RODRIGO. I'll run for the police! I'll give information! This scarecrow let herself be seen in tights?! The padding alone would cost two months' salary!—You're the most perfidious swindler that ever had lodging in Ox-butter Hotel! RODRIGO. ALVA. Kindly refrain from insulting the lady! ALVA. RODRIGO. Insulting you call that?! For this gnawed [Pg 23] bone's sake I've worn myself away! I can't earn my own living! I'll be a clown if I can still stand firm under a broom-stick! But let the lightning strike me on the spot if I don't worm ten thousand marks a year for life out of your tricks and frauds! I can tell you that! A pleasant trip! I'm going for the police! (Exit.) RODRIGO. [Pg 23] SCHIGOLCH. Run, run! SCHIGOLCH. LULU. He'll take good care of himself! LULU. SCHIGOLCH. We're rid of him!—And now some black coffee for the lady! SCHIGOLCH. him ALVA. (At the table left.) Here is coffee, ready to pour. ALVA. SCHIGOLCH. I must look after the sleeping-car tickets. SCHIGOLCH. LULU. (Brightly.) Oh, freedom! Thank God for freedom!
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