The House I Live In Page #2

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I must be no good at all.

They ate fish while I recited.

- Were they at your party?

- Yes.

He didn't eat fish, did he?

No, not he.

"Go on with your fish!"

How do you like that?

Why wasn't Sergei there?

Have they quarelled again?

Those two children

can manage their own affairs.

You were the gayest at the party.

I got a letter

asking me to come ...

I've just got to find that pyrite.

Go if you must.

It'll mean only 2 or 3 months of work.

Work! I'm used to having ...

your work come first.

I wouldn't mind if I came second.

But work comes second with you,

and third, and tenth!

As for me ...

Why did I buy that new mirror?

To watch myself grow old?

I'm going home to mother.

Go ahead.

I certainly will.

I haven't even dared to have a baby.

I kept waiting until

we "settled down".

After all, we only live once.

That's the whole thing:

we only live once.

Perhaps I am unworthy of you,

but I can't go on like this.

What has happened?

Now everybody's troubles are the same.

War!

I've heard. I can't find my bag.

You going straight to enlist?

I passed my last exam yesterday.

In literature.

We had to write a compostion

on "My Favourite Hero".

I wanted to write about you,

because ...

for me a hero is one ...

who doesn't wait to be asked ...

but does things

of his own accord:

and goes in search

of minerals and things ...

not for himself,

but for others.

But I didn't write it.

They wouldn't understand.

Yes. It's more important

to be understood.

Where could that bag be?

GENERAL MOBILIZATION

I took some things

to the cleaners.

- Are you leaving?

- Yes.

And what about your pyrite?

You said you had to find it.

Did you read my note?

I left it here.

You never read it, hear?

Soviet Motherland!

Turn out the light!

- What have you found?

- A globe.

Our summer camp

was here somewhere.

It's quiet tonight.

Like in the woods.

You're going to evacuate?

Mother says we must,

but I don't want to.

Looks like things have started.

Always take me with you.

Lie down.

Sergei spends all his time

with the Self-Defence Brigade.

Be easy with the kid.

Well, I guess that's all.

See off Katya and the baby

and send me their address.

Collect my pay and send it to her.

Don't water the plants much

after the 1st of October.

You'll be back yourself by then.

Tell Sergei to come

and see me off.

Don't come with me.

The car's come.

I'm telling you for the last time

if you don't come ...

I'll kill myself.

See that the baby

doesn't catch cold.

It's going to be hard for Katya.

I'll help her. But why don't you

come with us?

I'm working in a hospital.

- Where's Sergei?

- I don't know.

They've evacuated.

They took your sweetheart with them.

Keep this for me, will you?

Pyrite?

Don't worry. It takes letters

a long time to come from the front.

I know, Sergei.

I'll keep it for you.

- Must you shave my head?

- Yes indeed.

Must I show my passport?

Yes indeed.

We'll say we left it at home.

I won't allow you to enlist!

Didn't your father write:

"Take care of your mother"?

I'll go and tell them

you're my only supporter.

Do you want to kill me, son?

I love you, mom.

I think you're wonderful.

But I'm going to join up anyway.

From Sergei!

Then I can go.

Know how it is sometimes?

I deliver a letter,

then I have to call a doctor.

So you've started to smoke?

Not really.

I've nothing to feed you, son.

Why are you

on such a short furlough?

Heard anything from Galya?

She's here. Came to see me.

I'll be back in a minute, mom.

It's cold.

You'll catch cold.

I haven't any firewood.

- Have I got thin?

- A little.

I'm all right now.

Are you hungry?

She's hungry, mom!

Eat some apricots.

Mother sent them to me.

I'll choke if you look at me

like that.

Your apricots and my porridge.

The bombs frightened my maid away.

She went to the country.

Why are you laughing?

Do I look funny?

Some sailors presented me

with this shirt.

You're going to live with me now.

I get good rations

and we'll share them.

I'll get rations too now.

- You're working at a factory?

- Yes.

Isn't it hard?

And what about your studies?

Don't worry, you and I

will go on studying.

Not now, Ksenia Nikolayevna.

Later perhaps.

Later.

Home.

Thank you.

I took a course in nursing...

without telling anyone.

And what about the stage?

Later. We'll do everything later.

How can I let you go, darling?

A notice ...

Seryozha?

Father.

Please go away.

Ask anything but that of me.

Don't come here anymore -

not even to the door.

You let me come

when I had two legs.

Can't you see?

I never loved anyone but him!

That's a lie!

Didn't you love me...

when he was alive?

And if he were alive now ...

I'd come to see you anyway.

There's no one I need but you!

Leave me.

I'll keep my door locked.

And I'll keep knocking

until you open it.

Is that my daddy?

No, that's uncle Sergei.

Did you put him out?

He loves you.

I know.

What a wonderful day.

Don't hold it against me.

I don't.

Has Galya's family come back?

Don't go there, Sergei!

There's no Galya!

She was killed!..

Why do people fly like birds?

When you stand on the top of a hill

it seems as if ...

all you had to do was lift your arms

and fly away.

Where are you, Dimitri?

Perhaps roaming the earth ...

in search of minerals.

True, we live only once.

How clearly I see it now!

Where are you, Dimitri?

This is your daddy!

Do people grow fast?

Some do.

Uncle Sergei did.

Sergei's come!

Good morning.

Good morning.

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