Mrs. Fielitz monologue (Act 1) — The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume I

How many hundreds o' times has you been tellin' me that? I knows, Rauchhaupt, that you went off o' your head. Well, what about that? Look at me! My hair didn't get no blacker from that there business; I didn't get no stronger from it neither. Who's worse off right now--you or me? That's what I'd like to know. You got your health; you're lookin' prosperous! An' me? What am I to-day? An' how does I look? Well, then, what more d'you want?--I dreamed o' my own funeral, already!--What do you want more'n that? I ain't goin' to bother nobody much longer. There ain't much good to be got by houndin' me!... An' that's the truth.--An' anyhow, you're a foolish kind o' a man, Rauchhaupt. You're so crazy, nobody wouldn't hardly believe it. First you was always wantin' to get rid o' the boy ...