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Rosmersholm Act 1 · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Rosmer's Home by Enrique Ibsen, translated by R.
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  Speaker 2: John Rosmer read by Bruce Pierrey.
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  Speaker 3: Rebecca West read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 4: Krowl read by Alg pug Ulrick Brendel read by David Lawrence.
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  Speaker 5: Morton's Guard read by Delmar H. Dolbeer.
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  Speaker 6: Missus Halseeth read by Carl.
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  Speaker 1: Books, narrator in stage directions read by Skylark. Scene. The
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  Speaker 1: sitting room at Romers Home a spacious room, comfortably furnished
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  Speaker 1: in old fashioned style. In the foreground, against the right
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  Speaker 1: hand wall is a stove decorated with sprigs of fresh
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  Speaker 1: birch and wild flowers. Farther back a door. In the
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  Speaker 1: back wall. Folding doors lead into the entrance hall. In
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  Speaker 1: the left hand wall a window, in front of which
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  Speaker 1: is a stand filled with flowers and plants. Near the
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  Speaker 1: stoves stand a table, a couch in an easy chair.
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  Speaker 1: The walls are hung round with portraits dating from various
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  Speaker 1: periods of clergymen, military officers, and other officials in uniform.
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  Speaker 1: The window is open, and so are the doors into
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  Speaker 1: the lobby, and the outer door. Through the ladder is
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  Speaker 1: seen an avenue of old trees leading to a courtyard.
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  Speaker 1: It is a summer evening after sunset. Rebecca West is
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  Speaker 1: sitting by the window crocheting a large white woolen shawl
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  Speaker 1: which is nearly completed. From time to time she peeps
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  Speaker 1: out of the window through the flowers. Missus Helsath comes
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  Speaker 1: in from the right.
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  Speaker 6: Hadn't I better begin and lay the table for supper? Miss?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Do?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Rosmer ought to be indirectly.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't there a draft where you're sitting?
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  Speaker 3: Miss There is a little? Will you shut up please?
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  Speaker 1: Missus Helseth goes to the hall door and shuts it.
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  Speaker 1: Then she goes to the window to shut it and
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  Speaker 1: looks out.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that mister Rosma coming there where?
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  Speaker 1: Gets up?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: He stands behind the window curtain.
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  Speaker 3: Stand on one side. Don't let him catch sight of us.
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  Speaker 1: Stepping back, look, miss, he.
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  Speaker 6: Is beginning to use the mill path again.
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  Speaker 3: He came by the mill path the day before yesterday too.
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  Speaker 1: Peeps out between the curtain and the window frame.
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  Speaker 3: Now we shall see whether is he going over the
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  Speaker 3: wooden bridge? That is just what I want to see. No,
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  Speaker 3: he has turned aside. He is coming the way round today.
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  Speaker 1: Too, comes away from the window.
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  Speaker 3: It is a long way round.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, of course one can well understand his shrinking from
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  Speaker 6: going over that bridge. The spot where's such a thing
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  Speaker 6: has happened?
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  Speaker 1: Is folding up her work.
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  Speaker 3: They cling to their dead a long time at Rosma's home.
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  Speaker 6: If you ask me, miss, I should say it is
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  Speaker 6: the dead that clings to Rosma's home a long time.
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  Speaker 3: The dead.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, one might almost say that they don't seem to
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  Speaker 6: be able to tear themselves away from those they have
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  Speaker 6: left behind.
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  Speaker 3: What puts that idea into your head?
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  Speaker 6: Well, otherwise I know the white horses would not be
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  Speaker 6: seen here.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me, missus Halsath, what is this superstition about the
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  Speaker 3: white horses?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it is not worth talking about. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 6: don't believe in such things either, do you believe in them?
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  Speaker 1: Goes to the window and shuts it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm not going to give you a chance of
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  Speaker 6: laughing at me.
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  Speaker 1: Miss looks out?
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  Speaker 6: See is that not mister Rosma out on the mill
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  Speaker 6: path again?
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  Speaker 1: That man out there goes to the window.
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  Speaker 3: Why that is mister Kroll. Of course, so it is
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  Speaker 3: to be sure. That is delightful because he is certain
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  Speaker 3: to be coming here.
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  Speaker 6: He actually comes straight over the wooden bridge. He does
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  Speaker 6: for all that she was his own sister. Well, I
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  Speaker 6: will go in and get the supper laid.
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  Speaker 1: Miss goes out to the right. Rebecca stands still for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, then waves her hand out of the window,
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  Speaker 1: nodding and smiling. Darkness is beginning to fall. Going to
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  Speaker 1: the door on the right and calling through.
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  Speaker 3: It, missus helseith, I am sure you won't mind preparing
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  Speaker 3: something extra nice for supper. You know what dishes mister
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  Speaker 3: Kroll is especially fond of.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, Miss I will opening the door into the lobby.
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  Speaker 3: At last, mister Kroll, I am so glad to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Coming into the lobby and putting down his stick.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? Are you sure I'm not disturbing you?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 3: How can you say such a thing?
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  Speaker 1: The room?
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  Speaker 5: You are always so kind?
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  Speaker 1: Looks round the room.
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  Speaker 5: Is John up in his room?
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  Speaker 3: No, he has gone out for a walk. He is
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  Speaker 3: later than usual of coming in, but he is sure
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  Speaker 3: to be back. Directly points to the sofa. Do sit
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  Speaker 3: down and wait for him.
