"What's the matter?" "It's nothing." "It's the Russian dreaming." "What did he say?" "It's very strange." ""A long knife."" ""Between her breasts."" ""And I stick it in..."" ""Gently..."" ""It's over."" ""You're dead."" "He scares me." "We should wake him." "Sir!" "Sir!" "What?" "What happened?" "Are we arriving soon?" "Well, sir, what happened is that you've just killed a lady." "You must have loved her a lot!" "Yes indeed, I do love her." "I've the right to love whom I want." " Of course!" " And to kill whom I want to." "At any rate, I did it in a clean way." "No trace of blood." "Is this your first trip to Baden-Baden?" "Yes." "I've been going there for 10 years." "I hear the country is very beautiful." "Let's be serious, sir." "You don't go to Baden to admire nature, but to play roulette." "You too." "Admit it." "I don't play, sir." "I'm very poor." "Me too, I'm very poor." "That's why I play." "You'll go to the Hôtel de Paris, and you'll ask for Pauline Alexandrovna." "She's the stepdaughter of General-Count Zagorianski." "They're Russian names." "Will you remember them?" "Oh yes, sir." "This place is full of Russians." "Good." "You mustn't see the General." "And to Miss Pauline." " A document?" " Don't touch it." "It's in Russian, of course." " Of course." " Come on, translate." ""Come to Baden at once," ""But don't see the General before you see me, Pauline."" "Who's Pauline?" "It's none of your business." " And who's the General?" " General" " Count Zagorianski." " Zagorianski?" " Yes." "Hôtel de Paris." "I'm his children's tutor." "We'll ask him to come." " I won't see him." " You can't." "You're our guest." "My God, what a country!" "Will you tell me what I have done?" "You uttered death threats." " In public." " I?" "On the train." "Oh, that's the reason." " No dispatch from Moscow?" " No, General." "How strange!" "A week ago, she was dying." "I really don't understand." "The inheritance." "Last night, I saw the poor dear in a dream." "dressed in purple silk, the sort they use inside coffins." "Don't worry, dear General." "When you dream of someone's life, you give him 10 years of life." ""10 years"?" "God forbid." "Well, I mean..." "Let God keep us alive." " Goodnight, Father." " Goodnight." "No dispatch yet." "Alexei is a fool who makes me worry to death." "I made him stay in Moscow to send a wire." "Why doesn't he?" " He has nothing to say." " You have something to say about a sick woman if take proper care of her." "Goodnight, my lambs." " So, is the soup good?" " It is indeed, Sir." "Good!" "You didn't come with us, once more." " We don't see you anymore." " You noticed?" "General Zagorianski." "A dispatch?" "Leave that alone!" "What are you looking for?" "A bomb?" " A pistol." " Well, well!" "Why a pistol, Mr. Tutor?" "For my pupils when they behave badly." "First mistake, a blank." "Second mistake, a bullet." "Alexei Ivanovich!" "A boy whom I trusted." "Who told you to..." "General-Count Alexander Zagorianski." "As of tomorrow morning, I..." "Why was he arrested?" " What have you done?" " He wanted to murder a woman." "What?" "You wanted to murder a woman?" "In my dreams." "Dream or no dream, you're murdering another one, my poor old aunt in leaving her alone in Moscow." "I left her in your care." "Alexei Ivanovich, you're a deserter." " He's really tutoring your children?" " That's my misfortune." "Is she dying?" " What?" " Very dying." "To think that I've entrusted my children to this dubious person." "General, I'm not a deserter, but a loyal and gloomy messenger." "I came, General, because back there I was of no use any more." "Your respectable aunt, Antonina Vassilievna, is rapidly going away and refuses any help." "She's thrown out doctors, and puts herself in the hands of charlatans who treat her... who treat her with hay dust." "Infusions?" "It's kill or cure." "Kill or cure indeed." "I'm a little ahead of the bad news." " Have you received it yet?" " No." "Not yet." "This woman, with the old man at her side, it's one Miss Selma, isn't it?" "No, baroness, it's Miss Blanche de Cominges." "You see..." "She's exquisite, this adventuress." "And the man with the flower, I recognize him as well." "Don't make me suffer, because I love you." "And my heart will never forget you." "My dear General, would you give me a great joy here right now" " A joy?" "A thousand joys." " Just one." "Could you stand up and announce our engagement?" " My dear..." " You'll tell them that soon... soon, isn't it?" "I shall be the General-Countess Zag..." " Zagorianski." " Like you say." "I'll tell." "Dear fellow countrymen," "I'm happy to meet you on a foreign but friendly land." "General-Count Alexander Vladimir Zagorianski announces in a loud voice his impending, his happy marriage to Miss Blanche de Cominges." "Will you grant me the pleasure of this dance?" "This dance?" "I won't know how." "Then I'll show you." "Come!" "You must learn." "Did you see the old woman?" "She reminds of bad memories." "Since then we've traveled far." "Careful, sweetheart, you're not married yet." "These people can still harm you." "He is terrific, for his age." "It would only take one word to end their joy." " Is Grandmother feeling better?" " I don't know." "She may be dead but she may not be." "I could tell them:" "I lied, Grandmother is fit as a fiddle." "Be quiet." "I forbid you." "Too bad." "It would be funny." "Let's imagine..." "Miss Blanche would cancel her engagement, the General might shoot himself, cut down in his last youth." "A pitiful end for a general." "As for Des Grieux..." "Ah, des Grieux..." "What would this gentleman do, him being French, what is more, if he learned the General would not inherit any time soon?" "He'd sell everything we own." "Is it the truth?" "We only live here on what money he lends us." "The General