacisse without galloons." "I shall sew them, but when I do have the time." "I've other things to take care of!" "She doesn't like you much, But don't worry about it..." "Perhaps it is also your fault." "Try to find a way to get along with her!" " uncle!" " Wath's up?" "Are you going tonight to Uniongardens?" "What business do we got goin' to that dumb western comedy?" "Rubbish!" "We don't get a thing of it." "We better switch the money from one pocket to the other and pretend we been there." "Come, brother, please, pretty please, if you care for me!" "Chiriac, I'll pass by you in the mornin' to fix the house number on the wall" "It will be time for the paint to get dry." " All right, then." "Look, Zitza, he goes again at "Union"." "We please him right, don't we?" "Merci, auntie!" "Chiriac, what are you doin' there with that gun?" "I must clean it up, it got rusted." "Are you ready, lady?" "Let's go then!" " Have a nice evening, boss!" " Good night, Chiriac!" "My respects, boss!" " Don't forget: keep up your rifle!" " Don't worry, boss!" "It's a big trouble I fear." "Why auntie?" "What sort of saying is this?" "May God forbid it!" "I'd had an omen in the mornin':" "I'd spilled over the candle holder." "So what if you spilled it?" "Lumberyard's gonna burn down?" "Let it burn!" "It's insured." "A weapon in his hand..." "What if it accidentally discharges!" " What's up, Veta?" " There nothing." " C'mon, Zita, go to sleep!" " Thanks, uncle." "See if the door is closed!" " Good night, auntie!" " Good night!" "It's a sign, I feel it in my right eye There are three days by now." "Chiriac, wake up!" "Don't you hear, wake up!" "Who's there?" "I can catch 'm in a second and grab him." "You're such a figure, lady!" "Great, Mr. Spiro!" "You're sleepin'." "What do you care?" "You've had your puff, now you're snoring." "Ride it high on the gravy train!" " I just felt sleepy, that's all." "Sleepy, eh!" "You're lording it, that's what it is." "Wait, I got the right cure for it..." " Wait, leave him alone!" "What do you have with him?" "What if he sleeps?" "Boss, come quick, we loose him!" " l'm coming right away!" " I also got the pistol, sir!" "Well done!" "Come, Chiriac!" " Is that you, sir?" " Me?" "I see no one, boss." "Damn that bag!" "I heared the dogs barking." "Perhaps the dogs came and made him change the way." "Big luck he had!" "Tell the whole story." "How it was, boss?" "Tell me exactly!" " Look, the lights are on at Zizta." "How long does it tale for her to go to bed!" "Let me tell ya'..." "He followed me till the crossroad." "Uncle couldn't bear it anymore." "Bye Chiriac!" "Don't forget to take care and watch up!" "Don't worry, boss, you know me how much I cherish your family honor." " Good morning, buddy!" " Good morning, boss!" "Where to...?" " In the city, I have some business." " So early?" "It's almost 9 o'clock and I've so much to do, I don't even know if I'm back at noon." "Good luck, buddy!" " So to you, boss!" "I wish I would have slept more last night I were earlier awake..." " What is it, boss, something wrong?" " No good either." "So, this is you indeed." "You do not what you say you do." "You made such a fool of me for so long." "What's going on, Chiriac?" "What's wrong with you?" "I don't get it." "Don't you get it, huh?" "I know everything from the boss." "What happened last night at the '"Union'" with the employee?" "What's up with the employee?" "I don't know anything." "You surely know..." "Don't pretend you do not know." "Dear Chiriac, I swear on my eyes, on my life, on our eternal friendship!" "What do you want more?" "Only if I knew in my heart what he told you!" "Why did you go to the Uniongartens?" "Just because of my sister." "I've been thinking about you all the night long." "I've had left you home cleaning the rifle." "I couldn't stop thinking about the rifle." "What if something happens?" "Why haven't I told him to take care, to put it down?" "What am I going to do when I shall find him dead in the house?" "Well, you can have me dead now." "I shall kill myself to let your thought be fulfilled." "Chiriac, I don't find myself guilty." "Don't you believe me?" "To believe you?" "Do you think I don't get it?" "You let me like a payed servant to watch out for the house and you go