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An Enemy of the People Act III · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act three of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen,
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  Speaker 1: translated by R. Farquroassen Sharp. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: the editorial office of the People's Messenger. The entrance door
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  Speaker 1: is on the left hand side of the back wall.
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  Speaker 1: On the right hand side is another door with glass
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  Speaker 1: panels through which the printing room can be seen. Another
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  Speaker 1: door in the right hand wall. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the room is a large table covered with papers, newspapers
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  Speaker 1: and books in the foreground. On the left a window,
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  Speaker 1: before which stands a desk and a high stool. There
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  Speaker 1: are a couple of easy chairs by the table and
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  Speaker 1: other chairs standing along the wall. The room is dingy
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  Speaker 1: and uncomfortable. The furniture is old, the chair is stained
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  Speaker 1: and torn. In the printing room, the compositors are seen
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  Speaker 1: at work and a printer is working. A hand press
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  Speaker 1: Havstad is seen the desk. Writing billing comes in from
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  Speaker 1: the right with doctor Stockman's manuscript in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I must say, have you read it through?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Indeed I have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think the Doctor hits them pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: Hard, Bless my soul. He's crushing every word falls like.
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  Speaker 2: How shall I put it, like the blow of a
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  Speaker 2: sledge hammer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but they are not the people to throw up
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  Speaker 1: the sponge at the first blow, that.
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  Speaker 2: Is true, And for that reason we must strike blow
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  Speaker 2: upon blow until the whole of this aristocracy tumbles to pieces.
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  Speaker 2: As I sat in there reading this, I almost seemed
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  Speaker 2: to see a revolution in being.
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  Speaker 1: Hush speak so Asleksen cannot hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Aslicksen is a chicken hearted chap, a coward, there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: of the man in him. But this time you will
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  Speaker 2: insist on your own way, won't you. You will put
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  Speaker 2: the doctor's article in.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and if the mayor doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, that will be the devil of a nuisance.
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  Speaker 1: Well, fortunately, we can turn the situation to good account.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happens. If the mayor will not fall in with
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  Speaker 1: the doctor's project, he will have all the small tradesmen
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  Speaker 1: down on him, the whole of the householders Association and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of them. And if he does fall in
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  Speaker 1: with it, he will fall out with the whole crowd
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  Speaker 1: of large stakeholders in the baths who up to now
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  Speaker 1: have been his most valuable supporters.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because they will certainly have to fork out a
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  Speaker 2: pretty penny.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you may be sure they will. And in this
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  Speaker 1: way the ring will be broken up, you see. And
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  Speaker 1: then in every issue of the paper, we will enlighten
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  Speaker 1: the public on the mayor's incapability on one point and another,
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  Speaker 1: and make it clear that all the positions of trust
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  Speaker 1: in the town, the whole control of municipal affairs, ought
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  Speaker 1: to be put into the hands of the liberals.
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  Speaker 2: That is perfectly true. I see it coming, I see
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  Speaker 2: it coming. We are on the threshold of a revolution.
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  Speaker 1: A knock is heard at the door. Hush, come in,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Stockman comes in by the street door. Hofstad goes
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  Speaker 1: to meet him. Ah, it is you, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Well you may set to work and print it, mister Hobsad.
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  Speaker 4: Has it come to that then, hurrah?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, print away. Undoubtedly it has come to that. Now
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  Speaker 3: they must take what they get. There is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a fight in the town, mister Billy, war.
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  Speaker 2: To the knife. I hope we will get our knives
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  Speaker 2: to their throats. Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: This article is only a beginning. I have already got
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  Speaker 3: four or five more sketched out at my head. Where
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  Speaker 3: is oslosen Alicksen?
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  Speaker 2: Just come here for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Four or five more articles, did you say, on the
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  Speaker 1: same subject.
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  Speaker 3: No, far from it, my dear fellow. No, they are
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  Speaker 3: about quite another matter. But they all spring from the
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  Speaker 3: question of the water supply and the drainage. One thing
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  Speaker 3: leads to another area. You know. It is like beginning
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  Speaker 3: to pull down an olde hass exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Upon my soul. It's true, you find you are not
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  Speaker 2: done till you have pulled all the old rubbish down.
