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’If he’d been sitting in a chair with paralysed legs, and
behaved as you behaved, what would you have done for
HIM?’
’My dear evangelist, this confusing of persons and per-
sonalities is in bad taste.’
’And your nasty, sterile want of common sympathy is in
the worst taste imaginable. NOBLESSE OBLIGE! You and
your ruling class!’
’And to what should it oblige me? To have a lot of unnec-
essary emotions about my game-keeper? I refuse. I leave it
all to my evangelist.’
’As if he weren’t a man as much as you are, my word!’
’My game-keeper to boot, and I pay him two pounds a
week and give him a house.’
’Pay him! What do you think you pay for, with two
pounds a week and a house?’
’His services.’
’Bah! I would tell you to keep your two pounds a week
and your house.’
’Probably he would like to: but can’t afford the luxury!’
’You, and RULE!’ she said. ‘You don’t rule, don’t flat-
ter yourself. You have only got more than your share of
the money, and make people work for you for two pounds
a week, or threaten them with starvation. Rule! What do
you give forth of rule? Why, you re dried up! You only bully
with your money, like any Jew or any Schieber!’
’You are very elegant in your speech, Lady Chatterley!’
’I assure you, you were very elegant altogether out there
in the wood. I was utterly ashamed of you. Why, my father

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