Hobson Monologue from Hobson's Choice: A Lancashire Comedy in Four Acts

From Hobson's Choice: A Lancashire Comedy in Four Acts by Harold Brighouse

male · defiant · 54 sec

He can go on waiting. At present, I'm addressing a few remarks to the rebellious females of this house, and what I say will be listened to and heeded. I've noticed it coming on ever since your mother died. There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me. (VICKEY: Father, you'd have more time to talk after we've closed to-night.) I'm talking now, and you're listening. Providence has decreed that you should lack a mother's hand at the time when single girls grow bumptious and must have somebody to rule. But I'll tell you this, you'll none rule me. (VICKEY: I'm sure I'm not bumptious, father.) Yes, you are. You're pretty, but you're bumptious, and I hate bumptiousness like I hate a lawyer.

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