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ets her stick sink].
- Oh, the beast!
THE SMITH [as if thunderstruck].
- Where the slope rises sheerest
- he's clambering upwards, by God, like a goat!
THE BRIDEGROOM [crying].
- He's shouldered her, mother, as I might a pig!
ASE [shaking her fist up at him].
- Would God you might fall, and-!
- [Screams out in terror.]
- Take care of your footing!
THE HEGSTAD FARMER [comes in, bare-headed and white with rage].
- I'll have his life for this bride-rape yet!
ASE
- Oh no, God punish me if I let you!
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