The majority of the House more justly regarded him as the falsest, the most malignant and the most impudent being that had ever disgraced the human form.

The sight of that brazen forehead, the accents of that lying tongue, deprived them of all mastery over themselves.

Many of them doubtless remembered with shame and remorse that they had been his dupes, and that, on the very last occasion on which he had stood before them, he had by perjury induced them to shed the blood of one of their own illustrious order.

It was not to be expected that a crowd of gentlemen under the influence of feelings like these would act with the cold impartiality of a court of justice.

Before they came to any decision on the legal question which Titus had brought before them, they picked a succession of quarrels with him.