Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS. [_Looking straight before him._] In that case, I am glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING. May I inquire,—what is your destiny? GREGERS. [_Going._] To be the thirteenth at table. RELLING. The devil it is. THE END. ----- Footnote 19: “Livslögnen,” literally “the life-lie.” Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note There are quite a few instances of missing punctuation. The conventional period following the character’s name is sometimes missing and has been added for consistency’s sake without further comment. Those missing from setting and stage direction are also added without comment, since there is no obvious purpose to be served by the omission. However, the restoration of punctuation missing from dialogue is noted below, since the punctuation is frequently expressive. Several instances of dubious ‘?’ marks have been corrected, based on context. As noted below, on p. 62, there is apparently a missing word in the phrase ‘And even it were so...’, most likely ‘if’. Volume I of this series included errata for each succeeding volume, and noted the following for Volume VIII. Each of these was corrected in printing. Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.