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gaminerie and contempt of the conventional and the same engaging 

 plain spokenness and readiness to understand. As I listened to him 

 recounting conversations he had had with Chamberlain I seemed once 

 more to be listening- to Randolph on the subject of Northcote and 

 Salisbury. About Chamberlain he was especially amusing, his attitude 

 being one of mingled contempt and admiration, contempt for the man 

 and admiration for his astuteness and audacity. In opposition Winston 

 I expect to see playing precisely his father's game, and I should 

 not be surprised if he had his father's success. He has a power of 

 writing Randolph never had, who was a schoolboy with his pen, 

 and he has education and a political tradition. He interested me im- 

 mensely. He is writing his father's life and told me he had found a 

 number of my letters and asked me for any I might have of his 

 father's, which I was glad to promise him for his book. There was 

 also there a young man Murray of the same political set. 



' Now I must stop, being overwhelmed with work before start- 

 ing for Egypt." 



