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“Lackeys!” he said. “Now there’s a word I ain’t ’eard since ever so long. Lackeys! That reg’lar takes me back, that does. I recollect oh, donkey’s years ago --I used to sometimes go to ’Yde Park of a Sunday afternoon to ’ear the blokes making speeches. Salvation Army, Roman Catholics, Jews, Indians -- all sorts there was. And there was one bloke -- well, I couldn’t give you ’isname, but a real powerful speaker ’e was. ’E didn’t ’alf give it ’em! ‘Lackeys!’ ’e says, ‘lackeys of the bourgeoisie! Flunkies of the ruling class!’ Parasites -- that was another of them. And ’yenas -- ’edefinitely called ’em ’yenas. Of course ’e was referring to the Labour Party, you understand.”

Winston had the feeling that they were talking at cross-purposes.

“What I really wanted to know was this,” he said. “Do you feel that you have more freedom now than you had in those days? Are you treated more like a human being? In the old days, the rich

people, the people at the top--”

“The ’Ouse of Lords,” put in the old man reminiscently.

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