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- You'd better be off!
THE SMITH
- I am going, yes.
- But tell us, where have you dropped from, man?
- You've been gone six weeks. Were you troll-taken, eh?
PEER
- I have been doing strange deeds, Aslak Smith!
THE SMITH [winking to the others].
- Let us hear them, Peer!
PEER
- They are nought to you.
THE SMITH [after a pause].
- You're going to Hegstad?
PEER
- No.
THE SMITH
- Time was
- they said that the girl there was fond of you.
PEER
- You grimy crow-!
THE SMITH [falling back a little].
- Keep your temper, Peer!
- Though Ingrid has jilted you, others are left;-
- think-son of Jon Gynt! Come on to the feast;