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  Speaker 1: Putting down his hat. Thank you, sits down and looks
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  Speaker 1: about him.
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  Speaker 5: How charmingly pretty you have made the old room look
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  Speaker 5: flowers everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Rosmer is so fond of having fresh flowers about him, and.
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  Speaker 5: So are you. I should say, yes, I am.
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  Speaker 3: I think their scent has such a delicious effect on me,
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  Speaker 3: and till lately we had to deny ourselves that pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: You know who.
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  Speaker 5: Biatta could not stand the scent of them.
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  Speaker 3: Nor their colors either. They made her feel dazed.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I remember. Well then, how are things going here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Everything goes on in the same quiet, placid way.
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  Speaker 3: One day is exactly like another. And how are things
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  Speaker 3: with you? Is your wife?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my dear miss West, don't let us talk about
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  Speaker 5: my affairs. In a family, there is always something or
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  Speaker 5: other going awry, especially in such times as we live
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  Speaker 5: in now.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting down in an easy chair near the sofa.
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  Speaker 3: Why have you never once been near us during the
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  Speaker 3: whole of your holidays?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it doesn't do to be importunate.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you only knew how we have missed you.
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  Speaker 5: And besides, I have been away, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, for a fortnight or so I suppose you have
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  Speaker 3: been going the round of the public meetings.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, what do you say to that? Would you have
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  Speaker 5: ever thought I would become a political agitator in my
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  Speaker 5: old age? Eh?
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  Speaker 3: You have always been a little bit of an agitator,
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  Speaker 3: mister Krale.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, yes, just for my own amusement. But for
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  Speaker 5: the future it is going to be in real earnest.
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  Speaker 5: Do you ever read the radical newspapers?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I won't deny that.
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  Speaker 5: My dear miss West. There is no objection to that,
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  Speaker 5: not as far as you are concerned.
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  Speaker 3: No, that is just what I think. I must follow
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  Speaker 3: the course of events, keep up with what is happening.
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  Speaker 5: Well, under any circumstances. I should never expect you, as
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  Speaker 5: a woman, decide actively with either party in the civic dispute. Indeed,
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  Speaker 5: one might more properly call it the civil war that
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  Speaker 5: is raging here. I dare say you have read then,
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  Speaker 5: the abuse that these nature's gentlemen are pleased to shower
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  Speaker 5: upon me, and the scandalous coarseness they consider they are
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  Speaker 5: entitled to make use of.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but I think you have held your own pretty forcibly.
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  Speaker 5: That I have, though I say it, I have tasted
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  Speaker 5: blood now and I will make them realize that I
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  Speaker 5: am not the sort of man to take it lying down. No, no,
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  Speaker 5: do not let us get upon that sad and distressing
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  Speaker 5: topic this evening.
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  Speaker 3: No, my dear mister Kroll certainly not.
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  Speaker 5: Told me instead, how you found you yet on at
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  Speaker 5: Rosma's home. Now that you are alone here, I mean
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  Speaker 5: since our poor Beata, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, I get on very well here. Her death has
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  Speaker 3: made a great gap in the house in many ways,
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  Speaker 3: of course, and one misses her and grieves for her naturally,
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  Speaker 3: But in other respects do you think you.
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  Speaker 5: Will remain here permanently?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, dear mister Krale, I really never think about
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  Speaker 3: it at all. The fact is that I have become
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  Speaker 3: so thoroughly domesticated here that I almost feel as if
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  Speaker 3: I belonged to the place too.
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  Speaker 5: You, I should think you did.
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  Speaker 3: And as long as mister Rosmer finds I can be
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  Speaker 3: any comfort or any use to him, I will gladly
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  Speaker 3: remain here, undoubtedly looking.
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  Speaker 1: At her with some emotion.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there is something splendid about a woman sacrificing
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  Speaker 5: the whole of a youth for others.
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  Speaker 3: What else have I had to live for?
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  Speaker 5: At first, when you came here, there was your perpetual Waddy,
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  Speaker 5: with that unreasonable cripple of a foster father of yours.
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  Speaker 3: You mustn't think that doctor West was as unreasonable as that.
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  Speaker 3: When we lived in Finmark, it was the trying journeys
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  Speaker 3: by sea that broke him up. But it is quite
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  Speaker 3: true that after we had moved here there were one
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  Speaker 3: or two hard years before his sufferings were over.
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  Speaker 5: Were not the years that followed even harder for you?
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  Speaker 3: No, how can you say such a thing? I who
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  Speaker 3: was so genuinely fond of Baiata, and she poor soul
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  Speaker 3: was so sadly in need of care and sympathetic companionship.
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  Speaker 5: You deserve to be thanked and rewarded for the forbearance
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  Speaker 5: with which you speak of.
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  Speaker 1: Her moving a little nearer to him.
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  Speaker 3: Dear doctor Kroll, you say that so kindly and so
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  Speaker 3: sincerely that I feel sure you really bear me.
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  Speaker 2: No ill will, ill will?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it would not be so very surprising if it
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  Speaker 3: were rather painful for you to see me, a stranger,
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  Speaker 3: doing just as I like here at Rosmus's home.
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  Speaker 5: In the world. Could you think then.
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  Speaker 3: It is not so? Holds out her hand to him
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Kroll, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 5: But what on earth could make you take such an
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  Speaker 5: idea into your head?
