Lover's Vows by August von Kotzebue
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AGATHA. You will turn a poor sick woman out of doors who has spent her last farthing in your house. LANDLORD. For that very reason; because she _has_ spent her last farthing. AGATHA. I can work. LANDLORD. You can hardly move your hands. AGATHA. My strength will come again. LANDLORD. Then _you_ may come again. AGATHA. What am I to do? Where shall I go? LANDLORD. It is fine weather--you may go any where. AGATHA. Who will give me a morsel of bread to satisfy my hunger? LANDLORD. Sick people eat but little. AGATHA. Hard, unfeeling man, have pity. LANDLORD. When times are hard, pity is too expensive for a poor man. Ask alms of the different people that go by. AGATHA. Beg! I would rather starve. |
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