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The Master Builder Act III · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act third of The Master Builder by Henry Gibson, translated
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  Speaker 1: by William Archer and Edmund Goss. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act third.
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  Speaker 1: The large broad veranda of Solness's dwelling house. Part of
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  Speaker 1: the house with outer door leading to the veranda is
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  Speaker 1: seen to the left, a railing along the veranda to
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  Speaker 1: the right. At the back. From the end of the veranda,
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  Speaker 1: a flight of steps leads down to the garden below.
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  Speaker 1: Tall old trees in the garden spread their branches over
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  Speaker 1: the veranda and towards the house far to the right.
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  Speaker 1: In among the trees, a glimpse is caught of the
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  Speaker 1: lower part of the new villa, with scaffolding round so
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  Speaker 1: much as a scene of the tower in the background.
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  Speaker 1: The garden is founded by an old wooden fence. Outside
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  Speaker 1: the fence a street with low tumble down cottages, evening
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  Speaker 1: sky with sunlit clouds. On the veranda, a garden bench
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  Speaker 1: stands along the wall of the house, and in front
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  Speaker 1: of the bench a long table. On the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the table, an arm chair and some stools. All
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  Speaker 1: the furniture is of wicker work. Missus Solnis, wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: a large white crape shawl, sits resting in the arm
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  Speaker 1: chair and gazes over to the right. Shortly after, Hilda
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  Speaker 1: Vangell comes up the flight of steps from the garden.
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  Speaker 1: She is dressed as in the last act and wears
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  Speaker 1: her hat. She has in her bodice a little nosegay
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  Speaker 1: of small common flowers.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been round the garden, miss Fangle?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have been taking a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: And found some flowers too, I see.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, there are such heaps of them, and among
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  Speaker 3: the bushes?
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  Speaker 2: Are there really still? You see? I scarcely ever go there?
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  Speaker 3: What don't you take a run down into the garden
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  Speaker 3: every day? Then?
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  Speaker 2: I don't run anywhere nowadays?
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  Speaker 3: Well, but do you not go down now and then
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  Speaker 3: to look at all the lovely things there?
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  Speaker 2: It has all become so strange to me. I am
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  Speaker 2: almost afraid.
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  Speaker 3: To see it again, your own garden.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel that it is mine any longer.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, it is not not as it was in
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  Speaker 2: my mother's and father's time. They have taken away so much,
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  Speaker 2: so much of the garden, Miss Fangle. Fancy they have
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  Speaker 2: parceled it out and built houses for strangers, people that
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, and they can sit and look in
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  Speaker 2: upon me from their windows.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Solness, Yes, may I stay here with you a little?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? By by all means, if you care to.
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  Speaker 1: Hilda moves a stool close to the arm chair and
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  Speaker 1: sits down.
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  Speaker 3: Ah here one can sit and sun oneself like a cat.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Solness lays her hand softly on Hilda's neck.
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  Speaker 2: It is nice of you to be willing to sit
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  Speaker 2: with me. I thought you wanted to go in to
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  Speaker 2: my husband.
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  Speaker 3: What should I want with him?
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  Speaker 2: To help him?
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  Speaker 3: I thought, no, thank you, And besides he is not
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  Speaker 3: in He is over there with his workmen. But he
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  Speaker 3: looked so fierce that I did not dare to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him.
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  Speaker 2: He is so kind and gentle. In reality he you
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  Speaker 2: do not really know him yet to Miss Vangle, are you.
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  Speaker 3: Pleased at the thought of moving over to the new house.
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  Speaker 2: I ought to be pleased, for it is what Halvard wants.
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  Speaker 3: Oh not just on that account.
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  Speaker 2: Surely, yes, yes, miss Vangle, for it is only my
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  Speaker 2: duty to submit myself to him. But very often it
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  Speaker 2: is dreadfully difficult to force one's mind to obedience.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that must be difficult. Indeed, I can tell you.
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  Speaker 2: It is when one has so many faults as I have, when.
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  Speaker 3: One has gone through so much trouble as you have.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know about that?
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  Speaker 3: Your husband told me to me.
