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Alas! what will you seek in the Land of Hopes?



Gold.



Property, at last, and for the first time in our lives—property.



What else but gold?



Oh, may you never reach the Land of Hopes.



What, you and not us?



So that you can dig there and get rich yourselves, liars that you are.



So that we should have nothing.



You want to put us off with fine words.



You won’t catch us that way, my good fellow.

[He spits. They move off.

I tell you, we’d do better to ask no questions, but see that we get there as soon as possible.