Examining Magistrate Monologue from The Live Corpse

From The Live Corpse by Leo, graf Tolstoy

male · defiant · 59 sec

I understand your wish to be magnanimous, but the law demands the truth. Why was money sent to you? Fédya is silent. You received through Semyónov the money sent to you in Sarátov? Fédya is silent. Why don't you answer? It will be put down in the depositions that the accused did not answer these questions, and this may harm you and them very much. Well then, how was it? FÉDYA (after a pause) Oh, Mr. Magistrate, how is it you are not ashamed! Why do you pry into other people's lives? You are glad to have power, and to show it, you torment not physically but morally--torment people a thousand times better than yourself!

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