All language subtitles for BBC Cousin Bette (1971) S01E01 - Poor Relations

Hackles

There we go.

Nothing front.

There we go.

Take a break at a yard.

It's fresh.

That'll help you.

I'veied Avery.

Yeah.

No.

Miss you didn't, Marpoisele?

Miss you and my dad, Manif, we had the rooms above.

Seems we've survived. It was the stove.

Charkole fumes. The imbecile?

Try the river if he wants that sort of thing.

Friend of course, Marpoisele?

No, Marpoisele.

I am Count Venceslas Steinbock, born at Praglia in Levenia.

The reason for my suicide can be found in the words of Kustrushko.

Finis, Poloniai.

As an exile and a Steinbock are refused to beg.

My health makes military service quite impossible for me,

and yesterday saw the end of the hundred talers that I brought with me to Paris.

I leave twenty-five francs in the table drawer to pay the rent I owe the landlord.

Let no unb blamed for my death.

I did not make myself known as a refugee. I did not ask for aid.

No one in all Paris was aware of my existence.

I die a Christian, and may God forgive me.

Venceslas.

And may God forgive me. Venceslas.

And may God forgive me.

Venceslas.

Madam?

Madam Marpoisele. Fisher.

I have the apartment next door.

Yes, you may well hide your face, Mr. Mase.

Life is difficult enough God knows in such a quarter.

We are working folk and can't afford the luxury of neighbours who disturb our night because they feel the world is far too much for them.

Why you should imagine the only chances you might have in Paris that have joined the army,

or big you're living as a refugee.

You have remarrelated.

Of course. Paris is a city full of opportunity.

Those who care to make an effort.

Look at me. I'm poor myself.

A comfortable man from Lorraine.

You know, manage very well while you're living and pay my own weight.

Somebody like you.

Young man with a good education.

Must be something you can do.

Well, these drawings.

I had hoped when first I came to Paris I might study as a sculptor.

Yes, so?

It was foolish of me.

Even if one has the talent it takes years for a sculptor to be recognised.

In the meantime there are lessons to be paid for. One must live.

Surely there are opportunities for an apprentice?

Not without a premium.

Well, I know nothing of the trade, of course, but I should say with work like this you could find an opening as an ornament designer.

Oh, don't look down your nose now. It'll be a start.

And once you learn to give your wits about you.

Listen to me.

I have some savings I might be willing to invest.

If you would promise to work really hard and let yourself be guided by me,

I might lend you what you need to live on month by month.

Oh, not forget about the town you understand.

And after live quite frugally, that's all.

It's possible to dine in Paris on 25 soothes a day and I'll make you lunch with mine every morning.

I'll also furnish this place for you and arrange for whatever apprenticeship you need.

In return, you will give me a formal receipt for the money I spend.

And when you're rich, you can pay it back to me with a reasonable amount of interest.

Well...

Why should you think you can trust me?

Almost you.

A rogue may commit suicide, but he doesn't put 25 banks in a table drawer to pay his room rent.

Well, even if that's true, it's hardly any reason for your making such an offer.

Well, let me put it this way. I too am a poor relation.

Oh, you may find it hard to see yourself in such a light, but I assure you that an aristocrat with cap in hand in Paris

has a lot in common with a lonely spinster waiting on the smiles and favors of our influential relatives.

If it's possible, I'd like to help you do what I've done.

Make myself quite independent.

But of course it rests with you, Monsieur.

I'll go down and do my marketing.

Perhaps you'll give the matter your consideration.

I'll take minutes before you're done.

You understand?

Don't forget what you're about to steal the plate, Radcliffe.

You're not going to get the money.

You're not going to get the money.

You're not going to get the money.

You're not going to get the money.

I'll take minutes before you're done.

You understand?

Don't forget what you're about to steal the plate, Radcliffe.

You should be ready by the time you light your lamp.

Oh, is this the piece Monsieur Le Bois was asked for?

Yes.

Very pretty.

Why not?

Do you tend to throw a Budwein on an art gallery?

Good evening, madamoiselle.

Monsieur.

Madam.

I'm sure those two are quite convinced we lived together.

Oh, my dear.

The Porter's wife has said as much for the last three years.

This dress was perfect when my cousin wore it.

I have a feeling she passed it on to show the relatives how truly ghost I am.

The country cousin.

I won't know that you're bother with them.

Go to a diner tour.

Oh, no.

Don't misunderstand me.

I am still cousin bit.

And at a family dinner, I am treated with respect.

No, no, no, no.

Even though I may not choose to talk about it, I have my own importance, I assure you.

In the salon, after dinner, General Ulo has me sit beside him for a full half hour.

And he's a man who is very much head of the family.

Napoleon's staunch Republican, a veteran of some 30 campaigns and wounded for the 27th time at Waterloo.

I sit and thrown between this store and my uncle, Johann Fisher.

Not without some army honours of his own.

A man of consequence in the supply of forage to the Ministry of War.

I have a real webcam and any day.

It's true that when I make my round, I may not have my cousin Adeline's undivided attention.

But this will only be because she has her eyes fixed on her husband.

And the barrel evens up the score in any case by having his mind set on other things himself.

Mr. Crabel, I make no account of one way or the other.

He bought his way into the family with the marriage of his daughter to the Ulo pride and joy.

And if I seem to mock the happy pair with this description, it's not because they've been anything but affable to me.

I merely happen to prefer the company of the young man's sister.

Here you see, I reach my peak.

I'm not only respected. I'm admired as well.

Or Toss and I are like confidant and heroine of some old romance.

Which is confidant and which is heroine is rather difficult to tell.

Well, of course, the completion of the Louvre was one of the conditions on which we actually gave him the crown.

I agree to the heart of the city is in a deplorable condition.

You've got one to expect, I suppose.

Louis Philippe to me is the perfect representative of the class on which he has founded his throne.

You've stayed at the uncles for a moment longer, I have asked his final thought.

Excuse me now, the latest on your partition.

My little Steinbaw.

But you said last week you no longer believed in him.

I said my ma did not.

She thinks that you're telling me a lot of fairy tales.

Well, she would know about such things, I'm sure.

I must go now. I have some business on hand. I shall not disturb the others.

It has to be great to go on people with more than once.

Reluct. It feels that now it's a sculptor's first position.

You should be allowed to think of nothing else but art.

It's understandable. Maybe, but it's not a living.

Will you forgive me if I take my leave?

So soon.

