Charles Stewart Parnell; his love story and political life . hy as so, the new proposal would seem to diminish the diffi-culties of conciliating English opinion. If not, the neces-sity which the Hawarden plan involved of employingMcCarthy in a transaction so painful to himself per-sonally would seem to OBrien to raise a formidableobstacle to that form of securing the guarantees had been trying to think of some other way, andwhen they met in Boulogne on Tuesday, he hoped tobe able to submit it with sufficient definiteness to enablethem to thrash it out with some prospect
Charles Stewart Parnell; his love story and political life . hy as so, the new proposal would seem to diminish the diffi-culties of conciliating English opinion. If not, the neces-sity which the Hawarden plan involved of employingMcCarthy in a transaction so painful to himself per-sonally would seem to OBrien to raise a formidableobstacle to that form of securing the guarantees had been trying to think of some other way, andwhen they met in Boulogne on Tuesday, he hoped tobe able to submit it with sufficient definiteness to enablethem to thrash it out with some prospect of an imme-diate and satisfactory agreement. Those who were benton thwarting peace at any price were building greathopes upon delays or breakdowns of their Boulogne ne-gotiations; but he was beginning to entertain some realhope that with promptness and good feeling on bothsides they might still be able to hit upon some agree-ment that would relieve the country from an appallingprospect, and that neither of them would have any reasonto regret hereafter. 172. MR. PARNELL IN lS86 (From a photograph by U. Lau-nnce. Dublin) A KING AT BAY On January 5 Redmond telegraphed to Parnell thatOBrien had written to the latter the previous day, andasking that nothing should prevent Parnell meeting uson the morrow. On January 9 OBrien telegraphed that McCarthy andSexton would be with him that day, and that there weredifficulties with D.* Again, on the 18th, from Boulogne, he wired that in-dications were favourable; he presumed that there wouldbe no objection to McCarthys voice as to satisfactori-ness of assurances if obtained. Whereupon Parnell wired to Mr. OBrien from Lime-rick : — While at all times willing to consult with McCarthy uponany points of special difficulty which may from time to timearise, I am obliged to ask that the terms of the Memorandumshall be adhered to, which provide that you and I shall bethe sole and final judges. On January 30th OBrien wired that he had just re-ceive
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