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  Speaker 2: He very seldom mentions these things. Yes, I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you I have gone through more than enough trouble in
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  Speaker 2: my life, Miss Vangle.
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  Speaker 3: Poor missus soulness. First of all, there was the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, everything that was mine was burnt.
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  Speaker 3: And then came what was worse, worse, the worst of all.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean you lost the two little boys?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, the boys. But you see that was a thing,
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  Speaker 2: part that was a dispensation of providence. And in such
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  Speaker 2: things one can only bow in submission, yes, and be
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  Speaker 2: thankful too.
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  Speaker 3: Then you are so.
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  Speaker 2: Not always, I am sorry to say. I know well
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  Speaker 2: enough that it is my duty, but all the same
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  Speaker 2: I cannot.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I think that is only natural.
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  Speaker 2: And often and often I have to remind myself that
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  Speaker 2: it was a righteous punishment for me. Why because I
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  Speaker 2: had not fortitude enough in misfortune.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't see that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, Miss Vangle, do not talk to me
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  Speaker 2: any more about the two little boys. We ought to
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  Speaker 2: feel nothing but joy in thinking of them, for they
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  Speaker 2: are so happy, so happy now. No, it is the
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  Speaker 2: small losses in life that cut one to the heart.
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  Speaker 2: The loss of all that other people look upon is
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  Speaker 2: almost nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Hilda lays her arms on Missus Solness's knees and looks
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  Speaker 1: up at her affectionately.
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  Speaker 3: Dear Missus Solness, tell me what things you mean, as
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  Speaker 3: I say, only little things.
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  Speaker 2: All the old portraits were burnt on the walls, and
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  Speaker 2: all the old silk dresses were burnt. What had belonged
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  Speaker 2: to the family for generations and generations. And all mother's
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  Speaker 2: and grandmother's lace that was burnt too, And only think
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  Speaker 2: the jewels too, And then all the dolls.
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  Speaker 3: The dolls.
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  Speaker 2: I had nine lovely dolls, and they were burnt too,
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  Speaker 2: all of them. Oh, it was so hard, so hard
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 3: Had you put by all these dolls?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Ever since you were little, I had.
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  Speaker 2: Not put them by the dolls, and I had gone
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  Speaker 2: on living together.
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  Speaker 3: After you were grown up, Yes, long after that, after
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  Speaker 3: you were married too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, indeed, so long as he did not see it.
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  Speaker 2: But they were all burnt up. Poor things. No one
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  Speaker 2: thought of saving them. Oh, it is so miserable to
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  Speaker 2: think of. You mustn't laugh at me, Miss Vangle.
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  Speaker 3: I am not laughing in the least, for you.
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  Speaker 2: See, in a certain sense there was life in them too.
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  Speaker 2: I carried them under my heart like little unborn children.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor her Doll, with his hat in his hand, comes
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  Speaker 1: out through the door and observes Missus Solness and Hilda.
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  Speaker 5: Well, missus Sulness, till you are sitting out here catching cold?
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  Speaker 2: I find it so pleasant and warm here to day?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but is there anything going on here? I
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  Speaker 5: got a note from you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there is something I must talk to you about.
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  Speaker 5: Very well. Then perhaps we'd better go in still in
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  Speaker 5: your mountaineering dress, Miss Wengell, yes, in full uniform.
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  Speaker 3: But to day I am not going climbing and breaking
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  Speaker 3: my neck. We two will stop quietly below and look on.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor what are we to look at?
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  Speaker 2: Hush, hush, for God's sake, he is coming. Try to
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  Speaker 2: get that idea out of his head and let us
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  Speaker 2: be friends. Miss Vangle, don't you think we can?
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  Speaker 1: Hilda throws her arms impetuously around Missus Soulnis's neck.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, if we only could.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Soulnis gently disengages herself.
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  Speaker 2: There there, there, there he comes. Doctor. Let me have
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  Speaker 2: a word with you.
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  Speaker 5: Is it about him?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to be sure, it's about him. Do come in.
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  Speaker 1: She and the doctor enter the house. Next moment, Sulness
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  Speaker 1: comes up from the garden by the flight of steps.
