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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
- 302 SPITTA An unmistakable feeling a.s.sures me that the child has only now lost its mother. QUAQUARO Thats true. Its father aint aroun an don want to have nothin to do with it. He got married yesterday to the widow of a man who owned a merry-go-roun! Its mot
- 301 JOHN [_Stops, grasps his forehead and sinks into a chair._] If that's true, mother, I'll be too ashamed to show my face again.[_He seems to sink into himself, crosses his arms over his head and hides his face._ Ha.s.sENREUTER Mrs. John, how could you pe
- 300 You, Walburga?WALBURGA Yes, papa. Alice Rutterbusch was with you that day, and I had made an engagement to meet Erich here. He came to see you finally but failed to meet me because I kept hidden.Ha.s.sENREUTER I can't say that I have any recollection
- 299 [_Crying vociferously._] Officer Schierke even slapped my face.MRS. JOHN Well, I'll see about that ... he oughta try that again.SELMA I can't tell why that Polish girl took my little brother away. If I'd known that my little brother was goi
- 298 MRS. JOHN I c'n tell you what she was! She was a common, low wench! She had dealin's with a Tyrolese feller that didn't want to have nothin' more to do with her an' she had a child by him. An' she'd ha' liked to kil
- 297 D'you want me to go an' earn the thousand crowns' reward what's offered accordin' to placards on the news pillars by the chief o' police's office for denouncin' the criminal?MRS. JOHN How's that?JOHN Don't
- 296 MRS. Ha.s.sENREUTER [_Shaking MRS. JOHN._] Wake up, my good woman! Wake up, Mrs. John! You are ill! Your husband ought to take you to see a physician.MRS. JOHN Bruno, you ain' doin' right! [_The bells are ringing again._] Ain't them the bel
- 295 I don't understand you. Let him come, Walburga. The essential thing is that one knows what one wants and that one has a clean conscience. I am ready. I long for the explanation to come about._A loud knocking is heard at the door._ SPITTA [_Firmly._]
- 294 deserve no better.BRUNO Good-bye. I s'pose we ain't goin' to see each other for years an' years.MRS. JOHN Where you goin' to?BRUNO First of all I gotta lie flat on my back for a couple o' hours. I'm goin'to Fritz�
- 293 Then she wanted to get away 'cause Arthur said that her intended had gone off! Then I wanted to go along with her a little bit an' Arthur an'Adolph, they came along. Next we dropped in the ladies' entrance at Kalinich's an' w
- 292 I ain' doubtin' that there's dirt in your head! An' if it hadn't been that you board with my sister here I'd ha' let the light into you long ago, you dirt eater, so you'd ha' bled for weeks.JOHN [_With tense restraint._] Tell me again, Jette, tha
- 291 JOHN Then it didn't take long for us to agree, eh?MRS. JOHN Yes, an' I laughed an', bit by bit, I looked at myself in every one o'your bra.s.s b.u.t.tons. I was lookin' different then! An' then you said ...JOHN Well, mother, you're a great one for
- 290 MRS. JOHN [_In timid suspense._] Well ...?JOHN Oh, never mind! Nothin! There was nothin' to it.MRS. JOHN [_As before._] What did he say?JOHN What d'you think he said? But if you're bound to know--'tain't no use talkin' o' such things Sunday mornin
- 289 No, Mrs. John, we didn't hear that.MRS. JOHN The rain's splas.h.i.+n' down again._One hears a shower of rain beginning to fall._ WALBURGA [_Nervously._] Come, Erich, let's get out into the open anyhow.MRS. JOHN [_Speaking louder and louder in her inco
- 288 Am I too late? It was only by the greatest cunning, by the greatest determination, by the most ruthless disregard of everything that I succeeded in getting away from home. My younger sister tried to bar the door. Even the servant girl! But I told mama tha
- 287 SPITTA To be quite frank with you, if I don't get hold of some money by to-night, the few books and other possessions I have will be attached for rent by my landlady and I'll be put into the street.JOHN I thought your father was a preacher.SPITTA So he
- 286 QUAQUARO That's why I come to you! There is more. The girl said in front o'witnesses more'n onct that that little crittur o' k.n.o.bbe's was her own an' that she had expressly given it in board to your wife.JOHN [_First taken aback, then relieved. L
- 285 Did you hear, Paul, that Mrs. k.n.o.bbe's youngest over the way has been taken off again?JOHN No. What chance did I have to hear that? But if it's dead, it's a good thing, Emil. When I saw the poor crittur a week ago when it had convulsions an' Selma
- 284 An' I swears by the Holy Mother o' G.o.d ...Ha.s.sENREUTER You'd better not if you want to save your soul! We may have a case here in which the circ.u.mstances are complicated in the extreme! It is possible, therefore, that you were about to swear in p
- 283 SCHIERKE [_Opening the door slightly._] All right. But only Mrs. k.n.o.bbe! Come in here a minute._MRS. SIDONIE k.n.o.bBE appears. She is tall and emaciated and dressed in a badly worn but fas.h.i.+onable summer gown. Her face bears the stigma, of a disso
- 282 They were inquiring for Mrs. John.SCHIERKE May I be permitted to ax somethin' too?Ha.s.sENREUTER If you please.PAULINE Jus' let him ax. We don't has to worry.SCHIERKE [_To MRS. KIELBACKE._] What's your name?MRS. KIELBACKE I'm Mrs.
