His integrity might be questioned in nameless libels and in coffeehouse tattle, but was certain to come forth bright and pure from the most severe Parliamentary investigation.

Nor was he guilty of those faults of temper and of manner to which, more than to any grave delinquency, the unpopularity of his associates is to be ascribed.

He had as little of the insolence and perverseness of Orford as of the petulance and vaingloriousness of Montague.

One of the most severe trials to which the head and heart of man can be put is great and rapid elevation.

To that trial both Montague and Somers were put.