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  Speaker 3: I began to be afraid it might be so, as
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  Speaker 3: you have so seldom been out here to see.
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  Speaker 5: Us lately, I can assure you you have been on
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  Speaker 5: the wrong scent entirely, Miss West. And in any case,
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  Speaker 5: the situation of affairs is unchanged in any essential point,
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  Speaker 5: because during the last sad years of poor Beata's life,
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  Speaker 5: it was you and you alone even then, that looked
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  Speaker 5: after everything here.
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  Speaker 3: But it was more like a kind of regency in
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  Speaker 3: the wife's.
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  Speaker 5: Name, whatever it was, I I will tell you what,
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  Speaker 5: Miss West, As far as I am concerned, I should
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  Speaker 5: have nothing whatever to say against it to you. But
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't do to say such things.
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  Speaker 3: What things?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if it so happened that you were to step
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  Speaker 5: into the empty place, I.
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  Speaker 3: Have the place I want already, mister Krawle.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, as far as material benefits.
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  Speaker 3: Go, But not for shame, Mister krawl How can you
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  Speaker 3: sit there and jest about such things?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I dare say how good John Rosmo thinks he
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  Speaker 5: has had more than enough of married life.
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  Speaker 3: But all the same, really, you almost make me feel
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  Speaker 3: inclined to laugh at you all the same.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, miss West, if I may be allowed the question,
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  Speaker 5: how old are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am ashamed to say I was twenty nine on
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  Speaker 3: my last birthday, mister Krale, I am nearly thirty.
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  Speaker 5: Quite sir and Rosmah, how old is he? Let me see,
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  Speaker 5: he is five years younger than me, so he must
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  Speaker 5: be about forty three. It seems to me it would
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  Speaker 5: be very suitable.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt, it would be remarkably suitable. Will
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  Speaker 3: you stop and have supper with us?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? I had meant to pay you a good
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  Speaker 5: long visit because there is a matter I want to
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  Speaker 5: talk over with our excellent friend. Well, then, missus West,
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  Speaker 5: to prevent your taking foolish ideas into your head again,
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  Speaker 5: I will come here again from time to time as
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  Speaker 5: in the old days.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, please do, holds out her hand to him.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you. You are really uncommonly good natured Rabbi.
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you that is more than they say
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  Speaker 5: at home.
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  Speaker 1: Rosmer comes in by the door on the right.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Rosmer, do you see who is sitting here?
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  Speaker 2: Missus Helsath told me Kral gets up. I am so
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  Speaker 2: glad to see you here again, My dear.
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  Speaker 1: Fellow puts his hands on Kroll's shoulders and looks him
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  Speaker 1: in the face.
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  Speaker 2: Dear old friend, I knew that one day we should
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  Speaker 2: be on our old footing again.
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  Speaker 5: My dear fellow, Have you that insane idea on your
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  Speaker 5: head too, that anything could come between us to Rosmer?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it delightful to think it was all our imagination?
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  Speaker 2: Is that really true? Krawl? But why have you kept
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  Speaker 2: so obstinately away from us?
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  Speaker 5: Because I did not want to come here like a
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  Speaker 5: living reminder of the unhappy time that is passed, and
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  Speaker 5: of her who met her death in the mill rays.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very kind thought on your part. You
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  Speaker 2: are always so considerate, but it was altogether unnecessary to
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  Speaker 2: keep away from us on that account. Come along, let
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  Speaker 2: us sit down on the sofa.
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  Speaker 1: They sit down.
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  Speaker 2: I can assure you it is not in the least
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  Speaker 2: painful for me to think about Beata. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: her every day. She seems to us to have a
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  Speaker 2: part in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Still, does she really lighting the lamp?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is really quite true, she really does.
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  Speaker 2: We both think so affectionately of her, and both Rebecca,
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  Speaker 2: both Miss West and I know in our hearts that
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  Speaker 2: we did all that lay in our power for the
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  Speaker 2: poor afflicted creature. We have nothing to reproach ourselves with.
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  Speaker 2: That is why I feel there is something sweet and
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  Speaker 2: peaceful in the way we can think of beata now, you.
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  Speaker 5: Dear good people. In future, I am coming out to
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  Speaker 5: see you every.
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  Speaker 1: Day, sitting down in an arm chair.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, let us see that you keep your word.
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  Speaker 2: I assure you, my dear fellow, My dearest wish would
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  Speaker 2: be that our intimacy should never suffer in any way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have seemed to be my natural adviser
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  Speaker 2: as long as we have known one another, even from
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  Speaker 2: my student days.
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  Speaker 5: I know, and I am very proud of the privilege.
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  Speaker 5: Is there by any chance anything in particular just now?
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  Speaker 2: There are a great many things that I want very
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  Speaker 2: much to talk over with you, frankly, things that lie
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  Speaker 2: very near my heart.
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  Speaker 3: I feel that it is so too, mister Rosmer. It
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  Speaker 3: seems to me it would be such a good thing
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  Speaker 3: if you two old friends.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I can assure you I have even more to
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  Speaker 5: talk over with you, because I have become an active politician,
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  Speaker 5: as I dare say.
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  Speaker 2: You know, yes, I know, you have how did that
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  Speaker 2: come about?
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  Speaker 5: I had to, you see, whether I liked it or not,
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  Speaker 5: it became impossible for me to remain an idle spectator
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  Speaker 5: any longer, now that the radicals have become so distressingly powerful.
