The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann

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List of most recent chapters published for the The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann novel. A total of 302 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024

Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann.by Gerhart Hauptmann.VOL 1.PREFACE The present e
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann.by Gerhart Hauptmann.VOL 1.PREFACE The present edition of Hauptmann's works contains all of his plays with the exception of a few inconsiderable fragments and the historical drama _Florian Geyer_. The latter ha

101 [_Prevents him._] No sniffin round in my pots. MRS. MOTES [_Who has observed everything distrustfully._] Mrs. Wolff, weve found something, too. MRS. WOLFF I aint lost nothin. MRS. MOTES There, look at these. [_She shows her several wire snares._ MRS. WOLF 2024-4-23
102 I'm just waiting to get hold of positive proof. That, man had better be careful where I'm concerned--he and his bosom friend, Dr. Fleischer. The latter more especially. If I just wanted to say it--one word and that man would be under lock and ke 2024-4-23
103 JULIUS I loaned em to Karl Machnow. MRS. WOLFF [_After a pause._] If only you wasnt such a coward!--We might get a few loads o wood in a hurry, an we wouldnt have to work ourselves blue in the face neither.--No, nor we wouldnt have to go very far for em. 2024-4-23
104 JULIUS I'm workin' all right. What's the good o' all that?MRS. WOLFF You ain't goin' to get very far with all your work.JULIUS Well, I can't steal. I can't go an' get into trouble!MRS. WOLFF You're just stoopid, an' that's the way you'll alwa 2024-4-23
105 An' when?MITTELDORF To-morrow.--To-morrow mornin'.MRS. WOLFF An' you come in tellin' me that twelve o'clock at night?MITTELDORF But to-morrow is the missis' wash day.MRS. WOLFF But a person ought to know that a few days ahead o' time.MITTELDORF Tha 2024-4-23
106 GLASENAPP Servant, sir. WEHRHAHN Anything happened, Glasenapp? GLASENAPP [_Standing and looking through some papers._] Ive got to report, your honour--there was first, oh, yes,--the innkeeper Fiebig. He begs for permission, your honour, to have music and 2024-4-23
107 MITTELDORF Beggin your pardon, he came Michaelmas a year ago. WEHRHAHN At that time he moved here? MITTELDORF Exactly, your honour--from Berlin. WEHRHAHN Have you any more intimate information about this individual? MITTELDORF All I know is his brother is 2024-4-23
108 WEHRHAHN [_Amused._] Is there anything else of importance? GLASENAPP Nothing but minor matters, your honour--somebody giving notice-- WEHRHAHN Thatll do; thatll do. Do you happen ever to have heard any reports to the effect that this Dr. Fleischer does no 2024-4-23
109 MOTES Inseparable in every sense, your honour.WEHRHAHN Aha! As far as Fleischer is concerned--he interests me most of all. Take a seat, please. I confess that I didn't sleep more than half the night.This matter simply wouldn't let me sleep. The letter t 2024-4-23
110 WEHRHAHN You were repelled, eh? MOTES The whole business became utterly repulsive to me. WEHRHAHN The unlawful atmosphere that obtained there, the impudent jeering at exalted personages--all that, I take it, you could no longer endure? MOTES I stayed simp 2024-4-23
111 WEHRHAHN You need not become violent. What is your name, by the way? KRUEGER [_Taken aback._] My name? WEHRHAHN Yes, your name! KRUEGER So my name isnt known to you? I thought we had had the pleasure before. WEHRHAHN Sorry. Cant say that I have a clear re 2024-4-23
112 KRUEGER And that is just the fault of the servant-girl. She was to take the wood in last night. WEHRHAHN And it dropped out of her mind. KRUEGER She refused to do it. And when I insisted on her doing it, she ended by running away. I intend to bring suit a 2024-4-23
