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GERALD. He killed the hero, Siegfried.
GERALD. And then there was Mimi.
GERALD. He was a very famous smith.
GERALD. What do you mean?
GERALD. Why... I wouldn't mind.
GERALD. Indeed I would!
GERALD. No, I don't think so.
GERALD. Yes... sure!
GERALD. What do you want for your ring?
GERALD. What!
GERALD. But I can't... it...
GERALD. Yes. But I don't like to...
GERALD. But wait!
GERALD. Good-night. Well, I'll be switched! If that wasn't a queer old customer! It feels like real gold! What in the world did he mean, anyhow? The magic ring! I hope he doesn't get lost in those woods to-night. Confound that fire! It's out for good now! Let it go. Nibelungs! They are realer than anybody guesses. People who spend their lives in digging for gold, and know and care about nothing else. How many of them I've met at mother's dinner parties! Well, I must get to my work now. Ah, me! I don't know what makes me so lazy this evening. This strange heaviness! There seems to be a spell on me. How beautiful these woods are at sunset! If I were a Nibelung, I'd come here for certain! I'm good for nothing but dreaming... I wish Estelle were here to sing to me! How magical the twilight is! Estelle! Estelle!
GERALD. What's that? What's that? Why, what can it mean? Why, it's a Nibelung! Oh! I must be dreaming! Nibelungs! Why, it's absurd! Wake up, man! You're going crazy! My God!
SCENE II
FIRST NIB. The earth-man has come!
SECOND NIB. Where is he?
FIRST NIB. He is with Mimi!
SECOND NIB. What is he like?
FIRST NIB. He is big! Terrible!
THIRD NIB. Ah!
SECOND NIB. And the king? Does he know?
FIRST NIB. He has been told.
THIRD NIB. Where is the king?
FIRST NIB. He comes! He comes!
ALBERICH. The earth-man has come?
FIRST NIB. Yes, your majesty!
ALB. Where is Mimi?
ALL. Mimi! Mimi!
ALB. Where is the earth-man?
ALB. Did he resist?
ALB. And Prince Hagen? Has he come?
ALB. Let him be brought in.
ALB. Let him be brought in.
ALL. Prince Hagen! Prince Hagen!
ALB. Good evening, Hagen.
HAGEN. Well?
ALB. Hagen, you are still angry and rebellious?
HAGEN. I am!
ALB. Hagen, you are my grandson. You are my sole heir... the only representative of my line. You are all that I have in the world!
HAGEN. Well?
ALB. You place me in such a trying position! Have you no shame... no conscience? Why, some day you will be king... and one cannot keep a king in chains!
HAGEN. I do not want to be in chains!
ALB. But, Hagen, your conduct is such... what can I do? You have robbed... you have threatened murder! And you... my grandson and my heir...
HAGEN. Have you sent for me to preach at me again?
ALB. Hagen, this stranger... he has come to visit us from the world above. These earth-men know more than we... they have greater powers...
HAGEN. What is all that to me?
ALB. You know that you yourself are three-quarters an earth-man...
HAGEN. I know it. But I am in chains!
ALB. There may be a way of your having another chance. Perhaps this stranger will teach you. If you will promise to obey him, he will stay with you... he will be your tutor, and show you the ways of the earth-men.
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