A touch of indigestion. No, no, no. Don't disturb yourself.

I do wish you'd bring him here and introduce him.

Yes, I've no doubt.

Well, how else can I satisfy myself if he exists or not?

My dear, I've told you over a hundred times.

When an old maid finds herself an handsome young man, she keeps him safely tucked away.

Well, I don't possess a cat, you know, or even a canary.

I must have something I can call my own and make a fuss.

He's a lap dog, then a Polish lap dog.

My ma bet is just confessed.

She keeps her potted ears, a household pet.

Or does you go too far?

And I really must insist that you pay some attention to your uncles.

Yes, ma.

Oh, really? She's irreplaceable.

I know it's only a game, you clave, it's still.

No, turn it in.

It's your crevelle left early.

Yes.

I'm so afraid he needs to follow Ector onto the unpleasant.

You?

Victorar's marriage settlement was due last month.

Oh, I shouldn't worry.

Only an honest tradesman would expect such promptness and Mr. crevelle is aching the gentleman.

If he has followed Ector, it'll probably be to observe his imperial manner.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the

human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

My dear old boy, you've such exquisite taste.

You say so.

Oh, I do.

I do.

And next week I shall have the bracelet, try and tie, and a ring, and a circle it for my hair.

Well, not next week, perhaps, but certainly as soon as I can decently afford them.

Oh, surely now.

You'll not make me wait as long as that.

You know, I'll bargain old boy.

Everything I need to make me happy.

Not a word of decency, or what you can afford.

Oh, I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

Oh, I'm so afraid.

I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

Oh, I'm so afraid he needs to be a part of the human being.

Hey, Valerie, you're a mystery.

Oh, is Matt to bring you here?

But it was that all crying public, I couldn't bear to be a common spectacle.

What is it, Matt, error?

I have my good name to consider.

Perhaps in South America, a wife mandetain-aloverate this hour,

her husband never hears of it.

Her husband's a socialist, deaf in any country.

Yes.

Come. He's not a fool.

He must know that his household budget has been much easier this past few months

than that you couldn't buy it, rest your wearing on his salary as a clerk.

His official?

His senior clerk in the ministry of wars, I made inquiries.

Oh, and it well watches his truth.

Eh.

And he doesn't care what happens to me so long as it suits his pocket.

He just makes the matter so much worse that you can go and leave me with a man like that,

swearing that you love me.

I have sworn nothing. Nothing to this very moment.

But I will now.

Hear me?

It is essential I go back to South America.

I came to Europe on the Grand Tour and now I must go home to see to my affairs,

but as soon as I reach Brazil, I will offer my estate for sale

and when I have cleared everything, I will come back to Paris,

and then I will take away from this Paul Truna of her husband,

and I, Henry Montez De Montaganos, will offer you my fortune and life for your happiness.

This I swear.

And you're right to me while you're away.

And think of me every day and be faithful.

Everything you ask, but you, in your turn, must pledge yourself to me.

I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I'm tired.

Splendid marriage settlement, or toss and comes to the Le Bar, you approve the match, uncle.

Oh, yes. But I'm only surprised it came about so suddenly.

Well, Frank, it's been a possibility for some time.

It'll be hard of dare to think of it.

The darrier that Wama settled on or taunts.

Two hundred thousand francs.

Of course, a darrier that can wait, but there are so many preliminary expenses

one must come to before one comes to sign a marriage contract.

Wama sent a daily great deal, provided proper city.

I think I could raise you twenty thousand francs, even if you any help.

Oh, but my dear fellow, how are you?

I don't let's give books over about it like this.

Oh, too much.

Johnson's man. Money doesn't signify if it's for the family.

For the family.

So, if all goes well, we may be offering our war solicitations very soon.

I'm told the family money is in trade, but the gentleman inclines to politics.

The law.

The Zunabar is a councillor.

Oh, in any case, a man of substance who's taken quite a fancy...

You exaggerate.

He's attracted by the Ulo name and influence, but he's not a fool.

He'll assess my beauty very much upon the value of my darrier.

Oh, my dear.

Come, my mard's natural enough. The man's ambitious.

I don't mind.

If you and papa can arrange the match, I'll take the councillor quite willingly.

After all, it's hardly likely that I shall ever find myself.

A handsome young man with a title and a genius for sculpture.

Ah, now that I must admit, such a character is very rare indeed.

If he exists at all, in fact, now at all.

No, no, better rally be about the councillor. Now it's my turn.

Let me put you to the test. Better still, I'll make a wager with you.

Give me proof that your young man is what you say, and you shall have this yellow shawl of mine.

You know you've always liked it. It's your colour.

And the quality. Feel it.

You don't ask that I bring him here to visit. Only...

Only that you prove that there is a young Count Steinbach, that he is a sculptor and a protéche of yours.

Done. Oh, really?

I hold you as my witness, Adeline. The shawl.

Here, I've been visiting you.

Don't come in.

Stand there where you are and close your eyes.

What are you doing? Shh.

Now, Samson and the lion. I'm modeling to the studio.

Oh, but don't fix it in your mind at this size. This is only a minute yet.

Try to see the figures as they would be. Six times larger, cast in bronze.

Six times this size? 12 feet high.

That'd be enormous. And in bronze, it'd cost a fortune.

Well, the statue would depend, of course, on my finding somebody who liked the model well enough to offer a commission.

Oh, I see. It's all a daydream. I thought you'd pound yourself a patron.

Well, bet I made this.

Yes, sir. I've got some real news. The match I told you of, between my second cousin and this Chancellor Lebarr, it looks as though it may come off.

Which means that our tors will be very warm indeed.

A mother's purring like a tabby. And, oh, a paulce is so smug she's dared to make a wager with me.

If I can produce some proof of you, she's promised me our best sure.

And I'm determined I shall have it.

Now, what I thought you might do is to make some charming piece that I could take to show them some ornament with that particular decoration that would clearly signify the two of us.

Your coat of arms, perhaps. And...

Mother?

Is it so important to you to win this shawl?

I've said so, yes.

You resent my asking such a favor of you. That you link your coat of arms.

It's not the coat of arms. What, then?

I resent you asking me to waste my time on trivialities. The moment after I've shown you a piece of work, there could be of some consequence.

There's?

Well, you may not approve of it, but I assure you it's of more importance than a silly wager as to whether you win a shawl or not.

Oh, now, wait a moment.

Curvy a tongue, my little man.

There's more involved than just a shawl.