113 WEHRHAHN Wolff--the same one whos was.h.i.+ng for us today, Glasenapp? GLASENAPP The same, your honour. WEHRHAHN [_Shaking his head._] Very strange indeed!--Shes a very honest and a very industrious woman.--[_To KRUEGER._] Is that a fact? Is she the daugh 2024-4-23
114 MRS. WOLFF But my husband just happened to take it into his head. He's just made up his mind not to let the girl go no more. An' when my husband takes a notion like that into his head.... The trouble is: all you men has such awful tempers!WEHRHAHN Suppo 2024-4-23
115 I wont have no daughter of mine abused. KRUEGER Who has been abusing your daughter, Id like to know! MRS. WOLFF [_To WEHRHAHN._] The girl came back to me no bettern a skeleton. KRUEGER Then let her not spend all her nights dancing. MRS. WOLFF She sleeps l 2024-4-23
116 WEHRHAHN Why naturally? I don't see that at all. There are, for instance, private wood yards. Personally I buy my wood from Sandberg. Why shouldn't you buy yours from a dealer? One really almost gets a better bargain.KRUEGER [_Impatiently._] I haven't 2024-4-23
117 THE CURTAIN FALLS THE THIRD ACT _It is about eight oclock in the morning. The scene is the dwelling of MRS. WOLFF. Water for coffee is boiling on the oven. MRS. WOLFF is sitting on a footstool and counting out money on the seat of a chair. JULIUS enters, 2024-4-23
118 A person cant help screamin, youre such a fool. If you had some sense, I wouldnt have to scream. If we go an takes that money to Fischer now, you look out an see what happens! JULIUS Thats what I say. Look at the whole dam business. Whats the good of it t 2024-4-23
119 An' your lessons for your confirmation? I guess you forgot them!ADELAIDE That don't come till Tuesday.MRS. WOLFF It's to-morrow! You go an' study your verses. I'll come in an' hear you say 'em later.ADELAIDE'S [_Loud yawning is heard from the adjo 2024-4-23
120 Oh, he aint so weak as all that. A bit o draught, aint goin to hurt this little feller! FLEISCHER Oh, but it will, I a.s.sure you. You have no idea. He catches cold so easily! Exercise, Philip! Keep moving a little. _PHILIP jerks his shoulders back with a 2024-4-23
121 [_She walks in the child's direction, takes him by the hand, holds up the orange temptingly, and both go, now quite at one, into the next room._ MRS. WOLFF [_Following the child with her eyes._] No, that boy, I could just sit an'look at him. I don't kn 2024-4-23
122 Motes, you mean? MRS. WOLFF I aint namin no names. You must ha had some kind o trouble with that feller. FLEISCHER I dont even a.s.sociate with him any longer. MRS. WOLFF Well, you see, thats just what Ive been think-in. FLEISCHER n.o.body could possibly 2024-4-23
123 Do me a favour, Doctor, an dont talk to me about that there man. Im that angry at him! That man hurt my feelins too bad. The way we was--him an me, for so long--an then he goes and tries to blacken my character with all them people. [_To JULIUS._] Are you 2024-4-23
124 FLEISCHER Oh, there was a washerwoman working at the Kruegers.... MRS. WOLFF By the name o Miller? FLEISCHER And she has a very large family...? MRS. WOLFF The womans got a large family, thats so, but to steal that way ... no! She might take some little t 2024-4-23
125 MRS. WOLFF [_Is moved, and dries her eyes from time to time with a corner of her ap.r.o.n._] I never had nothin' against you in the world. I always liked to work for you. But you went an' got so rough like, you know, that a person's temper couldn't ha 2024-4-23
126 Aw, I guess theyre fine things you got to do. GLASENAPP Thats no way to talk. That aint proper here! MRS. WOLFF Aw, act a little more grand, will you? Krueger hisself sent my girl here! GLASENAPP The same old story about the coat, I suppose. MRS. WOLFF An 2024-4-23
