Immortal Beloved Page #4

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in this way...

of my most treasured feelings!

Father can go to hell!

I bid you wait!

It's no use. He can't hear you!

He's deaf!

A month later

I married Count Gallenberg.

And you never heard from him again?

He wrote to me.

It was...

After the war,

there had been some...

unpleasantness.

It was a bad time.

They who think me hostile...

obstinate or misanthropic...

how unjust they are to me...

for they do not know

the secret reason I appear that way.

It is not possible for me

to say, "Speak louder.

Shout. I am deaf".

How can I live if my enemies,

who are many...

believe I no longer possess

the one sense that should be perfect...

to a higher degree in me

than in others?

Not so fast.

So what will you do?

See every shallow countess

Ludwig gave a dedication to?

They are all liars

who want a piece of him now he is gone.

I have the lady's signature.

I shall study his correspondence

to find the hand that matches.

It is illegible.

You are wasting your time.

- No court will uphold this nonsense.

- Help me then.

Are you mad?

Help you to cheat me?

I will tell you this.

There is no lady

at the end of your search.

Ludwig was a woman hater.

Look at how he behaved with Johanna.

He had every right. Your brother

took a bride of low character.

You are too much under Ludwig's

influence to see the truth.

He wanted Caspar under his thumb.

Running his errands.

He hated Johanna

because she took him away.

There she is.

Oh, she's so beautiful.

- A marvelous creature.

- She will be mine.

So, you would betray me for that?

Where is your book? Here.

Willingly.

She can be bought.

- All women can be bought.

- You are insulting the woman I love.

At first, it will

be all enticements.

Then, snap! The trap shuts.

There's always a price to pay.

I would never betray you

for one of those creatures.

Brothers, I have wonderful news.

She has finally consented.

- You are to be wed?

- Yes!

You explain to him.

May I...

present my bride?

Is this a joke?

You cannot be serious.

By all means, copulate with her.

But marriage? What for?

You will be a laughingstock.

Every farmhand in the region

has enjoyed her for free.

Why should you pay more?

I know you cannot hear me,

and I don't care.

What I have to say

is for Caspar, not you.

I have had lovers...

but that is not a crime.

I told you it was impossible.

I only want what is right.

He was jealous of his brother.

Why, she will destroy him.

Jealous of his happiness.

I'm Ludwig van Beethoven,

and I need your help.

Break the door down.

What are you playing at?

Arrest that whore.

- Don't touch her!

- Arrest that whore.

That is slander.

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