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Oliver Cromwell, by the way, was an only surviving boy among seven
sisters, so we cannot take either poet or surgeon for gospel. Time
was up, and bore us away from Homer and Hunter. He was perfectly
silent in the carriage, as I remembered Bright had been when years
before I drove with him to the same hall. The sight of the vast
meeting was almost appalling, from fifteen to seventeen thousand
people. He spoke with great vigour and freedom; the fine passages
probably heard all over; many other passages certainly not heard,
but his gestures so strong and varied as to be almost as
interesting as the words would have been. The speech lasted an
hour and fifty minutes; and he was not at all exhausted when he
sat down. The scene at the close was absolutely indescribable and
incomparable, overwhelming like the sea.

He took part in parliamentary business at the beginning of December. On
December 3rd he spoke on Ireland with immense fervour and passion. He was
roused violently by the chairman's attempt to rule out strong language
from debate, and made a vehement passage on that point. The substance of
the speech was rather thin and not new, but the delivery magnificent. The
Irish minister rose to reply at 7.50, and Mr. Gladstone reluctantly made
up his mind to dine in the House. A friend by his side said No, and at
8.40 hurried him down the back-stairs to a hospitable board in Carlton
Gardens. He was nearly voiceless, until it was time for the rest of us to
go back. A speedy meal revived him, and he was soon discoursing on
O'Connell and many other persons and things, with boundless force and
vivacity.

A few days later he was carried off to Naples. Hereto, he told Lord Acton,
"we have been induced by three circumstances. First, a warm invitation
from the Dufferins to Rome; as to which, however, there are _cons_ as well
as _pros_ for a man who like me is neither Italian nor Curial in the view
of present policies. Secondly, our kind friend Mr. Stuart Rendel has
actually offered to be our conductor thither and back, to perform for us
the great service which you rendered us in the trip to Munich and Saint
Martin. Thirdly, I have the hope that the stimulating climate of Naples,
to