DISRAELI AND HIS WIFE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 19

DISRAELI AND HIS WIFE

'-» ■ ■ A valued and Well-informed correspondent sends T.P.s Weekly the following : —•"Your very interesting r&view of the new volume of Lord Beaconafidd's Life reminds me of what was told me years ago, by one of the most clever, delightful and truthful old ladies I have ever known, the lnte Mrs. Duncan Stewart. She had been Very intimate with the Disraelis at one time of her life. Mrs* Dißraeli, speaking of her marriage to Mrs. Stewart, said, 'After the death of lny first husband I was still a good-looking woman and had a good fortune. I had many admirers who wantod to marry me, but C knew they were all thinking of my money and not of myself. There was one exception to this, namely Disraeli. I knew that he was in love with me and not with my money, because he showed his affection atid love to me while my first .husband was alive.' "Speaking of the engagement, she said : 'Disraeli used to come to my house nearly every day, and spend some time in ttilking to me. He was evidently attached to me, and wished to propose, bub was embarrassed by the difference in our fortunes, (Jite day when he spent some time with me but did not come to the point, I biought the matter to a head by laying my hand oti his, and saying, "Why should not we two put our two fortunes together?" and thus it tame about that }us were engH^i-d ' '- '