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Awakening of Spring - Frank Wedekind · Adventure Books Collection

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  Speaker 1: Act one of the Awakening of Spring by Frank Windekind
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  Speaker 1: translated by Francis J. Zeigler. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: Wendler read by R. L. Lipshaw.
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  Speaker 3: Frau Bergmann read by Elisabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 4: Malchior read by M.
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  Speaker 5: B Otto, Professor Fliganhudd Gaston read by David Lawrence, Margaret's read.
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  Speaker 6: By Margaret Espayatt.
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  Speaker 7: George, Martha Ena read by Christine G.
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  Speaker 8: Robert Ruprecht, Professor Zungenschlag read by John fricka.
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  Speaker 9: Ernest read by Max scherlingher.
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  Speaker 10: Tia Ilse read by Carolyn.
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  Speaker 11: Lemeameyer, Professor Kannapodik Detail friend Ziegenmelcher, The Masked Man read
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  Speaker 11: by Nathaniel W. C.
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  Speaker 12: Higgins, Hans Habibalt Helmut read by Martin.
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  Speaker 13: Geeson, Professor Hunger Girt, and Uncle Probes read by Frank A.
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  Speaker 14: Spayat, Professor Knockenbrook read by Matt Perart.
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  Speaker 15: Frau Gabor read by Anne simmons.
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  Speaker 16: Son, and Stick Reinhold recorded by Chuck Williamson.
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  Speaker 17: Pastor klbarch Locksmith read by Lucy Perry.
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  Speaker 18: Doctor Procrastus renter Stifol read by David Mayer.
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  Speaker 19: Here Gabor doctor von Braudepulva read by Algi.
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  Speaker 1: Pag Act one scene first a dwelling room.
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  Speaker 2: Why have you made my dress so long?
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  Speaker 10: Mother?
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  Speaker 3: You are fourteen years old today.
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  Speaker 2: Had I known you were going to make my dress
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  Speaker 2: so long, I would rather not have been fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: The dress is not too long, vent law, What do
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  Speaker 3: you want? Can I help it that? My child is
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  Speaker 3: two inches taller. Every spring has a grown up maiden.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot go about in short dresses.
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  Speaker 2: At any rate. My short dress becomes me better than
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  Speaker 2: this night gown. Let me wear it again, mother, only
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  Speaker 2: through this summer. This penitential robe will fit me just
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  Speaker 2: as well, whether I am fifteen or fourteen. Let's put
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  Speaker 2: it aside until my next birthday. Now I should only
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  Speaker 2: tear the flounces.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to say. I want to take
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  Speaker 3: special care of you just now. Child. Other girls are
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  Speaker 3: hardy and plump at your age. You are the contrary.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what you will be when the others have developed?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Possibly I shall not be at all?
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  Speaker 3: Child? Child, How does such thoughts come to you?
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  Speaker 2: Don't, dear mother, don't be.
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  Speaker 3: Sad kissing her my own darling.
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  Speaker 2: They come to me at night when I can't sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I am not made sad by them, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that I sleep better after them. Is it sinful, mother,
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  Speaker 2: to have such thoughts?
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  Speaker 14: Go?
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  Speaker 3: Hang the long dress up in the closet. Put on
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  Speaker 3: your short dress again. In God's name, I will put
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  Speaker 3: another depth of ruffles on it.
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  Speaker 1: Hanging the dress in the closet.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would rather be twenty at once.
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  Speaker 3: If only you were not too cold. The dress was
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  Speaker 3: long enough for you, and it's time.
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  Speaker 2: But now when summer is coming, Mother, When one is
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  Speaker 2: a child, one doesn't catch diphtheria in one's knees. Who
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  Speaker 2: would be so cowardly? At my age? One doesn't freeze,
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  Speaker 2: least of all in the legs. Would it be any
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  Speaker 2: better for me to be too warm? Mother? Give thanks
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  Speaker 2: to God if some day your darling doesn't tear out
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  Speaker 2: the sleeves and come to you at twilight without her
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  Speaker 2: shoes and stockings. If I wore my long dress, I
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  Speaker 2: should dress like an elfin queen under it. I don't
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  Speaker 2: scold mother. Nobody sees it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: See in second Sunday evening.
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  Speaker 4: This is too tiresome for me. I won't do anything more.
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  Speaker 5: With it than we others can stop too. Have you
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  Speaker 5: the work, milk Cure.
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  Speaker 4: Keep right on playing?
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  Speaker 6: Where are you going for a walk?
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  Speaker 7: But it's growing dark?
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  Speaker 8: Have you the work already?
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  Speaker 4: Why shouldn't I go walking in the dark?
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  Speaker 9: Central America? Louis the fifteenth sixty versus of Homer seven equations?
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  Speaker 4: Damn the work?
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  Speaker 7: If only Latin composition didn't come tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: One can't think of anything without a task intervening.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going home.
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  Speaker 7: I too to work.
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  Speaker 9: I too, I too.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, Milkile, sleep well all with Joe, save Morris
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  Speaker 1: and Malecure.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to know why we really are on earth.
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather be a cab horse than go to school.
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  Speaker 6: Why do we go to school? We go to school
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  Speaker 6: so that somebody can examine us. And why do they
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  Speaker 6: examine us in order that we may fail? Seven must
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  Speaker 6: fail because the upper class room will hold only sixty.
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  Speaker 6: I feel so queer since Christmas. The devil take me.
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  Speaker 6: If it were not for Papa, I'd pack my bundle
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  Speaker 6: and go to Altoona to day.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk of something else.
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  Speaker 1: They go for a wulk.
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  Speaker 6: Do you see that black cat there with its tail
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  Speaker 6: sticking up?
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  Speaker 4: Do you believe in omens?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know exactly. They come down to us. They
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  Speaker 6: don't matter.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that is the charybdis on which one runs
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  Speaker 4: when one steers clear of the scilla of religious folly.
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  Speaker 4: Let's sit down under this beech tree. The cool wind
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  Speaker 4: blows over the mountains. Now, I should like to be
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  Speaker 4: a young dryad up there in the wood, cradle myself
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  Speaker 4: in the topmost branches, and be rocked the livelong night.
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  Speaker 6: Unbutton your vest, melchire.
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  Speaker 4: Ha, How clothes make one puff up?
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  Speaker 6: God knows. It's growing so dark that one can't see
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  Speaker 6: one's hand before one's eyes. Where are you? Do you believe, Melchior,
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  Speaker 6: that the feeling of shame and man is only a
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  Speaker 6: product of his education?
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  Speaker 4: I I was thinking over that for the first time
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  Speaker 4: the day before yesterday. It seems to me deeply rooted
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  Speaker 4: in human nature. Only think you must appear entirely clothed
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  Speaker 4: before your best friend. You wouldn't do so if he
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  Speaker 4: didn't do the same thing. Therefore, it's more or less
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  Speaker 4: of a fashion.
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  Speaker 6: I have often thought that if I have children, boys
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  Speaker 6: and girls, I will let them occupy the same room,
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  Speaker 6: let them sleep together in the same bed, if possible,
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  Speaker 6: let them help each other dress and undress night and morning.
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  Speaker 6: In hot weather, the boys as well as the girls
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  Speaker 6: should wear nothing all day but a short white woolen
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  Speaker 6: tunic with a girdle. It seems to me that if
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  Speaker 6: they grew up that way, they would be easier in
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  Speaker 6: mind than we are under the present regulations.
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  Speaker 4: I believe so decidedly, Moritz. The only question is suppose
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  Speaker 4: the girls have children. What then?
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  Speaker 6: How could they have children?
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  Speaker 14: Well?
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  Speaker 4: In that respect, I believe in instinct. I believe, for example,
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  Speaker 4: that if one brought up a male and a female
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  Speaker 4: cat together and kept both separated from the outside world,
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  Speaker 4: that is, let them entirely to their own devices, that
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  Speaker 4: sooner or later the she cat would become pregnant, even
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  Speaker 4: if she and the tomcat as well had nobody to
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  Speaker 4: open their eyes.
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  Speaker 6: By example, that might happen with animals.
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  Speaker 4: I believe the same of human beings. I assure you Moretz,
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  Speaker 4: if your boys sleep in the same bed with the girls,
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  Speaker 4: and the first emotion of manhood comes unexpectedly to them,
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  Speaker 4: I should like to wager with anyone.
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  Speaker 6: You may be right, But after all, and.
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  Speaker 4: When your girls reached the same age, it would be
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  Speaker 4: the same with them, Not that the girls exactly. One
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  Speaker 4: can't judge that the same certainly at any rate it
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  Speaker 4: is supposable. And then their curiosity must not be left
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  Speaker 4: out of account.
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  Speaker 6: A question, by the way, Well, but will you answer
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  Speaker 6: naturally truly?
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  Speaker 4: My hand on it now, Warrence.
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  Speaker 6: Have you written your composition? Yet?
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  Speaker 4: Speak right out from your heart? Nobody sees or hears
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  Speaker 4: us here.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, my children will have to work all day
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  Speaker 6: long in yard or garden, or find their amusement in
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  Speaker 6: games which are combined with physical exercise. They must ride,
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  Speaker 6: do gymnastics, climb, and above all things must not sleep
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  Speaker 6: as soft as we do. We are weak and Frightfully,
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  Speaker 6: I believe one would not dream if one slept harder.
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  Speaker 4: From now until fall, I shall sleep only in my hammock.
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  Speaker 4: I have shoved my bed back of the stove the
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  Speaker 4: folding one last winter. I dreamed once that I flogged
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  Speaker 4: Oar Lolo until he couldn't move a limb. That was
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  Speaker 4: the most gruesome thing I have ever dreamed. Why do
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  Speaker 4: you look at me so strangely?
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  Speaker 6: Have you experienced it yet?
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 6: How do you say it?
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  Speaker 4: Manhood's emotion? Mm hmm, certainly.
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  Speaker 6: I also, I've.
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  Speaker 4: Done that for a long while, almost for a year.
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  Speaker 6: I was startled, as if by lightning. Did you dream
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  Speaker 6: only for a little while of legs and light blue
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  Speaker 6: tights that strode over the teacher's desk? To be correct,
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  Speaker 6: I thought they wanted to go over it. I only
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  Speaker 6: saw them for an instant.
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  Speaker 4: George Dezierschnitz dreamed of his mother.
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  Speaker 6: Did he tell you that out there on the Gallows Road?
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  Speaker 6: If you only knew what I have endured since that night?
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  Speaker 4: Qualms of conscience.
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  Speaker 6: Qualms of conscience, the anguish of death.
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  Speaker 4: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 6: I thought I was incurable. I believed I was suffering
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  Speaker 6: from an inward hurt. Finally I became calm enough to
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  Speaker 6: begin to jot down the recollections of my life. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 6: dear Melchior, the last three weeks have been a guestsemone
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  Speaker 6: for me.
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  Speaker 4: I was more or less prepared for it. When it came,
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  Speaker 4: I felt a little ashamed of myself, but that was all.
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  Speaker 6: And yet you are a whole year younger than I am.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't bother about that. Moritz. All, my experience shows
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  Speaker 4: that the appearance of this phantom belongs to no particular age.
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  Speaker 4: You know that big Lamrimar, with his straw colored hair
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  Speaker 4: and the hooked nose, He is three years older than
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  Speaker 4: I am. Little Hans Rilo says Lammermer dreams now only
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  Speaker 4: of tarts and apricot preserves.
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  Speaker 6: But I ask you, how can Hans Rillo know that
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  Speaker 6: he asked him? He asked him. I didn't dare ask anybody.
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  Speaker 4: But you asked me.
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  Speaker 6: God knows, yes, Possibly Hans too has made his will. Truly,
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  Speaker 6: they play a remarkable game with us, and we're expected
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  Speaker 6: to give thanks for it. I don't remember to have
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  Speaker 6: had any long for this kind of excitement. Why didn't
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  Speaker 6: they let me sleep peacefully until all was still again?
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  Speaker 6: My dear parents might have had a hundred better children.
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  Speaker 6: I came here, I don't know, and must be responsible
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  Speaker 6: because I didn't stay away? Haven't you often wondered Melchior?
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  Speaker 6: By what means we were brought into this whirl?
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  Speaker 4: Don't you know that yet? Eithermotes?
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  Speaker 6: How should I know it? I see how the hens
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  Speaker 6: lay eggs, and hear that Mamma had to carry me
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  Speaker 6: under her heart. But is that enough? I remember too,
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  Speaker 6: when I was a five year old child to have
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  Speaker 6: been embarrassed when anyone turned up the decollote queen of hearts.
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  Speaker 6: This feeling has disappeared. At the same time, I can
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  Speaker 6: hardly talk with a girl today without thinking of something indecent.
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  Speaker 6: And I swear to you, Melchiore, I don't know what.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you. Everything I've gotten it partly from books,
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  Speaker 4: partly from illustrations, partly from observations of nature. You will
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  Speaker 4: be surprised. Made me an atheist. I told it to
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  Speaker 4: George Zierschnitz. George Zischnitz wanted me to tell it to
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  Speaker 4: Hans Rulof, but Hans Rulov had learned it all from
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  Speaker 4: his governess when he was a child.
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  Speaker 6: I have gone through Meyer's little encyclopedia from A to
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  Speaker 6: Z words nothing but words and words, not a single
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  Speaker 6: plain explanation. Oh, this feeling of shame. What good to me?
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  Speaker 6: Is an encyclopedia that won't answer me concerning the most
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  Speaker 6: important question in life?
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever see two dogs running together about the streets?
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  Speaker 6: No, don't tell me anything. To day, Melchior. I have
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  Speaker 6: Central America and Louis the fifteenth before me, and then
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  Speaker 6: the sixty verses of Homer, the seven equations, and the
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  Speaker 6: Latin composition. I would fail in all of them again. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: To drudge successfully, I must be as stupid as an ox.
