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The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Novel Chapters
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
- 1 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
- 2 HELEN, MARTHA, _KRAUSE'S daughters by his first marriage._ HOFFMANN, _Engineer, MARTHA'S husband._ WILHELM KAHL, _MRS. KRAUSE'S nephew._ MRS. SPILLER, _MRS. KRAUSE'S companion._ ALFRED LOTH.DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG.BEIPST, _Workingman on KR
- 3 Brother, you might.... [_She discovers LOTH and withdraws quickly._] Oh, I beg pardon. [_Exit._ HOFFMANN Stay here, do! LOTH Your wife? HOFFMANN No; her sister. Didnt you hear how she addressed me? LOTH No. HOFFMANN Good-looking, eh? But now, come on. Mak
- 4 HOFFMANN Oh, yes--green.LOTH Put it so, if you want to. You'll have to admit, at all events, that he was a very gifted fellow. And yet for five years he had to work as a stucco-worker, and for another five years he had to starve along, so to speak, o
- 5 LOTH Puerility? Ah well, in some ways no doubt it was. We certainly underestimated the difficulty of such an undertaking.HOFFMANN And that you really did go to America, in all seriousness, and with empty hands ... Why, think, man, what it means to acquire
- 6 Ah, but that's just it! The physician here is an unusually capable one.And, do you know, I've found this out: in a doctor, conscientiousness counts for more than genius.LOTH Perhaps it is an essential concomitant of a physician's genius.HOF
- 7 [_Pressing LOTHS hand._] I wonder if youd mind coming down to supper in about fifteen minutes--at most. LOTH Thats ample time. See you later. HOFFMANN Yes, see you later. [_EDWARD opens the door and lets LOTH precede him. Both go out. HOFFMANN scratches t
- 8 HOFFMANN Did you take a walk with my wife?HELEN What am I to do if she's so easily tired?HOFFMANN Nonsense! Easily tired! She makes me utterly wretched! An hour and a half ... I wish, for goodness' sake, she would do as the doctor orders. What i
- 9 HELEN Not in the least; oh, not in the least, believe me. [_A pause of constraint._] Indeed, indeed, it is most kind of you to have looked up my brother-in-law. He often complains that ... rather, regrets that the friends of his youth have forgotten him s
- 10 HELEN To be sure. And a miner like that is very interesting, if you look upon him in that way. Why, there are places where you never see one; but If you have them daily before your eyes ...LOTH Even if you have them daily before your eyes, Miss Krause. In
- 11 HOFFMANN Ah, there is mama! Permit me to introduce to you my friend Dr. Loth.MRS. KRAUSE [_Half-curtsies, peasant-fas.h.i.+on._] I take the liberty! [_After a brief pause._] Eh, but Doctor, you mustn't bear me a grudge, no, you mustn't at all. I
- 12 HOFFMANN You go too far, Helen. HELEN I dont know. According to my feeling its far more sensible to break windows, than to tether pigeons to a post and then shoot bullets into them. HOFFMANN Well, Helen, after all, you must consider ... LOTH [_Using his k
- 13 If I were to drink I should only grow more tiresome. HELEN That is most interesting, Doctor. LOTH [_Untactfully._] That I grow even more tiresome when I drink wine? HELEN [_Somewhat taken aback._] No, oh, no. But that you do not drink ... do not drink at
- 14 HOFFMANN Ah, well, if one couldnt get that much out of life! Youll never succeed in making an ascetic of me. You cant rob life of every stimulus. LOTH Im not so sure of that. I am thoroughly content with the normal stimuli that reach my nervous system. HO
- 15 Undoubtedly such a reason exists. You probably do not know, Miss Krause, nor you either, Hoffmann, what an appalling part alcohol plays in modern life ... Read Bunge, if you desire to gain an idea of it. I happen to remember the statements of a writer nam
- 16 What is more, you seem to be rather blessed with that sort of thing hereabouts.HOFFMANN [_Almost beside himself._] Why? How? Blessed with what?LOTH With drunkards, of course.HOFFMANN H-m! Do you think so ... ah ... yes ... I dare say--the miners....LOTH N
