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December, 1878, and I recall the peroration in which, raising
his hollow voice and waving his hand, he called upon his hearers
to brand the Peace at any Price doctrines—"these dogmas, these
deleterious dogmas, with the reprobation of the Peers of
England." When he left the House for the division the Peers
waited while he walked out alone at the head of his party. He
also came back alone at the head of the procession and took his
solitary place on the bench; and, when a young and frisky Peer
who had dined somewhat too well went up in a genial mood to have
a word with his leader, and almost sat down on the top of him,
from the steps of the throne I could hear the startled statesman
emit, with what he himself once styled a superb groan, the
sepulchral ejaculation "My dear Lord!"  His phrases.It is
evident that Disraeli's phrases w