The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
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BOLZ. Rather than give up one iota of my claim to your regard, I would write and print and try to sell malicious articles against myself. ADELAIDE. And yet you have been too proud all this time even to come and see your friend in town. Why have you broken with the Colonel? BOLZ. I have not broken with him. On the contrary, I have a very estimable position in his house--one that I can best keep by going there as seldom as possible. The Colonel, and occasionally Miss Ida, too, like to assuage their anger against Oldendorf and the newspaper by regarding me as the evil one with horns and hoofs. A relationship so tender must be handled with care--a devil must not cheapen himself by appearing every day. ADELAIDE. Well, I hope you will now abandon this lofty viewpoint. I am spending the winter in town, and I hope that for love of your boyhood's friend you will call on my friends as a denizen of this world. BOLZ. In any role you apportion me. ADELAIDE. Even in that of a peace-envoy between the Colonel and Oldendorf? BOLZ. If peace be at the cost of Oldendorf's withdrawal, then no. Otherwise I am ready to serve you in all good works. ADELAIDE. But I fear that this is the only price at which peace can be purchased. You see, Mr. Conrad, we too have become opponents. |
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