1.1 ::- :=Nojd: you see, and Ludwig was saying -- 1.2 ::- :=Captain: an official and confidential matter -- 1.2 ::- :=Captain: forty-three -- seven, eight, fifty-six -- 1.2 ::- :=Laura: Would you mind -- 1.3 ::- :=Doctor: is pretty healthy on the whole, so -- 1.4 ::- :=Bertha: be tiresome again. Why can't you two -- 1.4 ::- :=Captain: Stop this, or -- 1.4 ::- :=Laura: born? We'd been married three years -- 1.4 ::- :=Laura: was my child and not yours. Suppose -- 1.4 ::- :=Nurse: Captain, only listen -- 1.4 ::- :=Nurse: that with me -- or with anyone else -- 1.4 ::- :=Nurse: the child? Think how a mother feels -- 2.1 ::- :=Nurse: gaping tomb: "All must perish, all is vain!" Yes indeed -- 2.2 ::- :=Doctor: Well -- 2.2 ::- :=Doctor: Hm -- well -- 3.1 ::- :=Doctor: Captain -- 3.1 ::- :=Doctor: You're to put this jacket on him -- 3.1 ::- :=Pastor: My firm convictions about higher things -- 2.2 ::100 :=Captain: when their pressure-gauge reaches 100, but that hundred mark varies with different 3.1 ::215 :=Captain: it is in the Odyssey -- Book I, line 215; page 6 in the Uppsala translation. Telemachus 3.1 ::6 :=Captain: the Odyssey -- Book I, line 215; page 6 in the Uppsala translation. Telemachus 1.1 ::A :=Captain: No, a mother-in-law -- in someone else's house 1.1 ::A :=Captain: I want her to be a teacher. Then, if she doesn't marry, she 1.1 ::A :=Captain: You'd better make a clean breast of it -- otherwise, you know 1.1 ::A :=Captain: She was brought up with a lot of romantic ideas, so she finds it 1.1 ::A :=Captain: My mother-in-law wants to make a spiritualist of her; Laura wants her to 1.1 ::A :=Captain: Then, this summer, along comes a young whippersnapper who knows better, 1.1 ::A :=Captain: for some career more suited to a man, when it would all be wasted if she 1.1 ::A :=Captain: the governess wants to make her a Methodist; old Margret, a Baptist; and 1.1 ::A :=Captain: of myself. But I will not become a pander for my own daughter, and bring her 1.1 ::A :=Captain: they'd tear me to pieces in half a minute. And you laugh, you wretch! As if 1.1 ::A :=Captain: with the maid again. The fellow's a thoroughly bad lot. 1.1 ::A :=Captain: go ahead in the ordinary way; it's a matter for your professional conscience. 1.1 ::A :=Captain: me as if I still wore a bib. She's a dear old soul, heaven knows, but she oughtn't 1.1 ::A :=Captain: I wish you'd be kind enough to have a little talk to him. You might do him some 1.1 ::A :=Captain: Not at all! I showed her efforts to a well-known artist, and he said they were 1.1 ::A :=Captain: know, she sometimes flies into such a rage that I'm really afraid she might be 1.1 ::A :=Captain: I want to make her into some sort of a prodigy -- nor even just another edition 1.1 ::A :=Captain: It's no earthly good trying to mould a character like a piece of patchwork -- 1.1 ::A :=Captain: here, treating me as if I still wore a bib. She's a dear old soul, heaven knows, 1.1 ::A :=Captain: good trying to mould a character like a piece of patchwork -- especially when I, 1.1 ::A :=Captain: schoolmasters who have to provide for a family on their pay. And if she does marry, 1.1 ::A :=Captain: to make her a Methodist; old Margret, a Baptist; and the maids, a Salvation Army 1.1 ::A :=Captain: whole day long in this house, without a break. Oh, must you go? Do stay for supper 1.1 ::A :=Captain: don't want to persuade her into taking a long course of training for some career 1.1 ::A :=Captain: old Margret, a Baptist; and the maids, a Salvation Army lass. It's no earthly good 1.1 ::A :=Captain: I have, haven't I? It's like going into a cage full of tigers; if I didn't keep my 1.1 ::A :=Nojd: No. That's a thing you can never know for certain. 1.1 ::A :=Nojd: Well yes, sir, in a way it was. I always say nothing ever comes 1.1 ::A :=Nojd: That time, yes. But how's a man to be sure he's always been the only 1.1 ::A :=Nojd: then, it was like this. We were having a dance at Gabriel's, you see, and Ludwig 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: I caught a glimpse of him, on my way. He seemed a 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: Nojd, just a minute. Er -- don't you think it's rather 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: But, good heavens, a man can't have a stepmother living in his 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: she used to lie on the floor like a corpse till she got her own way, then if 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: But, good heavens, a man can't have a stepmother living in his house. 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: she's my own sister, she was always a bit tiresome. 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: you that that sort of behaviour's . . . well . . . a bit . . . 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: you're in for trouble. When she was a child she used to lie on the floor like 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: d'you think God's word would have on a trooper? 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: for painting that it would be almost a crime not to encourage it? 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: look after yourself, Adolf, you seem a bit on edge. 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: the other hand, hasn't she shown such a gift for painting that it would be almost 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: a glimpse of him, on my way. He seemed a decent, reliable sort of chap. 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: don't just mean to leave the girl with a child. I suppose you can't be forced to 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: leave a girl penniless like that, with a baby? Don't you think so? Well? Doesn't 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: nurse it. Afterwards, the girl can get a good place with some respectable family, 1.1 ::A :=Pastor: think it's rather disgraceful to leave a girl penniless like that, with a baby? 1.2 ::A :=Captain: Just a moment -- sixty-six, seventy-one -- eighty-four, 1.2 ::A :=Captain: a -- what shall I call him -- such a ne'er-do-well? 1.2 ::A :=Captain: his grandmother ever since she was a baby. That's why I took him in -- because 1.2 ::A :=Captain: governess wanted him because he was a Pietist; and old Margret, because she'd 1.2 ::A :=Captain: is to live in town; she'll leave in a fortnight's time. 1.2 ::A :=Captain: man? You. Why do you recommend such a -- what shall I call him -- such a ne' 1.2 ::A :=Captain: her to live at home. Mathematically, a compromise would mean that she stayed at 1.2 ::A :=Captain: eighty-four, eighty-nine, ninety-two, a hundred. What is it? 1.2 ::A :=Captain: you must keep accounts. Things are in a bad way with us, and if I should go bankrupt, 1.2 ::A :=Laura: Why did you take in such a ne'er-do-well? 1.2 ::A :=Laura: It's not my fault if things are in a bad way. 1.2 ::A :=Laura: extraordinary! You can't be sure who a child's father is? 1.2 ::A :=Laura: that the father has such rights over a woman's children? 1.2 ::A :=Laura: if the father and the mother agree on a compromise . . . 1.3 ::A :=Captain: Good heavens, no -- through a spectroscope. 1.3 ::A :=Captain: analysis, and I've found coal -- a sign of life! What do you say to that? 1.3 ::A :=Captain: I expect that my wife has told you a little about us, so you'll have some ideas 1.3 ::A :=Captain: If you'd care to stay here, there's a little flat in the annexe, or would you 1.3 ::A :=Captain: I really believe I'm on the verge of a discovery. 1.3 ::A :=Captain: no wishes in the matter. Are you such a weakling that you don't know your own mind? 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: A spectroscope. Oh, of course. So you'll 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: Through a microscope? 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: And can you see that through a microscope? 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: Well, there's nothing very odd in a scholar buying books. 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: and they've always seemed to show a particularly fine and orderly mind. 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: Captain, I'm delighted to meet such a distinguished man of science. 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: me one or two hints about things that a stranger ought to know. Good night, Ca 1.3 ::A :=Doctor: that you should confide in me, but as a doctor, I must examine and investigate 1.3 ::A :=Laura: A microscope, yes. 1.3 ::A :=Laura: Yes, there's a lot of illness about just now, but I'm 1.3 ::A :=Laura: Then is it reasonable for a man to see through a microscope what's 1.3 ::A :=Laura: district, it means so much to have a doctor who takes an interest in his patients; 1.3 ::A :=Laura: years now, and he's never yet made a decision without changing his mind aft 1.3 ::A :=Laura: wants me for something. I shan't be a moment -- Ah, here is Adolf. 1.3 ::A :=Laura: manage. For people like us, living in a lonely country district, it means so much 1.3 ::A :=Laura: family's welfare. For instance, he has a mania for buying all sorts of things. 1.3 ::A :=Laura: it reasonable for a man to see through a microscope what's happening on another 1.4 ::A :=Bertha: It was my fault, though; I played a trick on her. 1.4 ::A :=Bertha: in there all the time -- just like a winter night; but when you come, Papa, 1.4 ::A :=Bertha: I have to sit at the table and hold a pen over a sheet of paper. And then she 1.4 ::A :=Bertha: sit at the table and hold a pen over a sheet of paper. And then she commands the 1.4 ::A :=Bertha: to Mama, you know. She does cry such a lot. 1.4 ::A :=Captain: Is this a joke? 1.4 ::A :=Captain: Think how a father feels, Margret. 1.4 ::A :=Captain: Do you think a father would let ignorant and conceited 1.4 ::A :=Captain: I can believe a lot about you, but not that. Nor do I believe 1.4 ::A :=Captain: Yes, she's to leave in a fortnight's time. 1.4 ::A :=Captain: You talk very proudly for a humble heart! I know how little learning 1.4 ::A :=Captain: to treat a grown man as if he were a child? 1.4 ::A :=Captain: women teach his daughter that he is a charlatan? 1.4 ::A :=Captain: forgotten it, dear? You've been like a mother to me. Up to now, you've always 1.4 ::A :=Captain: you desert me now, you'd be doing me a great wrong. You see they're plotting against 1.4 ::A :=Captain: been something more in the world than a poor soldier, if I hadn't had her and her 1.4 ::A :=Captain: explain how you women manage to treat a grown man as if he were a child? 1.4 ::A :=Captain: have any considered opinion about how a young girl's life may develop. We, on the 1.4 ::A :=Captain: one I can listen to without getting in a rage. 1.4 ::A :=Laura: Because a mother's nearer to the child -- since it's 1.4 ::A :=Laura: It's less important to a father. 1.4 ::A :=Laura: Can't I? Do you really think that a mother is going to send her child among 1.4 ::A :=Laura: no one can tell for certain who is a child's father. 1.4 ::A :=Laura: but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling that I'm his super 1.4 ::A :=Laura: Then why get involved in fights with a superior enemy? 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: Lord, what a baby you are! Of course you're the father 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: Now, now, now! A father has other things to think of, but 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: Mr Adolf, how can you say such a thing? Do you think I can forget how you 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: has other things to think of, but a mother has only her child. 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: he'll come back to her again, like a good little child. 1.4 ::A :=Nurse: this bother over the child? Think how a mother feels -- 2.1 ::A :=Bertha: Yes, it was such a sad song, the saddest song I've ever heard. 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: Yes, yes, yes, a case like this is deep-rooted, and what 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: One never does that with a mental patient, unless he brings up the 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: Now that I find that it was a spectroscope, he's not only cleared of 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: an accusation that could lead to a man being certified. 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: other heavenly bodies by means of a microscope. Now that I find that it was 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: disorder, but he has actually made a great contribution to science. 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: considered the consequences of such a step. If he were to discover that you've 2.1 ::A :=Doctor: the case. In the first place, you made a mistake when you said he arrived at his 2.1 ::A :=Laura: one of the men on some question of a maintenance order, and when I took the 2.1 ::A :=Laura: one could tell who was the father of a child. Heaven knows I did all I could to 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: Yes, yes . . . "A pitiful and wretched thing Is life, 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: You're talking like a child! Of course I'm sure, seeing he was 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: Oh dear, oh dear! And such a fearful night too, I'm sure the chimneys'll 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: No I don't think so -- just a cold. 