[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XVII 26/30
There's Rockney.
Do you know Rockney? He's the biggest single gun they've got, and he's mad for this country, but ask him about the public, you'll hear the menagerie-keeper's opinion of the brute that mauled his loins.' 'Rockney,' said Mr.Colesworth, 'has the tone of a man disappointed of the dictatorship.' 'Then you do know Rockney!' shouted Captain Con.
'That's the man in a neat bit of drawing.
He's a grand piece of ordnance.
But wait for him too, and tell me by and by.
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