“. . . Brougham has been at it nearly two hours and a half, and may continue an hour or two more, for aught I know; but it is infinitely too hot to stay in the crowd, so I have just escaped. . . . I think I may say he was as good as I expected. . . .”
“He has been at it again two hours, and will evidently be so till five—criticism in detail upon the evidence for the prosecution—damned dull and damned hot, so I have been walking about amongst my friends on Westminster Bridge.”