- 281 These ladies don't seem to believe me. Will you kindly inform them, gentlemen, that Mrs. John has no child in board, and that they are quite obviously mistaken in the name.KaFERSTEIN I am asked to tell you that you are probably mistaken in the name.P
- 280 Ha.s.sENREUTER This fellow who is fond of making such an innocent face as if he couldn't harm a fly and whom I was careless enough to admit to my house is, unfortunately, a man behind whose mask the most shameless impudence lies in wait. I and my hou
- 279 PASTOR SPITTA What turns these young people aside from the right path is evil example and easy opportunity.Ha.s.sENREUTER I beg your pardon, Pastor, but I have not observed in your son the slightest inclination toward leading a frivolous life. He is simpl
- 278 That depends on where the suspicion falls.Ha.s.sENREUTER In this house?--You'll admit yourself, Mr. Quaquaro ...QUAQUARO That's true all right. But it won't be long before we'll have a little cleanin' up aroun' here! The wido
- 277 Ha.s.sENREUTER Walburga! I'm afraid Mr. Spitta is taking us for each other. Mr. Spitta, you're about to give a lesson! Walburga, you and your teacher are free to retire to the library.--If human arrogance and especially that of very young people
- 276 When something got lost in my mother's shop in Schneidemuhl, it was always said that the rats had eaten it. And really, when you consider the number of rats and mice in this house--I very nearly stepped on one on the stairs a while ago--why shouldn&#
- 275 Why not to-day?MRS. JOHN Because no good'd come of it this day. Wait till to-morrow, five o'clock in the afternoon.PAULINE That's it. My landlady says it was written that way, that a gentleman from the city'll be here to-morrow afterno
- 274 PAULINE [_Whining helplessly but with clenched fists._] Lemme go in an' see my child!MRS. JOHN [_A terrible change coming over her face._] Look at me, girl! Come here an' look me in the eye!--D'you think you c'n play tricks on a woman
- 273 PAULINE Oh, you'll know about the money all right! It's been jus' burnin' into me, that it has! It was like a snake under my pillow ...MRS. JOHN Oh, come now ...PAULINE Like a snake that crept out when I went to sleep. An' it torm
- 272 How what goes? What's everythin'?PAULINE [_With a somewhat bad conscience._] Well, if it's well; if it's gettin'on nicely.MRS. JOHN If what's well? If what's gettin' on nicely?PAULINE You oughta know that without my
- 271 What I'll be in the end may be left to G.o.d. But never a parson--never a country parson!WALBURGA Listen! I've had my fortune told from the cards.SPITTA That's nonsense, Walburga. You mustn't do that.WALBURGA I swear to you, Erich, tha
- 270 Ha.s.sENREUTER [_Who has joined in the general, outburst of laughter called forth by SPITTA'S explanation._] Well now, listen here! You blandly say: Nothing else! And you announce it publicly here before all these people?SPITTA [_In consternation._]
- 269 Jette, at the master-mason's house, the milk that's fed to the twins is sterilised too._The pupils of Ha.s.sENREUTER, KaFERSTEIN and DR. KEGEL, two young men between twenty and twenty-five years of age, have knocked at the door and then opened i
- 268 JOHN [_Wiping the moisture out of his eyes._] That's the way it was. No. I couldn't let him do that.MRS. Ha.s.sENREUTER Just think, to-day at the dinner-table we had to drink wine--suddenly, to drink wine! Wine! For years and years the city-wate
- 267 SELMA [_Tearfully._] Mother ain't been home at all yesterday or to-day. I can't get no sleep with this child. He just moans all night. I gotta get some sleep sometime! I'll jump outa the window first thing or I'll let the baby lie in t
- 266 [_Modestly._] Mother, how'd it be if I was to open the window jus' a speck an' was to light my pipe for a bit?MRS. JOHN Does you have to smoke? If not, you better let it be!JOHN No, I don't has to, mother. Only I'd like to! Never
