I'm
breathless!
Byron
_ How!
--What!
--Eh!
A jewel!
_Wer. _ 'Tis your own on one condition.
_Iden. _ Mine! --Name it!
_Wer. _ That hereafter you permit me
At thrice its value to redeem it: 'tis
A family ring.
_Iden. _ A family! --_yours! _--a gem!
I'm breathless!
_Wer. _ You must also furnish me,
An hour ere daybreak, with all means to quit
This place.
_Iden. _ But is it real? Let me look on it:
_Diamond_, by all that's glorious!
_Wer. _ Come, I'll trust you: 310
You have guessed, no doubt, that I was born above
My present seeming.
_Iden. _ I can't say I did,
Though this looks like it: this is the true breeding
Of gentle blood!
_Wer. _ I have important reasons
For wishing to continue privily
My journey hence.
_Iden. _ So then _you are_ the man
Whom Stralenheim's in quest of?
_Wer. _ I am not;
But being taken for him might conduct
So much embarrassment to me just now,
And to the Baron's self hereafter--'tis 320
To spare both that I would avoid all bustle.
A jewel!
_Wer. _ 'Tis your own on one condition.
_Iden. _ Mine! --Name it!
_Wer. _ That hereafter you permit me
At thrice its value to redeem it: 'tis
A family ring.
_Iden. _ A family! --_yours! _--a gem!
I'm breathless!
_Wer. _ You must also furnish me,
An hour ere daybreak, with all means to quit
This place.
_Iden. _ But is it real? Let me look on it:
_Diamond_, by all that's glorious!
_Wer. _ Come, I'll trust you: 310
You have guessed, no doubt, that I was born above
My present seeming.
_Iden. _ I can't say I did,
Though this looks like it: this is the true breeding
Of gentle blood!
_Wer. _ I have important reasons
For wishing to continue privily
My journey hence.
_Iden. _ So then _you are_ the man
Whom Stralenheim's in quest of?
_Wer. _ I am not;
But being taken for him might conduct
So much embarrassment to me just now,
And to the Baron's self hereafter--'tis 320
To spare both that I would avoid all bustle.
