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Then he said that which every man tells a prostitute in these moments preceding the casual possession of her body: "Do you know, Marichen, you also please me very much. I would willingly take you and set you up." "You're married," the girl objected, touching his ring. "Yes, but, you understand, I don't live with my wife; she isn't well, she can't fulfill her conjugal duties." "The poor thing!
His grandfather, Henrik, was wrecked in 1798 in his own ship, which went down with all souls lost on Hesnaes, near Grimstad; this reef is the scene of Ibsen's animated poem of Terje Viken. His father, Knud, who was born in 1797, married in 1825 a German, Marichen Cornelia Martie Altenburg, of the same town of Skien; she was one year his senior, and the daughter of a merchant.
It is, in fact, a vain attempt to detect elements of his ancestors in the extremely startling and unprecedented son who was born to Knud and Marichen Ibsen two years and three months after their marriage.
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