"There's something behind all that. Out with it."
"I'd like to see you make something out of it all."
"All in good time."
"Now, listen to me quietly. I'm not talking to you as squire now, but I say this because I wish you well. If you stay here as you do now you'll go to wreck. What are you waiting for?"
Florian was evidently struck by the force of this question. After a considerable pause, Buchmaier went on:--
"I know how it is very well. It's just like getting up out of bed: let it be ever so hard, you don't like to stay there; but the minute you're up and doing you feel a great deal better. So take my advice, and go. If there was war I should say, 'Florian, take two suits of clothes, and if one won't wear the other will;' but even as it is you can make out finely without going to butchering men. But stay here you can't: you must go."
"But I can't go, and won't go; and I'd like to see who's going to make me."
"That's neither here nor there. You needn't come the fiery game over me. I know you go to see Crescence. Well, if you have luck you can come and fetch her. But here you're not respected."
"Who says that? Why, squire, if this was anybody but you, I'd show him. Who can say any thing against my reputation?"
"Not a soul; and that's the very reason you ought to go now."