The papers and the mail!
BOLZ.
Over there! [MILLER enters, lays the papers on the work-table.]
MILLER.
Here is the Coriolanus. There is something in it about our paper. The errand-boy of the Coriolanus grinned at me scornfully, and recommended me to look over the article.
BOLZ.
Give it here! Be quiet, Romans, Coriolanus speaks.—All ye devils, what does that mean? [Reads.] "On the best of authority we have just been informed that a great change is imminent in the newspaper affairs of our province. Our opponent, the Union, will cease to direct her wild attacks against all that is high and holy."—This high and holy means Blumenberg.—"The ownership is said to have gone over into other hands, and there is a sure prospect that we shall be able from now on to greet as an ally this widely read sheet." How does that taste to you, gentlemen?
MILLER} Thunder! KÄMPE.}(All together.) Nonsense! BELLMAUS.} It's a lie!
OLDENDORF.
It's another of Blumenberg's reckless inventions.