WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:06.400 Chapter one, Sire's prescription. Sire had counseled him on the 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:10.119 voyage out, for he had repined ceaselessly at what he 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.400 called their banishment to the Asiatic station to wait till 4 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:18.679 they arrived. He had never regarded service in Japanese waters 5 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.559 as banishment, he said, and he had been out twice before. 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:28.480 Pinkerton had just come from the Mediterranean. For lack of 7 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:33.520 other amusement, continued Sire with a laugh, you might get 8 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:38.679 yourself married, and Pinkerton arrested him with a savage snort. 9 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.880 You usually merely frivolous, Sire, but to day you are 10 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:50.159 silly without manifest offense. Sire went on, when I was 11 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:58.119 out here in eighteen ninety the story of the pink Geisha. Well, yes, 12 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:04.000 admitted sire. Patiently, excuse me, then till you are through. 13 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.840 He turned to go below. Heard it have you a 14 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:15.760 thousand times from you and others. Sire laughed good naturedly 15 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.959 at the gallant exaggeration, and passed Pinkerton his cigarette case. 16 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:26.640 Ah ever heard who the man was? No, he lighted 17 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:34.599 his cigarette. That has been your own little mystery. Apparently apparently, yes, 18 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:40.480 we all know it was yourself. It wasn't, said Cyrus steadily. 19 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:47.359 It was my brother. He looked away. Oh he's dead. 20 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:52.719 Beg pardon. You never told us that he went back 21 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.959 couldn't find her. And you advise me also to become 22 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:01.359 a subject for remorse. That's good of you. It's not 23 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.879 quite the same thing. There is no danger of you 24 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.960 losing your head, for he glanced uncertainly at Pinkerton, then 25 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.319 ended lamely. Any one, the danger would probably be entirely 26 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:22.840 with the other person, thanks, laughed Pinkerton. That's more comforting, 27 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.919 and yet used, sire. You are hard to comfort humanely speaking, 28 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:36.199 Pinkton smiled at this naive but quite exact characterization of himself. 29 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:45.599 You are, continued Sire, hesitating for the right word, impervious exactly, 30 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.719 laughed Pinkerton. I don't see much danger to myself in 31 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.400 your prescription. You have put it in rather an attractive light. 32 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.840 The idea cannot be entirely distributable. If your brother Jack 33 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.000 used it, we lower class fellows used to call him agamemnon. 34 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:08.039 You remember, it is not my prescription, said Sire, briefly, 35 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:15.599 leaving the deck. Chapter two, mister B. F. Picqaton and 36 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.000 his way, but Pinkaton not only got himself married, he 37 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:25.680 provided himself with an establishment, creating his manage in quite 38 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:29.680 his own way and entirely for his own comfort. With 39 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.199 the aid of a marriage broker, he found both a 40 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.199 wife and a house in which to keep her. This 41 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.039 he leased for nine hundred and ninety nine years. Not 42 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.439 he explained to his wife later that he could hope 43 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.159 for the felicity of residing there with her so long, 44 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.639 but because being a mere barbarian he could not make 45 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.240 other legal terms, he did not mention that the lease 46 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.520 was determinable. Nevertheless, at the end of any month by 47 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.840 the me neglect to pay the rent. Details were distasteful 48 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.879 to Pinkerton. Besides, she would probably not appreciate the humor 49 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:11.240 of this. Some clever Japanese artisans then made the paper 50 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.560 walls of the pretty House I proof, and with their 51 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.279 own adaptations of American hardware, the openings cunningly locable. The 52 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:24.639 rest was Japanese. Madame Butterfly laughed and asked him why 53 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.480 he had gone to all that trouble in Japan, to 54 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.720 keep out those who are out and in those who 55 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:36.199 are in. He replied with an amorous threat in her direction. 56 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.560 She was greatly pleased with it all, though, and went 57 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.800 about jingling her new keys and her new authority like toys. 58 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.279 She had only one small maid to command, until she 59 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:52.959 learned that among others to be excluded were her own relatives. 60 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:57.000 There had been what her husband called an appalling horde 61 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.600 of these at the wedding. They had come with lanterns 62 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.439 and banners and disturbing evidences of good will. And he 63 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.199 asked her, when she questioned him, whether she did not 64 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:11.560 think there would be a trifle wearisome. You think so, 65 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:19.240 she asked, In turn, emphatically, said her husband. She grew pale. 66 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:23.319 She had not expected quite such an answer. A Japanese 67 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.199 would have said no, but would have left an interrogation 68 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:33.360 in one's mind. He laughed consolingly. Huel anisan, which meant 69 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.959 only elder sister. There are no terms of endearment in 70 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.319 the Japanese language. You will have to get along without ancestors. 71 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:44.360 Think of the many people who would like to do 72 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:49.120 that and be comforted who she had never heard of 73 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.040 such a thing. M people, for instance, whose ancestors have 74 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.480 perished on the gallows, or in America have practiced trades. 75 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.199 She did not understand as often she did not, and 76 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.480 he went on, I shall have to serve in the 77 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:11.639 capacity of ancestors. Let us say ancestors at large, and 78 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.480 the real ones will have to go or rather not 79 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.720 come again. He had the joke to himself. His wife 80 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.639 had gone away to cry. At first, she decided to 81 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.040 run away from him, but this, she reflected, would not 82 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.279 probably please her relatives, since they had anonymously agreed upon 83 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:35.079 the marriage for her. Besides, she preferred to remain. She 84 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.000 had acquired a strange liking for Pinkerton and her new 85 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.680 way of life. Finally, she undertook a weak remonstrance, a 86 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.199 very strong one, in fact, for a Japanese wife. But 87 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:51.279 Pinkerton encouraged her pretty domestic autonomy. Her airs of authority 88 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:57.040 were charming, and they grew more and more so. Mister B. F. 89 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.879 Piccaton it was this among us the things he had 90 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.519 taught her to call him. I like, if you permit 91 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.079 my august ancestors visit me. I like very much, if 92 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.800 you please permit that unto me. Her hair had been 93 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.439 newly dressed for the occasion, and she had stuck a 94 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.920 poppy in it. Besides, she put her hand on his 95 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.279 arm a brave thing for her to do, and smiled 96 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.399 wistfully up at him. And when you know what Tortusan's 97 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:32.720 smile was like, and her hand at its touch, you 98 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:37.319 will wonder how Pinkerton resisted her. However, he only laughed 99 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:42.319 at her good naturedly always, and said, no, we can't 100 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:46.120 adopt the whole regiment of back numbers. You know you 101 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:50.120 are back number enough for me. And though he kissed her, 102 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.560 she went away and cried again, And Japanese girls do 103 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.319 not often cry. He could not understand how important this 104 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.839 concession was to her. It must be confessed that he 105 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.120 did not try to understand. Sire, with a little partisanship 106 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.680 explained to him that in Japan, filial affection is the 107 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:16.079 paramount motive, and that these ancestors, living and dead, were 108 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.240 his wife's sole link to such eternal life as she 109 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.959 hoped for. He trusted that Pinkton would not forget this. 110 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.920 He would provide her a new motive, then, Pinkton said, 111 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:32.440 perhaps meaning himself, and a new religion, if she must 112 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:37.000 have one himself again. So when she, at his motion, 113 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.879 diffidently undertook to clothe on the phantoms which made up 114 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:45.399 her religion, Pinkerton expounded what he called the easier Western 115 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:50.799 plan of salvation. Seriously too, considering that all his communications 116 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:55.639 to her were touched with whimsy. This was inevitable to Pinkerton, 117 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.720 after all, she was quite an impossible little thing outside 118 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:04.759 of lacquer and paint. But he struck deeper than he knew, 119 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.879 for she went secretly to the church of the missionary 120 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.000 who served on the opposite hill, and heard the same thing, 121 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.799 and learned moreover that she might adopt this new religion 122 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.679 at any time she chose, even the eleventh hour, she 123 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.720 went out joyously, not to adopt his religion, it is true, 124 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.799 but to hold it in reserve if her relatives should 125 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:30.240 remain obdurate. Pinkerton, to his relief, heard no more of it. 126 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:38.559 Chapter three a moon goddess truly, but his wife's family 127 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.480 the word has a more important application there than here 128 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.600 held a solemn conference, and as the result of it, 129 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:52.279 certain of them waited upon Lieutenant Pinkerton, and with elaborate politeness, 130 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.399 intimated that this course had theretofore been quite unknown in Japan. 131 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:02.519 This was their oblique way of saying that it was unsatisfactory. 132 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:06.000 They pointed out, with patient gravity that he would thus 133 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.600 limit his wife's opportunities of reappearing on Earth in a 134 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:14.759 higher form of life. Pinketon smilingly remarked that he was 135 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:17.120 not sure that it would be best for his wife 136 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:20.159 to appear on Earth in a higher form. She would 137 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.559 probably accomplish mischief enough in this very charming one, as 138 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.799 she was in fact doing. Do you know, he continued 139 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.279 to the spokesman, that you look exactly like a lacked 140 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:36.320 tragedy mask I have hanging over my desk. One must 141 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:40.799 have seen one of these masks to appreciate this. But 142 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:44.120 they all laughed good naturedly as their host had designed, 143 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:48.240 and quite forgot their errand, and Pinkerton labored that they 144 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.440 should remember it no more. This was quite Japanese in 145 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.759 the politest way possible. He made them drink his liquors 146 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:00.279 and smoke his tobacco in the generous Western fashion, either 147 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.919 of which operations was certain to make a Japanese very ill. 148 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.639 This was thoroughfull like Pinkerton. They protested a deal of 149 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:12.519 friendship for Pinkerton that night, but at the final conference, 150 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.840 where Chochou's son was solemnly disowned, none were more gloomily 151 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.159 unfriendly than they who had eaten and drunken with him. 152 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.440 I did the very best I could for you, little 153 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:27.759 moon goddess, said Pinkerton to his wife. But they were 154 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:32.240 proof against my best wine and tobacco. She bent her 155 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:38.200 head in reflection a moment. Ah, you mean I begin 156 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.919 to learn you, mister B. F. Pickeaton. You mean they 157 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:49.519 not prove Ah, and Pinkerton delightedly embraced her. You are 158 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:55.720 no longer a back number, he said, Aha, that's what 159 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.399 I think. Now, I beg you. I know what is 160 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:08.720 that back number? Well, people like I was exactly, but 161 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:13.440 not people like I am. No, you're up to date, 162 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:21.039 I expect. I ought to be sorry, she sighed hypocritically. 163 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:29.159 Exactly why my moon mate account. They outcasting me. Everybody 164 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:34.240 think me most best wicked in all Japan. Nobody speak 165 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:39.000 to me no more. They all outcast me, except just you. 166 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:44.360 That's why I ought to be sorry. She burst into 167 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.960 a reckless laugh and threw herself like a child upon him. Ha ha, 168 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:54.240 But that's exactly why I am not who was you, Slye? 169 00:12:55.080 --> 00:13:00.360 It is not inside me. That's sorry me. I'm more's 170 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:04.320 best happy female woman in Japan. May be in that 171 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:10.120 whole world what you think. He said honestly that he 172 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:13.480 thought she was, and he took honest credit for it. 173 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:23.759 And of section one, chapter four, Trouble meaning joy. And 174 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:27.600 after his going in the whimsical Delight they had practiced together, 175 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:32.799 she named the baby when it came Trouble. Every Japanese 176 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.519 baby begins with a temporary name. It may be anything. 177 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.200 Almost for the little time, she was quite sure he 178 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.440 would like the way she had named him, Trouble meaning joy. 179 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.919 This was his own oblique way. As for his permanent name, 180 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.759 he might have several others before. That was for him 181 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:55.240 to choose when he returned, And this event was to 182 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.919 happen according to his own words, when the robins nested 183 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:04.440 again and spring and the robins had come. All this 184 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.320 to explain why Madame Butterfly and her baby were reclining 185 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.840 on the immaculate mats in attitudes of artistic abandon instead 186 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.360 of keeping an august state, as all other Japanese mothers 187 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.440 and babes were at this moment doing. American women, we 188 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.639 are told, assume more fearless attitudes in the security of 189 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:30.440 their boudoirs than elsewhere. Japanese women, never their conduct is 190 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.879 eternally the same. It must be as if some one 191 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:38.039 were looking on always. There is no privacy for them 192 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.919 short of the grave. They have no secure boudoirs. But 193 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:47.039 Madame Butterfly, through the courtesy of her American husband, had 194 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:51.080 both these. It will therefore be argued, perhaps that she 195 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.559 is not a typical Japanese woman. But it is only 196 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:59.080 Lieutenant Pinkerton's view about which we are presently concerned. He 197 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:03.519 called her an American refinement of a Japanese product, an 198 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:08.360 American improvement in a Japanese invention, and so on. And 199 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.879 since he knew her best, his words