MRS. FIELITZ
Maybe he went an' gave it to 'em a bit too hot.
LANGHEINRICH
That's what he did. That little scamp talked, Mrs. Fielitz! The whole
meetin' just shouted! An' he didn't mind callin' a spade a spade neither.
MRS. FIELITZ
He oughtn't to be so hot, I think.
LANGHEINRICH
That he ought, just that! An' why not? Do what you can an' go ahead!
That's the way! That whole crowd don't deserve no better. Not Wehrhahn
an' not Friderici. An' anyhow, it was a good thing, Mrs. Fielitz. It was
done just in the nick o' time! Now he's gone an' broken with them
fellers, an' everybody knows it. There ain't no goin' back now. Now he
belongs to us, Mrs. Fielitz, an' I never would ha' thought it of him!
MRS. FIELITZ
You got reason to be satisfied with him, I'm thinkin'. Look at the noise
in your workshop with four journeymen ...
LANGHEINRICH
That's true, too, an' I'm not denyin' it. He put money in circulation. I
couldn't make friends with Pastor Friderici's collection plate. Couldn't
do it. Now everything's arranged.--Now I want you to keep your eyes open
at the window when I gets up to the top o' the steeple. I'll wave an'
sing out an'--jump down!
_LANGHEINRICH and EDE exeunt with the weather vane.
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