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: there." Yes, dear child, God send us a happy Christmas. 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: did I say? You mark my words, there's a curse on this house. What did you hear, 2.2 ::A :=Captain: You are a widower? And you've had children? 2.2 ::A :=Captain: Therefore a child's likeness to the father means n 2.2 ::A :=Captain: Didn't being a father sometimes make you feel ridiculous? 2.2 ::A :=Captain: On trust when it concerns a woman? That's dangerous! 2.2 ::A :=Captain: Didn't you ever realize what a false position you were in? Weren't you 2.2 ::A :=Captain: I thought Margret said it was a cold. There seems to be quite a difference 2.2 ::A :=Captain: with doubts . . . I won't say suspicions, for, as a gentleman, I assume 2.2 ::A :=Captain: foals if you cross a zebra with a mare? 2.2 ::A :=Captain: Now for the other -- and that was a real summer swallow. I was at Lysenkil. 2.2 ::A :=Captain: So that, under certain conditions, a stallion can sire striped foals -- and 2.2 ::A :=Captain: my suspicions. I was once on board a steamer, sitting with some friends in the 2.2 ::A :=Captain: of nothing more absurd than seeing a father lead his child through the street, 2.2 ::A :=Captain: you get striped foals if you cross a zebra with a mare? 2.2 ::A :=Captain: be striped, even if the next sire is a stallion? 2.2 ::A :=Captain: but her husband was in town. She was a woman of the strictest principles, and 2.2 ::A :=Captain: child through the street, or hearing a father talk about "my children". He ought 2.2 ::A :=Captain: love can be, from a married woman to a strange man who has never made any advances 2.2 ::A :=Captain: But since I have the misfortune to be a man, I can only do like the Romans, and 2.2 ::A :=Captain: as an indication of love can be, from a married woman to a strange man who has 2.2 ::A :=Captain: swallow. I was at Lysenkil. There was a young married woman staying there with 2.2 ::A :=Captain: you're here to watch me. If I weren't a man, I should have the right to make accusations 2.2 ::A :=Captain: I came across a visiting card, bearing a pretty obvious hint. Oh, it was perfectly 2.2 ::A :=Captain: it was a cold. There seems to be quite a difference of opinion about the case. Go 2.2 ::A :=Captain: one of those very books, I came across a visiting card, bearing a pretty obvious 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: No, as a matter of fact, I never was. And anyhow, 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: One swallow doesn't make a summer. 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: Oh, nothing serious -- only a slight sprain in the left ankle. 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: Captain, wasn't it Goethe who said "A man must take his children on trust"? 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: husband, I thought to myself "what a confounded shame the fellow's dead". 2.2 ::A :=Doctor: ill, it wouldn't stain your honour as a man to tell me the whole story. In fact 2.3 ::A :=Captain: Ah, I see you have a high opinion of me, as they say. From these 2.3 ::A :=Captain: No, I am not. There's a crime lying buried here that's beginning 2.3 ::A :=Captain: Are you sure? Do you think a man can live when there's nothing and no 2.3 ::A :=Captain: Yes, I'm crying, although I'm a man. Has not a man eyes? Has not a man 2.3 ::A :=Captain: For me, since I don't believe in a life to come, my child was my after-life. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: by the same winter and summer as a woman. If you prick us, do we not bleed; 2.3 ::A :=Captain: us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, or a soldier cry? Because 2.3 ::A :=Captain: I can carry out both my duties as a soldier and my obligations as a father; 2.3 ::A :=Captain: now and I can no longer live, for a man cannot live without honour. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: and whoever it was who woke us was a sleepwalker himself. When women grow old 2.3 ::A :=Captain: as a soldier and my obligations as a father; I have my emotions pretty well 2.3 ::A :=Captain: most childish remark as if it were a flash of genius; you could have led me 2.3 ::A :=Captain: you forget that I'm a grown man -- a soldier whose word of command both men 2.3 ::A :=Captain: Once, when the fever had abated for a while, I heard voices outside in the drawing-room. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: any more. I'd had my suspicions for a long time, but I dared not hear them confirmed. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: crying, although I'm a man. Has not a man eyes? Has not a man hands, organs, 2.3 ::A :=Captain: my mother? Won't you forget that I'm a grown man -- a soldier whose word of command 2.3 ::A :=Captain: us together, but the bond has become a chain. How has that happened? I've never 2.3 ::A :=Captain: your answer. I recovered, and we had a child. Who is the father? 2.3 ::A :=Captain: Don't you see that I'm as helpless as a child? Can't you hear that I'm calling 2.3 ::A :=Captain: die? Why shouldn't a man complain, or a soldier cry? Because it's unmanly. What 2.3 ::A :=Captain: grey, and all so that you could enjoy a carefree life, and when you grew old, live 2.3 ::A :=Captain: sake of the past -- I implore you, as a wounded man begs for the death-blow -- 2.3 ::A :=Captain: that's beginning to stink -- and what a hellish crime it is! You women pity black 2.3 ::A :=Captain: wanted to win you as a woman by being a man. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: I shall never divulge it. Do you think a man would go and trumpet his own shame 2.3 ::A :=Captain: I'm a man. Has not a man eyes? Has not a man hands, organs, dimensions, senses, 2.3 ::A :=Captain: So I grew used to looking up to you as a superior, gifted being, listening to you 2.3 ::A :=Captain: and then the whole works will whirr to a standstill. I shall not appeal to your 2.3 ::A :=Captain: command both men and beasts obey? I am a sick man, all I ask is pity; I surrender 2.3 ::A :=Captain: former friends against me by spreading a rumour about my sanity. What's more, your 2.3 ::A :=Captain: hear, but only obey; you could give me a raw potato and convince me that it was 2.3 ::A :=Captain: in the good old days. It had only been a little morning nap, with bad dreams, and 2.3 ::A :=Captain: is that, when you've already said that a mother can and should commit any crime 2.3 ::A :=Captain: my unmanliness, I wanted to win you as a woman by being a man. 2.3 ::A :=Captain: never wanted me, so I was born without a will. When you and I became one I thought 2.3 ::A :=Captain: raw potato and convince me that it was a peach; you could compel me to admire your 2.3 ::A :=Laura: But a woman? 2.3 ::A :=Laura: Is this a trap? 2.3 ::A :=Laura: What's this? A man, and crying? 2.3 ::A :=Laura: You should have been a poet, you know. 2.3 ::A :=Laura: I can hardly plead guilty to a crime that I've not committed. 2.3 ::A :=Laura: Yes, sometimes -- when you act like a man. 2.3 ::A :=Laura: your enemy. Love between the sexes is a battle. And don't imagine that I gave myself 2.3 ::A :=Laura: I first came into your life, it was as a second mother. Your great strong body had 3.1 ::A :=Captain: Are you croaking for a corpse already, you old crow? Nojd! Is 3.1 ::A :=Captain: You can't get the better of a woman, eh? 3.1 ::A :=Captain: I won't let you. You see, I'm a cannibal, and I want to eat you. Your mother 3.1 ::A :=Captain: get to such a pitch that a man -- a man who has loved and worshipped a woman 3.1 ::A :=Captain: tree; and then someone comes with a knife and cuts them down below the graft, 3.1 ::A :=Captain: I answered. When things get to such a pitch that a man -- a man who has loved 3.1 ::A :=Captain: at me, Doctor . . . no, straight in the face -- he's a major of Dragoons. Bless 3.1 ::A :=Captain: was your marriage bed? Wasn't there a young subaltern in your house, eh? Let 3.1 ::A :=Captain: wish to speak to you -- you're just a telephone, relaying all their chatter in 3.1 ::A :=Captain: When things get to such a pitch that a man -- a man who has loved and worshipped 3.1 ::A :=Captain: the graft, so that now I'm only half a tree; but the other half goes on growing, 3.1 ::A :=Captain: used to have a tutor in the house -- a good- looking fellow that people used to 3.1 ::A :=Captain: worshipped a woman -- goes and takes a lighted lamp and flings it in her face 3.1 ::A :=Captain: -- a man who has loved and worshipped a woman -- goes and takes a lighted lamp 3.1 ::A :=Captain: Why not let me kill the child? Life's a hell, and death is the Kingdom of Heaven; 3.1 ::A :=Captain: by the bullet wound in his chest from a duel. On his death-bed he swore that she 3.1 ::A :=Captain: children? I remember you used to have a tutor in the house -- a good- looking fellow 3.1 ::A :=Captain: -- you must be. Anything else was just a morbid idea brought on the wind, like pestilence 3.1 ::A :=Captain: I could work on your crowned heads for a little, I'd soon have you shut up, too. 3.1 ::A :=Captain: Yes, that's how it is! But I know that a man's belief can destroy him -- that's 3.1 ::A :=Captain: grow together and knit themselves into a more perfect tree; and then someone comes 3.1 ::A :=Captain: whom Telemachus was suspecting. That's a fine thing, eh? And then we have the prophet 3.1 ::A :=Doctor: on the patient after I've had a word with him, and when I give the order, 3.1 ::A :=Doctor: husband is liable to imprisonment and a fine, or to go to an asylum. What have 3.1 ::A :=Laura: In the meanwhile, I've sent a message to the Colonel, and now I'm trying 3.1 ::A :=Laura: You talk so much, you must have a guilty conscience. Accuse me, if you c 3.1 ::A :=Laura: Mine? How could I be to blame if a man goes out his mind? 3.1 ::A :=Laura: the doctor's sent to the hospital for a strait-jacket. In the meanwhile, I've sent 3.1 ::A :=Laura: father, and it ended with his throwing a lighted lamp in my face. 3.1 ::A :=Nojd: There's a note from the Colonel. 3.1 ::A :=Nojd: Of course I can, but it's a different thing when it comes to laying 3.1 ::A :=Nojd: honestly I can't. I'd take on half a dozen men -- but not a woman! 3.1 ::A :=Nojd: take on half a dozen men -- but not a woman! 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: and how I came in and had to play a trick on you to get the knife away? You 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: to get up in the night and get you a drink, and how I used to light the candle 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: And then I'd say: "Get up, now, like a good boy, and walk across the room, so 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: have a golden coat and be dressed like a prince. And then I'd take your little jacket 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: have to wheedle you and say you'd have a golden coat and be dressed like a prince. 3.1 ::A :=Nurse: on you to get the knife away? You were a silly little boy, and we had to play tricks 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: It's a deplorable business, but I always expected 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: What's that big paper there? A receipt for a grave. Well, better a grave 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: strong! You're like a fox in a trap, you'd rather bite off your own leg 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: It's hard to say -- there'll be a scandal either way. 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: -- incredibly strong! You're like a fox in a trap, you'd rather bite off your 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: A receipt for a grave. Well, better a grave than an asylum. Laura, tell me: is 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: let yourself be caught. You're like a master-thief -- you have no accomplice, 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: that big paper there? A receipt for a grave. Well, better a grave than an asylum. 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: only just got home. Things have taken a serious turn here, then? 3.1 ::A :=Pastor: You know, I've always looked on him as a weed in our garden. 3.2 ::A :=Captain: My child? A man doesn't have children, it's only women 3.2 ::A :=Captain: In the old days, a man married a wife, now he enters into partnership with 3.2 ::A :=Captain: Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child -- " 3.2 ::A :=Captain: -- a mother's or a mistress's, but a mother's is best. 3.2 ::A :=Captain: The god of Strife, then -- or is it a goddess these days? Take away this cat 3.2 ::A :=Captain: marriage, perhaps? In the old days, a man married a wife, now he enters into 3.2 ::A :=Captain: now he enters into partnership with a business-woman, or sets up house with a 3.2 ::A :=Captain: good to sleep on a woman's breast -- a mother's or a mistress's, but a mother's 3.2 ::A :=Captain: on a woman's breast -- a mother's or a mistress's, but a mother's is best. 3.2 ::A :=Captain: business-woman, or sets up house with a friend. Then he debauches the partner, 3.2 ::A :=Captain: does it help me? And who is to blame? A spiritual marriage, perhaps? In the old 3.2 ::A :=Captain: nothing, till it catches fire. Give me a pillow under my head. And put something 3.2 ::A :=Captain: or a sham fight with blank cartridges. A mortal truth would have roused my resistance, 3.2 ::A :=Captain: to grin. It's like hitting the air, or a sham fight with blank cartridges. A mortal 3.2 ::A :=Captain: your breast. Oh, it's good to sleep on a woman's breast -- a mother's or a mistress's, 3.2 ::A :=Doctor: It's a stroke. 