They might as well have preached to any madman out of St.Luke's.

"I feel," said the silly creature, "that I am doing wrong, and acting very unjustifiably.

If gentlemen will forgive me, I will never do so again.

But I must keep my word." We roared with laughter every time he repeated his apologies.

The orders of the House do not enable any person absolutely to stop the progress of a bill in Committee, but they enable him to delay it grievously.