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.