Look here, Mr. Aslaksen, this is what I wanted to ask you: won't you take personal charge of the article?
Aslaksen.
Certainly I will.
Dr. Stockmann.
Be as careful as if it were gold. No printers' errors; every word is important. I shall look in again presently; perhaps you'll be able to let me see a proof.—Ah! I can't tell you how I long to have the thing in print—to see it launched
Billing.
Yes, like a thunderbolt!
Dr. Stockmann.
and submitted to the judgment of every intelligent citizen. Oh, you have no idea what I have had to put up with to-day. I've been threatened with all sorts of things. I was to be robbed of my clearest rights as a human being
Billing.
What! Your rights as a human being!
Dr. Stockmann.
I was to humble myself, and eat the dust; I was to set my personal interests above my deepest, holiest convictions
Billing.
Strike me dead, but that's too outrageous
Hovstad.
Oh, what can you expect from that quarter?
