"Poor dear Mulligan! he it quite too delightfully good-natured, don't you know;" i.e., "A great goose who gushes, and fancies it generosity."
"A great authority on Golf;" "An energetic bore, whose talk is all of 'bunkers' and 'Mr. BALFOUR.'"
ELECTIONEERING.
"Have been asked to come forward;" i.e., "The result of ten years pushing and scheming on my part."
A "local" man; i.e., Owns a small property in the furthest corner of the county.
"The good old cause;" i.e., Ourselves.
"Have always felt that the —— class are the mainstay of the country;" i.e., "Must conciliate the industrial section of constituency."