What he said was the common stuff of argument: it was all what someone else might have said--until the war came.

Then, he was a changed creature.

He went through in the Army the same experience as hundreds of other members of Parliament; but he and he only seemed to have got the very soul out of it.

He took to his soldier's duty as a religion: he saw all that concerned him in the light of it.

It has been told already how his two speeches on almost casual occasions affected public feeling: but in them he was chiefly an Irish member of Parliament speaking about soldiers and about Irish soldiers.