BOXER
Who is this amusing gentleman, Langheinrich?
EDE
That's Mrs. Wolff's son-in-law.
SCHMAROWSKI
I'll have no dealings with you at all.
EDE
Naw, you better not.
SCHMAROWSKI
Not with you--[_Turning to DR. BOXER._] But if you don't know who I am,
you can get information from Baron von Wehrhahn, the Right Reverend
Bishop, the Baroness Bielschewski and the Countess Strach.
DR. BOXER
You want me to go around and get information from all those people?
SCHMAROWSKI
That's what you're to do--just that an' nothing else. Then maybe you can
be more careful in future an' look people over before you talk.
LANGHEINRICH
What's gotten into you to-day? You're so dam' touchy!
SCHMAROWSKI
[_To DR. BOXER, who has glanced at EDE and LANGHEINRICH alternately with
serene laughter._] You just be so good an' be more careful: we ain't so
soft. We don't take jokes so easy, especially not from the race to which
you ...
LANGHEINRICH
Hold on, Mr. Schmarowski! That's enough! Nothin' like that here. That's
enough an' too much, Mr. Schmarowski. You just see about gettin' along on
your way now.
SCHMAROWSKI
Do you know where I am going straight from here?
LANGHEINRICH
You c'n go straight ahead to the Lord hisself! You c'n go where you want
to, Schmarowski; only, don't be keepin' me from my work.
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