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Show A Scholar In Bed. "An amusing glimpse of the famou. statesman is given by Mr. John Murray Mur-ray of the famous publishing house,) which has issued many of Mr. Glad-j stone's writings and speeches. "ThaJ last time I was at Mr. Gladstone's; bouBe," says Mr. Murray, "I had break-! fast early and alone, as I was goingj to Scotland. When I had finished 1 was told that Mr. Gladstone did not' know that I was leaving bo early, and; that he wanted to have another talk1 with me. I went to his bedroom a very largo room with a double bed in IL Mrs. Gladstone was In her dressing dress-ing room. Gladstone waa dressed in a nightgown with a brown shawl round him. He was lying flat on his face, his head at the foot of the bed and his feet on the pillows. In one hand he held a cup of coffee, and there was a book In the other. I shall never forget for-get that interview, and the comicality of the great Hon head popping up a I went towardB him." |