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  Speaker 5: It was high time. And that is also why I
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  Speaker 5: have induced a little circle of friends in the town
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  Speaker 5: to bind themselves more definitely together. It was high time,
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, isn't it really rather late? Now?
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  Speaker 5: There is no denying it would have been more fortunate
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  Speaker 5: if we had succeeded in checking the stream at an
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  Speaker 5: earlier point. But who could really foresee what was coming?
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  Speaker 5: I am sure I could not.
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  Speaker 1: Gets up and walks up and down anyway.
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  Speaker 5: My eyes are completely open now, for the spirit of
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  Speaker 5: revolt has spread even into my.
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  Speaker 2: School, into the school, surely not into your school.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, it has into my own school. What do you
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  Speaker 5: think of this? I have got wind of the fact
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  Speaker 5: that the boys in the top class, or rather a
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  Speaker 5: part of the boys in it, have formed themselves into
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  Speaker 5: a secret society and have been taking in Morton Scout's.
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  Speaker 3: Paper, Ah the search Light.
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  Speaker 5: Yees. Don't you think that is a nice sort of
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  Speaker 5: intellectual pabulum for future public servants. But the saddest part
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  Speaker 5: of it is that it is all the most promising
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  Speaker 5: boys in the class that have conspired together and hatched
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  Speaker 5: this plot against me. It is only the daffers and
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  Speaker 5: dancers that have held aloof from it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you take it so much to heart, mister Krall?
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  Speaker 5: Do I take it to heart to find myself so
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  Speaker 5: hampered and thwarted in my life's work? I might find
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  Speaker 5: it in my heart to say that I could even
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  Speaker 5: take that for what it is worth. But I have
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  Speaker 5: not told you the worst of it.
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  Speaker 1: Looks round the room, I.
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  Speaker 5: Suppose nobody is likely to be listening at the doors.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, certainly not.
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  Speaker 5: Then let me tell you that the revolt and dissension
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  Speaker 5: has spread into my own home, into my peaceful home,
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  Speaker 5: and has disturbed the peace of my family life.
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  Speaker 3: Getting up, dear mister Krawl, what has happened going.
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  Speaker 1: Up to Krawl?
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  Speaker 2: Do you mean it in your own home?
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  Speaker 5: Would you believe it that my own children? To make
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  Speaker 5: a long story short, my boy Lauriates is the moving
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  Speaker 5: spirit of the conspiracy at the school, And Hilda has
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: embroidered a red portfolio to keep the numbers of the
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: search light in.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I should never have dreamed of such a thing in
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: your family, in your own house.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: No, who would have ever dreamed of such a thing
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: in my house? Heere, obedience and order have always ruled.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Where hitherto there has never been anything but one unanimous will.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: How does your wife take it?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Ah, That is the most incredible part of the whole thing. She,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: who all her days in great things and small, has
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: concurred in my opinions and approved of all my views,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: has actually not refrained from throwing her weight on the
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: children's side on many points. And now she considers I
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: am to blame for what has happened. She says, I
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: try to coerce the young people too much, just as
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: if it were not necessary to. Well, those are the
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: sort of dissensions I have going on at home. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: naturally I talk as little about it as possible. It
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: is better to be silent about such things.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Walks across the floor.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, oh.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, stands by the window with his hands behind his
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: back and looks out, goes up to Rosmer and speaks
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in low, hurried tones unheard by Kral.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Do it not tonight?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, this night of all others?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Goes away from him and adjusts the lamp.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, my dear John, So now you know the sort
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: of spirit of the age that has cast its shadow
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: over my home life and my official work. Ought I
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: not to oppose this appalling, destructive, disorganizing tendency with all
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: the weapons I can lay my hands upon. Of course,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: it is certainly my duty, and that both with my
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: pen and my tongue.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But have you any hope that you can produce any
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: effect in that way?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: At all events? I mean to take my share in
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: the fight as a citizen, and I consider that it
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: is the duty of every patriotic man, every man who
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: is concerned about what is right, to do the same.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: And I may as well tell you that is really
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: the reason why I have come here to see you tonight.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: My dear fellow, What do you mean?
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: What can I You are going to help your old
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: friends and do as we are doing, take your share
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: in it to the best of your ability.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: But mister Crawl, you know how little taste mister Rosmer
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: has for that sort of thing.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Then he has to overcome that distaste. Now, you do
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: not keep abreast of the times, John, You sit here
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: and bury yourself and your historical researches. Goodness knows, I
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: have the greatest respect for family pedigrees and all that
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: they imply, but this is not the time for such occupations. Unhappily,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: you have no conception of the state of affairs that
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: is going on all over the country. Every single idea
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: has turned upside down, or very nearly so it will
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: be odd fight to get all the errors straightened out again.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I can quite believe it. But that sort of fight
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is not in my line at all.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Besides, I rather fancy that mister Rosmer has come to
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: look at the affairs of life with wider opened eyes
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: than before, with the start wider opened eyes, yes, or
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: with an opener mind, with less prejudice.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: What do you mean by that? John? Surely you could
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: never be so weak to allow yourself to be deluded
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: by the accidental circumstance that the demagogues have scored a
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: temporary success.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: My dear fellow, you know very well that I am
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: no judge of politics, but it certainly seems to me
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: that of late year's individual thought has become somewhat more independent.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Quite so, but do you consider that, as a matter
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: of course, to be a good thing In any case?
