The Horseman on the Roof Page #4

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Always get the sun in their eyes.

Remember that.

I promise. You look like an officer.

I'm a colonel!

A colonel!

There are colonels as young as you?

Yes, in Italy.

- Your horse is admirable.

- Glad you like him.

- What is his name?

- I don't know. I stole him.

For Italy, you go through Digne.

We part now.

I'm going by way of Sisteron.

To Sisteron?

- Where to then?

- Towards Gap.

- But that is so far.

- I'll be fine.

Don't worry.

I'm running late.

Thank you.

It was a blessing meeting you.

Without you,

who knows where I would be.

Good-bye!

Come! Quick!

- Looking for us?

- Could be.

We didn't go unnoticed.

Don't take the valley.

You'd be arrested.

Go by the mountains.

I don't know the way.

- I will go with you.

- But it's out of your way.

I'll cross the Alps to Italy.

- A detour.

- I don't care.

No, I won't let you change

your plans for me anymore.

I can travel alone.

No.

You think I'm not able to?

I will not leave a woman in all this.

If I forbid you to follow?

I would anyhow.

It is my duty to help you.

That is how I was raised.

Tell me where you are going.

To Thus.

- Where is that?

- Near Gap.

Let's go.

I'd hate being your soldier.

So would I.

Here, too, everybody is gone.

The barn.

There'll be hay there. You can rest.

I'm fine. I can go on.

In an hour it will be too dark.

Run!

You are not sleeping?

No, I can't.

No fire, really?

- Are you cold?

- A bit.

Who'd see us?

We're far from everything.

We're not,

and I know those soldiers.

Tonight, there'll be many scouts out.

I'll make a fire at daybreak.

You're so organized.

Are you from a military family?

- I think so.

- What do you mean?

I never knew my father.

He came to Italy with Napoleon,

then he left.

He may be dead or alive.

Nobody knows.

- Put these on.

- I have some.

- You must keep your legs warm.

- Wool stockings!

Do as I say.

This place is no better.

But the roadblocks?

Cholera doesn't stop for soldiers.

I am sorry.

Is all that money yours?

It's in my care.

To carry to Italy?

You came to France to hide?

Where were you?

In Aix.

Aix.

I spent three months there last year.

Were you there then?

We could've met.

- Did you go out a lot?

- Never.

Of course.

I love Aix.

I have many friends there.

Where are they today?

On the road like us,

or locked in their houses,

afraid to breathe?

I can't help it,

but I fear that everybody I love

will disappear.

One day this will end,

but my world will be meaningless.

Do you hear? Somebody's playing.

Across the valley.

Mozart... German dances.

Calm down.

It's over now.

I'm sorry.

I could hear him.

He was just beside me.

I was asleep, but I could hear him.

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