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Magda 77
Von Keller. For Heaven s sake, hush! someone s
coming.
Magda. Let them come! Let them all come! I
don t care, I don t care! To their faces I ll say what I
think of you, of you and your respectable society.
Why should I be worse than you, that I must prolong
my existence among you by a lie! Why should this
gold upon my body, and the lustre which surrounds my
name, only increase my infamy? Have I not worked
early and late for ten long years? Have I not woven this
dress with sleepless nights? Have I not built up my
career step by step, like thousands of my kind? Why
should I blush before anyone? I am myself, and through
myself I have become what I am.
Magda s father learns about the affair and im
mediately demands that the Councillor marry his
daughter, or fight a duel. Magda resents the
preposterous idea. Von Keller is indeed glad to
offer Magda his hand in marriage : she is so beau
tiful and fascinating; she will prove a great asset
to his ambitions. But he stipulates that she give
up her profession of singer, and that the existence
of the child be kept secret. He tells Magda that
later on, when they are happily married and firmly
established in the world, they will bring their
child to their home and adopt it; but for the pres
ent respectability must not know that it is theirs,
born out of wedlock, without the sanction of the
Church and the State.
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