"I understand how you must feel in the matter, Murchison, said Henry Cruickshank.

"It's the most natural thing in the world that you should want to clear yourself definitely, especially as you say, since the charges have been given such wide publicity.

On the other hand, I think it quite possible that you exaggerate the inference that will be drawn from our consenting to saw off with the other side on the two principal counts." "The inference will be," said Lorne "that there's not a pin to choose between Winter's political honesty and my own.

I'm no Pharisee, but I don't think I can sit down under that.

I can't impair my possible usefulness by accepting a slur upon my reputation at the very beginning." "Politics are very impersonal.