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  Speaker 4: Pulled down, You are not thinking of pulling down the bath, surely, doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Far from it. Don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 3: No, we met something quite different. Well what do you
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  Speaker 3: think of my article, mister Havstadt.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is simply a masterpiece.
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  Speaker 3: Do you really think so? Well? I am very pleased,
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  Speaker 3: very pleased.
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  Speaker 1: It is so clear and intelligible. One need have no
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  Speaker 1: special knowledge to understand the bearing of it. You will
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  Speaker 1: have every enlightened man on your side.
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  Speaker 4: And every prudent man too, I hope.
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  Speaker 2: The prudent and the imprudent, almost the whole town.
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  Speaker 4: In that case, we may venture to print it.
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  Speaker 3: I should think so.
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  Speaker 1: We will put it in tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you must not lose a single day. What
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you, mister Ashloxen, was if you
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  Speaker 3: would supervise the printing of it yourself, with pleasure, take
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  Speaker 3: care of it as if it were a treasure. No misprints.
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  Speaker 3: Every word is important. I will look in again a
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  Speaker 3: little later. Perhaps you will be able to let me
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  Speaker 3: see a proof. I can't tell you how eager I
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  Speaker 3: am to see it in print and see it burst
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  Speaker 3: upon the public.
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  Speaker 2: Burst upon them, yes, like a flash of lightning.
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  Speaker 3: And to have it submitted to the judgment of my
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  Speaker 3: intelligent fellow townsmen. You cannot imagine what I have gone
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  Speaker 3: through today. I have been threatened, first with one thing,
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  Speaker 3: and then with another. They have tried to rob me
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  Speaker 3: of my most elementary rights as a man.
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  Speaker 2: What your rights as a man.
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  Speaker 3: They have tried to dig raid me, to make a
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  Speaker 3: coward of me, to force me to put personal interests
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  Speaker 3: before my most sacred convictions.
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  Speaker 2: That is too much. I'm damned If it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you mustn't be surprised at anything from that quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they will get the worst of it with me.
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  Speaker 3: They may assure themselves of that. I shall consider the
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  Speaker 3: people's messenger, my sheet anchor. Now and every single day
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  Speaker 3: I will bombard them with one article after another like bombshells.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but hurrah, it is war. It is war.
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  Speaker 3: I shall smite them to the ground. I shall crush them.
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  Speaker 3: I shall break down all their defenses before the eyes
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  Speaker 3: of the honest public. That is what I shall do.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but in moderation, doctor, proceed with moderation.
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  Speaker 2: Not a bit of it, not a bit of it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't spare the dynamite.
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  Speaker 3: Because it is not merely a question of water blind drains, now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, No, it is the whole of our social
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  Speaker 3: life that we have got to purify and disinfect.
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  Speaker 2: Spoken like a deliverer, all.
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  Speaker 3: The incapables must be turned out, you understand, And that
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  Speaker 3: in every walk of life, endless vistas have opened themselves
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  Speaker 3: to my mind's eye. To day. I cannot see it
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  Speaker 3: all quite clearly yet, but I shall in time. Young
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  Speaker 3: and vigorous standard bearers, those are what we need and
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  Speaker 3: must seek. My friends, we must have new men in
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  Speaker 3: command and all our outposts.
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  Speaker 2: You're here.
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  Speaker 3: We only need to stand by one another, and it
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  Speaker 3: will all be perfectly easy. The revolution will be launched
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  Speaker 3: like a ship that runs smoothly off the stalks, don't
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  Speaker 3: you think so?
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  Speaker 1: For my part, I think we have now a prospect
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  Speaker 1: of getting the municipal authority into the hands where it
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  Speaker 1: should lie.
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  Speaker 4: And if only we proceed with my I cannot imagine
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  Speaker 4: that there will be any risk.
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  Speaker 3: Who the devil cares whether there is any risk or not.
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  Speaker 3: What I am doing, I am doing in the name
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  Speaker 3: of truth and for the sake of my conscience.
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  Speaker 1: You are a man who deserves to be supported. Doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there is no denying that the doctor is a
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  Speaker 4: true friend to the town, a real friend to the community.
