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His men believed in him, and would do anything for him. They liked him for his bluff, John-Bullish, and rampant manner. The enlisted man is a curious differentiation from the class to which he belongs.
'He thinks the profession of literature a delusion, and doubts the wisdom of having poets for clerks. 'John-Bullish! Diana exclaimed. 'He speaks contemptuously of the poor boy. 'Only inasmuch as the foolishness of the young man in throwing up the Law provokes his practical mind to speak. 'He might take my word for the "young man's" ability.
There came to see me the other day a young gentleman with a mustache and a blue cloak, who announced himself as William Allingham, and handed me a copy of his poems, a thin volume, with paper covers, published by Routledge. I thought I remembered hearing his name, but had never seen any of his works. His face was intelligent, dark, pleasing, and not at all John-Bullish.
Settled there, he remembered the position of a near-by bell, just under the window-curtain.... Yes, there it was. He rang, and a waiter came a rotund, pink-faced, John-Bullish waiter, with little white tufts on each cheek. Ayling ordered a whisky-and-soda, and when presently the waiter brought it Ayling asked how long he had been in the service of the club. "Thirty-five years, sir."
With this John-Bullish exclamation, which seems so natural to the natives of "Old England," the Skipper reached the ground. Nor was Robin long in following his example: he cared not to tarry Sir Willmott's questioning, and touched the earth sooner than his friend, inasmuch as he sprang down, when midway, with his usual agility.
There came to see me the other day a young gentleman with a mustache and a blue cloak, who announced himself as William Allingham, and handed me a copy of his poems, a thin volume, with paper covers, published by Routledge. I thought I remembered hearing his name, but had never seen any of his works. His face was intelligent, dark, pleasing, and not at all John-Bullish.
Of Punch as a local politician we are hardly fair judges, and it may be a mistaken suspicion that he has occasionally given up to party what was meant for mankind. With respect to "foreign affairs," we shall be safer in saying, that, with all his cosmopolitanism, he is a shade or two John-Bullish.
'He thinks the profession of literature a delusion, and doubts the wisdom of having poets for clerks. 'John-Bullish! Diana exclaimed. 'He speaks contemptuously of the poor boy. 'Only inasmuch as the foolishness of the young man in throwing up the Law provokes his practical mind to speak. 'He might take my word for the "young man's" ability.
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