Note 18 — Chapter I · DISRAELI’S PERSONALITY

In a future chapter I shall revert to this episode, which Disraeli ever deplored. His valet, in bachelor days, at 35, Duke Street, St. James—one Whittlestone, like Disraeli’s servant in the East, Byron’s Tita, provided for as attendant in a government office by his master—used to retail many scraps of such gossip. The young Disraeli’s novels, he averred, were written in bed. Heroes truly should dispense with valets.