There was to be a meeting of the County Council the next morning when a most important question of small holdings was to come up for discussion.

Mr.Hazlewood held the strongest views.

He was engaged in shaping them in the smallest possible number of words.

To be brief, to be vivid--there was the whole art of public speaking.

Mr.Hazlewood chattered feverishly for five minutes; he had come in chattering, he went out chattering.
"That's all right, Stella, you see," said Dick cheerfully when they were left alone.