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: You have vastly mistaken, my friend. Just inquire a little
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: into the opinions that are charrot among the radicals, both
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: out here in the country and in town. You will
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: find them to be nothing else than the words of
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: wisdom that appear in the searchlight.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, Morton's gard has a great deal of influence over
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: the people about here.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, just think of it. A man with as dirty
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: a record as his, A fellow that was turned out
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: of his place as a school master because of his
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: immoral conduct. This is the sort of man that poses
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: as a leader of the people, and successfully too, actually successfully.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I hear that he means to enlarge his paper. Now
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I know, unreliable authority, that he is looking for a
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: competent assistant.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: It seems to me surprising that you and your friends
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: do not start an opposition paper.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: That is exactly what we intend to do this very day.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: We have bought the County News. There is no difficulty
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: about the financial side of the matter.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But turns towards Rosmer.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Now we have come to the real purport of mind visit.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: It is the management of it, the editorial management, that
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: is the difficulty. You see, Look here, Rosma, don't you
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: feel called upon to undertake it for the sake of
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the good cause.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I how can you think of such a thing?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I can quite understand you are having a horror of
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: public meetings and being unwilling to expose yourself to the
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: mercies of the rabble that frequents them. But an editor's
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: work which has carried out in much greater privacy or rather.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: No, no, my dear fellow, you must not ask that
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of me.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: It would give me the greatest pleasure to have a
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: try at work of that sort myself, only it would
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: be quite out of the question. For me. I am
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: already saddled with such an endless number of duties. You,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: on the other hand, who are no longer hampered by
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: any official duties, might, of course the rest of us
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: would give you all the help in our power.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I cannot do it, Crawl.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: I am not fitted for it, not fitted for it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: That is just what you say said when your father
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: got you your living.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I was quite right, and that was why I resigned
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: it too.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Well. If you only make as good an editor as
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: you did a parson, we shall be quite satisfied.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: My dear Krawl. Once for all, I cannot do it well.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Then I suppose you will give us the use of
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: your name at all events.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: My name.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, the mere fact of John Rosman's name being connected
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: with it will be a great advantage to the paper.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: We others are looked upon as pronounced partisans. I myself
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: even have the reputation of being a wicked fanatic. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: am told therefore, we cannot count upon our own names
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: to give us any particular help in making a paper
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: known to the misguided masses. But you, on the contrary,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: have always held aloof from this kind of fighting. Your
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: gentle and upright disposition, your polished mind, your unimpeachable honor
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: are learned to and appreciated by everyone about here. And
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: then there is the deference and respect that your former
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: position as a clergyman in suer's view. And besides that,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: there is a veneration in which your family name is held, Oh,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: my family name.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Pointing to the portraits.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Rosmas of Rosmas's home, clergymen's soldiers, men who have filled
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: high places in the state, men of scrupulous honor, every
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: one of them, a family that has been rooted here,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the most influential in the place for nearly two.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Centuries, lays his hand on Rosmar's shoulder.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: John, you owe it to yourself and the traditions of
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: your race to join us in defense that all has
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: been hitherto held sacred in our community. What do you say,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: miss West.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: My dear mister Kroll. It all sounds so absurdly ludicrous
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: to me?
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: What ludicrous?
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, because it is time you were told plainly, no, no,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: don't not now.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: But my dear friends, what on earth?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Breaks off as missus Helseth comes in by the door
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: on the right.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: M There is a man at the kitchen door, Sir.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: He says he wants to see you.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: He is there, Well, ask him to come in.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Shall I show him in his Sir?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Certainly?
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: But he doesn't look the sort of man one ought
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: to allow him here?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: What does he look like, missus Helseth?
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's not much to look.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: At, miss Did he not give you his name? Yes?
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: I think he said it was Heckman or something like that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I do not know anyone of that name.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: And he said his Christian name was Ulrich Ulrik Hetman.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Was that it, Yes, sir, it was Hetman.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I am certain I've heard that name before.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Surely it was the name that strange creature used to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: write under to crawl.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: It is Ulrik Brendle's pseudonym.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: You knoww that scamp Ulric Brendle.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: You are quite right, so he is alive still.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I thought he was traveling with a theatrical company.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: The last I heard of him was that he was
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: in the workhouse.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Ask him to come in, Missus Helseth.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, goes out.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Do you really mean to allow this fellow into your house? Oh?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Well, you know he was my tutor once.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I know that what he did was to stuff your
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: head with revolutionary ideas, and that, in consequence your father
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: turned him out of the house with a horsewhip.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, my father was always the commanding officer, even at home.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Be grateful to his memory for that, My dear john Ah.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Missus Halseth shows Rik Brendle in at the door, then
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: goes out and shuts the door after her. Brendle is
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a good looking man with gray hair and beard, someone
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: emaciated but active and alert. He is dressed like a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: common tramp in a threadbare frock coat, shoes with holes
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: in them, and no visible linen at his neck or wrists.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: He wears a pair of old black gloves carries a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: dirty soft hat under his arm and has a walking
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: stick in his hand. He looks puzzled at first, then
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: goes quickly up to Crawl and holds out his hand
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to him.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Good evening, John, Excuse me, did you ever expect to
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: see me again? And inside these hated walls too?
