Several Voices.
Silence up there!
Others.
He's drunk! Turn him out!
[The drunken man is turned out.
Dr. Stockmann.
Can I speak?
Aslaksen.
[Ringing the bell.] Dr. Stockmann will address the meeting.
Dr. Stockmann.
A few days ago, I should have liked to see any one venture upon such an attempt to gag me as has been made here to-night! I would have fought like a lion for my sacred rights! But now I care little enough; for now I have more important things to speak of.
[The people crowd closer round him. Morten Kiil comes in sight among the bystanders.
Dr. Stockmann.
[Continuing.] I have been pondering a great many things during these last days—thinking such a multitude of thoughts, that at last my head was positively in a whirl
Burgomaster.
[Coughing.] H'm!
Dr. Stockmann.
But presently things seemed to straighten themselves out, and I saw them clearly in all
