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ARMGART.
SCENE I.
A Salon lit with lamps and ornamented with green plants. An open piano, with many scattered sheets of music. Bronze busts of Beethoven and Gluck on pillars opposite each other. A small table spread with supper. To Fräulein Walpurga, who advances with a slight lameness of gait from an adjoining room, enters Graf Dornberg at the opposite door in a travelling dress.
Graf
Good-morning, Fraulein!
Walpurga.
What, so soon returned?
I feared your mission kept you still at Prague.
Graf
But now arrived! You see my travelling dress.
I hurried from the panting, roaring steam
Like any courier of embassy
Who hides the fiends of war within his bag.
Walpurga.
You know that Armgart sings to-night?
Graf
Has sung!
