made a good impression and what a bad one. > “A man shouldn't speak more than twice in his first session, and not at first on too contentious a topic,” said Sir Edward.
“Very much depends on manner. The House hates a lecturer. There's a sort of airy earnestness—”
He waved his cigar to eke out his words.
“Little peculiarities of costume count for a great deal. I could name one man who spent three years living down a pair of spatterdashers. On the other hand—a thing like that—if it catches the eye of the PUNCH man, for example, may be your making.”
He went off into a lengthy speculation of why the House had come to like an originally unpopular Irishman named Biggar....
The opening of Parliament gave me some peculiar moods. I began to feel more and more like a branded sheep. We were