Not for worlds would these two men exchange a syllable; indeed, it was a relief to most people to find that they did not break out into oaths and blows.

What rendered the situation worse, was that Dr.Tanner has a fine exuberant habit of expressing his opinions for the benefit of all around him.

At his back sat William O'Brien, with his keen thin face, his eyes full of latent fire, his stern, set jaw--his glasses suggesting the student and philosopher, who is always the most perilous and fierce of politicians; and to William O'Brien, Tanner made a running and biting commentary on the speeches--a commentary, as can easily be guessed, from the extreme National point of view.

This was the music to which the Orange Colonel had to listen through the long hours that stretched between his early morning arrival and midnight.

How men will consent to go through all this travail is, to easy-going people, one of the curiosities of political struggle.
[Sidenote: The Chamberlain Party.] Meantime, there had been another and an equally important descent.