from plethora.

JUST.
And for you sir, I hardly know you any longer. May I die before your
eyes, if you do not encourage this malicious, unfeeling wretch. In
spite of gallows, axe, and torture I could... yes, I could have
throttled him with these hands, and torn him to pieces with these
teeth!

MAJ. T.
You wild beast!

JUST.
Better a wild beast than such a man!

MAJ. T.
But what is it that you want?

JUST.
I want you to perceive how much he insults you.

MAJ. T.
And then!!!!!

JUST.
To take your revenge... No, the fellow is beneath your notice!

MAJ. T.
But to commission you to avenge me? That was my intention from the
first. He should not have seen me again, but have received the amount
of his bill from your hands. I know that you can throw down a handful
of money with a tolerably contemptuous mien.

JUST.
Oh! a pretty sort of revenge!

MAJ. T.
Which, however, we must defer. I have not one heller of ready money,
and I know not where to raise any.

JUST.
No money! What is that purse then with five hundred thalers' worth of
louis d'ors, which the Landlord found in your desk?

MAJ. T.
That is money given into my charge.

JUST.
Not the hundred pistoles which your old sergeant brought you four or
five weeks back?

MAJ. T.
The same. Paul Werner's; right.

JUST.
And you have not used them yet? Yet, sir, you may do what you please
with them. I will answer for it that!!!!!

MAJ. T.
Indeed!

JUST.
Werner heard from me, how they had treated your claims upon the War
Office. He heard!!!!!

MAJ. T.
That I should certainly be a beggar soon, if I was not one already. I
am much obliged to you, Just. And the news induced Werner to offer to
share his little all with me. I am very glad that I guessed this.
Listen, Just; let me have your account, directly, too; we must part.

JUST.
How! what!

MAJ. T.
Not a word. There is someone coming.

SCENE V.
Lady _in mourning_, Major von Tellheim, Just

LADY.
I ask your pardon, sir.

MAJ. T.
Whom do you seek, Madam?

LADY.
The worthy gentleman with whom I have the honour of speaking. You do
not know me again. I am the widow of your late captain.

MAJ. T.
Good heavens, Madam, how you are changed!

LADY.
I have just risen from a sick bed, to which grief on the loss of my
husband brought me. I am troubling