Night Train to Lisbon Page #4

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our parent told us

he had gone to Brazil to work.

Then after the Revolution,

when he was released,

they told us he had an accident

with his hands.

- He is very fond of you.

- He is?

He said you are the only one

from the family who ever visited.

He is always so grumpy,

I don't blame the others.

- What else did he say?

- He said he wish you are married.

I hate him!

Then when you visited,

there'll be children.

He actually said that?

And he is fond of me?

Do you have children?

No.

I have my students...

but the faces change every year,

so I try not to too fond of them.

I think now

you are staying another day?

Yes, I might have to.

Beautiful glasses.

Father Bartolomeu?

Yes.

Joo Ea tells me that you

buried Amadeu de Prado.

I would prefer to be

remembered in this manner:

who taught Amadeu,

not the one who buried him.

Amadeu was 12 years old

when he first came to the school.

He came with no bag, no books...

and read them all, you think.

Everything was in his head.

What does he say about the school,

in his book?

"For 1922 days,..."

"I attended the 'Liceu (school)'

where my Father sent me,..."

"the strictest school

in the whole country."

"By the third day I realized

I had to count the days,..."

"so as not to be crushed by it."

He hated it that much?

Were Jorge and Amadeu

in the same class?

Uh, no. Not at first.

Amadeu skipped 2 grades.

He was that bright, you see.

And for 2 years,

they were in the same class.

Or I should say,

they were in a class of their own.

Amadeu, the aristocrat,

and Jorge, the working class boy.

They had a very noted curiosity

in those two.

They would lie to their mothers

that they were going to spend

the night at the friend's house.

Instead, they came here.

How did you find them, Jorge?

I was sleeping here

and I found the floor was loosen.

- Jean-Paul Sartre (French philosopher)...

- Karl Marx (German philosopher)...

Henry Miller (American writer)...

My God, if we found these books...

We would end up in Tarrafal ("Camp of the Slow Death")

along with all the other political prisoners.

But your father would never

allow that, would he? Amadeu.

He would get Grand Minister Salazar

personally intervene

and have the case thrown out of court.

You think it is a joke

my father is a judge.

I think it is a joke that

the son of a green grocer

has friended with

the son of a judge.

That is funny.

You have to admit.

Amadeu would have been

unhappy wherever he was.

He never played games with the other boys.

He never let himself go...

except one time.

No body forgot that time.

Make room there boys.

Make room.

- My father is here.

- Of course he is. What do you expect?

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