Extended Reading

Character quotes

  • De Gankelaar: Who taught you that senseless self-chastisement? I give you the money and you take it! People who can't accept a gift have nothing to give themselves.

  • [first lines]

    Jacob Katadreuffe: I came to tell you. Today I have been sworn in as a lawyer. You must be sorry but I am sworn in and this is the last time I'll come here. Farewell for ever. You no longer exist for me.

    Dreverhaven: Congratulations.

    Jacob Katadreuffe: You congratulate me? I can't take your hand. The hand of someone who always opposed me.

    Dreverhaven: Or helped.

    [pause]

    Dreverhaven: Or helped.