With bare head--with eyes glistening--with a cheek whose wax-like pallor was touched with an unusual gleam of colour--the Grand Old Man came down to his greatest Session, amid a thicket of loving faces and cheering throats.

I fancy one of Mrs.Gladstone's heaviest tasks is to look after the clothes of her illustrious husband.
He manages to make them all awry whenever he gets the chance.

He may be seen at the beginning of an evening with a neat black tie just in its proper place; and towards the end of the evening the same tie is away under his jugular--as though he were trying experiments in the art of expeditiously hanging a man.

But on these great occasions he is always so dressed as to bring out in full relief all the strange and varied beauty of his splendid face and figure.

For nature--in the richness and abundance of her endowment of this portentous personage--has made him not only the greatest man in the House of Commons, but also the handsomest.