There is a warm word of thanks for recent hospitality.

Perhaps the mayor has a daughter about to be married, or a son has died; it is remembered, and the cordial congratulation or gracious sympathy comes duly under the great seal.

What surly man would resent sympathy?
And so, the strength of the old warrior is sapped; the web is woven finely; in its secret net the Castle has its man.

You who have exercised yourselves in Dublin recently over mayoral doings, note all this--not to the making light of any man's surrender, but to the true judging of the event, its deeper significance and danger.

Whoever fails must be called to account.