| Show Glad stones vitality and versatility perhaps it Is in private life that mr Glad stones vitality and versatility ai e most remarkable it is a great sight to watch him at ciul dinner r with a few friends he never talks for the sake of talking but listens attentively to every one else and is eazer eager to d draw raw out from his company all they can tell him 1 but they feel the influence of a master mind in the smallest mall cst details mr gladstone asks a dozen searching questions in a few moments and presents the subject in a new light by I 1 sortie some exposition exposit ioa that the listeners lisi listeners eners never dreamt of ile he is full of reminiscences iscer ices and seems to imagine that memory ought to be as tenacious as his bis own one night when he was waa prime minister he sat on the treasury tench lench with only one colleague beside beade him he wits was apparently as asleep leei and the other man maja thought be might indulge in a doze but bat finally a tory speaker ven aured upon some mr Glads gladstone zone was on the alert at once turning to his companion he paid that is entirely wrong this fellow is mixing UP ills his facts and his dates dont you remember then he proceeded to explain some obscure passage ot of political history of which his unfortunate fortunate ua colle colleague agne was obliged to confess entire ignorance rr mr gast gladstone ne looked at him jor for a moment in pitying pitying wonder and as soon as he dared the hapless man slink away a friend he said ill im in godun mug home I 1 cant stand that fiendish old man any anymore more why he be actually cross examined exa minea me about something that happened before I 1 was born london cor philadelphia tivies times |
