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?