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  Speaker 1: That he is.
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  Speaker 2: Take my word for it, Aslesen, doctor Stockman is a
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  Speaker 2: friend of the people.
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  Speaker 4: I fancy the Householder's Association will make use of that
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  Speaker 4: expression before long.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, my dear staunch friends. It is
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  Speaker 3: very refreshing to me to hear you say that my
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  Speaker 3: brother called me something quite different. By jove, he shall
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  Speaker 3: have it back with interest. But now I must be
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  Speaker 3: off to see a poor devil. I will come back,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, keep a very careful eye on the manuscript,
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  Speaker 3: asked Loxon, And don't for worlds leave out any of
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  Speaker 3: my notes of exclamation. Rather put in one or two
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  Speaker 3: more in Capital Capital, Well, goodbye for the present, goodbye,
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  Speaker 3: good bye.
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  Speaker 1: They show him to the door and bow him out.
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  Speaker 1: He may prove an invaluably useful man to.
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  Speaker 4: Us, Yes, so long as he confines himself to this
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  Speaker 4: matter of the baths. But if he goes farther afield,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it would be advisable to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Hm, That all depends.
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  Speaker 2: You are so infernally timid as Lickson.
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  Speaker 4: Timid. Yes, when it is a question of the local authorities,
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  Speaker 4: I am timid, mister Billing. It is a lesson I
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  Speaker 4: have learned in the school of experience, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 4: But try me in higher politics, in matters that concern
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  Speaker 4: the government itself, and then see if I am timid.
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  Speaker 2: No, you aren't, I admit, But this is simply contradicting yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I am a man with a conscience, and that is
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  Speaker 4: the whole matter. If you attack the government, if you
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  Speaker 4: don't do the community any harm anyway, those fellows pay
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  Speaker 4: no attention to attacks, you see, they go on just
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  Speaker 4: as they are in spite of them. But local authorities
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  Speaker 4: are different. They can be turned out, and then perhaps
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  Speaker 4: you may get an ignorant lot into office, who may
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  Speaker 4: do irreparable harm to the householders and everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: But what is the education of citizens by self government?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you attach any importance to that.
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  Speaker 4: When a man has interests of his own to protect,
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  Speaker 4: he cannot think of everything. Mister Hobstod.
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  Speaker 1: Then I hope I shall never have interests of my
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  Speaker 1: own to protect.
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  Speaker 2: Hear hear hum.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Sheriff Stensgard was your predecessor at that editorial.
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  Speaker 2: Desk, Bah that turncoat.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a weathercock and never will be.
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  Speaker 4: A politician should never be too certain of anything, mister Hubstod.
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  Speaker 4: And as for you, mister Billing, I should think it
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  Speaker 4: is time for you to be taking in a reef
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  Speaker 4: or two in your sales, seeing that you are applying
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  Speaker 4: for the post of Secretary to the bench.
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  Speaker 1: I are you billing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, but you must clearly understand I am only
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  Speaker 2: doing it to annoy the big whigs.
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  Speaker 4: Anyhow, it is no business of mine. But if I
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  Speaker 4: am to be accused of timidity and of inconsistency in
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  Speaker 4: my principles, this is what I want to point out.
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  Speaker 4: My political past is an open book. I have never changed,
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  Speaker 4: except perhaps to become a little more moderate. You see,
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  Speaker 4: my heart is still with the people, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: deny that my reason has a certain bias towards the authorities,
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  Speaker 4: the local ones I mean, goes into the printing room often.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to get rid of him Halfstad.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know any one else who will advance the
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  Speaker 1: money for our paper and printing bill?
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  Speaker 2: It is an infernal nuisance that we don't possess some
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  Speaker 2: capital to trade on.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if we only had that.
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  Speaker 2: Then suppose you are to apply to doctor Stockman.
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  Speaker 1: What's the use he has got nothing?
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  Speaker 2: No, but he has got a warm man in the background,
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  Speaker 2: all Morton Keel, the badger as they call him.
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  Speaker 1: Are you so sure he has got anything?
