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he rushed up to the gallery, and eagerly asked his friend Woodfall what he thought of it. That candid man shook his head and told him oratory was not his forte. Sheridan leaned his head on his hand a moment, and then exclaimed with vehement emphasis, 'It is in me, however, and, by Heaven. it shall come out. '" This reminds us of D'Israeli's failure, on first speaking in the House of Commons, and his energetic promise, "The time will come when you shall hear me,"--a promise well redeemed, as Peel and Palmerston, Bright and Gladstone, have had full opportunity of knowing. In a short time Sheridan acquired the necessary confidence for speaking well, and, in 1783 after he had been in office for a short time, he made the well known retort to the younger Pitt, which displayed both wit and readiness--two special creators of applause and power, in a popular assembly. The story, as told in "The Wits and Beaux of Society, " runs thus: Sheridan, from boyhood, had been taunted with be