Bernick: Yes, yes, Johan--you must!
Johan: Yes, I will go away, and I will hold my tongue; but I
shall come back, and then I shall speak.
Bernick: Stay over there, Johan; hold your tongue, and I am
willing to share with you--
Johan: Keep your money, but give me back my name and reputation.
Bernick: And sacrifice my own!
Johan: You and your community must get out of that the best way
you can. I must and shall win Dina for my wife. And therefore, I
am going to sail tomorrow in the "Indian Girl"--
Bernick: In the "Indian Girl"?
Johan: Yes. The captain has promised to take me. I shall go over
to America, as I say; I shall sell my farm, and set my affairs in
order. In two months I shall be back.
Bernick: And then you will speak?
Johan: Then the guilty man must take his guilt on himself.
Bernick: Have you forgotten that, if I do that, I must also take
on myself guilt that is not mine?
Johan: Who is it that for the last fifteen years has benefited by
that shameful rumour?
Bernick: You will drive me to desperation! Well, if you speak, I
shall deny everything! I shall say it is a plot against me--that
you have come here to blackmail me!
Lona: For shame, Karsten!
Bernick: I am a desperate man, I tell you, and I shall fight for
my life.
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