Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts Henrik Ibsen

But there must be a petticoat in the house; that's as clear as daylight. For I want to have it a bit lively like in the evenings, with singing and dancing, and so on. You must remember they're weary wanderers on the ocean of life. [Nearer.] Now don't be a fool and stand in your own light, Regina. What's to become of you out here? Your mistress has given you a lot of learning; but what good is that to you? You're to look after the children at the new Orphanage, I hear. Is that the sort of thing for you, eh? Are you so dead set on wearing your life out for a pack of dirty brats? No; if things go as I want them to-Well there's no saying-there's no saying. What do you mean by "there's no saying"? Never you mind.-How much money have you saved? What with one thing and another, a matter of seven or eight hundred crowns. [A "krone" is equal to one shilling and three-halfpence.] That's not so bad. . It's enough to make a start with, my girl. Aren't you thinking of giving me any? No, I'm blest if I am! Not even of sending me a scrap of stuff for a new dress? Come to town with me, my lass, and you'll soon get dresses enough. Pooh! I can do that on my own account, if I want to No, a father's guiding hand is what you want, Now, I've got my eye on a capital house in Little Harbour Street. They don't want much ready-money; and it could be a sort of a Sailors' Home, you know.