LOTH
So you, too, are making money here?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Naturally and as much as possible. What else is there to do here?
LOTH
You might have let some one hear from you!
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I beg your pardon. But if I had been heard from, I would have heard from
you fellows--and I absolutely didn't want to hear. Nothingnothing. That
would simply have kept me from exploiting my diggings here.
_The two men walk slowly up and down the room._
LOTH
I see. But then you mustn't be surprised to hear that ... well, they all,
without an exception, really gave you up as hopeless.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
That's like them--the scamps! They'll be made to take notice.
LOTH
Schimmel--otherwise the "rough husk"!
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I wish you had had to live here among the farmers for six years.
Hellhounds--every one of them.
LOTH
I can imagine that.--But how in the world did you get to Witzdorf?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
The way such things do happen! You remember I had to skin out from Jena
that time.
LOTH
Was that before my crash?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Yes, a short time after we'd given up living together. So I took up
medicine at Zuerich, first simply so as to have something against a time
of need.
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