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  Speaker 2: Good? Lord? Of course he has, and some of it
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  Speaker 2: must come, does the stock Ones? Most probably he will
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  Speaker 2: do something for the children at all events?
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  Speaker 1: Are you counting on that.
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  Speaker 2: Counting on it? Of course, I'm not counting on anything that.
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  Speaker 1: Is right, and I should not count on the secretaryship
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  Speaker 1: to the bench either. If I were you, for I
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  Speaker 1: can assure you you won't get it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I am not quite aware of that?
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  Speaker 2: My object is precisely not to get it. A slight
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  Speaker 2: of that kind stimulates a man's fighting power. It is
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  Speaker 2: like getting a supply of fresh bial. And I am
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  Speaker 2: sure one needs that badly enough in a whole and
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  Speaker 2: corner place like this, where it is so seldom anything
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  Speaker 2: happens to stir one up.
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  Speaker 1: Quite so, quite so, Ah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Shall be heard of yet. Now I shall go and
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  Speaker 2: write the appeal to the Householder's Association.
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  Speaker 1: Goes into the room on the right. Hmm, that's it,
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  Speaker 1: is it? A knock is heard? Come in, Petra comes
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  Speaker 1: in by the outer door. Hofstad gets up.
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  Speaker 4: What you here?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: You must forgive me, won't you sit down?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? I must go again in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Have you come with a message from your father by
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  Speaker 1: any chance?
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  Speaker 5: No, I have come on my own account.
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  Speaker 1: Takes a book out of her coat pocket.
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  Speaker 5: Here is the English story.
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  Speaker 1: Why have you brought it back?
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  Speaker 5: Because I am not going to translate it.
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  Speaker 1: But you promised me faithfully.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, But then I had not read it. I don't
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  Speaker 5: suppose you have read it either.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know quite well. I don't understand English, but
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  Speaker 1: quite so.
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  Speaker 5: That is why I wanted to tell you that you
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  Speaker 5: must find something else. You can't use this for the
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  Speaker 5: people's messenger?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Because it conflicts with all your opinions.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for that matter, you don't understand me.
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  Speaker 5: The burden of this story is that there is a
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  Speaker 5: supernatural power that looks after the so called good people
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  Speaker 5: in this world and makes everything happen for the best
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  Speaker 5: in their case, while all the so called bad people
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  Speaker 5: are punished will.
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  Speaker 1: But that is all right. That is just what our
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  Speaker 1: readers want.
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  Speaker 5: And are you going to be the one to give
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  Speaker 5: it to them? For myself, I do not believe a
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  Speaker 5: word of it. You know quite well that things do
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  Speaker 5: not happen, so in reality, you.
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  Speaker 1: Are perfectly right. But an editor cannot always act as
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  Speaker 1: he would prefer. He is often obliged to bow to
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  Speaker 1: the wishes of the public in unimportant matters. Politics are
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing in life for a newspaper anyway,
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  Speaker 1: And if I want to carry my public with me
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  Speaker 1: on the path that leads to liberty and progress, I
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  Speaker 1: must not frighten them away. If they find a moral
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  Speaker 1: tale of this sort in the serial at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the page, they will be all the more ready
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  Speaker 1: to read what is printed above it. They feel more secure,
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  Speaker 1: as it were.
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  Speaker 5: For Shap, you would never go and set a snare
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  Speaker 5: like that for your readers. You are not a spider.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having such a good opinion of me. No,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, that is Billing's idea and
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  Speaker 1: not mine.
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  Speaker 5: Billings.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, he propounded that theory here one day, and
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  Speaker 1: it is Billing who is so anxious to have that
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  Speaker 1: story in the paper. I don't know anything about the book.
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  Speaker 5: But how can Billing with his emancipated views.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Billing is a many sided man. He is applying
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  Speaker 1: for the post of secretary to the bench too, I hear.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe it, mister Hostad. How could he possibly
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  Speaker 5: bring himself to do such a thing?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, you must ask him that I should never have
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  Speaker 1: thought it of him. No, does it really surprise you
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  Speaker 1: so much?
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  Speaker 5: Yes? Or perhaps not altogether? Really, I don't quite know.
