Madame Butterfly Page #5

I wish I could think that.

It's pretty much of a mess.

It'll all be cleared up

as soon as you see her...

and have a talk with her.

I hope so.

You don't mind my going

to see her, do you, dear?

I should mind very much

if you didn't.

I wonder...

I wonder if you'd come along with me.

It might be easier

if I thought you were nearby.

Of course I'll come, darling.

I'll wait here for you.

Thanks, dear.

Suzuki, he has come!

Hide him quick.

Don't make sound.

When I clap, bring him out.

Understand?

Go, quick!

Oh...

Oh, my so long absent husband.

I knew...

I always knew you do come back.

Come quick inside.

Everything just the same

as you left.

Except I have big surprise for you.

I can't stay very long.

Not stay?

You make big joke with me like always.

Maybe you forget your shore leave too.

Yes?

I'm not joking, Cho-Cho san.

Is it because your ship

she sail right away again...

you must go?

If so, I very sorry, of course...

but I wait a little longer...

until you come back

to stay for always.

I...

I'm never coming back, Cho-Cho san.

Never come back?

No.

What have I done?

Oh, don't, Butterfly, please don't...

She...

same lady...

as in picture?

Yes.

She come here with you?

Yes, she...

She's my wife.

Oh...

Oh, I never dreamed you'd wait.

They told me you'd forget

and go back to your own people.

I understand now.

I beg pardon...

I make such foolish mistake.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, no need be sorry.

On contrary.

I wish you be excessively happy...

with...

your wife.

Isn't there anything I can do,

Cho-Cho san?

Oh, no...

thank you very much.

If you excuse, please...

I go inside now.

Please to excuse me, little mistress.

But I hear silence for so long...

I afraid.

He gone, Suzuki.

But he will come back.

Not need wait anymore

for him to come back.

He gone for always.

He gone for always...

with lady in the picture

He go back to her.

She his wife now.

Oh, little man...

little man...

You wait so long

to see your honorable father...

and when he come

I not even tell him about you.

Maybe I wrong.

But I think you never

can be joy to him now.

Only trouble.

Your papa, he so fine, so beautiful man,

we want he should be happy for always.

Is it not so, my son?

So please forgive

if I disappoint you very much...

and not introduce you

to your illustrious father.

Look how his little hands

grasp your father's sword.

Already he's a samurai.

It is better so, perhaps.

Better for him now.

Better for you always.

May you hold this sword proudly

when you are a man.

May the law of the samurai

be written in your heart.

Take the child to my grandfather's house.

He shall be brought up

in the ways of his ancestors.

But you can't stay here alone.

I will follow soon.

Tell my grandfather...

I remain only long enough

to pray to the goddess Kannon...

that she may purify my heart.

I will tell him.

Suzuki.

I'm so sorry I take you away

from happy Geisha House.

I only make you sad.

May the gods smile on you,

my son.

Go now.

Wash me clean

of all my impurities, Oh Kannon,

As one washes away uncleanliness

in the river Kamo.

He say...

till...

death do us part.

I love you...

for always.

Lus Filipe Bernardes

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