.--Ah! in pounds sterling that would be approximately so
much. He made his reckoning with lightning rapidity and he was always
accurate, as I could tell, having all the figures at my fingers' ends
just then.

After two hours' hard walking, he took me in to luncheon. We were by
this time in the thick of our theme, and on our arrival at table he
banished the servants from the room and himself carved at the sideboard
and handed round the dishes. H e ate his own meal standing, and he
carried on his questions all the while. I do not know if he had then
made his famous rule about the seventy-two bites to a mouthful, but I
certainly thought him anything but deliberate in eating. Whether he took
much or little I could not tell, but he was certainly talking all the
time, and I shall never forget the noble sonorosity of the tone with
which he approached me with a dish in either hand and asked': "Can I
assist you to another potato, Mr Murray?" The simple query was offered
in the finest parliamentary manner. There were present at the meal
the members of the family and one guest beside myself, a Mr Howard, a
corpulent, silent gentleman, who accompanied us when we went out into
the park again. We recommenced our walk at about two o'clock, and kept
it up until the evening shades were growing pretty thick about us. I was
inclined to be pretty glad when it was over, for though I was as hard as
nails at that time, being fresh as I was from the severe training of the
campaign, I was walked almost off my legs. The talk went on ding-dong
all the time, and in the course of it my host asked me with what weapons
the Zaptiehs--the mounted police who were relied on to keep order--and
the irregulars who were committing unchecked atrocities everywhere,
were respectively armed. I was compelled to tell him that the Zaptiehs
carried an old-fashioned matchlock, whilst the Irregulars were in great
part armed with the Winchester repeating rifle, which was then the
latest invention of destructive science. The corpulent visitor had long
since resigned the effort to keep within hearing. Gladstone faced round,
and in those noble, oratorical tones of his called out, "Is it not
odious, Howard; is it not odious?" The gentleman appealed to was utterly
out of earshot, and came trotting briskly towards us to find out what
the question meant, but Gladstone was away again at score, and he was
again out-distanced in a minute. Gladstone spoke of the duty which was
im