[21] “The Later Years of Lord Beaconsfield,” by Janetta, Lady J. Manners, Blackwood, 1881.
[22] In 1852 he sought and obtained a long interview with Feargus O’Connor, whose correspondence in the Star he had utilised seven years before in Sybil.
[23] “Thus, amid all the strange vicissitudes of life, we are ever, as it were, moving in a circle.”
[24] In 1832.
[25] His Edinburgh speech of 1867 and his Glasgow address of 1873—on “Representation” and “Equality” respectively rank among his best.
[26] So also does another. Lady Beaconsfield, waiting up, as was her wont even in extreme age, for her husband’s return after a critical effort, entered the library in the small hours of the morning (and in négligée), and impetuously embraced what turned out to be Lord Cairns writing an important minute before Disraeli’s arrival.
[27] When Lord Derby came in in 1852, “At last we have got a status,” he said; “I feel like a young girl going to her first ball.”
[28] British Museum Add. MS. 34,645, f. 19.
[29] In The Press Disraeli illustrates this historical fact with infinite knowledge in a remarkable passage.
[30] In 1850, 1852, 1855, and 1859.