It is because you do work and can work, and because you have fitted yourself for that continued course of lucid explanation which we now call debate, that men on both sides have called upon you as the best man to come forward in this difficulty.

Excuse me, my friend, again, if I say that I expect to find your manliness equal to your capacity." "If I could only escape from it!" "Psha;--nonsense!" said the old Duke, getting up.

"There is such a thing as a conscience with so fine an edge that it will allow a man to do nothing.

You've got to serve your country.

On such assistance as I can give you you know that you may depend with absolute assurance.