So far as these warriors were concerned, he might as well have remained standing.

Their resolutions are to this day unproposed and uncommended--a secret joy, no doubt, to those who framed them, but not endorsed by any popular approval.
Hyacinth Conneally was not admitted to the secret councils of Augusta Goold and her friends.

He knew no more than the general public what kind of a coup was meditated, but he gathered from Miss O'Dwyer's nervous excitement and Tim Halloran's air of immense and mysterious importance that something quite out of the common was likely to occur.

By arriving an hour and a half before the opening of the meeting he secured a seat near the platform.

He enjoyed the discomfiture of O'Rourke, whom he had learnt from the pages of the _Croppy_ to despise as a mere windbag, and to hate as the betrayer of O'Neill.