It is my word.

End of admired pieces such as this for over three years now.

It's not a matter of admiration.

I admired them for all that time and never once before have I asked you to make a single thing for me.

You might do well to think of that.

End of the IOUs I have locked up in a drawer across the way there, 2,500 pranks in gold, my friend.

How many shawls could I have bought with Actia suppose?

Huh?

Put me in my proper place.

I could have you put in yours tomorrow a debtors prism.

And by God don't think I wouldn't if you gave me cause enough.

The IOUs are nothing.

Take them.

No.

You're right.

It's time I began to pay you back.

I'll have the model cast in bronze and try to sell it as it is.

You've no call to sacrifice yourself for me.

We're not even lovers.

We are far beyond such selfishness.

We are comrades in adversity.

Brother, sister, mother, son.

Everything.

My dearest love.

The weeks are agony without some word from you.

I know the mail from Brazil can't be counted on and that there may be half a dozen reasons for this long delay.

But I do beg my angel that you'll send me news of you by every ship that sails for France.

Miss Yupreval has arrived, mother.

Very well.

Admit him.

I can't better stay and face that fellow.

It'd be too much for me.

I might do him some great injuries.

Miss Yupreval.

I apologize to your adoring for my appearance.

Your message reached me just if I was setting up for an assembly of the National Guard.

I had to choose between my duty to the second company and my devotion to you.

But as you see, a word in your hand and I come post-host.

It's very good of you.

I may say that we also have received a note this afternoon, sir.

A short communication, sir, from Councillor Lebarr.

Oh.

I have asked you here in the hope that you can explain it.

I'm a damn sure he can't let it be.

No, sir, you.

My daughter had a chance of happiness, an opportunity to marry.

But you would seem from this that you have deliberately destroyed.

Oh, no, please, let it be reasonable.

I acted as an honest man of business.

Business?

You and your family look upon me as a shock keeper, Madam.

You can't object if I behave like one.

Councillor Lebarr approached me as the son of shrewd and honest, trading folk himself.

To ask me if I thought that your daughter's diary, the 200,000 francs, was likely to be paid.

I was obliged to answer that my experience of the marriage of your son, to my dear Celestine,

made me feel it would not.

How could you be so cruel, so unfair, that you know that my son has excellent prospects,

quite apart from any marriage settlement.

Why, he's one of the leading lawyers in Paris.

He's a deputy, and he may very soon be in the government.

In the meantime, I'm forced to subsidize him at the rate of 20,000 francs a year.

But really, these are matters that I ought to be discussing with your husband.

Ector doesn't trust himself to speak to you.

This insult from the Councillor, breaking off the match, it has struck him to the very heart.

With anger.

What else?

I thought he might be feeling guilty.

You must be aware of what has brought your children to this pretty pass.

The dissipation of their family fortune on a string of worthless women.

If you are trying to shock me, sir, I may as well tell you, I know all about my husband's life.

Not all.

I doubt, for instance, if you know, that the extravagant wanton that he's keeping now,

was once the shy delight of an old widow's heart.

Yes, madam, I'm talking to myself.

Your husband stole the girl they call to zephyr from my very arms,

braving her with a house on the ruchusha.

And he has turned what was a young and trusty illusion.

I knew a new queen of the demi-reps.

So this, then, is a punishment?

No, I'm not that cruel.

Indeed, I don't have to be.

Joseph has a dozen wealthy men now jockeying their favours.

It's only a matter of time before the bad end loses her.

My satisfaction is a more intimate affair, madam.

What I am wanting is the love and happiness that your husband has taken from me.

I think you better go.

You know how much I've always admired you.

Now surely, actors, conduct is wronged both sides.

I am not concerned with such talk.

All I care for is to see my daughter safely, madam.

Even somebody as beautiful as O'Tos needs a diary nowadays.

Now, if you will allow me, I have a suggestion.

You won't be attractive for a few years yet.

I've never had a real lady. It's a big ambition of mine.

Now you be kind to me, and I'll see that your daughter's marriage has arranged.

The 300,000 francs above my capital, the money's yours.

Don't worry about Hector.

I'm sure that he'll be accreable.

What my relatives say about you, sir, is quite true.

You are a shock-keeper.

The sake of our children's marriage? I shan't mention this to anyone.

In future, you will visit this house only when you are invited.

Nobody will, madam. I'll stand by your husband if you wish.

Perhaps when you are reduced to beggary for his pleasure,

and your daughter is another cousin, Bet.

You'll think more kindly of me.

Poor or at all. Such bad luck.

Am I to take it if the wedding is off, she'll not be wearing her yellow shawl?

Oh, no. No, that's quite another matter. No, I still must have my shawl.

What is that you're using?

Acid. All the figures.

If I occur to bronze with this and bury it for three months,

I can pass it off as a genuine antique.

Really?

It's a popular trick with sculptors who can't sell their work on its own merit.

Oh, I think it's very clever of them. Everybody knows it's easier to sell antiques.

I'm glad to see you becoming sensible.

Art and moonshine are all very well my pet.

But when it comes to life, one has to face realities.

Whatever your feelings when we parted, I can no longer pretend you love me.

This long period of silence and neglect has shown me what your promises are worth.

I bitterly regret now that the one and only time I have betrayed my wedding vows

was for the sake of such a person as yourself.

His time he had his marching orders.

At this, I'll waste no more time on you, and send you no more tear-stained pages.

This letter is a last farewell.

I'll waste no more time on you, and send you no more tear-stained pages.

This letter is a last farewell. Valerie.

Follow closely now and pay attention. I'm about to win my show.

Here on this side you will note that the decorations are concerned with chamois.

This is what the name Stinebock means in German, chamois or a creature of the rocks, right?

And on the other side we have a needle and thread, a sword knot and a half-made pair of epilates.

So one side represents my clever genius, you see, and the other side represents me.

And just to make sure there's no mistake, underneath he's linked are two initials.

W.S., Wencesless, Stinebock, L.F. Lisbitt Fisher.

Adlene, I appeal to you, have I won the wager or have I not?

It would seem so from the evidence.

My sure, then, if you would be so kind.

Now all Tons come along.

I must say I'm surprised. I believed in the young man's existence even less than all Tons.

Oh no! You thought I'd invented him.

Well everything I told you was the truth.

I only hope he appreciates all you've done for him.

You poor mother.

Yes.

I wonder if I might borrow this from you.

Or a?

