(Gives him a cuff.)
Come, Moritz, let's go to the forester's house!
George.
Do you believe his nonsense?
Melchior.
What's that to you? Let them chatter, Moritz! Come on, let's go to town.
(Professors Hungergurt and Knochenbruch pass by.)
Knochenbruch.
It is inexplicable to me, my dear colleague, how the best of my scholars can fail the very worst of all.
Hungergurt.