3.2 ::A :=Doctor: indictment, even! You believe there's a god who rules man's destiny, you must refer 3.2 ::A :=Laura: am not. You're existence has been like a stone on my heart, weighing and weighing 2.3 ::ABATED :=Captain: death's door. Once, when the fever had abated for a while, I heard voices outside 1.2 ::ABLE :=Captain: and if I should go bankrupt, I must be able to produce accounts, or they could accuse 1.3 ::ABLE :=Doctor: Oh, of course. So you'll soon be able to tell us what's happening on Jupi 1.3 ::ABLE :=Laura: going. Now you know it all; you'll be able to judge for yourself when you see 1.4 ::ABLE :=Laura: Yes. It's odd, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling that 1.4 ::ABLE :=Nurse: that. But I do think you ought to be able to agree. 2.1 ::ABLE :=Bertha: Then we shan't be able to keep Christmas Eve. But if he's ill, 2.2 ::ABLE :=Captain: called, and perhaps I should be able to give you the full diagnosis and, 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Captain: out of sheer spite. They drop hints about men being made to see that women can 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Nojd: Captain, but I can't very well talk about it, not with the Pastor here. 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Pastor: Look here, my lad, we're talking about you now. Surely you don't just mean 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Pastor: -- well, who am I to judge . . . What were we talking about, when this unfortunate 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Pastor: old man -- Oh, didn't you want to talk about the confirmation? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Captain: Who was so enthusiastic about the man? You. Why do you recommend 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Captain: marriage, naturally there's no doubt about the paternity. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Laura: -- that the whole kitchen knows about. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: that my wife has told you a little about us, so you'll have some ideas how the 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: that isn't what we were going to talk about; how about you? If you'd care to stay 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: what we were going to talk about; how about you? If you'd care to stay here, there's 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: Tell me more about him. Of course it is possible that 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: wife did give me one or two hints about things that a stranger ought to know. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Laura: Yes, there's a lot of illness about just now, but I'm sure you'll manage. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Laura: and I've heard so many nice things about you, Doctor, that I'm sure we shall 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Bertha: take their revenge if anyone talks about them. And then the pen writes but I 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Captain: I can believe a lot about you, but not that. Nor do I believe 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Captain: can hardly have any considered opinion about how a young girl's life may develop. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Captain: that. Nor do I believe that you'd talk about it if it were true. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Captain: It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Nurse: Oh, Mr Adolf, what is all this about? 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Nurse: Oh, I don't understand anything about that. But I do think you ought to be 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: at his extraordinary conclusions about other heavenly bodies by means of a 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: strikes me as suspicious. He spoke about his correspondence with the booksellers 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: misheard you. One has to be careful about making an accusation that could lead 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: we talked, I'm not entirely convinced about the case. In the first place, you made 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Captain: to be quite a difference of opinion about the case. Go to bed, Margret. Do sit 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Captain: the street, or hearing a father talk about "my children". He ought to say "my 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: About Bertha's parentage. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: One word first -- about realities: do you hate me? 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: against me by spreading a rumour about my sanity. What's more, your efforts 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: endured sleepless nights, worrying about your future till my hair has turned 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: and the lawyer, and you were talking about the property that I still owned in 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: who believes me sane. Now, the truth about my illness is this: my reason is unaffected 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Captain: has that happened? I've never thought about that sort of thing before, but now 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Laura: Are there any doubts about that? 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Laura: all this life and death struggle been about except power? 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Bertha: I won't have you saying anything bad about Mama. 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Captain: What's so different about it? Haven't they been laying their 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Captain: fellow that people used to gossip about. 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: Then you have no firm convictions about what would be best for your family. 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Doctor: go to an asylum. What have you to say about the Captain's behaviour? 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Laura: And my mother's not to know anything about all this, do you understand? 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Laura: It began with those absurd ideas of his about not being Bertha's father, and it ended 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Pastor: My firm convictions about higher things -- 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Laura: As for your suspicions about the child, they're quite unfounded 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Laura: may have been one, but I knew nothing about it. I've never considered them, they've 1.4 ::ABOVE :=Laura: before you decide to do anything. Above all, don't make yourself look ridi 2.2 ::ABOVE :=Captain: for, as a gentleman, I assume your wife was above suspicion. 2.3 ::ABROAD :=Captain: man would go and trumpet his own shame abroad. 1.3 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Doctor: heart, and I hope you will rely on me absolutely. But in view of what you've told 2.2 ::ABSURD :=Captain: ridiculous? I know of nothing more absurd than seeing a father lead his child 3.1 ::ABSURD :=Laura: It began with those absurd ideas of his about not being Bertha's 1.3 ::ABUSIVE :=Captain: my orders. I've written and even sent abusive telegrams! It makes me mad -- I can't 3.1 ::ACCEPTED :=Captain: to be sure? Marry first, so as to be accepted by society, then separate directly 3.1 ::ACCOMPLICE :=Pastor: like a master-thief -- you have no accomplice, not even your own conscience. 1.2 ::ACCOUNT :=Laura: Thank you so much! And do you keep an account of what you spend -- apart from the 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Captain: Then the accounts would confirm that. 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Captain: Leave the accounts here, and I'll go over them. 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Captain: Of course you must keep accounts. Things are in a bad way with us, 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Captain: your allowance. You can give me the accounts later. 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Captain: go bankrupt, I must be able to produce accounts, or they could accuse me of neg 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Laura: Accounts? 1.2 ::ACCOUNTS :=Laura: Do I have to keep accounts, now? 3.1 ::ACCOUNTS :=Laura: I'm trying to look into the household accounts, which he's mismanaged so terri 2.1 ::ACCUSATION :=Doctor: One has to be careful about making an accusation that could lead to a man being 2.2 ::ACCUSATIONS :=Captain: a man, I should have the right to make accusations -- or complaints, as they're 1.2 ::ACCUSE :=Captain: to produce accounts, or they could accuse me of negligence. 3.1 ::ACCUSE :=Laura: you must have a guilty conscience. Accuse me, if you can! 2.3 ::ACHIEVEMENT :=Captain: redeem it by some noble action -- some achievement, some discovery, or an honourable 2.3 ::ACKNOWLEDGE :=Laura: as my will, you won't stay and acknowledge it! 1.3 ::ACKNOWLEDGED :=Captain: last two months, not one of them has acknowledged my orders. I've written and 2.2 ::ACROSS :=Captain: in one of those very books, I came across a visiting card, bearing a pretty 3.1 ::ACROSS :=Nurse: up, now, like a good boy, and walk across the room, so that I can see how it 2.3 ::ACT :=Captain: It was certainly no act of kindness, since you knew perfectly 2.3 ::ACT :=Laura: That was an act of kindness on my part; you were neglecting 2.3 ::ACT :=Laura: Yes, sometimes -- when you act like a man. 2.1 ::ACTION :=Doctor: like an avalanche. Moreover by your action you have thwarted his will, and increased 2.3 ::ACTION :=Captain: I wanted to redeem it by some noble action -- some achievement, some discovery, 3.2 ::ACTION :=Captain: and roused my mind and body to action -- but, as things are, my thoughts 3.2 ::ACTIONS :=Laura: my way; if you see some plan behind my actions -- well, there may have been one, 3.1 ::ACTUAL :=Pastor: Whatever caused the actual outbreak, you'll admit that he suffered 2.1 ::ACTUALLY :=Bertha: Well, actually, I heard someone singing up in the 2.1 ::ACTUALLY :=Doctor: of mental disorder, but he has actually made a great contribution to sc 2.1 ::ACTUALLY :=Laura: had much the same trouble, and then he actually admitted, in his own letter to the 1.1 ::ADAPT :=Captain: ideas, so she finds it rather hard to adapt herself. Still, she's my wife . . 2.3 ::ADDRESSED :=Captain: why I've now intercepted some letters addressed to you. 2.3 ::ADMIRE :=Captain: it was a peach; you could compel me to admire your most childish remark as if it 3.1 ::ADMIRE :=Pastor: I really admire you, Laura. 2.3 ::ADMISSION :=Laura: This! Your admission to the doctor that you are insane. 1.4 ::ADMIT :=Captain: I'm sure it wasn't; you wanted me to admit that I'm in the wrong. 2.1 ::ADMIT :=Captain: Did Johansson admit that he was the father? 3.1 ::ADMIT :=Pastor: caused the actual outbreak, you'll admit that he suffered from fixed ideas. 2.1 ::ADMITTED :=Laura: the same trouble, and then he actually admitted, in his own letter to the doctor, 1.1 ::ADOLF :=Pastor: Good night, Adolf -- say good night to Laura for me. 1.1 ::ADOLF :=Pastor: should keep your women-folk in order, Adolf; you let them run things far too m 1.1 ::ADOLF :=Pastor: you. You ought to look after yourself, Adolf, you seem a bit on edge. 1.3 ::ADOLF :=Laura: I shan't be a moment -- Ah, here is Adolf. 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Oh, Mr Adolf, what is all this about? 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Now, Mr Adolf, you believe I want to help, don't 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Now, Master Adolf, just you listen to me. 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Now then, Mr Adolf, you always think the worst of everyone. 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Me? Goodness, Mr Adolf, how can you say such a thing? Do you 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Now, just listen, Mr Adolf -- don't you think you ought to meet 1.4 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Anyway, I'm not as unhappy as you, Mr Adolf. Humble your heart, and you'll see 2.1 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: I was only waiting till -- Mr Adolf. 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Mr Adolf! What are you doing? 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Mr Adolf, humble your stubborn heart, and pray 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: Forgive me, Mr Adolf, forgive me. I had to stop you from 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Nurse: and I'll soon get them again. Now, Mr Adolf, I wonder if you remember when you 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Pastor: Adolf -- mind what you're saying. 3.1 ::ADOLF :=Pastor: Adolf, do you realize that you're not in 3.2 ::ADOLF :=Laura: Adolf -- look at me. Do you believe that 3.2 ::ADOLF :=Laura: Do you want to see your child, Adolf? Do you? 3.1 ::ADOPT :=Captain: become lover and mistress, and then adopt the children. Then we could at least 3.1 ::ADOPTED :=Captain: at least be sure they were our own adopted children, couldn't we? But how can 2.3 ::ADVANCE :=Captain: truth" -- and I will forgive you in advance. 