- 17 Oh, don't go! [_Hearing nothing there, she hastens over to the door of the conservatory, where she also listens for a few moments with tense expression. Folding her hands and in a tone of impa.s.sioned beseeching._]Oh, don't go! Don't go!TH
- 18 LOTH You must show me a little forbearance. You see, I'm a city man; and it isn't possible for me to know things about farming very exactly.BEIPST City folks! Eks.h.!.+ All of 'em I ever saw thought they knew it all--better'n country f
- 19 Who, do you think, is shooting so early? BEIPST Who would it be excep that rascal of a boy? LOTH What boy? BEIPST Will Kahl--our neighbours son here ... You just wait, you! Ive seen him, I tell you. He shoots larks. LOTH Why, you limp! BEIPST Yes, the Lor
- 20 Guess! [_He opens his hand at once._ LOTH What? Is it really true--you shoot the larks. You good for nothing! Do you know that you deserve to be beaten for such mischief? KAHL [_Stares at LOTH for some seconds in stupid amazement. Then, clenching his fist
- 21 LOTH How do you come across just that book? Do you quite understand it?HELEN I hope I do--at least, in part. It rests me to read it. [_After a pause._] But if it _is_ a foolish book, as you say, could you recommend me a better one?LOTH Read ... well, let
- 22 Well, it is wrong, for instance, that he who toils in the sweat of his brow suffers want while the sluggard lives in luxury. It is wrong to punish murder in times of peace and reward it in times of war. It is wrong to despise the hangman and yet, as soldi
- 23 HELEN Yes, quite badly, indeed.LOTH Ah--ha! And what was it that happened to his leg?HELEN That's a delicate subject. You have met Mr. Kahl?... But I must tell you this story very softly. [_She draws nearer to LOTH._] His father, you know, was just a
- 24 HELEN [_Deathly pale, but even more firmly._] And I say the maid shall stay!Otherwise I'll make it known--you ... with William Kahl ... your cousin, my betrothed ... I'll tell the whole world.MRS. KRAUSE [_Her a.s.surance breaking down._] Who ca
- 25 [_HOFFMANN shrugs his shoulders._ DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG [_As before._] Could you not, perhaps, engage the interest of your sister-in-law for the task of bringing up this child?HOFFMANN If you knew, doctor, how many obstacles ... and, after all, she is a you
- 26 HOFFMANN [_Arises. With a.s.sumed coldness._] D'you know, your behaviour to-day is really quite peculiar.HELEN [_Approaches him._] You have just one end in view. [_Almost whispering._]But you have very different weapons from father and from my stepmo
- 27 HOFFMANN Never mind.--Though, if he came; to-day, and if I knew what I do know to-day-- HELEN What is it that you know? Ive told you already that he didnt utter one word about you. HOFFMANN Well, you may depend on it that if that had been the case, I woul
- 28 LOTH I wonder if I could have a gla.s.s of milk? HOFFMANN With all the pleasure in the world. HELEN Edward, tell Miele to get some fresh milk. HOFFMANN [_Peeling an egg._] Milk--brrr! Horrible! [_Helping himself to salt and pepper._] By the way, Loth, wha
- 29 Perhaps it would be better for me to....LOTH Please stay. Miss Krause! By all means stay, at least as far as I'm concerned. I've seen for some time what he's aiming at. There's nothing in the least dangerous about it. [_To HOFFMANN._]
- 30 So there is. The woman, for instance, must have physical and mental health. That's a _conditio sine qua non_.HOFFMANN [_Laughing._] Better and better! I suppose then that a previous medical examination of the lady would be necessary.LOTH [_Quite seri
- 31 HOFFMANN Stubbornness.LOTH Deep feeling, too?HOFFMANN Too much at times ...LOTH But if the conditions here are so unfortunate for her, why doesn't your sister-in-law live with _your_ family?HOFFMANN You'd better ask her that! I've often eno
- 32 _EDWARD goes through the door at the right, reappears through the middle-door and then withdraws._ LOTH I simply meant that you hadn't understood me in one particular respect.HOFFMANN [_Worrying his foot into the other shoe._] Ouch! There! [_He rises
- 33 So you do not share Hoffmann's opinion?HELEN No!--and that--that is just what I wanted to be sure--quite sure to tell you, before ... before--you--went.LOTH [_Grasps her hand once more._] It helps me _much_ to hear you say that.HELEN [_Struggling wit
