He read it with much emotion, and returned it to me, saying 'Your father has had great trials, obloquy, bad health, many anxieties.

One must feel as if Tom were given him for a recompense.' He was silent for a moment, and then his mobile face lighted up, and he clapped his hand to his ear, and cried: 'Ah! I hear that shout again.
Hear! Hear! What a life it was!'" And so, on the eve of the most momentous conflict that ever was fought out by speech and vote within the walls of a senate-house, the young recruit went gaily to his post in the ranks of that party whose coming fortunes he was prepared loyally to follow, and the history of whose past he was destined eloquently, and perhaps imperishably, to record.
York: April 2, 1826.
My dear Father,--I am sorry that I have been unable to avail myself of the letters of introduction which you forwarded to me.

Since I received them I have been confined to the house with a cold; and, now that I am pretty well recovered, I must take my departure for Pontefract.

But, if it had been otherwise, I could not have presented these recommendations.
Letters of this sort may be of great service to a barrister; but the barrister himself must not be the bearer of them.

On this subject the rule is most strict, at least on our circuit.