The whole stream of public excitement is now turned upon me, and I am pestered with incessant telegrams which I have no defence against, but either suicide or Parnell’s method of self-concealment.
Morley reflects on the overwhelming pressure faced by political figures during times of public scrutiny.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
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