The judge, thus awakened, explained to the jury that the law was not as Mr.Webster stated it.

While this colloquy was in progress Mr.Webster roused up, pushed back his thick hair, shook himself, and glanced about him with the look of a caged lion.

When the judge paused, he turned again to the jury, his eyes no longer half shut but wide open and glowing with excitement.

Raising his voice, he said, in tones which made every one start: "If my client could recover under the law as I stated it, how much more is he entitled to recover under the law as laid down by the court;" and then, the jury now being thoroughly awake, he poured forth a flood of eloquent argument and won his case.

In his latter days Mr.Webster made many careless and dull speeches and carried them through by the power of his look and manner, but the time never came when, if fairly aroused, he failed to sway the hearts and understandings of men by a grand and splendid eloquence.