Reissman Monologue from The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by August Wilhelm Iffland

male · dramatic · 1:01 min

Impossible! (Grob: It is but too true. The money is to be paid to Counsellor Selling.) (confidentially.) I must tell you that Selling has already mentioned something to me about it. The young man's conscience is alarmed. He does not like to lend a hand in those sort of things. But I would not believe it. (Grob: It is but too certain.) O Lord! who could think any thing like it of such a man? that is mean, that is--that must not be permitted. Ay, ay! and the minister prefers such a man, reposes confidence in him, because men, like me, take him by the hand. They think, because such a man is of a low extraction, he must have the interest of the lower class at heart. And then he will betray and sell the state!

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