Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 286
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[Page 286]
6.
I met old John Meagher for the first time, face to face, since the Mannix row. The other day at the House I caught his eye across the Chamber, & grinned at him, but I thought I got a very sour look in return. Perhaps he didn't see me. Anyhow yesterday I met him in a doorway face to face. I burst out laughing, & put out my hand, which he took, & then he grinned in an uncomfortable sort of way, so I said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for abusing me the way you have been doing all over the country?"
"Look here" – said he. "If it hadn't been for my regard for you personally, I would have said a great many much harder things of you all, for that letter of yours astonished me".
"I am glad to see" – I replied – "that my letter had some effect on you & that you were influenced by what I said."
"Nonsense, man," he retorted, "it wasn't anything you said. It was because I was sorry to find you amongst such a crowd of conspirators. You are all dead now."
"Well", said I, "you will find me the liveliest dead man you ever met in your life." Then Lewis Heydon came