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  Speaker 1: A serious look comes over Hilda's face. Soulness glances at
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  Speaker 1: the house door, which has closed cautiously from within.
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  Speaker 6: Have you noticed, Hilda, that as soon as I come,
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  Speaker 6: she goes.
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  Speaker 3: I have noticed that as soon as you come you
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  Speaker 3: make her go.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps so, but I cannot help it. Are you cold, Hilda?
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  Speaker 6: I think you look cold.
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  Speaker 3: I have just come up out of a tomb.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 3: That I have got chilled through and through? Mister Soulness.
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  Speaker 6: I believe I understand.
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  Speaker 3: What brings you up here.
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  Speaker 6: Just now I caught sight of you from over there.
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  Speaker 3: But then you must have seen her too.
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  Speaker 6: I knew she would go at once if I came.
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  Speaker 3: Is it very painful for you that she should avoid
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  Speaker 3: you in this way?
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  Speaker 6: In one sense, it's a relief as well not.
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  Speaker 3: To have her before your eyes. Yes, not to be
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  Speaker 3: always seeing how heavily the loss of the little boys
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  Speaker 3: weighs upon her.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, chiefly that Hilda drifts across the veranda with her
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  Speaker 1: hands behind her back, stops at the railing and looks
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  Speaker 1: out over the garden.
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  Speaker 6: Did you have a long talk with her?
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  Speaker 1: Hilda stands motionless.
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  Speaker 6: Had you a long talk? I asked? What was she
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  Speaker 6: talking about, Hilda, poor Elena. I suppose it was about
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  Speaker 6: to the little boys.
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  Speaker 1: A nervous shudder runs through her. Then she nods hurriedly,
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  Speaker 1: once or twice.
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  Speaker 6: She will never get over it, never in this world.
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  Speaker 6: Now you are standing there again like a statue, just
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  Speaker 6: as you did last night.
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  Speaker 3: I am going away, going away, yes, but I won't
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  Speaker 3: allow you to What am I to do here now?
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  Speaker 6: Simply to be here? Hilda?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Thank you? You know it wouldn't end there.
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  Speaker 6: So much the better.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot do any harm to one whom I know.
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  Speaker 3: I can't take away anything that belongs to her.
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  Speaker 6: Who wants you to do that?
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  Speaker 3: A stranger? Yes, for that is quite a different thing,
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  Speaker 3: A person I have never set eyes on, but one
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  Speaker 3: that I have come into close contact with. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: oh no, ugh.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but I never proposed you should.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, mister soulness, you know quite well what the end
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  Speaker 3: of it would be. And that is why I am
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  Speaker 3: going away.
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  Speaker 6: And what is to become of me when you are gone?
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  Speaker 6: What shall I have to live for? Then? After that?
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  Speaker 3: It is surely not so hard for you. You have your
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  Speaker 3: duties to her live for those duties.
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  Speaker 6: Too late, These powers, these these devils, yes, these devils,
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  Speaker 6: and the troll within me as well. They have drawn
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  Speaker 6: all the life blood out of her. Hugh it hit
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  Speaker 6: it for my happiness, yes, yes, And now she is
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  Speaker 6: dead for my sake. And I am chained alive to
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  Speaker 6: a dead woman. Ay, I who cannot live without joy
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  Speaker 6: in life.
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  Speaker 1: Hilda moves round the table and seats herself on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: with her elbows on the table and her head support
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  Speaker 1: by her hands. Hilda sits and looks at him, Awhile,
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  Speaker 1: what will you build next?
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe I shall build much more.
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  Speaker 3: Not those cozy, happy homes for mother and father and
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  Speaker 3: for the troop of children.
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  Speaker 6: Now wonder whether there will be any use for such
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  Speaker 6: homes in the coming time.
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  Speaker 3: Poor mister soulness. And you have gone all these ten
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  Speaker 3: years and staked your whole life on that alone.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you may well say so, Hilda, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: It all seems to me so foolish, So foolish, all
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  Speaker 3: what not to be able to grasp but your own happiness,
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  Speaker 3: at your own life, merely because someone you know happens
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  Speaker 3: to stand in the way.
