Westminster, was walking up the centre of the House.

He had succeeded by this time in learning so much of the forms of the
House as to know what to do with his hat,--when to wear it, and when to
take it off,--and how to sit down. As he entered by the door facing the
Speaker, he wore his hat on the side of his head, as was his custom.
Much of the arrogance of his appearance had come from this habit,
which had been adopted probably from a conviction that it added
something to his powers of self-assertion. At this moment he was more
determined than ever that no one should trace in his outer gait or in
any feature of his face any sign of that ruin which, as he well knew,
all men were anticipating. Therefore, perhaps, his hat was a little
more cocked than usual, and the lapels of his coat were thrown back a
little wider, displaying the large jewelled studs which he wore in his
shirt; and the arrogance conveyed by his mouth and chin was specially
conspicuous. He had come down in his brougham, and as he had walked up
Westminster Hall and entered the House by the private door of the
members, and then made his way in across the great lobby and between
the doorkeepers,--no one had spoken a word to him. He had of course
seen many whom he had known. He had indeed known nearly all whom he had
seen;--but he had been aware, from the beginning of this enterprise of
the day, that men would shun him, and that he must bear their cold
looks and colder silence without seeming to notice them. He had
schooled himself to the task, and he was now performing it. It was not
only that he would have to move among men without being noticed, but
that he must endure to pass the whole evening in the same plight. But
he was resolved, and he was now doing it. He bowed to the Speaker with
more than usual courtesy, raising his hat with more than usual care,
and seated himself, as usual, on the third opposition-bench, but with
more than his usual fling. He was a big man, who always endeavoured to
make an effect by deportment, and was therefore customarily
conspicuous in his movements. He was desirous now of being as he was
always, neither more nor less demonstrative;--but, as a matter of
course, he exceeded; and it seemed to those who looked at him that
there was a special impudence in the manner in which he walked up the
House and took his seat. The Under-Secretary of State, who was on his
legs, was struck almost dumb, and his morsel of wit about the facin