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As I chanced to pass by a cottage I heard a great squalling inside. I looked in; and, when I came to examine, what do you think it was? Why, an infant a plump and ruddy urchin lying on the floor under a table which was just beginning to burn. Poor little wretch! said I, you will be cold there, and with that I threw it into the flames! CHARLES. Indeed, Schufterle?
Is it for this that we have lived in fire and brimstone? To perish at last like rats? GRIMM. But what the devil, comrade, were you after? What were you quarreling about? The captain will be furious. SCHWEITZER. Be that on my head. Get out of my sight! Schufterle was another of your kidney, but he has met his deserts in Switzerland has been hanged, as the captain prophesied. Hark! a pistol shot!
After this day we shall meet no more. The post has arrived. My father's forgiveness must already be within the walls of this town. Enter SCHWEITZER, GRIMM, ROLLER, SCHUFTERLE, and RAZMAN. ROLLER. Are you aware that they are on our track! GRIMM. That we are not for a moment safe from being taken? CHARLES VON M. I don't wonder at it. It must be as it will! Have none of you seen Schwarz?
SPIEGELBERG,| SCHWEITZER, | GRIMM, | RAZMANN, | Libertines, afterwards Banditti SCHUFTERLE, | ROLLER, | KOSINSKY, | SCHWARTZ, | HERMANN, the natural son of a Nobleman. DANIEL, an old Servant of Count von Moor. PASTOR MOSER. FATHER DOMINIC, a Monk. The scene is laid in Germany. Period of action about two years. SCENE I. Franconia. Apartment in the Castle of COUNT MOOR.
On the one hand, closest to the leader stand the devoted Roller, the sturdy Schweizer and the romantic idealist, Kosinsky; on the other are the envious malcontent, Spiegelberg, and the wretched Schufterle. The others, less distinctly characterized, represent the mass. It will now be in order to look at 'The Robbers' a moment from the point of view of dramatic art.
Some thousands of them are forming a cordon round the middle forest. Enter more ROBBERS again. 3D ROBBER. Woe, woe, woe! we are all taken, hanged drawn, and quartered. Enter SCHWEITZER, GRIMM, ROLLER, SCHWARZ, SCHUFTERLE, SPIEGELBERG, RAZMAN, and the whole troop. SCHWEITZER. Ha! Have we routed them out of their feather-beds at last? Come, be jolly, Roller!
SPIEGEL. It wants nothing but courage; as to the headwork, I take that entirely upon myself. Courage, I say, Schweitzer! Courage, Roller! Grimm! Razman! Schufterle! Courage! SCHW. Courage! If that is all, I have courage enough to walk through hell barefoot. SCHUFT. And I courage enough to fight the very devil himself under the open gallows for the rescue of any poor sinner.
Do you know, Schufterle, how many lives have been lost? SCHUF. Eighty-three, they say. The powder-magazine alone blew threescore to atoms. Roller, thou art dearly bought. SCHUF. Bah! bah! What of that?
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