| Askar: |
(he gets up and speaks loudly). Gentlemen! Once I was
coming back home from the bazaar in the evening. Oh! I saw somebody
was following me. I walked a little and saw that the man was
again coming after me. I walked a little and saw the man again
was coming. I thought, probably he was one of my enemies and
immediately snatched my pistol, (he takes out the pistol).
I pulled the trigger. I said: Wait! Suddenly I saw that the
man began to run. I tried again: «Hey, wait, wait!..» He didn't
stop and I shot a bullet, bum! I saw the man fell sharap down.
I came up and wanted to know who he was. What do you think,
who that man was?..He was this Mashadi Ibad! I thought, probably
I had killed the man. But thank God, I had failed. (Askar
comes up to Mashadi Ibad) Cheers, Mashadi Ibad!
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| Mashadi Ibad: |
Thank you very much! (aside)
Does it have any concern with this party?! |
| Rza bey: |
Afandilar! (Dear gentlemen!-editor) With your honorable permission
I would like to say a few words! (All keep silent, and say
nothing). Afandilar, you are keeping silent?! What does
it mean? Don't you let me speaking? (Again nobody
speaks).
Afandilar, if you don't answer any more, I'll consider this
unknown silence an insult for me. I'm waiting for! (Again
all keep silent). Rustam bey, if you want to insult me
why are you doing it in your apartment? Couldn't you do it in
another place?
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| Rustam bey: |
Thank you very much, I'm very obliged
to you! |
Rza bey:
|
(furiously): My man, don't you
understand what I mean? It's an insult for me. If so I'll not
stay here any longer! |
He puts on his sheepskin
hat in a hurry. |
| Rustam bey: |
Rza bey, where are you going? |
| Rza bey: |
My man! I can't bear such an insult.
It's already 10 minutes that I have been asking for your permission
to talk, but you don't answer. It's a great insult and I'll write
it in my newspaper. |
| Hasangulu bey: |
So, did you want to ask us for permission?!
My man, by God, I thought you were making a speech. I couldn't
understand. |
| All others: |
By God, we didn't understand you either. |
| Mashadi Ibad: |
Your speech is so complicated that
nobody can understand. I've read half of the «Tarikhi-Nadir»,
but I don't understand what you say. How could these uneducated
people understand you? |
| Rustam bey: |
I swear by God, don't disappoint us,
excuse us, we didn't understand. We are uneducated people. |
| Hasan bey: |
(gets up). Gaspada, mana pozvolt
eylayin (Gentlemen, please, allow me-editor), to say some words
about Rustam bey! |
| All: |
You are welcome! |
| Mashadi Ibad: |
Let's listen, what he will say! |
| Hasan bey: |
Gaspada! Platon said that, «chelovek
zhivotnoye obshestvennoye»; it means human being is a social animal.
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| Mashadi Ibad: |
You yourself is an animal! |
Hasan bey:
|
The famous English scientist Charles Darwin proved that human
beings' fathers were monkeys. We don't need to go to Africa to
see the Bushmen and the Kottintots in order to agree with Ch.
Darwin, it's only enough to watch Mashadi Ibad who is present
at our party, (all bend their heads down). I don't want
to insult Mashadi Ibad with these words, I myself also look like
a monkey, but not so much. But Mashadi Ibad is a real arangutan!
I repeat once more that my aim is not to insult Mashadi Ibad.
But 1 want to ask why Rustam bey liked Mashadi Ibad so much that
he agreed to marry his beautiful daughter Madmuazel Gulnaz khanum
with him? Beauty? No! I have already said that Mashadi Ibad is
ugly. |
| Mashadi Ibad: |
Now, how I wish to slap this son of bitch
on the mouth! |
| Hasan bey: |
His youth? No, Mashadi Ibad is old. But
what did Rustam bey like in Mashadi Ibad? May be Mashadi Ibad's
money, goods, riches? No, Rustam bey is not a covetous man. Nakonets
(at last-editor), but what? Now I'll explain to you. See, we are
drinking wine here. But Mashadi Ibad is not having wine. So, what
is Mashadi Ibad? Mashadi Ibad is a genuin musulman. So, by my
opinion Rustam bey gave his daughter to Mashadi Ibad, for he is
a musulman. That's why I raise the wine glass to Rustam bey. Cheers,
Rustam bey! |
| All: |
Cheers! |
| Rza bey: |
Mashallah for this speech! |
| All:. |
Let's (they all get up) |
| Askar: |
It's high time to leave. |
Hasangulu bey:
|
Rustam bey, good bye (they shake
hands)
Mashadi Ibad, khudahafiz (they shake hands) |
| Askar: |
Rustam bey, Mashadi Ibad, good bye. |
Hasan bey:
|
Rustam bey goodbye. Mashadi Ibad good
bye
(he wants to shake hands with Mashadi Ibad). |
| Mashadi Ibad: |
(furiously).Go to devil, you,
son of bitch! Isn't it enough that you've called me monkey and
moreover you want to shake hands with me?! |
| Rustam bey: ? |
What's the matter? What's wrong |
| Hasan bey: |
Excuse me, let me hit this rascal a
crack ! |
All come close.
«What's wrong?» «What's happened?»
They want to part them but quarrel and fighting begins.
Music
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Hasan bey:
|
You are not my equal I can hit you by
head. (2)
You will be hurt badly by me be off you brute. (2) |
| Hasangulu bey: |
Hey you! Hasan, stop and calm down,
shame on you, old chap. (2) Intellectual person you are, why do
you fight? (2) |
Mashadi Ibad:
|
My Lord! You know the whole story:
"I marry my daughter, my eyes' light, off to this man"
(2) |
All:
|
Oh, you fellows, shameful is such behavior
(2)
Quarrelling in other's house is not fair (2)
It does not suit you, it does not suit you!
Shame on you, you, you!.. |
