However, as I have said, the House of Commons was so heartily ashamed of itself, and desired to get its shame out of sight and out of memory as soon as possible.
[Footnote: A lame apology.] But Mr.Hayes Fisher did not act particularly well.

It was he who had taken Mr.Logan by the collar, and therefore, it was he who had struck the first blow.

There was some execrable haggling as to whether Mr.
Hayes Fisher or Mr.Logan should make the first apology--execrable, I say, because a gentleman never ought to haggle over an apology if he feels that he has been in the wrong, and because nobody could deny that Mr.Fisher had been the original wrongdoer.

The result was that when Mr.Gladstone came into the House on July 31st, and was asked questions about the business, the Old Man, for once, found himself in a difficulty.

He had been told that apologies were going to be made; but Mr.Fisher made no sign, and, indeed, it looked very much as if he would do nothing at all.