owns no house, no land in Russia on which Des Grieux does not have a mortgage." "For what other reason would he stick to us like glue?" "Aren't there any other, Pauline." "One at least." "No." "He only waits for our ruin or our inheritance." "And then, why did you not order me to kill Grandmother?" "Quiet." "You're drunk." "Killing a paralytic, half a woman, half an old lady, it would only be just half a murder." "I was perfectly capable of it." "But you're incapable of asking me to do it." "It's up to me to decide what I will ask from you." "Here I am." "What are you going to demand from me?" "You said that she was dying." "You said it." "Everyone believed it." "I demand nothing else for now." "Well?" "What is my reward?" "There was an invitation on the table." "It must have fallen down." "Thank you." "Enough!" "Enough!" "Enough!" "Who ever kissed your foot like me?" "No one." "I hate you." "I..." "I..." "Leave me." "Leave me." "I'm ashamed." "Why be ashamed?" "You'll soon be my wife." "You're impatient to be, that's all." "It's for you that I'm ashamed!" "If Alexei hadn't arrived last night, if he hadn't brought those news, you wouldn't have come back." "The other days, I was waiting for you too but you didn't come." "You no longer believed in the inheritance." "I would have liked to throw you out last night." "Why didn't you do it?" "Because..." "Because you came." "I will come again then." "What is that?" "It's Alexei." "Who allowed him to be here?" "Does he need your permission to sleep in front of my door?" "It doesn't shock you?" " Coming from him, no." " What shall I do with him?" " Don't you dare touch him!" " All right," "All right." "If you like dogs this much..." "When they're faithful to me, I find them indispensable." "But how would you know what being faithful means?" "I must admit that seen this way, it's really not attractive." "But if you wish so, I'll have a bone brought with your breakfast." "Pauline..." "You're not asking me why I slept in front of your door." "Quiet down!" "I'm not interested." "You are indeed!" "It's because it's a slave's place." " Or a spy's!" "What if someone had come out of my room?" "Don't worry, I'm not jealous." "And yet I could be." "I was your lover." "One day only." "Such a small affair." "What affair?" "You've forgotten." "Even your memory is sick, unhinged." "Yes." "You're right." "So much that it sometimes seems to me that I remember the future." "That I remember things that will happen one day." "Later." "The day when I will kill you, for instance." "Yes, I remember." "As if it had happened yesterday." "But it was yesterday indeed." "On the train, I think." "Before witnesses who told the police about you." "And you're laughing?" "You think that it will never happen?" "When I have killed you, I shall kill myself afterwards." "But not immediately, as late as possible, to experience for a long time, a very long time, the atrocious, exquisite pain that your death will make me feel." "You're talking nonsense." "And you pretend that if I were to say the word you'd kill yourself?" "But it's true also." "And I will kill myself when you order me to." "Say the word, and I'll throw myself on the track!" "Alexei!" "Say the word!" "Alexei!" "Alexei!" "Alexei!" "Why would I ask you to throw yourself under a train?" "It's of no use to me." "Pleasure is useful." "The pleasure to cause pain." "That's the pleasure I give you." "The only kind I can still give you." "Isn't it right?" "And furthermore, you're a coward." "I don't know." "Why?" "You didn't jump from the bridge." "You didn't ask me to." "And... what if I told you:" ""Kill this man"?" " Would you do it?" " At once." " Whom?" " Whomever I want." "The Frenchman." "Why the Frenchman?" "And I'm telling you that Mademoiselle de Cominges is called Selma." "The scandal made quite a stir at the time." " This creature..." " If indeed it's really her." "has dared ask the Baron..." "Though we were not introduced, as you might guess, to bet 10 louis on the red for her." "After which, we had her shamefully thrown out." "Yes indeed, it's me." "Now, will you dare refuse entrance to the casino to the fiancée of General Count Zagorianov?" "Come, my dear." "To the roulette." "She's charming." "Please don't kill her." "I cannot make any promise." " These German imbeciles." " More words." "I dare you to throw your contempt into their faces." "You're daring me?" "Really?" "I'm daring you for real." "Am I clear enough this time?" "It's more difficult than pretending to jump under a train." "With your permission, sir." "May I know what position you have in the General's household?" "In his house or out of it, I'm at your service." "I hope you find this intolerable." "There you are!" "I have accomplished the inanity." "Now you're on your own." "It suits me well." "A duel will be the perfect solution." "A duel?" "You?" "A baron does not fight a duel with a servant." "The only way for you to kill is murder." "We shall see." "No message from Moscow?" " Still nothing, General." " Then I shall send a message." "And I'll take care of your problem." ""Antonina..." ""..." "Vassilievna Tarrassevicheva."" " As usual." " Yes." ""We are dead."" "No, no." ""Are dying."" "No, no." ""Worried to death."" ""Pray, give news."" "Come in." "Forgive me for disturbing you at home, my dear." "It's lovely actually." "The advantage of these rooms with low ceilings is that lying down is better." "It is also that every visitor, even distinguished ones, must to take off his hat." "I can see that you have a sense of humor." "I knew it and" "I have come to see you because of one your practical jokes." "A funny joke actually, witty." "But..." "Another advantage of this room." "You mean the incident between me and the Baron of Vurnoven?" "Precisely." "Well... let me tell you