- 265 But, man alive, you want to become an actor--you, with your round shoulders, with your spectacles and, above all, with your hoa.r.s.e and sharp voice. It's impossible.SPITTA If such fellows as I exist in real life, why shouldn't they exist on th
- 264 [_Throws off his overcoat and stands with his decorations displayed._]You probably couldn't help noticing that His Serenity had had a most excellent breakfast. Aha! We had breakfast together! We attended an exquisite little stag party given by Prince
- 263 Very soon he reappears, at his side an elegant young lady, ALICE RuTTERBUSCH._]--Alice! My little Alice! Come here where I can see you, little girl! Come here into the light! I must see whether you're the same infinitely delightful, mad little Alice
- 262 So I'm to tell Mr. Spitta but not papa?WALBURGA [_Involuntarily._] Oh, for heaven's sake, no!MRS. JOHN Well, you jus' wait an' see! You jus' look out! There's many a one has looked like you an' has come from your part o&
- 261 WALBURGA Dear me, but Ive had an awful fright, Mrs. John. MRS. JOHN Well, then I advise you to be gettin out o here to-day--on Sunday? WALBURGA [_Laying her hand over her heart._] Why, my heart is almost standing still yet, Mrs. John. MRS. JOHN Whats the
- 260 PAULINE [_Seeming to notice for the first time the fantastic strangeness of the place in which she finds herself. Frightened and genuinely perturbed._]Mother o' G.o.d, what kind o' place is this?MRS. JOHN Whoever c'n that be?BRUNO 'Tai
- 259 That's a feller I wouldn't like to meet in the _Tiergarten_. Not by night an' not by day neither.MRS. JOHN If I sets Bruno on anyone an' he gets at him, G.o.d help him!PAULINE Good-bye. I don't like this here place. If you wants t
- 258 The whole room displays picturesque disorder, Trumpery of all kinds--weapons, goblets, cups--is scattered about. It is Sunday toward the end of May._ _At the table in the middle of the room are sitting, MRS. JOHN (between thirty-five and forty) and a very
- 257 ROSE What? I has none? Could I ha' strangled it with my hands?... I strangled my baby with these hands!!!THE CONSTABLE You're possessed! What's wrong with you?ROSE My mind's clear. I'm not possessed. I woke up clear in my mind, so
- 256 BERND Do you understand one word, August? AUGUST No, not o this.... BERND Do you know how I feel? I feel as if one abyss after another was openin, was yawnin for us here. Whatll we hear before the end? ROSE A curse! A curse will ye have to hear: I see you
- 255 AUGUST I don't despise no one in this world.ROSE But I do! All of 'em ... all ... all!AUGUST Those is dark words to me that you're speakin'.ROSE Dark? Yes! I know it. The world's dark! An' you hear the roarin' o' wi
- 254 AUGUST Father Bernd....BERND Now wait a bit before ever you say another word! Here I take the books!Here I take my hat! Here I take the collecting box o' the missions. An'all these things I puts together here. An' if that's true what y
- 253 You know me in that respeck, father Bernd. Before I'd depart from the straight an' narrow way ...BERND Well, then. I know that! I always knew that! An' so justice can take its course.AUGUST [_Wiping the sweat from his forehead._] If only we
- 252 Whos comin there? CONSTABLE I have a summons to serve, I must speak to your daughter. BERND My oldest daughter? CONSTABLE [_Reads from the doc.u.ment._] To Rose Bernd. BERND My daughter hasnt come back from court yet. Can I give her the letter? CONSTABLE
- 251 MARTHEL [_Has started the fire to burning and now brings ROSE an earthenware bowl of potatoes and a paring knife._] Oh, but Rosie, I'm that frightened! You look so ...!ROSE How does I look? Tell me that? How? Has I got spots on my hands? Is it brande
- 250 Youre just sayin that! ROSE Because tis really so! _MARTHEL comes in from the fields with bare arms and feet._ ROSE An theres Marthel, too! MARTHEL Rose, is that you? Where have you been all day? ROSE I dreamed I was at the court. KLEINERT No, no; she was