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  Speaker 4: Come with me tomorrow. In three quarters of an hour,
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  Speaker 4: I will have the Homer, the equations, and the two compositions.
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  Speaker 4: I'll put one or two harmless errors in yours, and
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  Speaker 4: the thing's done. Mamma will make lemonade for us again,
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  Speaker 4: and we can chat comfortably about propagation.
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  Speaker 6: I can't. I can't chat comfortably about propagation. If you
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  Speaker 6: want to do me a favor, give me your information
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  Speaker 6: in writing. Write me out what you know, Write it
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  Speaker 6: as briefly and clearly as possible, and put it between
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  Speaker 6: my books. Tomorrow, during recess, I will carry it home
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  Speaker 6: without knowing that I have it. I will find it unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 6: I cannot but help going over it with tired eyes.
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  Speaker 6: In case it is hard to explain, you can use
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  Speaker 6: a marginal diagram or so like a girl.
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  Speaker 4: Nevertheless, as you wish, it will be a very interesting
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  Speaker 4: task for me. One question, mortz hm, did you ever
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  Speaker 4: see a girl? Yes?
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  Speaker 9: All of her?
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  Speaker 6: Certainly so have I?
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  Speaker 4: Then we won't need any other streets.
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  Speaker 6: During the shoots infest in Lilac's Anatomical Museum. If it
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  Speaker 6: had leaked out, I should have been hunted out of school.
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  Speaker 6: Beautiful as the light of day, and oh so true
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  Speaker 6: to nature.
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  Speaker 4: I was at Frankfort with Mamma last summer. Are you
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  Speaker 4: going already? Mortes?
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  Speaker 6: I must work good night till we meet again.
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  Speaker 1: Scene third Thea, Wendler and Martha come along the street,
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  Speaker 1: arm in arm.
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  Speaker 7: How dwater gets in one's shoes?
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  Speaker 2: How the wind blows against one's cheeks.
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  Speaker 10: How one's hot thumps.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out there to the bridge, Elsa says. The
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  Speaker 2: stream is full of bushes and trees. The boys have
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  Speaker 2: built a raft. Malkie Gabor was almost drowned yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Oh he can swim, I should think so, child.
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  Speaker 2: If he hadn't been able to swim, you would have
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  Speaker 2: been drowned.
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  Speaker 10: Cheers coming down, Martha, Cheers coming down.
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  Speaker 7: Pooh, let it come down. It bothers me day and night.
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  Speaker 7: I may not wear short hair like you. I may
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  Speaker 7: not wear my hair down my back like Wewendla. I
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  Speaker 7: may not wear banks, and I must always do my
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  Speaker 7: hair up at home all on account of my aunt.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bring the scissors with me tomorrow to devotions. While
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  Speaker 2: you are saying blessed are they who do not stray?
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  Speaker 2: I will clip it off.
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  Speaker 7: For Heaven's sake. Gwendla. Papa would beat me black and blue,
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  Speaker 7: and Mamma would lock me up in the coal hole
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  Speaker 7: for three nights.
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  Speaker 2: What does he beat you with, Martha?
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  Speaker 7: It often seems to me as if they would miss
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  Speaker 7: something if they didn't have an ill conditioned brat like me.
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  Speaker 7: Why girl, are you ever allowed to put a blue
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  Speaker 7: ribbon through the top of your chemnys?
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  Speaker 10: A pink ribbon? Mamma thinks a pink ribbon goes well
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  Speaker 10: with my big dark eyes.
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  Speaker 7: Blue suits me to a tea. Mamma pulled me out
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  Speaker 7: of bed. The hair I fell with my hands out
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  Speaker 7: saw on the floor. Mamma pray night after night.
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  Speaker 2: With us in your place. I should have run away
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  Speaker 2: long ago.
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  Speaker 7: There you have it, the reason I am going away.
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  Speaker 7: There you have it. They will soon see, Oh, they
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  Speaker 7: will soon see. At least I shall never be able
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  Speaker 7: to reproach my mother.
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  Speaker 10: Hm hm.
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  Speaker 7: Can you imagine thea what Mamma meant by it?
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  Speaker 10: I can't, can you Wendler.
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  Speaker 2: I should simply have asked her.
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  Speaker 7: I lay on the floor and shrieked and howled. Then
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  Speaker 7: Papa came in. Rip he tore off my chemis out
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  Speaker 7: of the door. I went, there, you have it. I
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  Speaker 7: only wanted to get out in the street that way.
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  Speaker 2: But that is not so, Martha.
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  Speaker 7: I froze. I was locked up. I had to sleep
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  Speaker 7: all night in a sack.
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  Speaker 10: Never in my life could I sleep in a sack.
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  Speaker 2: I only wish I could sleep once for you in
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  Speaker 2: your sack.
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  Speaker 7: If only one weren't beaten, But one would suffocate in it.
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  Speaker 7: Your head is left outside, it's tied on your chin.
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  Speaker 10: And then they beat you.
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  Speaker 7: No, only when there is special occasion.
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  Speaker 2: What do they beat you with, Martha, Oh.
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  Speaker 7: With anything that is handy. Does your mother think it's
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  Speaker 7: naughty to eat a piece of bread in bed?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 7: No, I believe they enjoy it, even if they don't
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  Speaker 7: say so. If I ever have children, I will let
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  Speaker 7: them grow up like the wheat in our flower garden.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody worries about them, and they grow so high and thick,
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  Speaker 7: while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer
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  Speaker 7: every summer.
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  Speaker 10: If I have children, I shall dress them all in pink,
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  Speaker 10: pink hats, pink dresses, pink shoes. Only the stockings. These
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  Speaker 10: stockings shall be black as night. When I go for
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  Speaker 10: a walk, they shall march in front of me. And
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  Speaker 10: you went lack.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know that you will have any?
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  Speaker 10: Why shouldn't we have any?
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  Speaker 7: Well, aunto Femea hasn't any.
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  Speaker 10: You goose, that's because she isn't married.
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  Speaker 2: Aunt Bauer was married three and she didn't have a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: single one.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: If you have any, Wendler, which would you rather have
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: boys or girls?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Boys?
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: Boys?
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: I too boys?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: So would I better twenty boys than three girls?
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: Girls are tiresome.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: If I want a girl already, I certainly wouldn't want
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: to be one.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: That's a matter of taste, I believe, Martha. I rejoice
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: every day that I am a girl. Believe me, I
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: wouldn't change places with a king's son. That's the reason
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: why I only want boys.
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: But that's crazy, poor craziness, Wendler.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: But it must be a thousand times more exciting to
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: be loved by a man than by a girl.
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: But you don't want to assert that Forest Inspector Fellow
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: loves Milita more than she does him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: That I do. Taya. Foley is proud. Falley is proud
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: because he is a forest inspector. Poor Foley has nothing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Melita is happy because she gets ten thousand times more
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: than she is.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: Aren't you proud of your Wendler?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: That would be silly in your place.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: I should be proud on my appearance.
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: Only look how she steps out, how free her glance is,
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: how she holds herself. Martha, isn't that pride?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Why not? I am so happy to be a girl.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: If I warn't a girl, I should break down the next.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Time Malchire passes and greets them.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: He has a wonderful head.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: He makes me think of the young Alexander going to
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: school to Aristotle.
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: Oh dear Greek history. I only know how Socrates lay
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: in his beril when Alexander sold him the Ass's Shadow.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: He stands third in his class.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: Professor Knochenborg says he can be the first if he wants.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: He has a beautiful brow, but his friend has a
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: soulful look.
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: Maud stiffer. He's as stupid.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: I've always gotten along well within.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: He disgraces anybody who's with him. At Rillo's party, he
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: offered me some bonbons. Only think Wendler. They were soft
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: and warm. Isn't that he said he had kept them
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: too long in his trousers pocket?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Only think Malkigabores told me once that he didn't believe anything,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: not in God, not in a hereafter, in anything more
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: in this world.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Seeing fourth a park in front of the Grammar school, Malchire, Otto, George, Robert, Hans,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Rilove and lam and Mayer.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Can any of you say where more?
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: Stifel is keeping himself, it may go hard with him.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Oh it may go hard with him.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: He'll keep on until he gets caught dead to write.
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: Lord knows I wouldn't want to be in his skin
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: at this moment.
• 20:42
  Speaker 20: What cheek?
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: What incidence?
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Well, what do you know?
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: What do we know?
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: I tell you I wish I hadn't said anything, So
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: do I?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: God knows I do?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: If you know at once?
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: The long in the short of it is Maritz Stafle
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: has broken into the boardroom, into.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: The boardroom, into the boardroom, right after the Latin.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Lesson here was the last. He hung back intentionally.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: As I turned the corner of the corridor, I saw
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: him open the door.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: The devil ty.
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: If only the devil doesn't take him.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Perhaps directed didn't take the key.
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: Oh Meurtz Steifel carries a skeleton key.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: That may be possible.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: If he has luck, he'll only be kept in besides
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: getting into merits mark in his report.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: If this doesn't result in his being kicked out there
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: he is Why does a handkerchief?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Moritz comes in in great agitation.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Moritz, Moritz, what have you done?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Nothing? Nothing? You feverish from good fortune, from happiness, from jubilation.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: You were caught.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: I am promoted, Melchior. I am promoted. Oh, I don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: care what happens now. I am promoted. Who would have
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: believed that I should be promote? I don't realize it yet.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I read it twenty times. I couldn't believe it. Good Lord,
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: it's so, it's so. I'm promoted.
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I feel so queer. The ground turns around, Melchior, Melchior,
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: can you realize what I've gone through?
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: I congratulate you, Maritz, Oh, you be happy that you
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: got away with it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: You don't know, Hans, you can't guess what depends on it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: For three weeks, I've slunk past that door as if
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: it were a hellish abyss. Today I saw it was
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: a jar. I believe that if someone had offered me
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: a million, nothing, oh nothing could have held me. I
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: stood in the middle of the room, I opened the
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: report book, ran over the leaves found and during all
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: that time I shudder. During all that time, during all
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: that time, the door behind me stood wide open. How
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: I got, how I came down the steps? I don't know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 12: Is Ernest Rubel promoted too?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, certainly, Hans. Certainly Ernest Rubel is promoted too.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: Then you knds have read correctly. Counting in the dunces.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: Still we with you and Robert make sixty one, and
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: the upper classroom cannot accommodate more than sixty.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I read it right enough. Ernest Robel is given as
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: high a rating as I am. Both of us have
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: conditions to work off. During the first quarter. It will
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: be seen which of us has to make the room
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: for the other. Poor Rubel. Heaven knows, I'm not afraid
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: of myself any longer. I've looked into it too deeply
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: this time for that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I bet five mark that you lose your place.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: You haven't anything. I won't rob you, lord, but I'll
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: grind from today on. I can say so now, whether
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: you believe it or not, it's all the same. Now
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I I know how true it is. If I hadn't
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: been promoted, I would have shot myself both cow.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Would I'd like to see you shoot yourself.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Box as Ears gives him a cough.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Come mowtz, Let's go to the forester's house.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Do you believe his nonsense?
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: What's that to you? Let them chatter moretz, Come on,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: let's go to town.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Professors Hungengurs and Lackenburg pass by.
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: It is inexplicable to me, my dear colleague, how the
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: best of my scholars can fail the very worst of all.
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: To me also, Professor Scene fifth.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: A sunny afternoon, Malchiw and Wendler meet each other in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the wood.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Is it really you, Vendler? What are you doing up
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: here all alone? For three hours? I've been going from
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: one side of the wood to the other without meaning
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: a soul, and now you come upon me out of
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the thickest part of it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's I.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: If I didn't know you were Vendla Bagman, I would
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: take you for a dryad fallen out of your tree.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: No, no, I am Vndla Bergmann. How did you come here?
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I followed my thoughts.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I'm hunting Waldmeister. Mamma wants to make Mabel. At first
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: she intended coming along herself, but at the last moment
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Aunt Bower dropped in, and she doesn't like to climb,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: so I came by myself.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Have you found your Voldmeister?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: A whole basketful? Down there under the beach? It grows
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: as thick as meadow clover. Just now I am looking
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for a way out. I seem to have lost the path.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me what time it is?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Uh, just a little after half past four. When do
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: they expect you?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I thought it was later. I lay dreaming for a
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: long time on the moss by the brook. The time
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: went by so fast I feared it was already evening.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: If nobody's waiting for you, let us linger here a
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: little longer. Under the oak tree there is my favorite place.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: If one leans one's head back against the trunk and
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: looks up through the branches at the sky, one becomes hypnotized.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: The ground is warm yet from the morning sun. For
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: weeks I been wanting to ask you something.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Bemba, but I must be home at five o'clock.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Oh we'll go together. Then I'll take the basket and
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: we'll beat our way through the bushes, so that in
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: ten minutes will be on the bridge. When one lies
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: so with one's head in one's hand, one has the
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: strangest thoughts.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Both lie down undr they oak.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: What do you want to ask me, Melchior?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I've heard ventla that you visit poor people's houses, you
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: take them food and clothes and money. Also, do you
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: do that of your own free will? Or does your
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: mother send you?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Mother sends me? Mostly they are families of day laborers
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: that have too many children. Often the husband can't find work,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and then they freeze and go hungry. We have a
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: lot of things which were laid away long ago in
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: our closets and wardrobes, in which are no longer needed.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: But how did you know it?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Do you go willingly or unwillingly when your mother sends you?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love to go? How can you ask?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: But the children are dirty, the women are sick, the
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: houses are full of felth. The men hate you because
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: you don't work.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: That's not true, Melchior. And if it were true, I'd
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: go just.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: The same, Why, just the same?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Veentpla I'd go just the same. It would make me
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: all the happier to be able to help them.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Then you go to see the poor because it makes
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: you happy.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I go to them because they are poor.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: But if it weren't a pleasure to you, you wouldn't go.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Can I help it that it makes me happy?
