Bentley Monologue from Misalliance

From Misalliance by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:01 min

I couldnt wear them: do you think my skin's as thick as your customers' hides? I'd as soon have dressed myself in a nutmeg grater. (JOHNNY: Pity your father didnt give your thin skin a jolly good lacing with a cane--!) Pity you havnt got more than one idea! If you want to know, they did try that on me once, when I was a small kid. A silly governess did it. I yelled fit to bring down the house and went into convulsions and brain fever and that sort of thing for three weeks. So the old girl got the sack; and serve her right! After that, I was let do what I like. My father didnt want me to grow up a broken-spirited spaniel, which is your idea of a man, I suppose.

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