Hotchkiss Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 57 sec

Oh yes, I assure you. I went into the matter once very carefully; and I found things I have actually done--things that everybody does, I imagine--would expose me, if I were found out and prosecuted, to ten years' penal servitude, two years hard labor, and the loss of all civil rights. Not counting that I'm a private trustee, and, like all private trustees, a fraudulent one. Otherwise, the widow for whom I am trustee would starve occasionally, and the children get no education. And I'm probably as honest a man as any here. THE GENERAL (outraged) Do you imply that I have been guilty of conduct that would expose me to penal servitude?

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