127 A little girl. So I gotta go to the public registry an make the announcement. MRS. WOLFF I thought youd be out on the ca.n.a.l by this time. WULKOW An I wouldnt mind it one little bit if I was! An so I _would_ be, if it depended on me. Didnt I go an start 2024-4-23
128 WULKOW Id like to report the birth of ... WEHRHAHN Matter of the public registry. The books, Glasenapp. That is to say, Ill attend to the other affair first. [_To MRS. WOLFF._] Whats the trouble about your daughter? Did Mr. Krueger box her ears again? MRS 2024-4-23
129 WEHRHAHN Well, who isn't then?MRS. WOLFF Mr. Krueger is so very anxious about it.WEHRHAHN Mr. Krueger, Mr. Krueger--I care very little about him. The man just simply annoys me. Things like this cannot be adjusted in a day. He has offered a reward and the 2024-4-23
130 And you come to give me some information.FLEISCHER If you will permit me, that is what I should like to do. I have made an observation which may, quite possibly, help the authorities to track down the thief in question.WEHRHAHN [_Drums on the table with h 2024-4-23
131 WEHRHAHN [_Apparently recollecting himself._] I am listening, I am listening!Well? What else?FLEISCHER What else? Nothing.WEHRHAHN [_Waking up thoroughly._] I thought you wanted to lodge some information.You mentioned something important.FLEISCHER I have 2024-4-23
132 KRUEGER My good right. I have been robbed and it is my right that the local authorities aid me in recovering my stolen possessions.WEHRHAHN Have you been refused such a.s.sistance?KRUEGER Certainly not. And that is not possible. Nevertheless, it is quite 2024-4-23
133 WEHRHAHN You were not in a position to discover that.KRUEGER What? Has this man a beaver coat?WULKOW There's many of 'em, I c'n tell you, as has the finest beaver coats. An'why not? We makes enough.WEHRHAHN [_Filled with a sense of triumph but pretend 2024-4-23
134 WEHRHAHN You may do about that exactly as you please. [_He arises and takes from a case in the wall the package brought by MRS. WOLFF._] Let us finally dispose of this matter, then. [_To MRS. WOLFF._] Where did you find this thing? MRS. WOLFF It aint me t 2024-4-23
135 WEHRHAHN Well, isnt that ridiculous? No, no, gentlemen: thats not the way. That method will lead us nowhither, now or later. You must give me entire freedom of action. I have my own suspicions and will continue to make my observations. There are a number 2024-4-23
136 That policy has never done you any harm with me.MRS. WOLFF No, not with you, your honour. You c'n stand bein' spoken to honest.n.o.body don't need to be sneaky 'round you.WEHRHAHN In short: Fleischer is a man of honour.MRS. WOLFF That he is! That he i 2024-4-23
137 FIELITZ You get outta this here shop. Go on now!MRS. FIELITZ [_Briefly and contemptuously._] Who d'you think'll come in here now? It's past six.FIELITZ You get outta the shop with that trash o' yours.MRS. FIELITZ I wish you wouldn't act so like a foo 2024-4-23
138 FIELITZ Go an' put the box away an' then open the door._JUSTICE VON WEHRHAHN enters, wearing a thick overcoat, tall boots and a fur cap._ WEHRHAHN Evening, Fielitz! How about those boots?FIELITZ They's all right, your honour.MRS. FIELITZ You better go 2024-4-23
139 Schmarowski is a fellow of solid worth. I never had any fears for him.Your Adelaide was very lucky there.--You remember my telling you so at the time. You came running over to me that time, you recall, when the engagement was almost broken, and I sent you 2024-4-23
140 MRS. FIELITZ Light the candle for me, girl. [_She hands her the tallow-candle with which she has been experimenting._] We wants to study the writin' a bit.RAUCHHAUPT I fooled around with that thing a whole lot. But I got it to please me in the end. You c 2024-4-23
141 RAUCHHAUPT Don't I know all about pet.i.tions? What does they say then: he ain't dangerous bein' at large.--The whole world ain't nothin' but a asylum. It ain't dangerous, o' course, that he fires bricks at me, an' unscrews locks and steals house 2024-4-23
