Joe was so angered that he could not get over it for some time.

"Dustheaps!" he was heard to be muttering several times in succession, as if the word positively choked him.
Indeed, throughout Mr.Asquith's speech, whenever the allusions were made to him, Joe was seen to be muttering under his teeth.

It was the running commentary which he made on the most effective attack that has been uttered against him; it was the highest tribute to the severity and success of the assailant.
[Sidenote: Limp Balfour.] Badly as Mr.Chamberlain bore his punishment, Mr.Balfour was even worse.

It is seldom that the House of Commons has seen a more remarkable or more effective retort than the happy, dexterous, delightful--from the literary point of view, unsurpassable--parody which Mr.Asquith made of Mr.Balfour's flagitious incitements to the men of Belfast.

Mr.
Asquith put the case of Mr.Morley going down to a crowd in Cork, and using the same kind of language.