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

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  Speaker 1: Act too of an Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen,
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  Speaker 1: translated by R. Fur Coarson's sharp. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: the same The door into the dining room is shut.
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  Speaker 1: It is morning. Missus Stockman, with a sealed letter in
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  Speaker 1: her hands, comes in from the dining room, goes to
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  Speaker 1: the door of the doctor's study and peeps in.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in, Thomas?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have just come in. What is it?
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  Speaker 2: A letter from your brother?
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  Speaker 3: Aha? Let us see I returned herewith the manuscript you
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  Speaker 3: sent me.
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  Speaker 2: M What does he say?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he only writes that he will come up here
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  Speaker 3: himself about midday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, try and remember to be at home this time.
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  Speaker 3: That will be all right. I have got through all
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  Speaker 3: my morning visit.
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  Speaker 2: I am a extremely curious to know how he takes it.
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  Speaker 3: You will see, he won't like its having been I
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  Speaker 3: and not he that made the discovery.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you a little nervous about that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? He really will be pleased enough, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, Peter is so confoundedly afraid of
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  Speaker 3: anyone's doing any service to the town except himself.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you what, Thomas, You should be good
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  Speaker 2: natured and share the credit of this with him. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: you make out that it was he who set you
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  Speaker 2: on the scent of this discovery.
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  Speaker 3: I am quite willing if only I can get things
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  Speaker 3: set right.
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  Speaker 1: I Morton Keele puts his head through the door leading
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  Speaker 1: from the hall, looks around in an inquiring manner, and chuckles.
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  Speaker 4: Is it is it true?
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  Speaker 2: Father? Is it you?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, mister Keele, good morning, good morning?
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  Speaker 2: But come along in.
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  Speaker 4: If it is true, I will. If not, I am off.
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  Speaker 3: If what is true?
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  Speaker 4: This tale about the water supply? Is it true?
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  Speaker 3: Well, certainly it is true. But how did you come
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  Speaker 3: to hear of it?
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  Speaker 4: Petro ran in on her way to the school.
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  Speaker 3: Did she Yes?
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  Speaker 4: And she declares that I thought she was only making
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  Speaker 4: a fool of me. But it isn't like Petro to do.
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  Speaker 3: That, of course not. How could you imagine such a thing?
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  Speaker 3: No will?
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  Speaker 4: It is better than ever to trust anybody. You may
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  Speaker 4: find that you have been made a fool of before
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  Speaker 4: you know where you are. But it really is true.
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  Speaker 3: All the saying, you can depend upon it that it
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  Speaker 3: is true won't you.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down, settles him on the couch.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it a real bit of luck for the town?
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  Speaker 4: A bit of luck for the town?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that I made the discovery in good time.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, that I should never have thought to
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  Speaker 4: you the sort of man to pull your own brother's
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  Speaker 4: leg like this poorly's leg?
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  Speaker 2: Really, father, dear, let me.
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  Speaker 4: See what was the story? Some kind of beast that
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  Speaker 4: had got into the water pipes, wasn't it infusoria? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of these beasts had got in, according
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  Speaker 4: to Petra, A tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: Lot, certainly, hundreds of thousands of them, probably.
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  Speaker 4: But no one can see them. Isn't that so?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you can't see them.
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  Speaker 4: Damn, it's the finest story I have ever heard.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: But you will never get to the mayor to believe
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  Speaker 4: a thing like that?
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  Speaker 3: We shall see.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think you will be fool enough to.
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  Speaker 3: I hope the whole town will be foolish enough.
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  Speaker 4: The whole town. Well, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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  Speaker 4: It would just serve them right and teach them a lesson.
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  Speaker 4: They think themselves so much cleverer than we old fellows.
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  Speaker 4: They hounded me out of the council. They did. I
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  Speaker 4: tell you they hounded me out. Now they shall pay
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  Speaker 4: for it. Really, I you pulled their legs too, Thomas,
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  Speaker 4: you pulled their legs. If you can work it so
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  Speaker 4: that the mayor and his friends will all swallow the
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  Speaker 4: same bait, I'll give ten pounds to a charity like
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  Speaker 4: a shot.
