Watch him in the House of Commons when an attack is being made upon him which he does not like, and the fierce and domineering temper reveals itself in the fidgety movement, the darkened brow, the deeper pallor on the white-complexioned face.

When he was a Cabinet Minister he could never, or rarely, be got to remain in the House of Commons during the whole of the evening; and one of the chief reasons, I have heard, he gave for thus absenting himself was that he could not stand the talk from the opposite side--it made him so angry.
[Sidenote: Joe's motives.] But there were other and more immediate reasons for his anger with the _Daily News_.

Joe was conscious of the growth of two feelings--either of which was very perilous to him.

First, he began uneasily to feel that the country--watching the struggle between him and the Old Man--was getting a little disgusted at the business; and saw in it a want of that chivalry and fair play which it desires to see even in the fiercest political controversy.

This was not a pleasant sentiment to have growing up against one; and Joe felt that it has serious perils to his future political position.