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The Musician raised his hands with a shrug of his shoulders, and then sank back in his former listless attitude. "That is your Polish taste, Velasco. Try a bit of Schinken with me, or a Stückchen of Cervelat with cheese eh? If you eat, you will be less nervous, and your fingers will become warm. When you play, you are abstinent as a priest before the mass."
"That's not wurst, that's schinken," remarked another, and this was the only contribution which either they or the tutor made to the conversation; for otherwise they sat in silence and drank hot water. Tonio Kröger would have desired no other sort of company at table.
Then between the acts you must imagine them pouring out to the refreshment-room for a look at each other and something to eat will they never stop eating? fathers and mothers and daughters with their Butterbrod and Schinken and big glasses of beer in the genial German fashion, beaming on the young heroes limping by or, with heads bandaged like schoolboys with mumps, grinning in spite of their scars.
Schinken, and sausage, and prunes any little thing that happens to be about. There you are, standing staring again. Woman, will you or will you not stir your legs?"
Everybody remarked the majesty of Jos and the knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger, which he ordered for dinner. The little boy, too, we observed, had a famous appetite, and consumed schinken, and braten, and kartoffeln, and cranberry jam, and salad, and pudding, and roast fowls, and sweetmeats, with a gallantry that did honour to his nation.
If you are really so very fond, you would do better to run away down and find the schinken and some bread, instead of talking all this nonsense." "Oh, my darling!" cried the unhappy maiden, throwing herself into the arms of what she imagined to be her lover, "you do but joke in order to frighten your little Elise."
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