But then! Everybody's gotta get out o' the world
sometime. I've lived quite a while!
DR. BOXER
You musn't talk so much! You must keep still longer. [_To RAUCHHAUPT._]
I've got an invitation for you. Mr. Schmarowski saw you going in here,
and so he stopped me and asked me to say that he'd like to have you come
over to the dinner!
MRS. FIELITZ
Rauchhaupt--well, o' course. Why not?
RAUCHHAUPT
An' I won't go givin' nothin' away yet.
MRS. FIELITZ
And you, Doctor?
DR. BOXER
[_Quickly._] Heaven forbid! Not I?
MRS. FIELITZ
An' why not? Do you bear him a grudge about anythin'?
DR. BOXER
I? Bear a grudge? I never do that. But, do you see, I'm a lost man as far
as all this is concerned. I don't deny that it amuses me to watch all
these doings here, but I can't join in them. I'll never learn to do
that.--I will probably go away again, too.
MRS. FIELITZ
An' give up such a good practice?
DR. BOXER
Sea-faring--that gives a man true health. That is the best practice for
one, Mrs. Fielitz, who is in some respects so little practical.
MRS. FIELITZ
You ain't very practical, that's true.
DR. BOXER
No, I am not.--Listen, listen, how they're letting themselves go! [_Many
voices are heard in enthusiastic shouting.
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