His manner with them was always conspicuously different from his cold and almost contemptuous bearing towards the men whom he commands in Parliament, and Egan, who directs his forces in your country, rewards him by calling him 'the great and gifted leader of _our_ race!' 'Our race' indeed! Parnell comes of the conquering race in Ireland, and he never forgets it, or lets his subordinates forget it.

I was in Galway when he came over there suddenly to quell the revolt organised by Healy.

The rebels were at white-heat before he came.

But he strode in among them like a huntsman among the hounds--marched Healy off into a little room, and brought him out again in ten minutes, cowed and submissive, but filled, as anybody can see, ever since, with a dull smouldering hate which will break out one of these days, if a good and safe opportunity offers." "How do you account, then," I asked, "for the support which all these men give Mr.Parnell ?" "For the support which they give him!" exclaimed my new acquaintance, "for the support they give him! Bless your heart, my dear sir, it is he gives them the support! Barring Biggar, who, to do him justice, is as free with his pocket as he is with his tongue--and no man can say more for anybody than that--barring Biggar and M'Kenna and M'Carthy, and perhaps a dozen more, all these men are nominated by Mr.Parnell, and draw salaries from the body he controls; they are paid members, like the working-men members.

Support indeed!" "But the constituencies," I urged, "surely the voters must know and care something about their representatives ?" The gentleman from the south of Ireland laughed aloud.