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: And because of it you expect to go to heaven.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: So it's true, then, that which has given me no
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: peace for a month past? Can the covetous man help
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: it that it is no pleasure to him to go
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: see dirty sick children.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, surely it would give you the greatest pleasure.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: And therefore he must suffer everlasting death. I'll write a
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: paper on it and send it to pastor callback he
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: is the cause of it? Why did he fool us
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: with the joy of good works? If he can't answer me,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I won't go to Sunday school any longer, and won't
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: let them confirm me.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Why don't you tell your trouble to you, your dear parents.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Let yourself be confirmed. It won't cost you your head.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: If it weren't for our horrid white dresses and your
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: long trousers, one might be more spiritual.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: There's no sacrifice there's no self denial. See the good
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: rejoice in their hearts. I see the evil tremble and groan.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: I see you, ven la Bergman, shake your locks and laugh,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: while I am as melancholy as an outlaw. What did
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: you dream, Venblow, when you lay in the grass by
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: the brook?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Foolishness, nonsense with your eyes open? I dreamed I was
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a poor, poor beggar girl who was turned out in
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the street at five o'clock in the morning. I had
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to beg the whole long day, in storm and bad
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: weather from rough, hard hearted people. When I came home
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: at night, shivering from hunger and cold, and without as
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: much money as my father coveted. Then I was beaten, beaten.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I know that, Vendler. You've the silly children's stories to
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: thank for that. Believe me, such brutal men exists no longer.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, Melchior, you're mistaken. Martha Bessel is beaten night
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: after night, so that one sees the marks of it
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the next day. Oh but it must hurt. It makes
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: one boiling hot when she tells it. I'm so frightfully
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: sorry for her that I often cry over it in
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: my pillows at night. For months I've been thinking about
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: how one can help her. I'd take her place for
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: eight days with pleasure.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Once you complain of her father at once, then the
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: child would be taken.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Away from him. I, Melchior, have never been beaten in
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: my life, not a single time. I can hardly imagine
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: what it means to be beaten. I have beaten myself
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: in order to see how one felt. Then in one's heart.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: It must be a gruesome feeling.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: I don't believe a child is better for it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Better for what? For being beaten with this switch? For instance? Ha,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: but it's tough and thin.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: That would draw blood.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Would you like to beat me with it? Once?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Who me? What's the matter with you? Vmtler?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: What might happen?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I'll be quiet. I will beat you.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Not if I allow you, no girl, not even if
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I ask you. Malchior, are you out of your senses?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I've never been beaten in my life.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: If you can ask for such a thing, please please,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I'll teach you to say please.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: He hits her, Oh Lord, I don't notice it in
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the least.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I believe you throw all your skirts.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Then strike me on my legs.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Vetler, he strikes her harder.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: You're stroking me. You're stroking me.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Wait, witch, a fog saintan out of you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: He throws the switch aside and beats her with his
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: fists so that she breaks out with a frightful cry.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He pays no attention to this, but falls upon her
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: as if he were crazy, while the tears stream heavily
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: down his cheeks. Presently he springs away, holds both hands
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to his temples, and rushes into the depths of the wood,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: crying out in anguish of soul and of Act one,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Act two of the Awakening of Spring by Frank Whittikind,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: translated by Francis J. Zeigler. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 31:23
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• 31:26
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• 31:33
  Speaker 1: scene first evening in Melchior's study. The window is open,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: A lamp burns on the table, Melchior and morrits on
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the divan.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Now I'm quite gay again, only a little bit excited.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: But during the Greek lesson I slept like the besotted polyphemus.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: I'm astonished that the pronunciation of the ancient tongue doesn't
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: give me the earache. To day, I was within a
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: hair of being late. My first thought on waking was
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: of the verbs in he Himmel Herrgotte, teufel done veter.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: During breakfast, and all along the road I conjugated until
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: I saw grain. I must have popped off to sleep.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: Shortly after three my pen made a blot in the book.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: The lamp was smoking when Matilda woke me. The blackbirds
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: and the elder bushes under the window were chirping so happily,
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: and I felt so inexpressibly melancholy. I put on my
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: collar and passed the brush through my hair. One feels
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: it when one imposes upon nature.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Marril you, sigarette.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Thanks. I don't smoke. If it only keeps on this way,
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: I will work and work until my eyes fall out
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: of my head. Annest Gruebel has failed three times since vacation,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: three times in Greek, twice with Knochenbrug, the last time
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: in the history of literature. I have been first five
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: times in this lamentable conflict, and from today it does
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: not bother me. Rebel will not shoot himself. Robel has
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: no parents who sacrifice everything for him. If he wants,
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: he can become a soldier, a cowboy, or a sailor.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: If I fail, my father will feel the blow, and
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Mamma will land in the madhouse. One can't live through
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: a thing like that. Before the examination, I begged God
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: to give me consumption that the cup might pass me
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: by untouched. He passed me by, though to day his
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: oriole shines in the distance, so that I dare not
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: lift my eyes by night or day.
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: Now that I have.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: Grasped the bar, I shall swing up on it. The
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: natural consequence will be that I shall break my neck
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: if I fall.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Life is a worthless commonplace. Wouldn't it been a bad
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: idea if I had hanged myself in the cradle. Why
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: does it more? Come with the tea.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Your tea will do me good. I'm shivering. I feel
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: so strangely spiritualized. Touch me once, please, I see, I
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: hear I feel much more acutely. And yet everything seems
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: like a dream, Oh so harmonious. How still the garden
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: stretches out there in the moonlight, so still, so deep,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: as if it extended to eternity. From out the bushes
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: step indefinable figures that slip away in breathless officiousness through
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: the clearings, and then vanish in the twilight. It seems
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: to me as if a council were to be held
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: under the chestnut tree. Shall we go down there, milkire, Oh.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Let sway until we have drunk our tea.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: The leaves whisper so busily. It's just as if I
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: heard my dead grandmother telling me the story of the
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Queen without a head. There was once a wonderfully beautiful queen,
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: beautiful as the sun, more beautiful than all the maidens
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: in the country. Only unfortunately she came into the world
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: without a head. She could not eat, not drink, not kiss.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: She could only communicate with her courtiers by using her
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: soft little hand. With her dainty feet, she stamped declarations
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: of war and orders for executions. Then one day she
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: was besieged by a king, who by chance had two heads,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: which year in and year out disputed with one another
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: so violently that neither could get a word in edgewise.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: The court conjurer in chief took off the smallest of
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: these heads and set it upon the queen's body, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: behold it became her extraordinarily well. Therefore, the king and
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: queen were married, and the two heads disputed no longer,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: but kissed each other upon the brow, the cheeks, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: the mouth, and lived thereafter through long, long years of
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: joy and peace. Delectable nonsense. Since vacation, I can't get
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: the headless Queen out of my mind. When I see
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: a pretty girl, I see her without a head, and
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: then presently I myself appear to be the headless queen.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: It is possible that some one may be said over me.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yet Frau Geber comes in with the steaming tea, which
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: she sets before malchia and more. It's on the.
• 36:34
  Speaker 15: Table here, children, here's a mouthful for you. Good evening,
• 36:38
  Speaker 15: Heir Stefel, how are you?
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Thank you? Frog Aboor. I'm watching the dance down there.
• 36:44
  Speaker 15: But you don't look very good. Don't you feel well?
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: It's not worth mentioning. I went to bed somewhat too
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: late last night.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Only think he worked all through the night.
• 36:54
  Speaker 15: You shouldn't do such things, er Stiefel. You ought to
• 36:57
  Speaker 15: take care of yourself, think of your health. Don't set
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: your school above your health. Take plenty of walks in
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: the fresh air at your age. That is more important
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: than a correct use of middle high German.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: I will go walking. You're right, one can be industrious
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: while one is taking a walk. Why didn't I think
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: of that myself? The written work I shall still have
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: to do at home.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: You can do your writing here. That will make it
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: easier for both of us. You know, mamma, that Max
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: von Trenk has been down with brain fever. Today at
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: noon Hans Rulof came from von Trenk's deathbed to announced
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: director of Orangetik that von Trenk had just died in
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: his presence. Indeed said, zomstick, haven't you two hours from
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: last week to make up? Here's the Beatles' report. See
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: that the matter is cleared up once for all. The
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: whole class will attend the burial. Hans was struck, dumb.
• 37:48
  Speaker 15: What book is that you have? Milch yor faust? Have
• 37:51
  Speaker 15: you read it yet?
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Not to the end.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: We're just at the Valpourgesnacht.
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: If I were you, I should have waited for one
• 37:58
  Speaker 15: or two years.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I know of no book, maman, which I've found so
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: much beauty? Why why shouldn't I read it?
• 38:05
  Speaker 15: Because you can't understand it?
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: You can't know that, mamma. I feel very well that
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: I am not yet able to grasp the work in
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: its entirety.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: We always read together. That helps our understanding wonderfully.
• 38:18
  Speaker 15: You're old enough, melchi Or, to be able to know
• 38:21
  Speaker 15: what is good and what is bad for you do
• 38:23
  Speaker 15: what you think best for yourself. I should be the
• 38:26
  Speaker 15: first to acknowledge your right in this respect, because you
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: have never given me a reason to have to deny
• 38:31
  Speaker 15: you anything. I only want to warn you that even
• 38:35
  Speaker 15: the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe
• 38:38
  Speaker 15: enough in years to receive it properly. I would rather
• 38:41
  Speaker 15: put my trust in you than in conventional educational methods.
• 38:45
  Speaker 15: If you need anything, children, you, melchi Or, come up
• 38:48
  Speaker 15: and call me. I shall be in my bedroom.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: Exit your Mamma means the story of Gretchen.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Weren't we discussing it just a moment ago.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Faust himself cannot have deserted her in cold blood.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: The masterpiece does not end with this infamous action. Faust
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: might have promised the maiden marriage, he might have forsaken
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: her afterwards, but in my eyes he would not have
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: been a hair less worthy of punishment. Kretchen might have
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: died of a broken heart, for all I care. One
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: sees how this attracts the eye continually, one might think
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: that the whole world turned on sex.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: To be frank with you, Melchior, I have almost the
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: same feeling. Since I read your explanation. It fell at
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood. I
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Your explanation brought up a host of dim recollections, which
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: affected me as a song of his childhood affects a
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: man on his deathbed, when heard from the lips of another.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: I felt the most vehement pity over what she wrote
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: about maidens. I shall never lose that, since, believe me, Melchior,
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: to suffer a wrong is sweeter than to do a wrong.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: To be overcome by such a sweet wrong and still
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: be blameless seems to me the fullness of earthly bliss.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: I don't want my bliss as alms, but why not?
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: I don't want anything for which I don't have to fight.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: Is it enjoyable, then, Melchior, the maiden's enjoyment is as
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: that of the holy gods. The maiden controls herself thanks
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: to her self denial. She keeps herself free from every
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: bitterness until the last moment, in order that she may
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: see the heavens open over her in an instant. The
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: maiden fears hell, even at the moment that she perceives
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: a blooming paradise. Her feeling is as pure as a
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: mountain spring. The maiden holds a cup over which no
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: earthly breath has blown as yet, a nectar chalice, the
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: contents of which is spilled when it flames and flare.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: The enjoyment that the man finds in that I think
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: is insipid and flat.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, you can think what you like about it, but
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: keep your thoughts to yourself. I don't like to think
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: about it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Scene second, a dwelling room enters by the Santa door.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Her face is beaming. She is without a hat, wears
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: a mantilla on her head, and has a basket on
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: her arm.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Vend La Vendla.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Appears in petticoats and corset in the doorway to the right.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, mother?
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: You are up already, child, Now that is nice of you.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You have been out already.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Get dressed quickly. You must go down to ENA's at once.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: You must take her this basket.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Dressing herself during the following conversation.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: You have been to ENA's. How is Ena? Is she
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: ever going to get better?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Only think vend La. Last night the stork paid her
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: a visit and brought her a little baby boy.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: A little boy, A little boy. Oh that's lovely, that's
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the cause of that tedious influenza.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: A fine little boy.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I must see him, mother. That makes me an aunt
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: for the third time, aunt to a little girl and
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: two little boys.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: And what little boys? It always happens that way when
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: one lives so near the church. Roof tomorrow will be
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: just two years since she went up the steps in
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: her mull gown.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Were you there when he brought him?
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: He had just flown away again? Won't you put on
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: a rose?
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Why couldn't you have been a little earlier?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Mother?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: I almost believe he brought you something too, a breast
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: pin or something. It's really a shame, but I tell
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: you he brought you a breast pin. I have breastpins enough,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Then be happy, child? What do you want? Besides?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I would have liked so much to have known whether
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: he flew through the window or down the chimney.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: You must ask Ena A. You must ask Ena that,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: dear heart. Ena will tell you fast enough. Ena talked
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: with him for a whole half hour.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I will ask you know when I get there.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Now, don't forget, sweet angel. I'm interested myself to know
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: if he came in through the window or by the chimney, or.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Hadn't I better ask the chimney sweep. The chimney sweep
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: must know best whether he flew down the chimney or not.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Not the chimney sweep, child, not the chimney sweep. What
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: does the chimney sweep know about the stork? He'd tell
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: you a lot of foolishness. He didn't believe himself. Wh
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: What are you staring at down there in the street?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: A man mother three times as big as an ox,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: with feet like steamboats.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Rushing to the window.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Impossible, impossible.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: He holds a bed slat under his chin and fiddles
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: de vactum rhine on it. There he's just turned the corner.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: You are and always will be a foolish child to
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: frighten your old simple mother that way. Go get your hat.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I wonder when you will understand things I've given up
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: hope of you.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: So have I, mother, Dear, so have I. It's a
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: sad thing about my understanding. I have a sister who
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: has been married for two and a half years. I
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: myself have been made an aunt for the third time,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: and I haven't the least idea how it all comes about.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Don't be cross, mother, dear, don't be cross. Whom in
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the world should I ask? But you please tell me,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: dear mother, Tell me, dear mother, I'm ashamed for myself. Please, mother, speak,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: don't scold me for asking you about it. Give me
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: an answer. How does it happen? How does it all
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: come about? You cannot really deceive yourself that I, who
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: am fourteen years old, still believe in the stork?
