them all.

  LAND.
  They would have been rewarded if they had lived so as to deserve it.
  But they lived during the war as if it would last for ever; as if the
  words "yours" and "mine" were done away with altogether. Now all the
  hotels and inns are full of them, and a landlord has to be on his
  guard with them. I have come off pretty well with this one. If he had
  no more money, he had at any rate money's worth; and I might indeed
  have let him remain quiet two or three months longer. However, it is
  better as it is. By-the-by, your ladyship, you understand about
  jewels, I suppose?

  MIN.
  Not particularly.

  LAND.
  Of course your ladyship must. I must show you a ring, a valuable ring.
  I see you have a very beautiful one on your finger; and the more I
  look at it, the more I am astonished at the resemblance it bears to
  mine. There! just look, just look!
  (Taking the ring from its case, and handing it to her.)
  What brilliancy! The diamond in the middle alone weighs more than five
  carats.

  MIN. (looking at it).
  Good heavens! What do I see? This ring!!!!!

  LAND.
  Is honestly worth fifteen hundred thalers.

  MIN.
  Franziska! look!

  LAND.
  I did not hesitate for a moment to advance eighty pistoles on it.

  MIN.
  Do not you recognize it, Franziska?

  FRAN.
  The same! Where did you get that ring, Mr. Landlord?

  LAND.
  Come, my girl! you surely have no claim to it?

  FRAN.
  We have no claim to this ring! My mistress' monogram must be on it, on
  the inner side of the setting. Look at it, my lady.

  MIN.
  It is! it is! How did you get this ring?

  LAND.
  I! In the most honourable way in the world. You do not wish to bring
  me into disgrace and trouble, your ladyship! How do I know where the
  ring properly belongs? During the war many a thing often changed
  masters, both with and without the knowledge of its owner. War was
  war. Other rings will have crossed the borders of Saxony. Give it me
  again, your ladyship; give it me again!

  FRAN.
  When you have said from whom you got it.

  LAND.
  From a man whom I cannot think capable of such things; in other
  respects a good man.

  MIN.
  From the best man under the sun, if you have it from its owner. Bring
  him here directly! It is himself, or at any rate he must know him.

  LAND.
  Who? who, your ladyship?

  FRAN.
  Are you deaf? Our Major!

  LAND.
  Major! Right! he is a Major, who had this room before you, and from
  whom I received it.

  MIN.
  Major von Tellheim!

  LAND.
  Yes, Tellheim. Do you know him?

  MIN.
  Do I know him! He is here! Tellheim here! He had this room! He! he
  pledged this ring with you! What has brought him into this
  embarrassment? Where is he? Does he owe you anything? Franziska, my
  desk here! Open it!
  (Franziska puts it on the table and opens it.)
  What does he owe you? To whom else does he owe anything? Bring me all
  his creditors! Here is gold: here are notes. It is all his!

  LAND.
  What is this?

  MIN.
  Where is he? Where is he?

  LAND.
  An hour ago he was here.

  MIN.
  Detested man! how could you act so rudely, so hardly, so cruelly
  towards him?

  LAND.
  Your ladyship must pardon!!!!!

  MIN.
  Quick! Bring him to me.

  LAND.
  His servant is perhaps still here. Does your ladyship wish that he
  should look for him?

  MIN.
  Do I wish it? Begone, run. For this service alone I will forget how
  badly you have behaved to him.

  FRAN.
  Now then, quick, Mr. Landlord! Be off! fly! fly!
  (Pushes him out.)