142 [_Putting his arms around MRS. FIELITZ._] Come now, young woman, don't be so cross! Young people wants to have their fling--that's all. An' they'll have it, if it's only with Constable Schulze.[_Exit._ MRS. FIELITZ Now what's the meanin' o' that?R 2024-4-23
143 his takes 'em all in.FIELITZ I ain't got no objection to his takin' 'em in.MRS. FIELITZ He ain't the kind o' man to sit an' draw till he's blind an' let the bricklayers get all the profit.FIELITZ Well, I ain't made the world.MRS. FIELITZ No, nor 2024-4-23
144 MRS. FIELITZ A whole lot o' thinkin' over you'd ha' done! You ain't done any thinkin'all the days o' your life. A great donkey like you ... an' thinkin'.Well! A fine mess would come of it if you took to thinkin'.FIELITZ Mother, I axes you to con 2024-4-23
145 _The smithy of LANGHEINRICH. The little house protrudes at an angle into the village street. The shed that projects over the smithy is supported by wooden posts. The empty s.p.a.ce below the shed is used for the storage of tools and materials. Wheels are 2024-4-23
146 Where did Langheinrich go so early?EDE That's a secret all right--the kind o' secret that all the sparrows on the gutters is chirpin'.--Doctor, roll that wheel over here, will you?You got a chance now to deserve well, as they says, o' the Prussian sta 2024-4-23
147 Do give him a chance to get his breath!LANGHEINRICH Oh, pshaw! Never you mind! I c'n attend to that right off.[_After he has taken off his hat and coat and slipped on wooden shoes he hurries into the house._ EDE Well, what d'you think o' that?DR. BOXER 2024-4-23
148 RAUCHHAUPT I ordered him to go over to the Fielitzes. LANGHEINRICH The Fielitzes have all gone in to town. RAUCHHAUPT I dont know, but theres a kind o burned smell in the air ... Ouch! [_He distorts his face in pain and grasps his leg._] Aint Leontine her 2024-4-23
149 [_Takes up the water can again and sets it to his lips._] There ain't much to this![_Drinks._ EDE Things like that makes you thirsty._LANGHEINRICH puts the can down._ LANGHEINRICH You c'n believe me, Doctor: it was fine anyhow.DR. BOXER What was it that 2024-4-23
150 LANGHEINRICH Yes, ruinin' girls an' that sort o' thing, that's what. An' then beatin'his hat around their heads an' sayin': Out with the low strumpet! That's what they is all of a sudden when it's he that made 'em--_what_ they is!--Oh, an' the 2024-4-23
151 LANGHEINRICH Nothin' broke loose here? What's all this about? Easy now, easy! Howdy do, Mr. Schmarowski? How are you? Have you come to visit your mother-in-law?SCHMAROWSKI I have business here!--And before I forget it, I should like to say: Have the goo 2024-4-23
152 LANGHEINRICH Aint he come back yet? I guess hes listenin to the bells. You know how he sits an listens when they ring. RAUCHHAUPT I dont know. Things is goin queer to-day. Mrs. Fielitz sent for him to come over. Horseradish seed is what she said she wante 2024-4-23
153 Its ... its ... its ... over at ... LANGHEINRICH Anything about the missis? MRS. SCHULZE No, at Fielitzes. LANGHEINRICH Is that so? Nothin about my wife? Well, then,--[_he shakes her_]--just stop to get your breath. Things is as they is. Im prepared for a 2024-4-23
154 _A fourteen-year-old boy comes madly hurrying up._ THE BOY [_To DR. BOXER._] Master! The key to the engine house! They cant get in to the engine. DR. BOXER Im not the fireman! Just keep cool! THE BOY They wants you to come to the engine right off. DR. BOX 2024-4-23
155 _The court-room of JUSTICE VON WEHRHAHN. A large, white-washed room level with the ground. The main door is in the left wall. Along the wall to the right is the large official table covered with books, doc.u.ments, etc. Behind it stands the chair of the j 2024-4-23