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  Speaker 6: One whom you have no right to set aside.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder whether one really has not the right? And
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  Speaker 3: yet and yet, oh, if one could only sleep the
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  Speaker 3: whole thing away.
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  Speaker 1: She lays her arms flat on the table, rests the
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  Speaker 1: left side of her head on her hands, and shuts
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  Speaker 1: her eyes soulness, turns the armchair and sits down at
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  Speaker 1: the table.
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  Speaker 6: Had you a cozy, happy home up there with your father, Hilda?
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  Speaker 3: I had only a cage.
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  Speaker 6: And you are determined not to go back to it.
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  Speaker 3: The wild bird never wants to go back to the cage.
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  Speaker 6: Rather range through the free air.
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  Speaker 3: The bird of prey loves to range.
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  Speaker 6: If only one had the Viking spirit in.
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  Speaker 3: Life and the other thing, say what that was.
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  Speaker 6: A robust conscience?
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  Speaker 1: Hilda sits erect on the bench with animation. Her eyes
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  Speaker 1: have once more the sparkling expression of gladness.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you are going to build next?
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  Speaker 6: Then you know more than I do, Hilda.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, builders are such stupid people.
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  Speaker 6: What is it to be? Then?
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  Speaker 3: The castle?
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  Speaker 6: What castle?
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  Speaker 3: My castle? Of course?
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  Speaker 6: Do you want a castle?
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  Speaker 3: Now? Don't you owe me a kingdom? I should like to.
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  Speaker 6: Know you say, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you admit you owe me this kingdom? And you
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  Speaker 3: can't have a kingdom without a royal castle.
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  Speaker 6: I should think, yes, they usually go together.
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  Speaker 3: Good, Then build it for me this moment.
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  Speaker 6: Must you have that on the instant.
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  Speaker 3: Too, Yes, to be sure, for the ten years are
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  Speaker 3: up now, and I am not going to wait any longer.
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  Speaker 3: So out with the castle, mister soulness.
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  Speaker 6: It's no light matter to owe you anything. Ilda.
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  Speaker 3: You should have thought of that before. It is too
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  Speaker 3: late now, so that a castle on the table, it
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  Speaker 3: is my castle. I will have it at once.
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  Speaker 6: What sort of castle have you imagined? Hilda?
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  Speaker 1: Her expression becomes more and more veiled. She seems gazing
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  Speaker 1: inwards at herself.
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  Speaker 3: My castle shall stand on a height, on a very
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  Speaker 3: great height, with a clear outlook on all sides, so
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  Speaker 3: that I can see far far around.
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  Speaker 6: And no doubt it is to have a high tower.
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  Speaker 3: A tremendously high tower, And at the very top of
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  Speaker 3: the tower there shall be a balcony, and I will
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  Speaker 3: stand out upon it.
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  Speaker 6: How can you like to stand at such a dizzy height?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I will right up there? Will I stand and
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  Speaker 3: look down on the other people, on those that are
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  Speaker 3: building churches and homes for mother and father and the
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  Speaker 3: troops of children, And you may come up and look
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  Speaker 3: on it too.
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  Speaker 6: Is the builder to be allowed to come up beside
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  Speaker 6: the princess?
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  Speaker 3: If the builder will.
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  Speaker 6: Then I think the builder will come.
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  Speaker 3: The builder, he will come.
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  Speaker 6: But he will never be able to build any more,
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  Speaker 6: poor builder.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes he will. We too will set to work together,
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  Speaker 3: and then we will build the loveliest, the very loveliest
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  Speaker 3: thing in all the world.
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  Speaker 6: Hilda, tell me what that is.
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  Speaker 3: Builders. They are such very, very stupid people.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, no doubt they are stupid. But now tell me
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  Speaker 6: what it is the loveliest thing in the world that
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  Speaker 6: we two are to build together.
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  Speaker 3: Castles in the air.
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  Speaker 6: Castles in the air.
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  Speaker 3: Castles in the air. Yes, do you know what sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing a castle in the air is?
