Szindbád, bon voyage! Page #5

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We'll cross the Danube

in a horse-tram.

The bridge will rumble beneath us.

A couple from the country

will sit opposite to us,

and they will keep asking:

Is it far to the Imperial Baths?

We'll pass an inn

where an accordion is playing.

But we won't get off.

We'll travel on.

The coachman will hoot,

the couple will inquire again.

From the Buda hills fragrant air

will blow into the coach,

and we'll sit there like a

happily married couple.

I am a retired civil servant,

and we've been married

for twenty years.

We have 1000 forints saved up,

and we want to buy a house

in a suburb.

There in the little garden

you could raise ducks and geese.

Oh, you!

Isn't this better

than going to the circus?

Of course it is, you scoundrel!

Good day!

My! I didn't recognize you, sir!

It's been a long time!

I had a friend here, called Valentin.

Do you know him? - Yes.

You want to do

business with him?

You've improved in your old age!

When we last saw you,

you did nothing,

except wasting your time.

We'll send the lad

to fetch Valentin, if you like.

I'd like to see you

on New Year's Eve

because I'm superstitious.

My darling,

my love, my betrothed.

Lord, please let me sleep,

and give me peaceful night!

Spare me from the

prattle of women.

Help me to forget

the fragrance of their hair,

the strange look in their eyes,

the taste of their hands.

Lord,

protect me from them.

Marry me, please!

It is the fate of the stars

to fall to earth for each other.

Who'll listen next year

to the tale of the tinker

eaten by wolves?

Remember when you took

on my sins at confession,

because you had

no sins to confess?

Yes, but you had to pay

a kreutzer for each sin.

Now I'm asking you

to do it again,

take on my sins, Valentin!

Tell me what I must take on.

I've cheated,

I've stolen, I've lied, I've swore,

I haven't observed the fasts,

I haven't been to church.

I've committed everything,

except murder.

And adultery?

Yes, that too.

I wanted to seduce

the mistress of a friend.

Maybe I did seduce her.

And I bought her an apron

with stolen money.

What'll you pay me

if I undertake all this?

What can I give you, who've saved

my life so many times?

Are you any good at exorcism?

Of course.

You'll pay me by exorcising

the devil from my wife.

Marika?

Yes, I married Marika.

We lived peacefully for 20 years.

A few months ago, I have a new lad

my workshop.

Ever since, Marika's

been quite wild!

You know her.

Drive the devil out of her!

I won't let you corrupt

this good man!

This is Marika.

By May, I'll be

a sumach tree or a dockleaf.

Life was worth living

when one could

enter gardens secretly at night,

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