- 249 FLAMM [_Laughing._] Oh, well, that's what you women make of us--dogs. This man to-day; that man to-morrow! 'Tis bitter enough to think! You can do what you please now; follow what ways you want to!--If I so much as raise a finger in this affair
- 248 An did you have to take an oath too? ROSE I dont know.--Im not such a wicked la.s.s ... If that was true,twould be a bitter crime!... An that August lost his eye ... it wasnt I that was the cause o it. The pains that poor man had to suffer ... they follow
- 247 your unwillingness to let me help you.--But I don't see how you're goin'to get along all alone. Come, drink a cup o' coffee. [_ROSE sits down on the edge of a chair by the table._] August was here to see me a while ago. If I had been i
- 246 FLAMM What was it?MRS. FLAMM I'm much too old for you. A woman can be sixteen years younger than her husband, but not three or four years older. I wish you had listened to me then!FLAMM Isn't it real idle to dish up those old stories now? Haven&
- 245 AUGUST Yes! He talked to him a long time. You see, as for me--I've lost an eye, to be sure--but I don't care to have Streckmann punished. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. But father--he can't be persuaded to think peaceably about this mat
- 244 'Tis strange things you are saying to-day, Christie. [_A knocking is heard at the door._] Who's knocking there? Come in!AUGUST [_Still behind the scenes._] 'Tis only me, Mrs. Flamm._FLAMM withdraws rapidly into his den._ MRS. FLAMM Oh,
- 243 Now, mother, you've gone off your head entirely. You seem to want to make me look utterly foolis.h.!.+ _I_ sigh! Am I such an imbecile? I'm not a lovelorn swain.MRS. FLAMM No, Christie, you can't escape me that way!FLAMM Mother, what are yo
- 242 MRS. FLAMM If I can't do anything else--you can be sure I can do that.[_Silence._]FLAMM [_Bursting out._] I'll be d.a.m.ned and double d.a.m.ned! There are times when one would like to take a gun and simply shoot down a scoundrel like that!There
- 241 Good-bye, Streckmann. Tell me, though, whats going to be the outcome of that affair? STRECKMANN [_Stops and shrugs his shoulders._] It isnt goin to be much of an outcome for me! FLAMM Why? STRECKMANN I suppose Ill have to suffer for it. FLAMM What consequ
- 240 [_Who is helping the MAID, HAHN, GOLISCH and MRS. GOLISCH support AUGUST._] His eye is out! OLD MRS. GOLISCH Father Bernd, August didnt fare so very well this time.... KLEINERT Tis an evil wooin that he has! BERND What? How? Christ In Heaven! [_He goes to
- 239 What? Tis violence that you did to me! You confused me! You broke me down! You pounced on me like a wild beast! I know! I tried to get out by the door! An you took hold an you rent my bodice an my skirt! I bled! I might ha gotten out by the door! Then you
- 238 But now! This minute! Yunderstand! STRECKMANN Right away! For all I care! An why not? [_He makes a farcical gesture as though avoiding a shower of rain._] ROSE [_Half-mad with rage and scorn._] There he runs! The vile scoundrel! When you see a fellow like
- 237 ROSE No, that can't be. That would cut a body too sorely to the heart. That wouldn't be nothin' but double sufferin' an' misery! There's got to be an end to it all. I'll bury myself in the house! There's work an
- 236 ROSE But you must hold it.FLAMM How can I drink this way?ROSE [_Amused against her will, turns her face to him._] Oh, but....FLAMM That's better already!--That's good!--[_Apparently unintentionally and as if merely to hold the cup, he puts his o
- 235 [_Who has. .h.i.therto been reading, with apparent absorption, in his New Testament, now closes the book and arises._] Come, father, let's go to work.HAHN That takes it out o' you more than pastin' prayer books together or stirrin' the