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Good lord, child, but you are peculiar? What ideas you have?
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: I really can't do that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: But why not, mother?
• 44:56
  Speaker 10: Why not?
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: It can't be anything ugly if everybody is delighted over it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh God, protect me. I deserve Go get dressed, child,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Go get dressed.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I'll go and suppose your child went and asked the
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: chimney sweep.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: But that would be madness. Come here, child, come here,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything. Oh, Almighty goodness,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: only not to day Ventla, tomorrow, the next day, next week,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: any time you want, dear heart.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Tell me to day, Mother, tell me now right away,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: now that I have seen you so frightened, I can
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: never be peaceful until you do.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I can't do it, Ventla.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Oh why can't you?
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: Mother?
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Dear I will kneel here at your feet and lay
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: my head in your lap. You can cover my head
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: with your apron and talk and talk as if you
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: were entirely alone in the room. I won't move, I
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: won't cry. I will bear all patiently, no matter what
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: may come.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Heaven knows, Vendla, that I am not to blame. Heaven
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: knows it. Come here in God's name. I will tell you, child,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: how you came into this world. Listen to me, Vendla.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Under the apron.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I'm listening, but it's no use, child, I can't justify it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: I deserve to be put into prison to have you
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: taken from me.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Take heart, mother, listen.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Then trembling under the apron.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Oh God, oh God.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: In order to have a child, do you understand me, Vendla.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Quick, mother, I can't stand it much longer.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: In order to have a child, one must love the
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: man to whom one is married. Love him, I tell you,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: as one can only love a man, one must love
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: him so much with one's whole heart, so so that
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: one can't describe it. One must love him. Vendla, as you,
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: at your age, are still unable to love. Now you
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: know it, getting up great God in heaven. Now you
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: know what an ordeal awaits you. And that is all
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: as true as God helps me. Take your basket now
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: and go to Ina. You will get chocolate and cakes there.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: Come.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Let's look you over, the laced shoes, the silk gloves,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: the sailor blouse, the rose in your hair. Your dress
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: is really becoming much too short for you. Vandla, did
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: you get meat for lunch?
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Mother?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: The good God protect and bless you. I will find
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to add a hand breadth of flounces to
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: the bottom scene.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Third, with a light in his hand, fastens the door
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: behind him and opens the lid.
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: Have you prayed to night? Desdemona?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: He takes a reproduction of the venus of Palmavecchio from
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: his bosom.
• 47:51
  Speaker 12: Thou wilt not appear to me after the father, darling,
• 47:56
  Speaker 12: as in that moment of anticipated please, When I saw
• 48:01
  Speaker 12: THEE contemplatively, expectant of some one's coming, lying in yon
• 48:06
  Speaker 12: artanschlaizing a shop window, just as enticing as thou art
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: now with these supple limbs, these softly arched hips, these plump,
• 48:19
  Speaker 12: youthful breasts.
• 48:23
  Speaker 21: Er Oh, how intoxicated with joy the Great Master must
• 48:30
  Speaker 21: have been when his glance strayed over the fourteen year
• 48:35
  Speaker 21: old regional stretch'd.
• 48:38
  Speaker 12: Out upon the divan. Wilt thou not visit me for
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: a while? In my dreams, I will receive THEE with
• 48:46
  Speaker 12: widely open arms, and wilt kiss THEE until thou art breathless.
• 48:58
  Speaker 12: Thou drawest me onward as the enchanted princess in her
• 49:03
  Speaker 12: deserted castle. Portals and doors open themselves as if by
• 49:09
  Speaker 12: an unseen hand, while the fountain in the park below
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: begins to splash joyously. It is the cause, It is
• 49:23
  Speaker 12: the cause. The frightful beating in my breast shows THEE
• 49:29
  Speaker 12: that I do not murder THEE from frivolous emotion. The
• 49:36
  Speaker 12: thought of my lonely nights is strangling me. I swear
• 49:42
  Speaker 12: to THEE child on my soul that it is not
• 49:46
  Speaker 12: satiety which rules me. Who could ever boast of being
• 49:52
  Speaker 12: satiated of THEE. But thou suckest the marriag from my bones,
• 50:01
  Speaker 12: Thou bendest my back, Thou robbest my youthful eyes of
• 50:06
  Speaker 12: their last spark of brilliancy. Thou art so arrogant toward
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: me in thy inhuman modesty, so calling with thy immovable limbs,
• 50:22
  Speaker 12: Thou or I and I have won the victory. Suppose
• 50:32
  Speaker 12: I count them all, those who sleep with whom I
• 50:35
  Speaker 12: have fought the same battle here Psyche by Dumann. Another
• 50:41
  Speaker 12: bequest from the spindle shanked Mamselle Angelique that rattlesnake in
• 50:48
  Speaker 12: the paradise of my childhood. I owe by Corregio Galatea,
• 50:56
  Speaker 12: by loss of then a cupid, by Boo grow Arda
• 51:02
  Speaker 12: by j Van bears that Arda whom I had to
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: abduct from a secret draw in Papa's secretary in order
• 51:12
  Speaker 12: to incorporate in my harem, A trembling modest leader by Macart,
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: whom I found by chance among my brother's college books.
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: Seven thou, blooming candidate for death, have preceded THEE upon
• 51:33
  Speaker 12: this path to Tartarus. Let that be a consolation unto THEE,
• 51:38
  Speaker 12: and seek not to increase my torments at this enormity.
• 51:43
  Speaker 12: By that fleeting look, Thou diest not for thy sins.
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: Thou diest on account of mine, has protection against myself.
• 51:57
  Speaker 12: I go to my seventh wife murder with a bleeding heart.
• 52:03
  Speaker 12: There is something tragic in the role of blue Beard.
• 52:08
  Speaker 12: I believe the combined sufferings of his murdered wives did
• 52:12
  Speaker 12: not equal the torments he underwent each time he strangled
• 52:18
  Speaker 12: one of them. But my thoughts will become more peaceful.
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: My body will strengthen itself when thou, no little devil,
• 52:31
  Speaker 12: residest no longer in the red satin padding of my
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: jewel case. In place of thee. I will indulge in
• 52:40
  Speaker 12: wanton joyousness with Boordenhausen's lureli o Linger's forsaken one, or
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: de Freger's loney.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: So I should be all the quicker.
• 52:54
  Speaker 12: But a quarter of a year more, Perhaps thy unveiled charms,
• 53:00
  Speaker 12: sweet soul, which begin to consume my poor head as
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: the sun does a pat of butter. It is high
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: time to declare the divorce from bed and board. I
• 53:17
  Speaker 12: feel a heliogabalus within me. Maritura may salutat maiden, Maiden.
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: Why dost thou press thy knees together?
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: Why now of.
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: All times, in fase of the inscrutable eternity? A movement,
• 53:37
  Speaker 12: and I will spare thy life a womanly emotion, a
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: sign of passion of sympathy. Maiden, I will frame thee
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: in gold and hang thee over my bed. Dost thou
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: not guess that only thy chastity begets my debauchery? Woe,
• 54:03
  Speaker 12: woe unto thee. Inhuman ones, one always perceives that they
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: received an exemplary education.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: It is just so with me.
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: Have you prayed tonight? Des Demona? My heart contracts madness.
• 54:32
  Speaker 12: Santagnes also died for her reserve, and was not half
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: as naked as thou. Another kiss upon thy blooming body,
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: upon my childish swelling breast.
• 54:48
  Speaker 21: Upon thy sweetly round it.
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: That cruel knees. It is the course. It is the course,
• 55:00
  Speaker 12: my soul. Let me not name it to you, you
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: chased stars, It is the couse.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: The picture falls into the depths, he shouts the lid.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Fourth scene, A hey mo malechire lies on his back
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: in a fresh hay. Whendluk comes up to the latter.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Here's where you've hid yourself they're all hunting for you.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: The wagon is outside again. You must help. There's a
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: storm coming up.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Go away from me, Go away from me.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: What's the matter with you? Why are you hiding your
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: face out out?
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: I'll throw you down on the floor below.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Now for certain, I'm not going kneels down by him.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Why won't you come out with me into the meadow, Melchiore,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Here it is hot and dark. Suppose we do get
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: wet to the skin. What difference will that make to us?
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: He smells so fine. Sky outside must be as black
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: as paul. I only see the brilliant poppy on your breast,
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: and I hear your heart beating.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Don't kiss me, Melchior, don't.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Kiss me your heart, I hear beating.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: People love when they kiss. Don't don't.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, believe me, there's no such thing as love. Everything
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: is selfishness, Everything is egotism. I love you as little
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: as you love me.
• 56:33
  Speaker 22: Don't don't melk youre ventla, oh melchiure, don't don't fifteen
• 56:42
  Speaker 22: it's writing.
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  Speaker 15: Dear Heir Stifel. After twenty four hours of consideration and
• 56:48
  Speaker 15: reconsideration of all you have written me, I take up
• 56:52
  Speaker 15: my pen with a heavy heart. I cannot furnish you
• 56:55
  Speaker 15: with the necessary amount for the voyage to America. I
• 56:59
  Speaker 15: give you my word of honor. In the first place,
• 57:02
  Speaker 15: I have not that much to my credit, and in
• 57:04
  Speaker 15: the second place, if I had, it would be the
• 57:07
  Speaker 15: greatest sin imaginable for me to put into your hands
• 57:11
  Speaker 15: the means of accomplishing such an ill considered measure. You
• 57:15
  Speaker 15: will be doing me a bitter wrong. Her stifel if
• 57:18
  Speaker 15: you see a sign of lack of love in my refusal.
• 57:21
  Speaker 15: On the contrary, it would be the greatest neglect of
• 57:24
  Speaker 15: my duty as your motherly friend. Were I to allow
• 57:27
  Speaker 15: myself to be affected by your temporary lack of determination,
• 57:32
  Speaker 15: so that I also lost my head and blindly followed
• 57:35
  Speaker 15: my first fleeting impulse. I am very ready, in case
• 57:39
  Speaker 15: you desire it, to write to your parents. I should
• 57:42
  Speaker 15: seek to convince your parents that you have done what
• 57:45
  Speaker 15: you could during this quarter, that you have exhausted your strength,
• 57:49
  Speaker 15: that a rigorous judgment of your case would not only
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: be inadvisable, but might be in the greatest degree prejudicial
• 57:56
  Speaker 15: to your mental and bodily health. That you implieth threat
• 58:00
  Speaker 15: to take your own life in case flight is impossible
• 58:03
  Speaker 15: for you to speak plainly has somewhat surprised me. No
• 58:07
  Speaker 15: matter how undeserving, is a misfortune here stifel one should
• 58:12
  Speaker 15: never choose improper means to escape it. The way in
• 58:15
  Speaker 15: which you, to whom I have always done only good
• 58:19
  Speaker 15: one to make me responsible for a possible frightful action
• 58:23
  Speaker 15: on your part, has something about it which, in the
• 58:27
  Speaker 15: eyes of an evil thinking person might be misconstrued very easily.
• 58:32
  Speaker 15: I must confess that this outbreak of yours, you, who
• 58:35
  Speaker 15: know so well what one owes to oneself, is the
• 58:39
  Speaker 15: last thing for which I was prepared. However, I cherish
• 58:43
  Speaker 15: the strong conviction that you are laboring yet too much
• 58:47
  Speaker 15: under the shock of your first fright to be able
• 58:49
  Speaker 15: to understand completely your action, And therefore I hope with
• 58:54
  Speaker 15: confidence that these words of mine will find you already
• 58:58
  Speaker 15: in better spirits. Take up the matter as it stands.
• 59:02
  Speaker 15: In my opinion, it is unwise to judge a young
• 59:05
  Speaker 15: man by his school record. We have too many examples
• 59:08
  Speaker 15: of bad students becoming distinguished men, and on the other hand,
• 59:12
  Speaker 15: of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.
• 59:16
  Speaker 15: At any rate, I can assure you that your misfortune,
• 59:20
  Speaker 15: as far as it lies, with me, shall make no
• 59:23
  Speaker 15: difference in your association with Melchior. On the contrary, it
• 59:27
  Speaker 15: will afford me the greatest pleasure to see my son
• 59:30
  Speaker 15: going with a young man who let the world judge
• 59:33
  Speaker 15: him as it will, is able to win my fullest sympathy.
• 59:38
  Speaker 15: And therefore hold your head high, her Stiefel. Such a
• 59:42
  Speaker 15: crisis as this comes to all of us and will
• 59:45
  Speaker 15: soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to
• 59:49
  Speaker 15: dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be
• 59:53
  Speaker 15: no men left in the world. Let me hear from
• 59:56
  Speaker 15: you right soon again, and accept the heartfelt greenf your
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 15: unchanged motherly friend, Fanny.
