The significance of the great moment, the long years of struggle, of heroic courage, of inflexible temerity, of patient and splendid hope, all this rushes tumultuously to the minds of his friends and followers, and, in a second, without a word of warning or command, the Liberals and the Irish have sprung to their feet, and, underneath their cheers--their waving hats, their uplifted forms--Mr.Gladstone passes through to his seat as under a canopy.
At last, Tom Ellis, the Junior Liberal Whip, quickly comes up the floor--the paper is handed to Mr.Marjoribanks--this announces we have won--a good cheer, but short, for we want to know the numbers--and then they are read out.
For the second reading 347 Against 304 The majority is 43.

The Lord be praised! we have polled all our men! And then more cheers--taken up outside in the deeper bellow of the big crowd, and then more waving of hats and another great reception to Mr.
Gladstone.

And so, as the streaks of day rose on this hour of Ireland's coming dawn, we went to our several homes..