Now we're goin' to start, Doctor! Down on it! Hit it now! [_He and DR. BOXER beat the iron, keeping time with each other._] Well, you see! It's got to go evenly. Doctor! Then I tell you the work's smooth as butter. [_They stop hammering; EDE takes up the iron again, takes it into the smithy and holds it into the flame._ LANGHEINRICH [_Takes up the water can again and sets it to his lips._] There ain't much to this! [_Drinks._ EDE Things like that makes you thirsty. _LANGHEINRICH puts the can down._ LANGHEINRICH You c'n believe me, Doctor: it was fine anyhow. DR. BOXER What was it that was go very fine? LANGHEINRICH Lord! I don't know! I don't know nothin' much. But when I met Constable Schulze I had a devil of a good time--that's what! EDE An' now a glass o' beer from Grabow over there. That's what I could stand fine just now. LANGHEINRICH Hurry! Get three steins! Dr. Boxer will pay for 'em. _EDE wipes his hands on his apron and goes._ LANGHEINRICH An' so you want to settle down here now! That ain't no bad idea neither. Only this: you got to be up to all kinds o' tricks here. An' if you want my advice, Doctor, don't go to people for nothin'. DR. BOXER Do you think that I'll be unmolested in other respects? LANGHEINRICH Aw, them old stories! Them's all outlawed by now. An' then, nowadays they can't worry people so much no more as they used to do under the old laws. DR. BOXER Well, at all events I'll make the attempt ... My political ardour has cooled off. If these people annoy me in spite of that, I'll simply trudge off again. I'll go back to sea, or I'll let myself be engaged ... LANGHEINRICH Pretty easy drownin' on water! DR. BOXER [_Continuing._] ... Then I'll let myself be engaged to go to Brazil with the Russian Jews. LANGHEINRICH What would you get out o' that? DR. BOXER Yellow fever, perhaps. LANGHEINRICH Anything else. Doctor? That wouldn't be nothin' for me! DR. BOXER I believe that. LANGHEINRICH Me go an' wear myself out for other people? Not me! No, sir! I don't do nothin' like that. An' why should I? Nobody don't give me nothin'. I tell you people in this world is a pretty sly set. I've had time to find that out. DR. BOXER You're a regular heathen: you're not a Christian at all! LANGHEINRICH That kind o' talk don't do much good with me. I'm a Christian just like all the rest is! The people that sit in the new church here ... 'cause they built a new church here now!... if them is Christians, the Lord forgive 'em. DR. BOXER That's easily said, Langheinrich. But one ought not to be a Pharisee. Where is your Christian long-suffering? LANGHEINRICH