Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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LAND.
May it do you good, Herr Just! JUST. (giving the glass back). Not bad! But, Landlord, you are nevertheless an ill-mannered brute! LAND. Not so, not so! . . . Come, another glass; one cannot stand upon one leg. JUST. (after drinking). I must say so much--it is good, very good! Made at home, Landlord? LAND. At home, indeed! True Dantzig, real double distilled! JUST. Look ye, Landlord; if I could play the hypocrite, I would do so for such stuff as that; but I cannot, so it must out.--You are an ill- mannered brute all the same. LAND. Nobody in my life ever told me that before . . . But another glass, Herr Just; three is the lucky number! JUST. With all my heart!-- (Drinks). Good stuff indeed, capital! But truth is good also, and indeed, Landlord, you are an ill-mannered brute all the same! |
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