"I was as much afraid," he said, "last year as when first I came into Parliament.

But now I am forced to speak so often that I am quite hardened.

Last Thursday I was up forty times." I was not much surprised at this in Lord Althorp, as he is certainly one of the most modest men in existence.

But I was surprised to hear Stanley say that he never rose without great uneasiness.

"My throat and lips," he said, "when I am going to speak, are as dry as those of a man who is going to be hanged." Nothing can be more composed and cool than Stanley's manner.