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[Looks at her in astonishment, and shakes her head.] Nay, but, Margit—?

Aye, aye, you do not understand, but none the less—

Well, if so it be—if this wild life no longer contents you—then I will give you the best counsel that ever friend gave to friend: take to wife an honourable maiden.

Say you so? And if I now told you that 'tis even that I have in mind?

Good luck and happiness to you then, Knut Gesling! And now you must know that I too—

You? Are you, too, so purposed?

Aye, truly. But the King's wrath;—I am a banished man—