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  Speaker 6: It is the loveliest thing in the world, you say, yes, to.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure, it is castles in the air. They are
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  Speaker 3: so easy to build, too, especially for the builders who
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  Speaker 3: have a a dizzy conscience.
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  Speaker 6: After this day, we too will build together, Hilda.
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  Speaker 3: A real castle in the air.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, one with a firm foundation under it.
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  Speaker 1: Rodnar Brovic comes out from the house. He is carrying
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  Speaker 1: a large green wreath with flowers and silk ribbons.
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  Speaker 3: Oh the wreath, Oh, that will be glorious.
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  Speaker 6: Have you brought the wreath right now?
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  Speaker 4: I promised the foreman I would.
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  Speaker 6: Ah. Then, I suppose your father is better?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: Was he not cheered by what I wrote?
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  Speaker 4: It came too late, too late. When she came with it,
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  Speaker 4: he was unconscious. He had had a stroke.
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  Speaker 6: Why then you must go home to him. You must
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  Speaker 6: attend to your four.
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  Speaker 4: He does not need me anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But surely you ought to be with him.
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  Speaker 4: She is sitting by his bed. Kaya, yes kaya.
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  Speaker 6: Go home, Rangnar, both to him and to her. Give
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  Speaker 6: me the wreath.
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  Speaker 4: You don't mean that you yourself.
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  Speaker 6: I will take it down to them myself takes the
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  Speaker 6: wreath from him, And now you go home. We don't
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  Speaker 6: require you today.
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  Speaker 4: I know you do not require me anymore. But today
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  Speaker 4: I shall remain.
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  Speaker 6: Well, remain land. Since you are bent upon.
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  Speaker 3: It, mister soulness, I will stand here and look on
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  Speaker 3: at you at me. It will be fearfully thrilling.
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  Speaker 6: We will talk about that presently, Hilda.
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  Speaker 1: He goes down the flight of steps with the wreath
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  Speaker 1: and away through the garden. Hilda looks after him, then
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  Speaker 1: turns to Ragnar.
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  Speaker 3: I think you might at least have thanked him.
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  Speaker 4: Thanked him? Ought I to have thanked him?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course you ought.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is rather you I ought to.
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  Speaker 3: Thank How can you say such a thing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: But I advise you to take care of miss Wangle.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: You don't know him rightly yet.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, no one knows him as I do.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Thank him when he has held me down year after year,
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: when he made father disbelieve in me, made me disbelieve
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: in myself and all merely.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: That he might that he might tell me at once
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: that he might keep her with him. The girl at
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: the desk, Yes, that is not true. You are telling
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: falsehoods about him.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I would not believe it either until today, when she
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: said so herself.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: What did she say? I will know at once? At once?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: She said that he had taken possession of her mind,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: her whole mind, centered all her thoughts upon himself alone.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: She says that she can never leave him, that she
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: will remain here where he is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: She will not be allowed.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: To oo, who will not allow her?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: He will not either.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, no, I understand the whole thing. Now, after this,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: she would merely be in the way.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: You understand nothing since you can talk like that. No,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I will tell you why he kept hold of her. Well, then,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: why in order to keep hold of you?
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Has he told you so?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: No? But it is so, It must be so, I will.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I will have it so that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: The very moment when you came, he let her go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: It was you you that he let go. What do
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you suppose he cares about strange women like her?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Is it possible that all this time he has been
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: afraid of me?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: He afraid I would not be so conceited if I
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: were you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, he must have seen long ago that I had
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: something in me too. Besides cowardly, that is just what
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: he is, you see.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: He Oh, yes, I am likely to believe that in.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: A certain sense he is cowardly. He the great master builder.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: He's not afraid of robbing others of their happiness, as
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: he's done both for my father and me. But when
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: it comes to climbing up a paltry bit of scaffolding,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: he will do anything rather than that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, you should just have seen him high, high up
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: at the dizzy height where I once saw him.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Did you see that?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed I did. How free and great he looked
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: as he stood and fastened the wreath to the church vein.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I know that he ventured that once in his life,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: one solitary time. It is a legend among us younger men.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: But no power on earth would induce him to do
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: it again.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Today he will do it again. Yes, I dare say,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: we shall see it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: That's neither you nor I will see.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I will see it. I will and I must see it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: But he will not do it. He simply dare not
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: do it. For you see, he cannot get over this infirmity,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Master builder, though.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He be, Missus Soulness comes from the house on the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: verandah is he not here?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Where has he gone to?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Mister Solness is down with the men.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: He took the wreath with him, took the wreath with him.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Oh God, oh God, Brovic, you must go down to him,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: get him to come back here.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Shall I say you want to speak to him, Missus Solnis.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, do no, No, don't say that I want anything.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You can say that somebody is here and that he
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: must come.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: At once good, I will do so, missus solmis.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He goes down the flight of steps and away way
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: through the garden.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, miss Vangell, you can't think how anxious I feel
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: about him?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Is there anything in this to be terribly frightened about? Oh?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, surely you can understand. Just think if he were
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: really to do it, if he should take it into
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: his head to climb up the scaffolding.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Do you think he will?
