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PEER
- Why, by vouchers and witnesses.
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- I'm sadly afraid Master will not accept them.
PEER
- Impossible! However, enough for the day-!
- My dear man, allow me a loan of myself;
- I'll be back again shortly. One is born only once,
- and one's self, as created, one fain would stick to.
- Come, are we agreed?
THE BUTTON-MOULDER
- Very well then, so be it.
- But remember, we meet at the next cross-roads.
- [PEER GYNT runs off.]
SCENE EIGHTH
[A further point on the heath.] PEER [running hard].
- Time is money, as the scripture says.
- If I only knew where the cross-roads are;-
- they may be near and they may be far.
- The earth burns beneath me like red-hot iron.
- A witness! A witness! Oh, where shall I find one?
- It's almost unthinkable here in the forest.
- The world is a bungle! A wretched arrangement,
- when a man must prove a right that's as patent as day!
[AN OLD