2.3 ::ADVANCE :=Laura: when you said that I was forgiven in advance. 2.2 ::ADVANCES :=Captain: a strange man who has never made any advances to her. So the moral is this: don't 2.3 ::ADVANTAGE :=Captain: You always had the advantage. If I was awake, you could hypnotize 2.3 ::ADVANTAGE :=Captain: question of whether it's more to your advantage that I should be sane or insane. 2.3 ::ADVANTAGE :=Captain: you will get nothing. So it's to your advantage that I should live out my life 2.3 ::ADVANTAGE :=Laura: -- just what I wanted. But you had one advantage -- I realized that, and I wanted 1.1 ::AFFAIR :=Captain: all I can. Besides, it's not really my affair. All right, clear out. 3.2 ::AFFAIR :=Doctor: man's destiny, you must refer this affair to Him. 2.1 ::AFFAIRS :=Doctor: you've been secretly meddling in his affairs, he would have cause for suspicions, 1.3 ::AFFECT :=Doctor: up any topic that is likely to affect the patient strongly. Ideas like that 1.3 ::AFFECTED :=Doctor: is the backbone of the mind; if it is affected, the whole mind collapses. 1.3 ::AFFECTED :=Doctor: course it is possible that his mind is affected in other ways. 2.1 ::AFFECTED :=Doctor: Then think how it must have affected him. 2.3 ::AFFECTIONS :=Captain: man hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, 2.2 ::AFFLICTED :=Captain: position you were in? Weren't you ever afflicted with doubts . . . I won't say suspicions, 1.1 ::AFRAID :=Captain: flies into such a rage that I'm really afraid she might be ill. 1.1 ::AFRAID :=Pastor: Laura won't, eh? You know, I'm afraid you're in for trouble. When she was 1.3 ::AFRAID :=Laura: No, I'm afraid they're not so good as we could w 1.3 ::AFRAID :=Laura: That's what we're afraid of, too. You see, he sometimes has 1.4 ::AFRAID :=Laura: You were afraid to let her speak, because you thought 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Laura: midnight, and he's not back yet. I'm afraid something terrible may have happe 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Laura: own letter to the doctor, that he was afraid his mind was going. 3.1 ::AFRAID :=Captain: shown me your teeth. But don't be afraid, my darling child, I shan't do you 3.1 ::AFRAID :=Laura: Not that there's much to be done, I'm afraid. Do you hear how he's going on up 1.1 ::AFTER :=Captain: it so hard on her if she never married after all. On the other hand, I don't want 1.1 ::AFTER :=Pastor: if it was some special thing she was after, as soon as she'd got it, she used 1.1 ::AFTER :=Pastor: for four months, and then it's looked after for the rest of its life. It isn't 1.1 ::AFTER :=Pastor: tonight. Thank you. You ought to look after yourself, Adolf, you seem a bit on 2.1 ::AFTER :=Doctor: tell me what took place this evening after I left? I must know everything. 2.1 ::AFTER :=Laura: Yes, I did. It was my duty to look after the interests of the house; I couldn't 2.2 ::AFTER :=Captain: with her, and I ordered champagne. After the second glass, I touched her foot; 2.2 ::AFTER :=Captain: the second glass, I touched her foot; after the fourth, her knee, and before morning, 3.1 ::AFTER :=Captain: by society, then separate directly after, and become lover and mistress, and 3.1 ::AFTER :=Captain: one of these books. So I wasn't mad after all. Here it is in the Odyssey -- Book 3.1 ::AFTER :=Doctor: put the strait-jacket on the patient after I've had a word with him, and when 3.1 ::AFTER :=Doctor: his mind, and you must help up to look after our patient. 3.1 ::AFTER :=Laura: take care of your ward, and I'll look after mine. Here's the Doctor. I'm glad to 3.1 ::AFTER :=Nurse: How do you know what happens after death! 3.1 ::AFTER :=Pastor: Ah well, I won't say anything. After all, blood's thicker than water. 3.2 ::AFTER :=Pastor: First death, and after that the Judgement . . . 2.3 ::AFTER-LIFE :=Captain: in a life to come, my child was my after-life. She was my idea of immortality 1.1 ::AFTERWARDS :=Pastor: as if that boy could help to nurse it. Afterwards, the girl can get a good place 1.3 ::AFTERWARDS :=Laura: a decision without changing his mind afterwards. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Captain: In the kitchen again? Send him in here at once. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Captain: has been playing around with the maid again. The fellow's a thoroughly bad lot 1.3 ::AGAIN :=Captain: Goodbye, and I hope I shall see you again in the morning. 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Bertha: Oh then everything'll be tiresome again. Why can't you two -- 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Bertha: lies, then I'll never believe you again. 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Nurse: in trouble, he'll come back to her again, like a good little child. 2.1 ::AGAIN :=Nurse: Oh, I've told you time and time again: it was that scamp Johansson. 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Captain: life, and when you grew old, live it again through your child. I've borne all 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Laura: and your mother will be with you again. Do you remember that, when I first 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Captain: Don't ever call me that again! 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Doctor: he's sent to prison, he'll soon be out again. Therefore we feel it's in the best 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Laura: for assault, he might become violent again. 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Nurse: quietly here, and I'll soon get them again. Now, Mr Adolf, I wonder if you remember 1.3 ::AGAINST :=Captain: booksellers in the world are in league against me! Would you believe it, for the 1.4 ::AGAINST :=Captain: always stood by me when they were all against me; but now, when I really need you, 1.4 ::AGAINST :=Captain: great wrong. You see they're plotting against me now -- and that Doctor's no friend 2.3 ::AGAINST :=Captain: you've been setting my former friends against me by spreading a rumour about my 3.1 ::AGAINST :=Captain: right, cling together, all of you, against me. That's what you've done all 3.2 ::AGAINST :=Captain: But I can feel your soft shawl against my mouth, it's as warm and soft as 2.1 ::AGO :=Laura: Six years ago we had much the same trouble, and then 2.1 ::AGONY :=Nurse: when it seemed most fair, Naught but agony was there." Yes, dear child, God send 3.1 ::AGONY :=Captain: Russia's greatest poet, died in agony caused much more by the rumours going 1.1 ::AGREE :=Pastor: to say. It's hard luck on the girl, I agree, but it's hard luck on the boy too. 1.2 ::AGREE :=Laura: But if the father and the mother agree on a compromise . . . 1.4 ::AGREE :=Nurse: But I do think you ought to be able to agree. 1.1 ::AH :=Captain: it might be worth trying with him. Ah, Nojd, what have you been up to now? 1.1 ::AH :=Pastor: Ah well, we all have our troubles in this 1.3 ::AH :=Captain: people say "it's all the same to me"! Ah, there you are, Margret. Look, my dear, 1.3 ::AH :=Laura: Ah! I understand. Yes -- yes. Excuse me, 1.3 ::AH :=Laura: for something. I shan't be a moment -- Ah, here is Adolf. 1.4 ::AH :=Captain: Ah. 1.4 ::AH :=Captain: Ah. So you want to go and live in the to 1.4 ::AH :=Laura: Ah, Bertha's in here! Then perhaps we can 2.1 ::AH :=Nurse: I'm sure the chimneys'll blow down: "Ah, what is our life below? Pain and sorrow, 2.1 ::AH :=Nurse: resounds his cry: "All must perish, all is vain!" Ah yes! "All that upon this 2.2 ::AH :=Doctor: Ah, there's more than one kind of woman, 2.3 ::AH :=Captain: Ah, I see you have a high opinion of me, 3.1 ::AH :=Captain: way, that I can still read my books. Ah, Jonas, are you here? And the doctor, 3.1 ::AH :=Doctor: Ah, Nojd. You know the circumstances here. 3.1 ::AH :=Laura: Give it to me. Ah. . . Nojd, have you taken all the cartridges 3.1 ::AH :=Pastor: Ah well, I won't say anything. After all, 3.2 ::AH :=Captain: Give me my tunic -- put that over me. Ah, my rough lion-skin that you tried to 3.2 ::AH :=Captain: Let me put my head on your lap. There! Ah, that's warmer. Lean over me, so that 1.1 ::AHEAD :=Captain: the least. I assure you that will go ahead in the ordinary way; it's a matter 3.2 ::AIR :=Captain: out to grin. It's like hitting the air, or a sham fight with blank cartridges. 3.2 ::AIR :=Captain: things are, my thoughts melt into thin air, and my brain grinds away at nothing, 3.1 ::ALEXANDER :=Captain: History of Russian Literature: Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, 2.2 ::ALIVE :=Captain: he would have spoken if he'd been alive? And do you suppose that if any dead 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: Not at all! I showed her efforts to a well-known 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: Once and for all, are you the father of the child or 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: "Anxious"? You mean "angry". All right, have it your own way. Let me help 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: This house it full of women who all want to bring up my daughter. My mother-in-law 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: and I'm no martyr -- but we've had all that out before. Good night -- remember 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: Besides, it's not really my affair. All right, clear out. 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: more suited to a man, when it would all be wasted if she ever did decide to 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: hard on her if she never married after all. On the other hand, I don't want to persuade 1.1 ::ALL :=Captain: the Court'll have to decide. I've done all I can. Besides, it's not really my affair. 1.1 ::ALL :=Nojd: ever be sure. And it's no joke slaving all your life to support another man's child. 1.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: Ah well, we all have our troubles in this life. 1.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: of you. Take care of yourself, that's all I say. Goodbye, old man -- Oh, didn't 1.2 ::ALL :=Captain: Not at all. I suppose you want some housekeeping 1.2 ::ALL :=Captain: None whatever. By law she surrenders all her rights and possessions to her husband, 1.3 ::ALL :=Captain: would send me the books! I believe all the booksellers in the world are in league 1.3 ::ALL :=Captain: makes me mad -- I can't think what it all means. 1.3 ::ALL :=Captain: me more than to hear people say "it's all the same to me"! Ah, there you are, Margret. 1.3 ::ALL :=Doctor: this, madam. I assure you, you have all my sympathy. 1.3 ::ALL :=Doctor: what can be done. I sympathize with all my heart, and I hope you will rely on 1.3 ::ALL :=Laura: mind is going. Now you know it all; you'll be able to judge for yourself 1.3 ::ALL :=Laura: myself to fall in with his wishes, all through these long, trying years. Oh, 1.3 ::ALL :=Laura: instance, he has a mania for buying all sorts of things. 1.3 ::ALL :=Laura: if we, who are nearest to him, should all be proved wrong. 1.4 ::ALL :=Bertha: All right, but you mustn't say anything. 1.4 ::ALL :=Bertha: but sometimes it won't go at all. When I'm tired, it doesn't, but I have 1.4 ::ALL :=Bertha: Oh, it's so horrid and dull in there all the time -- just like a winter night; 1.4 ::ALL :=Bertha: beautifully, but Grandmama said it was all out of Stagnelius, and that I'd been 1.4 ::ALL :=Captain: I think this is all very unfortunate. 1.4 ::ALL :=Captain: while I have three -- as well as all hers. Don't you think I should have been 1.4 ::ALL :=Captain: always stood by me when they were all against me; but now, when I really need 1.4 ::ALL :=Captain: stand in this house. You've seen it all from the very beginning. 1.4 ::ALL :=Captain: the same elements as our earth. That's all I see. 1.4 ::ALL :=Laura: Or what? All right then, we'll stop. But think very 1.4 ::ALL :=Laura: you decide to do anything. Above all, don't make yourself look ridiculous 1.4 ::ALL :=Laura: among wicked people who'll say that all her mother has taught her is stupid? 1.4 ::ALL :=Laura: . . asking tiresome questions. Don't be difficult. All right, if you won't, then 1.4 ::ALL :=Nurse: Yes, I've seen, all right. But, my goodness, why must two 1.4 ::ALL :=Nurse: Oh, Mr Adolf, what is all this about? 1.4 ::ALL :=Nurse: it, but I suppose it's because you are all women's children, every one of you, great 1.4 ::ALL :=Nurse: ought to meet the mistress half-way in all this bother over the child? Think how 2.1 ::ALL :=Bertha: it matter? I daren't stay up there all alone, I think it's haunted. 2.1 ::ALL :=Captain: see it, but the difference is there all the same. Do you think Bertha's like 2.1 ::ALL :=Laura: I don't know at all, unless it was that he had to interview 2.1 ::ALL :=Laura: stand idly by and let him ruin us all. 2.1 ::ALL :=Laura: father of a child. Heaven knows I did all I could to calm him, but I'm beginning 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: his cry: "All must perish, all is vain!" Ah yes! "All that upon this earth 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: through the world resounds his cry: "All must perish, all is vain!" Ah yes! "All 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: Yes, yes, I'll see that everything's all right. 