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Hedda Gabler Act III · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act three of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, translated by
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  Speaker 1: Edmund Gussie and William Archer. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: third the room at attessments. The curtains are drawn over
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  Speaker 1: the middle doorway and also over the glass door. The
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  Speaker 1: lamp half turned down and with a shade over It
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  Speaker 1: is burning on the table in the stove, the door
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  Speaker 1: of which stands open. There has been a fire which
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  Speaker 1: is now nearly burnt out. Missus Elvestead, wrapped in a
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  Speaker 1: large shawl and with her feet upon a foot dressed,
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  Speaker 1: sits close to the stove, sunk back in the armchair.
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  Speaker 1: Heada fully dressed lies sleeping upon the sofa, with the
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  Speaker 1: sofa blanket over her. Missus Elvestead, after a pause, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: it's up in her chair and listens eagerly. Then she
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  Speaker 1: sinks back again, wearily, moaning to herself.
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  Speaker 2: Not yet, Oh God, oh God, not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Better, slips cautiously in by the hall door. She has
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  Speaker 1: a letter in her hand. Missus Elfstead turns and whispers eagerly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, has anyone come better?
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  Speaker 1: Softly?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, a girl had just brought this letter.
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  Speaker 1: Missus elfstead, quickly holding out her hand a letter.
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  Speaker 2: Give it to me.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's for doctor Tessman, ma'am. Oh, indeed it was
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  Speaker 3: Miss Tessman's servant that brought it. I'll lay it here
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  Speaker 3: on the table.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, do better laying down the letter.
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  Speaker 3: I think I had better put out the lamp. It's smoking, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: put it out. It must soon be daylight.
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  Speaker 1: Now better putting out the lamp.
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  Speaker 3: It is daylight already, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, broad day, and no one come back yet.
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  Speaker 3: Lord bless you, ma'am. I guessed how it would be.
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  Speaker 3: You guessed, yes, when I saw that a certain person
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  Speaker 3: had come back to town and that he went off
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  Speaker 3: with them. For we've heard enough about that gentleman before.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't speak so loud you will waken missus Tesman.
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  Speaker 1: Betta looks towards the sofa and sighs.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, let her sleep, poor thing. Shen't I put
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  Speaker 3: some wood on the fire. Thanks not for me, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: very well.
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  Speaker 1: She goes softly out by the hall door. Hedda is
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  Speaker 1: wakened by the shutting of the door and looks up.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: It was only the servant.
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  Speaker 1: Heada looking about her.
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  Speaker 4: Oh we're here, yes, now I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Sitz eyrect upon the sofa, stretches herself and rubs her eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: What o'clock is it? Teya?
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  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead looks at her watch.
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  Speaker 2: It's past seven.
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  Speaker 4: When did Tessmon come home?
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  Speaker 2: He has not come, not come home.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, missus Elfstead rising.
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  Speaker 2: No one has come.
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  Speaker 4: Think of our watching and waiting here till four in
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  Speaker 4: the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Missus elfstaid, wringing her hands.
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  Speaker 2: And how I watched and waited for him?
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  Speaker 1: Hedda yawns and says, with her hand before her mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, whoa, Well we might have spared ourselves the trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get a little sleep?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I believe I have slept pretty well, have you not?
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  Speaker 2: Not for a moment I couldn't Heada, not to save
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  Speaker 2: my life.
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  Speaker 1: Heada rises and goes towards her.
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  Speaker 4: There there, there, there's nothing to be so alarmed about.
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  Speaker 4: I understand quite well what has happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think? Won't you tell me why?
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  Speaker 4: Of course it has been a very late affair at
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  Speaker 4: Judge Brack's.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is clear enough. But all the same.
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  Speaker 4: And then you see Tessman hasn't cared to come home
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  Speaker 4: and bring us up in the middle of the night laughing.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps he wasn't inclined to show himself either immediately after
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  Speaker 4: a jollification.
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  Speaker 2: But in that case, where can he have gone?
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  Speaker 4: Of course he has gone to his aunt's and slept there.
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  Speaker 4: They have his old room ready for him.
