Repentance of this remote sort is not at all appropriate to the case, and will not do.

It may be a good thing to forget and forgive; but it is altogether too easy a trick to forget and be forgiven.
The truth about Ireland is simply this: that the relations between England and Ireland are the relations between two men who have to travel together, one of whom tried to stab the other at the last stopping-place or to poison the other at the last inn.

Conversation may be courteous, but it will be occasionally forced.

The topic of attempted murder, its examples in history and fiction, may be tactfully avoided in the sallies; but it will be occasionally present in the thoughts.

Silences, not devoid of strain, will fall from time to time.