that" "I intend to apologize to the Baron." "Do not go." "The Baron wouldn't see you." "That's exactly what I hope for." "He won't see me, I'll consider myself insulted and I shall have my duel." "No more games." "Let's speak frankly." "The General is asking you to renounce this duel." "The General is too kind." "But I ask him not to try and solve my dispute" " It's up to me, only me..." " It is not." "If it went further, it would place the General in a situation which would be very difficult" "The General?" "If you know things I don't know..." "Sit down, please." "No thank you." "I shall take upon myself to tell you the Baron and Baroness think they have means of seriously harming Miss de Cominges's reputation and preventing her marriage." " A scandal?" " Perhaps." "That's too bad, sir." "I'm really very sorry" " but..." " It's a childish behavior." " Have you ever fought a duel?" " Seven times, always for good reasons." "Mine is better." "The Baron is a good shot." "You will tremble when facing his pistol." "Good!" "I'm a terrible shot." "If my hand trembles, the shot might come on its own at the right time and by chance, straight into the Baron." "Let go of me, I'll obey you." "So sorry, little girl." "It's no use, Alexei." "You want me to face the Baron without having fired a pistol?" "You want to see me dead!" "You won't fight." "Why?" "Because I demand you not to." "This time, it won't be a good enough reason." "What do you mean?" "With this duel, I'll stop being a slave." "I shall be a man." "Even to your eyes." "What does your becoming a man matter if I no longer care about you?" "I'll think about that later, after the duel." "There won't be a duel, because I don't want it." "I will fight!" "So you fooled me with your love, your faithfulness, your submission." "I love you." "A thousand times more every day." "Please, keep your fine words to yourself." "I'm asking you for evidence and you won't give it to me?" "I dislike seeing you as an accomplice..." "Of what?" " Of whom?" " Of such sordid business." "What do you mean?" "Horrible things, with which you are familiar though." "Des Grieux is the one who wants to marry the general to this adventuress." "It may be." "Des Grieux who sleeps with Blanche." " I don't know that." " Liar!" "You know about it and you accept it!" "You, the proud one!" "Your pride now is to be his slave." "Des Grieux, this peacock!" "You like peacocks!" "You!" "He ordered you to come here?" "Answer me: did he?" "Did he?" "That's right." "He did." "I could kill you." "Here, right now." "But can one kill someone he despises?" "No!" "Pauline Alexandrovna, run and tell the Marquis des Grieux that I renounce the duel and the scandal," "neither out of cowardice nor out of submission, but out of disgust." "Out of disgust?" "Then leave us alone." "Go back to Moscow!" "Good idea, Pauline!" "Let the General pay me my wages and I'll take the first train." "But..." "Well, Pauline?" "So?" "Everything is going well, Alexei wants to leave." "Good!" "I'm dismissing him." "We're going to the casino." "Are you coming along?" "Gladly!" "Congratulations, my dear." "You've been marvelous..." "Free at last." "A telegram?" "Boy!" "Take this to the General at once." "He's just left." "We shall go to Monte Carlo." "They also have a casino and a roulette." "A telegram from Moscow, General!" "A telegram?" "Quick..." "My God..." "My God!" "What is it?" "Read it!" "Wait until I've got it." "I can't see anything." " Get closer to the light." " The streetlight!" "I can't see anything." "Ah...there." "I'm starting to..." ""We are dead."" ""Worrying to death." "Pray, give news."" "I don't understand." "My dispatch is sent back to me." "It might mean that..." " You think so?" " The dispatch was not delivered." "It means she's dead, doesn't it?" "Well..." "You'd think so." "Of course but what do you think?" "If we were sure that your aunt was dead, decency would demand that we shouldn't go to the casino." "There's no certainty." "So..." "let's go play the roulette." "Let's go and play roulette." "Give me your arm, my dear friend." "Generous as a pauper!" "Bon voyage!" "How do you cry your relief in Russian?" "Alexei Ivanovich!" "Alexei Ivanovich!" "Stop." "It's Alexei." "Driver!" "Look at him." "He doesn't even recognize me." "I'm already dead and buried." "Where are you running with your bags?" "The General dismissed me, Grandmother." "He fired you?" "Well, I'll hire you then." "Climb in." "You can't imagine how happy I am, Grandmother." "And the others..." "do you think they're happy?" "Why are you laughing?" "You can't understand." "Go on, drive." "You follow behind." " Still nothing from Moscow, of course?" " Nothing." "Would you like to send a telegram?" "What for?" "They send them back." " Madam..." " In due time." "Go on, scamper!" "Go, go quietly." "Through there, through there." "Well, there we are." "It's not a dispatch, it's me." "Antonina Vassilievna!" "My aunt!" "My dear, dear aunt!" "Alive and kicking." "You weren't expecting me, were you?" " But yes I was, yes." " But no, no you weren't!" "You are most welcome among us." "What are you doing here?" "I don't him any more, you know." "But I want him here." "Leave him alone, he's working for me." "Right!" "Right!" "But how did you get here from Moscow?" "How did you?" "By train, of course." "What are railways for?" "Move me!" "The sun bothers me." "It makes me blink." "They'll see think that I can't see well." "It's not true at all." "I see right through it all." " Who are all these people?" " Marquis Des Grieux, you may remember." " We worried so much." " Were you?" "And the others?" "Mademoiselle de Cominges and her mother." "She lowers her eyes." "Is she an actress?" "She's a young maiden, Grandmother!" " What do you mean?" " A young society maiden." " And