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78 “A series of microscopic advantages”: q. Monthly Review, Oct., 1903, “Lord Salisbury,” 8.
79 Morley Roberts: q. Peck (see Chap. 3), 428.
80 “All his bad qualities”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 349.
81 “I was a problem”: to More Adey, Nov. 27, 1897, Letters, 685.
82 Lord Arthur Somerset: Magnus, Edward VII, 214–15.
83 Swinburne “absolutely impossible”: H. Ponsonby, 274.
84 “Join it”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 349.
85 “I dare not alter these things”: Marsh, 2.
86 Austin on Germans and Alfred the Great: q. Adams, 76, n. 3.
87 Salisbury on Austin’s poem: Victoria, Letters, 24.
88 An American observer quoted: Lowell, II, 507.
89 Austin’s Jubilee wish: Blunt, I, 280.
90 Lord Newton on the Lords: Retrospection, 101.
91 Rosebery complained: Crewe, 462.
92 Halsbury “invariably objected”: Newton, Lansdowne, 361; “jolly cynicism”: Gardiner, Prophets, 197; Carlton Club: Wilson-Fox, 122; Lord Coleridge: ibid., 124.
93 “Rule by a sort of instinct”: q. Halévy, V, 23, n. 2.
94 “Greatest gentleman of his day”: Newton, Lansdowne, 506.
95 “A new sense of duty”: Holland, II, 146. All quotations, anecdotes and other material about the Duke are from this source unless otherwise specified.
96 “Take things very easy”: H. Ponsonby, 265.
97 “This is damned dull”: Mackintosh, 113.
98 Duchess “one of the handsomest women”: F. Hamilton, 201.
99 “No face was more suited”: F. Ponsonby, 52.
100 “Certain hereditary governmental instincts” and “a debt to the State”: Esher, I, 126.
101 “He was always losing them”: H. Ponsonby, 265 n.
102 Duke at coronation rehearsal: Lucy, Diary, 193.
103 “Do you feel nervous, Winston?”: R. Churchill, Fifteen Homes, 105.
104 “The best of company”: F. Ponsonby, 294.
105 Spectator and subsequent quotations in this paragraph: Strachey, 406 and 398; Holland, II, 211, n. 1; The Times, Mar. 25, 1908.
106 “Go and tell him he is a pig”: Mackintosh, 91.
107 “A point of honor to stand for their county”: Sir George Otto Trevelyan, q. A. Ponsonby, Decline, 101.
108 Long and Chaplin described: Gardiner, Pillars, 217; Prophets, 212.
109 “Calm, ineradicable conviction”: Gardiner, Prophets, 213.
110 “How did I do, Arthur?”: Londonderry, 171.
111 “Sit on his shoulder blades”: q. Young, 100.
112 “The finest brain”: q. Chamberlain, 206.
113 William James: letter of Apr. 26, 1895, The Letters of William James, ed. H. James, Boston, 1920.
114 “Oh dear, what a gulf”: Battersea, Diary for Sept. 6, 1895.
115 “Lovely bend of the head”: Margot Asquith, I, 166.
116 “No, that is not so”: Margot Asquith, I, 162.
117 Darwin on Frank Balfour: Young, 8.
118 Cambridge friends: Esher, I, 182; society friends: Russell, 63.
119 Balfour on Judaism: Dugdale, I, 324.
120 Harry Cust’s dinner: Bennett, I, 287.
121 Daisy White congratulated: Nevins, 81.
122 “Quite a good fellow”: Frances Balfour, II, 367; “A sympathetic outlook”: ibid., II, 93.
123 “A natural spring of youth”: ibid.; “a freshness, serenity”: Fitzroy, I, 28.
124 Lord Randolph: Life of Lord Randolph Churchill, by Winston Churchill, II, 459–60.
125 Balfour on Socialism: q. Halévy, V, 231.
126 “What exactly is a Trade Union?”: Lucy Masterman (see Chap. 7), 61.
127 “My uncle is a Tory”: Margot Asquith, I, 154.
128 Churchill used the word “wicked”: Blunt, II, 278.
129 “Relentless as Cromwell”: Young, 105.
130 Morley, “took his foes by surprise”: q. Russell, 66.
131 “The most courageous man alive”: Blunt, II, 278.
132 Debated with “dauntless ingenuity”: Morley, I, 225–27.
133 “If he had a little more brains”: q. Buchan, 156.
134 “A bullet on a bubble”: Andrew White (see Chap. 5), II, 430.
135 “I never lose my temper”: q. Morley, I, 227.
136 “This damned Scotch croquet”: Lyttelton, 204.
137 Reply to Lady Rayleigh: Fitzroy, II, 491; charmed Frau Wagner: Esher, I, 312.
138 “Supreme energy of Arthur”: ibid., 340.
139 “He never reads the papers”: Whyte (see Chap. 5), II, 120.
140 Prince felt Balfour condescended: Halévy, VI, 231.
141 The Queen admired him: F. Ponsonby, 69.
142 Queen “much struck”: Journal, Sept. 11, 1896, Victoria, 74.