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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07
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KING
And tell my daughter that I will teach a lesson to the Crown Prince for sending these French vagabonds here, who pretend to be teachers of the language and are merely ordinary, good-for-nothing wigmakers.
WILHELMINE
How disgusting!
[She goes out.]
PRINCE (aside).
Wigmakers?
KING (still outside).
And now get back to the books!
EVERSMANN
At once, Your Majesty.
KING
Eversmann—one thing more, Eversmann!
EVERSMANN
Your Majesty?
KING
If you should see the Prince Hereditary of Baireuth—
PRINCE (aside).
It's my turn now.
KING
That French windbag who's been hanging about Berlin since yesterday—
PRINCE (aside).
Pleasing description!
EVERSMANN
I'll tell him Your Majesty will not receive him.
PRINCE (aside).
Rascal!
KING
No, Eversmann, tell him I have something very important to say to him—something very confidential.
PRINCE (aside).
Confidential? To me?
KING
Concerning an important and pressing matter.
EVERSMANN
Oh, yes, I know.
KING
You know, sirrah? What do you know? You know nothing at all.
EVERSMANN
I thought—one might guess—
KING
Guess? What right have you to guess? You're not to guess at all. Understand? Idiot! Shoulder arms, march! [As he goes off a short roll of drums is heard.]
PRINCE (crosses quickly to EVERSMANN).
What do you know? What do you think it is that the King has to say to me?
EVERSMANN
Oh, Your Highness is still here?
PRINCE
The King wishes to speak to me. Do you know why? Tell me what you think.
EVERSMANN
If Your Highness promises not to betray me—I think it concerns a certain affair—between Prussia and Austria.
PRINCE
