A voice says: "There, Rikke doesn't want to work any more." All laugh softly and forcedly.
"Suppose we send Gart to the city--what then ?" Desfoso goes on, without looking at Haggart.

"Well, the city people will hang him--and then what?
The result will be that a man will be gone, a fisherman will be gone--you will lose a son, and Mariet will lose her husband, and the little boy his father.

Is there any joy in that ?" "That's right, that's right!" nods the abbot, approvingly.

"But what a mind you have, Desfoso!" "Do you pay attention to them, Abbot ?" asked Haggart.
"Yes, I do, Haggart.

And it wouldn't do you any harm to pay attention to them.