The vote would have to be taken.

An hour later--when the clock pointed to one--there was a second attempt.

There was the same response in the same tone--its quietness, however, fiercely accentuated by Liberal cheers.

And then, when the Tories still seemed determined to obstruct, came a division, then the closure, and at one o'clock in the morning Mr.Gladstone was able to leave the House.

Thus was he compelled to waste time and strength, that Mr.Chamberlain might nightly hiss his hate, and Mr.Jimmy Lowther might gulp and obstruct, obstruct and gulp..