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PEER
- Not yet-. Crazy? Heaven forbid!
- [A commotion. The Minister HUSSEIN forces his way
- through the crowd.]
HUSSEIN
- They tell me a Kaiser has come to-day.
- [To PEER GYNT.]
- It is you?
PEER [in desperation].
- Yes, that is a settled thing!
HUSSEIN
- Good.-Then no doubt there are notes to be answered?
PEER [tearing his hair].
- Come on! Right you are, sir;-the madder the better!
HUSSEIN
- Will you do me the honour of taking a dip?
- [Bowing deeply.]
- I am a pen.
PEER [bowing still deeper].
- Why then I am quite clearly
- a rubbishy piece of imperial parchment.
HUSSEIN
- My story, my lord, is concisely this:
- they take me for a sand-box, and I am a pen.
