:54:02
Why not?
:54:05
Look at it my way. What am I?
:54:09
I ask ya, what am I? I'm one
o' the undeserving poor, that's what I am.
:54:13
Think what that means to a man.
:54:15
It means he's up against
middle-class morality for all the time.
:54:19
If there's anything goin' an' I ask
for a bit of it, it's always the same story:
:54:23
"You're undeservin', so you can't have it."
:54:25
But my needs is as great as the most
deservin' widows that ever got money...
:54:29
...out of six different charities in one week
for the death o' the same 'usband.
:54:34
I don't need less than a deservin' man,
I need more.
:54:38
I don't eat less 'earty than he does
and I drink...
:54:41
...a lot more.
:54:43
I'm playin' straight with you.
:54:45
I ain't pretendin' to be deservin'.
No, I'm undeservin'...
:54:49
...and I mean to go on bein' undeservin'.
I like it an' that's the truth.
:54:53
But will you take advantage
of a man's nature...
:54:56
...do him out of the price of
his own daughter, what he's brought up...
:55:00
...fed and clothed
by the sweat of his brow...
:55:03
...till she's growed big enough
to be interestin' to you two gentlemen?
:55:09
Is five pounds unreasonable,
I put it to you?
:55:13
And I leave it to you.
:55:17
You know, Pickering, if we took this man
in hand for three months...
:55:21
...he could choose between a seat in
the Cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales.
:55:25
- We'd better give 'im a fiver.
- He'll make bad use of it, I'm afraid.
:55:29
Not me, Governor, so 'elp me I won't.
:55:31
Just one good spree
for meself an' the missus...
:55:34
...givin' pleasure to ourselves
and employment to others.
:55:37
An' satisfaction to you to know
it ain't been throwed away.
:55:39
You couldn't spend it better.
:55:41
This is irresistible. Let's give 'im ten.
:55:44
The missus wouldn't have the 'eart
to spend ten.
:55:46
Ten pounds is a lot o' money.
:55:48
Makes a man feel prudent-like,
and then goodbye to 'appiness.
:55:52
No, you just give me what I ask, Governor.
Not a penny less, not a penny more.
:55:56
I rather draw the line at encouraging
this sort of immorality.
:55:59
Why don't you marry that missus of yours?