Note 44 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
History of the War in the Crimea, by A. W, Kinglake, vol. ii. sixth edition, pp. 249-50.
Lady Russell states that Lord John used to smile at Kinglake’s rhetorical exaggeration of the scene. Her impression is that only two of the Cabinet, and not, as the historian puts it, ‘all but a small minority,’ fell asleep. The Duke of Argyll or Mr. Gladstone can alone settle the point at issue.