PIEPENBRINK. Oh, it can hardly be meant just that way. Something could
be said on the other side--don't you think so, comrade?
KLEINMICHEL. I trust no one will be asked to sign any agreement here.
BOLZ. Perhaps not. I have no vote to cast and I am proud to be in a
company where nothing else is thought of but enjoying oneself with
one's neighbor and paying attention to the queens of society--to
charming women! Touch glasses, gentlemen, to the health of the ladies,
of the two who adorn our circle. [_All touch glasses_.]
PIEPENBRINK. Come here, Lottie, your health is being drunk.
BOLZ. Young lady, allow a stranger to drink to your future prosperity.
PIEPENBRINK. What else do you suppose they are going to do in there?
FRITZ KLEINMICHEL. I hear that at supper there are to be speeches, and
the candidate for election, Colonel Berg, is to be introduced.
PIEPENBRINK. A very estimable gentleman.
KLEINMICHEL. Yes, it is a good choice the gentlemen on the committee
have made.
ADELAIDE, _who has been visible in the rear, now saunters in_.
ADELAIDE. He sitting here? What sort of a company is that?
KAeMPE. People say that Professor Oldendorf has a good chance of
election. Many are said to be going to vote for him.
PIEPENBRINK. I have nothing to say against him, only to my mind he is
too young.
SENDEN _is seen in the rear, later_ BLUMENBERG _and guests_.
SENDEN. You here, Miss Runeck?
ADELAIDE. I'm amusing myself with watching those queer people.
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