He reached Euston on the Wednesday morning, drove straight to the House, and there, standing at the bar, saw what he thus described: "It was thus, travel-stained and weary, that I first presented myself as a member of the British Parliament.

The House was still sitting, it had been sitting without a break for over forty hours, and I shall never forget the appearance the Chamber presented.

The floor was littered with paper.

A few dishevelled and weary Irishmen were on one side of the House, about a hundred infuriated Englishmen upon the other; some of them still in evening dress, and wearing what were once white shirts of the night before last.

Mr.
Parnell was upon his legs, with pale cheeks and drawn face, his hands clenched behind his back, facing without flinching a continuous roar of interruption.