The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume Ii Part 114
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SPITTA
To be quite frank with you, if I don't get hold of some money by to-night, the few books and other possessions I have will be attached for rent by my landlady and I'll be put into the street.
JOHN
I thought your father was a preacher.
SPITTA
So he is. But for that very reason and because I don't want to become a preacher, too, he and I had a terrible quarrel last night. I won't ever accept a farthing from him any more.
JOHN
[_Busy over his drawing._] Then it'll serve him right if you starve or break your neck.
SPITTA
Men like myself don't starve, Mr. John. But if, by any chance, I were to go to the dogs--I shouldn't greatly care.
JOHN
No one wouldn't believe how many half-starved nincomp.o.o.ps there is among you stoodents. But none o' you wants to put your hand to some reel work.--[_The distant sound of thunder is heard. JOHN looks out through the window._]--Sultry day. It's thunderin' now.
SPITTA
Yon can't say that of me, Mr. John, that I haven't been willing to do real work. I've given lessons, I've addressed envelopes for business houses! I've been through everything and in all these attempts I've not only toiled away the days but also the nights. And at the same time I've ground away at my studies like anything!
JOHN
Man alive, go to Hamburg an' let 'em give you a job as a bricklayer. When I was your age I was makin' as much as twelve crowns a day in Hamburg.
SPITTA
That may be. But I'm a brain worker.
JOHN
I know that kind.
SPITTA
Is that so? I don't think you do know that kind, Mr. John. I beg you not to forget that your Socialist leaders--your Bebels and your Liebknechts--are brain workers too.
JOHN
All right. Come on, then! Let's have some breakfast first. Things look mighty different after a man's had a good bite o' breakfast. I s'pose you ain't had any yet, Mr. Spitta?
SPITTA
No, frankly, not to-day.
JOHN
Well, then the first thing is to get somethin' warm down your throat.
SPITTA
There's time enough for that.
JOHN
I don' know. You're lookin' pretty well done up. An' I pa.s.sed the night on the train too. [_To SELMA, who has brought in a little linen bag filed with rolls._] Hurry an' bring another cup over here. [_He has seated himself at his ease on the sofa, dips a roll into the coffee and begins to eat and drink._]
SPITTA
[_Who has not sat down yet._] It's really pleasanter to pa.s.s a summer night in the open if one can't sleep anyhow. And I didn't sleep for one minute.
JOHN
I'd like to see the feller what c'n sleep when he's outa cash. When a man's down in the world he has most company outa doors too. [_He suddenly stops chewing._]--Come here, Selma, an' tell me exackly just how it was with that there girl an' the child that she took outa our room here.
SELMA
I don' know what to do. Everybody axes we that. Mama keeps axin' me about it all day long; if I seen Bruno Mechelke; if I know who it was that stole the costumes from the actor's loft up there! If it goes on that way ...
JOHN
[_Energetically._] Girl, why didn't you cry out when the gentleman and the young lady took your little brother outa his carridge?
SELMA
I didn't think nothin' 'd happen to him excep' that he'd get some clean clothes.
JOHN
[_Grasps SELMA by the wrist._] Well, you come along with me now. We'll go over an' see your mother.
_JOHN and SELMA leave the room. As soon as they are gone SPITTA begins to eat ravenously. Soon thereafter WALBURGA appears. She is in great haste and strongly excited._
WALBURGA
Are you alone?
SPITTA
For the moment, yes. Good morning, Walburga.
WALBURGA
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