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BECKER
It's a grand song, that's what it is!
DREISSIGER
Another word and I send for the police on the spot, without more ado.
I'll make short work with you young fellows. I've got the better of very
different men before now.
BECKER
I believe you there. A real thoroughbred manufacturer will get the better
of two or three hundred weavers in the time it takes you to turn
round--swallow 'em up, and not leave as much as a bone. He's got four
stomachs like a cow, and teeth like a wolf. That's nothing to him at all!
DREISSIGER
[_To his clerks._] That man gets no more work from us.
BECKER
It's all the same to me whether I starve at my loom or by the roadside.
DREISSIGER
Out you go, then, this moment!
BECKER
[_Determinedly._] Not without my pay.
DREISSIGER
How much is owing to the fellow, Neumann?
NEUMANN
One and threepence.
DREISSIGER
[_Takes the money hurriedly ont of the cashier's hand, and flings it on
the table, so that some of the coins roll off on to the floor._] There
you are, then; and now, out of my sight with you!
BECKER
Not without my pay.
DREISSIGER
Don't you see it lying there? If you don't take it and go .
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