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Excerpt from A Woman's Memories of World-Known Men, Vol. 2 of 2 ON looking back, as I not unfrequently have done, to the topics Of conversation which, to Mr. Sidney Herbert, usually appeared the most congenial, I experience now a certain amount of surprise that he did not then either frequently allude to, or appear to take any lively interest in, the well-being or otherwise of the country in which he was sojourning, and from which he draws so large a portion of his income. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.