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Updated: July 27, 2025
There was a moment's pause of expectation. At last the slow match upon the deck burned out, and there was a faint and partial explosion, by which little or no damage was produced. Parma instantly called for volunteers to board the mysterious vessel. The desperate expedition was headed by the bold Roland York, a Londoner, of whom one day there was more to be heard in Netherland history.
I am going to see a picture at the Exhibition which has been most truculently criticised in 'The Londoner, but which I am assured, on good authority, is a work of remarkable merit. I can't bear to see a man snarled and sneered down, no doubt by jealous rivals, who have their influence in journals, so I shall judge of the picture for myself.
He was a slightly older man, with a greater experience of men, and a good deal wider range of interests, as could hardly fail to be the case with a Londoner.
I was barely twenty-three when I took up Redford named after our place at home. You know our place at home, of course?" "I have seen it from the road," answered the guest, arrested in his mental wanderings by the mention of his own age. "You must have seen it often, living so close." "I never lived close myself; I am a Londoner." "It's all the same your people do.
"A Londoner will be able to say to his wife, My dear, I am going to Birmingham to-day, but I will be back to dinner; and if a Parisian lights his cigar at Paris, it will burn till he arrives at Bordeaux." "Holloa, Willis, you have fairly converted Fritz and me into marines at last." "I am only speaking of what will be, not of what is that makes all the difference you know.
However he was dressed, he always looked shabby, and he could never have been mistaken for anything but an English gentleman. He shook hands with Mr. Wedmore, with a smile. These poor Londoners, trying to acclimatize themselves, amused him greatly. He looked upon them much as the Londoner looks upon the Polish Jew immigrants with pity, a little jealousy, and no little scorn.
He called on the chief constable of Hillsborough, and asked him, confidentially, if he knew any thing about a workman called Little. "What; a Londoner, sir? the young man that is at odds with the Trades?" "I shouldn't wonder. Yes; I think he is. A friend of mine takes an interest in him." "And so do I. His case was a disgrace to the country, and to the constabulary of the place.
He has sailed under the British flag for a great many years, has been 'most all over the world, and is as much attached to the service as if he was a Londoner, and has got a register ticket.
He was also, as obviously, in appearance, a man of the world, and a Londoner, as the doctor was evidently a countryman, and a hermit. His advantages over the doctor included his voice, which was as deep and musical as the tones of his companion were harsh. The manner, no less than the matter of John's speech, had early brought him distinction.
To the casual Londoner who lounged, intolerant and impatient, at the blacksmith's door while a horse was shod, or a cracked spoke mended, Great Keynes seemed but a poor backwater of a place, compared with the rush of the Brighton road eight miles to the east from which he had turned off, or the whirling cauldron of London City, twenty miles to the north, towards which he was travelling.
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