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[Drawing Ulfheim away.] Let us make haste and get down. . [To .] I cannot help more than one. Take refuge in the hut in the mean-*time—while the storm lasts. Then I shall send people up to fetch the two of you away. . [In terror.] To fetch us away! No, no! . [Harshly.] To take you by force if necessary—for it's a matter of life and death here. Now, you know it. [To .] Come, then—and don't fear to trust yourself in your comrade's hands. . [Clinging to him.] Oh, how I shall rejoice and sing, if I get down with a whole skin! . [Begins the descent and calls to the others.] You'll wait, then, in the hut, till the men come with ropes, and fetch you away. [, with in his arms, clambers rapidly but warily down the precipice.

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[Looks for some time at with terror-stricken eyes.] Did you hear that,