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II
Music is being played. The
curtain is rising. It’s front of
Sultan bay's House.
Gulchohra, Asya and Telli are sitting.
One of them is sewing; the other
is knitting.
Gulchohrà
She is sewing and singing
My bitter suffering and grief made
all feel deep sorrow for me.
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| Music |
My
bitter suffering and grief made all
feel deep sorrow for me.
I
feel bitter deep grief, because I
made all feel sorrow for me. (2)
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| Music |
Day
by day love deepens in my soft and
excited heart.
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| Music |
Day
by day love deepens in my soft and
excited heart.
If he feels my tender soul, I can
cure him with my love. (2)
No difference even if it rains stones
on my head from heavens. (2)
Because I can destroy the home of
sadness with arrow of bitter sigh.
(2)
Oh... come my love! (2)
Come,
come, come, my love!
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| ASYA: |
(she
sighs) Håó, Gulchohra, when you
sing, always grief covers my heart,
I become sad.
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| GULCHOHRA: |
It
means you don’t like my singing. |
| ASYA: |
No,
I like your singing very much. But the
sadness surrounds me, and I grieve. |
| GULCHOHRA: |
Oh,
isn’t our life full of grief from the
day of birth till the end? |
| ASYA:
|
Oh,
yes, by God, you are right. |
| TELLI: |
Well,
why are you grieving, ladies? Sultan
bay marries you in some days. Inshaallah,
you will have à family, and à lot of
children. Then you will not have any
grief. |
| GULCHOHRA:
|
Oh,
Telli, it would be better not to marry
like this; because you know how we marry. |
| TELLI: |
Oh,
lady, why do you talk like that? |
| GULCHOHRA: |
Am
I not right? You marry à man without
being aware of who is going to be your
husband. You don’t know the man whom
you marry. Hå is either young or old,
mangy or bald; maybe he likes to beat
his wife... |
| ASYA: |
(surprised)
Well, Gulchohra, then you will not
marry, at all. Will you stay at home
and keep company with à sack of flour? |
| TELLI: |
God
forbid! |
| GULCHOHRA: |
Do
I mean one should stay at home till
the end of life? I mean one should know
whom she marries. Before marriage one
should see, choose, love and know one
another well. |
| ASYA: |
(laughs).
You speak in such à manner, I bet, even
the cooked chicken would laugh at you.
(With irony) Poor girl, whom
can you see among these four walls in
order to love? |
| GULCHOHRA:
|
In
that case, I prefer to stay at home. |
| TELLI: |
Ladies,
may my lord marry you! I’ll go to see
your bridegroom, his house and estate.
On coming back I’ll tell you everything. |
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| GULCHOHRA: |
Well,
Telli, do you think your visit to my
bridegroom will be enough for me? You
think I do not need to see him? |
| TELLI: |
No,
lady, I’ll see first and then you. |
| ASYA: |
All
right, Telli, let it be so. May I marry!
The rest is easier. |
| GULCHOHRA:
|
No,
until I don’t see the man I’ll not marry.
But you may marry without seeing him. |
| TELLI:
|
By
God, lady, it is better to marry without
seeing the husband. When you see him
beforehand, it will not be so interesting.
But when you don’t see him, your heart
hurries and disturbs you to see him
soon. |
