When that gentleman rose, a perfect storm of cheers went up, during which Montaigne said: 'Now you will hear something, Sir Hugh.

I shall want to know what you think of him.' "Sir Hugh put up his eye-glass, not that his sight was defective but the occasion was important.

Mr.Amos Blackstone had arrived at the dignified age of three score years.

In some respects he curiously resembled the previous speaker, though considerably his senior.

He stood perhaps five feet five inches in his boots.