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Excuse me?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Points to Rosmer over there, turning round.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Quit right there he is, John, my boy, my favorite.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Pupil, shaking hands with him, my old tutor.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: In spite of certain recollections, I could not pass by
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Rochebauchamp without paying you a flying visit.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You are very welcome here, now be sure of that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: And this charming.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Lady bows to Rebecca.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Your wife of course, Miss West, and your relation, I presume,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: and our stranger friend here a colleague, I can see.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Mister Kroll, manager of the grammar school here, Krawel, cruel.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Wait a moment, did you take the philology course in
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: your student days?
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Suddenly I did?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: By jove, I used to know you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Then excuse me? Were you not, excuse me.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: One of those champions of all the virtues that got
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: me turned out of the debating society?
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Very possibly? But I disclaim any other acquaintance with you?
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: All right, knock bellan, mister Kroll, I dare say I
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: shall get over it, Orick Brendel will still be himself
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: in spite of it?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Are you on your way to the town, Mister Brundle.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: You have hit the nail on the head, ma'am at
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: certain intervals. I am obliged to do something for my living.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I do not do it willingly, but offhin when needs must.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: My dear mister Brendle, will you not let me be
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of assistance to you in some way or another?
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, ah, what a proposal to come from you?
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Could you wish to soil the tie that binds us together? Never? John, Never?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: But what do you propose to do in the town? Then?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I assure you you won't find it so easy.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Leave that to me, my boy. The die is cast. Then,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: worthy individual who stands before you is started on an
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: extensive campaign, more extensive than all his former excursions put
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: together to krawl. May I venture to ask you, Professor
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: unter Uns, are there in your esteemed town any fairly decent,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: respectable and spacious assembly rooms.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: The most spacious as the whole belonging to the working
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: men's association.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: May I ask, sir, if you have any special influence
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: with that? No doubt, most useful association.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: I have nothing whatever to do with it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: You ought to apply to Peter Morton's gard.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Perdle, Madame, what sort of an idiot is he?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Why do you make up your mind he is an idiot?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Do you suppose I can't tell from the sound of
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: the name that it belongs to a plebeian?
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: I did not expect that answer, But I.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Will conquer my prejudice. There is nothing else for it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: When and stands at a turning point in his life,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: as I do, that is settled. I shall put myself
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: into communication with this person, commence direct negotiations.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Are you in earnest when you say you are standing
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: at a turning point in your life?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Does my own boy not know that? Whenever Urick Brendel stands,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: he is always in earnest about it. Look here, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: mean to become a new man now, to emerge from
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: the cloak of reserve in which I have hitherto shrouded
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: myself In what way? I mean to take an active
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: part in life? To step forward to aokigher The atmosphere
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: we breathe is heavy with storms. I want now to
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: offer my might upon the altar of emancipation. You, too,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: has your public here any intimate acquaintance with my scattered writings.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: No, I most caredidly confess that I have.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Read several of them. My foster father had them.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: My dear lady, then you have wasted your time. They
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: are simply trash.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Allow me to tell you really.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Those you have read, Yes, my really important works. No
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: man or woman knows anything about, no one except myself.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: How is that?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Because they are not yet written?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But my dear mister Brendle.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: You know, my dear John, that I am a bit
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: of a sybarite, a gourmet. I have always been so.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I have a taste for solitary enjoyment, because in that
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: way my enjoyment is twice ten times as keen. It
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: is like this when I have been wrapped in a
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: haze of golden dreams that have been descended upon me,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: When new, intoxicating, momentous thoughts have had their birth in
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: my mind, and I have been fanned by the beat
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: of their wings as they bore me aloft. At such moments,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I have transformed them into poetry, into visions into pictures
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: in general outlines. That is to say, so you cannot
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: imagine the luxury of enjoyment. I have experienced the mysterious
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: rapture of creation in general outlines, as I said, applause, gratitude, eukajis,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: crowns of laurel. All these I have called with full hands,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: trembling with joy in my secret ecstasies. I have steeped
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: myself in a happiness so intoxicating er pem.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: But you have never written anything of it down.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Not a word. The thought of the dull clerk's work,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: that it would mean has always moved me to a
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: nauseating sense of disgust. Besides, why should I profane my
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: own ideals when I could enjoy them yet all their
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: purity by myself. But now they shall be sacrificed. Honestly,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I feel as a mother must do when she entrusts
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: her young daughter to the arms of a husband. But
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: I am going to sacrifice them, nevertheless, sacrifice them on
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: the altar of immensip a series of carefully thought out
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: lectures to be delivered all over the country.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: That is splendid of you, mister Brundle. You are giving
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: up the most precious thing you possess, the only thing.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Looking meaningly at Rosmer, I wonder how many there are
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: who would do as much? Who dare do it?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Returning her?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Look who knows my audience is moved.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: That refreshes my heart and strengthens my will. And now
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I shall proceed upon my task forthwith. There is one
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: other point, though, to krawl. Can you inform me, sir,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: whether there is an abstainer society in the town, A
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: total abstainer society. I feel sure there must be.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: There is one. At your service, I am the president.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I can tell that as soon as I saw you well,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: it is not at all impossible that I may come
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: to you and become a member for a week.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, we do not accept weekly members.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: A la bonneur, my good, sir, Yoururick Brendel has never
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: been in the habit of forcing himself upon societies of
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: that kind.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: Turns to go.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: But I must not prolong my stay in this house,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: rich as it is in memories. I must go into
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: the town and find some suitable lodging. I shall find
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: a decent hotel of some kind there, I hope, will.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: You not have something hot to drink before you go
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: of what nature, dear lady, a cup of tea or.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: A thousand thanks to the most generous of hostesses. But
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I do not like trespassing on private hospitality.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Waves his hand good bye to you, all goes to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the door, but turns back.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Oh by the way, John, mister Rosmer, will you do
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: your former tutor a service for old friendship's sake.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: With the greatest of pleasure.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Good?
