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 PEER
 * Why, by vouchers and witnesses.

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * I'm sadly afraid Master will not accept them.

PEER
 * Impossible! However, enough for the day-!
 * My dear man, allow me a loan of myself;
 * I'll be back again shortly. One is born only once,
 * and one's self, as created, one fain would stick to.
 * Come, are we agreed?

THE BUTTON-MOULDER
 * Very well then, so be it.
 * But remember, we meet at the next cross-roads.
 * [PEER GYNT runs off.]

SCENE EIGHTH
[A further point on the heath.] PEER [running hard].
 * Time is money, as the scripture says.
 * If I only knew where the cross-roads are;-
 * they may be near and they may be far.
 * The earth burns beneath me like red-hot iron.
 * A witness! A witness! Oh, where shall I find one?
 * It's almost unthinkable here in the forest.
 * The world is a bungle! A wretched arrangement,
 * when a man must prove a right that's as patent as day!

[AN OLD