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- But if one, like you, has smudged himself out,
- neither sulphur nor potash avails in the least.
PEER
- I see; one must come to you black as a raven
- to turn out a white ptarmigan? Pray what's the name
- inscribed 'neath the negative counterfeit
- that you're now to transfer to the positive side?
THE LEAN ONE
- The name's Peter Gynt.
PEER
- Peter Gynt! Indeed?
- Is Herr Gynt himself?
THE LEAN ONE
- Yes, he vows he is.
PEER
- Well, he's one to be trusted, that same Herr Peter.
THE LEAN ONE
- You know him, perhaps?
PEER
- Oh yes, after a fashion;-
- one knows all sorts of people.
THE LEAN ONE
- I'm pressed for time;
- where saw you him last?
