Schmarowski monologue (Act 1) — The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume I

Don't be afraid, Mrs. Fielitz. Things don't go no further now that the noise is quieted down.--By the way, I see that the carpenters are assemblin'. I got to go over there an' rattle off my bit o' speech. It's just this: if Rauchhaupt should come in again, you just question him carefully a little. There's a new affair bein' started. Got a political side to it. Immense piece o' business. 'Course I got my finger in that pie, as I has in all the others now. We'd like to get Rauchhaupt's land ... He bought it for a song in the old days. If we c'n get it--the whole of it an' not parcelled--there'd be a cool million in it.