The Chamberlain.

What does he mean by that?

Stensgård.

Yes, my brothers and sisters in rejoicing! There hovers in the air an Influence, a Spectre from the dead and rotten past, which spreads darkness and oppression where there should be nothing but buoyancy and light. We must lay that Spectre; down with it!

The Crowd.

Hurrah! Hurrah for the Seventeenth of May!

Thora.

Come away, father——!

The Chamberlain.

What the deuce does he mean by a spectre? Who is he talking about, Doctor?