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  Speaker 2: No, he can't be with them, for a letter is
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  Speaker 2: just come for him from miss Tesman. There it lies.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, looks at the attress. Why, yes, it's addressed in
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  Speaker 4: Aunt Julia's hand. Well, then he has remained at Judge Brack's.
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  Speaker 4: And as for Islert Loveborg, he is sitting with vine
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  Speaker 4: leaves in his hair, reading his manuscript.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hedda, you are just saying things you don't believe
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  Speaker 2: a bit.
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  Speaker 4: You really are a little blockhead teya.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I suppose I am.
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  Speaker 4: And how mortally tired you look?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am mortally tired.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then you must do as I tell you. You must
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  Speaker 4: go into my room and lie down for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I shouldn't be able to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: I am sure you would.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but your husband is certain to come soon now,
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  Speaker 2: and then I want to know at once.
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  Speaker 4: I shall take care to let you know when he comes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you promise me, Hedda?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, rely upon me. Just you go in and have
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  Speaker 4: a sleep in the meantime.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, then I'll try.
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  Speaker 1: She goes off to the inner room. Hedda goes up
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  Speaker 1: to the glass door and draws back the curtains. The
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  Speaker 1: broad daylight streams into the room. Then she takes a
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  Speaker 1: little hand glass from the writing table, looks at herself
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  Speaker 1: in it and arranges her hair. Next, she goes to
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  Speaker 1: the hall door and presses the bell button. Bertha presently
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  Speaker 1: appears at the hall door.
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  Speaker 3: Did you want anything, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you must put some more wood in the stove.
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  Speaker 4: I am shivering, bless me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make up the fire at once.
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  Speaker 1: She rakes the embers together and lays a piece of
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  Speaker 1: wood upon them, then stops and listens.
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  Speaker 3: That was a ring at the front door.
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  Speaker 1: Ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Then go to the door. I will look after the fire.
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  Speaker 3: It will soon burn up.
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  Speaker 1: She goes out by the hall door. Hedda kneels on
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  Speaker 1: the foot wrist and lays some more pieces of wood
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  Speaker 1: in the stove. After a short pause, George Tesman enters
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  Speaker 1: from the hall. He steals on tiptoe towards the middle
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  Speaker 1: doorway and is about to slip through the curtains. Hedda
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  Speaker 1: at the stove without looking up.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Tess turns.
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  Speaker 1: Headah approaching her.
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  Speaker 6: Good heavens, are you up so early?
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  Speaker 2: Eh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I am up very early this morning.
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  Speaker 6: And I never doubted you are still sound asleep. Fancy that, Heddah.
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  Speaker 4: Don't speak so loud. Missus Elvestead is resting in my room.
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  Speaker 6: Has Missus Elvestead been here all night?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, since no one came to fetch her. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: To be sure, Heada closes the door of the stove
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  Speaker 1: and rises.
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  Speaker 4: Well, did you enjoy yourselves at Judge Brack's Have.
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  Speaker 6: You been anxious about me?
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  Speaker 3: Eh?
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  Speaker 4: No, I should never think of being anxious. But I
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  Speaker 4: asked if you had enjoyed yourself?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, for once in a way, especially the beginning
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  Speaker 6: of the evening. For then read me part of his book.
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  Speaker 6: We arrived more than an hour too early. Fancy that,
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  Speaker 6: and Brac had all sorts of arrangements to make so
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  Speaker 6: Ilert read to me.
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  Speaker 1: Heada, seating herself by the table on the right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: tell me, then, Tessman, sitting on a footstool, oh, hennah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't conceive what a book that is going to be.
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  Speaker 6: I believe it is one of the most remarkable things
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  Speaker 6: that have ever been written.
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  Speaker 4: Fancy that, Yes, yes, I don't care about that.
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  Speaker 6: I must make a confession to you, Hedda. When he
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  Speaker 6: had finished your reading, a horrid.
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  Speaker 4: Feeling came over me, A horrid feeling.
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  Speaker 6: I felt jealous of IoLET for having had it in
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  Speaker 6: him to write such a book.
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  Speaker 4: Only think, Hedda, Yes, yes, I am thinking.
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  Speaker 6: And then how pitiful to think that he, with all
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  Speaker 6: his gifts, should be irreclaimable.
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  Speaker 4: After all, I suppose you mean that he has more
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  Speaker 4: courage than the rest.
