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 rah! Such a witness doesn't grow on the trees! THE OLD MAN
 * My Lord Prince, too, has grizzled a bit since we met.

PEER
 * My dear father-in-law, the years gnaw and wear one.-
 * Well well, a truce to all private affairs,-
 * and pray, above all things, no family jars.
 * I was then a sad madcap-

THE OLD MAN
 * Oh yes; oh yes;-
 * His Highness was young; and what won't one do then?
 * But his Highness was wise in rejecting his bride;
 * he saved himself thereby both worry and shame;
 * for since then she's utterly gone to the bad-

PEER
 * Indeed!

THE OLD MAN
 * She has led a deplorable life;
 * and, just think,-she and Trond are now living together.

PEER
 * Which Trond?

THE OLD MAN
 * Of the Valfjeld.

PEER
 * It's he? Aha;
 * it was he I cut out with the saeter-girls.

THE OLD M