Hallin's presidential speech of the year before, as Casey said, rang flat in the memory when compared with it.

Wharton knew that he had made a mark, and knew also that his speech had given him the whip-hand of some fellows who would otherwise have stood in his way.
Casey was the first man to cease talking about the speech.

He had already betrayed himself about it more than he meant.

He belonged to the New Unionism, and affected a costume in character--fustian trousers, flannel shirt, a full red tie and work-man's coat, all well calculated to set off a fine lion-like head and broad shoulders.

He had begun life as a bricklayer's labourer, and was now the secretary of a recently formed Union.