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  Speaker 6: No, not at all, I mean that he is incapable
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  Speaker 6: of taking his pleasure in moderation.
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  Speaker 4: And what came it all in the end?
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  Speaker 6: Well, to tell the truth, I think it might best
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  Speaker 6: be described as an orgy heada.
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  Speaker 4: Had he vine leaves in his hair?
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  Speaker 6: Vine leaves? No, I saw nothing of the sort. But
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  Speaker 6: he made a long rambling speech in honor of the
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  Speaker 6: woman who had inspired him in his work, and that
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  Speaker 6: was the phrase he used.
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  Speaker 4: Did he name her?
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  Speaker 6: No he didn't, But I can't help thinking that he
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  Speaker 6: meant missus Elvestead. You may be sure he did.
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  Speaker 4: Well, where did you part from him?
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  Speaker 6: On the way to town, we broke up the last
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  Speaker 6: of us, at any rate altogether, and Brac came with
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  Speaker 6: us to get a breath of fresh air. And then,
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  Speaker 6: you see, we agreed to take Eilert home, for he
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  Speaker 6: had had far more than was good for him.
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  Speaker 4: I dare say, But now.
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  Speaker 6: Comes the strange part of it, heada, or I should
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  Speaker 6: rather say the melancholy part of it. I declare I
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  Speaker 6: am most ashamed on Eilert's account to tell you. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: go on, well, as we were getting near town, you see,
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  Speaker 6: I happened to drop a little behind the others, only
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  Speaker 6: for a minute or two.
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  Speaker 4: Fancy that, yes, yes, yes?
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  Speaker 6: But and then as I hurried after them, what do
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  Speaker 6: you think I found by the wayside?
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  Speaker 3: Eh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: How should I know?
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  Speaker 6: You mustn't speak of it to a soul? Hennah, do
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  Speaker 6: you hear? Promise me for Islert's sake?
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  Speaker 1: Draws a parcel wrapped in paper from his coat pocket.
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  Speaker 6: Fancy, dear, I found this.
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  Speaker 4: Is not that the parcel he had with him yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it is the whole of his precious, irreplaceable manuscript,
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  Speaker 6: and he had gone and lost it and knew nothing
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  Speaker 6: about it, only fancy Headah, so deplorably.
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  Speaker 4: But why did you not give him back the parcel
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  Speaker 4: at once?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't dare to, in the state he was then in.
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  Speaker 4: Did you not tell any of the others that you
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  Speaker 4: had found it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Far from it. You can surely understand that, for Elert's sake,
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 4: So no one knows that Ilert Loveborg's manuscript is in
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  Speaker 4: your possession.
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  Speaker 6: No, and no one must know it.
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  Speaker 4: Then what did you say to him afterwards?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't talk to him again at all, for when
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  Speaker 6: we got in among the streets, he and two or
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  Speaker 6: three of the others gave us the slip and disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: Fancy that.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed they must have taken him home.
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  Speaker 6: Then, yes, so it would appear, and Brack too left us.
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  Speaker 4: And what have you been doing with yourself since?
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  Speaker 6: Well? I and some of the others went home with
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  Speaker 6: one of the party, a jolly fellow, and took our
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  Speaker 6: morning coffee with him, or perhaps I should rather call
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  Speaker 6: it our night coffee. Eh. But now, when I have
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  Speaker 6: rested a little and give an Elert poor fellow time
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  Speaker 6: to have his sleep out, I must take this back
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  Speaker 6: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Hedda holds out her hand for the pecket.
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  Speaker 4: No, don't give it to him, not in such a hurry.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let me read it first.
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  Speaker 6: No, my dearest Heada, I mustn't, I really mustn't. You
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  Speaker 6: must not, no, for you can imagine what a state
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  Speaker 6: of despair he will be in when he wakens and
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  Speaker 6: misses the manuscript. He has no coffee of it. You
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  Speaker 6: must know, he told me.
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  Speaker 1: So, Heada, looking searchingly at him.
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  Speaker 4: Can such a thing not be reproduced written over again?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think that would be possible for the inspiration
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  Speaker 6: you see.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I suppose it depends on that lightly. But
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  Speaker 4: by the bye, here is a letter for you.
