LANGHEINRICH
Tear up the floorin': you'll find the docyments hidden there. People has
got to have their business secrets!
FIELITZ
O' course they has! An' whippersnappers don't know much about that. Go
an' learn how to read an' write before you go an' mix in my business.
MRS. FIELITZ
Come, Fielitz, let them be! Don't lose your temper. You know as
Langheinrich has got to have his joke! That's the way the man is made.
LANGHEINRICH
I do feel pretty jolly to-day, an' that's a fac'! I got a piece o' work
done. An' if I don't go an' fall down from the steeple when I puts it
up--I'll go an' christen this here occasion. An' I won't use water.
MRS. FIELITZ
Are you goin' to put it up yourself?
LANGHEINRICH
You c'n take your oath on that! An' why not? Schmarowski, he designed it.
But I forged it an' I'll put it up.
_LEONTINE enters._
LEONTINE
You better let Schmarowski do that himself.
EDE
Schmarowski ain't afraid o' anything shaky.
LANGHEINRICH
No, that's as true as can be, I know. He ain't afraid o' God nor the
devil. That little man ... I tell you, Bismarck is just a coward
alongside o' him!
FIELITZ
I'd like to make a inquiry: who is it that built that there new house?
LANGHEINRICH
Well, who did?
FIELITZ
Me! An' not Schmarowski.
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