JUST (sitting in a corner, and talking while asleep). Rogue of a landlord! You treat us so? On, comrade! hit hard! (He strikes with his fist, and wakes through the exertion). Ha! there he is again! I cannot shut an eye without fighting with him. I wish he got but half the blows. Why, it is morning! I must just look for my poor master at once; if I can help it, he shall not set foot in the cursed house again. I wonder where he has passed the night? SCENE II. Landlord, Just LAND. Good-morning, Herr Just; good-morning! What, up so early! Or shall I say--up so late? JUST. Say which you please. LAND. I say only--good-morning! and that deserves, I suppose, that Herr Just should answer, "Many thanks." JUST. Many thanks. LAND. One is peevish, if one can't have one's proper rest. What will you bet the Major has not returned home, and you have been keeping watch for him? JUST. How the man can guess everything! LAND. I surmise, I surmise. JUST. (turns round to go). Your servant! LAND. (stops him). Not so, Herr Just! JUST. Very well, then, not your servant! LAND. What, Herr Just, I do hope you are not still angry about yesterday's affair! Who would keep his anger over night? JUST. I; and over a good many nights. LAND. Is that like a Christian? JUST. As much so as to turn an honourable man who cannot pay to a day, out of doors, into the street. LAND. Fie! who would be so wicked? JUST. A Christian innkeeper.--My master! such a man! such an officer! LAND. I thrust him from the house into the streets? I have far too much respect for an officer to do that, and far too much pity for a discharged one! I was obliged to have another room prepared for him. Think no more about it, Herr Just. (Calls) --Hullo! I will make it good in another way. (A lad comes.) Bring a glass; Herr Just will have a drop; something good. JUST. Do not trouble yourself, Mr. Landlord. May the drop turn to poison, which... But I will not swear; I have not yet breakfasted. LAND. (to the lad, who brings a bottle of spirits and a glass). Give it here; go! Now, Herr Just; something quite excellent; strong, delicious, and wholesome. (Fills, and holds it out to him.) That can set an over-taxed stomach to rights again! JUST. I hardly ought!--And yet why should I let my health suffer on account of his incivility? (Takes it, and drinks.) LAND. May it do you good, Herr Just! JUST. (giving the glass back). Not bad! But, Landlord, you are nevertheless an ill-mannered brute! LAND. Not so, not so!... Come, another glass; one cannot stand upon one leg. JUST. (after drinking). I must say so much--it is good, very good! Made at home, Landlord? LAND. At home, indeed! True Dantzig, real double distilled!