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  Speaker 1: Fancy Heada handing it to him.
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  Speaker 4: It came early this morning.
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  Speaker 6: It's from Aunt Julia. What can it be?
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  Speaker 1: He lays the packet on the other footstool, opens the letter,
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  Speaker 1: runs his eye through it and jumps up.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Hedda. She says that poor Aunt Rena is dying.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we were prepared for that.
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  Speaker 6: And that if I want to see her again, I
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  Speaker 6: must make haste. I'll run into them.
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  Speaker 1: At once, Heada suppressing a smile.
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  Speaker 6: Will you run, Oh, my dearest Hetta if you could
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  Speaker 6: only make your mind up to come with me, just think.
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  Speaker 1: Heada rises and says wearily repelling the idea.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, don't ask me. I will not look upon
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  Speaker 4: sickness and death. I loathe all sorts of ugliness.
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  Speaker 6: Well well, then bustling around my hat, my overcoat. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: in the hall, I do hope I mayn't come too late.
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  Speaker 4: Headah, ey, oh, if you run.
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  Speaker 1: Beta appears at the hall door.
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  Speaker 3: Judge Brack is at the door and wishes to know
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  Speaker 3: if he may come in.
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  Speaker 6: At this time. No, I can't possibly see him.
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  Speaker 4: But I can to Beta ask Judge Brack to come in.
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  Speaker 1: Berta goes out head quickly, whispering the parcel testament. She
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  Speaker 1: snatches it up from the stool.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, give it to me.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I will keep it till you come back.
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  Speaker 1: She goes to the writing table and places it in
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  Speaker 1: the bookcase. Tessamon stands in a flurry of haste and
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  Speaker 1: cannot get his gloves on. Judge Brack enters from the hall,
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  Speaker 1: head nodding to him.
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  Speaker 4: You are an early bird, I must say, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you think so? To Tessamon, are you on the
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  Speaker 7: move too?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? I must rush off to my hands. Fancy, the
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  Speaker 6: invalid one is lying at death's door, poor.
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  Speaker 7: Creature, dear me, is she indeed? Then on no account
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  Speaker 7: let me detain you. That's such a critical moment.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I must really rush goodbye, goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: He hastens out by the hall door, Hida approaching.
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  Speaker 4: You seem to have made a particularly lively night of
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  Speaker 4: it at your room's, judge.
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  Speaker 7: Brack, I assure you I have not had my clothes off,
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  Speaker 7: missus Heada.
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  Speaker 4: Not you either, No, as you may see.
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  Speaker 7: But what has Tessman been telling you of the Knight's adventures?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, some tiresome story, only that they went and had
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  Speaker 4: coffee somewhere or other.
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  Speaker 7: I had heard about that coffee party already, I lert
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  Speaker 7: Loveborg was not with them, my fancy.
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  Speaker 4: No, they had taken him home before that.
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  Speaker 7: Tessaman too.
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  Speaker 4: No, but some of the others, he said Breck.
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  Speaker 7: Smiling, George, Tessaman is really an ingenuous creature, missus.
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  Speaker 4: Heada, Yes, Heaven knows he is. Then is there something
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  Speaker 4: behind all this?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Perhaps there may be.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then sit down, my dear judge, and tell your
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  Speaker 4: story and comfort.
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  Speaker 1: She seats her so to the lift of the table.
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  Speaker 1: Bre sits near her at the longside of the table.
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  Speaker 7: Now, then I had special reasons for keeping track of
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  Speaker 7: my guests last night of.
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  Speaker 4: Eilert Loveborg among.
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  Speaker 7: The rest perhaps frankly, Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Now you make me really curious.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know where he and one or two of
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  Speaker 7: the others finished the night, Missus Header, If it.
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  Speaker 4: Is not quite unmentionable, tell me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, it's not at all unmentionable. Well, they put
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  Speaker 7: in an appearance that a particularly animated soiree.
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  Speaker 4: Of the lively kind.
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  Speaker 7: Of the very liveliest.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me more of this, Judge Brack.
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  Speaker 7: Loveborg, as well as the others, had been invited in advance.
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  Speaker 7: I knew all about it, but he had declined the
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  Speaker 7: invitation for now, as you know, he has become a new.
