The Other One monologue (Act 5) — Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series

This case has passed through all the instances except the highest, and that far you cannot reach with your stamped papers. For if you tried, all these poor people whom you have robbed of their living would cry out: Guilty!--Thus we are done with all that could be properly disposed of. What remains here still undisposed of goes to the poor: clocks, vases, jewelry and other valuables that have served as bribes, graft, tips, souvenirs--all in a perfectly legal way because evidence and witnesses were wanting. You poor, take back your own! Your tears have washed the guilt from the ill-gotten goods. [_The_ POOR _begin to plunder_] And now remains the last item to be sold by me. This pauper here, formerly a judge, is offered to the lowest bidder for board at the expense of the parish. How much is offered? [_Silence_] No offer? [_Silence_] First, second, third time--no offer? [_To the_ JUDGE] There, you see! Nobody wants you. Well, then, I have to take you myself and send you to your well-earned punishment.