A good deal of smoke was made, and a good many speeches.
"Sir Hugh found interest in listening to some of the speakers, and in looking at some of the members.

Montaigne pointed out all of the notables.

One of the speakers* was a short man, with a corpulent body and a large open face; but he was a born orator of a certain type.

Rounded and polished, mellow and musical, his sentences rolled from his mouth in liquid cadence and perfect balance.

Sir Hugh put him down as his ideal after-dinner speaker.