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: One can never tell what he might take into his head.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I am afraid there is nothing he might think of doing.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Ahah. Perhaps you too think he is well?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what to think about him. Now.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: The doctor has been telling me all sorts of things,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and putting it all together with several things I have
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: heard him say.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Doctor Herdal looks out at the door.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Is he not coming soon?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yes? I think so. I have sent for him. At
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: any rate.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: I am afraid you will have to go in, my
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: dear lady.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, I shall stay out here and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: wait for Halvard.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: But some ladies have just come to call on you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Good heavens that too, And just at this moment.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: They say they positively must see the ceremony.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, well, I suppose I must go to them. After all,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: it is my duty.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Can't you ask the ladies to go away?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: No, that would never do. Now that they are here,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: it is my duty to see them. But do you
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: stay out here in the meantime and receive him when
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: he comes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: And try to occupy his attention as long as possible?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, do, dear miss Vangle, keep as firm hold of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: him as ever you can.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Would it not be best for you to do that?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, God knows that is my duty. But when one
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: has duties in so many directions.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: There he is coming and I have to go in.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Don't say anything about my being here.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I dare say. I shall find something else
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to talk to mister Soulness about.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: And be sure you keep firm hold of him. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: believe you can do it best.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Missus Soulnis and doctor hurdall go into the house. Hilda
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: remains standing on the Varan Soulness comes from the garden
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: up the flight of steps.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Somebody wants me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I hear, Yes, it is I, mister Soulness.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Oh is it you, Hilda? I was afraid it might
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: be Elena or the doctor.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: You are very easily frightened.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: It seems, do you think so.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, people say that you are afraid to climb about
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: on the scaffoldings.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: You know, well, that is quite a special thing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Then it is true that you are afraid to do it. Yes,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I am afraid of falling down and killing yourself.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: No, not of that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Of what then?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: I am afraid of retribution?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Helda of retribution? I don't understand that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Sit down and I will tell you something.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, do at once.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: She sits on a stool by the railing and looks
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: expectantly at him.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: You know that I began by building churches.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I know that well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: For you see, I came as a boy from a
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: pious home in the country, and so it seemed to
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: me that this church building was the noblest task I
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: could set myself. Yes, yes, And I venture to say
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: that I built those poor little churches with such honest
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: and warm and heartfelt devotion that that that well, well,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: I think that he ought to have been pleased with me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: He what he he who.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Was to have the churches? Of course, he to whose
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: honor and glory they were dedicated.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Oh indeed, But are you certain then that he was
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: not pleased with you?
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: He pleased with me. How can you talk so, Hilda?
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: He who gave the troll in me leave to lord
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: it just as it pleased, He who bade them be
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: at hand to serve me both day and night, All
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: these all these devils, yes, of both kinds. Oh no,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: he made me feel clearly enough that he was not
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: pleased with me. You see. That was really the reason
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: why he made the old house burn down?
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Was that? Why?
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, don't you understand? He wanted to give me the
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: chance of becoming an accomplished master in my own sphere,
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: so that I might build all the more glorious churches
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: for him. At first I did not understand what he
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: was driving at. But all of a sudden it flashed
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: upon me.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: When was that?