I intimidate her?" " She's surprised, no doubt." "The news was so alarming." "Shut up." "You drivel and you lie." " Of course, you play the roulette." " Roulette?" "Me?" "My aunt!" "I'm sure you can't be taken away from it." "Well, do as you wish." "But should you count on my inheritance, you won't get a cent from me, and that's a promise." "And a promise is a promise." "What's the matter with her?" "I thought it best to give Princess Tarrassevicheva the suite we reserve for princes." " What do you think of it?" " I don't give a damn!" "I hope you'll like it." "A bit small." "But it's not too bad." "Push me into the bedroom, so that I can see the bed." "Unmake it first." "Take away those pillows, those slips, and those sheets, everything is disgusting in hotels." "Come on, come on." "Pull up the mattress." "Can you see any bedbugs, Potapych?" "No, Countess." "Oh!" "Marfa, remove those creatures." "I don't want that above my bed." "It's absolutely improper." "And in its place, you'll hang up my icon." " Here!" " Grandmother!" "Here she is!" "My Pauline!" "You, I like." "You're as bad-tempered as ever?" "A true little wasp." "Where she stings, it swells." "Isn't that right, Alexei?" "It doesn't matter." "You're worth more than the others." "Take me near the window." "Use my sheets and pillows." "I brought everything." "Come with me, my darling." "You will tell me everything happening here." "Nothing unpleasant, Aunt." "Everything goes wonderfully." "Why did the actress run away and cry?" " Which actress?" " You see..." " You get away from here." " All right." "If you need anything," "I'm entirely at your disposal." "And do not listen behind the door." "How can you think that?" "You're going to tell me." "I feel that strange things are happening here" "What sort of things?" "Who are these people hovering around that fool?" "Alexei can tell you better than I." "But you seem tired, Grandmother." "No, no." "Talk, I'm listening." "All right." "The General is in love with Miss Blanche, that's obvious to everyone." "He wishes to marry her, which is quite natural." "There's no dark scheme there." "You can imagine that if it was not the case, Miss Pauline..." "Well, what about Pauline?" "Miss Pauline, whose uprightness you know, and who only thinks of her younger brothers and sisters wouldn't let him become involved with an adventuress." "As for the Marquis des Grieux..." "Go on." "The Marquis?" "As for the Marquis des Grieux, he is a Frenchman, of good breeding, graced with every elegance, who almost ruined himself to help our family." "If we live here, in a comfortable hotel, we owe it to his money." "What Alexei forgets to tell you is that the Marquis des Grieux is my fiancé." "You failed." "It didn't even wake her up." "You don't think that we're tanned with "Tannhäuser"." "You were saying?" "I said:" "We're being tanned with "Tannhäuser"." "It's a play on words!" ""We're tanned with..."" "We're going to the gambling room." "Then he said to himself: "Grandmother's sleeping." "Time to go."" "Can't you see him?" "There are several rooms." "We'll see all of them." "Go on, Potapych." "This way, quickly." "Hurry up." "Don't move." "I'm hiding." "We're not gamblers." "We're looking for someone." "Take me to another table." "Look in the other rooms." "No." "No, he isn't there." "You haven't seen him?" "I know him." "I'm sure he's here." "Not so loud, Grandmother." "No, I haven't seen him." "I won't leave." "I'll stay here until we find him." "I want to see the look on his face when I catch him." "Don't bother." "Thank you!" " Les jeux sont faits." " No, he isn't here either." "Let's keep going, Potapytch." "Rien ne va plus." "Wait!" "18, red, even, manque." "You win, sir." "For the staff." "Who is that?" "Who is that?" " He's a friend of mine." " And he won?" "Yes, Madam." "20,000 francs." "Tell him to quit." "20,000 francs!" "What more does he want?" "Tell him to grab the money and leave." "You said that you know him." "It is not done, Grandmother!" "Get out!" "I'm telling you to leave!" "Go away!" "No more bets!" " He's completely crazy!" " You mustn't yell." "It bothers them." "They'll throw us out." "It's a pity!" "He's such a fool!" "I can't watch anymore." "Why is the dwarf with her?" "A lucky charm, maybe." "Hunchbacks are lucky, not dwarves!" "Yes." "But since he's a dwarf, perhaps he has a tiny hump." "Zero." "No number win." "What does that mean, "zero"?" "Why do they grab everything?" "If it falls on zero, everything goes to the bank." " No one gets anything?" " Yes they do, Grandmother." "If you play zero, you get 35 times the value of your stake." "Thirty-five!" "Why do not more of these fools stake upon it?" "Because the number of chances against its occurrence is thirty-six, Grandmother." "Big deal!" "Wait and see!" "Place your bets." "Stake that on zero." "Quickly." "But it has just turned up, it won't turn up until sometime." "Stake it on zero, do as I say." "Zero..." "All right." "But it may not turn up at all tonight even if you stake on it a thousand times." "Rubbish!" "Who fears the wolf should never enter the forest." "You'll see how easy it is." "I would never have thought so." "And fun." "Yes, it's a lot of fun." "Zero, you'll see." "17, black, odd and manque." "17?" "Why 17?" "We've lost?" "It doesn't matter." " Zero again!" " Again?" "No more bets." "No more." "No more bets." "She's here?" "Well, she's here." "It's astounding!" "And to think that I saw her, with my own eyes, really exhausted." "You saw her dead once too." "In a dream!" "We can't stay here anyway." "Let's go back to the Opera." "No!" "I don't feel sleepy any more." "All right." "In that case, take care of her." "I'm going back to my opera box." " Excuse me." " Last bets!" "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "16, red, even, manque." "It