Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas - LightNovelsOnl.com
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[_Throws herself into his arms, and helps herself to macaroons._] That will be fearfully thrilling! My--_my_ Manager!
DR. HERDAL.
[_Comes out very pale, from dispensary._] Hilda I _did_ take the---- I'm afraid I interrupt you?
HELMER.
Not in the least. But this lady is my little lark, and she is going back to her cage by the next steamer.
DR. HERDAL.
[_Bitterly._] Am I _never_ to have a gleam of happiness? But stay--do I see my little Senna once more?
RuBUB.
Pardon me--_my_ little Senna. She always believed so firmly in my pill!
DR. HERDAL.
Well--well. If it must be. Rubub, I will take you into partners.h.i.+p, and we will take out a patent for that pill, jointly. Aline, my poor dear Aline, let us try once more if we cannot bring a ray of brightness into our cheerless home!
MRS. HERDAL.
Oh, Haustus, if only we _could_--but why do you propose that to me--_now_?
DR. HERDAL.
[_Softly--to himself._] Because I have tried being a troll--and found that nothing came of it, and it wasn't worth sixpence!
[HILDA-NORA _goes off to the right with_ HELMER; SENNA _to the left with_ RuBUB; Dr. HERDAL _and_ MRS. HERDAL _sit on two of the galvanised-iron chairs, and shake their heads disconsolately as the Curtain falls._
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