swinehound

Updated: May 6, 2025

For, you see, this very indiscreet and reprehensible swinehound of a draughtsman, who is at present in my lockup, declares that he was without suspicion of serious wrong-doing, because because the particulars of the new battleship upon that paper were supplied to YOU." Perhaps I ought to have seen it coming, but I didn't. For a moment, as a washerwoman might say, I was struck all of a heap.

Bennet Copplestone - The Lost Naval Papers