The Arizona sentinel., 1884-07-05
AN ODD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.
Lord DudIcy's Habit of Thinking Out Loud
---Other Eccentricities.
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"I,ord Dudley" says Mr.. Moore, at
is well known, has a trick of rehearsing
over to himself, in an undertone, the
good things he is about to deliver
to the company, so that the per-
son who sits next to him has generally
the advantage of his wit before any of
the rest of the party. A man not very
remarkable forshis agreeableness once
proposed to walk from the House of
Commons to the Travellers club with
Lord Dudley, who, discussing the pro-
posal mentally Gas he thought with
himself, said audibly, Il don't think it
will bore me very much to let him walk
with me that distance On another oc-
casion, when he gave somebody g seat
IN his carriage from some country
house, he was overheard by his COM
palions, after fit of thought and 81
lence, saying to himself: Now, shall
! ask this man to dine with me when
we arrive in town. 1t is said that the
irliow-traveler muttered out in the
same sort of tone: Now, If Lord Dud-
lie, should ask me to dinner, shall L ac-
cept his inv1tation?'
A happy specimen OF his wit was TINS
retort to German lady at Vienna who
had somewhat rudely complained of the
bad French spoken by you English"
in London. "True, madam" he said,
1--WE have not enjoyed the advantage of
having had the French twice In our
capital"
This recalls a retort about as good
made by an Englishman to the Due de
Brogle when Ambassador in England,
who said, with equally lax manners,
that they were right in thinking the
English nation of shopkeepers. Per
haps so" was his reply, "just az we al
ways thought you were nation of sol
diers."
After his retirement his curious ma
mia and various oddities increased to al
extravagant degree, and were the talk
of the town, which, however, soon came
to accept them as it does all kinds of
oddity. He would go to dinner parties
and sit without uttering word except
ing to himself. During some brief
flashes of silence" Mr.. Raikes tells of
a friend of his whom he describes as
good-natured and a very good-lookinS
man, not overhowins with intellect 1T
was at time when poor Dudley's mind
was on the wane, when his causfic hui
NOR would still find vent through the
cloud that was gradually overshadow-
ing his mastery intellect; he was sit
ting in his room, unheeding those
around him, and sohloqUizillg aloud, as
was so often his custom. His favorite
New Foundland dog was 1T his side
who seemed to engross his whole at
tention. At length, patting his head:
he exclaimed: 'Fido, mic, they say
dogs have no souls. Humphi And still
they say - has q soul? Upon one
occasion he found Mr.. Allen at Whites.
about o'clock, and asked him to din
ner. On his arrival at Park lane, he
found twas tete-a-tete with the host.
When In the evening, he was asked how
the dinner went off, Allen said: Lord
Dudley spoke little to his servant and
q great deal to his dog, but said moth
ing"
In this state, too, he would invite
large companies to dinner, who:
stranger still, would accept his invita-
tons, though, when they came he
would not address them Mr.. Moore, !
who loved cheerfulness and grayety.
complained mournfully of these festivi' |
ties as damping and depressing. For
the host would sit the whole time in a
sort of stupor, or converse with him.
self, or have volume of Hume open
before him, which he would read
throughout the dinner. Ibis was the
beginning of the end. A short time
afterward, in 1882, it was known that
the doctors had directed that he should
be put under restraint, and on the 9th
of March, 1888, this brilliant, but &C.
centric man expired. He was only 50. |
A relation of his, the Rev. Mr.. Ward, |
succeeded to the title with $4,000 a
year only, while 100000 year passed
to this clergy'man's son, the present
holder of the title.