Such fine work.

I'd like to study it for a time.

Very well.

But I will ask a favour of you in return.

My young man has made a sensible move at last.

He's faked a small antique statue and it's the sailor to shop in the Place du Carousel.

Now if only your father at the Ministry of War could mention this piece to some of his great friends who have an interest in art,

now I don't ask that he actually recommends it, but if he could mention it to them as a fine antique that he happened to notice in passing,

their own greed will do the rest.

Your Michelangelo would seem to have his wits about him.

The shop is loose and the work is a bronze of Simpson and the light.

Oh it's very handsome and it's covered with the most respectable looking birdie-gree.

But by dassie lots of people in the chamber now that he's King's commissioner,

of course I'd have to find the right moment to speak to him.

He has a great deal on his mind these days.

Oh well naturally.

Man of such wide interests.

Come on in here you little son, I'll get you.

Get safe I don't, I'll get you.

Keep down your little napper.

One thing missing you will call the police.

Oh it's you my lord, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you.

Well what is the meaning of all this?

You'd better come inside.

Well where's your Sefa?

She's making her farewells.

Huh?

I love it.

You tell yourself essential moment, it's your old talk about with a dark whisker.

My dear girl boy, I'm fortunate you're just in time.

In touch name, what is this? What is happening?

I'm little bit here.

The Duke Terrible has gotten quite mad.

He presented me this afternoon with his splendid house and furniture

on the Rooda La Villebex signed in my name.

And a 30,000 Frank annuity in a paper bag of sugar almonds.

No.

I couldn't refuse.

The sugar almonds were quite irresistible.

These girls from the ballet of Barbara.

I've been burning the potato whatever they want from among my castors here.

But I have warned them that they mustn't touch your stains, your light cap or your whisker wax.

Oh and naturally if there is any sort of souvenir you fancy.

What you're doing is ridiculous.

Oh but my dear honey, inequity is my business.

It's a shame I don't.

Whenever it's time to go out it's all.

Miss. Miss you Le Penau. Can I be of some assistance sir?

I'm looking for a relative of mine. Mama's health fisher.

Yes, yes that is Mama's health fisher's depart. A part and there miss you.

Oh.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

I have no idea that my was officials related to your lunch.

You know who I am.

I guess I have the honor to be a clerk in your department at the Ministry of War.

Maness sir.

May I be so bold as to present my wife?

Ecto? Water?

Oh bet.

Bet me I see you.

Yes.

Yes.

Do come in.

Forget it.

Clear something!

Pfft.

Select me some Consider guilty by friend maylis cricket.

What you are meant to the judge now?

You make me forget it.

verbally Duncan!

Huh got quiet.

I'm someone you chasing.

You attacked Johnny in discretion.

I could wish that you had set your cap

at someone like Miss Hula Barrow.

Oh yes, oh yes, I saw him, look at you.

And a fair of debts or rights as insensitive to it.

Bitter by far, the making up all of your server room.

A faithless South American hm.

It is so unfair, I gave her everything.

I even ran your uncle Fisher into debt.

He signed bills on my behalf of 40,000 francs.

And now she's gone without her by your leave.

You should be thankful.

Thankful?

But she's left you while you're still in one piece.

With a home, a career and a wife.

Oh god, don't talk about anything.

Oh my dear, that's nonsense.

Do you think Adeline doesn't know about your little friend

and all the others?

If you want my advice, you'll go home now

and throw yourself upon her mercy.

I guarantee she'll give you all her wifely sympathy tonight

and by tomorrow morning she'll be offering you her jewels

to pay your debts.

No man ever had a better wife.

I don't deserve such kindness.

It's dearest.

I'll make it up to you I swear.

From now on I shall be the perfect family man.

I supply myself to my duties, find a husband for O'Toss

and bury the liberty in altogether.

Things will be different from now on, you'll see.

Ah, come in my child, come in.

Your mother and I have been discussing family methods.

Such questions now as finding your husband.

Oh, not another council of bi, hope.

Oh, now that is hardly fair.

And besides a nice young girl does not admit she knows

of these financial disagreements.

I'm sorry, papa.

But I wish love did not depend so much on settlements and darries.

What if an artist wished to marry me a great artist?

Would you jet?

Oh, and our great artist.

Nowadays, he's an untitled prince.

He has everything.

Fame, fortunately.

Yes, but what if he still had to make his name, though?

If he were a sculptor, a genius, but quite unknown.

Oh, well, that is difficult.

It's a limited market sculpture.

It requires powerful patrons.

Such as the Ministry of War?

It seems to me the Ministry of War is always putting out for statue

to commemorate a battle or to honor some old general.

Oh, that is true, I suppose.

I dare say you some influence in that field, haven't you?

And what is it you're hinting?

Please, Pafar, I want you to get something for me.

I have no right to ask for your help.

I know, ma'am, but you have clearly been so kind to others.

And the borough has such a power as the Ministry of War.

Oh, I'm sorry. I was not aware of it.

You know Madam Manif?

Of course.

I merely came to say there is an inquiry for the piece I left with Miss Sun Liu.

I've been asked if I had presented myself.

Oh.

Seems the antique finish wasn't as deceptive as I thought.

The buyers wished to meet the sculptor.

You must ask the same price.

I may ask more.

Madam.

You were saying?

I was wondering if you would speak to Miss Yulabara or Jean Paul's behalf.

Jean Paul?

My husband.

Oh.

He is so anxious to improve himself, so keen to be head clerk.

A word from you and Jean Paul is quite sure the Baron could arrange it.

Two things, Madam, I must tell you.

I'm a poor relation, and a poor relation if she has any sense only asks the favours that are necessary for her own survival.

And the other theme all Paris could have told you.

Miss Yulabara will grant a pretty woman almost anything she asks, but he's not nearly so obliging when the petitioner is as plain as I am.

It's a question of susceptibility.

Hmm.

Yes.

Well, would you care to discuss it privately, gentlemen?

Over a glass of your excellent armor, you have to have.

In my study.

Excuse us, Miss Yulab. This way.

Can't you dine, Bach?

In this purse you will find 1500 francs.

That is the price, Hamptel, that you're asking for your bronze of Samson and the lion.

Is it decided then?

Well, I thought these gentlemen were...

No, no, I am the purchaser.

They're considering another matter altogether.

A commission.

Oh.

A statue of Marshal Mancorné to be erected above his grave at the pay of his shares.

Naturally, they want to see other examples of your work before making a decision.