will cost me my life but I'll stay until it comes out." " You bandit, I'm watching you." " Grandmother, please..." "You stake 10 louis on zero." "So that it will be worth it when it comes out." " 10 louis?" " Place your bets." "You heard me?" "10 louis." "It's not your money." "10 louis on zero." " How much is it in rubles?" " 800." "They don't count in rubles, this way, we don't know how much we lose." "No more bets." "Zero." "I told you, didn't I?" "You see, it's necessary to watch you." " How much will I get?" " 7000 francs, Grandmother." "Check that it's all there." "No." "Put them back on." "Place your bets." "Come on, hurry up!" "Place my bet right now." " On which number?" " Zero, of course." "Zero always!" "No, all of it!" "But you can't, Grandmother." "No more than 6000." "Can't I stake more than 6000?" "No." "Those are the rules, Madam." "No more bets!" "30, red, even, passe." "We must get the money back." "Place your bets." "6000." "6000 on zero." "No." "Don't, Grandmother." "It's crazy." "It won't turn up." "Crazy yourself." "Will you obey me?" "Les jeux sont faits" "No more bets." "Alexei Ivanovich, you who are so close to her..." "Will you conceal this?" "This place is full of thieves." "Grandmother..." "Grandmother." " Zero." " There we are!" "We are lucky indeed, Grandmother." "Nothing to do with luck." "I stake on zero, there you have it." "And red?" "Why not red?" "It dazzles me." "It blinds me." "Even with my eyes closed, I see it." "I'll take care of it." "All which is allowed on red." "6000, Madam." "There you are, madam." " I do not believe in God." " That's too bad." "But supposing there's God, you monopolize all the luck." "It's unfair!" "No more bets." "34, red, even and passe." "Nothing on the number." " You won." " Of course!" "Here's 6000 francs, Madam." "Is that all?" "For 6000 francs?" "We only pay out the stake once on the color." "Then zero, zero, zero!" "Place your bets." "You go back." "The general must be told." "I'll go." "Excuse me." "No more bets." "Zero." "Oh, zero!" "There you have it!" "No, don't hide it from me!" "I apologize." "I'll buy it from you." "Here!" "50 louis." "Move away, miscreant!" "Gamble, and lose everything." "Foreigner!" "I want to see!" "I want to see!" "No more bets." "Here!" "Put some of it into my purse." "Shall we go?" "Oh no." "We'll carry on." "Your aunt is at the roulette table." " Come." " I'm coming." "How much have we won?" "How much?" "What does it matter?" "You must play, Grandmother." "Play, play, play." "Black, odd and manque." "That will be a change." "You've got fever!" "Getting so het up is really silly." "You'll die young, boy." "He dragged her to the casino." "He who never goes there." "Making other people gamble can be quite funny." "There you are." "He wants to ruin me." "The wretch!" " Excuse me." " No more bets!" " She's still winning?" " Yes." "My goodness!" "We could be glad if only she would stick to that." "If she would." "Indeed!" "I'll see her." "11, black, odd, manque." "Aunt, you were extraordinarily lucky." "We'll make a triumphant return to the hotel." "Return ?" "I don't want to go back." "I'm having fun here." "I beg you, Aunt." "Shut up!" "Do like I do, instead of wishing me dead." "It's simple: bet on zero." "Place your bets." "Come on, make yourself rich." "You need to, because you'll get nothing from me." "You must have a louis left." "Of course, Aunt." "Of course." "No more bets!" "Promise me that it's your last one." "Dear Aunt, we're gambling on the last one together." "So you're gambling too?" "You damn jinx," "I forbid you to bet one single cent on this table." "Go away, go away, can't you hear?" "Children, to think that only yesterday, we had such a peaceful life!" "Wait." "Leave it to me." "The Marquis des Grieux and the General are waiting for you in the Winter Garden." "Excuse me a moment." " Calm down." " I'm keeping calm." "Calm down." "Alexei Ivanovich, may I say to you that it is unbelievable, that your conduct towards my family and mys...." "No, no, you have it all wrong." "My dear sir, the General means..." "I mean warn you... well... he begs you not to ruin him." "I don't understand..." "Please... you have taken upon yourself to act as guide to this old lady and you alone can take her away from this gaming table." "She may be Russian, she's probably crazy but we can be sure that she will be ruined tonight." "Alexei Ivanovich, I beg you," "I beseech you," "And I deeply salute you in the Russian manner." "If she loses a lot of money or even, who knows, all of it, my God, what will become of me?" "And of my children?" "And of Mademoiselle Blanche?" "I return your salute in the Russian manner." "But you think I have an influence on your aunt that a poor private tutor most certainly does not have." "Can't you see that this boy triumphs?" "After you humiliated him so much, he is delighted by what's happening." " But my dear..." " Leave it to me." " You're going to beg me too?" " Come on!" "You want to revenge from the general, do it but not in this way, foolishly, ruining a poor old lady." "No, a true revenge." "Man to man." "Man to woman." "I don't understand..." "Then you are either very stupid or very mean." " I'm so unhappy." " Are you?" "You don't think a woman could be unhappy because of you?" " No." " Because you've never tried." "Wouldn't you like to try to make me a little bit unhappy." " Well..." " Happy then." "You really think so?" "Wouldn't you like to capture the queen, my dear little pawn?" "It's tantalizing." "26, black, even, passe." "Nothing on the number." "Well, Grandmother, not winning anymore?" "Shut up!" "I'm losing the money for my church." "The one I vowed to rebuild." "to replace the old wooden one which burned down." "But... wait." "Mark bets, gentlemen." "Zero." "You