FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN.
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COUNTESS.
Talking in sleep? An excellent jest, forsooth!
We shall no doubt right courteously entreat him
To honour with his hand the richest heiress
In Europe.
THEKLA.
COUNTESS.
THEKLA.
Will interpose no difficulty———
COUNTESS.
His father! his! But your's, niece, what of your's?
THEKLA.
So anxiously you hide it from the man;
His father, his, I mean.
COUNTESS. (looks at her as scrutinizing)
THEKLA.
COUNTESS.
Triumph too soon!—
THEKLA (interrupting her, and attempting to
soothe her.)
COUNTESS.