"Not a word against God, not a word against man! Dixi!"
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Bontsie begins again to tremble in his whole body. He knows that after the Advocate comes the Prosecuting Attorney. Who knows what he will say? He himself had never, during his whole life, preserved the memory of anything ... in the other world, he forgot
hāt ihm All's dermāhnt ... wer wēisst, wās der Katēgor wet ihm dermāhnen!
—Rabōssai! hēbt ān a scharf-stichedig, brühendig Kol—
Nor er hackt āb—
—Rabōssai! hēbt er noch a Māl ān, nor wēicher un' hackt weiter āb.
Endlich hört sich, vun dem ēigenem Hals araus, a wēich Kol, wie a Putter:
—Rabōssai! Er hāt geschwiegen! Ich will äuch schweigen!
Es werd still, un' vun vorent hört sich a neue wēiche, zitterdige Stimme: