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6 He told Dumas fils: The Times, Aug. 24, 1903.
7 “Jump on behind”: Kennedy, 241.
8 Pepys on Hatfield garden: q. R. Churchill, Fifteen Homes, 74.
9 “Jump, dammit …!”: ibid., 71.
10 “Quite exceptional stupidity”: Cecil, I, 1.
11 Birkenhead on the Cecils: Birkenhead, 177.
12 Disraeli quoted: Mackintosh, 50–51.
13 “That black man”: ibid.
14 Morley, “blazing indiscretion”: q. H. H. Asquith, II, 277.
15 “Every sentence,” said a fellow member: Ribblesdale, 173.
16 “I thought he was dead”: National Review, “Lord Salisbury: His Wit and Humor,” Nov., 1931, 659–68.
17 “When will all this be over?”: Carpenter, 237.
18 Colleagues complained: Cecil, III, 177.
19 “Just a little more off here”: Ribblesdale, 174.
20 His charm “no small asset”: Hicks-Beach, q. Cecil, III, 178.
21 “I think I have done them all”: National Review, op. cit., 665.
22 Gladstone quoted: Mackintosh, 50–51.
23 “Not excluding the House of Commons”: Lucy, Eight Parliaments, 114.
24 Queen Victoria quoted: Carpenter, 236.
25 “Bad on his legs”: F. Ponsonby, 67.
26 “Oh, I daresay”: Benson, 164.
27 “Splitting it into a bundle”: Quarterly Review, Oct., 1883, 575.
28 Articles in Quarterly Review: quotations in this and the following two paragraphs are from Cecil, I, 149, 157–60, 196.
29 Speech against Disraeli’s policy: July 5, 1867, Hansard, 3rd Series, Vol. 188, 1097 ff.
30 “Grim acidity”: Gardiner, Prophets, 150.
31 “Rank without power”: Cecil, II, 5.
32 Curzon quoted: Ronaldshay, I, 282.
33 “Secure and comfortable”: Buchan, 75.
34 Duke of Devonshire on Harcourt’s Budget: Annual Register, 1894, 121.
35 “Germ planted”: The Times, July 17, 1895, leader.
36 “Dominant influences”: q. Magnus, Gladstone, 433.
37 Dufferin taught himself Persian: Nicolson, 246.
38 “Those damned dots”: Leslie, 30–31.
39 Stanley “an upper class servant”: T. P. O’Connor, q. R. Churchill, Derby, 45.
40 Eton’s “scugs”: Willoughby de Broke, 133.
41 Cecil Balfour forged a check: Young, 11.
42 Sargent asked Ribblesdale to sit: Mount, 418.
43 “Ce grand diable”: Ribblesdale, xvii.
44 “A race of gods and goddesses”: Clermont-Tonnerre (see Chap. 4), I, 175.
45 “Divinely tall”: E. Hamilton, 7.
46 Gentlemen sighed and told each other: Sackville-West, 122.
47 “Bohemia in Tiaras”: Benson, 157.
48 Prince of Wales to Churchill: W. Churchill, 155.
49 “I shall call you the Souls”: q. Nevins, 81.
50 Two sets of eyebrows: Melba, 226.
51 “I don’t like poets”: Wyndham, I, 67.
52 Harry Cust’s “fatal self-indulgence”: Margot Asquith, q. Nevins, 81.
53 Lord Morley’s detective: Fitzroy, II, 463.
54 “Brilliant and powerful body”: W. Churchill, 89.
55 “Knew each other intimately”: Willoughby de Broke, 180.
56 Jowett’s choice of undergraduates: Newton, Lansdowne, 6.
57 “No end of good dinners”: Willoughby de Broke, 30.
58 “Effortless superiority”: Leslie, 43.
59 “Poor fellow, poor fellow”: Marsh, 183.
60 “Born booted and spurred”: Gardiner, Prophets, 214.
61 “When I looked at life from the saddle”: Warwick, Discretions, 78.
62 Chauncey Depew’s telegram: Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery, London, 1963, 355.
63 “Even policemen were waving their helmets”: Lee, II, 421.
64 Londesborough’s “gloss, speed and style”: Sitwell, Left Hand, 154.
65 “Because the carriage had to go home”: Raverat, 178.
66 Blunt’s sonnet: “On St. Valentine’s Day.”
67 Duke of Rutland’s chaplain: Cooper, 20.
68 Squire Chaplin in the hunting field: Lambton, 133; Londonderry, 227, 240.
69 “Sure of themselves”: Sitwell, Great Morning, 10, 121–22.
70 Colonel Brabazon described: W. Churchill, 67; testimony quoted: Esher, I, 362.
71 Figures on income and acreage: Bateman, passim.
72 The “poverty line”: set by B. S. Rowntree at 21s. 8d. for a family of five. In Poverty, A Study of Town Life, 1901.
73 “Eau de Nil satin”: Warwick, 230.
74 “Then bwing me another”: W. Churchill, 68.
75 “Squalid throng of homeless outcasts”: A. Ponsonby, Camel, 12.
76 Kipling on venting chauvinism: American Notes (see Chap. 3), 45.
77 “Knew his own mind and put down his foot”: Whyte (see Chap.