for a walk and let yourself be courted by others" "Why did God gave someone happiness if it is only to take it back?" "I passed yesterday by Tzircadau and I did not find him." "I was gone for 3 days in a raw, and Tache the shoemaker rejected me." "So then, Mr Tache still does not want to take part tomorrow to the ixarcises" "Well, take the ticket and tell him that if he does not want to come tomorrow" "I'll mandate him." " Ok, serge'!" "Trumpeter, pay a visit to Mr Tzircadau, see if he came!" "I was, Sergent!" "Mr Tzircadau has not come yet." "Tache the Shoemaker does not want." "His mother says he can't walk." "He can barely stand up after the medicine." " I tel ya, let me heal him." "You'll come in the evening to accompany me!" " I thought it must have been you..." " Look, what the craftsman has done to me!" "He fixed the number upside down." "Tell him to turn it round." "I'll tell 'm." "Did you eat something?" " I just ate with some merchants." "Some stuff only, just to have a glas of wine." "To fill the heart a little bit." " Then you go to sleep now?" " Sure, I am on duty tonight." "Let's cross the hill, to cut it short!" " I give you a quarter coin." " A quarter?" "Two packs of cigarets?" "Sure I come." " Who was the lady, you were with?" "Lady Zitza." "You flirt with her, he?" "I got it, but she wanted it indeed showed me she wanted me so." " Really?" "What's your name?" " Spiridon." " Tell, Spiridon, how is her family." "Good, disvorced." "She's free!" "I shall write her a letter, you give it to her." "I give her the letter, but now I've no time." "The boss will wake up soon." " Who is your boss?" " Zita's brother in law." "He owns the wood factory." "I am only his help." "But you don't know him." "When he calls I've to be there!" "I am in love and in suffering." "I have to write her!" "Write to her, why not?" "Bring the letter and wait for me behind the wood factory." "The place is hidden." "And I fly till there to get your letter." "Spiridon, take this ladder and put it behind the horse stable!" " Veta, have something!" " I am not hungry." "Again this cur?" "!" "As if he had no master." "What if he has, but he enjoys staying here." "You have no dog." "There are so many around, I don't need any to tear the clients' pants off." " Logical!" " Where is Mr Spiridon?" " I sent him to my sister." "She asked me to help her buy something." "You are a candid lily, You are a fragile hy,acinth," "You are a parfumed rose And a y,oung tulip!" "A crazy, tender poet does adore you You, child!" "Have mercy of his fuddle posture!" "I love y,ou to eternity, and I dedicate My lyre!" "Yours for eternity and per toujour." "I shall write this down and let you be the messenger." "Yours for eternity and per toujour..." "Look..." "Did I write correctly the address?" "Can you give her the message right away?" "Do you hear me, Sipridon honey?" " lt's impossible, Lady Zita." "I have to stop at home first." "The person has to wait, I'm sure of it." "If the boss sees that I'm late for too long you say to him that I'm on the hill." "Are you kiddin'?" "Sergent!" "I'm here." " I can see you." "Nonsense, sure you can see him." " Logical!" "Wait for me, I'm comin'!" "I go with him to Tache the Shoemaker." "I want to see him, to ask him..." "How come you say you ain't gonna show up for the drills tomorrow?" "I'm sick, sergeant, I cain't hardly stand," "I cain't even make it to the store." " I don't wanna know of any such reason." "I got witnesses, sir, I laid dying in bed for a month." "You can ask Father Zabava, from Elefterios Church." "He even got me confessed two days ago..." " I ain't got no fish to fry with Zabava." "He ain't on my list, you are." "I want you out there ready for the drills tomorrow." " Sergent, he is sick." " I don't care about his sickness." "He is on my list." "He must come when he is called." "So we get there." "We set at one table to one side, we just set there for a while until the play starts." "Take it, go to the shop and bring me the newspaper." "Are you back?" "I don't know how I happen to turn to look back, and guess who I see setting' at the table right behind us?" " The punk..." "The punk himself complete with 'is glasses on 'is nose, 'is top on 'is head." "He came all the way to the fork