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  Speaker 1: We journalists are not much worth, miss Stockman.
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  Speaker 5: Do you really mean that?
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  Speaker 1: I think so sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, In the ordinary affairs of every day life, perhaps
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  Speaker 5: I can understand that. But now, when you have taken
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  Speaker 5: a weighty matter in hand.
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  Speaker 1: This matter of your father's you mean exactly, It seems
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  Speaker 1: to me that now you must feel you are a
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  Speaker 1: man worth more than most. Yes, to day I do
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  Speaker 1: feel something of that.
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  Speaker 5: Sort of course you do, don't you. It is a
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  Speaker 5: splendid vocation you have chosen to smooth the way for
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  Speaker 5: the march of unappreciated truths and new and courageous lines
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  Speaker 5: of thought. If it was nothing more than because you
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  Speaker 5: stand fearlessly in the open and take up the cause
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  Speaker 5: of an injured.
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  Speaker 1: Man, especially when that injured man is I don't rightly
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  Speaker 1: know how to.
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  Speaker 5: When that man is so upright and so honest, you.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, especially when he is your father. I meant that, yes, Petra,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Petra.
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  Speaker 5: Is it that that is the first and foremost with you?
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  Speaker 5: Not the matter itself, not the truth my father's big, generous.
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  Speaker 1: Heart, certainly, of course that too.
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  Speaker 5: No, thank you. You have betrayed yourself, mister Hofstad, and
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  Speaker 5: now I shall never trust you again in anything.
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  Speaker 1: Can you really take it so amiss in me that
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  Speaker 1: this is mostly for your sake?
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  Speaker 5: What I am angry with you for is for not
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  Speaker 5: having been honest with my father. You talk to him
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  Speaker 5: as if the truth and the good of the community
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  Speaker 5: were what lay nearest to your heart. You have made
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  Speaker 5: fools of both my father and me. You are not
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: the man you made yourself out to be, and that
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I shall never forgive you.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Never you ought not to speak so bitterly, miss Petra,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: least of all now?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Why not now, especially because your.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Father cannot do without my help?
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Are you that sort of man too? For shame?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: No, no, I am not. This came upon me so unexpectedly.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: You must believe that I know what to believe. Good Bye, Asleson.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Coming from the printing room hurriedly and with an air.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Of mystery damnation, Hobstad sees Petra, Oh, this is awkward.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: There is the book. You must give it to some
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: one else.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: But miss Stockman good bye, goes out.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: I say, mister Hobstad, Well, well, what is it? The
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: mayor is outside in the printing room?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: The mayor did you say?
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, he wants to speak to you. He came in
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: by the back door. Didn't want to be seen. You understand?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: What can he want? Wait a bit, I will go myself.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Goes to the door of the printing room, opens it,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: bows and invites Peter Stockman in. Just see Aslasen that
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: no one quite So you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Do not expect to see me here, mister Hobstad.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: No, I confess I did not.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: You are a very snug in here, very nice. Indeed. Oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: and here I come, without any notice to take up
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: your time.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: By all means, mister Mayer, I am at your service.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But let me relieve you of your take stockman's hat
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and stick and put them on a chair. Won't you
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: sit down?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you?
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: I have had an extremely annoying experience today, mister Hobstein.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Really, Ah well, I expect with all the various business
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you have to attend to, the.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Medical Officer of the baths is responsible for what happened today.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Indeed, the doctor he is.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Addressed a kind of report to the Baths committee on
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: the subject of certain supposed defects in the baths?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Has he indeed, yes, has he not told you?
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: I thought he said?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, it is true. He did mention something about
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: as laxon. Coming from the printing room.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I ought to have that copy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Ahem, There it is on the desk right, good.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Look there that is the thing I was speaking of.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is the doctor's article, mister Mayer.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Oh is that what you were speaking about?
