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 The Chamberlain.

Stop here!

Daniel Heire enters by the back.

Heire.

Good-morning, gentlemen! Good-morning, Chamberlain! Thank you so much for the delightful evening we spent yesterday. What do you think I've just heard?

Ringdal.

Excuse me; we are busy

Heire.

So are other people, I can tell you; our friend from Stonelee, for example

The Chamberlain.

Monsen?

Heire.

Hee-hee; it's a pretty story! The electioneering intrigues are in full swing. And what do you think is the last idea? They are going to bribe you, Chamberlain!

Lundestad.

To bribe?

The Chamberlain.

They judge the tree by its fruit.

Heire.

Deuce take me if it isn't the most impudent thing I ever heard of! I just looked in at Madam Rundholmen's to have a glass of bitters. There