We ain't got no
time to lose here!--Ede, put that axle in!
_SCHMAROWSKI exit, enraged._
EDE
Good-bye!
DR. BOXER
So that was Mr. Schmarowski, the envied pillar of the church? Why, he's a
poisonous little devil!
LANGHEINRICH
Yes, you're right there! Pois'nous is what he is. So you didn't, know
him, Dr. Boxer? Well, then you've seen him now--nothin' but a little,
sly, venomous pup! But you ought to go an' watch him when he gets in with
that pious crowd. Then he lets his ears hang, so 'umble his own mother
wouldn't hardly know him, like as if he was sayin': I ain't goin' to live
more'n two weeks at--most an' then I'm goin' to heaven to be with Jesus.
Yes! Likely! There's another place where he's goin'. But that won't be
soon. He ain't thinkin' of it much yet. An' in the meantime he rolls his
eyes upward 'cause somethin' might be hangin' round that he c'n make a
profit on.
EDE
Well, you c'n look out now! Yon ain't goin' to get no work on the new
institution.
LANGHEINRICH
I know that. Can't be helped. Things is as they is. Can't hold' my tongue
at things like that. I won't learn that in a lifetime.
DR. BOXER
Have you many of that kind hereabouts now?
LANGHEINRICH
So, so.
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