I have looked forward to the proceedings of yesterday as an admirable occasion for your introduction to your future constituents.

Oratory is the talent most appreciated in a free country, and why should you not be an orator?
Demosthenes says that delivery, delivery, delivery, is the art of oratory; and your delivery is excellent, graceful, self-possessed, classical." "Pardon me, my dear father, Demosthenes does not say delivery, nor action, as the word is commonly rendered; he says, 'acting, or stage-play,'-- the art by which a man delivers a speech in a feigned character, whence we get the word hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy! is, according to Demosthenes, the triple art of the orator.
Do you wish me to become triply a hypocrite ?" "Kenelm, I am ashamed of you.

You know as well as I do that it is only by metaphor that you can twist the word ascribed to the great Athenian into the sense of hypocrisy.

But assuming it, as you say, to mean not delivery, but acting, I understand why your debut as an orator was not successful.