This was an illustration of a failing of Mr.Webster at that time.

He was rough and unceremonious, and even overbearing, both to court and bar, the natural result of a new sense of power in an inexperienced man.

This harshness of manner, however, soon disappeared.

He learned rapidly to practise the stately and solemn courtesy which distinguished him through life.
There was one lawyer, however, at the head of his profession in New Hampshire, who had more effect upon Mr.Webster than any other whom he ever met there or elsewhere.

This was the man to whom the Shaker said: "By thy size and thy language[1] I judge that thou art Jeremiah Mason." Mr.Mason was one of the greatest common-lawyers this country has ever produced.