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  Speaker 3: That is very kind love you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I haven't got much money to throw away, I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you. But if you can work this, I'll
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  Speaker 4: give five pounds to a charity at Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Hofstad comes in by the hall door. Good morning, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon not at all?
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  Speaker 3: Come in?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Is he in this too?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Certainly he is.
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  Speaker 4: I might have known it. It must get into the papers.
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  Speaker 4: You know how to do it. Thomas. Set your wits
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  Speaker 4: to work. Now I must go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, won't you stay a little while?
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  Speaker 4: No? I must be off. Now you keep up this
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  Speaker 4: game for all it's worth. You won't repent it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: damned if you will.
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  Speaker 1: He goes out. Missus Stockman follows him into the hall.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha, Just imagine the old chap doesn't believe a
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  Speaker 3: word of all this about the water supply.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was it?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that was what we were talking about. Perhaps it is
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  Speaker 3: the same thing that brings you here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is. Can you spare me a few minutes, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: As long as you like, My dear fellow, have.
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  Speaker 1: You heard from the mayor yet?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet? He is coming here later.
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  Speaker 1: I have given the matter a great deal of thought
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  Speaker 1: since last night. Well, from your point of view as
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  Speaker 1: a doctor and a man of science, this affair of
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  Speaker 1: the water supply is an isolated matter. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: do not realize that it involves a great many other things.
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  Speaker 3: How do you mean let us sit down, my dear fellow. No,
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  Speaker 3: sit here on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: Hofstad sits down on the couch, doctor Stockman on a
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  Speaker 1: chair on the other side of the table.
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  Speaker 3: Now, then you mean.
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  Speaker 1: That you said yesterday that the pollution of the water
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  Speaker 1: was due to impurities in the soil.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, unquestionably it is due to that poisonous morass up
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  Speaker 3: at Mulladhal.
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  Speaker 1: Begging your pardon, doctor, I fancy it is due to
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  Speaker 1: quite another morass altogether.
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  Speaker 3: What morass?
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  Speaker 1: The morass that the whole life of our town is
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  Speaker 1: built on and is rotting in?
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  Speaker 3: What the deuce are you driving at, Hofstad?
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  Speaker 1: The whole of the town's interests have little by little
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  Speaker 1: got into the hands of a pack of officials.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Khan. They are not all officials.
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  Speaker 1: No, but those that are not officials are at any
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  Speaker 1: rate the officials friends and adherents. It is the wealthy folk,
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  Speaker 1: the old families in the town that had got us
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  Speaker 1: entirely in their hands.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but after all they are men of ability and knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Did they show any ability or knowledge when they laid
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  Speaker 1: the conduit pipes where they are now?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Of course that was a great piece of stupidity on
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  Speaker 3: their part. But that is going to be set right now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that will be all such? Plain sailing?
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  Speaker 3: Plain sailing or no? It has got to be done anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, provided the press takes up the question.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that will be necessary, my dear fellow,
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  Speaker 3: I am certain, my.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, excuse me, doctor, I feel bound to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that I am inclined to take the matter up in
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  Speaker 1: the paper.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When I took over the People's Messenger, my idea was
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  Speaker 1: to break up this ring of self opinionated old fossils
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  Speaker 1: who have got hold of all the influence.
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  Speaker 3: But you know you told me yourself what the result
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  Speaker 3: had been. You've nearly ruined your paper.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, at the time we were obliged to climb down
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  Speaker 1: a pegger too. It is quite true, because there was
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  Speaker 1: a danger of the whole project of the Baths coming
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  Speaker 1: to nothing if they failed us. But now this scheme
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  Speaker 1: has been carried through, and we can dispense with these
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  Speaker 1: grand gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Dispense with them, Yes, Matt, we owe them a great
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  Speaker 3: debt of gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: They shall be recognized ungrudgingly. But a journalist of my
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  Speaker 1: democratic tendencies cannot let such an opportunity as this slip.
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  Speaker 1: The bubble of the official infallibility must be pricked. This
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  Speaker 1: superstition must be destroyed like any other.
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  Speaker 3: I am wholeheartedly with you in that, mister Hobstad. If
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  Speaker 3: it is a superstition, away with it.
