Story of the Foreign Fairy Chapter 72

You should know aunt! She is so cute! This means that her cuteness is not what we usually call cute. She was affable and had a funny flavor of her own. If a person wants to make small talk and make fun of someone, then she can become a source of conversation and laughter. She can become a character in a play; this is because she lives only for the theater and everything connected with it. She is a very distinguished person. But his agent, Aunt Farb, who pronounced him as Flabb, said she was a "theater buff."

"The theater is my school," she said, "the source of my knowledge. Here I review the history of the Bible: Moses, Joseph and his brothers, all become operas! I am in the theater I learned about world history, geography and human beings! I learned from the French drama that life in Paris is very informal, but very interesting! I shed countless tears for the drama "The Liegeberg Family": think about it. Look, a husband actually drank to death in order to let his wife get her young lover! Yes, I have been a regular patron of the theater for the past 50 years; during this period, I don’t know how many tears I shed! "

My aunt knew every play, every plot, every character who was to appear or who had appeared. She only lived for those nine months of acting. The summer was a time when there were no dramas, which made her grow old. If the evening drama could be performed after midnight, it would be equivalent to prolonging her life. She didn't say like others: "Spring is coming, the storks are coming!" or: "The paper says strawberries are in season!" On the contrary, about the arrival of autumn, she always liked to say: "You didn't see the theaters starting selling Have you got your tickets? The show is about to begin!"

In her opinion, the value of a house depends entirely on its proximity to the theater. She was really sad when she had to move from a small alley behind the theater to a farther street and live in a house with no neighbors opposite.

"My window should be my box! You can't just sit at home and think about your own things. You should look at people. But my life now is as if I live far away in the country. If I To see people, I had to go into the kitchen and climb over the sink. Only then could I see the neighbor across the street. When I lived in my alley, I could see the seller directly. The scene in the hemp merchant's shop, and it's only three hundred steps to the theater. Now I have to walk three thousand steps."