The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 08 (of 11)Ibsen, Henrik
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The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 08 (of 11)
Ibsen, Henrik
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English; Norwegian drama -- Translations into English
HIALMAR.
Yes, with the greatest pleasure——
GINA.
But, Mr. Werle, I'm sure it’s not at all the sort of room for _you_.
HIALMAR.
Why, Gina! how can you say that?
GINA.
Why, because the room’s neither large enough nor light enough, and——
GREGERS.
That really doesn’t matter, Mrs. Ekdal.
HIALMAR.
I call it quite a nice room, and not at all badly furnished either.
GINA.
But remember the pair of them underneath.
GREGERS.
What pair?
GINA.
Well, there’s one as has been a tutor——
HIALMAR.
That’s Molvik—Mr. Molvik, B.A.
GINA.
And then there’s a doctor, by the name of Relling.
GREGERS.
Relling? I know him a little; he practised for a time up in Höidal.
GINA.
They’re a regular rackety pair, they are. As often as not, they’re out
on the loose in the evenings; and then they come home at all hours, and
they’re not always just——
GREGERS.
One soon gets used to that sort of thing. I daresay I shall be like the
wild duck——
GINA.
H'm; I think you ought to sleep upon it first, anyway.
GREGERS.
You seem very unwilling to have me in the house, Mrs. Ekdal.
GINA.
Oh no! What makes you think _that_?
HIALMAR.
Well, you really behave strangely about it, Gina. [_To GREGERS._] Then I
suppose you intend to remain in the town for the present?
GREGERS.
[_Putting on his overcoat._] Yes, now I intend to remain here.
HIALMAR.
And yet not at your father’s? What do you propose to do, then?
GREGERS.
Ah, if I only knew _that_, Hialmar, I shouldn’t be so badly off! But
when one has the misfortune to be called Gregers—! “Gregers”—and then
“Werle” after it; did you ever hear anything so hideous?
HIALMAR.
Oh, I don’t think so at all.
GREGERS.
Ugh! Bah! I feel I should like to spit upon the fellow that answers to
such a name. But when a man is once for all doomed to be Gregers—Werle
in this world, as I am——
HIALMAR.
[_Laughs._] Ha ha! If you weren’t Gregers Werle, what would you like to
be?
GREGERS.
If I could choose, I should like best to be a clever dog.
GINA.
A dog!
HEDVIG.
[_Involuntarily._] Oh no!
GREGERS.
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