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: It was when I was building the church tower up
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: at Lusinger, I thought so, For you see, Hilda, up there,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: amidst those new surroundings, I used to go about musing
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: and pondering within myself. Then I saw plainly why he
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: had taken my little children from me. It was that
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: I should have nothing else to attach myself to, no
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: such thing as love and happiness. You understand. I was
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: to be only a master builder, nothing else, and all
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: my life long. I was to go on building for him. Ha ha,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: But I can tell you nothing came of that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: What did you do then?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: First of all I searched and tried my own heart,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: and then then I did the impossible. I no less
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: than he the impossible. I had never before been able
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: to climb up to a great free height, but that
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: day I did it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes you did.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: And when I stood there high over everything it was
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: hear me, now, thou mighty one. From this day forward,
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I will be a free builder. I too in my sphere,
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: just as thou in thine. I will never more build
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: churches for thee, only homes for human beings.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: That was the song that I heard through the air.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: But afterwards his turn came, what do you mean by that?
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: Building homes for human beings is not worth a rap? Hilda?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Do you say that now?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Yes? For now I see it. Men have no use
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: for these homes of theirs to be happy in. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I should not have had any use for such a
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: home if I had had one. Huh. See, that is
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: the upshot of the whole affair. However, far back I
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: look nothing really built, nor anything sacrificed for the chance
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: of building nothing. Nothing, the whole is nothing.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Then you will never build anything more.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: On the contrary, I am just going to begin.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: What then, what will you build? Tell me at once?
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: I believe there is only one possible dwelling place for
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: human happiness, and that is what I am going to
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: build now.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Mister, you mean our castles in the air.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: The castles in the air.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm afraid you would turn dizzy before we got
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: half way up.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Not if I can mount hand in hand with you, Hilda.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Only with me will there be no others of the party.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Who else should there be? Oh?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: That girl, that Kaya at the desk, poor thing? Don't
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you want to take her with you too?
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Oh? Was it about her that Helena was talking to you?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Is it so?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Or is it not?
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: I will not answer such a question. You must believe
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: in me wholly and entirely.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: All these ten years I have believed in you so utterly,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: so utterly.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: You must go on believing in me.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Then let me see you stand free and high up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Oh Hilda, it is not every day that I can
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: do that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I will have you do it. I will have it
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: just once more, mister soulness, do the impossible once again.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: If I try it, Hilda, I will stand up there
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and talk to him as I did that time before.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: What will you say to him?
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: I will say to him. Hear me, mighty Lord, thou
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: mayest judge me as seems best to thee. But hereafter
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: I will build nothing but the loveliest thing in the world.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: Build it together with the princess whom I love.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Yes. Tell him that, Tell him.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: That, yes. And then I will say to him, Now
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: I shall go down and throw my arms round her
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: and kiss.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Her many times.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Say that many many times I will say it. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: then then I will wave my hat and come down
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: to the earth and do as I said to him.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Now I see you again as I did when there
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: was song in the air.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: How have you become what you are? Hilda?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: How have you made me what I am?
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: The princess shall have her castle.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, mister Solness, my lovely, lovely castle, our castle in
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the air, on a.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Firm foundation.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: In the street. A crowd of people have assembled. Vaguely
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: seen through the trees. Music of wind instruments has heard
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: far away behind the new house. Missus Solness, with a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: fur collar around her neck. Doctor her doll with her
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: white shawl on his arm, and some ladies come out
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: on the veranda. Ragnar Bruvich comes at the same time
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: up from the garden.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Are we to have music too?
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's the band of the Mason's Union. The foreman
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: asked me to tell you that he's ready now to
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: go up with the wreath.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Good, I will go down to him myself.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: What have you to do down there, Halvard?
