The orange-coloured wrappers she tore off, one by one.

As she read, her face softened and her eyes grew very bright.

The first cutting was a report of Tallente's last speech in the House, a clever and forceful attack upon the Government's policy of compromise in the matter of recent strikes.

The next was a speech at the Holborn Town Hall, on workmen's dwellings, another a thoughtful appreciation of him from the pages of a great review.

There was also a eulogy from an American journal and a gloomy attack upon him in the chief Whig organ.