_Runner (hides it in his pocket)._ All right! [_Exit the_ Second Servant. _Third Servant (aside to the First)._ Be on the hark, Jack! that we may have right plenty to tell to father Quivoga--He will 105 give us right plenty of absolution in return for it. _First Servant._ For that very purpose I am always having something to do behind Illo's chair.--He is the man for speeches to make you stare with! _Master of the Cellar (to Neumann)._ Who, pray, may that 110 swarthy man be, he with the cross, that is chatting so confidentially with Esterhats? _Neumann._ Ay! he too is one of those to whom they confide too much. He calls himself Maradas, a Spaniard is he. _Master of the Cellar (impatiently)._ Spaniard! Spaniard!--I 115 tell you, friend; nothing good comes of those Spaniards. All these out-landish[665:1] fellows are little better than rogues. _Neumann._ Fy, fy! you should not say so, friend. There are among them our very best generals, and those on whom the Duke at this moment relies the most. 120 _Master of the Cellar (taking the flask out of the Runner's pocket)._ My son, it will be broken to pieces in your pocket. [_TERTSKY hurries in, fetches away the paper, and calls to a_ Servant _for pen and ink, and goes to the back of the stage._ _Master of the Cellar (to the Servants)._ The Lieutenant-General stands up.--Be on the watch.--Now! They break up.--Off, and move back the forms. [_They rise at all the tables, the_ Servants _hurry off the front of the stage to the tables; part of the guests come forward._ FOOTNOTES: [665:1] There is a humour in the original which cannot be given in the translation. 'Die _welschen_ alle,' &c., which word in classical German means the _Italians_ alone; but in its first sense, and at present in the _vulgar_ use of the word, signifies foreigners in general. Our word wall-nuts, I suppose, means _outlandish_ nuts--Wallae nuces, in German 'Welschnüsse'.--_T._ LINENOTES: [13] isn't] a'nt 1800, 1828, 1829. [31] _Master of the Cellar (shaking his head while he fetches and rinses the cups)._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [74] _there_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [After 83] _drunk_] _drank_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [89] drunk] drank 1800, 1828, 1829. [98] called] called to 1800, 1828, 1829. SCENE XIII _OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI enters in conversation with MARADAS, and both place themselves quite on the edge of the stage on one side of the proscenium. On the side directly opposite, MAX PICCOLOMINI, by himself, lost in thought, and taking no part in any thing that is going forward. The middle space between both, but rather more distant from the edge of the stage, is filled up by BUTLER, ISOLANI, GOETZ, TIEFENBACH, and KOLATTO._