"As to Shiel, he was small, dressed very neat, with knee-breeches and a
full vest and a long-skirted coat. He had a long nose, and was not much
to look at till he began to speak, and then you'd see genius coming out
from him. His voice was shrill, and that spoiled his speech sometimes,
when he would get excited, and would raise it at the end. But
O'Connell's voice you would hear a mile off, and it sounded as if it was
coming through honey,"