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 * But if one, like you, has smudged himself out,
 * neither sulphur nor potash avails in the least.

PEER
 * I see; one must come to you black as a raven
 * to turn out a white ptarmigan? Pray what's the name
 * inscribed 'neath the negative counterfeit
 * that you're now to transfer to the positive side?

THE LEAN ONE
 * The name's Peter Gynt.

PEER
 * Peter Gynt! Indeed?
 * Is Herr Gynt himself?

THE LEAN ONE
 * Yes, he vows he is.

PEER
 * Well, he's one to be trusted, that same Herr Peter.

THE LEAN ONE
 * You know him, perhaps?

PEER
 * Oh yes, after a fashion;-
 * one knows all sorts of people.

THE LEAN ONE
 * I'm pressed for time;
 * where saw you him last?