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  Speaker 1: I should be very reluctant to bring the mayor into it,
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  Speaker 1: because he is your brother. But I am sure you
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  Speaker 1: will agree with me that the truth should be the
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  Speaker 1: first consideration.
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  Speaker 3: That goes without saying yes.
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  Speaker 1: But but you must not misjudge me. I am neither
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  Speaker 1: more self interested nor more ambitious than most men, my dear.
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  Speaker 3: Fellow, who suggests anything of the kind.
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  Speaker 1: I am of humble origin, as you know, and that
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  Speaker 1: has given me opportunities of knowing what is the most
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  Speaker 1: crying need in the humbler ranks of life. It is
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  Speaker 1: they that should be allowed some part in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of public affairs. Doctor, That is what will develop their
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  Speaker 1: faculties and intelligence and self respect.
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  Speaker 3: I quite appreciate that, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And in my opinion, a journalist incurs a heavy responsibility
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  Speaker 1: if he neglects a favorable opportunity of emancipating the masses,
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  Speaker 1: the humble and oppressed. I know well enough that in
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  Speaker 1: exalted circles I shall be called an agitator and all
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But they may call me what
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  Speaker 1: they like, if only my conscience doesn't reproach me.
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  Speaker 3: Then quite right, Quite right, mister Hobstadt. But all the same,
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  Speaker 3: devil take it.
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  Speaker 1: A knock is heard at the door, Come in, as
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  Speaker 1: Laxon appears at the door. He is poorly but decently
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  Speaker 1: dressed in black with a slightly crumpled white neckcloth. He
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  Speaker 1: wears gloves and has a felt hat in his hands.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse my taking the liberty.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, Ah, it is you as Laxen?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, doctor, is it me?
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  Speaker 1: You want as LExEN?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know I should find you here. No, it
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  Speaker 6: was the doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I I am quite at your service. What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Is what I heard from mister Billing, true, sir, that
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  Speaker 6: you mean to improve our water supply. Yes, for the bads,
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  Speaker 6: quite so, I understand. Well, I have come to say
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  Speaker 6: that I will back that up by every means in
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  Speaker 6: my power.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I shall be very grateful to you.
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  Speaker 6: But because it may be no bad thing to have
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  Speaker 6: us small tradesmen at your back, we form, as it were,
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  Speaker 6: a compact majority in the town if we choose, and
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  Speaker 6: it is always a good thing to have the majority
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  Speaker 6: with you.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, That is undeniably true. But I confess I don't
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  Speaker 3: see why such unusual precaution should be necessary in this case.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me such a plain, straightforward thing.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it may be very desirable all the same. I
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  Speaker 6: know our local authorities so well. Officials are not generally
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  Speaker 6: very ready to act on proposals that come from other people.
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  Speaker 6: That is why I think it would not be at
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  Speaker 6: all amiss if we made a little demonstration.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, demonstration. Did you say, what on earth are
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  Speaker 3: you going to make a demonstration about?
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  Speaker 6: We shall proceed with the greatest moderation, Doctor, moderation is
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  Speaker 6: always my aim. It is the greatest virtue and a
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  Speaker 6: citizen at least I think so it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well now to be a characteristic of yours, mister Oslaxen.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I think I may pride myself on that. And
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  Speaker 6: this matter of the water supply is of the greatest
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  Speaker 6: importance to us small tradesman. The baths promise to be
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  Speaker 6: a regular gold mine for the town. We shall all
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  Speaker 6: make our living out of them, especially those of us
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  Speaker 6: who are householders. That is why we will back up
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  Speaker 6: the project as strongly as possible. And as I am
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  Speaker 6: at present chairman of the Householders Association, yes, and what
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  Speaker 6: is more, local secretary of the Temperance Society. You know, sir,
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  Speaker 6: I suppose that I am a worker in the Temperance.
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  Speaker 3: Cause of course, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Well you can understand that I come into contact with
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  Speaker 6: a great many people, and as I have the reputation
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  Speaker 6: of a temperate and law abiding citizen like yourself, doctor,
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  Speaker 6: I have a certain influence in the town, a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of power, if I may be allowed to say so.