in the road where it splits to the fort." "I was prayin' to myself." ""Come, you rascal, come!"" "Just set a foot on Marcus Aurelius or Catilina, and I'll show you!"" "I just wanted to ask 'im:" ""What the heck is it that you want, mr?" and then I take him away." "And if he wasn't getting enough, I let my beard cut!" "And if he did, the precinct is right next door." "If he'd had the guts to complain, I'd'a taken over right where you'd left off." "Big luck he had, the punk that he got off!" "What a blame shame..." "How come?" "When me and the ladies passed the fork in the road, the punk was about to foller us on our street." " Here's the answer, sir." " Thaks." "Is that all?" "You're welcome." "And she responds to the amour." "Boy, I'm dreamin'!" " Spiridon!" " He's callin' me, I'e to go." "Don't go!" "Tell him to come!" "My heart is trembling'!" "If he catches me around would you pay for my skin?" "Boss, we gotta usher an arrest warrant for Take the shoemaker from St. Elefterios." "He jus' won't come out for the drills tomorrow." " Well, why ain't he?" " He says he's sick." "He gotta get a medical certificate." "So now we must usher a warrant, to fetch 'im tomorrow morning." "We'll usher it, and you go grab 'im!" "I know him, he's one of the reactionaries." "He's pulled every trick in the book to dodge 'em drills." "He is on my black list, too;" "he's Father Take's godson." "That splains it!" "Don't worry, he ain't gonna get my blessing." "I'll make 'im get religion yet." "Also the server couldn't find Ghitza Tzircadau anywheres at all." "He ain't been home three days runnin'!" " Who knows in what pub he sunk." "I saw 'im this mornin', he was walkin' by the city limits." "I'll go and send the server with tomorrow' s citation." " Wait!" " Again?" "You've to show me the address!" "Well, is it not written down inside?" "Yes, but you've to show it to me." "Just to be sure." "Now I can't, I'am busy." "Comin back soon, just wait here." "Spiridon, my boy, see that tonight we'll close earlier cause the boss is making the night check." "There was lots of customers, and I had to wait for the newspaper." "Listen up, Spiridon, be a good lad or else I'll get the cat o' nine tails down from the hook; you know I just replaced its lead tip." "Don't you make me test it." "Ma'am, boss just sent me to get the sword and..." "Boss, you ain't forgot you gotta do your watch tonight!" "Are you going?" "Sure I ain't forgot!" "Why do you think I put myself in this military trim for?" "Boss, you're gonna cover the whole beat, right?" "It ain't that much..." "You'll be back by two after midnight." "Yeah, about two after midnight as common." "Chiriac, lad, keep your eyes open..." "You know I got ambition, when it comes down to my familiar honor." "Don't worry, boss, you know me from some time by now." "Don't worry, you know how I jibe about." " That's why I'm tellin' you..." "Don't worry, Boss!" "I'm goin' to close the yard counter and the store." "Bonsoar, Mr. Nae." " Same to you, hororable sir!" "Don Nae, didja hear how Chiriac frets about my rounds?" "There you go, Boss." "She said, you should come sooner tonight, 'cause she gets awful lonely in the house." "Ther's a scaredy-cat woman for you!" "What's Charlie here for?" " Auntie, you go to sleep so soon?" " Well..." " I don't know what to do." " Well, read then." "I've nothing to read. "The Paris Dramas'" I read them for 3 times." "I go to Veta to see if she's still awake." "I'd like to chat with her a little." "Go then!" "That's a heck of a newspaper, sir!" "Them guys're on the barricades." "Well, it ain't called "The Voice of the National Patriot" for nothin'!" "It's all locked up, Boss." "Now... can I go sleep?" "Did you take your tobacco and paper along, too?" "You got matches?" "What tobacco, boss?" "You actin' dumb, eh?" "Like you didn't know about tobacco." "You think I didn't get wind you're puffing' tobacco?" "If I ever catch you... that poor cat o' nine tails!" "You know his taste!" " Cross my heart, boss." " Get outta my face!" "Go ahead!" "" Bucharest, December 1 5."" ""Our friend and freelance reporter R. Vent., a young democratic writer"" ""whose asinine work our readers know only too well,"" ""is sending us the following preface...'"" "Bonsoir" " Bonsoir!" "All