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  Speaker 1: Ge scene sixth Bergmann's garden in the morning sunlight.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Why have you slipped out of the room to hunt violets?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Because mother seems to laugh at me? Why can't you
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: bring your lips together any more? I don't know, Indeed,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't find words. The path is
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: like a velvet carpet, no pebbles, no thorns. My feet
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: don't touch the ground. Oh how I slept last night?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Here they are. I become as grave as a nun
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: at communion. Sweet violets, Peace, little mother. I will put
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: on my long dress. Oh God, if somebody would come
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: upon whose neck I could fall and.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Tell Scene seven evening twilight, Light clouds in the sky,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: The path struggles through low bushes and coarse grass. The
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: flow of the stream is heard in the distance.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: Better and better. I am not fit. Another may be
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: able to climb to the top. I pulled the door
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: to behind me and step into the open. I don't
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: care enough about it to let myself be turned back.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: I haven't succeeded in forcing my way. How shall I
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: force my way now? I have no contract with God.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: Let them make out of the thing what they will.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: I have been forced. I do not hold my parents answerable.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: At the same time, the worst must fall upon them.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: They were old enough to know what they were doing.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: I was a weakling when I came into the world,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: or else I would have been wise enough to become
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: another being. Why should I be forced to pay for
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: the fact that the others were here already? I must
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: have fallen on my head. If anybody makes me a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: present of a mad dog, I'll give him back a
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: mad dog. And if he won't take back his mad dog,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: then I am human and I must have fallen on
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: my head man is borne by chance and should not
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: after mature consideration. It is to shoot oneself dead. The
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: weather at least has shown itself considerate. The whole day
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: it looked like rain, and yet it has held off
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: a rare peace. Rules in nature, know where anything dazzling exciting.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: Heaven and earth are like a transparent fabric, and everything
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 6: seems so happy. The landscape is as sweet as the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: melody of a lullaby. Sleep little prince, sleep on as
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: Freulen Snandulia sang. It's a shame she holds her elbows
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: so awkwardly. I danced for the last time at the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: Cecilian Fest. Snandulia only dances with good matches. Her silk
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: dress was cut low in front and in the back,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: in the back down to her girdle, and in the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: front down unconscionably low. She couldn't have worn a chemise.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: That might be something able to affect me yet more
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: than half curiosity. It must be a wonderful sensation, a feeling,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: as if one were being carried through the rapids. I
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: should never tell anybody that I was experiencing something untried
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: before I would act as if I had done at
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: all there is something shameful in growing up to be
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: a man without having learned the chief function of masculinity.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: You come from Egypt, honorable sir, and have not seen
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: the pyramids. I will not cry again to day. I
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: will not think of my burial again. Melchor will lay
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: a wreath on my coffin. Pastor Karlbarch will console my parents.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: Rector Zoonenschtysch will cite examples from history. It is possible
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: that I shall not have a tombstone. I had wanted
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: a snow white marble urn on a pedestal of black cyanite.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: Thank God, I shall not miss them. Monuments are for
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: the living, not for the dead. I should need a
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: whole year to say farewell to everything in my thoughts.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: I will not cry again. I am so happy to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: be able to look back without bitterness. How many beautiful
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: evenings have I passed with Melchior under the Osiers, at
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: the Forester's house, on the highway, where the five Lindens
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: stand on the Schlosberg, among the RESTful ruins of the Runenburg.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: When the hour comes, I will think of all my
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: might of whipped cream. Whipped cream doesn't stay firm, It
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: falls and leaves a pleasant aftertaste. I had thought men
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: were infinitely worse. I haven't found one who didn't want
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: to do his best. Many have suffered with me on
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: my own account. I wander to the altar, like the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: ancient Etrurian youth whose dying rattle bought his brother's prosperity
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: for the coming year. I experience, bit by bit the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: mysterious awe of liberation. I sob with sorrow over my lot.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: Life has turned its cold shoulder to me. I see earnest,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: friendly glances luring me there in the distance, the headless
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: queen compassion, awaiting me with open arms. Your commands concern miners.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: I carry my free ticket in myself. If the shell sinks,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: the butterfly flits from it, the delusion no longer holds.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 6: You should drive no mad bargain with the swindle. The
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: mists close in. Life is bitter on the tongue, in.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Torn clothing, A bright cloth about her head grabs him
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: by the shoulder from behind.
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  Speaker 10: What have you lost, ilsa, What are you hunting here?
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 6: Why did you frighten me so?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 10: What are you hunting? What have you lost?
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: Why did you frighten me so? Fearfully.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: I'm coming from town. I'm going home.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: I don't know what I've lost.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 10: Then seeking won't help.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: You, succer Mont saker mot, I.
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  Speaker 10: Haven't been home for four.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: Days, restless as a cat.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 10: Because I have on my dancing slippers. Mother will make eyes.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 10: Come to our house with me.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: Where have you been? Strolling again?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 10: With the Pripia Priapia, with Nol, with Firndorf, with Padinsky,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 10: with Lenz, Rankschbuller, with all of them, possible cling cling
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 10: thinks were lively?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 6: Do they paint you?
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 10: Vernandov painted me as a pillar saint. I am standing
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 10: on a Corinthian capital, Fondorf, I tell you as a
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 10: gibbering idiot. The last time I trot on one of
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 10: his tubes, he wiped his brush on my hair. I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 10: fetched him a box on the air. He threw his
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 10: pallette at my head. I upset the easel. He chased
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 10: me all about the studio, over divanced tables and chairs
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 10: with his mild stick. Behind the stove stood a sketch.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 10: Be good, or I'll tear it. He swore amnesty, and
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 10: then kissed me promptly and frightfully. Frightfully, I tell.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: You where do you spend the night when you stop
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: in town?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 10: Yesterday we were at Gnole's the day before with Boyokovich.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 10: Someday with Oikonomopoulos. We had champagne at Padinsky's. Valabreges has
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 10: sold his woman dead of the pest. Adola drank out
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 10: of the ashtray. Lance sang the child's murderer, and Adela
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: pounded the guitar out of shape. I was so drunk
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 10: they had to put me to bed. Do you go
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 10: to school yet, Murritz?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: No, no, I take leave of it this quarter.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 10: You're right, ah, How time passes when one earns money?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 10: Do you remember how we used to play robbers, wend
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 10: La Bergmann and you and I and the others, when
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 10: you used to come out in the evening and drink
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 10: warm goat's milk at our house? What is Wendler doing?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 10: I haven't seen her since the flood. What is Milchygaboor doing?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 10: Does he seem as deep thinking as ever? We used
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 10: to stand opposite each other during.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: Singing, he philosophizes.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: Wendler came to see us a while ago and brought
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 10: mother some presents. I set that day for Easido Landauer.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 10: He needed me for the Holy Mary, the Mother of
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 10: God with a christ child. He is a Ninnian, agreeable
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 10: like a weather cock. Have you at Katsnyama from last night?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: We soaked like hippopotami. I staggered home at five o'clock.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 10: One need only to look at you? Were there any
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 10: girls there?
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: Arabella the beer nymph and Andalusian the Landlord. Let all
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: of us spend the whole night alone with her.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 10: One only need look at you, Murretz, I don't know
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 10: what a Katsnyama's like. During the last carnival, I went
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 10: three days and three nights without going to bed or
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 10: taking my clothes off. From the ball to the cafe,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 10: noon at Bella Vista, evenings ting o'tangl night to the ball.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 10: Lena was there and the fat viola. The third night,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 10: Heinrich found me.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 6: Had he been looking for you?
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 10: He tripped over my arm. I lay senseless in the
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 10: snow in the strait. That's how I went with him
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 10: for fourteen days. I didn't leave his lodgings a dreadful time.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 10: In the morning I had to throw on his Persian
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 10: night gown, and in the evening go about his room
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 10: in the black costume of a page, white lace ruffles
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 10: at my neck, my knees, and my wrists. Every day
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 10: he photographed me in some new arrangement, once on the
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 10: sofa as ariadne, once as Lada, once as gunny maid,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 10: once on all fours as a feminine nebukat nezza. Then
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 10: he longed for murder, for shooting, suicide and coal gas.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 10: Early in the morning, he brought a pistol into bed,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 10: loaded it full of shot, and put it against my breast.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 10: A twitch and I'll pull. Oh, he would have fired
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 10: more as he would have fired. Then he put the
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 10: thing in his mouth like a blowpipe that awoke the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 10: feeling of self preservation, and then bru The shot might
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: have gone through my spine.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: Is Heinrich livignet?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 10: How do I know? Over the bed was a large
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 10: mirror set into the ceiling. The room seemed as high
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 10: as a tower and as bright as an opera house.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: Once saw one's self hanging down bodily from heaven. I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 10: had frightful dreams at night. Oh God, oh God, if
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: it were only day, get night deale sair. When you
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: are asleep, you will be pretty to murder?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: Is this Heinrich livin Yet?
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  Speaker 10: Please?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: God?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 10: No one day, when he went for absent, I put
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 10: on the mantel and ran out into the street. The
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 10: carnival was over. The police arrested me. What was I
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 10: doing in man's clothes? They took me to the central station,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 10: nol Ferndorf, Padinsky, Shpula, e Ekonomopoulos. The whole Priparia came
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 10: there and bailed me out. They transported me in the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: cab to Adola's studio. Since then, I've been true to
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 10: the herd. Ferndorf is an ape, Noel is a pig, Buyokovich,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 10: and all Lois zon Ehiena Eikonomopoulos a camel. Therefore, I
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 10: love one and all of them the same, and wouldn't
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 10: attach myself to any one else, even if the worlds
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 10: were full of archangels and millionnaires.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: I must go back, Ilza, come as far.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 10: As our house with me.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 14: What for?
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 10: What for to drink warm goat's milk? I will send
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 10: your hair and hang a little bell around your neck.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 10: Then we have another kid with which you can play.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: I must go back. I have yet the sassinides, the
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: sermon on the Mount, and the parallel Epipodon on my thoughts.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 10: Good night, Ilza, sleep well, do you ever go to
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 10: the wigwam where Milchigabo buried my tomahawk. Bruh until you
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 10: are married.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: I'll lie in the straw runs out alone.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: It might have cost only a word ilsa ilsa. Thank
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: God she doesn't hear me any more. I am not
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: in the humor. One needs a clear head and a
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: happy heart for it. What a lost opportunity. I would
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: have said that I had many crystal mirrors over my bed,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: that I had trained an unbroken filly, that I had
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: her proudly march in front of me on the carpet
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 6: in long black silk stockings and black patent leather shoes,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: long black gloves, black velvet about her neck, had strangled
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: her in a moment of madness with my cushions, I
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: would laugh. When the talk turned on passion, I would
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: cry out, cry out, cry out, it is you, Ilza priapia,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: loss of memory that takes my strength, This child of fortune,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: this sunny child, this joyous maiden on my dolorous path. Oh, oh,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: have I found it again? Unwillingly the seed of turf
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: the molines seemed to have grown since yesterday. The outlook
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: between the willows is still the same, the water runs
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: as heavy as melted lead. I mustn't forget how the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 6: sparks fly here and there, downward and upward, souls shooting stars.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 6: Before I struck a light, one could see the grass
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: and a streak on the horizon. Now it is dark.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: Now I shall never return home again.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act two, Act three of The Awakening of
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  Speaker 1: Spring by Frank Windekind, translated by Francis Jay Zeigler. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Act three. See first the boardroom. On
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  Speaker 1: the walls, pictures of Pestalozzi and Jean Jacques Rousso. Professors Offerenschmaltz, Knuppel, Dick, Hungergurt, Knockembrook, Sungenslag,
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  Speaker 1: and Fleegentod are seated around a green colored table, over
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: which are burning several guest jests. At the upper end,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: on a raised seat is Reractor, summon Stick, Bidel Hubbabald
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: squats near the door as.
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  Speaker 16: Any gentleman something further to remark, Gentlemen, we cannot help
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 16: moving the expulsion of our guilty pupil before the National
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 16: Board of Education. There are the strongest reasons why we cannot.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 16: We cannot because we must expiate the misfortune which has
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 16: fallen upon us already. We cannot because of our need
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 16: to protect ourselves from similar blows in the future. We
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 16: cannot because we must chastise our guilty pupil for the
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 16: demoralizing influence he exerted upon his classmates. We cannot, above all,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 16: because we must hinder him from exerting the same influence
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 16: upon his remaining classmates. We cannot ignore the charge, and this, gentleman,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 16: is possibly the weightiest of all on any pretext concerning
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 16: a ruined career, because it is our duty to protect
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  Speaker 16: ourselves from an epidemic of suicide similar to that which
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 16: has broken out recently in various grammar schools, and which
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 16: until today has mocked all attempts of the teachers to
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 16: shackle it by any means known to advanced education. Has
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 16: any gentlemen something further to remark?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 11: I can rid myself of the conception no longer that
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 11: it is time at last to open a window here.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 20: Ugh, there is in the atmosphere here la la like
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 20: that of the catacombs like that in the document rooms
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 20: the former Chamber of Justice at Fetzla.
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  Speaker 16: Have a bald at your service, rector open a window.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 16: Thank God, there's fresh air enough outside. Has any other
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 16: gentleman anything to say?
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 5: If my associate wants to have a window opened, I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 5: haven't the least objection to it. Only I should like
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: to ask that the window opened is not the one
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: directly behind my back.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 16: Have a bald at your service, he rector open the
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 16: other window. Has any other gentlemen in thing to remark?
