GESCHWITZ. you LULU. Who do you mean? LULU. GESCHWITZ. Casti-Piani, upon whose forehead the most degenerate baseness is written in letters of fire! GESCHWITZ. LULU. Be silent! I'll kick you, if you speak ill of him. He loves me with an uprightness against which your most venturous self-sacrifices are poor as beggary! He gives me such proofs of self-denial as reveal you for the first time in all your loathsomeness! You didn't get finished in your mother's womb, neither as woman nor as man. You have no human nature like the rest of us. The stuff didn't go far enough for a man, and for a woman you got too much brain into your skull. That's the reason you're crazy! Turn to Miss Bianetta! She can be had for everything for pay! Press a gold-piece into her hand and she'll belong to you. (All the [Pg 42] company save Kadidia throng in out of the card-room.) For the Lord's sake, what has happened? LULU. him you [Pg 42] PUNTSCHU. Nothing whatever! We're thirsty, that's all. PUNTSCHU. MAGELONE. Everybody has won. We can't believe it. MAGELONE. BIANETTA. It seems I have won a whole fortune!
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