right, lady, so are you better off now as a widow?" "Excuse me, sir, but I don't want to have to do nothing with you, and first of all" "I'm not a widow, I'm a free woman, I live my life and I answer to no one!" "Now's my time;" "I'm young, I'm fully independent, and if I feel like it, my brother-in-law can find me a more honorable husband than you." " l'm afraid you'll regret it!" " Excuse me, sir, but I'll not allow you to go on insulting me, understand?" ""... the final goal of the Romanian democracy is to persuade its citizens"" ""that nobody can shark his duties towards our fundamental pact,"" ""the pact that our sacred Constitution solemnly imposes upon us."" "Well said!" "He rips 'em out pretty savage." ""... to shark..." "the sacred Constitution..."" "What's that supposed to mean, shark it?" "Wait, he's gonna splain it:" ""The sacred Constitution and especially those who belong to the popular masses."" " That's deep writing." " Not at all." "Don'cha get it?" "This is where he's headin': nobody should be sharking' like from the flesh of the people, guys like you and me, 'cause now we are popular." "'Cause we the people rule now." "Now you're talkin'!" "Makes sense!" "Go ahead!" "You think you gonna get married, lady?" "I don't mind who's having what business here!" "Get married, eh?" "As long l'm alive I wont let you hitch up with some other guy." "Poor him!" "I'll go with him up to heaven!" "You've anway no part in this." "Weren't you blabbering' in court that you're gonna go to a nunnery, eh?" " You hick!" ""...we'll even go as far as to say we'll never go on the path of real progress'"" ""until we implement universal sufferage..."" "What's that supposed to mean?" ""He's aiming' at the reactionaries, who are bitin' the sovereign people's flesh."" "Ya know, sharks... sufferage..." " Bravo, he hits the nail on the head." "Guy's on the barricades, didn't I tell ya!" "Didn't I tell ya, ya can't get rid off me!" " Sorry, I'm a delicate person." " Well, if this is to be so, dear lady..." "That's all I had to say." "Signed R. Vent., law student and newspaper reporter." "You hick, you bumkin!" "Police!" "You hick, you bumkin!" "How dare you to show me the knife!" "To kill me!" "To kill me indeed!" " Maybe I am doomed to dye..." "My brother-in-law, I can't live with you I'm gonna put you to cremenal, ya know?" " What is that noise?" " Perhaps some stabbin' each other." "My God, my boss!" " Where do you go?" "You abandon me?" " Don't shout, I'm comin' right away." "Oh, the miserable!" "He bumped into me." "How could he!" " What happened, Zita?" " Oh, dear, thank God I was saved!" "God saved me from that filthy man!" "Let it loose, Zita, it's over." "You are free now!" "Let me tell ya how it was with the pick." "Look and see..." "It's better it happened this way." "It's so good you came!" "I let "the person" up on the hill." "Spiridon, dear boy, go quick!" "He is surely waiting for ya." "Tell him to wait!" "I'm coming right away!" "I can't go, lady, till either Chiriac allows me or the lady." "I'm going to speak with the auntie." "Let Spiridon go home to bring me the coat." "It's windy outside and I could catch a cold when I'm back." "Now, you tell me, wasn't the woman right to dump 'im?" "Logical!" "A man without ambition, he didn't give a rat's tail about 'is familiar honor!" "And, dern it, he calls 'imself a businessman, too!" "What do ya say, auntie, about that prick's tale?" " What is it when the left temple blinks?" " lt's sign of a reconciliation." "Is it?" "With whom am I to reconcile with?" "I didn't have any quarrel whatsoever." "Auntie, why are you crying for?" "Well, sis l'm leavin'." "Go to bed, if you're feelin' sick." "I don't care if I'm sick!" "Might as well die for all I care!" "What kind of talk is this?" "Are you feelin' that bad?" "Let's send for brother." "Are you outta your mind!" "Can't you see I'm kiddin'?" "It's only a headache." "I sat in a cold draught by the window." "I'll be all right if I get some sleep." "Then alevoir, bonsoir, sis." "I'll see you tomorrow, right?" "It's a holiday, remember." "Let's ask brother to take us to "The Union Gardens"." "Sorry, Zitza, I'm not going to the gardens no more." "Why not?" "Because it ain't no fun for me, I don't get those