Aspirates troubled him, so that for the most part he cast them away, and the syntax of his periods was often anacoluthic; but these matters were of no moment.
Questions being called for, Mr.Cowes and Mr.Cullen of course started up simultaneously.

The former gentleman got the ear of the meeting.
With preliminary swaying of the hand, he looked round as one about to propound a question which would for ever establish his reputation for acumen.

In his voice of quiet malice, with his frequent deliberate pauses, with the wonted emphasis on absurd pronunciations, he spoke somewhat thus:-- 'In the course of his address--I shall say nothin' about its qualities, the time for discussion will come presently--our Comrade has said not a few 'ard things about certain individooals who put themselves forward as perractical Socialists--' 'Not 'ard enough!' roared a voice from the back of the room.
Mr.Cowes turned his lank figure deliberately, and gazed for a moment in the quarter whence the interruption had come.

Then he resumed.
'I agree with that involuntary exclamation.

Certainly, not 'ard enough.
And the question I wish to put to our Comrade is this: Is he, or is he not, aweer of certain scandalous doin's on the part of one of these said individooals, I might say actions which, from the Socialist point of view, amount to crimes?
If our Comrade is aweer of what I refer to, then it seems to me it was his dooty to distinctly mention it.