156 Me. Same person you see. Heres the box. All the matches aint there no more cause I smoked several times ... [_He places the box of matches on the official table._] WEHRHAHN [_Unpleasantly impressed by EDES manner, takes up the box and fixes his eyes upon 2024-4-23
157 EDE [_Softly._] He might send out a warrant after him.WEHRHAHN Doesn't any one know where Constable Schulze is?--Has any one interviewed Mrs. Fielitz? Or hasn't she returned from Berlin yet?--I want somebody to go to Councillor Reinberg.--[_To GLASENAPP 2024-4-23
158 FIELITZ I ... aw ... who'd ha' thought o' such a thing, your honour?WEHRHAHN Why don't you lay that clock down?FIELITZ I'm a peaceable man, your honour. I--I--I--I--Oh, Lordy, Lordy! I can't tell you nothin', how that there thing happened.--I'm on 2024-4-23
159 SCHULZE Right near here; by the church.GLASENAPP He always sits there and listens to the bells.WEHRHAHN Why didn't you tell us that before? Did he try to escape? Did he run from you?SCHULZE He sat in the ditch an' didn't notice us. Tschache could ride 2024-4-23
160 MRS. FIELITZ [_Tugs at the coat of SCHULZE, who stands near her but with his back turned. He faces her and she asks with a sorrowful expression._] Did you see my girl to-day? _SCHULZE nods and turns back again._ MRS. FIELITZ [_As before._] You did see Leo 2024-4-23
161 I have the impression, your honour, that this boy is really a patient.You will forgive me for mingling ...LANGHEINRICH The boy's a imbecile--clean daft!MRS. SCHULZE No, no, Doctor! Oh, no, Mr. Langheinrich, that there boy knows what he's doin'. I had a 2024-4-23
162 RAUCHHAUPT Your honour, I'll take my oath o' office, that's what I'll take, that my boy here is innercent!WEHRHAHN _Tempi pa.s.sati_. You're getting yourself into trouble. For the last time: Hands off!RAUCHHAUPT Then I'd rather kill him right here o 2024-4-23
163 RAUCHHAUPT [_Steps forward._] I should like 'umbly to report, your honour ...WEHRHAHN Go on! Go on! What else do you want? Let us have no more nonsense, my good man.RAUCHHAUPT [_Goes close up to MRS. FIELITZ._] G.o.d is my witness! I'll show you up!THE 2024-4-23
164 LANGHEINRICH I do feel pretty jolly to-day, an thats a fac! I got a piece o work done. An if I dont go an fall down from the steeple when I puts it up--Ill go an christen this here occasion. An I wont use water. MRS. FIELITZ Are you goin to put it up your 2024-4-23
165 That's the way! That whole crowd don't deserve no better. Not Wehrhahn an' not Friderici. An' anyhow, it was a good thing, Mrs. Fielitz. It was done just in the nick o' time! Now he's gone an' broken with them fellers, an' everybody knows it. Ther 2024-4-23
166 [_Holds his garment with her left hand and sews, still seated._] It aint n.o.bodys fault if a body cant get around so quick no more. You gets well enough taken care of. FIELITZ Aw, them times is past! You neednt lie atop of it all! Im like a old bootjack- 2024-4-23
167 Nonsense!FIELITZ It's a fac'! That thing has taken hold o' him like a sickness.MRS. FIELITZ Main thing is that you agrees. Don't you?FIELITZ Not a bit! I don't agree to nothin'. I been a agent in my time an' took care o' the most complexcated affa 2024-4-23
168 I'll see to it. Don't bother.SCHMAROWSKI Very well. An' now there's something else. Have you heard anything from Rauchhaupt again?MRS. FIELITZ Yes, I hears that he don't want to hold his tongue an' that he goes about holdin' us up to contempt. That 2024-4-23
169 MRS. FIELITZ No, it don't. That's so.LEONTINE Wouldn't you like for me to stay here now?RAUCHHAUPT Yon better be goin' an' buy some silk stockin's.MRS. FIELITZ What's the meanin' o' that?RAUCHHAUPT That don't mean, nothin' much. You might think 2024-4-23
170 Missis, there ain't a soul as knows what that was. I knows it. I just ran home, blind.... couldn't see nothin'! I didn't know nothin' no more o'G.o.d or the world. I just kept pantin' for air! An' then there I lay--like a dead person on the bed. T 2024-4-23
