AN ERRONEOUS IDEA.
The general idea that tihe Duke of Devonshire dislikes work is quite erroneous (writes Mr Ernest Jessop, in an article on Devonshire House in the " Pall Mall Magazine" for February). Few men get through so much headwork in a quiet manner as he, but be absolutely declines to foe bustled. Knowing, as he does, that the affairs, whether of his great estates or tJhe still greater questions of politics, concern so many besides himself, he declines to give decisions of world-wide consequence until he has most thoroughly weighed their pros and cons. But, (having once given those decisions, no man is more immovable ; and with it all so quiet, so unassuming, and so honoured by all who know 'him.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2
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122AN ERRONEOUS IDEA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2
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