'No, nor shan't have, not till I've took these two coats in.'
'Then what'll it be?'
'You know very well what it'll be--three-and-six--one-and-nine apiece--if there ain't no fines.'
'And this is what they call the land of liberty, the 'ome of the free, where people slave and slave--for one-and-nine.'
Mr. Davis seemed conscious that the conclusion of his sentence was slightly impotent, and spat on the floor as if to signify his regret.
''Tain't much slaving you do, anyhow.'
'No, nor it ain't much I'm likely to do; I'm no servile wretch; I'm free-born.'
'Prefers to make your living off me, you do.'
'Well, and why not? Ain't woman the inferior animal? Didn't Nature mean it to be her pride to minister to man? Ain't it only the false veneer of a rotten civilization what's upset all that? If I gives my talents for the good of the species, as I do do, as is well known I do do, ain't it only right that you should give me something in return, if it's only a crust and water? Ain't that law and justice-- natural law, mind you, and natural justice?'
'I don't know nothing about law, natural or otherwise, but I do know it ain't justice.'