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 * It's likely enough.
 * So it's really kind, as you promised just now,
 * to help eke things out.

PEER [thumping the bulwark].
 * I'll be damned if I do!
 * Do you think I am mad? Would you have me fork out
 * for the sake of a parcel of other folks' brats?
 * I've slaved much too sorely in earning my cash!
 * There's nobody waiting for old Peer Gynt.

THE CAPTAIN
 * Well well; as you please then; your money's your own.

PEER
 * Right! Mine it is, and no one else's.
 * We'll reckon as soon as your anchor is down!
 * Take my fare, in the cabin, from Panama here.
 * Then brandy all round to the crew. Nothing more.
 * If I give a doit more, slap my jaw for me, Captain.

THE CAPTAIN
 * I owe you a quittance, and not a thrashing;-
 * but excuse me, the wind's blowing up to a gale.

[He goes forward. It has fallen dark; lights are lit in the cabin. The sea increases. Fog and thick clouds.] PEER
 * To have a whole bevy of youngsters at home;-
 * still to dwell in their minds as a coming delight;-