But I have assured them that your general standard is as high as this.

You've assured them.

I don't understand.

Do you not know who I am?

Who's house you are?

I was given a dress no more.

This is better than you, knows.

I'm not sure that you would guess.

And you then.

You are Mademoisello Tons.

Forgive I having brought you here in such a way.

But Cousin Betta's always kept us so apart.

What does it you do for?

Naturally, I cannot accept your money.

But your master is my own, my savings.

All the more reason.

Please. This isn't charity, Miss Tia.

I believe in you, your work.

I have for longer than you can imagine.

I would count it a great honour if you would allow me to be your first serious admirer.

Please.

Nobody before has paid me such a compliment.

I am a hoojier.

My companions would like to talk to you.

Thank you, Mademoisello.

My dear child.

For far.

Is all I ever dreamed of.

Young, handsome, charming.

I adore him.

Yes, at first I'd just as you adored, Mademois.

You'll go too fast.

No, no.

I'm sure he felt the same way I could tell his eyes.

I'm Cousin Betta.

It's laughable.

She's old enough to be his mother.

There can't possibly be any love between them.

It's business arrangement.

Hmm.

Yes, but if you're very much easier in my mind if I was to pay a little visit.

Just to make quite sure that things with this young, erm...

Man, er, as you say they are.

Now, erm, you entertain him here, introduce him to your mother,

and arrange your story with him.

But erm, I should go along and do my duty as your father.

But you're sure not to say anything to make Betta suspect?

She's so odd. So unaccountable.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

I promise you the absolute soul discretion.

You don't run off over here and here.

You don't refuse to fall apart.

You don't po terls is all with me,

like a serpent inuhseptuous theory.

You don't virginity."

I never see other you without me.

However, I'lllords ratcheting my lips,

not

a man in the neck.

Would be so kind.

Now, all Tauns, come along.

I must say I'm surprised.

I believed in the young man's existence even less than all Tauns.

I know. You thought I'd invented him.

Well, everything I told you was the truth.

I only hope he appreciates all you'd been.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I only hope he appreciates all you've done for him.

You poor mother.

Yes.

I wonder if I might borrow this from you.

Or I'll...

Such fine work.

I'd like to...

study it for a time.

Very well.

But I will ask a favor of you in return.

My young man has made a sensible move at last.

He's faked a small antique statue,

and it's the sailor to shop in the Place du Carousel.

Now, if only your father at the Ministry of War could mention this piece

to some of his great friends who have an interest in art,

now I don't ask that he actually recommends it,

but if he could mention it to them as a fine antique

that he happened to notice in passing,

their own greed will do the rest.

Your Michelangelo would seem to have his wits about him.

The shop is loose, and the work is a bronze of Simpson and the lion.

Oh, it's very handsome, and it's covered with the most respectable-looking birdie-gree.

But by dassie, lots of people in the chamber now that he's King's commissioner.

Of course, I'd have to find the right moment to speak to him.

Has a great deal on his mind these days.

Oh, well, naturally.

Man of such wide interests.

I'll hear you, little son.

I'll get you.

Yes, see if I can, I'll get you.

Down you little napper.

One thing missing, I'm a caller police.

Oh, it's you, my lord. I'm sorry. I didn't recognize you.

What is the meaning of all this?

You'd better come inside.

Well, where's your sever?

She's making her farewells.

I'll tell her to tell yourself.

Essential moment, is your old talk about with a dark whisker?

My dear, oh boy, I thought you'd just in time.

In God's name, what is this? What is happening?

Don't you see? I've little been here.

The Duke Terruvilla's got quite mad.

He presented me this afternoon with his splendid house and furniture.

On the Rooda-Lavilla-Bex signed in my name.

And a 30,000 Frank annuity in a paper bag of sugar almonds.

No.

I couldn't refuse.

The sugar almonds were quite irresistible.

These girls are from the ballet of Barbara.

Why, they've been taken whatever they want from my mind, my carstalls here.

But I have warned them that they mustn't touch your stains, your light cap, or your whisker wax.

Oh, and naturally, if there is any little souvenir you fancy, you're not.

Oh, and naturally, if there is any little souvenir you fancy.

What you're doing is...

Oh, but my dear, honey!

Iniquity's my business.

Why, honey!

It was the same.

Whenever it's time to go out, it's all...

Miss... Miss you, Le Barro?

Can I be of some assistance, sir?

I'm looking for a relative of mine, a member's health fisher.

Yes? Yes, that is member's health fisher's depart.

A person there, Miss you.

Oh.

I have no idea that my mother's official is related to your lunch.

You know who I am?

I guess I have the honor to be a clerk in your department at the Ministry of War, my nephew, sir.

May I be so bold as to present my wife?

Ecto? Water?

Oh, bet.

Bet my I see you.

Yes. Yes.

Do come in.

That we should be such fools!

A connection with a very heavy of a department, and we haven't even given her second glance.

What if the family know about the young man?

What, you're a man?

The one she's living with.

It's just Porta's gossip.

At the same time, if we are detached on indiscretions, I could wish that you had set your cap at someone like Miss you Le Barro.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes, I saw him. Look at you.

And a fair of that sort right as an accentuate, but by far the making up all of your server room.

A faithless South American.

It is so unfair. I gave her everything.

I even ran your uncle Fisher into that.

He signed bills on my behalf of 40,000 francs, and now she's gone without a bio-leaf.

You should be thankful.

Thankful?

But she's left you while you're still in one piece.

With a home, a career, and a wife.

Oh, God, don't talk about a leaf.

Oh, my dear, that's nonsense.

Do you think Adeline doesn't know about your little friend? And all the others?

If you want my advice, you'll go home now and throw yourself upon her mercy.

I guarantee she'll give you all her wifely sympathy tonight,

and by tomorrow morning she'll be offering you her jewels to pay your debts.

No man ever had a better wife. I don't deserve such kindness.

It's dearest.

I'll make it up to you I swear. From now on I shall be the perfect family man.

I supply myself to my duties, find a husband for autos, and bury the liberty in altogether.

Things will be different from now on. You'll see.

Ah, come in, my child. Come in.

Your mother and I have been discussing family methods, such questions now as finding your husband.

Oh, not another council of bi, hope.

Oh, now that is hardly fair. And besides a nice young girl does not admit she knows of these financial disagreements.

I'm sorry, papa. But I wish love did not depend so much on settlements and daries.