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Well, then lend me just for a day or two
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: a starch shirt, nothing more than that, Because you see
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I am traveling on foot on this occasion. My trunk
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: is being sent after me.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Quite so. But in that case, isn't there anything else?
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you what. Perhaps you have an old,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: worn out summer coat that you could spare.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Certainly I have.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: And if there happened to be a pair of presentable
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: shoes that would go with the coat.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I'm sure we can manage that too. As soon as
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: you let us know your address, we will send the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: things to you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Please don't think of it. No one must be put
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: to any inconvenience on my account. I will take the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: trifles with me very well.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Will you come upstairs with me?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Then let me go missus Halseth, and I will see
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 4: I could never think of allowing this charming lady nonsense.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Come along, mister Brundle.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: She goes out by the door on the right, holding
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Brundle back.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Tell me, is there no other way I can be
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: of service to you?
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I am sure I do not know of any. Yes,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: perdition sees it now that I come to think of it, John,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: do you happen to have seven or eight shillings on you?
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  Speaker 7: I will see, opens his purse.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I have two half sovereigns here.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Oh well, never mind, I might as well take them.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: I can always get change in town.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: In the meantime, remember that it was two half sovereigns
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I had. Good night, my own, dear boy.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Good night to you, sir, goes out by the door
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  Speaker 1: on the right, where Rosmard takes leave of him and
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: shuts the door after him.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Good Heavens. And that is the urg Brindle of whom
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: people once thought that he would do great.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Things at all events. He has had the courage to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: live his life in his own way. I do not
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: think that is such a small thing, after all.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: What a life like his. I almost believe he would
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: have the power even now to disturb all your ideas.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: No, indeed, I have come to a clear understanding with
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: myself now upon all points.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I wish I could believe it. My dear Rosma, you
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: are so dreadfully sious, acceptible to impressions without let us
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: sit down.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I want to have a talk with you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: By all means, they sit down on the couch.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Don't you think everything here looks very pleasant and comfortable?
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, it looks very pleasant and comfortable now and peaceful.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: You have made yourself a real home, Rosma, and I
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: have lost mine.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: My dear fellow, do not say that there may seem
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: to be a rift just now, but it will heal again.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Never never, the sting will always remain. Things can never
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: be as they were before.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you something cruel. You and I
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: have been the closest of friends now for so many years.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Does it seem to you conceivable that anything could destroy
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: our friendship?
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: I cannot imagine anything that could cause a breach between us.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: What has put that into your head?
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Well, you're attaching such tremendous importance to similarity of opinions
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and views.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Sir, I do but then we two hold pretty similar
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: opinions at all events, on the most essential points.
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  Speaker 2: No, not any.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Longer, trying to jump up from his seat. What is
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: this restraining him?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: No, you must sit still, Please craw.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: What does it all mean? I do not understand? You
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: tell me straight out.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: A new summer has blossomed in my heart. My eyes
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: have regained the clearness of youth, and accordingly I am
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: now standing where where?
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Where are you standing?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Where your children are standing?
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: You?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You?
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: The thing is impossible. Where do you say you are standing.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: On the same side as Lauretz and Hilda an epistate?
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: John Rosma, an epistate.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: What you are calling apostasy ought to have made me
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: feel sincerely happy and fortunate. But for all that I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: have suffered keenly because I knew quite well it would
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: cause you bitter sorrow.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Rosma, Rosma, I shall never get over.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: This, looks at him, sadly to think.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: That you too could bring yourself to sympathize with and
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: join in the work of disorder and ruin that is
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: playing heavy without unhappy country.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It is the work of emancipation that I sympathize with.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I know all about that. That is what
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: it is called by both those who are leading the
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: people astray and by the misguided victims. But be sure
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: of this, you need expect no emancipation to be the
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: result of the spirit that relies on the poisoning of
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: the whole about social life.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I do not give my allegiance to the spirit that
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: is directing this, nor to any of those who are
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: leading the fight. I want to try to bring men
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: of all shades of opinion together as many as I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: can reach, and bind them as closely together as I can.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I want to live for and devote all the strength
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: that is in me to one end, only to create
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: a real public opinion in the country.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: So you do not consider we have sufficient public opinion, I,
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: for my part, consider that the whole lot of us
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: are on the high road to be dragged down into
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: the mire, where otherwise only the common people would be wallowing.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: It is just for that reason that I have made
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: up my mind as to what should be the real
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: task of public opinion. What task the task of making
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: all our fellow countrymen into men of nobility.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: All our fellow countrymen.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: As many as possible at ol events, by what means
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: by emancipating their ideas and purifying their aspirations. It seems
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: You are a dreamer, Rosma. Are you going to emancipate them?
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: Are you going to purify them?
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: No, my dear fellow, I can only try to awake
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the desire for it in them. The doing of it
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: rests with themselves.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: And do you think they are capable of it? Yes?