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  Speaker 13: Without wishing to increase the controversy, I should like to
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 13: recall the important fact that the other window has been
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 13: walled up since vacation.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 16: Habibald at your service, herector, leave the other window shut.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 16: I find it necessary, gentlemen, to put this matter to
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 16: a vote. I request those of you who are in
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 16: favor of having the only window which can enter into
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 16: this discussion open, to rise from their seats.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 11: He count one two.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 16: Three one two three, Habibald at your service, he rector
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 16: leave that window shut. Likewise, I, for my part, am
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 16: of the opinion that the air here leaves nothing to
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 16: be desired. Has any gentleman anything further to remark? Let
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 16: us suppose that we omitted to move the exposure of
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 16: our guilty pupil before the National Board of Education, then
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 16: the National Board of Education would hold us responsible for
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 16: the misfortune which has overwhelmed us. Of the various grammar
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 16: schools visited by the epidemic of self murder, those in
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 16: which the devastation of self murder has reached twenty five
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 16: percent have been closed by the National Board of Education.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 16: It is our duty, as the guardians and protectors of
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 16: our institute, to protect our institute from this staggering blow.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 16: It grieves us deeply, gentlemen, that we are not in
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 16: a position to consider the other qualifications of our guilt
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 16: laden pupil. As mitigating circumstances and indulgent treatment which would
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 16: allow our guilty pupil to be vindicated, would not, in
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 16: any conceivable way imaginable vindicate the present imperiled existence of
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 16: our institute. We see ourselves under the necessity of judging
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 16: the guilt laden that we may not be judged guilty ourselves, Habibald,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 16: at your service, Rector bring him up, exit Habibald.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 20: If the present atmosphere leaves little or nothing to desire,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 20: I should like to suggest that the other window be
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 20: walled up during the summer the.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: Vacation.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: If our esteem colleague Juggenschreg does not find our room
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: ventilated sufficiently, I should like to suggest that our esteem
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 5: colleague Juggenschreg have a ventilator set into his forehead.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 23: Right, don't have to stand that, Hi hi, hi, Hi,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 23: don't have to stand ruteness. I have my five sentences.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 16: I must ask our esteemed colleagues Flagentod and Zundenschlag to
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 16: preserve decorum. It seems to me that our guilt laden
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 16: pupil is already on the stairs.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: Habebolt opens the door, whereupon Malchire pale but collected appears before.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 16: The meeting come nearer to the table. After her Stiefel
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 16: became aware of the profligate deed of his son, the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 16: distracted father searched the remaining effects of his son Moritz,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 16: hoping if possible, to find the cause of the abominable deed,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 16: and discovered among them, in an unexpected place a manuscript which,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 16: while it did not make us understand the abominable deed,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 16: through an unfortunate and sufficient light upon the moral disorder
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 16: of the criminal. This manuscript in the form of a
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 16: dialogue entitled The Nuptial Sleep, illustrated with life size pictures
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 16: full of shameless obscenity, has twenty pages of long explanations
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 16: that seek to satisfy every claim a profligate imagination can
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 16: make upon a lewd book, I have you have to
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 16: Keep Quiet? After Herr Stiefel had questioningly handed us this
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 16: manuscript and we had promised the distracted father to discover
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 16: the author at any price, we compared the handwriting before
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 16: us with the collected handwriting of the fellow students of
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 16: the deceased profligate, and concluded, in the unanimous judgment of
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 16: the teaching staff, as well as with the full coincidence
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 16: of a valued colleague, the master of calligraphy, that the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 16: resemblance to your I have you have to Keep Quiet.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 16: In spite of this likeness, recognized as crushing evidence by
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 16: incontrovertible authority, we believe that we should allow ourselves to
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 16: go further and to take the widest latitude in examining
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 16: the guilty one at first hand, in order to make
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 16: him answerable to this charge of an offense against morals,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 16: and to discover its real relationship to the resultant suicide.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: I have you have to answer.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 16: The exact questions which I shall put to you, one
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 16: after the other, with a plain and modest yes or no.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 16: Have Abald at your service, he rector the minutes. I
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 16: request our writing master, Herr Fleagentodd, from now on to
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 16: take down the proceedings as nearly verbatim.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: As possible to march here.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 16: Do you know this writing?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 16: Do you know whose writing it is?
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 16: Is the writing in this manuscript yours?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 16: Are you the author of this obscene manuscript?
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: Yes? I request you so to show me anything obscene
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 4: in it?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 16: You have to answer with a modest yes or no.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 16: The exact questions which I put to you.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: I have written neither more nor less than what are
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: well known facts to all of you.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 16: You shameless boy, I.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 4: Request you to show me an offense against morals in
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: this manuscript?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 16: Are you counting on a desire on my part to
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 16: be a clown for you, Habibald, I have you have
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 16: as little respect for the dignity of your assembled teachers
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 16: as you have a proper appreciation of mankind's innate sense
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 16: of shame which belongs to a moral world. Habibald, at
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 16: your service, Herector it is past the time for the
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 16: three hours exercise in agglative verlipuk I have. I will
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 16: request our secretary her Flagantod to close the minutes I have.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 16: You have to keep still Habibald at your Savi Rector
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 16: take him down.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Scene second, a graveyard in the pouring rain. Pastor Calbauch
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: stands beside an open grave with a raised umbrella in
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: his hand. To his right are Renter Stiefel, his friend
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Ziegan Malker, and uncle propst To the left, Rector Son
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: and Stick with Professor Connenbrooket the grammar school students complete
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: the circle. Martha and Ilsa stand somewhat apart upon a
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: fallen monument.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 17: For he who rejects the grace with which the Everlasting
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 17: Father has blessed those born in sin, he shall die
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 17: spiritual death. He, however, who, in wilful conalab neegation of
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 17: God's proper honor, lives for and serves evil, shall die
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 17: the death of the body, who, however wickedly, throws away
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 17: from him the cross which the all Merciful has laid
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 17: upon him for his sins. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 17: he shall die the everlasting death.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: He throws a shovelful of earth into the grave.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 17: Let us, however, praise the all gracious Lord and thank
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 17: him for his inscrutable grace, in order that we may
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 17: travel the thorny path more and more surely. For as
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 17: truly as this one died a triple death, as truly
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 17: will the Lord God conduct the righteous unto happiness and
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 17: everlasting life.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: His wife, stopped with tears, throws a shovelful of earth
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: into the grave.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 18: The boy was nothing to me. The boy was who
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 18: is nothing to me.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 11: The boy was a worthing from his birth.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: Throws a chovelful of earth into the grave.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 16: Suicide, being the greatest conceivable fault against the moral order
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 16: of the world, is the greatest evidence of the moral
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 16: order of the world. The suicide himself spares the world
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 16: the need of pronouncing judgment of condemnation against himself, and
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 16: confirms the existence of the moral order of the world.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Throws a shovelful of earth into the grave.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 14: Wasted, soiled, debauch, tattered and squandered.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Throws a shovelful of earth into the grave.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 13: I would not have believed my own mother had she
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 13: told me that the child could act so basely toward
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 13: its own parents.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: Throws the chovelful of earth into the grave.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 11: To treat a father so who for twenty years from
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 11: late to early had no other thought than the welfare
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 11: of his child.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Shaking render Stefal's hand.
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  Speaker 17: We know that those who love God serve all things
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 17: best one Corinthians, Verse twelve, chapter fifteen. Think of the
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 17: bereaved mother and strive to console her for her loss
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 17: by doubled love.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Shaking render Stefal's hand.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 16: Indeed, we could not possibly have promoted.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: Him shaking render Stefal's hand.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 14: And if we had promoted him next spring, he would
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 14: have certainly failed to pass.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Shaking render Stefall's hand.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 13: It is your duty now to think of yourself. First
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 13: of all, you are the father of the family.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Shaking render Stefal's hand.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 11: Trust yourself to my guidance. This devilish weather shakes one's guts.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 11: The man who doesn't prevent it with the grog will
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 11: ruin his heart, belves blowing his nose.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 18: The boy was nothing to me. The boy was nothing
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 18: to me.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Render stephil leaves, accompanied by Pastor Carlbaugh, Rector Son and
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: Stick Professor Knockenbrook, Uncle propst and friend ziegen Knacker, the
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: rain Ceesars.
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  Speaker 12: Rest in peace, you, honest fellow. Greet my eternal brides
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 12: for me those sacrificed remembrances, and commend me respectfully to
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 12: the grace of God. You poor clown, He will put
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 12: a scarecrow on top of your grave because of your
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 12: angelic simplicity.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 7: Did they find a pistol?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 8: There's no use looking for the pistol. Did you see him, Robert,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 8: It's a damned infernal swindle. Who did see him?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 4: Who did? He was hidden?
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: They threw a covering over him.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 7: Was his tongue hanging.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 8: Out his eyes? That's why they threw the cloth over him.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: Frightful.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 12: Do you know for certain that he hanged himself?
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 9: They say he has no head left.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: Incredible nonsense.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 8: I have the clue in my hands. I have never
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 8: seen a man who hanged himself that they hadn't thrown
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 8: a cloth over.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 7: He couldn't have taken his leave in a vulgar a way.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 12: The devil hanging is pretty enough.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: He owes me five marks. We had a bet he
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 5: swore he would keep his place.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 12: You are to blame for he's lying there. You called
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 12: him a booster.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: Nonsense, I too must grind away all night. If he
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: had learned the history of Greek literature, he would not
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: have had to hang himself.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 9: Have you your composition? Otto?
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 5: First comes the introduction.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 9: I don't know at all what to write.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 7: Weren't you there when Offenschmalt gave us a theme?
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: How fake up something out of democritous?
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 9: I will see if there's anything left to be found
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 9: in Maya's little encyclopedia?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: Have you your Virgil?
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 4: For tomorrow?
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: The schoolboys leave, Martha and Ilseie reproached the grave quick wick.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 10: Here are the grave diggers coming.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 7: Hadn't we better wait, Ilsa?
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 10: What for? We'll bring fresh ones, always fresh ones. They're
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 10: enough growing.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 7: You're right, Elsa.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: She throws a wreath of ivy into the grave. Elsie
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: drops her apron and allows a shower of fresh anemonies
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: to rain down on the coffin.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 7: I'll dig up our roses. I'll be beaten for it.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: There will be of some use here.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 10: I'll water them as often as I pass here. I'll
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 10: fetch violets from the brook and bring some iris from
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 10: our house.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: It will be beautiful, beautiful.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 10: I was just across the brook on that side when
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 10: I heard the shot, poor dear. And I know the
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 10: reason too, Martha.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 7: Did he tell you anything parallel?
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 10: Pipot on, But don't tell anybody my hand on it.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 10: Here is the pistol.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 7: That's the reason they didn't find it.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 10: I took it right out of his hand when I
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 10: came along in the morning.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 7: Give it to me, Ilza, Please give it to me.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 10: No, I'm going to keep it for a souvenir.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 7: Is it true, Ilsea, that he lay there without a head?
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 10: He must have loaded it with water. The moullions were
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 10: spattered all over with blood. His brains were scattered about
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: the pasture scene.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Third Heir and Frau Gabber.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 15: They needed a scapegoat. They did not dare meet the
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 15: charge that was made everywhere against themselves. And now that
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 15: my child has had the misfortune to run his head
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 15: into the noose at the right moment, shall i his
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 15: own mother helped to whend the work of his executioners.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 15: God keep me from it.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 19: For fourteen years, I've looked on at your spirited educational
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 19: methods in silence. They were contrary to my ideas. I'd
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 19: always lived in a conviction that a child was not
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 19: a plaything. A child, you'd have a claim upon our
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 19: most earnest efforts. But I said to myself, if the
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 19: spirit and the grace of the one parent able to
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 19: compensate for the serious maximus of the other, they may
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 19: be given preference over the serious maxims. I am not
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 19: reproaching you, Fanny, but Dad, stand in my way. When
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 19: I seek to write your injustice and mine toward.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 15: The lad I will block the way for you. As
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 15: long as a warm drop of blood beats in me.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 15: My child would be lost in the house of correction.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 15: A criminal nature might be bettered in such an institution,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 15: I don't know. A fine natured man would just as
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 15: surely turn into a criminal, like the plants when they
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 15: are kept from sun and light. I am conscious of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 15: no injustice on my part to day, as always, I
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 15: thank Heaven that it showed me the way to awaken
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 15: righteousness of character and nobility of thought in my child.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 15: What has he done which is so frightful It doesn't
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 15: occur to me to apologize for him now that they
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 15: have hunted him out of school. He bears no fault,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 15: and if it was his fault, he has paid for it.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 10: You.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 15: You may know better. You may be entirely right theoretically,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 15: but I cannot allow my only child to be forcibly
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 15: hunted to death.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 19: That doesn't depend on us, Fanny. That is the risk
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 19: we took with our happiness. He who is too weak
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 19: to march stops by the wayside. And in the end
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 19: it is not the worst. When what was certain to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 19: come comes in time to be betted. Heaven protect us
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 19: from all that. It is our duty to strengthen the loiterer,
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 19: as long as reason supplies a means. That they have
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 19: hunted him out of school is not his earn fault.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 19: If they hadn't hunted him out of school, that wouldn't
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 19: have been his fault either. You are so lighthearted you
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 19: perceive inconsiderable trifles when the question concerns a fundamental injury
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 19: to character. You women are not accustomed to judge such things.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 19: Any One who can write what Milky ordered must be
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 19: rotten to the core of his being. The mark is plain.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 19: A half healthy nature wouldn't do such a thing. None
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 19: of us are saints. Each of us wanders from the
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 19: straight path. His rieting on the contrary tramples on principle.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 19: His writing is no evidence of a chance slip in
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 19: the usual way. It sets forth with dreadful plainness and
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 19: a frankly definite purpose, that natural longing, that propensity for immorality,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 19: because it is immorality. His writing manifests that exceptional state
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 19: of spiritual corruption, which we jurist classify under the term
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 19: moral imbecility. If anything can be done in his case,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 19: I am not able to say. If we want to
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 19: preserve a glimmer of hope and keep our spotless consciences
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 19: as the parents of the victim, it is time for
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 19: us to go to work determinedly in earnest. Don't let
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 19: us contend any more. Fanny, I feel how hard it
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 19: is for you. I know that you idolize him because
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 19: he expresses so entirely your genuine nature. Be stronger than yourself,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 19: share yourself for once, devoid of self interest towards your son.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 15: God help me, How can one get along that way?
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 15: One must be a man to be able to talk
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 15: that way. One must be a man to be able
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 15: to blind oneself. So with the dead letter, one must
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 15: be a man to be so blind that one can't
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 15: see what stares him in the eyes. I have conscientiously
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 15: and thoughtfully managed Melchior from his first day, because I
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 15: found him impressionable to his surroundings. Are we answerable for
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 15: what has happened? A tile might fall off the roof
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 15: upon your head tomorrow, and then comes your friend, your father,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 15: and instead of taking care of you, tramples upon you.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 15: I will not let my child be destroyed before my eyes.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 15: That's the reason I'm his mother. It is inconceivable, it
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 15: is not to be believed. What did he write?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Then?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 15: After all? Isn't it the most striking proof of his harmlessness,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 15: of his stupidity, of his childish obscurity that he can write?
