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 ].
 * You'd better be off!

THE SMITH
 * I am going, yes.
 * But tell us, where have you dropped from, man?
 * You've been gone six weeks. Were you troll-taken, eh?

PEER
 * I have been doing strange deeds, Aslak Smith!

THE SMITH [winking to the others].
 * Let us hear them, Peer!

PEER
 * They are nought to you.

THE SMITH [after a pause].
 * You're going to Hegstad?

PEER
 * No.

THE SMITH
 * Time was
 * they said that the girl there was fond of you.

PEER
 * You grimy crow-!

THE SMITH [falling back a little].
 * Keep your temper, Peer!
 * Though Ingrid has jilted you, others are left;-
 * think-son of Jon Gynt! Come on to the feast;