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PEER
- Like flint.
INGRID
- Good! we'll see, then, who's the winner!
- [Goes downwards.]
PEER [stands silent a moment, then cries:]
- Devil take all recollections!
- Devil take the tribe of women!
INGRID [turning her head, and calling mockingly upwards:]
- All but one!
PEER
- Yes, all but one.
- [They go their several ways.]
SCENE SECOND
[Near a mountain tarn; the ground is soft and marshy round about. A storm is gathering.] [ASE enters, calling and gazing around her despairingly, in every direction. SOLVEIG has difficulty in keeping up with her. SOLVEIG'S FATHER and MOTHER, with HELGA, are some way behind.] ASE [tossing about her arms, and tearing her hair].
- All things are against me with wrathful might!
- Heaven, and the waters, and the grisly mountains!
- Fog-scuds from heaven roll down to bewilder hi
