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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). Minna von Barnhelm.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Act I

Scene V

LADY in mourning,MAJOR VON TELLHEIM,JUST


Lady.I ask your pardon, sir.

Maj. T.Whom do you seek, Madam?

Lady.The worthy gentleman with whom I have the honour of speaking. You do not know me again. I am the widow of your late captain.

Maj. T.Good heavens, Madam, how you are changed!

Lady.I have just risen from a sick bed, to which grief on the loss of my husband brought me. I am troubling you at a very early hour, Major von Tellheim, but I am going into the country, where a kind, but also unfortunate friend, has for the present offered me an asylum.

Maj. T.(to JUST). Leave us.