Werle Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 59 sec

But wasn’t it Ekdal who drew up the map of the forest--that falsified map? It was he who carried out the illegal felling of trees on the government lands. Why, it was he who managed the whole business up there. I had no idea of what Lieutenant Ekdal was undertaking. (GREGERS: Lieutenant Ekdal himself did not know what he had undertaken.) Maybe, but the fact remains that he was sentenced and I was acquitted. (GREGERS: Yes, I know. Proofs were wanting.) Acquittal is acquittal. But why rake up all this unfortunate business that turned my hair grey before its time? Have you been brooding over this all these years up at the Works? I can assure you, Gregers, here in town, the story has long been forgotten, as far as I am concerned.

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