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But the Gazette continues: "It was as an athlete that he distinguished himself above his fellows. In his palmy days he was the smartest runner either Cambridge or Oxford has produced. . It is easy to see, as he walks along one of the corridors in the courts, or across the lobby of the House of Commons to his private room, that he possesses a frame of extraordinary power. The broad shoulders the well-proportioned body, narrowing at the loins; the massive features furrowed by responsibility and thought, and bearing the unmistakable stamp of ceaseless intellectual activity, tell their tale with ease."

"Such is the man whose income from his profession each year is thirty thousand pounds, the fees marked on some of his briefs being enormous—his practice being confined to commercial law, railroads, and patents."—Law Gazette, August, 1892.