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  Speaker 3: I know that quite well, mister Aslaxen.
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  Speaker 6: So you see it would be an easy matter for
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  Speaker 6: me to set on foot, some testimonial.
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  Speaker 2: If necessary, a testimonial.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, some kind of an address of thanks from the
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  Speaker 6: townsmen for your share in a matter of such importance
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  Speaker 6: to the community. I need scarcely say that. It would
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  Speaker 6: have to be drawn up with the greatest regard to moderation,
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  Speaker 6: so as not to offend the authorities, who, after all
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  Speaker 6: have the reins in their hands. If we pay strict
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  Speaker 6: attention to that, no one can take it amiss, I
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  Speaker 6: should think.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And even supposing they didn't like it.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, there must be no discourtesy to the authorities.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Hobstad. It is no use falling foul of those
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  Speaker 6: upon whom are welfare so closely depends. I have done
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  Speaker 6: that in my time, and no good ever comes of it.
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  Speaker 6: But no one can take exception to a reasonable and
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  Speaker 6: frank expression of a citizen's views.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you, mister Asloxen, how extremely pleased I
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  Speaker 3: am to find such hearty support among my fellow citizens.
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  Speaker 3: I am delighted, delighted. Now you will take a small
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  Speaker 3: glass of sherry, Eh.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I never drink alcohol of that kind.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you say to a glass of beer? Then?
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  Speaker 2: Nor that either.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, doctor, I never drink anything as early as this.
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  Speaker 6: I am going into town now to talk this over
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  Speaker 6: with one or two householders and prepare the ground.
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  Speaker 3: It is tremendously kind of you, mister Asloxen, but I
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  Speaker 3: really cannot understand the necessity for all these precautions. It
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  Speaker 3: seems to me that the thing should go of itself.
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  Speaker 6: The authorities are somewhat slow to move, doctor. Far be
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  Speaker 6: it from me to seem to blame them.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to stir them up in the paper
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow as LExEN.
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  Speaker 6: But not violently. I trust, mister Hobstadt, proceed with moderation,
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  Speaker 6: or you will do nothing with them. You may take
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  Speaker 6: my advice. I have gathered my experience in the school
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  Speaker 6: of life. Well, I must say goodbye. Doctor. You know
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  Speaker 6: now that we small tradesmen are at your back at
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  Speaker 6: all events, like a solid wall. You have the compact
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  Speaker 6: majority on your side. Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I am very much obliged. Dear mister Aslaxen, goodbye, goodbye?
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  Speaker 6: Are you going my way towards the printing office, mister Hobstad.
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  Speaker 1: I will come later. I have something to settle up first.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, bows and goes out. Well, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think of that, doctor, don't you think it's time we
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  Speaker 1: stirred a little life into all this slackness and vacillation
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  Speaker 1: and cowardice.
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  Speaker 3: Are you referring to mister Aslackxen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I am. He is one of those who are
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  Speaker 1: floundering in a bog decent enough fellow, though he may
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  Speaker 1: be otherwise, And most of the people here are in
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  Speaker 1: just the same case, sea sawing and edging first to
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  Speaker 1: one side and then to the other, so overcome with
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  Speaker 1: caution and scruple that they never dare to take any
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  Speaker 1: decided step.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but as Lackson seemed to be so thoroughly well intentioned, there.
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  Speaker 1: Is one thing I esteem higher than that, and that
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  Speaker 1: is for a man to be self reliant and sure
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  Speaker 1: of himself.
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  Speaker 3: I think you are perfectly right there.
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  Speaker 1: That is why I want to seize this opportunity and try,
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  Speaker 1: if I cannot manage, to put a little virility into
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  Speaker 1: these well intentioned people. For once, the idol of authority
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  Speaker 1: must be shattered in this town. This gross and inexcusable
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  Speaker 1: blunder about the water supply must be brought home to
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  Speaker 1: the mind of every municipal voter.
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  Speaker 3: Very well, if you are of the opinion that it
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  Speaker 3: is for the good of the community. So be it,
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  Speaker 3: But not until I have had a talk with my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I will get a leading article ready. And if
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  Speaker 1: the mayor refuses to take the matter up.