- 34 MRS. SPILLER [_Approaching._] The madame is willing to increase your wages, if you....[_Whispering suddenly._] What d'ye care, girl! She just gits kinder rough now an' then.MARIE [_Furiously._] She c'n keep her dirty money to herself!--[_Te
- 35 [_Hangs up his scythe on the wall._] Yed better not let that Spiller creature get wind o it. AUGUSTE Oh, Lord, no! Whod think o it! LIESE A poor woman like that with eight-- AUGUSTE Eight little brats. They wants to be fed! LIESE An they wouldnt give her
- 36 [_Draws nearer to her and takes her hand in his._] Ah, you mustn't let _that_ trouble you.HELEN [_Sighing._] Oh, if Sister Schmittgen knew of that--I dare not imagine it.LOTH Who is Sister Schmittgen?HELEN One of my teachers at boarding-school.LOTH H
- 37 LOTH Yes, it came all at once ... HELEN Listen, I feel this way: all the days of my life are like one day; but yesterday and to-day are like a year--a whole year! LOTH Didnt I come till yesterday? HELEN Of course not! Naturally! Thats just it!... Oh, and
- 38 HELEN You must say truly a hundred times. LOTH Truly and truly and truthfully. HELEN Oh, now, youre not playing fair! LOTH I am, though. That truthfully is equal to a hundred trulys. HELEN Oh? Is that the custom in Berlin? LOTH No, but it is here in Witzd
- 39 [_Hums very softly._] "Thou in my heart art lying ..." LOTH But now you must confess too. HELEN Anything you like. LOTH Confess now! Am I the first? HELEN No. LOTH Who? HELEN [_Laughing out in the fullness of her joy._] w.i.l.l.y Kahl! LOTH [_La
- 40 LOTH Well, in all probability he dances to her music. Perhaps she tyrannises over him? HELEN Oh, if it were nothing else?... No! It is too frightful!--You cant possibly guess that _that_ ... my father ... that it was _my_ father whom you ... LOTH Dont wee
- 41 [_Kissing HELEN._] But then, they are, dear. HELEN But suppose they were not--? _MRS. KRAUSE pushes open a window in the house and calls out into the yard._ MRS. KRAUSE Hey! Girls! Gi--rls! LIESE [_From within the cow-shed._] Yes, Missis? MRS. KRAUSE Run
- 42 KAHL [_Laughing._] I guess ye got a pig killin'?CURTAIN THE FIFTH ACT _The same room, as in the first act. Time: toward two o'clock in the morning. The room is in complete darkness. Through the open middle door light penetrates into it from the
- 43 DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG So long as your wife's strength keeps up there is, at all events, no direct danger. But why didn't you call in the young midwife? I remember having recommended her to you.HOFFMANN My mother-in-law...! What is one to do? And,
- 44 The way such things do happen! You remember I had to skin out from Jena that time.LOTH Was that before my crash?DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG Yes, a short time after we'd given up living together. So I took up medicine at Zuerich, first simply so as to have so
- 45 LOTH The pain is soon forgotten and there is no danger of death.HELEN Oh, but she is praying so to die. She wails and wails: Do let me die!...The doctor![_She jumps up and slips into the conservatory._ DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG [_On entering._] I do really wish
- 46 [_Disquieted._] Didnt the temptation ever come to you to ... to marry a daughter of one of these Witzdorf gold farmers? DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG The devil! Man, what do you take me for? You might as well ask whether I ... LOTH [_Very pale._] But why ... why? D
- 47 How distrustful you are, Nellie.HELEN Don't say that, dearest. Anybody would trust you, would just have to trust you!... When I am your own, oh, then ... then, you surely wouldn't leave me. [_As if beside herself._] I beseech you! Don't go
- 48 Call it that. At all events, we're agreed.DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG But what I want to know is: how did you fall in with this particular family?LOTH Hoffmann's an old college friend of mine. Then, too, he was a member--though only a corresponding one-
- 49 I should say there is. It has a purpose; it has for me! You don't know how I've succeeded in struggling along hitherto. I don't want to grow sentimental. Perhaps I didn't feel it quite so keenly either; perhaps I wasn't so clearly
