He takes the money and leaves the work; why, then plainly he's a thief.

A cuckold he was before, and a fool by birth.

Better me that!' cried Fritz, and snapped his fingers.
'And now, sir, you will see a little,' continued the farmer, 'why we think so poorly of this Prince Otto.

There's such a thing as a man being pious and honest in the private way; and there is such a thing, sir, as a public virtue; but when a man has neither, the Lord lighten him! Even this Gondremark, that Fritz here thinks so much of--' 'Ay,' interrupted Fritz, 'Gondremark's the man for me.

I would we had his like in Gerolstein.' 'He is a bad man,' said the old farmer, shaking his head; 'and there was never good begun by the breach of God's commandments.