171 DR. BOXER Very well, then! And beyond that, Mrs. Fielitz, how do you feel?MRS. FIELITZ Well enough. 'Tis true,--[_she points to her breast_]--somethin's cracked inside o' here. But then! Everybody's gotta get out o' the world sometime. I've lived qu 2024-4-23
172 EDE Shes gone to sleep. LEONTINE [_Appealing to the DOCTOR._] Mother is swingin her arms around so! DR. BOXER Who? Where? Mrs. Fielitz? LEONTINE Look! Look! EDE [_Laughing._] Is she tryin to catch sparrows in the air? _DR. BOXER has turned from FIELITZ to 2024-4-23
173 THE CURTAIN FALLS…… 2024-4-23
174 The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann.by Gerhart Hauptmann.Volume II INTRODUCTION The first volume of the present edition of Hauptmann's Dramatic Works is identical in content with the corresponding volume of the German edition.In the second volume _Th 2024-4-23
175 [_Roughly._] What d'you want?MRS. HENSCHEL I want you to listen when a body calls you!HANNE I hear all right! But if you don't talk louder I can't hear. I got only just two ears.MRS. HENSCHEL Are you goin' to cut up rough again?HANNE [_Surly._] Ah, wh 2024-4-23
176 I'm goin' to get a Bashly cap, Mrs. Henschel.MRS. HENSCHEL Yes, yes, you c'n believe me. Come over here a bit. Keep reel still an'listen. D'you hear how it ticks? D'you hear how it ticks in the rotten wood?KARLCHEN [_Whose wrist she holds in her fev 2024-4-23
177 GRUNERT No, youre not famous for caring about them. MRS. HENSCHEL An itd be a bad thing if he was! HENSCHEL [_Slips on wooden pattens and rises. To HANNE._] Hurry now! Hurry! We got to get our dinner. This very day we still has to go down to the smithy. G 2024-4-23
178 HENSCHEL Who else but him? But this time he met the wrong man.MRS. HENSCHEL Well, well, I'm not sayin', but that's the end of everythin'! What's to become of us these hard times?HANNE The inspector of roads was here. He wants you to send him teams fo 2024-4-23
179 HENSCHEL You hold your tongue! No one asked you! You poke your nose over your kneadin' board an' not into other folks' affairs! It takes somethin' to keep a hotel like this goin'. Two months in the year he makes money. The rest o' the time he has to 2024-4-23
180 HANNE Shes always chasin an sniffin around Mr. Siebenhaar. Im willin people should please theirselves. But shes goin it hard. MRS. HENSCHEL The Siebenhaars ought to put them people out. The goins on with the men an the wenches. HENSCHEL Aw, what are you t 2024-4-23
181 SIEBENHAAR Perhaps you thought I was your husband!MRS. HENSCHEL I don't know ... I reely can't say ... I was feelin' so queer ...SIEBENHAAR Seems to me you're not lying comfortably. Let me straighten your pillows a bit. Does the doctor see you regular 2024-4-23
182 MRS. HENSCHEL [_As before._] You're wis.h.i.+n' me into my grave!SIEBENHAAR [_To HENSCHEL, who is about to fly into a rage._] s.h.!.+ Do me the favour to keep still!MRS. HENSCHEL A body has eyes. A body's not blind! You don't has to let me know everyt 2024-4-23
183 HENSCHEL Dont take no offence, sir. A woman like that! A man has his troubles with her.--Now you hurry up, mother, an get well, or some fine day youll be tellin me I been to Bolkenhain an stole horses. SIEBENHAAR Here, drink your wine and try to gain some 2024-4-23
184 [_With awkward merriment._] Hanne, Im comin to see you! Lord Amighty! Has you got such a thing as some warm water? HANNE [_Angrily throwing the piece of linen which she has on the washboard back into the tub and going over to the oven._] You come in here 2024-4-23
185 HANNE You start at me with such talk an' it just makes things worse an' worse.That's all.FRANZ It's not true, eh? You're not schemin' right on to be Mrs. Henschel? I'm not right, eh?HANNE That's my business. That don't concern you. We all has to 2024-4-23
