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 \nGESCHWITZ.I beg of you,don't speak!  \nRODRIGO.Hold my tongue,with a head as full of thoughts as mine isl—Iabsolutely can't believe she's changed so awfully much to her advantage therel  \nGESCHWITZ.She is more glorious to look at than I have ever seen her!  \nRODRIGO.God preserve me from founding my life-happiness on your taste andjudgmentl If the sickness has hit her as it has you,I'm smashed and thru!You're leaving thecontagious ward like an acrobat-lady who's had an accident after giving herself up to art.Youcan scarcely blow your nose any more.First you need a quarter-hour to sort your fingers,and then you have to be mighty careful not to break off the tip.Pg8  \nGESCHWITZ.What puts us under the ground gives her health and strength again.  \nRODRIGO.That's all right and fine enough.But I don't think I'll be travelling offwith her this evening.  \nGESCHWITZ.You will let your bride journey all alone,after all?  \nRODRIGO.In the frst place,the old felow's going with her to protect her in caseanyching serious—.My escort could only be suspicious.And secondly,I must wait here tillmy costumes are ready.I'llget across the frontier soon enough alright,—and I hope in themeantime she'l put on a little embonpoint,too.Then well get married,provided I canpresent her before a respectable public.I love the practical in a woman:what theories theymake up for themselves are all the same to me.Aren't they to you too,doctor?  \nALVA.I haven't heard what you were saying.  \nRODRIGO.I'd never have got my person mixed up in this plot if she hadn't kepttickling my bare pate,before her sentence.If only she doesn't start doing too much as soonas she's out of Germanyl I'd like best to take her to London for six months,and let her fillup on plum-cakes.In London one expands just from the sea air.And then,too,in Londonone doesn't feel with every swallow of beer as if the hand of fate were at one's throat.  \nALVA.I've been asking myself for a week whether a person who'd been sentenced toprison could still be made to go as the chief figure in a modern drama  \nGESCHWITZ.If the man would only come,now!  \nRODRIGO.I've still got to redeem my properties out of the pawn-shop here,tooSix hundred kilos of the Pg9|best iron.The baggage-rate on 'em is always three times asmuch as my own ticket,so that the whole junket isn't worth a trowser's button.When I wentinto the pawn-shop with 'em,dripping with sweat,they asked me if the things weregenuinel—I'd have really done better to have had the costumes made abroad.In Paris,forinstance,they see at the first glance where one's best points are,and bravely lay them bare.But you can't learn that with bow-legs;it's got to be studied on classically shaped people.Inthis country they're as scared of naked skin as they are abroad of dynamite bombs.A coup","cbCaidDn5ZJIYmip","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidDn5ZJIYmip","pdf",3108115,"English","# Characters\n# Act I\n## Opening setting and dialogue","[{\"question\":\"What kind of work is Pandora's Box in this document?\",\"answer\":\"It is a tragedy arranged in three acts, translated into English by Samuel A. 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