File:The Melody by Oskar Zwintscher.jpg

Identifier: germanclassicsof18fran (find matches)
Title: The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 Howard, William Guild, b. 1868 Singer, Isidore, 1859-1939
Subjects: German literature German literature English literature
Publisher: Albany, N. Y. : J. B. Lyon company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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with old Germandecorations. Wainscotiny. Tables and chairs of stained wood. To theleft a neat bar with a marble top and highly polished faucets. Behindthe bar a stand for cordial bottles, glasses, etc. Within this stand asmall square window to the kitchen. To the left, behind the bar, a doorthat leads to the inner rooms. A large show ivindo7C with neat hangings;next to it a glass door ox>ening on the street. To the right a door to theadjoining room. Twilight. LlESE Bansch, neatly and tastefully dressed, with long white apron, comesslowly through the low door behind the bar. She looks up carelesslyfrom her crocheting work and perceives Arxold who is sitting over hisglass of beer at a table in the foreground to the right. Sliaking herhead she continues to crochet. Arnold (very pale, tapping gently and nervously with hisfoot, stares over at her as if in ambush and says):Good evening. (LiESE Bansch sighs ostentatiously and turns away.) i ntot MELODY From the Painting hy 0. Zivintscher
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MICHAEL KRAMER 247 Arnold (tvith emphasis). Good evening. (Liese does not reply.^ Well, if you dont want to answer, you neednt. Im not exactly crazy about it. (^Continues to regard her ivith feverish excitement.^ But why do you open a hole like this if youre going to be rude to your customers ?Liese Bansch. Im not rude. Leave me alone.Arnold. I said good evening to you.Liese Bansch. And I answered you.Arnold. That isnt true.Liese Bansch. Is that so 1 Very well, then! Your opinion dont bother me. l^Pause.)(Arnold shoots a paper arrow at Liese from a rub-ber sling. Liese Bansch shrugs her shouldersarrogantlg and contemptuously.)Arnold. Dyou think that kind of thing impresses me?Liese Bansch. I suppose Ill think what I please.Arnold. I pay for my beer as well as anybody else. D you understand me ? I want you to remember that! — Does one have to wear a monocle here? — Id like to know who frequents this grand place of yours, after all? Dyou think Im going to be driven out? By those Phi

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