ASLAKSEN. What good do his “best intentions” do me? You hear them in there, clinking glasses and drinking healths? Well, I, too, have sat at that table in my day, dressed in purple and fine linen, like the best of them -- ! That was just the thing for me, that was -- for me, that has read so much and had thirsted so long to have my share in all the good things of life. Well, well; how long was Jeppe in Paradise?
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Smash, crash! down you go -- and my fine fortunes fell to pi, as we printers say.