must risk it all." "Risk it all on zero." "And too bad for the church." "It's no laughing matter." "To the devil may you go!" "He won't take me." "That devil is a good guy." "He puts everything in order, because you have the gambling fever." "Miss Blanche won't marry the General," "Des Grieux will give up Pauline." "Morality is saved." "No more bets." "18, red, even, manque." "I don't care about your morality." "I'm losing everything." "It was worth it." "Place your bets." "They won't get me so easily." " We haven't got any money." " What about my equities?" "They must have an exchange counter in this country." "Right here, Grandmother, in the casino." "What rogues!" "Come on, take me there, Potapytch." "Look!" "What did I tell you?" "She's going!" "A thousand thanks, my dear friend." "How can I show my gratitude?" "Now, let's watch her closely." "Aunt, that's a lucky encounter." "We happen to be going back too." " What do you want from me?" " After such a journey, you must be dead tired." "I've got no time to lose." "Oh!" "Her strongbox!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "What?" "I've lost everything." "I'll cash my securities." " These securities are her fortune." " Why do you care?" "You'll never get a cent from it anyway." "I know them." "You'll get a ridiculously low price for them." "Be sensible." "You should rest now." "Tomorrow we'll make a nice excursion." "Come on, sell everything." "Meet us down there." "Come on, let's go." "Say something to her." "Yes, madam, we'll take a wonderful excursion..." "That's right." "We'll drink milk on the green grass..." "Have done with you and your milk." "My stomach recoils from the idea." "That's enough!" "You disgrace Russia!" "If we were at home, in an organized State, you'd be under guardianship." "Back home, my dear, we know how to deal with such old women." "What right do you have to talk, you fool!" "Because you're a general?" "I'm a general too!" "Come on, Potapytch, let's move." "And you two get out of my way." "This old woman will live a hundred years!" "And I won't wait." "She's out of her mind." "As for Miss Blanche, the poor child, God knows what she may have done out of despair." "Where did she go, dear God?" "Here!" "We'll watch her carefully before making any decision." "See for yourself." "It is..." "This lady..." "with white hair?" "With white hair, that's right." "I can see Blanche." "It's nothing to with Blanche." "Did you see?" "In one second." "Sir, I beg you." "Believe me, in spite of my long experience of gaming rooms," "I always feel deep pain when I see such distressing situations." "Unfortunately..." "Unfortunately, I can do nothing." " Have her banned." " I have no grounds for that." "Sorry but I've known of women who'd been expelled from casinos." "Yes, of course, women whose behavior..." "Not at all, she was quite respectable." "Besides, if you're unable to do what you should, I'll do it myself." "Sir...." "Sir!" "General!" "General!" "Place your bets." "Well..." "Make yourself at home." " Madam..." " It's free-for-all here!" "Witnesses?" "Who shall be my witness?" "Pay no attention." "She is crazy!" "It's that actress with the crook." "She lost not time before burying my idiotic general." "Blanche!" "General Count Zag..." "Blanche!" "Madam!" "Sir?" "But, Madam, come on..." "Not here, sir, not here!" "Can't you see that he can't hear us?" "What scandal!" "Of course, my dear friend." "Good evening, Count!" "No fainting at the casino." " How old was he?" " 60." "Good evening, dear Madam!" "My respects!" "He is held in very high esteem." "Please offer his family my sincerest condolences." "Now, gentlemen, place your bets." "You don't know what the old woman invented to prevent the General from marrying that adventuress?" "She's decided to ruin herself at the gaming table!" "You'll see!" "The spectacle is worth it." "The Russian flavor in all this!" "Take this money and keep it for me." "Else, we couldn't afford to go back to Moscow." "Back to Moscow?" "So soon?" "You don't think I want to die in this wretched country?" "What's this talk about dying, Grandmother." "I wouldn't like to live here either." "Gentlemen, place your bets." "Look around us: only foreigners." "I wouldn't want to end up in their ground." "You are a good boy to speak Russian to me now." "It makes me feel better." "If only this blasted red could turn up." "No more bets." "35, black, odd and passe." "Nothing on the number." "Don't!" "If I give up, I'll miss the winning spin." "One can't lose all the time." "Don't you agree that I can still win?" "You see?" "You see?" "The more time passes, the closer we are to winning." "Here, stake this ...on black." "I'm tired." "It's too much for me." "What's going on?" "The young gentleman insists on speaking to the Countess." "She's my great aunt, sir." "It's very serious." "I told him that the room is forbidden to children." " Is it really so serious?" " It is, sir." "Cover his eyes and take him to her." "He must not see anything of the gaming tables." "Understood?" "Excuse me." "That's it!" "It's over, Grandmother." "But I've still got money." "I gave you some." " That's for our return trip." " Quiet!" "No, he's right, grandmother." "I won't give it to you." "It's an order!" "No, I won't obey." "Place your bets." "The servants give the orders now?" "Give me my money." "At once!" "The bets are placed?" "No more bets." "Micha!" "What are you doing here?" "Bad news, Grandmother." "32, red, even and passe." "This is the bad news." "You have more?" "The General, Grandmother..." "He had to be taken to the hotel." " A seizure." " A seizure?" "What fool!" "What a fool I am!" "So stupid of me!" "It's true?" "This isn't a ruse to make me go away from here?" "Alas, no, Grandmother." "Potapytch, we're leaving." "If someone takes