He pictured him as either a bit of a fawner, who would cringe through the year, or a keen-headed business man, who would go through it with a steel-trap mouth, and an eye to every weakness in his fellow-workers.
"Antony Gray,--Gardener"
Leslie Moore
Courts may have known than thou a readier tool, 9 States may have found than thine a subtler brain, But states shall honour many a formal fool, And many a tawdry fawner courts may gain, Ere King or People in their need shall see A soul so grand as that which fled with thee!
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
In exchange he took his revenge out on Padre Irene, whom he looked upon as a base fawner and despised for his coarseness.
"The Reign of Greed Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'"
Jose Rizal