"the portrait's painted eyes held whoever's was looking into them from wherever
the viewer sat…He was best remembered for the treason trial after the Great War
and his defense of the sole survivor of the bloodbath below Victoria's statue in
Company Bagh that has killed his three co-conspirators…his lawyer's chilling
argument had whipped the mask off a ruling power whose law courts condemned men
to death for following his own example. 'For the crime,' he had famously
declared, 'of cutting their words to your music'."