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of common capacity will be struck with real eloquence surprisingly. When the former Corn Bill was brought into the House, and I had prepared my speech,

Your speech, my Lord?

Yes, Blount: I am just telling this young person here how surprisingly my own attorney was struck with some passages which I read to him from my first speech on the Corn Laws; and a man, too, who has no more taste or cultivation than a coalheaver.

I well believe it, my Lord. The want of both could never disqualify him from relishing the beauties of such a production.

You have read it, then?

I have heard of it. It was that effort of your genius, I understand, which helped to win the heart of Lady Worrymore.

Ay, it was even so: in those happier days