- 234 matter with me, I can tell ye. [_Bl.u.s.tering:_] Ill let the machine squeeze off one of my arms! Or ye can run the piston through me if ye want to! Kill me, for all I care. HAHN Or mebbe youd like to set a barn afire. STRECKMANN By G.o.d! Theres fire eno
- 233 You're mighty friendly, all of a sudden.ROSE We was always agreed with each other, wasn't we, August? What are you laughin' at? [_She kisses him. Laughter is heard among the people._]GOLISCH Well, well, and I thought as I might be climbin&#
- 232 HEINZEL I'm not comin'. What for? To swill cold water? I needn't go no farther than the spring for that. Or for the sake of a little coffee.HAHN An' prayin' an' singin' for dessert. An' mebbe, there's no tellin
- 231 AUGUST D'you think it had somethin' to do with Streckmann? He called out some words behind you that day, an' first he had talked to her.BERND It may be so, an' it may not be so. I can't tell you. Times is when one can't get a
- 230 [_Exit quickly._ MRS. FLAMM [_Alone. She looks after ROSE, sighs, takes the child's s.h.i.+ft from her lap, unfolds it as before and says:_] Ah, la.s.s,'tis a good fortune that you have, not an evil! There's none that's greater for a w
- 229 For heaven's sake ..._MRS. FLAMM, wheeled by a maid servant, appears at the door of the den._ MRS. FLAMM What is the trouble, Christopher?_FLAMM who has turned deadly pale, pulls himself together energetically, takes his hat and cane from the wall an
- 228 In four or five weeks? So soon as that?AUGUST Yes, Mr. Flamm.FLAMM Then I must beg you to name the exact date. It's very difficult to make such arrangements so rapidly and....ROSE [_Involuntarily from the depth of her painful excitement._] An' i
- 227 Iron principles, I must say! Quite exemplary!--Come in! I thought someone was knocking. Or wasn't there? Those confounded ...! You practise a bit of quackery now and then as a diversion, don't you? [_AUGUST shakes his head._] I thought you heale
- 226 FLAMM [_Stops looking at the gun. Lightly._] Is it possible? And are you in such a hurry about it? MRS. FLAMM [_Banteringly._] How does that concern you, Christie? Dear me, let the good folks marry in peace! Youre a reglar preacher, you are! If that man h
- 225 Yes. An' it's like takin' a stone off my heart. She has kept us all hangin' about this long time. Now she wants to hurry of her own free will. She'd rather have the weddin' to-day than to-morrow.MRS. FLAMM I'm very glad
- 224 BERND When it comes to drinkin' to a happy weddin', I makes an exception!STRECKMANN Exactly! That's proper! That's right!--It isn't as if I was a horse-boy to-day as in the old times on the estate when you had the whip hand o'
- 223 AUGUST Theres them that even gads about with guns. STRECKMANN An devils that take no shame carryin a whisky-bottle. [_He pulls his bottle out of his pocket._ AUGUST Each man does those things on his own responsibility. STRECKMANN True. An at his own expen
- 222 STRECKMANN Maybe it's so. I can't change things. A man like me who has to go the round o' all the estates in the country with his thres.h.i.+n' machine--he don't have worry because he's not talked about. I know best how it is
- 221 ROSE I'll go home an' hang myself on a beam! That's what Mary Schubert did too.STRECKMANN That was a different thing with her! That girl had different things on her conscience! An' I didn't have nothin' to do with her.--But i
- 220 [_After a silence._] August he's such a peevish kind....ROSE I don't want to hear nothing. Leave me alone! Your quarrels don't concern me! One o' you is no better'n another.STRECKMANN Well, in some things--when it comes to bein�
- 219 ROSE I shouldnt wonder if you had your little bundle o sins. You might ha been prayin a bit. STRECKMANN Im on pretty good terms with the Lord. He dont keep such very particular accounts o my sins. ROSE Well, well! STRECKMANN No, he dont bother with me muc