- 50 LOTH Then, to be sure--I understand many things--No, everything, rather ...everything! [_After a heavy silence._] Then her life here, Helen's life, is a ... how shall I express it? I have no words for it; it's ...DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG Utterly horr
- 51 [_With a deep sigh._] Maybe youre right--perhaps certainly. _Hasty steps are heard descending the stairs. In the next moment HOFFMANN rushes in._ HOFFMANN Doctor, I beg you, for heavens sake ... she is fainting ... the pains have stopped ... wont you at l
- 52 Be brave: still-born!HOFFMANN O my G.o.d![_He rushes out._ HELEN _alone._ _She looks about her and calls softly:_ Alfred! Alfred! _As she receives no answer, she calls out again more quickly:_ Alfred!Alfred! _She has hurried to the door of the conservator
- 53 MOTHER BAUMERT.BERTHA BAUMERT EMMA BAUMERT FRITZ, EMMA'S _son (four years old)._ AUGUST BAUMERT.OLD ANSORGE.MRS. HEINRICH.OLD HILSE.MOTHER HILSE.GOTTLIEB HILSE.LUISE, GOTTLIEB'S _wife._ MIELCHEN, _their daughter (six years old)._ REIMANN, _weave
- 54 BECKER Rest's better than money.OLD BAUMERT Yes, but we _needs_ the money too. Good mornin' to you, Becker!BECKER Mornin', father Baumert! Goodness knows how long we'll have to stand here again.FIRST WEAVER That don't matter. What
- 55 NEUMANN [_Half aside to the APPRENTICE, in a serio-comic-tone._] "Every year brings a child to the linen-weaver's wife, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh."APPRENTICE [_Takes up the rhyme, half singing._] "And the little brat it's blind th
- 56 That's what you might give to a beggar; it's not pay.PFEIFER Every one who has been attended to must clear out. We haven't room to turn round in.BECKER [_To those standing near, without lowering his voice._] It's a beggarly pittance, n
- 57 BECKER Its all the same to me whether I starve at my loom or by the roadside. DREISSIGER Out you go, then, this moment! BECKER [_Determinedly._] Not without my pay. DREISSIGER How much is owing to the fellow, Neumann? NEUMANN One and threepence. DREISSIGE
- 58 "They're terrible put to it."--"The rain comes through their roof."--"The woman hasn't two s.h.i.+rts among the nine."OLD BAUMERT [_Taking the boy by the arm._] Now then, lad, what's wrong with you? Wake up, la
- 59 There now! You see! Of course such a fellow as that Becker can't. I advise you to keep these young lads in check. If there's much more of this sort of thing, I'll shut up shop--give up the business altogether, and then you can s.h.i.+ft for
- 60 _In this room, which does not measure six feet from the dilapidated wooden floor to the smoke-blackened rafters, sit four people. Two young girls, EMMA and BERTHA BAUMERT, are working at their looms; MOTHER BAUMERT, a decrepit old woman, sits on a stool b
- 61 Does he give him a heap of money? EMMA [_Impatiently._] Oh, stop that chatter, boy. [_She and BERTHA go on weaving for a time, and then both stop again._ BERTHA August, go and ask Ansorge if hell give us a light. [_AUGUST goes out accompanied by FRITZ._ M
- 62 [_Breaks out despairingly._] Things is in a terrible way with us![_She struggles in vain, against a rush of tears; then weeps silently._ MOTHER BAUMERT The best thing as could happen to the likes o' us, Jenny, would be if G.o.d had pity on us an'
- 63 We had him here in the house with us. He was ready enough to marry her; but he was too far gone in consumption; he was as good as a dead man. It didn't happen for want o' warnin' from me. But do you think she would listen? Not she. Now he&#
- 64 ANSORGE Glad to see you again, Moritz!JAEGER Thank you, father Ansorge--same to you!ANSORGE [_Shoving his pan into the oven._] Why, lad you look like a duke!OLD BAUMERT Show him your watch, Moritz. An' he's got a new suit of clothes, an'thi
- 65 [_Sniffing._] Fine as spice, you might say.ANSORGE Come, then, Moritz, tell us your opinion, you that's been out and seen the world. Is things at all like to improve for us weavers, eh?JAEGER They would need to.ANSORGE We're in an awful state he
- 66 Where's father?MOTHER BAUMERT I don't know where he can have gone.BERTHA Do you think he's not been able to stomach the meat, with not gettin'none for so long?MOTHER BAUMERT [_In distress, crying._] There now, there! He's not even
