DR. BOXER
Well, at all events I'll make the attempt ... My political ardour has
cooled off. If these people annoy me in spite of that, I'll simply trudge
off again. I'll go back to sea, or I'll let myself be engaged ...
LANGHEINRICH
Pretty easy drownin' on water!
DR. BOXER
[_Continuing._] ... Then I'll let myself be engaged to go to Brazil with
the Russian Jews.
LANGHEINRICH
What would you get out o' that?
DR. BOXER
Yellow fever, perhaps.
LANGHEINRICH
Anything else. Doctor? That wouldn't be nothin' for me!
DR. BOXER
I believe that.
LANGHEINRICH
Me go an' wear myself out for other people? Not me! No, sir! I don't do
nothin' like that. An' why should I? Nobody don't give me nothin'. I tell
you people in this world is a pretty sly set. I've had time to find that
out.
DR. BOXER
You're a regular heathen: you're not a Christian at all!
LANGHEINRICH
That kind o' talk don't do much good with me. I'm a Christian just like
all the rest is! The people that sit in the new church here ... 'cause
they built a new church here now!... if them is Christians, the Lord
forgive 'em.
DR. BOXER
That's easily said, Langheinrich. But one ought not to be a Pharisee.
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