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These extracts make me regret that the leading personalities in
the Parliament of 1886 were not commemorated in the same pleasant,
jingling metre.
CHAPTER VIII
The Foreign Office--The new Private Secretary--A Cabinet key--
Concerning theatricals--Some surnames which have passed into
everyday use--Theatricals at Petrograd--A mock-opera--The family
from Runcorn--An embarrassing predicament--Administering the oath--
Secret Service--Popular errors--Legitimate employment of
information--The Phoenix Park murders--I sanction an arrest--The
innocent victim--The execution of the murderers of Alexander II.--
The jarring military band--Black Magic--Sir Charles Wyke--Some of
his experiences--The seance at the Pantheon--Sir Charles'
experiment on myself--The Alchemists--The Elixir of Life, and the
Philosopher's Stone--Lucid directions for their manufacture--
Glamis Castle and its inhabitants--The tuneful Lyon family--Mr.
Gladstone at Glamis--He sings in the glees--The castle and its
treasures--Recollections of Glamis.
Having successfully defeated the Civil Service Examiners, I
entered the Foreign Office in 1876, for the six or eight months'
training which all Attaches had to undergo before being sent
abroad.
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