- 218 FLAMM Then let your father marry August Keil, if he's so crazy about the fellow. Why, he's positively obsessed. It's madness the way he's taken with that man!ROSE You're unjust, Mr. Flamm; that's all.FLAMM Say rather ... Well
- 217 [_He picks up a handful of them and shows them to ROSE. With heartfelt conviction:_] Rosie, I wish you were my wife!ROSE Goodness, Mr. Flamm!FLAMM I do, so help me!ROSE [_Nervously trying to restrain him_] Oh no, no!FLAMM Rosie, give me your dear, good, f
- 216 Shall I call the doctor?SIEBENHAAR Too late! He could give no help here.THE CURTAIN FALLS.ROSE BERND LIST OF PERSONS BERND.ROSE BERND.MARTHEL.CHRISTOPHER FLAMM.MRS. FLAMM.ARTHUR STRECKMANN.AUGUST KEIL.HAHN. HEINZEL. GOLISCH. KLEINERT. _Field Labourers_ OL
- 215 Lie down on your side an leave me alone. HENSCHEL Are you comin too? MRS. HENSCHEL Its most day now. [_She winds the clock._] HENSCHEL Whos windin the clock? MRS. HENSCHEL Youre to keep still now. If Berthel was to wake up itd be a fine to do. Shed howl f
- 214 MRS. HENSCHEL [_Who has been bending down before the oven, draws herself up quickly._] Im makin a fire. Dont you see that? HENSCHEL [_Sitting down, heavily by the table._] For my part you cn light the lamp too. [_He pulls out the drawer of the table._ MRS
- 213 Things are often said in heat that simply enter at one ear and pa.s.s out at the other. And that's the way to treat such incidents, I always do.HENSCHEL An' that'd be best too. You're quite right. But no--I won't be comin'int
- 212 No, no; we c'n talk about it a bit. You see, I know 'tis all my fault--I know that, an' with that we can let it be. But before I went an' took this woman--Hanne, I mean--before that it all began ... slowly it began, slowly--but downhil
- 211 [_He locks the door again._ MRS. HENSCHEL You're to leave the door open, Wilhelm, or I'll cry for help!HENSCHEL --s.h.!.+ Keep still! Did you hear? There's somethin' runnin' along the pa.s.sage. D'you hear? Now it goes to the
- 210 Say somethin', won't you?HENSCHEL Up there!... That's where they are!MRS. HENSCHEL You're dreaming, eh? You, Wilhelm, wake up! Lay down in your bed an' go to sleep. There's nothin' but clouds up there!HENSCHEL Anybody th
- 209 What?--Hanne is to come! _MRS. HENSCHEL enters suddenly and quickly, just as she has come from her work and still drying her hands._ MRS. HENSCHEL Whatre you roarin about so? HENSCHEL Tis well that youre here.--This man here says-- MRS. HENSCHEL [_Makes a
- 208 But, dear Mr. Henschel, I beg you, for heaven's sake, don't cause a scandal here! The police will be coming at me next, and then ...HENSCHEL [_In an outburst of towering, withering rage--bluish-red of face._] I'll beat you all to death if H
- 207 WALTHER I s'pose it's just as well to go....[_He prepares to pay his score._ WERMELSKIRCH Mr. Henschel, surely that isn't right of you. You drive my customers out.HENSCHEL Well, my goodness! Now tell me: If that man runs out, what has I to
- 206 HILDEBRANT In this here house everythin' is bein' turned upside down now. An' what I says is this: You'll be all sighin' to have Siebenhaar back some day.HENSCHEL [_To HAUFFE._] You might go over to Landeshut. I got two coach hors
- 205 BERTHA [_To FABIG._] Why dont you dive me some nuts? FABIG Aha, she knows who I is! Ill look an see if I cn find some! BERTHA Outside in the waggon! FABIG No, theyre here in my pocket! [_He gives them to the child._] You see, you dont get out o the pubs.
- 204 WALTHER I c'n bear witness that she was well. She was my own sister an' I ought to know. She was in the way an' had to go._SIEBENHAAR leaves quietly._ WERMELSKIRCH Would you like a little snuff, gentlemen? [_Softly and confidentially._]And
- 203 On the contrary! Are we to put up with everything? Isn't one to offer any resistance if that woman robs us of our very bread--if she spreads slander about our daughter? [_To SIEBENHAAR._] Did the child ever offend you in any way?WERMELSKIRCH Mama, ma