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Last week this lady, now resident at her villa "Lillie" in Monte Carlo, said: "In the old days a thing like this would have been settled by a horse whipping. . . . It is hard to have blame fastened upon me for things I never did, and to have become the weapon for an attack upon the memory of Mr. Gladstone, for whom I have always had the greatest respect. . . . I do not suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that once he gave me a copy of the memoirs of Sister Somebody-or-other, and I could not help feeling that he wanted me to absorb all the lessons of that good woman's life."

When "Lillie Langtry," now Lady de Bathe, entered the Casino at Monte Carlo last week, after the trial in London was over, she was surrounded by purring women friends who rushed to kiss and congratulate her upon her vindication.

^{† Captain Wright wrote: "Mr. Gladstone . . . founded the
great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and
successors with such pious fidelity : in pub lic to speak the language
of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and
possess every sort of woman."}