What if an artist wished to marry me? A great artist. Would you jit?

Oh, and our great artist. Nowadays is an untitled prince. He has everything. Fame, fortunately.

Yes, but what if he still had to make his name though? If you were a sculptor, a genius, but quite unknown.

Oh, well, that is difficult. It's a limited market sculpture. It requires powerful patrons.

Such as the Ministry of War?

Seems to me the Ministry of War is always putting out for statue to commemorate a battle or to honor summer general.

Oh, that is true, I suppose.

I dare say you some influence in that field, haven't you?

And what is it you're hinting? Please, Pafar, I want you to get something.

A rogue may commit suicide, but he doesn't put 25 banks in a table drawer to pay his room rent.

Well, even if that's true, it's hardly any reason for your making such an offer.

Well, let me put it this way. I too am a poor relation.

Oh, you may find it hard to see yourself in such a light, but I assure you that an aristocrat with cap in hand in Paris has a lot in common with a lonely lady.

Not in common with a lonely spinster, waiting on the smiles and favours of her influential relatives.

If it's possible, I'd like to help you do what I've done.

Make myself quite independent.

But of course it rests with you, Monsieur.

I'll go down and do my marketing.

Perhaps you'll give the matter your consideration.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll go down and do my job.

I'll take minutes before you die.

You understand?

Don't forget what you're about to steal the plate, Radley.

You should be ready by the time you light your lamp.

Oh, is this the piece Monsieur Le Bois was asked for?

Yes.

Very pretty.

A confection.

Why not?

Do you tend to throw a Budwein on an art gallery?

Good evening, madamoiselle.

Monsieur.

Madam.

I'm sure those two are quite convinced we lived together.

Oh, my dear.

The Porter's wife has said as much for the last three years.

This dress was perfect when my cousin wore it.

I have a feeling she passed it on to show the relatives how truly ghost I am.

The country cousin.

I wonder that your bother with them.

Go to Dine at all.

Oh, no.

Don't misunderstand me.

I am still cousin bet.

And at a family dinner, I am treated with respect.

No, no, no, no.

And I may not choose to talk about it.

I have my own importance, I assure you.

In the salon, after dinner, General Ulo has me sit beside him for a full half hour.

And he's a man who is very much head of the family.

Napoleon's staunch Republican, a veteran of some 30 campaigns,

and wounded for the 27th time at Waterloo.

I sit and thrown between this store and my uncle, Johann Fisher.

Not without some army honours of his own.

A man of consequence in the supply of forage to the Ministry of War.

And some young Republican in any day.

It's true that when I make my round, I may not have my cousin Adeline's undivided attention,

but this will only be because she has her eyes fixed on her husband.

And the barrel evens up the score in any case by having his mind set on other things himself.

Mr. Crabel, I make no account of one way or the other.

He bought his way into the family with the marriage of his daughter to the Ulo pride and joy.

And if I seem to mock the happy pair with this description,

it's not because they've been anything but affable to me.

I merely happen to prefer the company of the young man's sister.

Here you see, I reach my peak.

I'm not only respected. I'm admired as well.

Or Toss and I are like confidant and heroine of some old romance.

Which is confidant and which is heroine is rather difficult to tell.

Well, of course, the completion of the Louvre was one of the conditions on which we actually gave him the crown.

Well, I agree. It's in the heart of the city. It's in a deplorable condition.

You've got one to expect, I suppose.

Louis Philippe to me is the perfect representative of the class on which he has founded his throne.

You state the uncles for a moment longer, I have asked his final thought.

At least we know the latest on your partition.

My little Steinbaw.

But you said last week you no longer believed in him.

I said my ma did not.

She thinks that you're telling me a lot of fairy tales.

Well, she would know about such things, I'm sure.

I must go now. I have some business on hand. I shall not disturb the others.

It has great to go on before. It's reluctant.

It feels that now it's a sculptor's first assistant.

You should be allowed to think of nothing else but art.

It's understandable. Maybe, but it's not a living.

Will you forgive me if I take my name?

So soon.

A touch of indigestion. No, no, no. Don't disturb yourself.

I do wish you'd bring him here and introduce him.

Yes, I've no doubt.

Well, how else can I satisfy myself if he exists or not?

My dear, I've told you over a hundred times.

When an old maid finds herself an handsome young man, she gives him safely tucked away.

Well, I don't possess a cat, you know, or even a canary.

I must have something I can call my own and make a fuss.

He's a lap dog, then a Polish lap dog.

My ma bet is just confessed.

She keeps her property as a household pet.

Or does you go too far?

And I really must insist that you pay some attention to your uncles.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes.

Oh, really?

She's irreplaceable.

I know it's only a game, you clave, it's still.

No, turn it in.

It was your crevel left early.

Yes.

I'm so afraid he means to follow Ector onto the unpleasant.

You?

Victor Rars marriage settlement was due last month.

Oh, I shouldn't worry.

Only an honest tradesman would expect such promptness and Mr. crevelle is aching the gentleman.

If he has followed Ector, it'll probably be to observe his imperial manner.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

I'm so afraid he's a little bit too far.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

My dear old boy, you such exquisite taste.

You say so.

Oh, I do.

I do.

And next week I shall have the bracelet, try and tie, and a ring, and a circle it for my hair.

Well, not next week, perhaps, but certainly as soon as I can decently afford them.

Oh, surely now.

You'll not make me wait as long as that.

You know, I'll borrow an old boy.

Everything I need to make me happy.

Not a word of decency, or what you can afford.

Oh, OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

And follow.

We're going to leave.

Oh, my dear, we're going to leave.

Oh, I think I've got to send you.

Hey, Valerie.

You're my friend.

We are far beyond such selfishness.

We are comrades in adversity.

Brother, sister, mother, son.

Everything.

My dearest love.

The weeks are agony without some word from you.

I know the mail from Brazil can't be counted on,

and that there may be half a dozen reasons for this long delay.

But I do beg, my angel,

that you'll send me news of you by every ship that sails for France.

Miss, your prevail has arrived, mother.

Very well.

I admit him.

I can't bear to stay and face that fellow.

It'd be too much for me.

I might do him some great injuries.

Miss, your prevail.

I'll apologize, dear, for my appearance.

Your message reached me just if I was setting up for an assembly

of the National Guard.

I had to choose between my duty to the second company

and my devotion to you.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

I'm going to leave.

You don't have to pay attention.

A daisy!