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  Speaker 4: Man up at the Elvesteads. Yes, but he went after all.
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  Speaker 7: Then, Well, you see, missus heada unhappily the spirit moved
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  Speaker 7: him at my rooms last evening.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I hear he found inspiration.
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  Speaker 7: Pretty violent inspiration. Well, I fancy that altered his purpose,
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  Speaker 7: for we men folk are unfortunately not always so firm
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  Speaker 7: in our principles as we ought to be.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I am sure you are an exception, Judge Brack
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  Speaker 4: But as to Loveborg.
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  Speaker 7: To make a long story short, he landed at last
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  Speaker 7: in Mademoiselle Diana's rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Mademoiselle Diana's.
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  Speaker 7: It was Mademoiselle Diana that was giving the soiree to
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  Speaker 7: a select circle of her admirers and her lady friends.
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  Speaker 4: Is she a red haired woman.
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  Speaker 7: Precisely a sort of a singer, oh yes, in her
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  Speaker 7: leisure moments, and moreover a mighty huntress of men. Missus Heada,
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  Speaker 7: you have no doubt heard of her. Ilert Loveborg was
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  Speaker 7: one of her most enthusiastic protectors in the days of
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  Speaker 7: his glory.
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  Speaker 4: And how did all this end?
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  Speaker 7: Far from amicably? It appears after a most tender meeting
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  Speaker 7: they seem to have come to blows Loveborg, and she, yes,
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  Speaker 7: he accused her or her friends of having robbed him.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: He declared that his pocket book had disappeared, and other
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: things as well. In short, he seems to have made
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: a furious disturbance.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: And what came of it all? It came to.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: A general scrimmage in which the ladies as well as
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: the gentlemen took part. Fortunately, the police at last appeared
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: on the scene. The police too, Yes, I fancy it
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: will prove a costly frolic for Islert Loveborg, crazy being
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: that he is. How so he seems to have made
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: a violent resistance to have hit one of the constables
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: on the head and torn the coat off his back,
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: so they had to march him off to the police
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: station with the rest.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: How have you learnt all this.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: From the police themselves?
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Hedda gazing straight before her, So that is what happened.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Then he had no vine leaves in his hair.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Vine leaves, missus header.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Heada changing her tone.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: But tell me, now, judge, what is your real reason
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: for tracking out Eilert Loborg's movements so carefully.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: In the first place? It could not be entirely indifferent
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: to me. If it should appear in the police court
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: that he came straight from my.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: House, will the matter come into court?
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Then?
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Of course, however, I should scarcely have troubled so much
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: about that. But I thought that as a friend of
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: the family, it was my duty to supply you and
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Tessamen with a full account of his nocturnal exploits.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Why so, Judge Brack.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Why because I have a shrewd suspicion that he intends
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: to use you as a sort of blind.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, how can you think such a thing?
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Good? Heavens, missus Heada, we have eyes in her head,
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: mark my words. This missus Elvestead, will be in no
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: hurry to leave town again.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Well, even if there should be anything between them, I
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: suppose there are plenty of other places where they could meet.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Not a single home. Henceforward, as before, every respectable house
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: will be closed against Eilert love work.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: And so ought mine to be.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: You mean, yes, I confess it would be more than
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: painful to me if this personage were to be made
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: free of your house. How superfluous, how intrusive he would be,
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: if he were to force his way.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Into into the triangle.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Precisely, it would simply mean that I should find myself homeless.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Heada looks at him with a smile.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: So you want to be the one cock in the basket?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: That is your aim?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Rack not slowly and low as his voice.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, that is my aim, and for that I will
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: fight with every weapon I can command.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Hedda a smile, vanishing.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I see you are a dangerous person when it comes
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: to the point, do you think so? I am beginning
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: to think so, and I am exceedingly glad to think
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: that you have no sort of hold over me, Breck.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Laughing at KIVOCOLI.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Well, well, missus Heada, perhaps you are right there. If
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: I had, who knows what I might be capable of.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Come, come now, judge Brack. That sounds almost like a.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Threat, Brack rising, Oh, not at all.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: The triangle, you know, ought if possible to be spontaneously.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Constructed there, I agree with you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Well, now I have said all I had to say,
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: and i'd better be getting back to town. Goodbye, missus Heada.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: He goes towards the glass door, Heada rising.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Are you going through the garden?