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: death, to carve upon the gaping tomb: "All must perish, all is vain!" Yes indeed 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: alone escapes our death, to carve upon the gaping tomb: "All must perish, all is 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: spreads his wing And through the world resounds his cry: "All must perish, all is 2.2 ::ALL :=Captain: use the word "unhealthy". Remember all boilers burst when their pressure-gauge 2.2 ::ALL :=Doctor: Not at all, Captain. You know, when I heard Mrs 2.3 ::ALL :=Captain: till we finally woke. that was all very well, but we woke with our feet 2.3 ::ALL :=Captain: till my hair has turned grey, and all so that you could enjoy a carefree life, 2.3 ::ALL :=Captain: again through your child. I've borne all this without complaining because I imagined 2.3 ::ALL :=Captain: men and beasts obey? I am a sick man, all I ask is pity; I surrender the symbols 2.3 ::ALL :=Laura: What do you mean by all this? 2.3 ::ALL :=Laura: Yes, power. What has all this life and death struggle been about 2.3 ::ALL :=Laura: What can I do? I swear before God and all that I hold sacred that you are Bertha's 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: It's all to be found here -- in every one of these 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: That's right, cling together, all of you, against me. That's what you've 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: children, couldn't we? But how can all that help me now? How can anything help 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: against me. That's what you've done all along. 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: -- you're just a telephone, relaying all their chatter in there. Yes, in there 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: heavens, how they do talk. But we're all laughing-stocks anyway, we married men, 3.1 ::ALL :=Captain: of these books. So I wasn't mad after all. Here it is in the Odyssey -- Book I, 3.1 ::ALL :=Doctor: chair, with your shawl over it, and all wait outside, while the Pastor and I 3.1 ::ALL :=Doctor: we feel it's in the best interests of all parties that he should be treated as 3.1 ::ALL :=Laura: Just look at all the things he kept here! 3.1 ::ALL :=Laura: Give it to me. Ah. . . Nojd, have you taken all the cartridges out of the guns 3.1 ::ALL :=Laura: yourself Margret. The only hope for all of us is to keep calm. Who is it? 3.1 ::ALL :=Laura: my mother's not to know anything about all this, do you understand? 3.1 ::ALL :=Nojd: I've done all you said, madam. 3.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: All right, but you must pay attention, then. 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: Tell me, how did it all begin? I've heard so many different 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: Good evening, Laura, I've been out all day, I expect they told you; I've only 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: Ah well, I won't say anything. After all, blood's thicker than water. 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: and water without an explosion. What all that in the drawer? 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: me: is your conscience quite clear in all this? 3.1 ::ALL :=Pastor: must have loved you very much, Laura, all the same. I've never kept things like 3.2 ::ALL :=Captain: All that sounds very plausible, but how does 3.2 ::ALL :=Captain: Yes, I do! I believe that you're all my enemies. My mother, who didn't want 3.2 ::ALL :=Doctor: Yes, that's all I know. If anyone knows more, let him 3.2 ::ALL :=Laura: Is that all you have to say at this death-bed, D 1.2 ::ALLOWANCE :=Captain: the housekeeping money, and your allowance. You can give me the accounts 1.2 ::ALLOWED :=Captain: Because I wasn't allowed to eat or sleep or work in peace 1.2 ::ALLOWED :=Laura: And where is she to live -- if I'm allowed to ask? 1.1 ::ALMOST :=Pastor: a gift for painting that it would be almost a crime not to encourage it? 2.1 ::ALONE :=Bertha: it matter? I daren't stay up there all alone, I think it's haunted. 2.1 ::ALONE :=Nurse: breath To earth must fall beneath his doom, Sorrow alone escapes our death, 1.1 ::ALONG :=Captain: standard. Then, this summer, along comes a young whippersnapper who knows 1.3 ::ALONG :=Captain: in time, and I know they're working along the same lines in Berlin. Still, that 1.4 ::ALONG :=Laura: Come along, or they'll be. . . asking tiresome 1.4 ::ALONG :=Nurse: sit there sulking. There, there; come along now! 3.1 ::ALONG :=Captain: me. That's what you've done all along. 1.1 ::ALREADY :=Captain: of that. The whole house is up in arms already, and, between ourselves, the other 1.2 ::ALREADY :=Captain: I'd made up my mind already, I merely wished to inform the only 1.2 ::ALREADY :=Captain: And you've passed judgement already? 1.3 ::ALREADY :=Captain: Oh, you're here already, Doctor. We're very glad to see 1.3 ::ALREADY :=Doctor: but I've had some patients to see already. 2.3 ::ALREADY :=Captain: Have you the power already, then? 2.3 ::ALREADY :=Captain: What use is that, when you've already said that a mother can and should 3.1 ::ALREADY :=Captain: Are you croaking for a corpse already, you old crow? Nojd! Is Nojd there? 3.1 ::ALREADY :=Captain: I eat you, you will eat me -- you've already shown me your teeth. But don't be 1.4 ::ALSO :=Captain: what she wants is to leave home, but I also know that you have the power to make 2.2 ::ALSO :=Captain: Is it true that further foals may also be striped, even if the next sire is 2.2 ::ALTER :=Captain: circumstance, but it doesn't alter my judgement, even if it mitigates 2.3 ::ALTERED :=Laura: I was whenever your feelings altered, and you presented yourself as my 2.3 ::ALTHOUGH :=Captain: Yes, I'm crying, although I'm a man. Has not a man eyes? Has 2.3 ::ALTHOUGH :=Captain: you got the upper hand, so that I -- although I was the commander in barracks 1.1 ::ALTOGETHER :=Captain: this case. Probably the boy's not altogether innocent -- we'll never know; 2.2 ::ALVING :=Doctor: Captain. You know, when I heard Mrs Alving eulogizing her dead husband, I thought 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Captain: Then, if she doesn't marry, she can always support herself -- at any rate as 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Nojd: Oh, you always have to tell them that. 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Nojd: Well yes, sir, in a way it was. I always say nothing ever comes of it unless 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Nojd: yes. But how's a man to be sure he's always been the only one? 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Pastor: though she's my own sister, she was always a bit tiresome. 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Doctor: when I've read them, and they've always seemed to show a particularly fine 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Laura: He always insists on having his own way, but 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Captain: like a mother to me. Up to now, you've always stood by me when they were all against 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Nurse: Now then, Mr Adolf, you always think the worst of everyone. It's 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Laura: better, then Margret can sit here. She always waits for him when he's out; besides, 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Captain: You always had the advantage. If I was awake, 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Laura: The pleasure of your embraces was always followed by remorse, as if my very 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Captain: Always the same thing -- not I! Who then, 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Pastor: It's a deplorable business, but I always expected something like this would 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Pastor: of that free- thinker. You know, I've always looked on him as a weed in our ga 1.1 ::AM :=Nojd: How am I to know who's to blame? 1.1 ::AM :=Pastor: Yes -- well, who am I to judge . . . What were we talking 1.2 ::AM :=Laura: Am I interrupting? 1.4 ::AM :=Captain: no woman is born of man. But then I am Bertha's father. Tell me, Margret, you 1.4 ::AM :=Laura: Oh, am I as powerful as that? 2.1 ::AM :=Laura: Doctor; if you only knew how anxious I am. But wouldn't it be better to tell him 2.3 ::AM :=Captain: No, I am not. There's a crime lying buried here 2.3 ::AM :=Captain: of success, you cut off my arm. I am dishonoured now and I can no longer live, 2.3 ::AM :=Captain: of command both men and beasts obey? I am a sick man, all I ask is pity; I surrender 2.3 ::AM :=Laura: Then I am in the right! 3.1 ::AM :=Captain: wanted to eat me, but she couldn't. I am Saturn, who ate his own children because 3.1 ::AM :=Laura: There you are, then! You cannot, so I am not guilty. And now, you take care of 3.2 ::AM :=Laura: I feel myself innocent even if I am not. You're existence has been like a 3.2 ::AMEN :=Pastor: Amen. 1.1 ::AMONG :=Pastor: It depends how much he's lived among women. 1.4 ::AMONG :=Laura: a mother is going to send her child among wicked people who'll say that all her 2.3 ::AMONG :=Captain: sunrise, we found ourselves sitting among ruins in bright moonlight, just as 3.2 ::AMONG :=Captain: night, Margret! And blessed be thou among women. 3.2 ::AMONG :=Captain: were young, Laura, and we used to walk in the birchwoods among the primroses and 1.1 ::AMOUNT :=Captain: Laura has her faults, but they don't amount to much. 1.1 ::AN :=Captain: of her; Laura wants her to be an artist; the governess wants to make her 1.2 ::AN :=Captain: That's an official and confidential matter -- 1.2 ::AN :=Laura: Thank you so much! And do you keep an account of what you spend -- apart from 1.3 ::AN :=Doctor: Ideas like that can develop rapidly in an unstable mind, and may easily turn to 1.3 ::AN :=Laura: so much to have a doctor who takes an interest in his patients; and I've heard 1.4 ::AN :=Captain: for us to arrive at some sort of an answer. 1.4 ::AN :=Captain: God and love, your voice becomes hard, an your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, 2.1 ::AN :=Doctor: Yes; you know, of course, that an insane person loses his civil and family 2.1 ::AN :=Doctor: One has to be careful about making an accusation that could lead to a man being 2.1 ::AN :=Doctor: suspicions, and then they'd grow like an avalanche. Moreover by your action you 2.1 ::AN :=Laura: fancy. Just imagine, he had an idea that he wasn't the father of his 2.2 ::AN :=Captain: is quite unconscious. That's an extenuating circumstance, but it doesn't 2.2 ::AN :=Captain: innocent -- as innocent, that is, as an indication of love can be, from a married 2.2 ::AN :=Doctor: careful not to let your thoughts take an unhealthy turn. 2.3 ::AN :=Captain: some achievement, some discovery, or an honourable suicide. I should have liked 2.3 ::AN :=Laura: That was an act of kindness on my part; you were neglecting 2.3 ::AN :=Laura: body had no fibre, you were like an overgrown child, as if you'd come into 2.3 ::AN :=Laura: By means of this letter -- of which an attested copy is in the hands of the Board 3.1 ::AN :=Captain: Did I ever tell you what I said to an English lady who complained of the habit 3.1 ::AN :=Doctor: the violence must be considered as an outbreak of rage or of madness. 3.1 ::AN :=Doctor: imprisonment and a fine, or to go to an asylum. What have you to say about the 3.1 ::AN :=Pastor: you can't mix fire and water without an explosion. What all that in the drawe 3.1 ::AN :=Pastor: for a grave. Well, better a grave than an asylum. Laura, tell me: is your conscience 3.2 ::AN :=Laura: It's possible that I was swayed by an obscure desire to be rid of you, as something 1.3 ::ANALYSIS :=Captain: subjected meteoric stones to spectrum analysis, and I've found coal -- a sign of 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: And don't go back in the kitchen, you scoundrel. 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: Once and for all, are you the father of the child 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: I'm no witness to the faith, and I'm no martyr -- but we've had all that 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: anyhow, the whole house is at sixes and sevens. Laura won't let Bertha go, and 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: her efforts to a well-known artist, and he said they were only up to school-girl 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: tear me to pieces in half a minute. And you laugh, you wretch! As if it wasn't 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: a Methodist; old Margret, a Baptist; and the maids, a Salvation Army lass. It's 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: become a pander for my own daughter, and bring her up with no idea except marriage. 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: to see that women can do this, that, and the other. It's man versus woman the 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: to provide for a family on their pay. And if she does marry, she can use her training 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: The whole house is up in arms already, and, between ourselves, the other side's 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: and sevens. Laura won't let Bertha go, and I can't let her stay in this madhous 1.1 ::AND :=Captain: young whippersnapper who knows better, and he says she shows superb talent; so, 1.1 ::AND :=Nojd: Well, of course she and I . . . But you know yourself, Pastor, 1.1 ::AND :=Nojd: Reverence, no one can ever be sure. And it's no joke slaving all your life to 1.1 ::AND :=Nojd: having a dance at Gabriel's, you see, and Ludwig was saying -- 1.1 ::AND :=Nojd: man's child. Surely you see that, Sir, and you, your Reverence. 