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Yes, that is it. What do you think of it?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Oh? I am only a layman, and I have only
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: taken a very cursory glance at it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: But you are going to print it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I cannot very well refuse a distinguished man.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I have nothing to do with editing the paper, mister Mayor,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I understand. I merely print what is put into my hands.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Quite so, and so I must no. But wait a moment,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: mister as Larkson, you will allow me, mister Hopstad.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: If you please, mister Mayor, you.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Are a discreet and thoughtful mad mister Oslachson.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I am delighted to hear you think so, sir, and a.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Man of very considerable.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Influence, chiefly among the small tradesmen, Sir, the.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Smaller dexpairs are the majority here as everywhere else.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: That is true, And I have no.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Doubt you know the general trend of opinion among them,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: don't you?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I think, I may say I do, mister Mayor.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, well, since there's such a praise where they spirit
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: of self sacrifice among the less wealthy citizens of our down.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: What self sacrifice?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: It is pleasing evidence of a public spirited feeling, extremely
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: pleasing evidence. I might also say, I hardly expected it,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: but you have a closer knowledge of public opinion than I.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: But, mister Mayor, and indeed, it is.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: No small sacrifice that the town is.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Going to make the town.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: But I don't understand. Is it the baths?
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: At a provisional estimate, the auderation that the medical officer
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: asserts to be desirable will cost somewhere about twenty thousand pounds.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: That is a lot of money.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: But of course it will be necessary to raise a
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: municipal loan.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Surely you never meant that the town must pay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Do you mean that it must come out of the
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: municipal funds? Out of the ill filled pockets of the
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: small tradesmen?
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Well, my dear missus to as Lachsen, where else is
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: the money to come from?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: The gentlemen who owned the bath?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Sought to provide that the proprieties of the baths are
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: not in a position to incur any further expense.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Is that absolutely certain, mister Mayor.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I have satisfied myself that it is so. If the
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: town wants these very extensive atations, it will have to
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: pay for them.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: But damn it all, I beg your pardon. This is
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: quite another matter, mister Hubstad.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It is indeed, the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Most fatal part of it is that we shall be
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: obliged to shut the baths for a couple of years.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Shut them shut them all together for two years.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Yes, the work will take as long as that at least.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I'm damned if we will stand that, mister Mayor. What
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: are we householders to live upon in the meantime?
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, that is an extremely difficult question to answer, mister
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: as Lachsen, and.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: The whole thing is merely imagination.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: With the best will in the world, I have not
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: been able to come to any other conclusion. But what
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: would you have us do? Do you suppose we shall
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: have a single visitor in the town if we go
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: about proclaiming that our water is polluted, that we are
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: living over a plague spot, that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: The entire town, well, then I must say it is
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: absolutely unjustifiable of doctor Stockman. I beg your pardon, mister Mayor.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: What you say is lamentably true. Mister Azilaksen, my brother
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: has unfortunately always been a headstrong man.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: After this, do you mean to give him your support?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Mister Hofstadt?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Can you suppose for a moment that I I have.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Drawn up a short arrageme may of the situation as
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: it appears from a reasonable man's point of view. In it,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: I've indicated how certain possible defects might suitably be remedied
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: without outrunning the resources of the Baths Committee.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Have you got it with you, mister Mayor?
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, I brought it with me in case you should.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Good Lord, there he is?
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Who my brother?