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  Speaker 3: How can you suppose such a thing possible?
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  Speaker 1: It is conceivable.
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  Speaker 3: And in that case, in that case, I promise you
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  Speaker 3: look here. In that case, you may print my report,
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  Speaker 3: every word of it.
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  Speaker 1: May I have I your word for it?
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  Speaker 3: Here it is Take it with you. It can do
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  Speaker 3: no harm for you to read it through. And you
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  Speaker 3: can give it back to me later.
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  Speaker 1: On good good That is what I will do. And
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  Speaker 1: now good bye.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, good bye. You will see everything will run quite smoothly,
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  Speaker 3: mister Hobstad, quite smoothly.
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  Speaker 1: Hmhm. We shall see bows and goes out.
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  Speaker 3: Catherine, Oh you are back, Petro.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I have just come from the school.
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  Speaker 2: Has he not been here yet, Peter, No.
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  Speaker 3: But I have had a long talk with Hobstadt. He
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  Speaker 3: is quite excited about my discovery. I find it has
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  Speaker 3: a much wider bearing than I at first imagined, and
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  Speaker 3: he has put his paper at my disposal. If necessity should.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Arise, do you think it will not for a moment?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: But at all events. It makes me feel proud to
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: know that I had the liberal minded, independent press on
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: my side. Yes, and just imagine I have had a
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: visit from the chairman of the Householders Association.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Oh what did he want to offer me?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: His support too? They will support me in a body
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: if it should be necessary. Catherine, do you know what
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I have got behind me?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Behind you? Know what have you got behind you?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: The compact majority?
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Really? Is that a good thing for you? Thomas?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I should think it was a good thing. By Jove.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: It's a fine thing to feel this bond of brotherhood
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: between one's self and one's fellow citizens, and to be.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Able to do so much that is good and useful, Father.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: And for one's own native town. Into the bargain, my child.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: That was a ring at the bell.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: It must be he.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Then a knock is heard at the door.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Come in, good morning, glad to see you, Peter.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Peter, how are you, sir?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: So thank you? I received from you yesterday after office
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: hours a report dealing with the condition of the water
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: at the baths. Yes, have you read it?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: I have?
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: And what have you to say to it?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Come along, Petra, She and Patra go into the room
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: on the left.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Was it necessary to make all these investigations behind my back?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, because until I was absolutely certain about it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Then you mean that you are absolutely certain? Now, surely
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: you are convinced of that? Is it your intention to
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: bring this document before the Baths Committee as a sort
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: of official communication.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Certainly something must be done in the matter, and that quickly.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: As usual, you employ violent expressions in your report. You say,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: amongst other things, that what we offer visitors in our
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: baths is a permanent supply of poison.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Well, can you describe it any other way? Peter? Just
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: think water that is poisonous, whether you drink it or
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: bathe in it. And this we offer to the poor
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: sick folk who come to us trustfully and pay us
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: an exorbitant rate to be made well again.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: And your reasoning leads you to this conclusion that we
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: must build a sewer to draw off the alleged impurities
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: from Molidad and must relay the water conduits.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, do you see any other way out of it?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: I made a pretext this morning to go and see
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: the town engineer, And as if only half seriously broach
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: the subject of these proposals as a thing we might
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: perhaps have to take under consideration sometime later on.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Some time later on, he smiled.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: He considered to be my extravagance. Naturally, have you taken
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: the trouble to consider what your proposed al durations would cost?
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: According to the information I obtained, the expenses would probably
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: mount up to fifteen or twenty thousand pounds?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Would it cost so much?
