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 NSIEUR BALLON
 * A scurvy business-but-enfin!
 * [Follows the others.]

TRUMPETERSTRALE
 * I'll have to follow, I suppose,-
 * but I protest to all the world-!
 * [Follows.]

SCENE SECOND
[Another part of the coast. Moonlight with drifting clouds. The yacht is seen far out, under full steam.] [PEER GYNT comes running along the beach; now pinching his arms, now gazing out to sea.] PEER
 * A nightmare!-Delusion!-I'll soon be awake!
 * She's standing to sea! And at furious speed!-
 * Mere delusion! I'm sleeping! I'm dizzy and drunk!
 * [Clenches his hands.]
 * It's not possible I should be going to die!
 * [Tearing his hair.]
 * A dream! I'm determined it shall be a dream!
 * Oh, horror! It's only too real, worse luck!
 * My brute-beasts of friends-! Do but hear me, oh Lord!
 * Since thou art so wise and so righteous-! Oh judge-!
 * [With upstretched arms