Minna Von Barnhelm

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Готхольд Эфраим Лессинг

Год написания книги

2019

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What brilliancy! The diamond in the middle alone weighs more than five carats.

MIN. (looking at it).

Good heavens! What do I see? This ring!!!!!

LAND.

Is honestly worth fifteen hundred thalers.

MIN.

Franziska! look!

LAND.

I did not hesitate for a moment to advance eighty pistoles on it.

MIN.

Do not you recognize it, Franziska?

FRAN.

The same! Where did you get that ring, Mr. Landlord?

LAND.

Come, my girl! you surely have no claim to it?

FRAN.

We have no claim to this ring! My mistress' monogram must be on it, on the inner side of the setting. Look at it, my lady.

MIN.

It is! it is! How did you get this ring?

LAND.

I! In the most honourable way in the world. You do not wish to bring me into disgrace and trouble, your ladyship! How do I know where the ring properly belongs? During the war many a thing often changed masters, both with and without the knowledge of its owner. War was war. Other rings will have crossed the borders of Saxony. Give it me again, your ladyship; give it me again!

FRAN.

When you have said from whom you got it.

LAND.

From a man whom I cannot think capable of such things; in other respects a good man.

MIN.

From the best man under the sun, if you have it from its owner. Bring him here directly! It is himself, or at any rate he must know him.

LAND.

Who? who, your ladyship?

FRAN.

Are you deaf? Our Major!

LAND.

Major! Right! he is a Major, who had this room before you, and from whom I received it.

MIN.

Major von Tellheim!

LAND.

Yes, Tellheim. Do you know him?

MIN.

Do I know him! He is here! Tellheim here! He had this room! He! he pledged this ring with you! What has brought him into this embarrassment? Where is he? Does he owe you anything? Franziska, my desk here! Open it!

(Franziska puts it on the table and opens it.)

What does he owe you? To whom else does he owe anything? Bring me all his creditors! Here is gold: here are notes. It is all his!

LAND.

What is this?

MIN.

Where is he? Where is he?

LAND.

An hour ago he was here.

MIN.

Detested man! how could you act so rudely, so hardly, so cruelly towards him?

LAND.