1.1 ::AND :=Pastor: And because she's your wife, she must be 1.1 ::AND :=Pastor: The girl can stay in the orphanage and nurse the child for four months, and 1.1 ::AND :=Pastor: and nurse the child for four months, and then it's looked after for the rest of 1.1 ::AND :=Pastor: chap, I promised I'd be in to supper, and the old lady gets anxious if I'm lat 1.1 ::AND :=Pastor: because I can't see much help for you, and of course Laura has her supporters -- 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: And you've passed judgement already? 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: That's an official and confidential matter -- 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: Leave the accounts here, and I'll go over them. 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: here's the housekeeping money, and your allowance. You can give me the accounts 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: Things are in a bad way with us, and if I should go bankrupt, I must be able 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: and in return he must support her and her children. 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: wished to inform the only friend I and my household have in common. Bertha is 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: you can't expect to have them back and keep the money. 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: By law she surrenders all her rights and possessions to her husband, and in return 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: wanted him because he was a Pietist; and old Margret, because she'd known his 1.2 ::AND :=Captain: rights and possessions to her husband, and in return he must support her and her 1.2 ::AND :=Laura: And the mother has no say in the matter? 1.2 ::AND :=Laura: And where is she to live -- if I'm allowed 1.2 ::AND :=Laura: But if the father and the mother agree on a compromise . . 1.2 ::AND :=Laura: Thank you so much! And do you keep an account of what you spend 1.3 ::AND :=Captain: get my treatise finished in time, and I know they're working along the same 1.3 ::AND :=Captain: Doctor; you must be tired. Goodbye, and I hope I shall see you again in the 1.3 ::AND :=Captain: acknowledged my orders. I've written and even sent abusive telegrams! It makes 1.3 ::AND :=Captain: meteoric stones to spectrum analysis, and I've found coal -- a sign of life! What 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: And can you see that through a microscop 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: seemed to show a particularly fine and orderly mind. 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: most impressed when I've read them, and they've always seemed to show a particularly 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: I'm deeply moved by your misfortune, and I promise you that I'll see what can 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: develop rapidly in an unstable mind, and may easily turn to obsessions or monomania. 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: done. I sympathize with all my heart, and I hope you will rely on me absolutely. 1.3 ::AND :=Doctor: in me, but as a doctor, I must examine and investigate for myself before I make 1.3 ::AND :=Laura: Then you don't believe me, Doctor. And I've been letting you into our family 1.3 ::AND :=Laura: been married for twenty years now, and he's never yet made a decision without 1.3 ::AND :=Laura: moment he gets it, he loses interest, and asks me to decide for him. 1.3 ::AND :=Laura: who takes an interest in his patients; and I've heard so many nice things about 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: and that I'd been cheating her, and she go terrible angry. 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: she likes to turn the lamp down, and then I have to sit at the table and hold 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: said it was all out of Stagnelius, and that I'd been cheating her, and she go 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: and then I have to sit at the table and hold a pen over a sheet of paper. And 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: revenge if anyone talks about them. And then the pen writes but I don't know 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: Grandmama says you don't understand, and she says you have things that are far 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: and hold a pen over a sheet of paper. And then she commands the spirit to writ 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: says there are things that she can see and you can't. 1.4 ::AND :=Bertha: sometimes -- often. Oh, it's so horrid and dull in there all the time -- just like 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: And you and the Baptists have found the only 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: And you and the Baptists have found the only real 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: Ah. So you want to go and live in the town? 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: Hm. Well, suppose you want it and I want it, but she doesn't want it -- 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, an your 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: You insulted Nordling till he left; and then you got your brother to scrape up 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: a poor soldier, if I hadn't had her and her child? 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: how did you get rid of Dr Nordling, and how did you get the new man here? 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: bodies. What I do is to examine then, and say whether they're made of the same 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: when I really need you, you desert me and go over to the enemy. 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: you think a father would let ignorant and conceited women teach his daughter that 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: see they're plotting against me now -- and that Doctor's no friend of mine. 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: that? Would you like to go to the town and learn something useful? 1.4 ::AND :=Captain: Well, one day you'll meet your match -- and you'll never forget it. 1.4 ::AND :=Laura: Well, that was very simple, and quite legitimate. So Bertha's to go 1.4 ::AND :=Laura: now when I said Bertha was my child and not yours. Suppose -- 1.4 ::AND :=Laura: put up with anything, to lose my home and my good name, for the sake of keeping 1.4 ::AND :=Laura: real father, with details of the time and place; for instance -- when was Bertha 1.4 ::AND :=Laura: name, for the sake of keeping my child and bringing her up. Suppose I was telling 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: ready. Won't you please come out and have it. 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: see how God will make you happy, and loving towards your neighbour. 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: the father of your own child. Come and have supper, now, and don't sit there 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: as you, Mr Adolf. Humble your heart, and you'll see how God will make you happy, 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: Margret loves her great big boy best; and when he's in trouble, he'll come back 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: own child. Come and have supper, now, and don't sit there sulking. There, there; 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: each other? Two people who are so good and kind to everyone else. The mistress is 1.4 ::AND :=Nurse: Yes, it's your learning makes you proud and hard, but it won't help you much in the 2.1 ::AND :=Bertha: the saddest song I've ever heard. And it seemed as if it came from the box- 2.1 ::AND :=Bertha: to finish Papa's Christmas present. And I've brought something you'll like, 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: I made notes of our conversation, and I remember questioning you on that particular 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: he brings up the subject himself, and then only in exceptional cases. It depends 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: action you have thwarted his will, and increased his irritability. You yourself 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: he would have cause for suspicions, and then they'd grow like an avalanche. Moreover 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: on like this; something must be done, and without arousing his suspicions. Tell 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: that an insane person loses his civil and family rights. 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: yes, a case like this is deep-rooted, and what with the sanctity of family life, 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: could say that your mother wasn't well and that I'd come to see her. 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: what with the sanctity of family life, and so forth, I can't probe too deeply; I 2.1 ::AND :=Doctor: when one's dearest wishes are thwarted and one's will obstructed. 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: It's midnight, and he's not back yet. I'm afraid something 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: His mind wandered, and he had the most extraordinary fancy. 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: No, but I want you to sit here and wait for him; and when he comes, you're 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: ago we had much the same trouble, and then he actually admitted, in his own 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: to tell him that my mother's ill, and that's why the doctor's here. 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: the girl's part, he became excited and said that no one could tell who was the 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: some question of a maintenance order, and when I took the girl's part, he became 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: of the house; I couldn't stand idly by and let him ruin us all. 2.1 ::AND :=Laura: want you to sit here and wait for him; and when he comes, you're to tell him that 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Yes, yes . . . "A pitiful and wretched thing Is life, 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Oh dear, oh dear! And such a fearful night too, I'm sure the 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: The old lady's ill, and the doctor's here. 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Good night, child -- and God bless you. 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Oh, I've told you time and time again: it was that scamp Johans 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: passes by. Death's angel o'er us spreads his wing And through the world resounds 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: "Ah, what is our life below? Pain and sorrow, grief and woe. Even when it seemed 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: out in the hall. Go to bed now -- and take the coffee-pot away, or the master'll 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: never do. It's gone twelve o'clock, and you've got to be up in the morning. 2.1 ::AND :=Nurse: our life below? Pain and sorrow, grief and woe. Even when it seemed most fair, Naught 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: No, enough and no more. But listen to this, doctor; 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: You are a widower? And you've had children? 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: Now for the other -- and that was a real summer swallow. I was 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: as they're so cleverly called, and perhaps I should be able to give you 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: stewardess, in tears. She sat down and told us that her sweetheart had been 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: a stallion can sire striped foals -- and vice versa? 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: a woman of the strictest principles, and very devout; she preached morality to 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: devout; she preached morality to me, and was completely virtuous -- or so I thought. 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: kind. When I was young, I was strong and -- if I may say so -- good-looking. I 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: a man, I can only do like the Romans, and fold my arms over my chest and hold my 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: her foot; after the fourth, her knee, and before morning, I had consoled her. 