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Yes, And the worst part of it would be that
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: the work would take at least.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Two years, two years, two whole years at least.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: And what are we to do with the baths in
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: the meantime? Close them? Indeed, we should be obliged to.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: And do you suppose anyone would come near the place
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: after it got out that the water was dangerous?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yes? But Peter, that is what it is.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: And all this at this juncture, just as the baths
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: are beginning to be known, there are other towns in
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: a neighborhood with qualifications to attract visitors from bathing purposes.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Don't you suppose they would immediately straight every nerve to
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: divert the entire stream of strangers to themselves. Unquestionably they would.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: And then where should we be? We should probably have
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: to abandon the whole thing, which has costed so much money,
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: and then you would have ruined your native town. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: should have ruined. It is simply and solely through the
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: bars that the town has before it any future worth mentioning.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: You know that just as well as I. But what
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: do you think ought to be done? Then your report
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: is not convinced me that the condition of the water
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: at the bars is as bad as you represent it
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: to be. I tell you it is even worse, or
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: at all events it will be in summer when the
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: warm weather comes. As I said, I believe you exaggerate
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: the matter considerably. A capable position ought to know what
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: measures to take. You ought to be capable of preventing
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: injurious influences, or of remedying them if they become obviously persistent. Well,
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: what more, the water supply for the baths is now
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: an established fact, and in consequence must be treated as such.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: But probably the committee, at its discretion will not be
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: disinclined to consider the question of how far it might
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: be possible to introduce certain improvements consistently with a reasonable expenditure.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And do you suppose that I will have anything to
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: do with such a piece of trickery as that trickery. Yes,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: it would be a trick, a fraud, a lie, a
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: downright crime towards the public, towards the whole community.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: I have not, as I remarked before, been able to
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: convince myself that there is actually any imminent danger you have.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: It is impossible that you should not be convinced. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: know I have represented the facts absolutely, truthfully and fairly,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and you know it very well, Peter, only you won't
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: acknowledge it. It was owing to your action that both
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: the bath and the water conduits were built where they are,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and that is what you won't acknowledge, that damnable blunder
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: of yours. Pooh, do you suppose I don't see through you?
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: And even if that were true, if I perhaps guard
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: my reputation somewhat anxiously, it is in the interest of
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: the town. Without moral authority, I am powerless to direct
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: public affairs as seems to my judgment to be best
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: for the common good. And on that account, and for
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: various other reasons too, it appears to me to be
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: a question of importance that your report should not be
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: delivered to the committee in the interest of the public.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: You must withhold it. Then later on I will raise
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: the question, and we will do our best privately. But
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: nothing of this unfortunate affair, not the single word of it,
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: must come to the ears of the public.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I am afraid you will not be able to prevent that. Now,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: my dear.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Peter, it must and shall be prevented.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: It's of no use, I tell you. There are too
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: many people that know about.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: It, that know about it who, surely you don't mean
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: those fellows on the People's Messenger.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, they know. The liberal minded, independent Price has gone
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: to see that you do your duty.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: You are an extraordinarily independent man, Thomas. Have you given
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: no thought to the consequences this may have for yourself,
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: consequences for me, for you and yours?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Yes? What the deuce do you mean?
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: I believe I've always behaved in a brotherly way to you,
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: haven't I always been ready to oblige or to help you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, you have, and I am grateful to you for it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: There is no need.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: Indeed, to some extent, I was forced to do so
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: for my own sake. I always hope that if I
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: helped to improve your financial position, I should be able
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: to keep some check on.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: You what that it was only for your own sake.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Up to a certain point. Yes, it is painful for
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: a man in an official position to have his nearest
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: relative compromise himself time after time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And do you consider that I do that?
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Yes, unfortunately you do without even being aware of it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: You have a.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Restless, pugnacious, rebellious disposition. And then there is that disastrous
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: propensity of yours to want to write about every sort
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: of possible and impossible thing. The moment an idea comes
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: into your head, you must needs go and write a
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: newspaper article or a whole pamphlet about it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Wow. But is it not the duty of a citizen
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: to let the public share in any new ideas he
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: may have?
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, the public doesn't require any new ideas. The public
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: is best served by the good old, established ideas it
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: already has. And that is your honest opinion. Yes, And
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: for once I must talk frankly to you. Hitherto I
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: have tried to avoid doing so because I know how
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: irritable you are. But now I must tell you the truth.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Thomas.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: You have no conception what an amount of harm you
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: do yourself by your impetuosity. You complain of the authorities.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: You even complain of the government. You are always pulling
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: into pieces. You insist that you have been neglected and persecuted.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: But what else can such a cantankerous man as you expect?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: What last cantankerous am I?
