Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 6,432 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 6,432 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works.

Lamond.  And don’t you want to see the world?

Seelchen.  Sometimes. [Going to a door, she calls softly] Hans! [Then pointing to another door] There are seven German gentlemen asleep in there!

Lamond.  Oh God!

Seelchen.  Please?  They are here to see the sunrise. [She picks up a little book that has dropped from LAMOND’S pocket] I have read several books.

Lamond.  This is by the great English poet.  Do you never make poetry here, and dream dreams, among your mountains?

Seelchen. [Slowly shaking her head] See!  It is the full moon.

     While they stand at the window looking at the moon, there enters
     a lean, well-built, taciturn young man dressed in Loden.

Seelchen.  Hans!

Felsman. [In a deep voice] The gentleman wishes me?

Seelchen. [Awed] The Great Horn for to-morrow! [Whispering to him]
It is the celebrated London one.

Felsman.  The Great Horn is not possible.

Lamond.  You say that?  And you’re the famous Felsman?

Felsman. [Grimly] We start at dawn.

Seelchen.  It is the first time for years!

Lamond. [Placing his plaid and rucksack on the window bench] Can I sleep here?

Seelchen.  I will see; perhaps—­

     [She runs out up some stairs]

Felsman. [Taking blankets from the cupboard and spreading them on the window seat] So!

     As he goes out into the air.  Seelchen comes slipping in again
     with a lighted candle.

Seelchen.  There is still one bed.  This is too hard for you.

Lamond.  Oh! thanks; but that’s all right.

Seelchen.  To please me!

Lamond.  May I ask your name?

Seelchen.  Seelchen.

Lamond.  Little soul, that means—­doesn’t it?  To please you I would sleep with seven German gentlemen.

Seelchen.  Oh! no; it is not necessary.

Lamond. [With. a grave bow] At your service, then.
[He prepares to go]

Seelchen.  Is it very nice in towns, in the World, where you come from?

Lamond.  When I’m there I would be here; but when I’m here I would be there.

Seelchen. [Clasping her hands] That is like me but I am always here.

Lamond.  Ah! yes; there is no one like you in towns.

Seelchen.  In two places one cannot be. [Suddenly] In the towns there are theatres, and there is beautiful fine work, and—­dancing, and—­churches—­and trains—­and all the things in books—­and—­

Lamond.  Misery.

Seelchen.  But there is life.

Lamond.  And there is death.

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