Les Bas-fonds
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1:05:01
I need a change.
I’m sick and tired of them.

1:05:05
Are you tired of me?
1:05:07
Of course not, you're different.
You don't lie.

1:05:10
You don't go on
about why you're here.

1:05:12
That'd be hard to do.
I don't know how I got here.

1:05:17
There's a kind of fog in my noggin.
1:05:21
When I look back, it seems
all I did was change uniforms.

1:05:25
First the schoolboy,
then the student.

1:05:29
I’ve forgotten everything
I ever learned at the university.

1:05:33
I got married, wore a tailcoat,
then a dressing gown.

1:05:38
What was the point?
1:05:41
I wore the uniform of
a government official and grew poorer.

1:05:47
My clothes became
more and more threadbare.

1:05:49
Finally I wear these,
the last of the line.

1:05:54
And it all seems like a dream.
1:05:57
Isn't it absurd?
1:06:00
Ever been to prison?
1:06:03
That would have been
one more uniform.

1:06:07
- And you?
- No, not yet.

1:06:09
But it'll happen sooner or later.
1:06:12
My path was laid out for me
by my father.

1:06:15
Poor guy spent his life in prison
1:06:18
and urged me to follow
in his footsteps, so -

1:06:20
His concern for you does him credit.
1:06:23
Is he dead?
- Yes.

1:06:25
He died in prison, just as I will.
1:06:29
The only thing that could change
my father's prediction

1:06:33
is if Natasha ran away with me.
1:06:35
- Really?
- Yeah.

1:06:36
If she'd just throw
her arms around me and say,

1:06:41
“Pepel, I believe in you.
You'll protect me.”

1:06:45
No more Pepel the thief.
I’d be a new man.

1:06:49
We'd go far away,
1:06:51
far from all this filth
and rottenness!

1:06:57
What about you, Baron?
- I’ll stay here.


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