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Of their own power, Yes, of their own power. There
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: was no other that can do it?
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: Getting up?
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Is that speaking as befitzig clergyman?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I am a clergyman no longer?
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Yes? But what of the faith you were brought up in?
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I have it no longer?
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: You have it no longer?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Getting up?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I have given it up. I had to give it up, Krow.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: I see, yes, Yes, the one thing implies the other.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Was that the reason then, why you left the service
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: of the church.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, when my mind was clearly made up, when I
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: felt the certainty that it was not merely a transitory temptation,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: but that it was something that I would neither have
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the power nor the desire to dismiss from my mind,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: then I took that step.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: So it has been fermenting in your mind as long
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: as that, and we your friend have never been allowed
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: to know anything of it, Rosma, Rosema, how would you
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: hide the sorrowful truth from us?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Because I considered it was a matter that only concerned myself,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: and therefore I did not wish to cause you and
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: my other friends any unnecessary pain. I thought I should
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: be able to live my life here as I have
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: done hitherto, peacefully and happily. I wanted to read and
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: absorb myself in all the works that so far had
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: been sealed books to me, to familiarize myself thoroughly with
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the great world of truth and freedom that has been
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: disclosed to me now an apostate.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Every word you say bears witness to that. But for
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: all that, why have you made this confession of your
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: secret apostasy? Why, just at the present.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Momented you yourself, have compelled me to it?
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Krawl, I I have compelled you.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: When I heard of your violent behavior at public meetings,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: when I read the reports of all the vehement speeches
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: you have made there, of all your bitter attacks upon
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: those that were on the other side, your scornful censure
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: of your opponents. Oh cruel to think that you you
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: could be the man to do that. Then my eyes
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: were opened to my imperative duty. Mankind is suffering from
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: the strife that is going on now, and we ought
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: to bring peace and happiness and a spirit of reconciliation
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: into their souls. That is why I step forward now
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and confess myself openly for what I am. And besides,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I want to put my powers to the test as
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: well as others could not. You from your side go
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: with me in that cruel Never.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: As long as I live, will I make idiot lies
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: with the forces of disorder in the community.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Well, let us at least fight with honorable weapons, since
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: it seems we must fight.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I can have nothing more to do with anyone who
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: does not think with me on matters of vital importance.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: And I owe such a man, and no consideration.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Does that apply even to me.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: You yourself have broken with me, Rosma.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: But does this really mean a breach between us?
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Between us? It is a breach with all those who
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: hitherto stood shoulder to shoulder with you, And now you
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: must take the consequences.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Rebecca comes in from the room on the right and
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: opens the door wide.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Well, that is done. We have started him off on
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the road to his great sacrifice, and now we can
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: go into supper. Will you come in, mister Kroll, taking
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: his hat.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Good night, Miss West, this is no longer any place
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: Shuts the door and comes nearer to the two men.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Have you told him?
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: He knows now we shall not let you slip out
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: of our hands. Rosma. We shall compel you to come
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: back to us again.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I shall never find myself there anymore.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: We shall see you're not the man to endure standing alone.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm not so entirely alone even now. There are
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: two of us to bear the solitude together here.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Ah, that too Beata's words. Beatus, No, No, that was
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: urdious of me. Forgive me?
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: What what do you mean?
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Think no more about it? I am ashamed of it.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Forgive me, and goodbye.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Goes out by the door to the hall, following him cruel.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: We cannot end everything between us like this. I will
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: come and see you tomorrow.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: You shall not set your foot in my house.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Takes his stick and goes. Rosmar stands for a while
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: at the open door, then shuts it and comes back
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: into the room.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: That does not matter, Rebecca, we shall be able to
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: go through with it. For all that we two trusty friends,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Hugh and I.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: What do you suppose he meant just now when he
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: said he was ashamed of himself?
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: My dear girl, don't bother your head about that. He
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: didn't even believe what he meant himself. But I will
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: go and see him tomorrow. Good night.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Are you going up so early to night after this?
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: As early to night as I usually do. I feel
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: such a sense of relief now that it is over,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: you see, my dear Rebecca. I am perfectly calm, so
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: you take it calmly too. Good night, Good.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Night, dear friend, and sleep well.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Rosmer goes out by the door to the lobby. Then
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: his footsteps are heard as he goes upstairs. Rebecca goes
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to the wall and rings a bell, which is answered
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: by missus helsath.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: You can clear the table again, missus helseith. Mister Rosmer
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: does not want anything, and mister Krale has gone home.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: Gone home? What was wrong with him?
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: Miss taking up her crochet work.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: He prophesied that there was a heavy storm brewing.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: That is very strange, miss because there isn't a scrap
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: of cloud in the sky.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Let us hope he doesn't meet the white horse, because
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: I am afraid it will not be long before we
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: hear something of the family ghost.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: God forgive you, Miss don't talk of such a dreadful thing.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, come, come, do you really think.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: Miss, that someone here is to go soon?
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Not a bit of it. But there are so many
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: sorts of white horses in this world. Missus Helseth, well,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: good night, I shall go to my room now.
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: Good night.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Miss Rebecca takes her work and goes out to the right.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Missus Helseth shakes her head as she turns down the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: lamp and mothers to herself.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: Lord Lord, how queer Miss West does talk sometimes?
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: End of Act one.