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- We'll scatter around on this side of our saeter.
- [He and his wife go on ahead.]
SOLVEIG [to ASE].
- Say on; tell me more.
ASE [drying her eyes].
- Of my son, you mean?
SOLVEIG
- Yes;-
- Tell everything!
ASE [smiles and tosses her head].
- Everything?-Soon you'd be tired!
SOLVEIG
- Sooner by far will you tire of the telling
- than I of the hearing.
SCENE THIRD
[Low, treeless heights, close under the mountain moorlands; peaks in the distance. The shadows are long; it is late in the day.] [PEER GYNT comes running at full speed, and stops short on the hillside.] PEER
- The parish is all at my heels in a pack!
- Every