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Yes, it is a shortcut for me, and.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Then it is a back way too.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Quite so, I have no objection to back way. They
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: may be piquant enough.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: At times when there is ball practice going on.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: You mean, Brack in the doorway, laughing to her, Oh,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: people don't shoot their tame poultry.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I fancy Hedda also laughing, Oh no, when there is
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: only one cock in the basket.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: They exchange laughing knots of farewell. He goes. She closes
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the door behind him. Hedda, who has become quite serious,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: stands for a moment looking out. Presently, she goes and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: peeps through the curtain over the middle doorway. Then she
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: goes to the writing table, takes Loauborg's packet out of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the bookcase, and is on the point of looking through
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: its contents. Betta is heard speaking loudly in the hall.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Hedda turns and listens. Then she hastily locks up the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: packet in the door and lays the key on the inkstand.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I let Lovebork, with his great coat on and his
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: hat in his hand, tears open the hall door. He
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: looks somewhat confus used and irritated. Loafborg looking towards the.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Hall, and I tell you I must and will come
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: in there.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He closes the door, turns, sees Heda at once regains
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: his self control and bowers Heada at the writing table.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Well, mister Loveborg, this is a rather late hour to
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: call for Teya.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: You mean, rather an early hour to call on you. Pray,
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: pardon me.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: How do you know that she is still here?
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: They told me at her lodgings that she had been
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: out all night.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Heada going to the oval table, did you notice anything
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: about the people of the house when they said that?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Lofborg looks inquiringly at.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Her notice anything about them?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, did they seem to think it odd?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Loafborg suddenly understanding.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, of course I am dragging her down with me. However,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I didn't notice anything. I suppose Tessamon is not up yet.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: No, I think not.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: When did he come home very late? Did he tell
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: you anything?
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I gathered that you had had an exceedingly jolly evening
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: at Judge Bragg's.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Nothing more.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. However, I was so dreadfully sleepy.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Missus Elvested enters through the curtains of the middle doorway,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: missus Elfstead going towards him.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Ah, Loveborg.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: At last, Yes, at last? And too late?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead looks anxiously at him.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: What is too late?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Everything is too late? Now it is all over with me?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, don't say that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: You will say the same when you hear I won't
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: hear anything.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Perhaps you would prefer to talk to her alone. If so,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I will leave you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: No, stay you two, I beg you to stay.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, but I won't hear anything. I tell you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: It is not last night's adventures that I want to
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: talk about.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: What is it? Then?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I want to say that now our ways must part.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Part heada involuntarily I knew it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: You can be of no more service to me, Taya.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: How can you stand there and say that no more
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: service to you? Am I not to help you? Now?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: As before? Are we not to go on working together?
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Henceforward? I shall do no work.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Missus Elvestead despairingly.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Then what am I to do with my life?
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: You must try to live your life as if you
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: had never known me.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: But you know I cannot do that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Try if you cannot, Taya, you must go home again.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Missus Elstead, in vehement protest.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Never in this world where you are there will I
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be also. I will not let myself be driven away
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: like this. I will remain here. I will be with
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you when the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Book appears, heada half aloud in suspense. Ah, yes, the book,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Loefborg looks.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: At her, my book and Taya's. For that is what
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: it is.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Yes, I feel that it is, and that is why
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: I have a right to be with you. When it appears,
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: I will see with my own eyes how respect and
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: honor pour in upon you afresh, and the happiness, the happiness, Oh,
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: I must share it with you, Tea.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Our book will never appear, ah never appear, can never appear.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead an agonized, foreboding.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Loveborg, what have you done with the manuscript?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Heda looks anxiously at him, Yes, the manuscript.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: The manuscript? Well, then I have torn the manuscript into
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: a thousand pieces.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead shrieks, Oh no, no, Heada involuntarily. But that's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: not Loveborg looks at her. Not true, you think, Heada
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: collecting herself.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Oh well, of course, since you say so, but it
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: sounded so improbable.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: It is true through all the same.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Missus ELFs said, bringing her hands.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Oh god, oh god, Heeada torn his own work to pieces.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I have torn my own life to pieces, So why
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: should I not tear my life work too?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And you did this last night.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, I tell you, tore it into a thousand pieces
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and scattered them on the fiord far out there there
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: is school seawater. At any rate, let them drift upon it,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: drift with the current and the wind, and then presently
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: they will sink deeper and deeper, as I shall tea.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Do you know, Loveborg, that what you have done with
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: the book, I shall think of it to my dying day,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: as though you had killed a little child.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, you are right, it is a sort of child murder?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: How could you? Then? Did not the child belong to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: me too?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Heada almost denaudibly, Ah, the child, missus elfstaid, breathing heavily.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: It is all over? Then? Well, well now I will go, Heada, But.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: You are not going away from town.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Oh I don't know what I shall do. I see
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: nothing but darkness before me.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: She goes out by the hall door. Hedda stands waiting
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: for a moment.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: So you are not going to see her home, mister loveborg.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: I through the streets. Would you have people see her
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: walking with me?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Of course? I don't know what else may have happened
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: last night? But is it so utterly irretrievable?
