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How can I believe in the teeth of all reason? You would have to be legally rehabilitated

Go on! go on!

It's true I never passed my examination; but I have read enough law to know that

[Quickly.] It is impossible, you mean?

There is no precedent for such a thing.

Exceptional men are above precedents.

The law knows nothing of such distinctions.

[Harshly and decisively.] You are no poet, Vilhelm.

[Unconsciously folding his hands.] Do you say that in sober earnest?

[Dismissing the subject, without answering.] We are only wasting each other's time. You had better not come here again.