concerning her should 200 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.120 have a certain ex cathedral authority. I know no more. 201 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.480 And she and the maid, and the baby too were 202 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.279 discussing precisely the matters which have interested us hitherto Pinkerton, 203 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.720 his baby, his imminent return, et cetera. Tooto's son, with 204 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.919 a deft jerk that was also a caress, brought the 205 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:39.320 baby into her lap as she sat suddenly up, Ah, 206 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.440 you you think he's just like any other baby. But 207 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:49.200 he's a miracle, yes, she insisted belligerently. The Sun Goddess 208 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.440 sent him straight from the bridge of heaven because of 209 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:57.720 those prayers. So early, oh, so very early in the morning. Oh, 210 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.919 that is the time to pray. She turned the baby 211 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.919 violently so that she might see his eyes. Now did 212 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.559 anyone ever hear of a Japanese baby with purple eyes? 213 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.080 She held him over against the dwarfed wisteria, which grew 214 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.240 in a flat bronze coral at the Tokonoma full of 215 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.559 purple blossoms. She addressed the maid Suzuki, who stood by, 216 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:25.080 happy as herself, apparently aware that this subject must always 217 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:31.240 be discussed vehemently as purple as that answer me without giggler? 218 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:35.360 Is it not so? Speak? I will have an answer? 219 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.519 Then the maid laughed out a joyous snow. If she 220 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:44.440 cherished the Eastern reservations concerning blue eyes and pink cheeks, 221 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.360 it was a less heinous offense to lie about it 222 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:51.480 a little than to assert it in politely. Besides, neither 223 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.440 she nor anyone else could resist the spirits of her 224 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:59.399 pretty mistress, and these spirits had grown joyously righteous since 225 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.399 her marriage. And did unfettering, nor yet so bold of 226 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:08.079 his head, say so quickly she insisted with the manner 227 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.359 of pinkerton such as example. The mate also agreed to this, 228 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:18.640 and then Choto San flung the kicking youngster high above her, 229 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.599 turned abandonedly over on her back in charming, if forbidden postures, 230 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:28.240 and juggled with him there. But ah, you will have here, 231 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.839 will you? Not as long and glittering as that of 232 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:36.599 the American women? I will not endure the else. She 233 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:44.119 became speciously savage speak, thou beggar speak, goo goo, said 234 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:51.640 the baby, endeavoring diligently to obey. She shook him threateningly. Ah, 235 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:56.079 you making that nonsense with your parents? Now, what is 236 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.240 that you speaking with me Japanese? If it is I? 237 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.400 She threatened him direly, but he had evidently already learned 238 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:10.480 to understand her. He gurgled again, Listen, no one shall 239 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:15.559 speak anything but United States languages in these houses. Now 240 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.880 what you think you're gone? Go right outside, Shouji, first 241 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:24.599 thing you do that. She resumed her own English more ostentatiously. 242 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.519 She forgot it herself sometimes and pretended to pitch the 243 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:33.599 baby through the fragile paper wall. Also, there's one thing 244 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:38.640 averybody got ray complex account. It is his house, his wife, 245 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:43.640 his baby, his maiden, his money. Oh, averything is his 246 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.279 And he say those times he gone way that, except 247 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.079 we all talking those United States languages. When he come, 248 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:57.240 he gon't bounce us all. Well, I don't get meself 249 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.599 bounce mister trouble, and you got look look out. You 250 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:06.160 don't uh huh say me. I think if we're doing 251 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.599 all those things, he as us. He's gone take us 252 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.440 at those United States America and live in his castle. 253 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:21.200 Then he never can bounce us. Uh huh. Chapter five, 254 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.799 A Song of Sorrow and Death and Heaven. A bird 255 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.799 flew to the vine in the little porch, Ah, Suzuki, 256 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.519 but the maid had withdrawn. She clapped her hands violently 257 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:40.279 for her to return. Now, why do you go away? 258 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:45.160 When her momentary anger fled, and she laughed when birds 259 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:49.240 flying to the vistaria, Go quickly, little maiden, and see 260 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:51.640 if he's a robin, and if he has completed his 261 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:57.200 nest Quickly. The maid returned and said that he was 262 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.359 indeed a robin, but that he had no necessary yet. 263 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:07.920 Oh how is his slow, Suzuki. Let us find another robin, 264 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:13.359 one that is more industrious and domestic. Ha ha ha ha. 265 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:19.759 They are all alike, said the girl cynically. They not 266 