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n.
- He has set at defiance his life's design;
- clap him into the ladle with other spoilt goods.
PEER
- What nonsense! They must mean some other person.
- Is it really Peer? It's not Rasmus, or Jon?
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- It is many a day since I melted them.
- So come quietly now, and don't waste my time.
PEER
- I'll be damned if I do! Ay, 'twould be a fine thing
- if it turned out to-morrow some one else was meant.
- You'd better take care what you're at, my good man!
- think of the onus you're taking upon you-
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- I have it in writing-
PEER
- At least give me time!
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- What good would that do you?
PEER
- I'll use it to prove
- that I've been myself all the days of my life;
- and that's the question that's in dispute.
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- You'll prove it? And how?