comedies." "I just don't feel like going, that's all." "Oh, my God, auntie, what's wrong with ya?" "How many of 'em folks goin' there understand something about?" "They just go out for the heck of it, to have some fun." "Why shouldn't we go, too?" "I just don't wanna go no more." "Please, sis, really." "I'll do all the talkin' to brother, eh?" "I told you once and for all." "I don't care to go and he don't either." "He told me so this very morning." "You're wastin' your breath." "Come, sis, please, pretty please!" "Zitza, I just won't." "You know me, once I made up my mind, it's over." " So, you won't go, eh?" " I won't." " You won't?" " I will not." "Dern this wretched life of mine!" "Why was I born outta luck!" "Spiridon, why're you still lingerin' around?" "You got anythin' else to do?" " No, ma'am." " Where's Mr. Chiriac?" "He's down in the yard." "But I don't know what's eatin' 'im, lady..." "He is jaw-fallen." "When I jus' 'appened to pass by, he was moseying' around, talkin' to 'imself and beating' 'is chest." "Maybe he's got something on his mind." "Remind 'im to lock the gate." "I'm done sewing' on his epaulets;" "give back the tunic to 'im." "All right, ma'am." "Then go straight to sleep, don't come back here." "If the boss happens to come back, you'll be up a stump again." "Right, like if he'd found me asleep I wouldn't!" " Who is there?" " High rank." " Halt!" "Corporal Nae!" " High rank!" "Arm'!" "Present arm!" " Who is there?" " High rank!" "Post commander, I advance to a high rank officer!" "Who is there?" " High rank!" " Step forward!" " High rank!" " Step forward!" " Spiridon has brought my coat." "Merci!" " You're welcome." " The gate..." "I locked it." " All right." " Anything else to order?" " What!" "Me order you?" "Sure you order me." "Ain't you my master?" "Ain't I a paid servant in your house?" "All right, Mr. Chiriac, pile it on!" "As if you didn't pile quite enough already." "Are you goin' to "The Union Gardens" again tonight?" "If the husband decides we go, I have no choice but to go, naturally." "So you can make goo-goo eyes at you pencil-pusher, right?" "Sir, I asked you before to be kind enough not to accuse me of this." "If after all this time you still don't know me, that's too bad." "I thought you were smarter than that." " Swear to me one more time!" "Swear?" "Didn't I already swear?" "Didn't I shed tears?" "You trust my husband's suspicions and nonsense more than my word." "But it's not your fault... it's mine." "I shouldn't've tied my life to a child like you.." " Stop calling me "sir"." " What would you wish me to call you?" " Like you called me until yesterday." " That was then, this is now." " And you don't want these days back?" " No." " Veta!" " No, leave me!" "What good is all the happiness from one year if I drown it in tears in one day?" "No, I'd rather be the way I am now." " And me..." "What am I s'pposed to do?" "Whatever I am doing..." "What's done can be undone." "Undone!" "?" "Easier said than done." "You gouge a poor guy's eyes out and tell 'im, it's o.k., you're gonna be all right even without your sight." "It ain't gonna kill you!" "..." "What's done can be undone!" "But what if I don't wanna live like this!" "What am I s'pposed to do, die?" " Well, wouldn't it be nice if we could die on cue!" "But people don't die of this." " But what if I die?" "Do you see this bayonet?" " Chiriac!" " Get away from me, let go!" " I know the kind of man you are." "I won't let go!" "I don't wanna be the cause of your death." " Let go of it!" " Chiriac!" "If you want to kill yourself, you'll have to kill me first!" "Do you have no pity on me?" "A whole year's 'appenings forgotten in one day?" "It's precisely because I ain't forgotten a thing that I wanna die." "If everything between us is over, how can I go on livin'?" "Yes, I'm outta my mind." "A few moments ago I wanted to kill myself, out there in the yard, but I saw your shadow through the curtain in the window, and I just wanted to see you one last time." "A few moments ago you asked me to swear one more time." "If I do, will you believe me?" " I will." "Boss Dumitrache, we've just find the way home." " If you'll make me this again, I'll die." " I won't." " You promise me?" "You swear it to me?" " I do." " You