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Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946

"The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I"


WEHRHAHN
Very well. The future will show. [_He stretches himself, gets up, and
stamps his feet gently on the floor. To WULKOW._] This is our excellent
washerwoman. She thinks that all people are like herself. [_To MRS.
WOLFF._] But unfortunately the world is differently made. You see human
beings from the outside; a man like myself has learned to look a little
deeper. [_He takes a few paces, then stops before her and lays his hand
on her shoulder._] And as surely as it is true when I say: Mrs. Wolff is
an honest woman; so surely I tell you: this Dr. Fleischer of yours, of
whom we were speaking, is a thoroughly dangerous person!
MRS. WOLFF
[_Shaking her head resignedly._] Well, then I don't know no more what to
think ...

THE CURTAIN FALLS


THE CONFLAGRATION


PERSONS:

FIELITZ, _Shoemaker and Spy. Near sixty years old._
MRS. FIELITZ, _formerly MRS. WOLFF, his wife. Of the same age._
LEONTINE, _her oldest daughter by her first marriage; unmarried; near
thirty._
SCHMAROWSKI, _Architect._
LANGHEINRICH, _Smith. Thirty years old._
RAUCHHAUPT, _retired Prussian Constable._
GUSTAV, _his oldest son, a congenital imbecile._
MIEZE, LOTTE, TRUDE, LENCHEN, LIESCHEN, MARIECHEN, TIENCHEN, HANNCHEN,
_his daughters.


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