.) Returning from the House, he called on Moore, and, while the latter was dressing for dinner, walked up and down the next room,
"spouting in a sort of mock heroic voice, detached sentences of the speech he had just been delivering. 'I told them,' he said, 'that it was a most flagrant violation of the Constitution—that, if such things were permitted, there was an end of English freedom, and that—'
'But what was this dreadful grievance?' asked Moore.
'The grievance?' he repeated, pausing as if to consider, 'oh, that I forget.'"
[295—to Thomas Moore]
My Dear Moore,—"