Then it is that I remember what depths of religious fervour there are in this leader of a fierce democracy, and can imagine that ofttimes his communings may, perchance, be silent prayer.
[Sidenote: In contrast with Lowther.] As I have said, there have been many such moments in those days in Parliament.

Mr.Gladstone can be severe--wrathful--even cruel.

It is not often that he is so, but sometimes he has, in sheer self-defence, to notice the dogs that yelp at his heels, and to lash out and maul them so as to keep off the rest.

Nobody will forget how, in a few words, Mr.
Gladstone mercilessly and for ever crushed that impudent young gentleman, who is titled and considered to-day largely because Mr.
Gladstone was the patron of his sanctimonious father.

Mr.Jesse Collings hides under a painfully extorted smile the agonies he endures on the few occasions when Mr.Gladstone deems it worth his while to scornfully refer to his apostasy.