Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: t/ -; o; 1 Schon. Do you think, then, that 7 make no compromises? Who is there that does not compromise? You have married half a million. You are today one of the foremost artists. That can't be done without money. You are not the man to sit in judgment on her. You can't possibly treat an origin like MignonV? according to the notions of bourgeois society. Schwarz. Who are you speaking of? Schon. Of her father You're an artist, I say: your ideals are on a different plane from those of a wage- worker. Schwarz. I don't understand a word of all that. Schon. I am speaking of the inhuman conditions out of which, thanks to her good management, the girl has developed into what she is Schwarz. Who? Schon. Who? Your wife. Schwarz. Eve? SCHON. I called her Mignon. Schwarz. I thought her name was Nellie? Schon. Dr. Goll called her so. Schwarz. I called her Eve Schon. What her real name is I don't know. Schwarz. Perhaps she knows. Schon. With a father like hers, she is, with all her faults, a miracle. I don't understand you Schwarz. He died in a madhouse Schon. He was here just now Schwarz. Who was here? Schon. Her father. Schwarz. Here in my house? Schon. He squeezed by me as I came in. And there are the two glasses still. Schwarz. She says he died in the madhouse. V Schon. Let her feel she's in authprity She craves inothing but the compulsion to unconditional obedience. (With Dr. Goll she was in heaven, and with him there/ Sivas no joking. Schwarz. She said she had never loved Schon. But you, make a beginning with yourself. Pull yourself together Schwarz. She has sworn Schon. You can't demand a sense of duty in her beforeyou know your ...