[Sketches In The House (1893) by T. P. O’Connor]@TWC D-Link bookSketches In The House (1893) CHAPTER V 3/34
He has suddenly taken to making the House of Commons familiar with his voice at every sitting.
Lord Cranborne has been remarkable for the boorishness and impertinence of his manners--or, perhaps, to be more accurate, want of manners.
I have seen him interrupting Mr.Gladstone in the most impudent way with a face you would like to slap, and his hands deep down in the depths of his pockets.
Lord Cranborne is now nightly in evidence, and leads the chorus of jeers and cheers by which the more brutal of the Tory youth signalize the opening of the new style of Parliamentary warfare. [Sidenote: Jimmy.] But of all the things which indicate the new state of affairs which has arisen, nothing is so significant as the change in the position of Jimmy Lowther.
People think that I have attached too much importance to this extraordinary individual, and that he should be taken simply as the frank horse-jockey he looks and seems.
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