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: thought. I lent her one or two books, and when she went away, surprisingly enough, 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: woman was so despicable that she went and told her husband that she was in love 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: would have spoken if he'd been alive? And do you suppose that if any dead husband 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: Romans, and fold my arms over my chest and hold my breath till I die. Good nigh 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: be able to give you the full diagnosis and, what is more, the case history. But 2.2 ::AND :=Captain: been drowned. We sympathized with her, and I ordered champagne. After the second 2.2 ::AND :=Doctor: No, as a matter of fact, I never was. And anyhow, Captain, wasn't it Goethe who 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: And how can you have me put under restra 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: And who will pay for her education when I'm 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: Yes and no. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: There are for me, and it's you who have raised them. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: Laura, don't destroy me and my reason! You don't understand what 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: It was you and the lawyer, and you were talking about the property that 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: himself. When women grow old and cease to be women, they grow hair on 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: For you had no understanding, and instead of carrying out my ideas, you 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: hear your answer. I recovered, and we had a child. Who is the father? 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I was the commander in barracks and on parade -- when I was with you, I was 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: in the drawing-room. It was you and the lawyer, and you were talking about 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: it. Do you think a man would go and trumpet his own shame abroad. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: that you have been waiting for, and that may come at any time. That brings 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: Yes, that's how it was. My father and mother never wanted me, so I was born 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: here that's beginning to stink -- and what a hellish crime it is! You women 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: you could have led me into crime, and even into petty meanness. For you had 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: -- you know why not. I became ill, and was at death's door. Once, when the fever 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I shall have to leave the Service, and where will you be then? If I die my life 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: Then I immersed myself in science. And now, when I should be reaching out my 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: as babies, full of fancies, ideas, and illusions; till we finally woke. that 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: been intercepting both my incoming and outgoing mail. The consequence is that 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: hurt with the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: incidents that render you suspect, and perhaps condemn you. We'd been married 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: it is! You women pity black slaves and set them free, but you keep white ones. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: me outright "This is the truth" -- and I will forgive you in advance. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: a man can live when there's nothing and no one to live for? 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: into my ears like drops of henbane, and circumstances have made them grow. Free 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: servants. I've sacrificed my career and promotion, I've been racked and tortured, 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: that soon my reason will be clouded and my mind will begin to wander. That means 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I surrender the symbols of my power, and pray for mercy on my life. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: anything because we had no children, and he asked if you were expecting one. I 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: between two and three in the morning and I was sitting up reading. You screamed 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: but you keep white ones. I've worked and slaved for you and your child, your mother, 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: cut off my arm. I am dishonoured now and I can no longer live, for a man cannot 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: for you and your child, your mother, and your servants. I've sacrificed my career 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: future till my hair has turned grey, and all so that you could enjoy a carefree 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: obey; you could give me a raw potato and convince me that it was a peach; you 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: ones. I've worked and slaved for you and your child, your mother, and your servants. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a woman. If you prick us, do 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: we woke with our feet on the pillow, and whoever it was who woke us was a sleepwalker 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: Bertha's birthday. It was between two and three in the morning and I was sitting 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I've heard you cry out in your sleep, and I've refused to listen. Now I remember 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: carry out both my duties as a soldier and my obligations as a father; I have my 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: it so that soon it will slip its cogs and then the whole works will whirr to a 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: my reason. Free me from my suspicions and I'll give up the fight. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: that you could enjoy a carefree life, and when you grew old, live it again through 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: were no longer cocks but only capons, and the pullets answered the call, so that 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: you've already said that a mother can and should commit any crime for her child's 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: you. We'd been married for two years, and had no children -- you know why not. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I realized how my honour was tarnished and I wanted to redeem it by some noble action 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: a little morning nap, with bad dreams, and there was no awakening. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: career and promotion, I've been racked and tortured, I've endured sleepless nights, 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: foundations in reality. Take that away and you wipe me out. 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: or less intact -- though you've gnawed and gnawed at it so that soon it will slip 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: own way. But when I eventually woke up and came to my senses, I realized how my 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: so I was born without a will. When you and I became one I thought I was completing 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: soldier whose word of command both men and beasts obey? I am a sick man, all I ask 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: what becomes of men when they grow old and cease to be men. Those who once crowed 2.3 ::AND :=Captain: I saw that, but I never understood why. And when I thought you despised me for my 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: And the stronger will be in the right? 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: Yes, and that's where you were wrong. The mother 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: That's true, and that's why I loved you as if you were 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: Cry then, child, and your mother will be with you again. Do 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: What's this? A man, and crying? 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: Yes, legal power, too, and tomorrow I shall use it to put you under 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: There's no further need for you, and you must go. You must go because, though 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: What can I do? I swear before God and all that I hold sacred that you are Bertha's 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: Yes, power. What has all this life and death struggle been about except pow 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: Love between the sexes is a battle. And don't imagine that I gave myself to you; 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: -- unfortunately -- essential father and breadwinner. There's no further need 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: guilty so that you can get rid of me and then have full control over the child. 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: I was whenever your feelings altered, and you presented yourself as my lover. The 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: formidable as my will, you won't stay and acknowledge it! 2.3 ::AND :=Laura: had one advantage -- I realized that, and I wanted you to realize it too. 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: Feel under your wig and see if you can't find two bumps up there. 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: directly after, and become lover and mistress, and then adopt the children. 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: you had the sense? Caught, shorn and outwitted -- they won't even let me 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: half goes on growing, with my arm and half my brain, while I whither away and 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: let you. You see, I'm a cannibal, and I want to eat you. Your mother wanted 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: or you will never have any peace, and nor shall I. You must have one thought 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: that a man -- a man who has loved and worshipped a woman -- goes and takes 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: my books. Ah, Jonas, are you here? And the doctor, of course. Did I ever tell 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: and then someone comes with a knife and cuts them down below the graft, so that 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: half my brain, while I whither away and die, because it was the best part of 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: pale, too! But cheer up, she's dead and buried, and what's done can't be undone. 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: But cheer up, she's dead and buried, and what's done can't be undone. I used to 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: brought on the wind, like pestilence and fever. Look at me, so that I can see 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: him?" That's clear enough, isn't it? And what have we here? Merzlyakov's History 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: loved and worshipped a woman -- goes and takes a lighted lamp and flings it in 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: man ever yet knew his own begetter." And it was Penelope, the most virtuous of 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: suspecting. That's a fine thing, eh? And then we have the prophet Ezekiel: "The 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: themselves into a more perfect tree; and then someone comes with a knife and cuts 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: two souls, and you love me with one, and hate me with the other. But you must 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: after, and become lover and mistress, and then adopt the children. Then we could 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: best part of myself that I gave away. And now I want to die. Do what you like to 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: let me kill the child? Life's a hell, and death is the Kingdom of Heaven; children 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: -- isn't that so, Jonas? One believes, and one is saved. Yes, that's how it is! 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: I grafted my right arm, half my brain, and half my marrow, onto another stem, for 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: for I thought they would grow together and knit themselves into a more perfect tree; 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: see her soul, too! You have two souls, and you love me with one, and hate me with 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: society, then separate directly after, and become lover and mistress, and then adopt 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: thought only, the child of my thought; and only one will -- mine! 3.1 ::AND :=Captain: woman -- goes and takes a lighted lamp and flings it in her face . . . well, then 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: And if he's sent to prison, he'll soon be 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: after I've had a word with him, and when I give the order, but not before. 