"Seriously," said Mr.Morley, passing from this lighter, but very effective vein.

And then he was interrupted by his foe.

"Hear, hear," shouted Mr.Chamberlain in that deep, raucous, fierce note, in which he reveals the fierceness of his hatred, as though to say that it was time for Mr.Morley to address himself to serious things.
[Sidenote: Mr.Sexton.] So the debate proceeded during the earlier part of the week; as it neared its close it increased in brilliancy, until in the last night it went out in a blaze of splendour and glory.

On the Thursday evening Mr.
Sexton was the speaker.

He made a speech which was two hours and a half in duration; it was in my opinion too long--I think that except in the most exceptional cases no orator ought to speak more than half an hour.
And yet I would not have had the speech shorter by one second; and it is a singular proof of the extraordinary command which this man holds over the House of Commons that he kept its attention absolutely without a moment's pause or cessation, during every bit of this tremendous strain upon his attention.