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

[_Pretends to throw something at the_ JUDGE, _who stands aghast and speechless_] Don't speak of the law! Here the Gospel is preached--but not for you, who wanted to buy heaven with stolen money.--First: the widow and her fatherless children. There is the silver set which the judge accepted from you for his false report as executor. In his stained hands the silver has turned black, but I hope that in yours it will once more turn white.--Then we come to the ward, who had to become a chimney-sweep, after being cheated out of his inheritance. Here are the receipted bills and the property due to you from your guardian. And you need not thank him for his accounting.--Here stands the surveyor who, although he was innocent, had to serve two years in prison because he had made an illegal partition--the maps handed to him for the purpose having been falsified in advance. What can you do for him, Judge? Can you undo what has happened, or restore his lost honour?