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 15: So one must possess no intuitive knowledge of mankind. One
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 15: must be an out and out bureaucrat or weak in
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 15: intellect to scent moral corruption. Here, say what you will.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 15: If you land melchy Or in the house of correction,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 15: I will get a divorce. Then let me see if
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 15: I can't help and find means somewhere in the world
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 15: to rescue my child from destruction.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 19: You must prepare yourself for it. If not to day,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 19: then tomorrow. It is not easy for any one to
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 19: discount misfortune. I will stand beside you, and when your
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 19: courage begins to fail. Will spare no trouble or effort
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 19: to relieve your heart. The future seems so gray to me,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 19: so full of clouds. It only remains for you to
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 19: leave me too.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 15: I should never see him again. I should never see
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 15: him again. He can't bear the vulgar he will not
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 15: be able to stand the dirt. He will break under restraint.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 15: The most frightful examples will be before his eyes. And
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 15: if I see him again, Oh God, oh God, that
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 15: joyous heart, his clear laughter, all all his childish resolution
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 15: to fight courageously for good and righteousness. Oh, this morning sky,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 15: how I cherished it, light and pure in his soul
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 15: as my highest good. Hold me to account if the
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 15: sin cries for expiation, hold me to account. Do with
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 15: me what you will. I will bear the guilt. But
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 15: keep your frightful hand off the boy.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 19: He has gone wrong.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 15: He has not gone wrong.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 19: He has gone wrong. I would have given everything to
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 19: be able to spare your boundless love. A terrified woman
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 19: came to me this morning, scarcely able to control his speech,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 19: with his letter in her hand, a letter to her
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 19: fifteen year old daughter. She had opened it simply out
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 19: of curiosity, the girl was not at home. In the letter,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 19: Melchiod explained to the fifteen year old girl that his
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 19: manner of acting left him no peace, that he had
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 19: sinned against her, et cetera, et cetera, and that naturally
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 19: he would answer for it. She must not fret herself,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 19: even if she felt results. He was already on the
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 19: road after help. His expulsion made it easier for him.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 19: The previous false step could still lead to her happiness,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 19: and more of such irrational nonsense impossible. The letter is forged.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 19: It's a cheat. Somebody is trying to take advantage of
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 19: his generally known expulsion. I have not yet spoken to
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 19: the lad about it, but please look at this hand
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 19: see the writing.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 15: An unprecedented, shameless bit of knavery.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 19: That's what I'm afraid. No, no, never, never, It would
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 19: be so much the better for us. The woman, wringing
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 19: her hands, asked me what she should do. I told
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 19: her she should not leave her fifteen year old daughter
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 19: lying about a haimo. Fortunately, she left me the letter.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 19: If we send Melchior to another grammar school where he
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 19: is not under parental supervision in three weeks, we shall
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 19: have the same result. A new expulsion. His joyful heart
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 19: will get used to it after a while. Tell me, Fanny,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 19: where shall I send the lad.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 15: To the House of Correction.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 24: To the House of correction, he will find there in
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 24: the fast place that which has been wrongfully withheld from
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 24: him at home, parental discipline, principle, and a moral constraint
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 24: to which she must submit under all circumstances.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 19: Moreover, the House of Correction is not a place of
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 19: terror as you think it. The greatest weight is laid
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 19: in the establishment. Upon the development of Christian thought and sensibility,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 19: the lad will learn at last to follow good in
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 19: place of desire, and not to follow his natural instincts,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 19: but to observe the letter of the law. A half
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 19: hour ago I received a telegram from my brother that
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 19: confirms the woman's statement. Melchior has confided in him and
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 19: begged him for two hundred marks in order to fly
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 19: to England covering.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 15: Her face merciful Heavens.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Scene fourth the House of Correction, A corridor detailm reinholdt Ruprecht, Helmut,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: Gaston and Malchire.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 11: Here is a twenty fenig piece.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 4: What shall we do with it?
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 11: I will lay it on the floor arrange yourselves about it.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 11: Who can get it can keep it?
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: When you join snow kill No, thank you the Joseph.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 5: He can't do win anything else. He is here for
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: recreation to himself.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 4: He's not wise for me to separate myself from them.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: They all have an eye on me. I must join them,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: or the creature goes, or the creature goes to the devil.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: Imprisonment drives it too suicide. If I break my neck,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 4: all is well. If I escape, that is good too.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: I can only win ruprect would become my friend. He
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 4: has acquaintances here. I had better give him the chapter
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: of Judas's daughter in law, the mar of Moab, of
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: Lot and his Kindred, of Queen Vashti, and of Abershag
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 4: the Shunamite. He has the unhappiest physiognomy of the lot
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 11: I have it.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: I'll get it yet the day after tomorrow, perhaps.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Right away now, Oh God, taking the money.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 8: Many thanks.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: Hey you dog, he's swine.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: Gallows bird hits him in the face. There runs away,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: running after him.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: I'll strike you dead, running.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: After chase, chase them alone, wandering toward a window.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: The lightning rod runs down there one would only have
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 4: to wind a pocket handkerchief about it. When I think
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 4: of them, the blood always rushes to my head, and
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: Moritz turns my feet to lead. I'll go to a
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 4: newspaper if they pay me by space. I'll be a
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 4: freelance collect the news of the day. Right locals, ethical,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 4: psychophysical one doesn't starve so easily nowadays. Public soup houses,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 4: cafe temperance. The house is sixty feet high and the
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: cornice is crumbling. They hate me. They hate me because
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 4: I rob them of liberty. Handle myself as I will.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 4: There remain misdemeanors. I dare only hope in the course
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: of the year. Gradually it will be new Moon in
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: eight days tomorrow, greased the hinges. By Sunday evening, I
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 4: must find out somehow who has the key. This Sunday
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 4: evening during prayers a cataleptic fit, I hope to God
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 4: nobody else Willez sick. Everything seems as clear to me
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: as if it had happened over the window frames. I
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 4: can reach easily a swing a clutch, but one must
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: wind a handkerchief about it. There comes the head inquisitor.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: Exit to the left, Doctor Brocrustess enters from the right
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: with the locksmith.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 18: The window is on the third floor and it has
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 18: stinging nettles plant arounder it. But what do the janerates
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 18: care for us in nettles? Last winter one of them
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 18: got out of the trap door on the roof, and
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 18: we have the whole trouble of capturing him, bringing him
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 18: back and locking him up again.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 17: Do you want the grating of wrought iron.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 18: Off rhods iron read so they cannot meddle with it?
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: Scene fifth a bedchamber frau Bergmann in a muller and
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: doctor van brausepulber Wendler in bed.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 19: Who ow do you exactly?
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: Fourteen and a half.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 19: I've been ordering Bloude pills for fifteen years and have
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 19: noticed astonishing results in the majority of cases. I prefer
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 19: them to cadliver oil and wine of iron. Begin with
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 19: three or four pills a day, and increase the number
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 19: just as soon as you're able. I ordered Freudine Rider
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 19: Baroness from witch Leben, to increase the number of them
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 19: by one every third day. The baroness misunderstood me and
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 19: increased the number every day by three. Scarcely three weeks later,
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 19: the Baroness was able to go to Piermre with her
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 19: mother to complete her cure. I will allow you to
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 19: dispense with exhausting walks and extra meals. Therefore, promise me,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 19: dear child, to take frequent exercise and to avoid unwholesome food.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 19: As soon as the desire for it appears again. Then
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 19: this palpitation of the heart will soon cease, and the headache,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 19: the hills, the giddiness, and this frightful indigestion. Freule and
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 19: Elfrida Baroness from Witzleben hd a hole of his chicken
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 19: with new potatoes for her breakfast. Eight days after her convalescence.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: May I offer you a glass of wine?
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 19: Doctor, I thank you, dear frau Bergmann. My carriage is waiting.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 19: Do not take it so to heart. In a few weeks,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 19: our dear little patient will be again as fresh and
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 19: bright as a gazelle. Be of good chair. Good day,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 19: frau Bergmann, Good day, dear child, Good day, ladies, Good day.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Frau Bergmann accompanies him to the door. At the window.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 7: Now your plaintains are in bloom again? Can you see that?
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 7: From your bed? Shortest hardly worth rejoicing over them. They
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 7: come and go so quickly. I too must go right away.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 7: Now Miller is waiting for me in front of the
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 7: post office, and I must go first to the dressmakers.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 7: Muoki is to have his first trousers, and Karl is
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 7: to have his new knit leggings for winter.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I feel so happy, all joy and sunshine. I
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: had not guessed that it could go so well in
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: one's heart. I want to go out, to go over
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: the meadows in the twilight, to look for primroses along
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: the river, and to sit down on the banks and dream.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: Then comes the toothache, and I feel as if I
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: had to die. The next morning, at daybreak, I grow
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: hot and cold. It becomes dark before my eyes, and
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: then the beast flutters inside. As often as I wake up,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: I see Mother crying. Oh that hurts me, so I
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: can't tell you how much, Ina.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 7: Shall I lift your pillows higher?
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Returning?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 3: He thinks the vomiting will soon see and then you
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 3: can get up in peace. I too think it would
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 3: be better if you got up soon, Vendla.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 7: Possibly when I visit you next time, you will be
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 7: dancing around the house again. Good Bye Mother. I must
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 7: positively go to the dressmakers. God, God, you wend Ladre
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 7: kisses her speedy, speedy, recovery exit Na.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: What did he tell you, mother? When he was outside?
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: He didn't say anything. He said, Fraulein von Witzelben was
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 3: subject of fainting spells. Also, it is almost always so
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: with chlorosis.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: Did he say that I have clorosis?
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 10: Mother?
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: You are to drink milk and eat meat and vegetables
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 3: when your appetite comes back.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, mother, mother, I believe I haven't chlorosis.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 3: You have chlorosis. Child, be calm, vendla be calm, you
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 3: have chlorosis.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: No, mother, no, I know it, I feel it. I
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: haven't chlorosis. I have dropsy.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: You have chlorosis. He I said positively that you have chlorosis.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: Calm yourself, girl, you will get better.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: I won't get better. I have the dropsy. I must die, mother,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: Oh mother, I must die.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: You must not die. Child, You must not die. Great heavens,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: you must not die.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: But why do you weep so frightfully? Then you must
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: not die.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: Child. You haven't the dropsy. You have a child. Girl,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: you have a child. Oh why did you do that
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: to me?
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 2: I haven't done anything to you.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't deny it any more. Vendla, I know everything. See,
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say a word to you, Ventla,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: my vendla.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: But it's not possible. Mother, I'm not married yet.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: Great almighty God, that's just it that you are not married.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 3: That is the most frightful thing of all. Vendla, vendla, vendla.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 10: What have you done?
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: God knows? I don't know any more. We lay in
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: the hay. I have loved nobody in the world as
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: I do you, mother, my sweetheart, Oh mother, why didn't
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: you tell me everything?
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 9: Child?
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 3: Child? Let us not make each other's hearts any heavier.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 3: Take hold of yourself. Don't make me desperate, child to
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 3: tell that to a fourteen year old girl. See, I
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: expected that about as much as I did the sun
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: going out. I haven't acted any differently towards you than
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: my dear good mother did toward me. Oh, let us
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 3: trust in the dear God Ventla. Let us hope for
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 3: compassion and have compassion toward ourselves. See, nothing has happened yet, child,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 3: And if we are only not cowardly now, God won't
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: forsake us. Be cheerful, vandla be cheerful. One sits so
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: at the window with one's hands in one's lap, while
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: everything changes to good, And then one realizes that one
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: almost wanted to break one's heart. What why are you shivering?
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: Somebody knocked?
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 3: I didn't hear anything.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: Dear heart goes and opens the door.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: But I heard it very plainly. Who is outside?
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 3: Nobody Schmidt's mother from Garden Street. You come at just
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: the right time, mother Schmidt say.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: In sixth men and women wine dressers in the wind yard.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: The sun is setting behind the peaks of the mountains
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: in the west. A clear sound of bells rises from
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: the valley below. Hans Rilov and Ernest Rubelle roll about
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: in the dry grass of the highest plot, under the
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: overhanging rocks.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 9: I have overworked myself.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 12: Don't let us be sad.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 4: It's a pity.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 9: The minutes of passing, and one sees them hanging and
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 9: can't manage any more. And tomorrow they are in the
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 9: wine press.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 12: Fatigue is as intolerable to me as hunger.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 9: Oh, I can't eat anymore.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 12: Hm, Just this shining musket tell my Leicester city has
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 12: its limits. If I bend down the vine, we can
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 12: sway it from mouth to mouth. Neither of us will
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 12: have to disturb himself. We can bite off the grapes
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 12: and let the branches fly back to the trunk.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 9: One hardly decides upon a thing when see that vanishing
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 9: power begins to darken.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 12: Hence the flaming firmament and the evening bells. I promise
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 12: myself little more for the future.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 9: Sometimes I see myself already as a worthy pastor, with
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 9: a good natured little wife, a well filled library, and
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 9: officers and dignities all about me. For six days one
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 9: has to think, and on the seventh one opens one's mouth.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 9: When out walking, one gives one's hair the schoolgirls and boys,
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 9: And when one comes home the coffee seems, the cookers
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 9: are brought out, and the maids fetch apples through the
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 9: garden door. Can you imagine anything more beautiful?
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 12: I imagine half closed eyelids, half open lips, and Turkish draperies.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 12: I do not believe in pathoss. Our elders show us
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 12: long faces in order to hide their stupidity. Among themselves.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 12: They call each other donkeys, just as we do.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 11: I know that.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 12: When I am a millionaire, I erect a monument to God.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 12: Imagine the future as a milkshake with sugar and cinnamon.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 12: One fellow upsets it and howls. Another stirs it altogether
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 12: and sweats. Why not skim off the cream? Or don't
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 12: you believe that one can learn?
