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Read Ebook: Der Hirtenknabe Nikolas; oder Der deutsche Kinderkreuzzug im Jahre 1212 by Schefer Leopold
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Ebook has 1163 lines and 42937 words, and 24 pages
STRONG-ARM
You? You have witnessed such a sight?
FIR-SAPLING
What was it? Tell us.
HUMPBACK
FIR-SAPLING
HUMPBACK
FIR-SAPLING
Ah, was it like that? If one feels like that for no more than a Viceroy, how would it be if one were gazed upon by the Emperor himself?
HUMPBACK
FIR-SAPLING
Hush! Hush! Here comes a Palace official.
SCENE II
ROCK, FIR-SAPLING, STRONG-ARM, HUMPBACK, ARROW-BEARER, a Palace official.
ARROW-BEARER
So this is the way you do your work? You fritter away in foolish chatter the few precious moments which are left.
HUMPBACK
The work will be finished, my Lord.
ARROW-BEARER
HUMPBACK
No sooner have we put all straight than the spiteful wind shakes the branches and we have to begin all over again.
ARROW-BEARER
ROCK, FIR-SAPLING, STRONG-ARM, HUMPBACK, ARROW-BEARER, GOLDEN LOTUS, CINNAMON, PEARL, TRANQUIL BEAUTY--LADIES IN WAITING.
CINNAMON
I thought I recognised the voice of my lord Arrow-Bearer.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
Golden Lotus recognised it before you.
PEARL
That young man is always stealing about here.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
We all know the reason.
CINNAMON
See, he greets our companion as if she were a Queen.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
Is she not the Queen of his heart?
ARROW-BEARER
The breeze of spring time caresses me gently and intoxicates me with the perfume of the lotus.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
The allusion is evident.
CINNAMON
It is well known that The breeze of springtime signifies love.
PEARL
And her name is Golden Lotus.
GOLDEN LOTUS
ARROW-BEARER
GOLDEN LOTUS
ARROW-BEARER
What glory for me to obey you! I envy those flowers which will be trod by your little feet.
TRANQUIL BEAUTY
Enough, Golden Lotus. It is not proper for us to listen to such remarks.
ARROW-BEARER
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