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, Stomas, you are an extremely cantankerous man to work with.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: I know that to my cost. You disregard everything that
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: you ought to have consideration for. You seem completely to
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: forget that it is me you have to thank for
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: your appointment here as medical officer to the baths.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I was entitled to it, as a matter of course,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I and nobody else. I was the first person to
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: see that the town could be made into a flourishing
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: watering place, and I was the only one who saw
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: it at that time. I had to fight single handed
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: and support of the idea for many years, and I
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: wrote and.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Wrote, undoubtedly, But things were not ripe for the scheme then,
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: though of course you could not judge of that in
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: your out of the way corner up north. But as
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: soon as the opportune moment came, I and the others
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: took the matter into our hands.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, and made this mess of all my beautiful plan.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: It is pretty obvious now what clever fellows you were.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: To my mind, the whole thing only seems to mean
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: that you are seeking another outlet for your combativeness. You
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: want to pick a quarrel with your superiors, an old
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: habit of yours. You cannot put up with any authority
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: over you. You look askance at anyone who occupies a
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: superior official position. You regard him as a personal enemy,
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: and then any stick is good enough to beat him with.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: But now I have called your attention to the fact
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: that the town's interests are at stake, and incidentally my
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: own too, And therefore I must tell you, Thomas, that
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: you will find me inexible with regard to what I
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: am about to require you to do.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And what is that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: As you have been so indiscreet as to speak of
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: this delicate matter to outsiders, despite the fact that you
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: ought to have treated it as entirely official and confidential,
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: it is obviously impossible to hush it up. Now all
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: sorts of rumors will get about directly, and everybody who
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: has a grudge against us will take care to embellish
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: these rumors, So it will be necessary for you to
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: refute them.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Publicly. I, how I don't understand.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: What we shall expect is that, after making further investigations,
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: you will come to the conclusion that the matter is not,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: by any means as dangerous or as critical as you
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: imagined in a first instance.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Aw oh, so that is what you expect.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: And what is more, we shall expect you to make
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: public profession of your confidence in the Committee and in
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: their readiness to consider fully, inconscientiously what steps may be
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: necessary to remedy any possible defects.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: But you will never be able to do that by
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: patching and tinkering at it. Never take my word for it, Peter,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I mean what I say as deliberately and emphatically as possible.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: As an officer under the Committee, you have no right
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: to any individual opinion, no right in your official capacity.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: As a private person it is quite another matter. But
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: as a subordinate member of the staff of the Bars,
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: you have no right to express any opinion which runs
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: contrary to that of your superiors.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: This is too much. I, a doctor, a man of science,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: have no right to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: The matter in hand is not simply a scientific one.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: It is a complicated matter and has its economic as
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: well as its technical side.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I don't care what it is. I intend to be
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: free to express my opinion on any subject under the sun.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: As you please, but not on any subject concerning the
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: baths that we forbid.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: You forbid you a pack of.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: I forbid it, ay, your chief, And if I forbid it,
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: you have to obey.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Peter, if you were not my brother father.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: You shan't stand this.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Petra Patra, Oh, so you have been eavesdropping.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: You were talking so loud we couldn't help it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, I was listening.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Well, after all, I am very glad you were saying
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: something about forbidding and obeying. You oblige me to take
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: that tone with you, and so I am to give
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: myself the lie publicly. We consider it absolutely necessary that
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: you should make some such public statement as I have
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: asked for.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: And if I do not obey.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: Then we shall publish a statement ourselves to reassure the
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: public very well.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: But in that case I shall use my pen against you.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I stick to what I have said. I will show
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that I am right and that you are wrong. And
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: what will you do? Then?