won't say to me harsh words again?" " I won't." " And you won't make me cry again?" " I won't." "Look, Boss Dumitrache, lady Veta still did not went to sleep!" "She's preparing herself for the Church." "Tomorrow there's a fiest day." "Logical." "Chiriac!" "My husband..." "Don't worry." "He's just on 'is way to the Marmizon part of 'is beat." "Is that you, Boss?" "Chiriac, you aint gone to sleep yet, lad?" "Not yet, Boss." "In a short while." " Sleep tight!" " And sweet dreams, honorable sir!" "Chiriac, lad, don't forget what we talked about!" "Don't worry, Boss, you know we jibe when it comes to your familiar honor." "He's the one steady man I got around here..." "If I didn't have 'im," "I'd be up the creek." "I got a businessman's kind o' life." "I gotta rush here, run there, I'm gone most of the time to bring home the bacon." "So when I'm gone, who stays behind to watch over my honor?" "Chiriac, the poor lad!" " Logicaly!" "Nothing to say against;" "the boy is a honorable man!" "Soon soon as I'm done fixing' that house next door, I'll make 'im a partner in my business and find 'im a nice wife!" " But what does the missus think about?" " What's she gonna say?" "She ain't too keen on that." "You can see that she don't care for the lad all that much." "And will you believe me that I think only of you?" " I will." "That I live only for you?" "Dear wife, he is honorable and loyal boy, and nothing others." "To give the man what belongs to the man!" "I put it clearly." "Logical." "Go quietly, and enter the 9 Catilina street after 10 o'clock in the evening, and when ou see at the window the light of the lamp becomes smaller." "When the light of lamp becomes smaller..." ""...to shark the flesh of the people is an unforgivable error,"" ""we might even call it a crime..."" "He's tearing 'em apart, eh?" "Heck, yes!" "Him who sharks the flesh of the people belongs in maximum security!" " Logicaly!" "What is it?" "Oh, yes." "Radiant angel!" "Do not shout, lady, be clemenciful!" "I'm possessed with love." "Yes, my brow is burning, my temples palpitate, I suffer unlimitedly, it's like I've gone bonkers." "Sir, answer me, or else I'll start hollering':" "Who are you, and what business you got at this time of night in decent folks' home?" "I'm a youthful, distraught young man who suffers unlimitedly and loves to destruction." "Don't shout!" "You asked me to tell you who I am." "I just did." "Ingrate!" "Wasn't it you who wrote to me in your own facsimile hand." "I did?" "Here I am!" "I transported myself here to repeat one more time that I love you the way a slave loves light and a blind man freedom." "Mister, you have my word!" "You love me, too, stop playing hard to get!" "We first met at the "Union Gardens"." "I found out you're free." "The boy from the wood factory told me" "I wrote to you." "You answered me to come and here I am." "I came!" "Now I get it." "Do you know who you're talkin' to?" "Do you know who I am?" "You're the cherub of my dreams, you're the star, I might say glittering Venus that shines in the nefarious night  nefarious night..." "Ma'am, please forgive me!" "I'm really sorry!" "Considering that..." "Friend Nae, let me walk along with you for a while." "I am not at all tired." "I take profit of this occasion to present my highly gratitude..." "Go now!" "Be careful not to cross roads with my husband, he knows you and he will catch you." " Catsch me?" "I saw his head at the window!" "Chiriac, Spiridon!" "You're in big trouble." "Run, unless they kill ya!" " They are killing me." "Oh my God!" " Don't go over there!" " I catch that pick..." " Logical." "Downstairs you'll find a little gate." "Goout right on the hill." "Pardon, sorry, bonsoar!" " Where is he, lady?" " What's this rage all around?" "You, lady, you will pay for this cause here they are big troubles around." "I'd rather go to cremenal!" "Go and stop laughing, mylady!" "What does he think!" "In my house I'll catch him right here, the punk!" "He couldn't get out." "He is here somewhere." " Spiridoane!" " What's your command, Boss?" "We just settled up a rule that I don't find you asleep when I'm back home." "I ordered you to get rid of thy cowardness." "Kick him!" "Because you're not reponding positiv at my call..." "The house is on