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 ets her stick sink].
 * Oh, the beast!

THE SMITH [as if thunderstruck].
 * Where the slope rises sheerest
 * he's clambering upwards, by God, like a goat!

THE BRIDEGROOM [crying].
 * He's shouldered her, mother, as I might a pig!

ASE [shaking her fist up at him].
 * Would God you might fall, and-!
 * [Screams out in terror.]
 * Take care of your footing!

THE HEGSTAD FARMER [comes in, bare-headed and white with rage].
 * I'll have his life for this bride-rape yet!

ASE
 * Oh no, God punish me if I let you!

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