this place, he loses everything." "I had said that this trip abroad would bring no good." "What didn't we have back home?" "A beautiful garden, flowers filling the air with fragrance, trees like there are none here." "But, no." "We had to go abroad." "Forgive me." "I wanted to reassure you." "The General is much better." "The doctor says that with injections, he can make the trip back home." "Grandmother has decided to leave tomorrow with him, and the whole family." "I know all this already." "You're the one who doesn't know." "I?" "Des Grieux isn't coming with us." "He's going back to Paris!" "He's abandoning me!" "Pauline." "Leave me!" "Go laugh somewhere else." "Why should I laugh?" "Aren't you delighted?" "You have your revenge." "It's what you wanted." "You're happy, aren't you?" "I envy you, I envy you!" "Happy?" "Because you're crying in front of me?" "Yes, it's true, I've often wished for it." "I feel so contemptible." "No, no excuses." "You won, Alexei!" "You're strong!" "You're a man!" "Don't leave me!" "I need you." "You loved me." "You still do, don't you?" "You must!" "I order you!" "I'm really very sorry." "I'm so absent-minded!" "I forgot my cane." "So, if..." "Thank you, dear cane." "You've made me understand a great many things." "I shall leave reassured, since the comforter is already here." "I wish you, monsieur, all the happiness in the world." "And I'll even contribute to it a little." "if mademoiselle will allow me to." "Pauline, you've got no dowry left." "The General had pledged it over to me along with the rest." " It will be given back to you." " No!" "I've given orders to my banker." "I want no present from you!" "It is not a present, Pauline." "It's still much less than what I owe you and will always owe you." "50,000 francs." "This is how much Des Grieux's mistress is worth!" "If I had them..." "I do have them!" "Wait for me." "Pauline, wait for me." "Before he goes, I'll throw it to his face." "Then..." "I shall provoke him and I shall kill him." " You swear?" " Wait for me." "I swear." " I want the car for half past eleven." " Yes, Excellency." " You're not superstitious, are you?" " Yes, sir." "On the contrary." " The first twelve." " Very well." "The first twelve." "No more bets." "15, black, odd and manque." "Place your bets." "The chips are done?" "No more bets." "32, red, even and passe." "Nothing on the number." "Really!" "You were right." "Sitting here is no good." "Don't bother." "Leave it, leave it." "Give another louis." " Where will you stake it?" " Excuse me?" "Where did you want to stake?" " The first 12." " First 12!" "Place your bets." "The chips are down?" " Have you lost something?" " No, quite the opposite." "I thought I only had two coins." " But I've got three." " Make the most of it." "Come on, hurry up!" "A louis fell under the table." "9, red, odd and manque." "This is the last one, sir." "Gentlemen, place your bets." "The final louis, sir!" "One can still hope everything from it." "It happened to me once, abroad." "The bets are placed?" "Believe me sir, there is something deeply moving feeling alone, far from one's country, with no family, no friends and risking one's last, truly last..." "No more bets." "36, red, even and passe." "Leaving already?" "I've lost everything." "It's a real pity." "It's always a pity when you lose, believe me." "I had to pay someone back." " Well..." "You'll do it later." " Later?" "But it will be impossible." "I also have to kill him." "You only think of killing." "Don't laugh, sir." "A woman's honor is at stake." "Sir!" "sir!" "Do come, sir." "You're winning so much." "Please, come and change your stake or you'll lose everything." " Who is winning?" " You are, sir!" "Come, come!" "Come, come!" "It's your turn, sir." "It's your louis, the one you lost." "We could not find it by the way." "I'm really sorry." "No more bets." "3, red, odd and manque." "3, sir." "You've won again!" "But..." "The maximum on the first 12." "Here you are, sir." "Here's your money, sir." "I'm paying you back gladly!" "Thank you, sir." "This is for your trouble." "Thank you, sir." "For the staff." "Gentlemen, place your bets." "Mark the bets." "Bets are placed?" "No more bets." "Black, odd and manque." "The maximum." "Gentlemen, gentlemen, please!" "Gentlemen!" "Please!" "The gentleman has won 100,000 francs." "The casino will honor its commitments." "But because the bank not being able to guarantee more, we are under the obligation of closing this table until tomorrow morning." "Gentlemen, gentlemen, gently, gently." "With dignity, always with dignity." "They're watching us and we are in mourning." "The table is dead." "That is the tradition." "Thank you, sir, thank you very much." "On 8." "A third of the pile." "Come on, gentlemen, place your bets." "You've got enough to pay your debts, I guess." "My debts?" "But how?" "You had to pay someone back." "The bets are made?" "Pauline." "I must stop." "One doesn't leave the table when he's winning that much." "Bets are closed." "Of course, of course." "What about Pauline?" "She won't understand." " I'll tell her." " You think you could?" "8, black, even and manque." "It's great!" "Come on, play, play!" "I'll go get her." "Waste no time!" "Tell her to come." "To come and see." "Gentlemen, place your bets." "Quickly sir, we'll play again." "Mark your bets, gentlemen." "Red, 27..." "Black." "Sir," "Sir, you're playing both black and red?" "What does it matter?" "My Lord..." "My Lord..." " My utmost respect, my Lord." " What do you want?" "I've noted the patterns of your extraordinary success." "Here, look, in red, the sequence of the numbers that turned up," "In blue, the numbers played." "I don't like what you did, there are highs and lows." "Inevitably, my Lord." "No indeed, sir." "Not to me!" "No more bets." "Where