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:26.480 say so, Susuki giggled, affirmatively. When her mistress took so 267 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.079 violently to English, she preferred to express herself in this 268 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:35.319 truly Japanese fashion. Inform me, if you please, how much 269 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:40.039 nearer beggary we are today than yesterday? Susuki the girl 270 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.720 had exact information for her on this subject. She said, 271 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:50.119 they had just seventeen yen fifty four cent turin alas alas, 272 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:56.680 how we have wasted his beautiful monies. That's shame. But 273 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.160 he will not permit that we starve a count He 274 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:05.960 know we have no one except him, We all outcasted. Now, 275 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.839 look how that is bad. So just when it is 276 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:13.400 all gone, he will come with more like the stories 277 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:18.160 of all kazabu, Oh, like story of uncombed Dronen, who 278 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:21.400 make a large oath that he gone be huge fool. 279 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:24.680 Well if he dress his hair until his lord arrives 280 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:29.039 back from the banishment, lo, when they're cutting his head 281 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:32.599 off him, a county don't come his hair. His lord 282 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.759 arrive back and say what they're doing with him and 283 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.799 reward him great deal, a county constant until he most dead. 284 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:46.039 So just when we gone out on the street, maybe 285 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.519 to find him, you with trouble on your back, me 286 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.359 with my Sami sen standing up before all the people, 287 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:58.279 singing funeral songs with faces oh about most so long, 288 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:04.599 she illustrates liberally, said, garments here all ruffled, so dancing 289 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:10.200 little so she indicated how she should dance, and saying 290 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:15.079 out very loud, oh ye, people listen for the loaf 291 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.480 of all the eight hundred thousand gods and goddesses. Behold 292 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.160 we a poor widow and the bebby what God purple eyes, 293 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:27.160 which had husband whid gone off at United States America 294 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:33.480 to neighver return no more neighver except you have seen him. No, 295 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.279 see this is what I think. Oh, how that is 296 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:43.000 most terrible? We giving up all our august ancestors and 297 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:48.440 gods and people and country, oh avery thing, just for him. 298 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:53.200 And now he don't never come no more. Oh how 299 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.480 that is said? Is it not? Also he don't even 300 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:00.119 divorce us so that we can marry with nothing the 301 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:04.759 man's and get some food. He he don't even think 302 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:10.880 about us, not little bit he forgetting us. Alas, but 303 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:13.759 we got to keep his house nine hundred and ninety 304 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:18.839 nine years. Now, think about that, and we're gonna starve 305 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:25.400 before except you giving us ah um just one cent, 306 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:31.319 two cent, maybe five sen all for the loave of sorrow, 307 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.759 for the loave of constancy, for the loave of death, 308 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:41.799 just one cent. Will you please pity us in the 309 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:46.640 name of the merciful Quanon, we beg look to move 310 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:50.119 your hearts in the inside you were gone, sing you 311 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:55.359 a song of sorrow and death and heaven. She had 312 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:59.160 acted it all with superb spirit, And now she snatched 313 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:02.759 up her summi sense and dramatized this also. And so 314 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.000 sure was she of life and happiness that this is 315 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:11.160 the song of sorrow and death. She sang Hikari no okei, 316 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:17.279 kiharu no nobe, nivo, sakura, Nohanna, sakari, mure kuru, hito 317 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:24.200 no tanoshikini, shibashi uki yo ya vasururam. Sunshine on a 318 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:29.480 quiet plain in spring, the perfume of the blossoming cherry blossoms, 319 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.720 the joy of the gathering crowd filled with love, forget 320 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:39.319 the care of life, and then as always, abandonment and laughter. 321 00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:45.440 Ah ha ha, what do you think, little maiden, there's 322 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:50.759 good song about sorrow and death and heaven. Ah what 323 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:56.359 do you think? Speak say so? She tossed the samisen 324 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.640 to its place and sprang savagely at the maid. If 325 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.920 that mister b f Picaton see us doing Alec does 326 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:09.000 ventured the maid in the humor of her mistress. Oh 327 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:13.759 you see his eye flame and scoorge like lightning. Oh 328 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:19.960 he snatches away to the house. So so so the 329 00:25:20.039 --> 00:25:22.960 baby was the unfortunate subject for the illustration of this. 330 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:28.519 He began to whimper, rockabye baby off in Japan. You're 331 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:32.720 just a picture of a fan. This was from Pinkerton. 