Captain O'Shea, who, it must be remembered, has no love
for the memory of Mr. Parnell, makes, according to the Daily Tele- graph, a singular charge against him of habitual personal dis- simulation. "It is a curious circumstance,' said Captain O'Shea thoughtfully, 'that in the last conversation but one lever had with Mr. Parnell, be assented with obvious pleasure to my sug- gestion that among his political friends, the falsest was Dillon, the lowest Healy and T. P. O'Connor, and the most con- temptible Justin McCarthy.'" This must have occurred, if Captain O'Shea's memory is accurate, long before the split in the party, and considering Mr. Parnell's attitude towards Mr. Dillon, and his constant choice of Mr. McCarthy as his repre- sentative, would indicate extraordinary double-facedness. There must, we should imagine, be some mistake. Men con- stantly laugh at a savage epigram the truth of which they all the while utterly deny.
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