Q. And as one of the rabble—what are you to expect from the gentlemen who propose themselves—for the benefit of the country—to be Members of Parliament?
A. I am to expect, and not a bit to mind it, to be despised from the bottom of their hearts.
Q. Were you created for that?
A. I was, as badgers were made to be baited, foxes to be hunted, and hedgehogs to be beaten to bits—so was the rabble made to be despised by Members of Parliament, ’specially when majors, from the very bottom of their hearts.
Punch.
Le Catechisme des Anglais.
Pour l’expulsion des Français sous Napoleon I.
D. Dis moi, mon enfant, qui es tu?
R. Anglais; par la grace de Dieu.