Dr.Rentoul is a man of a different type.

What Johnson feels, Rentoul affects.

He is a tall, common-looking, heavily-built, blustering kind of fellow; great, it is said, on the abusive Tory platform, almost dumb and utterly impotent in the House of Commons.

These were the vanguard of the Orange army, and they proceeded to appropriate the first and best seats they could lay their hands upon.
[Sidenote: Dr.Tanner and his waistcoat.] Dr.Tanner, soon after this, appeared blazing on the scene; and sorrow came upon him that any of the enemy should have forestalled him.

Like Mr.Johnson, Tanner is a Protestant--but, unlike him, is as fiercely Nationalist as the other is Orange; and, whenever the waves are disturbed by the Parliamentary storm, Tanner is pretty sure to be heard of and from.