A CONDITIONAL RECONCILIATION.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

A CONDITIONAL RECONCILIATION.

That is "an amusing story which Lord Dufferin tells in his recent biography of his mother of that charming lady's first glimpse of/the elder Disraeli. She knew the younger one, and ' lie elder Disrael being as yet more celebrated than his sop, my mother had expressed a desire to see him. But the introduction could not be managed, inasmuch, as at this particular moment Mr. Disraeli had quarrelled with Ma father. One fine morning, however, he arrived with his father vx his rii*hi hand, so to speak, in Mrs. Norton's drawing-room at Story's-gate. "■ Setting him down on a chair^ and looking at him as if he were some object of vertorof which he wanted to dispose, Mr. Disraeli turned round to my mo^ier, and said in his somewhat pompous voice, ' Mrs. Blackwood;- 1 have brought you my father. L have;becqme reconciled to my father on two conditions '.;'-. the first was-^that he . should come and see you ; the second— -that he should pay my flebts.'