186 HANNE I believe you. There'll be a lot o' smoke. You won't let your pipe get cold whatever happens.WERMELSKIRCH [_Smiling a little._] You're pleased to be pointed in your remarks--pointed as a needle.--We've got to-day, for our table music, wait now, 2024-4-23
187 [_He mounts the stairs and disappears._ WERMELSKIRCH He wont lose his way very often after this! Siebenhaar will see to it that he gets to know the way from the dining hall to the kitchen.--Hanne, when is Henschel coming back? HANNE About noon, I spose! D 2024-4-23
188 Now you see, there you are. That's what I always says too. People talks a good deal more'n they ought to. They has a few rags to sell an' they talks an' talks as if it was an estate. But I'll say just as little as possible. What I wants to tell you a 2024-4-23
189 HENSCHEL I can't eat; I'm not hungry.HANNE Eatin' and drinkin' keeps body an' soul together. I was once in service with a shepherd, an' he said to us more'n one time: If a body has a heartache or somethin' like that, even if he feels no hunger, ' 2024-4-23
190 [_Relieved._] You neednt say no more if thats all it is! HANNE [_Takes up some piece of work as an excuse for leaving the room._] No, no, Ill go. I cant never stay! [_Exit._ HENSCHEL [_Talking after her._] You cn let people talk an not say much yourself. 2024-4-23
191 Things have moved ahead with you, Henschel. But the same set of conditions that has counted in your favour, has been that against which I've had to struggle to keep my head above water.HENSCHEL The shoe pinches one man in this place an' another man in t 2024-4-23
192 Well, if you're so thoroughly convinced of all that ...!HENSCHEL There wouldn't be no better wife for me! An' yet ... an' yet! I can't get over it.[_Pause._]SIEBENHAAR I do remember quite dimly now what you mean. It was quite at the end of her life.- 2024-4-23
193 HANNE I knows well enough. HENSCHEL Thats what you dont. An you couldnt know. But some day, later on, youll come to understand.--Now Ill be goin to the taproom an buy me a mug o beer. Itll be the first time these eight weeks. After that we cn eat, an afte 2024-4-23
194 Henschel.MRS. HENSCHEL Good evenin'._HILDEBRANT withdraws._ MRS. HENSCHEL.[_Listens to a dragging noise out in the pa.s.sage._] What kind of a noise is that there? [_She steps forward and opens the door._] Who's makin' all that racket out there?FRANZIS 2024-4-23
195 FRANZISKA You can wager anything that I will. Mr. Siebenhaar was in Paris, too, you know, during the revolution in 'forty-eight, and he can tell you the most interesting stories! Oh, I'd like to see a revolution like that some day too. They build barric 2024-4-23
196 I beg your pardon very humbly, Mr. Siebenhaar, but I begs to submit that I don't come to see you. These people lives in your house. An' you can't prove nothin' as touchin' the question of my honour.SIEBENHAAR Very well. Only, if I should meet you aga 2024-4-23
197 Missis, your husband is outside in the yard. Im just comin in for a minute to bid you good evenin. I got to ride off again straight way. Hes bought some fine Flemish horses. An hes brought along something else, for you too. MRS. HENSCHEL I thought he woul 2024-4-23
198 WALTHER We was sittin' there an' then, after a little while, your father came in with the bit of a girl.MRS. HENSCHEL 'Tis no girl o' mine!WALTHER I don't know nothin' about that! I knows this much though: he's got the child out there. He went up t 2024-4-23
199 MRS. HENSCHEL Best thing would ha been if youd ha left her where she was. HENSCHEL What did you say? MRS. HENSCHEL Nothin. HENSCHEL I thought you were sayin somethin.--Into the tub with her! An then to bed! An you might go over her head a bit! I believe s 2024-4-23
200 HENSCHEL Are you goin' to go on this way?MRS. HENSCHEL Go on how?HENSCHEL With the child!MRS. HENSCHEL I'm not goin' to bite her; there's no fear![_She takes the still weeping child into the little room to bed._ HENSCHEL [_Speaking after her._] She's 2024-4-23