One friend of mine no politician, and, like all non-politicians, a Unionist said to me lately that he would be rather disappointed if Home Rule did not become law he was "curious about it"; and he added, "I think a great many like me have the same feeling."
The ruling classes, and the middle-class non-politicians who had been their real strength and support, were as sheep lacking a shepherd; they literally did not know what to do. "One thing they found they had to do: try to get the 'rebels' to do something.
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