Ernesto Page #3

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you should be in school!

Coming up?

Hello, sweetheart. Looking for me?

No, sorry, I have an appointment...

It took you long enough!

As usual...

the others tried to grab you,

they are terrible

Sit down...

while I straighten up here

Everything is always in a mess here

Don't you want to?

And your hat?

Do we make love with your hat on?

Must be the first time. Right?

No? You sure?

Will you undress?

I will help you

What's your name?

Ernesto... Wilder. And yours?

Sandra

It is not my name,

but they call me that

No, don't

Is anything wrong?

No, it is just something...

Come, lie next to me

It will be very sweet,

since it's the first time

You will be happy

Feels good?

She will leave right away

Do you smoke?

I guess not...

You're still so young

I should quit smoking

My father always told me to stop

If you want a puff...

...I'll light it

Why so much money?

Today was payday for me

It's too much

I don't want so much. Listen...

I will hold it, and next time

you won't have to pay

All right? Agreed?

Ernesto, you're annoyed

because I took on an apprentice

I'm totally indifferent

No, it's not true. you're...

...very proud

I don't say the boy is a genius...

but, you will see

When I am through teaching him...

he'll be orderly, he will

You will share the work

He will handle the correspondence

You, the workers

Why can't he handle the workers?

No, someone...

must do the desk work...

since you won't

May I go?

Wait a minute

I have a surprise for you

Take a look...

Beautiful stamps. Rare...

Japanese

Thanks

You collect them. I'm not a kid anymore

You don't want them? Very well

But I want my whistle

What whistle?

It was in my desk

How did it get here?

Take it, and give me back my cane

You want your whistle?

Then I'll take my cane

It works

What nerve!

How many do you deserve?

How many lashes?

Now that you had your way,

you would beat me?

It's punishment

If I have sinned,

it's not you who should punish me

It's not that

It's because you're too pretty...

and you're also mean

You delight in making my head spin

Slide your pants down

Give it to me

I want it back

I will decide that

Give here

Put out your hand

Come on...

How many did I deserve?

Five

Off with the pants

Stop that... stop, stop...

You remind me of Ali Bab

A bab?

That means "there" in dialect

It's a character in "1001 nights"

In Baghdad...

there was a young boy

who never knew his father

One night, when the moon was high

he had a yen...

for an ice cream, and so he ordered one

The ice cream man...

offered it free. It was so good...

that the boy accepted another.

After which...

attracted by the boy's beauty...

the man offered him an ice cream

each night

And while the youth licked the cone,

the man...

looked on, enraptured

When his thoughts turned caresses,

the boy said:

"Be at easy, and console yourself

with admiring me..."

"and serving me"

You have forgotten what we did

and enjoyed together

One could go to prison

...for such things

But no one has found out

Don't speak so loud

We could say that sack needs...

...to be mended

We will see...

...perhaps in a few days...

but for the last time!

How are you, Mr. Luzzato?

Did you hear...

about the Ravagnani scandal?

I don't read the papers.

The he go bankrupt?

Banker Ravagnani,

who openly supports the socialists...

didn't go bankrupt, he went one better

A squalid affair with a young man servant

Ah, a "warm" friend!

Exactly, and a family ruined

One who does such things...

has no choice, but to shoot himself

Did he?

This morning. Shot himself in the mouth

Look how beautiful. Do you like it?

Won't you introduce me?

My friend, Giovanni

Are you a connoiseur? You like it?

Very much

You see? I bought it

I'm sorry, it's late, we must go

Goodbye. Come, Carlo

May I go, unkle?

A flourine...

For each slap?

No. Don't you know why?

You ought to

To buy some sweets?

The theatre? For a concert?

You're no longer an adolescent

A man must prove that he is a man

Very well, thank you

I'm through...

with Wilder and his literary ambitions

I will tell him:

"It's useless for you to write"

"You have absolutely no talent"

And then what?

I will be free as air

...I will travel

...and trade in spices

Weren't you going to be a concert violinist?

Who knows, maybe both.

I am still in time

I will be able to buy my own boat.

With 50 sailors

How will you ever keep 50 sailors?

They will love me

We where worried,

you disappeared completely

I had to walk

You must be exhausted. Next time...

I will send you a carriage...

a hansom

I am sorry but...

Did you know, that I spent...

...over six flourins for your "airfare"

And since the rents you have collected

amount to... zero

You're a total loss. You must trotl

You have long legs. Start trotling

He trots

Came in second in the school marathon

Second! I was last

As of today, not another cent for you...

So-called carfare. Back to work!

Some paper

Give me!

Go and trot, go on

He came in second. I was last!

To work! To work!

Writing to Wilder?

Thinks that slaves can not appreciate

"And he said..."

He said... He said what?

What is it?

The are vouchers to sign

Leave them there and go,

I have things to do

"PERSONAL"

You have forgotten me

...but I haven't

I can't forget, Ernesto.

I even call your name,

when no one can hear...

Like a fool.

I beg you... grant me this wish

I can't go on...

You will obey me?

Then lie down. Today I will do it

You mind?

Do it for me

I promise you will like it

Hurt me if you like, do what you want

Don't think you were hired here...

to teach me something...

you never produced anything here.

You can't teach me anything.

Because you're a spoiled

and selfish being

Too lazy to work...

or to do anything else

Here is your letter! According to you...

I bleed the legs off my employees

Well, your legs are fired

You're through!

Pass by the office to settle accounts

Get out

You and your "marathon"!

The mothballs. You keep them

Tell me the true...

That carfares are an excuse

You want to go because

you feel trapped in here

How did you know?

I feel trapped too. And I hate...

everything in here

The letter book. The sacks.

The apprentice

The great Wilder! The great merchand!

I have been stuck here for 40 years

This barn never appealed to me

Yet it keeps making money,

don't ask me how

Why didn't you go?

Going away solves nothing

Go where? Where does one go?

It's like giving up smoking

Here, "give up smoking". Look here

I hid them. You see?

Full of cigars. I didn't quit at all

It was a joke

You wanted a dumb boss to poke fun at...

So I played the writer...

alergic to mothballs and cigars...

just to amuse you

I played the part, and smoked

What'll you do,

now that you have satisfied your ego?

Something that will amaze you

I heard you want to become...

a violinist. That remains to be seen

Shall we bet on it?

...I say no!

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