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It's a damnable
darling; we're going to have a wedding soon....”
business. (Stands up, valks up and down.) And I can’t plame her
What else is there
for it either. Because I understand it so well.
to do?
Prince: You were always much too good, Arpad.
Count: What's so good about that? Why should I not under¬
Thirty-eight has already struck for her. And she has said
farewell to her profession. And that it’s no pleasure for her to
stand?
llve on as a pensioned ballettinner and the active mistress of
Count Pazmardy who with time naturally is getting to be an old ass
everyone must certainly feel with her. I was prepared for it. Don't
blame her in the least, 'pon my soul.
Prince: So you psrted good friends?
Count: Naturally. In fact it was quite a jolly fairewell.
My soul. At first I didn't know how hard it would be for me.
came to realize it gradually. really, it’s quite a remarkable story..
Prince: What’s soû remarkable about it?
Count: Wait. Let me tell you about it. When I left her
house for the last time one night last week, suddenly I felt--how
shall I say—quite light hearted. 'Now you're a free man,' I thought
to myself. Now every evening that God has given you, you don’t have
to go to Mayerhof St. and to sit at table with Lolo and chatter or
only listen to her. Kelly sometimes it wasorall enough to make you jam;
and in the middle of the night to go home again and then after
all that, to have to give an account of yourself if you take supper
with friends once in a while at the Casino or go to the opera with
your daughter, or to the Theater. Well, what's the use of talking
about it? I was really feeling quite fit on the way home. Had all
sorts of plans in my head....Oh not what you imagine...... no--plans
for travel, as I had long wanted to do—to Africa or India, as-free
man... that is to say, I should have taken my little girl with me.
Yes, you length, because I still say my little girl.
Mizzi really looks like a young girl.
Prince:I never thought of it.
like a very young girl. especially recently in her new Florentine
straw hat.
Count: Like a young girl! And yet she's the same age exact-
ly as Lolo. Yes, you know! We're getting old, Egon. All of us.
Yes, Yes...And lovely. But truly, at first I didn't notice it. The
first days after the fairewell party it wasn't so bad. It was only
day before yesterday and yesterday, when the hour came when I usually
went to Mayerhofgasse...and now, when Peter brought me the roses--
for Lolo, of course — it became clear to me that for the second time
in my life I had become a widower. Yes; dear friend. And now it's
for ever. Now comes solitude. Now it's here
Prince: But that’s ridiculous. Solitude!
Count: Don't be angry with me; but you don't understand. You
have lived so difficulty from me. You haven’t gone in for anything
It's a damnable
darling; we're going to have a wedding soon....”
business. (Stands up, valks up and down.) And I can’t plame her
What else is there
for it either. Because I understand it so well.
to do?
Prince: You were always much too good, Arpad.
Count: What's so good about that? Why should I not under¬
Thirty-eight has already struck for her. And she has said
farewell to her profession. And that it’s no pleasure for her to
stand?
llve on as a pensioned ballettinner and the active mistress of
Count Pazmardy who with time naturally is getting to be an old ass
everyone must certainly feel with her. I was prepared for it. Don't
blame her in the least, 'pon my soul.
Prince: So you psrted good friends?
Count: Naturally. In fact it was quite a jolly fairewell.
My soul. At first I didn't know how hard it would be for me.
came to realize it gradually. really, it’s quite a remarkable story..
Prince: What’s soû remarkable about it?
Count: Wait. Let me tell you about it. When I left her
house for the last time one night last week, suddenly I felt--how
shall I say—quite light hearted. 'Now you're a free man,' I thought
to myself. Now every evening that God has given you, you don’t have
to go to Mayerhof St. and to sit at table with Lolo and chatter or
only listen to her. Kelly sometimes it wasorall enough to make you jam;
and in the middle of the night to go home again and then after
all that, to have to give an account of yourself if you take supper
with friends once in a while at the Casino or go to the opera with
your daughter, or to the Theater. Well, what's the use of talking
about it? I was really feeling quite fit on the way home. Had all
sorts of plans in my head....Oh not what you imagine...... no--plans
for travel, as I had long wanted to do—to Africa or India, as-free
man... that is to say, I should have taken my little girl with me.
Yes, you length, because I still say my little girl.
Mizzi really looks like a young girl.
Prince:I never thought of it.
like a very young girl. especially recently in her new Florentine
straw hat.
Count: Like a young girl! And yet she's the same age exact-
ly as Lolo. Yes, you know! We're getting old, Egon. All of us.
Yes, Yes...And lovely. But truly, at first I didn't notice it. The
first days after the fairewell party it wasn't so bad. It was only
day before yesterday and yesterday, when the hour came when I usually
went to Mayerhofgasse...and now, when Peter brought me the roses--
for Lolo, of course — it became clear to me that for the second time
in my life I had become a widower. Yes; dear friend. And now it's
for ever. Now comes solitude. Now it's here
Prince: But that’s ridiculous. Solitude!
Count: Don't be angry with me; but you don't understand. You
have lived so difficulty from me. You haven’t gone in for anything