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: I must be down below with the men.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, down below, only down below.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: That is where I always stand on every day occasions.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: He goes down the flight of steps and away through
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the garden.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: But do beg the man to be careful when he
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: goes up. Promise me that, Halvard.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Don't you see that I was right? He has given
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: up all thought of that folly.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Oh what a relief. Twice workmen have fallen, and each
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: time they were killed on the spot. Thank you, Miss Vangle,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: for having kept such a firm hold upon him. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: should never have been able to manage him.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, miss Wangle, you know how to keep a
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: firm hold on the man when you give your mind
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: to it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Missus Solness and doctor Herdall go up to the ladies
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: who are standing nearer to the steps and looking over
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the garden. Hilda remains standing beside the railing in the foreground.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Rognar goes up to her.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Miss Bengel. Do you see all those young fellows down
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: in the street, Yes, they are my fellow students, come
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: to look at the master.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: What do they want to look at him?
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: For?
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: They want to see how he daren't climb to the
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: top of his own house.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, that is what those boys want, is it?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: He has kept us down so long? Well, now we
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: are going to see him keep quietly down below himself.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: You will not see that, not this time.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Indeed, then where shall we see him?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: High high up by the vein, That is where you
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: will see him.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Him. Oh, yes, I dare say.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: His will is to reach the top, So at the
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: top you shall see him.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: His will, Yes, that I can easily believe. But he
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: simply cannot do it. His head would swim round long
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: long before he got half way. He would have to
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: crawl down again on his hands and knees.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Look, there goes the former, not the ladders.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And of course he has the wreath to carry two. Oh,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I do hope he will be careful.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Why it is the master builder himself.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is Halbard, Oh, my great god, Halbard, Halbard.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Hush, don't shout to him.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I must go to him. I must get him to
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: come down again.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Don't move any of you. Not a sound.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: He climbs and climbs, higher and higher, higher and higher. Look,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: just look.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: He must turn now. He can't possibly help it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: He climbs and climbs. He will soon be at the top. Now, Oh, I.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Shall die of terror. I cannot bear to see it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: Then, don't look up at him.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: There he is standing on the topmost planks, right at
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: the top.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Nobody must move, do you hear?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: At last? At last? Now I see him great and
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: free again. But this is him, so I have seen
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: him all through these ten years. How secure he stands, frightfully,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: thrilling all the same. Look at him now he is
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: hanging the wreath round the veane.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I feel as if I were looking at something utterly impossible.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is the impossible that he is doing. Now.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Can you see anyone else up there with him?
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: There is no one else.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, there is one. He is striving with. You are mistaken, then,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: do you hear no song in the air either.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: It must be the wind in the tree tops.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I hear a song, a mighty song. Look. Look now,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: he is waving his hat. He is waving it to
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: us down here, Oh, wave, wave back to him, for
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: now it is finished.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Snatches the white shawl from the doctor, waves it and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: shouts up to Soulness.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Hurrah for master Builder's soulness.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Stop, stop, for God's sake.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: The ladies on the verandah wave their pocket handkerchiefs, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the shouts of hurrah are taken up in the street.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Then they are suddenly silenced, and the crowd bursts out
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: into a shriek of horror. A human body with planks
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and fragments of wood is vaguely perceived crashing down behind
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  Speaker 1: the trees.
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  Speaker 2: He is falling. He is falling.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Soulness totters falls backwards, swooning, and is caught. Amid
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  Speaker 1: cries and confusion by the ladies. The crowd in the
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  Speaker 1: street breaks down the fence and storms into the garden.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time Doctor herridall too rushes down thither
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  Speaker 1: a short pause, My.
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  Speaker 4: Master Builder, you must be dashed to pieces kild on
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  Speaker 4: the spot.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ladies, whilst missus Soulness is carried into
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the house.
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  Speaker 4: Run for the doctor. I can't stir a root.
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  Speaker 3: Then call to someone, how.
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  Speaker 4: Is it is he alive? Mister Saulness is dead.
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  Speaker 3: The head is all crushed. He fell right into the quarry.
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  Speaker 3: I can't see him up there. Now.
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  Speaker 4: This is terrible. So after all he could not do it.
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  Speaker 3: But he mounted right to the top, and I heard harps.
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  Speaker 1: In the air, waves, her shawl in the air and
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  Speaker 1: shrieks with wild intensity.
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  Speaker 3: My my master Builder.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act third and end of The Master Builder
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  Speaker 1: by Henrik Ibsen