That's 'ow I come to lose my kid, my little kid... Mind you, that was fifteen years ago: I was a rotter then, same as you might be. I wasn't 'arf the man I am now... You can larf! A man can change a lot in fifteen years! (MANSON: I didn't laugh.) Do you want to know wot's come over me since then? I work --and work well: that's more than some of 'em can say-- And I don't get much money for it, either! That ought to mek 'em feel ashamed! I'm not the drunkard I was--not by 'arf! If I'm bitter, oo's made me bitter? You cawn't be very sweet and perlite on eighteen bob a week-- when yer get it! I'll tell yer summat else: I've eddicated myself since then--I'm not the gory fool I was-- And they know it! They can't come playin' the 'anky with us, same as they used to! It's Nice Mister Working-man This and Nice Mister Working-man That, will yer be so 'ighly hobliging as to 'and over your dear little voting-paper--you poor, sweet, muddy-nosed old Idiot, as can't spot your natural enemy when yer see 'im! That orter mek some on 'em sit up! Fifteen years ago me an' my like 'adn't got a religion! By Gawd, we 'av' one now! Like to 'ear wot it is? (MANSON: Yes.) SOCIALISM! Funny, ain't it?

Robert Monologue from The Servant in the House

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