- 67 ANSORGE Yes, yes, a curse upon them!OLD BAUMERT [_Clenching his fist, threateningly._] You prey on man and woman.JAEGER [_Reads._]The suppliant knows he asks in vain, Vain every word that's spoken."If not content, then go and starve-- Our rules
- 68 TRAVELLER [_His mouth full._] What I don't understand's this.... Take up whatever paper you like and you'll find the most heartrending accounts of the dest.i.tution among the weavers. You get the impression that three-quarters of the people
- 69 I wouldn't ha' done it, but there's no more to be made now by basket-weaving'.WIEGAND It's always better than nothin'. He does it only to give you employment.I know Dreissiger very well. When I was up there takin' out hi
- 70 HORNIG No; perhaps the worst you do is to send in an account twice to the rich fustian manufacturers, or to help yourself to a plank or two at Dreissiger's when there's building goin' on and the moon happens not to be s.h.i.+nin'.WIEGA
- 71 FIRST YOUNG WEAVER [_Standing with several comrades in the lobby or outer room, calls in at the door._] What's a peasant but a peasant, though he lies in bed till nine?FIRST OLD WEAVER The peasant an' the count, it's the same story with �
- 72 [_Host, hostess, and their daughter, WIEGAND, and the TRAVELLER all laugh._ JAEGER If the cap fits, wear it.TRAVELLER Your affairs seem to be in a thriving condition, young man, if I may be allowed to say so.JAEGER I can't complain. I'm a travel
- 73 Rot! How could it be done peaceably? Did they do it peaceably in France?Did Robespeer tickle the rich men's palms? No! It was: Away with them, every one! To the gilyoteen with 'em! Allongs onfong! You've got your work before you. The geese&
- 74 Look here, Wittig. You've always jawed such a lot about the French Revolution, and a good deal too about your own doings. A time may be coming, and that before long, when every one will have a chance to show whether he's a braggart or a true man
- 75 [_Roars after him._] He's no right to forbid, it--not if we was to roar till the windows shook an' they could hear us at Reichenbach--not if we sang till the manufacturers' houses tumbled about their ears an' all the superintendents�
- 76 DREISSIGER [_Carelessly._] Ah! these are things you don't understand.KITTELHAUS Excuse me--has anything happened to annoy you, Mr. Dreissiger?DREISSIGER Never a day pa.s.ses without that, my dear sir. I am accustomed to it. What about that coffee, Ro
- 77 They've caught one of 'em.DREISSIGER [_Hastily._] Has some one gone for the police?PFEIFER The superintendent's on his way upstairs.DREISSIGER [_At the door._] Glad to see you, sir. We want you here.[_KITTELHAUS makes signs to the ladies th
- 78 You're not in a stable, fellow! Do you understand?SUPERINTENDENT My patience is at an end now. For the last time: What's your name?_KITTELHAUS who has been peering out at the partly opened drawing-room door, listening to what has been going on,
- 79 All we have to do is to go into the other room; it won't disturb us in the least there.KITTELHAUS [_Shaking his head._] I wish I knew what has come over these people. In so far I must agree with Mr. Weinhold, or at least till quite lately I was of hi
- 80 You go and see if you can do it. Try! Go and speak to them! [_Standing in front of the pastor, abruptly._] Am I such a tyrant? Am I a cruel master?_Enter JOHN the coachman._ JOHN If you please, m'm, I've put to the horses. Mr. Weinhold's pu
- 81 JOHN We're ready to start. But come quickly, before they gets round to the back door.MRS. DREISSIGER [_In a transport of fear, throwing her arms around JOHN'S neck._] John, John, dear, good John! Save us, John. Save my boys! Oh, what is to becom
- 82 Pfeifer too?VOICES Let's get hold o' Pfeifer! Look for Pfeifer!BAUMERT Yes, yes! Pfeifer! Tell him there's a weaver here for him to starve.[_Laughter._ JAEGER If we can't lay hands on that brute Dreissiger himself ... we'll make h
- 83 GOTTLIEB [_From the other room._] There you are, lettin' that tongue of yours run away with you again.OLD HILSE You should think twice, la.s.s, before you talk that G.o.dless way. [_He goes to his loom, calls._] Can you give me a hand, Gottlieb?--the
