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now, Consul! The whole railway is hanging by a thread.
Bernick.
[Absently.] What is it? What am I to?
Lona.
[Earnestly and with emphasis.] You are to rise and support society, brother-in-law!
Sandstad.
Yes, come, come; we need all your moral predominance.
Johan.
[Close to him.] Bernick, we two will talk of this to-morrow.
[He goes out through the garden; Bernick goes out to the right with Sandstad, as if his will were paralysed.