are you?" "Let me see that." "Quickly!" "Quickly!" "27, red, odd and passe." "Place your bets." "Hey there!" "Oh, it's you?" "Leave your hands, to see." " To see what?" " We shall see." "You'll see what I can do!" "Mark your bets, gentlemen." "His Highness plays 32, odd, red, and the last twelve." "He's playing 32, odd, red, and the twelve last numbers." "My Highness, my little tutor, I adore you." "No more bets." "It's not the grandmother's money?" "God keep from ever playing with other people's money." "You're going to spend all that?" " In Paris?" " Why Paris?" "32, red, even and passe." "Won!" "All the Russians who win go to Paris." "In Paris, I'll make you spend a fortune in one month." "You'll see." "I'll show you stars in full daylight, such women as you've never seen." "And then we'll come back here to break the bank again." " What if it doesn't break?" " You'll be a tutor again." "I'll find you a position." "Bets are made." "I'll leave you, my dear friend." "I cannot compete with this young archangel." "No more bets." " The night will be bright." " Yes." "And tomorrow I'll sleep in a good bed, well tucked in." "A nice French bed." "Oh, yes..." " Is my bill ready?" " Yes, Sir." "Please..." "Come in." "Quick, quick." "Excuse me." "Alexei Ivanovich." " Where is he?" " Gambling." "And he's winning!" "Then tell him to come!" "No, no." "He sent for you." "He sent for me?" "Why?" "He has to come!" "He has to come?" "Now?" "A man who holds luck, your luck." "Don't talk nonsense." "Come see!" "But the other one is here, he's leaving." "His carriage's ready." "It will be too late." "What is he waiting for?" "He swore that he'd kill him." "Yes sir, he swore." "He was not joking." "And I had believed him." "Isn't it funny?" "Let him go." "With 100,000 francs we'll find wherever he is." "He won more than 100,000 francs!" "What do I care about 100,000 francs?" "Where's his love gone when he's got money?" "Money!" "Let him win money!" "Let him since he finds it fun!" "Get away!" "Tell him that I'll do without him." "I hope I haven't forgotten anything." "No." "Don't worry about it." "Careful with the small bag." "Yes, sir." "I'm going to strap it down." "14, red, even and manque." "Place your bets." "That's it!" "That's it!" "Your Lordship has won more than 200,000!" "And I'll keep going." "Here!" "Buy another one." "Bigger." "Place your bets." "Red." "Black." "No more bets." "14, red, even and passe." "Place your bets, gentlemen." "Watch your baron leave!" "Isn't it better than a duel?" "Don't talk to me of duels!" "Place your bets, gentlemen." "Excuse me." "Alexei Ivanovich!" "Where is she?" "What did she say?" "Nothing." "She said:" ""I won't be needing him."" "But, Alexei..." "Alexei..." "What are you doing?" "Don't!" "Alexei..." "Leave me alone!" "No more bets!" " See you next year, sir." " Of course." " Goodbye, sir!" " Bon Voyage!" "Pauline!" "Pauline!" "You're rich." "I've won!" "Pauline!" "Pauline?" "Pauline?" "Pauline!" "Pauline?" "Pauline!" "Pauline!" "Here it is!" "All this is for you." " It's heavy, isn't it?" " Very heavy." " You're mad at me?" " I?" "Why should I be?" "You are mad at me because I let him leave." "I let him leave too." "But I'll catch up with him, don't you worry," "I shall catch up with him and I shall kill him." "I don't even want you to." "But I swore." "Don't swear any more, Alexei, don't ever swear." "Of course, killing him..." "it was a crazy idea." "Crazy?" "But why?" "I hate him!" "Yes, you do hate him." "It's very heavy to have so much gold." "It won't keep you from fighting." "You'd lose your fortune before benefiting from it ?" "I have benefited from it:" "I gave it to you." "But if you killed him, I might hate you instead because, after all, maybe I still love him." "Then I'll kill him with even more joy." "No, now that he's gone, I already love him much less." "And very soon, believe me, I' shall no longer think of him, for there will be nothing left of Pauline that could think of him." "I'm not so sure." "You'll see." "Very soon, you'll see." "Do you know there's more than 200,000 francs in there." "200,000 francs in the hat in which there was never anything but my poor head." "It may have been worth 200,000 francs." "Really?" "Then I give it to you with everything which is inside." "You're very proud of your head now." "That's right, a little." "Is it because you won?" "No." "It's because you're caressing it." "You're like the other men, Alexei." "A slave that wants to become a master." "I don't want to be a gambler's slave." "Be quiet." "You're buying her mistress back from des Grieux?" "That's it: you buy her back for 200,000 francs." "I know that gold means nothing to you." "No!" "Nothing matters to me anymore." "And you can't see it!" "What's happened, Alexei?" "It's probably because you're wealthy." "You were handsome though, you were young." "Why are you talking in the past tense?" "You were proud, mean, insolent, clear-sighted." "I should have loved you." "But unfortunately," "If you were all these things, it's because I didn't love you." "So..." "I'm prepared to be silly, if you love me, and to never understand anything." "You're beginning to, Alexei." "Why?" "What don't I understand?" "Alexei, I'm terribly thirsty." "Well?" "Champagne?" "But tell me:" "what haven't I understood?" "However ridiculous it may seem to you that I was expecting to win at roulette," "I find more absurd the generally accepted opinion concerning the folly and the grossness of hoping to win at gambling." "For why is gambling worse than any other method of acquiring money," "than, for example, trade?" "Yes, trade." "No more bets!" "Time to bet, gentlemen." "...red, even and manque 13, black, odd and manque." "Place your bets." "Subtitles: shakill thorough revision of ironhills's subs @kg"