- 84 [_Still incredulous._] What was it set them off?HORNIG Who knows? who knows? One says this, another says that.OLD HILSE What do they say?HORNIG The story as most of 'em tells is that it began with Dreissiger sayin'that if the weavers was hungry
- 85 OLD HILSE Hurry up, now! Look sharp! As quick as ever you can. A fine state o'matters, this! Get that devil's spoon out o' the house.[_GOTTLIEB goes off with the spoon._ HORNIG I must be off now too.[_He goes, is seen talking to the people
- 86 MOTHER HILSE Father, is it only me that's thinkin' it, or is the bells ringin'?OLD HILSE It'll be a funeral, mother.MOTHER HILSE An' I've got to sit waitin' here yet. Why must I be so long a-dyin', father? [_Pause._
- 87 Well heat em red hot an stick em down the manufacturers throats, so as theyll feel for once what burnin hunger tastes like. THIRD YOUNG WEAVER Come along, father Hilse! Well give no quarter. SECOND YOUNG WEAVER No one had mercy on us--neither G.o.d nor ma
- 88 OLD BAUMERT [_A little intimidated, coaxingly._] I was bringin' you a chicken, Gustav. I thought it would make a drop o' soup for mother.OLD HILSE [_Embarra.s.sed, almost friendly._] Well, you can tell mother yourself.MOTHER HILSE [_Who has been
- 89 SECOND YOUNG WEAVER Let me alone. 'Twasn't anything bad I said.OLD HILSE [_Interfering._] Let him jaw, Gottlieb. What. would you be meddlin' with him for? He'll soon see who it is that's been off his head to-day, him or me.BECKER
- 90 Gottlieb, you listen, to what father says to you.[_Some one sings outside the window:_ Our little man does all that he can, Heigh-ho, heigh!At home he cleans the pots an' the pan, Heigh-diddle-di-dum-di![_Pa.s.ses on._ GOTTLIEB [_Jumps up, shakes his
- 91 [_He begins to weave._ [_Rattle of another volley. OLD HILSE, mortally wounded, starts to his feet and then falls forward over the loom. At the same moment loud shouting of_ "Hurrah!" _is heard. The people who till now have been standing in the
- 92 But what do you want here at home?LEONTINE [_Awkwardly affected and aggrieved._] So you don't want me to come no more at all?MRS. WOLFF Aw, you just go ahead and put on that way! I'm so fond o' that! [_She lets the sack drop from her should
- 93 Yes, talkin'!LEONTINE No, sewin'! I can go in to Berlin and sew cloaks. Emily Stechow's been doin' that ever since New Year.MRS. WOLFF Don't come tellin' me about that slattern! I'd like to get my hands on her, that'
- 94 n.o.body needn't be scared about that, Julius. I ain't sayin' but what you'll live to see things. That girl will be livin' up on the first floor some day and we'll be glad to have her condescend to know us. What is it the doc
- 95 Aw, to-morrow morninll be another day, too. MRS. WOLFF Oh, no. Dont take to thinkin that way. We aint goin to make that kind of a start--not we. [_JULIUS comes into the room growling._] There, take, the hammer! Heres your nails! Now hurry an get it done.
- 96 LEONTINE Ive just got as thin as can be, mama! My clothes is just hangin on to me. MRS. WOLFF You hurry now and go in to bed or papall raise a row yet. He aint got no understandin for things like that. ADELAIDE Papa always speaks so uneducated! MRS. WOLFF
- 97 Well, I'm tellin' you. I'm straight from Gruenau. An' there I heard it for certain. They shot Fritz Weber. They just about filled his breeches with lead.MRS. WOLFF What are you goin' to give? That's the main thing.WULKOW [_Fe
- 98 WULKOW Well, what do I get out of it all, I want to know! This here lighter business ain't a natural thing. An' poachin', that's a bad job. If you all get nabbed, I'd be the first one to fly in. I been worryin' along these fo
- 99 [_Calls from without._] Mrs. Wolff! Oh, Mrs. Wolff! Are you still up? MRS. WOLFF [_Sharing the consternation of the others, rapidly, tensely._] Slip it in! Slip it in! And get in the other room! [_She crowds them all into the rear room and locks the door.
- 100 What? Who ist you say? ADELAIDE I think the voice was Motess voice. MRS. WOLFF [_Vehemently._] Go down! Ran! Tell papa to come up! That fool Motes can stay on the other side. He dont need to come sniffin around in the house here. _ADELAIDE exits. MRS. WOL