[416] Russell opened the design to Shrewsbury.

Sidney sounded Halifax.
Shrewsbury took his part with a courage and decision which, at a later period, seemed to be wanting to his character.

He at once agreed to set his estate, his honours, and his life, on the stake.

But Halifax received the first hint of the project in a way which showed that it would be useless, and perhaps hazardous, to be explicit.

He was indeed not the man for such an enterprise.