Parnell, although totally removed from any idea of responsibility, had spontaneously written to me, and offered to take the Chiltern Hundreds, an offer much to his honour but one which I thought it my duty to decline.
Morley recounts Parnell's honorable offer to resign after a scandal, which he felt compelled to decline.
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But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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