The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
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had I pledged myself never to marry, I might perhaps drink, but as it
is--My ancestors, as I happen to know, were all not only healthy and robust but thoroughly temperate people. Every movement that I make, every hardship that I undergo, every breath that I draw brings what I owe them more deeply home to me. And that, you see, is the point; I am absolutely determined to transmit undiminished to my posterity this heritage which is mine. MRS. KRAUSE Look here, son-in-law, them miners o' ours do drink a deal too much. I guess that's true. KAHL They swills like pigs. HELEN And such, things are hereditary? LOTH There are families who are ruined by it--families of dipsomaniacs. KAHL [_Half to MRS. KRAUSE; half to HELEN._] Your old man--he's goin' it pretty fast, too. |
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