Note 12 — Chapter I

[It was to this debate that Mr. Disraeli referred in his maiden speech, delivered a few days later, when he spoke of the ‘passion and recrimination of the noble Tityrus of the Treasury Bench and the learned Daphne of Liskeard,’ and added that ‘these amantium iræ had resulted in an amoris redintegratio.’ The orator was laughed down before he concluded the sentence.]