... was getting home more intoxicated than usual, i when a. friend accosted himi, 1Abi, doctor, doctor, what would the Tolbooth Whigs say if they saw you just nowsP 'Deed, was the confideut reply. 'they just wadna6 ttust their Ain ee. Aed so it was. ...

... 4alihbiry seemed always anxious to bring them into con- filet with the Commnons, and now that the re- straining illduecce of the Whigs had been with- drnwn by their being absorbed in the stagniant pool of the Tory swanip the result was lik(;ly to be momentous ...