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He takes fatherly thought for my personal weal;-
- [Casts a glance over the sea, and whispers with a sigh:]
- but economical-no, that he isn't!
SCENE THIRD
[Night. An encampment of Moroccan troops on the edge of the desert. Watchfires, with SOLDIERS resting by them.] A SLAVE [enters, tearing his hair].
- Gone is the Emperor's milk-white charger!
ANOTHER SLAVE [enters, rending his garments].
- The Emperor's sacred robes are stolen!
AN OFFICER [enters].
- A hundred stripes upon the foot-soles
- for all who fail to catch the robber!
[The troopers mount their horses, and gallop away in every direction.]
SCENE FOURTH
[Daybreak. The grove of acacias and palms.] [PEER GYNT in his tree with a broken branch in his hand, trying to beat off a swarm of monkeys.] PEER
- Confound it! A most disagreeable night.
- [Laying about him
