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82 Hermann Sudermann
them with sunshine and joy in their new love life.
Accidentally Marie discovers a manuscript writ
ten by George, wherein he discloses his deep love
for her. She learns that he, even as she, has no
other thought, no other purpose in life than his
love for her. But he also is bound by gratitude
for his uncle Brauer who had saved the honor of
his father and had rescued him from poverty.
He feels it dishonorable to refuse to marry Ger
trude.
George. All these years I have struggled and de
prived myself with only one thing in view to be free
free and yet I must bow I must bow. If it were
not for the sake of this beautiful child, who is innocent
of it all, I would be tempted to But the die is cast,
the yoke is ready and so am I! ... I, too, am a
child of misery, a calamity child; but I am a subject of
charity. I accept all they have to give. . . . Was I not
picked up from the street, as my uncle so kindly informed
me for the second time like yourself? Do I not be
long to this house, and am I not smothered with the
damnable charity of my benefactors, like yourself?
It is St. John s night. The entire family is
gathered on the estate of the Brauers, while the
peasants are making merry with song and dance at
the lighted bonfires.
It is a glorious, dreamy night, suggestive of
symbolic meaning. According to the servant
Katie,
it is written that
"
whoever shall give or re-
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