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Updated: May 15, 2025
Disraeli's cabinet, who is said even now not to be able to resist the temptation offered at cabinet councils by "Dizzy's" green kid gloves had already paid the penalty for similar offences by being sent away. A most extraordinary instance of this propensity occurred a few years ago at a very wealthy nobleman's house in the north of England. During a visit there a lady's diamonds disappeared.
"I want to quarrel with him about a label and you remember Dizzy's saying 'a head gardener is always opinionated'? Are you coming, Lady Maxwell?" Marcella shook her head, smiling. "I am afraid I hate hothouses," she said. "My dear lady, don't pine for the life according to nature at Castle Luton!" said Sir Philip, raising a finger.
He always attributed Dizzy's popularity to the feeling of Englishmen that he had "shown them sport," an instinct, he thought, supreme in all departments of the English mind. Towards his old schoolfellow Gladstone he never felt quite cordially, believing, rightly or wrongly, that the great statesman nourished enmity towards himself.
We all do it nowadays. It is like Dizzy's young man who "liked bad wine, he was so bored with good." Meanwhile, Madame de Netteville was leaning against the open window of the fantastic little room, with Robert beside her. 'You look as if you had had a strain, she said to him abruptly, after they had talked business for a few minutes. 'What has been the matter?
He ridiculed the newspaper parade of national sympathy with the Prince of Wales's illness: "We are represented as all members of the royal family, and all in family hysterics." Dizzy's orientalization of Queen Victoria into an Empress angered him, as it angered many more.
I can remember the catastrophe it seemed to all his Oxford friends when he deserted England for America, despairing of the republic, as my father for a while in his youth had despaired, and sick of what seemed to him the forces of reaction in English life. I was eighteen when Endymion came out, with Dizzy's absurd attack on the "sedentary" professor who was also a "social parasite."
When a very impecunious youth, who could barely afford to pay for his cab fares, lost a pound to him at whist, Lord Houghton said, as he pocketed the coin, "Ah, my dear boy, the great Lord Hertford, whom foolish people called the wicked Lord Hertford Thackeray's Steyne and Dizzy's Monmouth used to say, 'There is no pleasure in winning money from a man who does not feel it. How true that was!
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