"I know what it has cost him to do as he has done." He knew well that the younger man's influence had been more efficacious than the threat of his own resignation--which was not withheld.

A man of other nature might have been jealous of the young and growing power: but such an element as this was so foreign to Redmond's whole being that even the thought of it never entered the most suspicious mind.
The result of the Belfast Convention was communicated and discussed at a meeting of the Irish party held at the Mansion House on June 26th.

It was one of the most hopeful moments in our experience; reaction from a depression approaching to despair gave confidence to the gloomiest among us.

Hope was in the air.

The effect of Mr.Asquith's sentence upon the whole machinery of Dublin Castle had not yet worn off.