Minna Von Barnhelm Part 10
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LAND.
So much the better! Indeed one cannot expect a young girl (looking at Franziska in a marked manner) to treat a serious matter with serious people in a serious manner.
MIN.
And his rooms are in readiness, I hope?
LAND.
Quite, your ladys.h.i.+p, quite; except the one!!!!!
FRAN.
Out of which, I suppose, you will have to turn some other honourable gentleman!
LAND.
The waiting maids of Saxony, your ladys.h.i.+p, seem to be very compa.s.sionate.
MIN.
In truth, sir, that was not well done. You ought rather to have refused us.
LAND.
Why so, your ladys.h.i.+p, why so?
MIN.
I understand that the officer who was driven out on our account!!!!!
LAND.
Is only a discharged officer, your ladys.h.i.+p.
MIN.
Well, what then?
LAND.
Who is almost done for.
MIN.
So much the worse! He is said to be a very deserving man.
LAND.
But I tell you he is discharged.
MIN.
The king cannot be acquainted with every deserving man.
LAND.
Oh! doubtless he knows them; he knows them all.
MIN.
But he cannot reward them all.
LAND.
They would have been rewarded if they had lived so as to deserve it.
But they lived during the war as if it would last for ever; as if the words "yours" and "mine" were done away with altogether. Now all the hotels and inns are full of them, and a landlord has to be on his guard with them. I have come off pretty well with this one. If he had no more money, he had at any rate money's worth; and I might indeed have let him remain quiet two or three months longer. However, it is better as it is. By-the-by, your ladys.h.i.+p, you understand about jewels, I suppose?
MIN.
Not particularly.
LAND.
Of course your ladys.h.i.+p must. I must show you a ring, a valuable ring.
I see you have a very beautiful one on your finger; and the more I look at it, the more I am astonished at the resemblance it bears to mine. There! just look, just look!
(Taking the ring from its case, and handing it to her.) What brilliancy! The diamond in the middle alone weighs more than five carats.
MIN. (looking at it).
Good heavens! What do I see? This ring!!!!!
LAND.
Is honestly worth fifteen hundred thalers.
MIN.
Franziska! look!
LAND.
I did not hesitate for a moment to advance eighty pistoles on it.
MIN.
Do not you recognize it, Franziska?
FRAN.
The same! Where did you get that ring, Mr. Landlord?
LAND.
Come, my girl! you surely have no claim to it?
FRAN.
We have no claim to this ring! My mistress' monogram must be on it, on the inner side of the setting. Look at it, my lady.
MIN.
It is! it is! How did you get this ring?
LAND.
I! In the most honourable way in the world. You do not wish to bring me into disgrace and trouble, your ladys.h.i.+p! How do I know where the ring properly belongs? During the war many a thing often changed masters, both with and without the knowledge of its owner. War was war. Other rings will have crossed the borders of Saxony. Give it me again, your ladys.h.i.+p; give it me again!
FRAN.
When you have said from whom you got it.
LAND.
From a man whom I cannot think capable of such things; in other respects a good man.
MIN.
From the best man under the sun, if you have it from its owner. Bring him here directly! It is himself, or at any rate he must know him.
LAND.
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