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Where? Where?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: He has just gone through the printing room.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: How unlucky. I don't want to meet him here, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: I had still several things to.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Speak to you about.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Go in there for the present, but you will only
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: find billing in there.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Quick quick, mister Mayor.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: He is just coming, yes, very well, but see that
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: you get rid of him.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Quickly goes out through the door on the right, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Aslasen opens for him and shuts after him. Pretend to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: be doing something as Laxen sits down and writes. Aslexen
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: begins foraging among a heap of newspapers that are lying
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on a chair. Doctor Stockman coming in from the printing room.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Here I am again all.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Ready, doctor, hurry up with what we were speaking about,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: as Laxen, we were very pressed for time to day.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: No proof from me to see yet, I hear you
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: couldn't expect it yet, doctor.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: No, no, But I am impatient. As you can understand,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I shall not know a a moment's peace of mind
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: until I see it in print. Hm. Hm.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: It will take a good while yet, won't it as laxam?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am almost afraid.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It will all right, my dear friends. I will come back.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I do not mind coming back twice if necessary. A
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: matter of such great importance the welfare of the town
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: at stake, it is no time to shirk trouble. Look here,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: there is one more thing I want to speak to
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: you about.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, but could it not wait till some other time?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I can tell you in half a dozen words. It
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: is only this when my article is read tomorrow and
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: it is realized that I have been quietly working the
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: whole winter for the welfare of the town.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, but doctor, I.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Know what you are going to say. You don't see
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: how on earth it was any more than my duty,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: my obvious duty as a citizen. Of course it wasn't.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I know that as well as you. But by fellow citizens,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: you know, good Lord, think of all the good souls
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: who think so highly of me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Yes, our town spoke have had a very high opinion
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: of you so far, doctor.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, and that is just why I am afraid they Well,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: this is the point when this reaches them, especially the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: poorer classes, and sounds in their ears like a summons
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to take the town's affairs into their own hands for
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the future.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Ahem, I, doctor, won't conceal from you the fact.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Ah, I I knew there was something in the wind,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: but I won't hear a word of it. If anything
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: of that sort is being set.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: On the foot of what sort, Well.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is, whether it is a demonstration in my honor,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: or a banquet, or a subscription list for some presentation
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: to me, whatever it is, you must promise me, solemnly
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: and faithfully, to put a stop to it. You too,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: mister Oslockson, do you understand you.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Must forgive me doctor, But sooner or later we must
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: tell you the plain truth. He is interrupted by the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: entrance of Missus Starkman, who comes in from the street door.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Just as I thought, you too, Missus Stockman, What.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: On earth do you want here, Catherine?
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: I should think you know very well what I want?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Won't you sit down? Or perhaps no?
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Thank you don't trouble and you must not be offended
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: at my coming to fetch my husband. I am the
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: mother of three children.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: You know nonsense, We know all about that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: Well, one would not give you credit for much thought
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: for your wife and children to day. If you had
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: had that, you would not have gone and dragged us
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: all into misfortune?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Are you one of your senses, Catherine? Because a man
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: has a wife and children, is he not to be
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: allowed to proclaim the truth? Is he not to be
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: allowed to be an actively useful citizen? Is he not
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to be allowed to do a service to his native town?
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: Yes, Thomas, in reason, just what I say, moderation in everything.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: And that is why you wrong us, mister Hofstad, in
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: enticing my husband away from his home and making a
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: dupe of him and.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: All this, I certainly am making a dupe of no
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: one making.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: A dupe of me. Do you suppose I should allow
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: myself to be duped?
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: It is just what you do. I know quite well
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: you have more brains than anyone in the town, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: you are extremely easily duped. Thomas. Please do realize that
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: he loses his post at the baths if you print
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: what he has written.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: What look here, doctor, ha ha ha.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Just let them try. No, no, they will take good
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: care not to. I have got the compact majority behind me.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: Let me tell you, yes, that is just the worst
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: of it you're having any such horrid thing behind you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Rubbish, Catherine, go ho look after your house and leave
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: me to look after the community. How can you be
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: so afraid when I am so confident and happy. Truth
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: and the people will win the fight. You may be certain.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I see the whole of the broad minded middle class
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: marching like a victorious army. What the deuce is that
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: lying there?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Good lord, here.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: We have the topmost pinnacle of authority.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Takes the mayor's official hat carefully between his finger tips
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and holds it up in the air, the mayor's hat.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: And here is the staff of office too, How in
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the name of all that's wonderful? Well you see, Oh,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I understand he has been here trying to talk you over. Ah,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: he made rather a mistake there. And as soon as
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: he caught sight of me in the printing room, did
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: he run away, mister Aslasen.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, he ran away, doctor ran away.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Without his stick or his fiddle sticks. Peter doesn't run
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: away and leave his belongings behind him. But what the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: deuce have you done with him? Ah? In there, of course,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: now you shall see.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Catherine Thomas.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Please don't don't be rash, doctor, Doctor Stockman puts on
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the mayor's hat and takes his stick in his hand.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: He goes up to the door, opens it and stands
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: with his hand to his hat. At the salute. Peter
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Stockman comes in red with anger. Billing follows him.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: What does this tomfoolery mean?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Be respectful, my good Peter. I am the chief authority
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: in the town.
