Because the Circumlocation Office went on mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of statesmanship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlocation Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
After making the rounds of other government offices, where they were bullied, ignored, evaded, etc., the were finally to the Cicumlocation Office, "and never reappeared in the light of day."
