HOFFMANN.

The name of the first was Olympia...

(The curtain falls as Hoffmann is speaking.)




ACT II.


(A physicians room, richly furnished.)


HOFFMAN (alone).

Come! Courage and confidence;
I become a well of science.
I must turn with the wind that blows,
To deserve the one I love.
I shall know how to find in myself
The stuff of a learned man.
She is there... if I dared.

(He softly lifts the portiere.)


'Tis she!