332 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.440 She had been the baby. Then, ah, little beggar. He 333 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.960 didn't know. He can't make those poetries for you. He 334 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.279 don't suspect of you. Whichever, well, I bet you we 335 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.519 gon't have some fun when he do. Oh, Suzuki, some 336 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.440 day when the Emperor go abroad, we will show him. 337 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.240 You got say the way she changed her voice to 338 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:01.400 what she fancied an impressive male bustle whole heaven, descend 339 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.640 the jewler, everlasting, great Japan. The first of your subjects 340 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:08.599 taken his eye out. Those were blue heaven. Whence you 341 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:13.359 are descent Hence the Emperor look on him. Then he 342 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.759 stop and look. He can never get enough luks. Then 343 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.079 he make trouble A large prince and me. He just 344 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.400 say unto me, continue that you bring out such sons 345 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:34.319 ha ha, what do you think? The maid was frankly skeptical. 346 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.440 At least you kin do like the old Nakodo, wish 347 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:44.400 you for you are most beautiful. Tu Tu San dropped 348 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:47.519 the baby with a reckless thud and sprang at her again. 349 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.039 She gripped her throat viciously, then flung her laughing aside. 350 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:57.759 Speak concerning marriage once more, and you die. And that's 351 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:01.599 not a thing you got No at United States America, 352 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:05.319 if one is merry, one god, stay merry, oh for 353 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:12.400 Aver and Aver. Yes, nobody cannot get himself divorced except 354 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:16.799 in a large courthouse and jail. That's way with he, 355 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:22.759 that mister b F. Pickeaton, and me, that missus b F. Picketon. 356 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.319 If he evera goone divorce me, he could take me 357 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.799 at those large jail at that United States America. There's 358 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:35.599 a lot of trouble. Hence he rather stay merry with me. Also, 359 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:40.799 he'd like be merry with me now. Look, he'll leave 360 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.400 me a most large slot money in Japan. He give 361 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:47.839 me his house for livingside for nine hundred and ninety 362 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.079 nine year. I cannot go home at my grandmother account. 363 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.160 He make them out cast me, say, you little foolish 364 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:01.240 he coming when the robins nest again? Oh mah, what 365 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:06.680 you think? Say so? The maid should have been excused 366 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:10.440 for not being always as recklessly jubilant as her mistress, 367 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.680 But she never was. And now when she chose silence 368 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:18.839 rather than speech, which was both more prudent and more polite, 369 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:28.599 she took it very ill. Chapter six, Divine foolery. If 370 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.839 Pinkerton had told her to go home, even though she 371 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.400 had no home to go to, she would have been 372 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.920 divorced without more ado. Perhaps she was logical, for she 373 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:42.000 reasoned as he had taught her. She had never reasoned 374 00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:46.200 before in considering that as he had distinctly told her 375 00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:48.880 not to do so, it was an additional sure tea 376 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:53.480 for his return. Chocho's san again took up the happier 377 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:58.519 side of the matter. The baby was asleep, and also 378 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:01.279 what you think we'd had a doing when he come? 379 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.759 She was less forcible now because less certain. This required 380 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:09.960 planning to get the utmost felicity out of it. What 381 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:16.079 she always strove for me. I think I don't know, 382 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:22.000 the maid confessed diplomatically, a ha ha, you do know, 383 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.480 of course you do know. Which ever, well, I gon't 384 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.599 tell you the plan had been born and matured that 385 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:35.680 instant in her active little brain just recollect'tis a secret 386 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:39.799 among you and me. We don't tell that mister trouble hosh, 387 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:45.359 he don't can keep no secret. Well listen, we're gone 388 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.079 watch with that spying glass till his ship get in. 389 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.839 Then we're gone. Put cherry blossoms averywhere and if to night, 390 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:57.119 we're gon't hang out about most one thousand lanterns about 391 00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:02.880 most one thousand. Then we wait just when we see 392 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:07.279 him coming up that hill so so so so, she 393 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:12.519 lifted her kimono and strode masculinely about the apartment. Then 394 00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:16.680 we hide behind the shoji where there are holes to peep. 395 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.799 She glanced about to find them, alas they all meant 396 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:26.240 the chat, but she savagely ran her finger through the paper. 397 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.400 We soon make some ah ha ha ha. So she 398 00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:35.240 made another for the maid. They illustrated this phase of 399 00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.559 her mood with their eyes at the holes. Then we 400 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.119 lie quiet like mice and make believe we gone way 401 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:49.119