fire and everybody sleeps!" "I fight for my family honor Aand everybody sleeps around!" "Any ledder here." "The trickery lady caught me in a trap." "I saw him." "I saw his glasses on his nose and his tophat on the head." "Well, don't say again that's only my imagination!" "He couldn't get away." "He's hidden in the loft of the stable." "He must be at the end of it." "He cannot escape from my claws!" "You're crazy?" "The ladder can break anytime!" "Leave us, lady!" "With the glasses on his nose and his tophat an the head!" "Leave us in peace, lady!" "Friend Nae!" "Leave me, lady!" "Straight ahead, Mr Nae!" "Chiriac, take care, not to fall down!" "At the end of the scaffold, isn't there a ladder?" "He went away, out on the hill." "Impossible." "He couldn't have found it." "It was moved on the other side of the stable." "You see?" "No ladder at all." "Grab him!" "He hides in the stable." "Lady Zitza, let me tell you about your man..." "Zitza, you're gettin' me into all sorts of hot water." "You dragged me to '"Union'"." "You strung that clerk along, you got me into all kinds of grief with Chiriac." " With Chiriac?" " With the husband, Chiriac, everybody." "I got 'im off the hook through the window, I helped 'im get away down the scaffold, to make it out through the gate to the emmty lot." "That gate is locked." "When the prick just bumped into my way," "I didn't want to take the long way round;" "I'd to return on the lane again." " Locked in?" "Zitza, it's big trouble!" " Oh my God, they're gonna kill 'm!" "Wait, in the name of the Constitut..." "Chiriac, my boy, what is it?" " The punk!" " The prick!" "I climb the scaffold back again!" "You and Mr Nae climb up the ladder and we catch him in the middle." " What?" "What's up?" "He can't escape us!" "Not even dead!" " Yes, lady, not even dead!" " Absolutely!" "Save me, boy!" "I pay you 3 quarters of a coin!" "6 packets of cigarets..." "I help you out." " What?" " What you promised me." " Have you any idea about the danger..." " If I can, I'll help you to get out of it." "If?" "Saint Andrew, help me!" "I let you go when I see them entering the other side" "Didn't you go to sleep, Sir Spiridon?" "Don't move!" "Don't move!" "Don't move!" "Don't drive me crazy, honorable!" "Is that you?" "What do you want, Mr?" " Let me have him, Boss!" " No, no, no!" "Let me only ask him:" "What do you want, huh?" "Wait!" "This got to be a mistake!" "I know this gentleman." "He ain't that kind a guy." "He is an honorable citizen." "He is one of ours." "He's a patriot!" "If he's a patriot, why is 'e fixin' to mess up my marriage?" " It ain't what you think." " Then what is it?" "What is it?" "What is it?" "Will you people ever grow up?" "This young man been courting' Zitza." "He been in love with 'er in the '"Union'"" "that night when he trailed us." " You see now?" "Didn't I tell ya he is not one of them..." " They wrote to each other love letters and instead goin' to her place, he has mistaken he came here and..." "You see?" "This is the mistake of Dinca the craftman who fixed upside down the house number." "Didn't I tell you, Boss, that it's one o' them fish tales o' yours again..." "You made me go chase my own tail, I was this far from breaking my neck..." "I could, God forbid, take a man's life." " You, son of a..." " Brother!" "No need to be bashful now!" "Ah, to be young and wild at heart!" "Romantic girl..." "Honorable sir, you got any idea who this young man is?" "Who is 'e?" "The guy who writes for "The Voice of the National Patriot'"." " Get outta here!" " Cross my heart." " No way!" " The very man 'imself." "He is the one on the barricades in the article, the one about the sufferage." "Who would have guessed Zitza's luck?" "I, my honorable man, apologize myself." "Perhaps I offended you just now." "I didn't know that is for Zitza you came." "That's why she said: "Brother, please!"" ""pretty please, let's go to The Union Garden!"" "That's it: young and wild at heart." " Logicaly!" "But that?" "What does it mean to find it here?" " Nice-looking bandana." " l've again such bad suspicions." "Give it to me!" "This is truly mine, boss, don't you know it?" "Son of a gun!" "Why didn't you say so sooner?" "See?" "The man becomes blind when he's into trouble." "Logical!"