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: It will not end with last night? I know that
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: perfectly well. And the thing is that now I have
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: no taste for that sort of life either. I won't
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: begin it anew. She has broken my courage and my
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: power of braving life.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Out Heada looking straight before her, So that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Pretty little fool has had her fingers in a man's destiny.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Looks at him.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: But all the same, how could you treat her so heartlessly?
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Don't say that I was heartless to go and destroy
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: what has filled her whole soul for months and years.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You do not call that heartless to you.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I can tell the truth, Heada, the truth. First, Promise
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: me give me your word that what I now confide
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: in you, Tea, shall never know.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I give you my word.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Good. Then let me tell you that what I said
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: just now was.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Untrue about the manuscript.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, I have not torn it to pieces, nor thrown
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: it into the fiord.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: No.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: No, but where is it?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Then?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I have destroyed it, none the less, utterly destroyed it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Heada, I don't understand.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Tea said that what I had done seemed to her
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: like a child murder.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, so she said, But to kill his child.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: That is not the worst thing a father can do
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: to it, not the worst. Suppose now, Heada, that a man,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: in the small hours of the morning came home to
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: his child's mother after a night of riot and debauchery,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: and said, listen, I have been here and there and
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: in this place and in that, and I have taken
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: our child with to this place and to that, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: I have lost the child, utterly lost it. The devil
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: knows into what hands it may have fallen, Who may
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: have had their clutches on it well, But.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: When all is said and done, you know this was
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: only a book.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Teya's pure soul was in that book.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, so I understand, and.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: You can understand too that for her and me together,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: no future is possible.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: What path do you mean to take?
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Then?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: None. I will only try to make an end of
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: it all the sooner the.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Better heada a step nearer him.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Islert Loveborg listened to me, Will you not try to
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: do it beautifully?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Beautifully, smiling with vine leaves in my hair, as you
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: used to dream in the old days.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: No, no, I have lost my faith in the vine leaves,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: but beautifully nevertheless, for once in a way. Goodbye. You
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: must go now and do not come here any more.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Goodbye missus Tessman, and give George Tessman my love.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: He is on the point of going.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: No, wait, I must give you a memento to take
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: She goes to the writing table and opens the drawer
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and a pistol case, then returns to Lofborg with one
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of the pistols.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Lofborg looks at her, this is this the memento?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Heada nodding slowly, do you recognize it?
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: It was aimed at you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Once you should have used it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Then take it and do you use it now?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Lovborg puts the pistol in his breast pocket.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Thanks and beautifully, I lear Loveborg, promise me that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Good bye, Hedda, Gobbler.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: He goes out by the hall door. Hedda listens for
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a moment at the door. Then she goes up to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the writing table, takes out the packet of manuscript peeps
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: under the cover, draws a few of the sheets half out,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and looks at them. Next, she goes over and seats
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: herself in the armchair besides the stove, with the packet
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in her lap. Presently she opens the stove door and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: then the packet. Hedda throws one of the choirs into
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the fire and whispers to herself.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Now I am burning your child. Teya burning it curly locks.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Throwing one or two more choirs into the stove.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Your child, and alert loveborgs.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Throws the rest in.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I am burning, I am burning your child.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: End of Act three.