Brendel.
Can’t I tell at once by the name that it belongs to a plebeian?[plebeian?]
Kroll.
I did not expect that answer.
Brendel.
But I will conquer my reluctance. There is no alternative. When a man stands—as I do—at a turning-point in his career——. It is settled. I will approach this individual—will open personal negotiations——
Rosmer.
Are you really and seriously standing at a turning-point?
Brendel.
Surely my own boy knows that, stand he where he may, Ulric Brendel always stands really and seriously.—Yes, Johannes, I am going to put on a new man—to throw off the modest reserve I have hitherto maintained.