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Petra.
A sinner?
Morten.
Yes, if you work so hard. Mr. Rörlund[1] says work is a punishment for our sins.
Eilif.
[Contemptuously.] Bosh! What a silly you are, to believe such stuff as that.
Mrs. Stockmann.
Come come, Eilif.
Billing.
[Laughing.] Capital, capital!
Hovstad.
Should you not like to work so hard, Morten?
Morten.
No, I shouldn't.
Hovstad.
Then what will you do with yourself in the world?
Morten.
I should like to be a Viking.
Eilif.
But then you'd have to be a heathen.
Morten.
Well, so I would.
Billing.
There I agree with you, Morten! I say just the same thing.
- ↑ See Pillars of Society.
