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Once more in the Bishops' Bar, the following week, Hillmorton and Ryle were sitting together, this time with one of their closer friends. But they were, as they had often been in the past year, physically embarrassed. The table was shaking, each time Adam Sedgwick put his hand upon it. His glass had already slopped over, when he tried to raise it. There was no way in which they could help him, and he was offended, and hurt more than offended, if they tried.
It might have appeared that Lord Sedgwick was drunk. To some unobservant persons it did appear so, that night and other nights. Both Houses of Parliament were used to being charitable about drunkenness, and took it as an occupational hazard, rather like long-windedness in debate. However, to anyone who knew Sedgwick or even took a steady look at him, it wouldn't have occurred as a plausible explanation. The truth was, for some months past he had been, not immobilised but the reverse, with Parkinson's disease, and it was getting worse.