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: the back to restrict his movements. And here we have two straps with buckles 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: that chair, with your shawl over it, and all wait outside, while the Pastor and 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: and all wait outside, while the Pastor and I receive him. Quickly -- that door won't 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: here. The Captain. is our of his mind, and you must help up to look after our p 3.1 ::AND :=Doctor: your husband is liable to imprisonment and a fine, or to go to an asylum. What have 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: And you dare to say that to me, his wife 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: There. Give this to Nojd. And my mother's not to know anything about 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: I've sent a message to the Colonel, and now I'm trying to look into the household 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: you taken all the cartridges out of the guns and emptied the pouches? 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: And now, you take care of your ward, and I'll look after mine. Here's the Doctor. 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: his about not being Bertha's father, and it ended with his throwing a lighted 3.1 ::AND :=Laura: then! You cannot, so I am not guilty. And now, you take care of your ward, and 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: when you were my dear little boy and I used to tuck you up at night and read 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: bite!" And you let go of it there and then. And the times you wouldn't get 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: how I used to get up in the night and get you a drink, and how I used to light 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: to. I used to have to wheedle you and say you'd have a golden coat and be dressed 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: and how I used to light the candle and tell you lovely stories when you had 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: away? You were a silly little boy, and we had to play tricks on you, because 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: coat and be dressed like a prince. And then I'd take your little jacket and 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: say: "Get up, now, like a good boy, and walk across the room, so that I can see 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: And then I'd take your little jacket and say "In with your arms now -- both of 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: And you let go of it there and then. And the times you wouldn't get dressed when 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: away, but you just sit quietly here, and I'll soon get them again. Now, Mr Adolf, 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: him up there, pacing up and down, up and down. 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: quiet while I button down the back". And then I'd say: "Get up, now, like a good 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: up in the night and get you a drink, and how I used to light the candle and tell 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: with your arms now -- both of them!" And then I'd say, "Now sit nice and quiet 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: you and say you'd have a golden coat and be dressed like a prince. And then I'd 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Mr Adolf, humble your stubborn heart, and pray to God for mercy -- it's not too 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: big carving-knife to make boats with, and how I came in and had to play a trick 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: room, so that I can see how it fits". And then I'd say "Now you must go to bed 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: that snake," I said, "or it'll bite!" And you let go of it there and then. And 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: to make boats with, and how I came in and had to play a trick on you to get the 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: Just listen to him up there, pacing up and down, up and down. 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: boy and I used to tuck you up at night and read you "Gentle Jesus"? Do you remember 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: lovely stories when you had bad dreams and couldn't sleep? Do you remember? 3.1 ::AND :=Nurse: them!" And then I'd say, "Now sit nice and quiet while I button down the back". 3.1 ::AND :=Pastor: cap; and Bertha's rattle -- and your letters and this locket. He must 3.1 ::AND :=Pastor: Good heavens! Here's your doll -- and here's your christening cap; and Bertha's 3.1 ::AND :=Pastor: -- and here's your christening cap; and Bertha's rattle -- and your letters and 3.1 ::AND :=Pastor: Bertha's rattle -- and your letters and this locket. He must have loved you very 3.1 ::AND :=Pastor: this would happen; you can't mix fire and water without an explosion. What all 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: -- lovely -- lovely! Think how beautiful life was, and what it is now. You 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: That's why the future is theirs, and we die childless. "Gentle Jesus, meek 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: -- so tired. Good night, Margret! And blessed be thou among women. 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: my resistance, and roused my mind and body to action -- but, as things are, 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you were my mortal 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: it's as warm and soft as your arm, and it smells of vanilla like your hair when 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: when you were young . . . When you were young, Laura, and we used to walk in 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: plausible, but how does it help me? And who is to blame? A spiritual marriage, 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: you given me, Margret? It's so hard and cold -- so cold. Come and sit beside 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: are, my thoughts melt into thin air, and my brain grinds away at nothing, till 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: shawl against my mouth, it's as warm and soft as your arm, and it smells of vanilla 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: You cunning woman -- who wanted peace and preached disarmament. Wake up, Hercules, 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: and we used to walk in the birchwoods among the primroses and the thrushes -- lovely 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: fire. Give me a pillow under my head. And put something over me, I'm cold -- terribly 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: only shadows, that hide in the bushes and poke their heads out to grin. It's like 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you were my mortal enemy, 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: we die childless. "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child -- " 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: It's so hard and cold -- so cold. Come and sit beside me -- here, on the chair. 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: friend. Then he debauches the partner, and violates the friend. What becomes of 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: physical love? It dies in the process. And what is the issue of this love -- in 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: truth would have roused my resistance, and roused my mind and body to action -- 3.2 ::AND :=Captain: what it is now. You never wanted it to come to this, and nor did I; yet this has 3.2 ::AND :=Doctor: In that case -- and I can no more judge of that, than I can 3.2 ::AND :=Laura: I don't know that the thoughts and motives that you're suggesting ever entered 3.2 ::AND :=Laura: have laid down, and, before God and my conscience, I feel myself innocent 3.2 ::AND :=Laura: that you yourself have laid down, and, before God and my conscience, I feel 3.2 ::AND :=Laura: like a stone on my heart, weighing and weighing it down till the heart struggled 3.2 ::AND :=Laura: that oppressed it. That is how it was, and if I have harmed you unintentionally, 3.2 ::AND :=Pastor: First death, and after that the Judgement . . . 2.1 ::ANGEL :=Nurse: wretched thing Is life, that swiftly passes by. Death's angel o'er us spreads 1.1 ::ANGRY :=Captain: "Anxious"? You mean "angry". All right, have it your own way. 1.4 ::ANGRY :=Bertha: been cheating her, and she go terrible angry. 2.1 ::ANGRY :=Nurse: coffee-pot away, or the master'll be angry. 2.2 ::ANKLE :=Doctor: -- only a slight sprain in the left ankle. 1.3 ::ANNEXE :=Captain: Look, my dear, do you know if the annexe is ready for the Doctor? 1.3 ::ANNEXE :=Captain: here, there's a little flat in the annexe, or would you rather have the old 1.3 ::ANNOYS :=Captain: Do forgive me, Doctor, but nothing annoys me more than to hear people say "it's 1.1 ::ANOTHER :=Captain: sort of a prodigy -- nor even just another edition of myself. But I will not 1.1 ::ANOTHER :=Nojd: joke slaving all your life to support another man's child. Surely you see that, 1.3 ::ANOTHER :=Laura: a microscope what's happening on another planet? 2.3 ::ANOTHER :=Captain: guilty, do you imagine I would take on another man's child? 3.1 ::ANOTHER :=Captain: my brain, and half my marrow, onto another stem, for I thought they would grow 1.4 ::ANSWER :=Captain: for us to arrive at some sort of an answer. 2.3 ::ANSWER :=Captain: expecting one. I couldn't hear your answer. I recovered, and we had a child. 3.1 ::ANSWER :=Laura: How can I answer that now? 3.1 ::ANSWER :=Laura: Then wait outside while I answer the Colonel's letter. 2.3 ::ANSWERED :=Captain: cocks but only capons, and the pullets answered the call, so that when it should 3.1 ::ANSWERED :=Captain: she simpered. "Yes, of course," I answered. When things get to such a pitch 1.4 ::ANXIETY :=Captain: Exactly, old lady! She has only one anxiety, while I have three -- as well as 2.3 ::ANXIETY :=Captain: with you, realizing what caused your anxiety; I've often lulled your guilty conscience 1.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Captain: "Anxious"? You mean "angry". All right, have 1.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Pastor: be in to supper, and the old lady gets anxious if I'm late. 2.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Laura: leave us, Doctor; if you only knew how anxious I am. But wouldn't it be better to 1.1 ::ANY :=Captain: she can always support herself -- at any rate as well as those poor schoolmasters 1.1 ::ANY :=Captain: that settles it -- in Laura's mind, at any rate! 1.2 ::ANY :=Laura: to do with me. Did my lords come to any decision at this evening's session? 1.3 ::ANY :=Captain: Good. Then I won't keep you any longer, Doctor; you must be tired. Goodbye, 1.3 ::ANY :=Doctor: my diagnosis. Does the Captain show any symptoms of sudden moodiness -- is he 1.3 ::ANY :=Doctor: must impress on you. Avoid bringing up any topic that is likely to affect the patient 1.3 ::ANY :=Laura: is out, but he should be back at any moment. 1.4 ::ANY :=Bertha: her -- very nicely. She never takes any notice of me. 1.4 ::ANY :=Captain: The child can hardly have any considered opinion about how a young 1.4 ::ANY :=Captain: No, thank you, I don't want any. 2.1 ::ANY :=Doctor: spectroscope, he's not only cleared of any suspicion of mental disorder, but he 2.1 ::ANY :=Laura: besides, she's the only one who has any influence over him. Margret! Margret 2.1 ::ANY :=Nurse: I don't see any difference. 2.2 ::ANY :=Captain: to a strange man who has never made any advances to her. So the moral is this: 2.2 ::ANY :=Captain: been alive? And do you suppose that if any dead husband were to come to life, he'd 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: -- because I didn't want to hear any more. I'd had my suspicions for a long 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: -- perhaps the only one that has any foundations in reality. Take that away 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: that a mother can and should commit any crime for her child's sake? I implore 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: no control over her, nor do I desire any. That is just what you want, isn't it? 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: you particularly don't want me to win any honour, since it would emphasize your 2.3 ::ANY :=Captain: been waiting for, and that may come at any time. That brings you to the question 2.3 ::ANY :=Laura: Have you any grounds for your suspicions? 2.3 ::ANY :=Laura: Are there any doubts a