“O yes! I know!” said Bounderby, immediately catching at the sound. “I know! I am used to that. I know all about it. They are the finest people in the world, these fellows are. They have got the gift of the gab, they have. They only want to have their rights explained to them, they do. But I tell you what. Show me a dissatisfied hand, and I’ll show you a man that’s fit for anything bad, I don’t care what it is.”

Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate⁠—and which some people really believed.