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- Hm; doing? Eh?
ALL FOUR [coming closer].
- Yes, let us hear!
PEER
- Well, first of all, I want to travel.
- You see, that's why I shipped you four,
- to keep me company, at Gibraltar.
- I needed such a dancing-choir
- of friends around my gold-calf-altar-
VON EBERKOPF
- Most witty!
MR. COTTON
- Well, but no one hoists
- his sails for nothing but the sailing.
- Beyond all doubt, you have a goal;
- and that is-?
PEER
- To be Emperor.
ALL FOUR
- What?
PEER [nodding].
- Emperor!
THE FOUR
- Where?
