Page:The collected works of Henrik Ibsen (Heinemann Volume 1).pdf/355



A firm?

[continuing].

Of vast resources, I'm informed. You can imagine how the suitors swarm'd; Gentlemen of the highest reputation.—

Even a baronet made application.

But Molly was not to be made their catch. She had met Strawman upon private stages; To see him was to love him—

And despatch The wooing gentry home without their wages?

Was it not just a too romantic match?

And then there was a terrible old father, Whose sport was thrusting happy souls apart; She had a guardian also, as I gather, To add fresh torment to her tortured heart. But each of them was loyal to his vow; A straw-thatched cottage and a snow-white ewe They dream'd of, just enough to nourish two—