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DREISSIGER
You're not in a stable, fellow! Do you understand?
SUPERINTENDENT
My patience is at an end now. For the last time: What's your name?
_KITTELHAUS who has been peering out at the partly opened
drawing-room door, listening to what has been going on, can no longer
refrain from coming forward to interfere. He is trembling with
excitement._
KITTELHAUS
His name is Jaeger, sir. Moritz ... is it not? Moritz Jaeger. [_To
JAEGER._] And, Jaeger, you know me.
JAEGER
[_Seriously._] You are Pastor Kittelhaus.
KITTELHAUS
Yes, I am your pastor, Jaeger! It was I who received you, a babe in
swaddling clothes, into the Church of Christ. From my hands you took for
the first time the body of the Lord. Do you remember that, and how I
toiled and strove to bring God's Word home to your heart? Is this your
gratitude?
JAEGER
[_Like a scolded schoolboy. In a surly voice._] I paid my half-crown like
the rest.
KITTELHAUS
Money, money.... Do you imagine that the miserable little bit of
money.... Such utter nonsense! I'd much rather you kept your money. Be a
good man, be a Christian! Think of what you promised. Keep God's law.
Money, money.
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