He managed, however, to take the oath early among those who took it, and heard the Queen s speech read and the Address moved and seconded.

He was seated very uncomfortably, high up on a back seat, between two men whom he did not know; and he found the speeches to be very long.

He had been in the habit of seeing such speeches reported in about a column, and he thought that these speeches must take at least four columns each.

He sat out the debate on the Address till the House was adjourned, and then he went away to dine at his club.
He did go into the dining-room of the House, but there was a crowd there, and he found himself alone,--and to tell the truth, he was afraid to order his dinner.
The nearest approach to a triumph which he had in London came to him from the glory which his election reflected upon his landlady.

She was a kindly good motherly soul, whose husband was a journeyman law-stationer, and who kept a very decent house in Great Marlborough Street.