Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts by August Strindberg
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Ferdinand and Isabella, and St. George and the Dragon, and all
the rest! And ires dire glories in excellence, and deuces tecum vademecum Christ Jesu, and birds of a feather, and now I lay me down to sleep, and a child is born for you to keep--Amen! Amen!-- Who's stepping on my windbag? Sexton (frightened). Will you please tell me whether you are a man or a ghost? Windrank. Man most of the time, but just now I'm a beast. Sexton. What kind of a man, if I may ask? Windrank. A shipman--which is nor reason why you should blow all the wind out of me. Sexton. But that's my business, you know--I blow the bellows of the big organ. Windrank. So it was the organ-blower who honored me-- Sexton. The sexton, to put it right; but I also keep an old-clothes shop in the church wall. Windrank. So you're organ-blower, sexton, and shopkeeper-- Sexton. In one person--without confusion or transformation-- Windrank. That's a most respectable trinity. |
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