Note 22 — AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY (continued 2)
A. Paul (Albrecht Paul) Maerker-Branden translation
[The comic French soldier of fortune in Minna von Barnhelm, who is amazed when his sharp practice at cards is described as cheating: “Comment, Mademoiselle? Vous appelez cela ‘cheating’? Corriger la fortune, l’enchaîner sous ses doigts, être sûr de son fait—do the Germans call that ‘cheating’? Cheating! Oh, what a poor language, what a crude language German must be!”—Trans.]