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: Now, really, Thomas, give me my hat and stick.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: If you are chief constable. Let me tell you that
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I am the mayor. I am the master of the whole.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Please understand.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Take off my hat. I tell you remember it is
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: part of an official uniform.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Ooh, do you think the newly awakened lionhearted people are
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: going to be frightened by an official hat? There is
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: going to be a revolution in town tomorrow. Let me
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: tell you. You thought you could turn me out, but
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: now I shall turn you out, turn you out of
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: all your various offices. Do you think I cannot listen
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: to me? I have triumphant social forces behind me. Hostat
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and Billing will thunder in the people's messenger, and Osloxen
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: will take the field at the head of the whole
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: householders Association.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: That I won't doctor of course you will.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Ah, may I ask then, if mister Hobsta intends to
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: join this agitation, No.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Mister Mayor, No, mister Hobstadt is not such a fool
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: as to go and ruin his paper brand himself for
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the sake of an imaginary grievance.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: What does this mean?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: You have represented your case in a false light, doctor,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and therefore I am unable to give you my support.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: And after what the mayor was so kind to tell
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: me just now, I.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: A false light? Is that part of it? To me?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Only print my article? I am quite capable of defending it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I am not going to print it. I cannot and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: will not and dare not print it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: You dare not? What nonsense? You are the editor, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: an editor controls his paper, I suppose.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: No, it is the subscriber's doctor. Fortunately, yes, it is
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: public opinion, the enlightened public, householders and people of that kind.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: They control the newspapers.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: And I have all these influences against me, Yes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: You have. It would mean the absolute ruin of the
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: community of your article were to appear.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Indeed, my hat and stick, if you please, Doctor Stockman
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: takes off the hat and lays it on the table.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: With a stick. Peter Stockman takes them up.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Your authority as mayor has come to an untimely end.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: We have not got to the end yet. Then it
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: is quite impossible for you to print my article in
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: the People's Messenger.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Quite impossible out of regard for your family as well.
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: You need not concern yourself about his family. Thank you,
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: mister Hofstadt.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Peter Stockman taking a paper from his pocket.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: It will be sufficient for the guidance of the public.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: If this appears it is an official statement. May I
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: trouble you?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Certainly I will see that it is printed, but not mine.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Do you imagine that you can silence me and stifle
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the truth? You will not find it so easy as
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: you suppose. Mister Aslackson. Kindly take my manuscript at once
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: and print it as a pamphlet at my expense. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: will have four hundred copies, no. Five or six hundred.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: If you offered me its weight in gold. I could
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: not lend my press for any such purpose. Doctor. It
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: would be flying in the face of public opinion. You
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: will not get it printed anywhere in the town.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Then give it made back here it is. It shall
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: be made public all the same. I will read it
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: out at a mass meeting of the town's people. All
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: my fellow citizens shall hear the voice of truth.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: You will not find any public body in the town
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: that will give you the use of their whole for
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: such a purpose.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Not a single one, I am certain.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: No, I'm damned if you will find one.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: But this is too shameful. Why should every one turn
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: against you like that?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I will tell you why. It is because all the
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: men in this town are old women like you. They
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: all think of nothing but their families, and never of
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: the community.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: Then I will show them that an old woman can
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: be a man for once. I am going to stand
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: by you, Thomas.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Bravely, said Catherine. It shall be made public, as I
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: am a living soul. If I can't hire a hall,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I shall hire a drum and parade the town with
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: it and read it at every street corner.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: You are surely not such an errant fool as that, Yes,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: I am.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: You won't find a single man in the whole town
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: to go with you.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: No, I'm damned if you will.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Don't give in, Thomas, I will tell the boys to
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: go with you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: That's a splendid idea.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Morton will be delighted and alift will do whatever he does.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, and Petra, and you too, Catherine.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: No, I won't do that, but I will stand at
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: the window and watch you. That's what I will.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Do, Thank you, my dear. Now you and I are
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: going to try a fall, my fine gentleman, I am
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: going to see whether a pack of cowards can succeed
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: in gagging a patriot who wants to purify society.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He and his wife go out by the street door.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Now he has sent her out of her senses too.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: And of Act three,