I've waited on my hand until I come post-hasted.

It's very good of you.

I'll say that we also have received a note this afternoon, sir.

A short communication, sir, from Councillor L Guabar.

Oh, hmm?

I've asked you here in the hope that you can explain it.

I'm a damn surely Councillor L Guabar.

No, sir.

You.

My daughter had a chance of happiness,

an opportunity to marry,

which you would seem to have seen from this that you have deliberately destroyed.

Oh, no, please.

Let it be reasonable.

I acted as an honest man of business.

Business?

You and your family look upon me as a shock keeper,

and you can't object if I behave like one.

Councillor LeBarr approached me as the son of shrewd

and honest trading folk himself to ask me if I thought that your daughter's diary,

the 200,000 francs, was likely to be paid.

I was obliged to answer that my experience of the marriage of your son,

to my dear Celestine, made me feel it would not.

How could you be so cruel, so unfair?

But you know that my son has excellent prospects,

quite apart from any marriage settlement.

Why, he's one of the leading lawyers in Paris.

He's a deputy, and he may very soon be in the government.

In the meantime, I'm forced to subsidize him at the rate of 20,000 francs a year.

But really, these are matters that I ought to be discussing with your husband.

Ector doesn't trust himself to speak to you.

This insult from the Councillor breaking off the match,

it has struck him to the very heart.

With anger.

What else?

I thought he might be feeling guilty.

You must be aware of what has brought your children to this pretty past.

The dissipation of their family fortune on a string of worthless women.

If you are trying to shock me, sir, I may as well tell you,

I know all about my husband's life.

Not all.

I doubt, for instance, if you know,

that the extravagant wanton that he's keeping now

was once the shy delight of an old widow as hard.

Yes, madam, I'm talking to myself.

Your husband stole the girl they call Chosefa from my very arms,

braving her with a house on the rususcha.

And he has turned what was a young and trusting innocent.

I knew a new queen of the demiraps.

So this, then, is a punishment?

Oh, I'm not that cruel.

Indeed, I don't have to be.

Chosefa has a dozen wealthy men now jockeying their favours.

It's only a matter of time before the bad end loses her.

My satisfaction is a more intimate affair, madam.

What I am wanting is the love and happiness

that your husband has taken from me.

I think you better go.

You know how much I've always admired you.

Surely, actors, conduct is wronged both sides.

I am not concerned with such talk.

All I care for is to see my daughter safely married.

Even somebody as beautiful as ortans needs a diary nowadays.

Now, if you will allow me, I have a suggestion.

You'll be attractive for a few years, yeah.

I've never had a real lady.

It's big ambition of mine.

Now, you be kind to me, and I'll see that your daughter's marriage is arranged.

The 300,000 francs above my capital, the money's yours.

Don't worry about Hector.

I'm sure that he'll be accreable.

What my relatives say about you say is quite true.

You are a shopkeeper.

The sake of our children's marriage?

I shan't mention this to anyone.

In future, you will visit this house only when you are invited.

Nobody will madame.

Stand by your husband if you wish.

Perhaps when you are reduced to beggary for his pleasure.

And your daughter is another cousin, Pat.

You'll think more kindly of me.

Poor or tall.

Such bad luck.

Am I to take it if the wedding is off, she'll not be wearing her yellow shore?

Oh, no. No, that's quite another matter.

No, I still must have my shore.

What is that you're using?

Acid.

All the figures.

If I occur to bronze with this and bury it for three months,

I can pass it off as a genuine antique.

Really?

It's a popular trick with sculptors who can't sell their work on its own merit.

I think it's very clever of them.

Everybody knows it's easier to sell antiques.

I'm glad to see you becoming sensible.

Art and moonshine are all very well my pet.

But when it comes to life, one has to face realities.

Whatever your feelings when we parted, I can no longer pretend you love them.

This long period of silence and neglect has shown me what your promises are worth.

I bitterly regret now that the one and only time I have betrayed my wedding vows

was for the sake of such a person as yourself.

His time he had his marching orders.

At this, I'll waste no more time on you and send you no more tear-stained pages.

This letter is a last farewell.

Valery.

Follow closely now and pay attention. I'm about to win my shawl.

Here on this side you will note that the decorations are concerned with Shamwa.

This is what the name Steinbach means in German, Shamwa or a creature of the rocks, right?

And on the other side we have a needle and thread, a sword knot and a half-made pair of epilots.

So one side represents my clever genius, you see, and the other side represents me.

And just to make sure there's no mistake, underneath he's linked are two initials.

W.S. Wenceslas Steinbach. L.F. Lisbitt Fischer.

Adlene, I appeal to you, have I won the wager or have I not?

Wait, it would seem so from the evidence.

My shawl then, if you...

Go.

Miss you didn't, M.F. Lisbitt.

Miss you and my dad, my nephew, we have the rooms above.

Seems we survived. It was the stove.

The charcoal fumes. The embecile?

Try the river if he wants that sort of thing.

Friend of course, M.F.

No, my dad.

I am Count Wenceslas Steinbach, born at Praglia in Livonia.

The reason for my suicide can be found in the words of Kostrusko.

Phoenis, Poloniai.

As an exile and a Steinbach are refused to beg.

My health makes military service quite impossible for me,

and yesterday saw the end of the hundred talers that I brought with me to Paris.

I leave 25 francs in the table drawer to pay the rent I owe the landlord.

Let no ambe blamed for my death.

I did not make myself known as a refugee.

I did not ask for aid.

No one in all Paris was aware of my existence.

I die a Christian, and may God forgive me.

Venceslas.

I am not a Christian.

Madam?

Madam Wiesel.

I have the apartment next door.

Yes, you may well hide your face, mister.

Life is difficult enough God knows in such a quarter.

We're working folk and can't afford the luxury of neighbours who disturb our night

because they feel the world is far too much for them.

Why, you should imagine the only chances you might have in Paris

that are joining the army, or big you're living as a refugee.

You have remarlected.

But of course Paris is a city full of opportunity.

Those who care to make an effort.

And look at me.

I'm poor myself.

A country woman from Lorraine.

You know, manage very well to earn a living and pay my own weight.

Somebody like you.

Young man with a good education.

Must be something you can do.

How are these drawings?

I had hoped when first I came to Paris I might study as a sculptor.

Yeah, so?

It was foolish of me.

Even if one has the talent it takes years for a sculptor to be recognised.

In the meantime there are lessons to be paid for.

One must live.