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 8: How?
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 12: Let us skim what remains? The pens will eat. I
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 12: have pulled my head out of so many traps already.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 9: Let us skim, Hans, Why do you laugh?
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 12: Are you beginning again? Already?
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 9: One of us must begin.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 12: Thirty years from now on some evening like to day.
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  Speaker 12: If we recall this one, perhaps it will seem too
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 12: beautiful for expression.
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  Speaker 9: And how everything springs from self? Why not if by
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 9: chance one we're alone, I might like to weep.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, don't let us be sad.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, He kisses him on the mouth, returning the kiss.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 9: I left the house with the idea of just speaking
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 9: to you, and turning back again.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 12: I waited for you. Pertue is not a bad garment,
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 12: but it requires an imposing figure.
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  Speaker 9: It fits us loosely. As yet, I should not have
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 9: been content if I not met you. I love you, Hans,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 9: as I have never loved the soul.
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  Speaker 4: Let us not be sad.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 12: If we recall this in thirty years, perhaps we shall
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 12: make fun of it. And yet everything is so beautiful.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 12: The mountains glow, the grapes hang before our mouths, and
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: the evening breeze caresses the rocks like a playful flatterer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh M, Scene seventh, a clear November night, the dry
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: foliage of the bushes and trees, rustles, clouds chase each
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: other beneath the moon. Macchia clumbers over the churchyard wall,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: springing down inside.
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  Speaker 4: The pack won't follow me here. While they are searching
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 4: the brothels, I can get my breath and discover how
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 4: much I have accomplished. Cold and tatters, pockets empty. I'm
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 4: not safe from the most harmless. I must try to
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 4: get deeper into the wood tomorrow. I have trampled down
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 4: across Even today. The flowers are frozen. The earth is
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 4: cold all round, and the domain of the dead. To
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 4: climb out of the hole in the roof was not
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 4: as hard as this road. It was only there that
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 4: I kept my presence of mind. Then I hung over
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 4: the abyss, everything was lost and it vanished. If I
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 4: could have stayed there, why she on my account? Why
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 4: look the guilty, inscrutable providence. I would have broken stones
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 4: and gone hungry. What is to keep me straight?
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 4: The fence follows a fence. I'm swallowing up in the morass.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 4: I haven't the strength to get out of it.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 9: I was not bad.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 10: I was not bad. I was not bad.
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  Speaker 4: No mortal ever wanted so dejectedly over graves before. I
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 4: won't lose courage. Oh, if I should go crazy during
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 4: this very night, I must seek there among the latest ones.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 4: The wind pipes on every stone in a different key,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 4: an anguishing symphony. The decayed wreaths rip apart and swing
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 4: with their long threads and bits about the marble crosses
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 4: a wood of scarecrows. Scarecrows on every grave, each more
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 4: gruesome than the other, as high as houses from which
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 4: the runs away. The golden letters sparkle so coldly the
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 4: weaming willow's groan, and move their giant fingers over the
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 4: inscriptions A praying angel, a tablet. The clouds throw their
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 4: shadows over it. How the wind hurries and howls, but
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 4: the march of an army. It drives in from the east.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 4: Not a star in the heavens, evergreen, in the garden
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 4: plot evergreen. A maiden here rests in god vnd La
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 4: Bergmann born May fifth, eighteen seventy eight, died from colerosis
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 4: October twenty seventh, eighteen ninety two. Blessed are the pure
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  Speaker 4: of heart, and I am her murderer. I am her murderer.
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 4: Despair has left me. I dare not weep here away
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 4: from your away.
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  Speaker 1: With his head under his arm, comes stamping over the graves.
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  Speaker 6: A moment, Melchire. The opportunity will not occur so readily again.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 6: You can't guess what depends upon the place and the time.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 4: Where do you come from?
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 6: From?
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  Speaker 9: Over there?
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  Speaker 6: Over by the wall, you knock down my cross. I
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 6: lie by the wall. Give me your hand, Melchire, You
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 6: are not more in schtieful. Give me your hand. I
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 6: am convinced you will thank me. It won't be so
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 6: easy again. This is an unusually fortunate encounter. I came
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 6: out especially.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you sleep, not.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: What you call sleep. We sit on the church tower,
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 6: on the high gables of the roof, wherever we please, restless,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 6: half happy, We wander among the mayflowers, among the lonely
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 6: paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 6: over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 6: the chimneys of dwelling places, and behind the bed curtains.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 6: Give me your hand. We don't associate with each other,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 6: but we see and hear everything that is going on
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 6: in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 6: that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 4: What good does that do?
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 6: What good does it have to do? We are fit
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 6: for nothing more, neither good nor evil. We stand high
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 6: high above earthly beings, each for himself alone.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 10: We do not.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 6: Associate with each other, because it would bore us. Not
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 6: one of us cares for anything which he might lose.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 6: We are indifferent both to sorrow and to joy. We
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: are satisfied with ourselves, and that all. We despise the
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 6: living so heartily that we can hardly pity them. They
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 6: amuse us with their doings, because being alive, they are
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 6: not worthy of compassion. We laugh at their tragedies, each
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 6: by himself, and make reflections upon them. Give me your hand.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 6: If you give me your hand, you will fall down
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 6: with laughter over the sensation which made you give me
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 6: your hand.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 4: Doesn't that disgust you?
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 6: We are too high for that. We smile at my burial.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 6: I was among the mourners. I had a right good time.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 6: That is sublimity, milchure, I howled louder than any and
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 6: slunk over to the wall to hold my belly from
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 6: shaking with laughter. Our unapproachable sublimity is the only viewpoint
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 6: which the trash understands. They would have laughed at me
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 6: also before I swung myself off.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: I have no desire to laugh at myself.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 6: The living as such are not really worth compassion. I
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 6: admit I should not have thought so either. And now
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 6: it is incomprehensible to me how one can be so naive.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 6: I see through the fraud so clearly that not a
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 6: cloud remains. Why do you want a loiter? Now, Melchior,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 6: give me your hand. In the turn of a head,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 6: you will stand heaven high above yourself. Your life is
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 6: a sin of omission.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 4: Can you forget?
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 6: We can do everything, Give me your hand. We can
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 6: pity the young who take their timidity for idealism, and
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 6: the old who break their hearts from stoical deliberation. We
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 6: see the Kaiser tremble at a scurilous ballad, and the
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 6: Lazzeroni before the youngest policeman. We ignore the masks of
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 6: comedians and see the poet. In the shadow of the mask,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 6: we see happiness in beggar's rags, and the capital in
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 6: misery and toil. We observe lovers and see them blush
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 6: before each other, foreseeing that they are deceived deceivers. We
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 6: see parents bringing children into the world that they may
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 6: be able to say to them, how happy you are
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 6: to have such parents, and see the children go and do. Likewise,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 6: we can observe the innocent girl in the qualms of
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 6: her first love, and the five Groschen Harlot reading Schiller,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 6: we see God and the devil blaming each other and
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 6: cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 6: Peace and joy, Melchire, you only need to reach me
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 6: your little finger. You may become snow white before you
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 6: have such a favorable opportunity again.
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: If I give you my hand, Morritz, it would be
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 4: from self contempt. I see myself outlawed. What lend me courage?
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 4: If lies in the grave? I can no longer consider
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 4: noble emotions as worthy and see nothing, nothing now that
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 4: can save me for my degradation. To myself, I am
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 4: the most contemptible creature in the universe.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: What delays you a masked man appears to mock here.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 11: You are trembling from hunger. You are not fit to
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 11: judge two Moritz.
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 6: You go?
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 11: I refuse to tell two Moritz banish? What business have
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 11: you here? Why haven't you on your head?
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 6: I shot myself.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 11: Then stay where you belong. You are done with. Don't
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 11: annoy us here with your stink of the grave. It's inconceivable.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 11: Look at your fingers, the devil. They will crumble soon.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 6: Please don't send me away.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 4: Who are you, sir?
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 6: Please don't send me away? Please don't let me stay
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 6: here a bit with you. I won't disturb you in anything.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 6: It is so dreadful down there.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 11: Why do you gabble about sublimity? Then you know that
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 11: that is humbug sour grapes? Why do you lie so
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 11: diligently on your chimara? If you consider it so great
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 11: a favor, you may stay as far as I am concerned,
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 11: But take yourself to Leeward, my dear friend, and please
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 11: keep your dead man's hands out of the game.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 4: Will tell me once for all who you are or not.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 11: No, I propose to you that you shall confide yourself
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 11: to me. I will take care of your future's success.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 4: You are my father.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 11: Wouldn't you know your father by his voice? No, your
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 11: father seeks consolation at this moment in the sturdy arms
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 11: of your mother. I will open the world to you.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 11: Your momentary lack of resolution springs from your miserable condition.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 11: With a warm supper inside of you, you will make
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 11: fun of it to himself.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 4: It can only be the devil allowed after that of
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 4: which I have been guilty. A warm supper cannot give
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 4: me back my peace.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 11: That will follow the supper. I can tell you this much.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 11: The girl had better have given birth. She was built properly. Unfortunately,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 11: she was killed by the abortives given by mother Schmidt.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 11: I will take you out among men. I will give
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 11: you the opportunity to enlarge your horizon fabulously. I will
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 11: make you thoroughly acquainted with everything interesting that the world
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 11: has to offer.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 4: Who are you? Who are you? I can't trust a
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 4: man that I don't know.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 11: You can't learn to know me unless you trust me.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 4: Do you think so?
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 11: Of course? Besides, you have no choice.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 4: I can reach my hand here to my friend at
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 4: any moment.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 11: Your friend is a charlatan. Nobody laughs who has a
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 11: Fanning left in cash the sublime humor as the most miserable,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 11: most pitiable creature in creation.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 4: Let the humorist be what he made. You tell me
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 4: who you are, or I'll reach the humorist my hand.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 6: What then he is right, milk cure, I have boasted.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 6: Take his advice and profit by it, no matter how
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 6: masked he is, he is at least do you.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 4: Believe in God?
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 19: Yes?
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 11: Conditionally?
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 4: Will you tell me who discovered gunpowder?
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 11: Berthold Schwartz alias Konstantine Ankletten, a Franciscan monk at Fribourg
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 11: in Brycegau in thirteen thirty.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 6: What I wouldn't give if he had led it alone?
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 11: You would only have hanged yourself.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 4: Then what do you think about morals?
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 11: You rascal? Am I your schoolboy?
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 4: Do I know what you are?
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 6: Don't quarrel? Please? Don't quarrel? What good does that do?
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 6: Why should we sit two living men and a corpse
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 6: together in a church yard at two o'clock in the morning.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 6: If we want a quarrel like topers, it will be
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 6: a pleasure to me to arbitrate between you. If you
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 6: want to quarrel, I'll take my head under my arm
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 6: and go you and.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 4: The same old frayed cat.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 11: As Ever, the phantom is not wrong. One shouldn't forget
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 11: one's dignity by morals. I understand the real product of
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 11: two imaginary quantities. The imaginary quantities are shall and will.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 11: The product is called morals and leaves no doubt of
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 11: its reality.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 6: If you had only told me that earlier my morals
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 6: hounded me to death for the sake of my dear parents,
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 6: I killed myself honor thy father and mother, that thy
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 6: days may be long in the land. The text made
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 6: a phenomenal.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 10: Fool of me.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 11: Give yourself up to no more illusions, dear friend, Your
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 11: dear parents would have died as little from it as
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 11: you did. Judged righteously, they would only have raged and
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 11: stormed from the healthiest necessity.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 4: That may be right as far as it goes. I
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 4: can assure you, however, sir, that if I reach moretz
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 4: my hand, sooner or later, my morals alone will have
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 4: to bear the blame.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 11: That is just the reason you are not Moritz.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 6: But I don't believe the difference is so material, so compulsive,
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 6: at least esteemed unknown. But what, by chance the same
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 6: thing might have happened to you, has happened to me
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: that time when I trotted through the alder grove with
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 6: a pistol in my pocket.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 11: Don't you remember me? You have been standing for the
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 11: moment actually between life and death. Moreover, in my opinion,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 11: this is not exactly the place in which to continue
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 11: such a profound debate.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 6: Certainly it's growing cold. Gentlemen. They dressed me in my
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 6: Sunday suit, but I wear neither undershirt nor drawers.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 4: Farewell, dear Moretz. I don't know where the man is
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 4: taking me, but he is a man.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 6: Don't blame me for seeking to kill you, mele cure,
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 6: it was an old attachment all my life. I shall
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 6: only be able to complain and lament that I cannot
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 6: accompany you once more.
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 11: At the end, everyone has his part, you, the consoling
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 11: consciousness of having nothing you and enervating doubt of everything.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 4: Farewell, farewell, Moritz, take my heartfelt thanks for appearing before
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 4: me again. How many former bright days we have lived
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 4: together during the fourteen years, I promise you Moretz, Come
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 4: what may. Whether during the coming years I've become ten
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 4: times another, whether I prosper or fail, I shall never
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 4: forget you.
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 6: Thanks, thanks, dear friend.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 4: And when at last I'm an old man with gray hair,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 4: then perhaps you will again stand closer to me than
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 4: all those living about me.
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 6: I thank you, good luck to your journey. Gentlemen, do
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 6: not delay any longer.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 11: Come child.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: He lays his arm upon that of malch here and
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: disappears with him over the graves alone.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 6: Now I sit here with my head under my arm.
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 6: The moon covers her face, unveils herself again, and seems
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 6: not a hair the cleverer. I will go back to
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 6: my place, right my cross, which that madcap trampled down
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 6: so inconsiderately, And when everything is in order, I will
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 6: lie down on my back again, warm myself in the
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 6: corruption and smile.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three. End of the Awakening of Spring
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  Speaker 1: by Frank Whittakind, translated by Francis J. Zeiger,