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Der Augenoptiker, zweites Bett links, wiederholte sofort seinen Heiratsantrag an Schwester Lieselotte und meinte, bei ihm würde es ihr nie an Brillen fehlen, außerdem sei es sinnlos, auf den armen Kerl mit dem Gehirnreifen Geld und Zeit zu verschwenden, der gehe doch, lachte er mit dem derben Humor vieler Patienten, eh übern Jordan;
The optician, second bed on the left, immediately repeated his offer of marriage to Nurse Lieselotte, who, he said, would never lack for spectacles; moreover, he went on, it was pointless wasting time and money on the poor guy with the skull-hoops, who, he added with the crude humour of some patients, was going to kick the bucket anyway.
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