Surely there are opportunities for an apprentice?

Not without a premium.

Well, I know nothing of the trade, of course, but I should say with work like this

you could find an opening as a sculptor.

Oh, don't look down your nose now.

It'll be a start.

And once you learn to give your wits about you.

Listen to me.

I have some savings I might be willing to invest.

If you would promise to work really hard.

And let yourself be guided by the work that you've done.

I'm not going to be able to do that.

I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm going to be able to do that.

I promise to work really hard.

And let yourself be guided by me.

I might lend you what you need to live on month by month.

Oh, not forget about the town you understand.

And after live quite frugally, that's all.

It's possible to dine in Paris on 25 soothes a day and I'll make you lunch with mine every morning.

I'll also furnish this place for you and arrange for whatever apprenticeship you need.

In return, you will give me a formal receipt for the money I spend.

And when you're rich, you can pay it back to me with a reasonable amount of interest.

Well...

Why should you think you can trust me?

Almost here.

Oh, is it mad to bring you here?

But it was that all crying public.

I couldn't bear to be a common spectacle.

Why does it matter?

I have my good name to consider.

Perhaps in South America, a wife mandetain-aloverer at this hour, her husband never hears of it.

Her husband's a socialist, deaf in any country.

Come. He's not a fool.

He must know that his household budget has been much easier this past few months

than that you couldn't bite it, rest your wearing on his salary as a clerk.

His nephew's son!

His sister's senior clerk in the ministry of wars, I made inquiries.

Oh, well, what is his truth?

He doesn't care what happens to me so long as it suits his pocket.

It just makes the matter so much worse that you can go and leave me with a man like that,

swearing that you love me.

I have sworn nothing. Nothing to this very moment.

But I will now.

Hear me.

It is essential I go back to South America.

I came to Europe on the Grand Tour, and now I must go home to see to my affairs,

but as soon as I reach Brazil, I will offer my estate for sale,

and when I have cleared everything, I will come back to Paris,

and then I will take away from this bold throne of a husband,

and I, Henry Montez De Montaganos, will offer you my fortune and life for your happiness.

This I swear.

And you write to me while you're away, and think of me every day, and be faithful.

And everything you ask, but you, in your turn, must pledge yourself to me.

I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will.

Splendid marriage settlement, or toss, and comes to the Le Bar.

You approve the match, uncle.

Oh, yes. But I'm only surprised it came about so suddenly.

Well, frankly, it's been a possibility for some time.

But be hard of dare to think of it. The darrier that Womma settled on, or taunts.

200,000 francs. Of course, a dari that can wait, but there are so many preliminary expenses

one has come to before one comes to sign a marriage contract.

Womma sent a daily great deal, provide a proper city.

I think I could raise your 20,000 francs, even if you any help.

Oh, but my dear, I feel you have heard.

Don't let's keep books over about it like this.

Oh, too much.

Johnson's man. Money doesn't signify it, if it's for the family.

For the family.

So, if all goes well, we may be offering our warm solicitations very soon.

I'm told the family money is in trade, but that the gentleman inclines to politics.

The law.

The Cunabar is a councillor.

Oh, in any case, a man of substance who's taken quite a fancy.

You exaggerate. He's attracted by the Ulo name and influence, but he's not a fool.

He'll assess my beauty very much upon the value of my diary.

Oh, my dear.

Cun, my mard's natural enough. The man's ambitious. I don't mind.

If you and Womma park and arrange the match, I'll take the councillor quite willingly.

After all, it's hardly likely that I shall ever find myself.

A handsome young man with a title and a genius for sculpture.

Ah, now that I must admit, such a character is very rare indeed.

If he exists at all in fact.

No, no, bet his rally'd be about the councillor. Now it's my turn.

Let me put you to the test. Better still, I'll make a wager with you.

Give me proof that your young man is what you say, and you shall have this yellow shawl of mine.

You know you've always liked it. It's your colour.

And the quality. Feel it.

You don't ask that I bring him here to visit. Only...

Only that you prove that there is a young Count Steinbach, that he is a sculptor and a protéche of yours.

Done. Oh, now really?

I hold you as my witness, Adeline. The shawl.

Here, I've been visiting... Don't come here, Ose.

Stop anywhere you want. Close your eyes.

What are you doing? Shh.

Now, Samson and the lion.

I'm modeling you to the studio.

Oh, but don't fix it in your mind at this size. This is only a millet.

Try to see the figures as they would be.

Six times larger, cast in bronze.

Six times this size?

Twelve feet high. That'd be enormous. And in bronze, it'd cost a fortune.

Well, the statue would depend, of course, on my finding somebody who liked the model well enough to offer a commission.

Oh, I see. It's all a day, Dream. I thought you'd found yourself a patron.

Well, bet I made a...

Yes, sir. I've got some real news.

The match I told you of, between my second cousin and this Chancellor Lebarr, it looks as though it may come off.

Which means that our toss will be very warm indeed.

Our mother's purring like a tabby.

And our toss is so smart she's dared to make a wager with me.

If I can produce some proof of you, she's promised me our best shawl.

And determined I shall have it.

Now, what I thought you might do is to make some charming piece that I could take to show them some ornament with that particular decoration that would clearly signify the two of us.

Your coat of arms, perhaps. And...

Mother?

It's so important, you to win this shawl.

I've said so, yes.

You resent my asking such a favor of you. That you link your coat of arms.

It's not the coat of arms.

What, then?

You resent you asking me to waste my time on trivialities. The moment after I've shown you a piece of work, there could be of some consequence.

This?

Well, you may not approve of it, but I assure you it's of more importance than a silly wager as to whether you win a shawl or not.

Oh, now, wait a moment.

Curvy a tongue, my little man.

There's more involved than just a shawl. It is my word.

End of admired pieces such as this for over three years now.

It's not a matter of admiration.

I admired them for all that time and never once before have I asked you to make a single thing for me.

You might do well to think of that.

End of the IOUs I have locked up in a drawer across the way there, 2,500 francs in gold, my friend.

How many shawls could I have bought with Actia suppose?

Huh?

Put me in my proper place.

I could have you put in yours tomorrow a debtors prism.

And by God don't think I wouldn't if you gave me cause enough.

I'll be right back.

The IOUs are nothing.

Take them.

No.

You're right. It's time I began to pay you back.

I'll have the model cast in bronze and try to sell it as it is.

You've no call to sacrifice yourself for me.

We're not even lovers.