Benjamin Disraeli Author:Wilfrid Meynell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prevent our meeting our friend Alfred, for I hardly suppose we shall have another opportunity of being together for some time. I should imagine about three would... more » not be unsuitable to you." " Change Revives the Sense of Existence " [April, 1849.] " We returned to town on the 1 6th, and a few days after I called at Gore House, but you were gone. It was a pang ; for though absorbing duties of my life have prevented me of late from passing as much time under that roof as it was once my happiness and good fortune through your kindness to do, you are well assured that my heart never changed for an instant to its inmates, and that 1 invariably entertained for them the same interest and affection. " Had I been aware of your intentions, I would have come up to town earlier, and especially to have said ' adieu ' — mournful as that is. " I thought I should never pay another visit to Paris, but I have now an object in doing so. All the world here will miss you very much, and the charm with which you invested existence ; but for your own happiness, I am persuaded you have acted wisely. Every now and then in this life we require a great change ; it wonderfully revives the sense of existence. I envy yoru ; pray, if possible, let me sometimes hear from you." "UncleG- " So much for ' the maddest of all acts ' and my Uncle G 's prescience ! "—Home Letter, I 837. Disraeli must be forgiven if, for once in his life, he made a remark of the " I told you so " kinship ; for the occasion was that of his first return to Parliament—Maidstone, 1837. More about "Uncle G " may be gleaned from the following domestic revelation made by Sir Vincent Caillard, whose grandmother (a Basevi) was Lord Beaconsfield's cousin : " When young Benjamin Disraeli started on his political career...« less