All anybody could do was to listen in spellbound silence, as sonorous sentence rolled after sonorous sentence.

And then cams the end, in a softer and lower key.

It was a direct personal allusion to Mr.Morley.
It was the whole weight of the Government and of its head thrown to the side of the Chief Secretary in the new policy in Ireland.

"We claim," said Mr.Gladstone, "to be partakers of his responsibility, we appeal to the judgment of the House of Commons, and we have no other desire except to share his fate." And then a hurricane of applause.
[Sidenote: A first experience.] It was impossible not to feel sympathy for Lord Randolph Churchill in the difficult task of following such a speech.

The first thing he had to do was to bear testimony to the extraordinary effect the speech had made upon the House of Commons.