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PEER
- What motto?
THE OLD MAN
- The potent and sundering word.
PEER
- The word?
THE OLD MAN
- That which severs the whole race of men
- from the troll-folk.Troll! To thyself be enough!
PEER [falls back a step].
- Enough!
THE OLD MAN
- And with every nerve in your body,
- you've being living up to it ever since.
PEER
- What, I? Peer Gynt?
THE OLD MAN [weeps].
- It's ungrateful of you!
- You've lived as a troll, but have still kept it secret.
- The word I taught you has shown you the way
- to swing yourself up as a man of substance;-
- and now you must needs come and turn up your nose
- at me and the word you've to thank for it all.
PEER
- Enough! A hill-troll! An egoist!
- This must be all rubbish; that's perfectly certain!
THE OLD MAN [pulls