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: Then I shall not be able to prevent your being dismissed.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: What father dismissed dismissed.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Dismissed from the staff of the baths. I shall be
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: obliged to propose that you shall immediately be given notice
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: and shall not be allowed any further participation in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: bath's affairs.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: You would dare to do that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: It is you that are playing the daring game.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Uncle.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: That is a shameful way to treat a man like father.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Do hold your tongue, Petra.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Oh so we volunteer our opinions already dewy of course, Catherine,
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: I imagine you are the most sensible person in this house.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Use any influence you have over your husband and make
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: him see what this will entail for his family as
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: well as my family.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Is my own concern, and nobody else's.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: For his own family, as I was saying, as well
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: as for the town he lives in.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: It is I who have the real good of the
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: town at heart. I want to lay bare the the
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: facts that Sodo or later must come to the light
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: of day. I will show whether I love my native town.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: You, who, in your blind obstinacy, want to cut off
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: the most important source of the town's welfare.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: The source is poisoned. Man. Are you mad? We are
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: making our living by retailing filth and corruption. The whole
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: of our flourishing municipal life derives its sustenance from a lie.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: All imagination will something even worse. The man who can
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: throw out such offensive insinuations about his native town must
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: be an enemy to our community.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Do you dare to Thomas?
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Don't lose your temper, father, I will.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Not expose myself to violence. Now you have had a warning,
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: So reflect on what you owe to yourself and your family.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Good Bye, goes out. Am I to put up with
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: such treatment as this in my own house? Catherine? What
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: do you think of that?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Indeed, it is both shameful and absurd, Thomas.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: If only I could give uncle a piece of my mind.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: It is my own a fault. I ought to have
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: flown out at him long ago, shown my teeth bitten
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to hear him call me an enemy to our community. Me,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I shall not take that lying down upon my soul.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: But dear Thomas, your brother has power on his side, yes,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: but I have right on I tell you, oh, yes,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: right right. What is the use of having right on
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: your side if you have not got might?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Mother, how can you say such a thing?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Do you imagine that in a free country. It is
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: no use having right on your side. You are absurd, Catherine. Besides,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: haven't I got the liberal minded independent press to lead
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: the way, and the compact majority behind me. That is
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: might enough, I should think.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: But good Heavens, Thomas, you don't mean to.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Don't mean to what.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: To set yourself up in opposition to your brother?
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: In God's name? What else do you suppose I should
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: do but take my stand on right in truth?
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, I was just going to.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Say that, but it won't do you any earthly good
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: if they won't do it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: They won't, Oh Catherine, Just give me time and you
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: will see how I carry the war into their.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, you carry the war into their camp, and you
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: get your dismissal. That is what you will.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Do in any case. I shall have done my duty
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: towards the public, towards the community I who have called
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: its enemy.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: But towards your family, Thomas, towards your own home. Do
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you think that is doing your duty towards those you
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: have to provide for.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Ah, don't think always first of us, mother.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, it is easy for you to talk. You are
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: able to shift for yourself if need be. But remember
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the boys Thomas, and think a little of yourself too,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: and of me.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I think you are out of your senses, Catherine. If
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I were to be such a miserable coward as to
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: go on my knees to Peter and his damned crew,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: do you suppose I should ever know an hour's peace
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: of mind all my life afterwards.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about that. But God preserve us
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: from the peace of mind we shall have all the same.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: If you go on defying him, you will find yourself
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: again without the means of subsistence, with no income to
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: count upon. I should think we had enough of that
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  Speaker 2: in the old days. Remember that, Thomas, Think what that means.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what this slavery can bring upon a free,
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  Speaker 3: honorable man. Isn't it horrible? Catherine?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is sinful to treat you so, it is
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  Speaker 2: perfectly true. But good Heavens, one has to put up
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  Speaker 2: with so much injustice in this world. There are the boys, Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: Look at them. What is to become of them? Oh? No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you can never have the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Aileath and Morton have come in while she was speaking,
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  Speaker 1: with their school books in their hands.
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  Speaker 3: The boys. II. No, even if the whole world goes
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  Speaker 3: to paces. I will never bow my neck to this yokel.
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  Speaker 1: Goes towards his room, Thomas, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 3: I mean to have right to look my sons in
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  Speaker 3: the face when they are grown men.
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  Speaker 1: Goes into his room.
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  Speaker 2: God help us all.
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  Speaker 5: Father is splendid. He will not give in.
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  Speaker 1: The boys look on in amazement. Petra signs to them
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  Speaker 1: not to speak. And of Act two,