Note 74 — WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
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His Oxford contemporary and friend, the late Mr. Milnes Gaskell, told me that when Mr. Gladstone was undergoing his viva voce examination for his degree, the examiner, satisfied with the candidate’s answers on a particular matter, said, “And now, Mr. Gladstone, we will leave that part of the subject.” “No,” replied the examinee, “we will, if you please, not leave it yet.” Whereupon he proceeded to pour forth a further flood of knowledge and disquisition.