To stand where she did, was impossible.

The whole weight of the matter fell on Cunningham and Candlish.

No shoulders in the church were broader than theirs; and I must say, badly as I detest the principles laid down and defended by them, I was compelled to acknowledge the vast mental endowments of the men.

Cunningham rose; and his rising was the signal for almost tumultous applause.

You will say this was scarcely in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion, but to me it served to increase its grandeur and gravity.