Karl Marx. If so, with the Madame's permission.
Helene. [Sarcastically] Certainly.
Frau Holthoff. That thirty years' difference in their ages ought to absolve him.
Doctor Haenle. To say nothing of the fee he received!
Karl Marx. The fee?
Doctor Haenle. One hundred thousand thalers.
Frau Holthoff. Capital; also, Das Kapital!
Karl Marx. I have made a note of it. A lawyer gets a single fee of one hundred thousand thalers—this under the competitive system—a hundred years of labor for the average workingman!
Frau Holthoff. A lawyer at nineteen—studying on one case, knowing its every aspect and phase, pursuing the case for nine years, and opposed by six of the ablest, oldest and most influential legal lights in Germany, and gaining a complete victory!
Karl Marx. I've heard of successful authors of a single book, but I never before heard of a great lawyer with but one case!