DISRAELI IN HIS OLD AGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 40, 7 June 1876, Page 2

DISRAELI IN HIS OLD AGE.

[G.U.AXY.J Mr. Disraeli is set clown in the " Parte mentary Companion" as scarcely Jj seventy ; but lie has not yet put. off ti appearance and the ways of youth. 1 -dresses like a young man ; he tries to wa! like a young man ; $ when he is erect and not in in motion, t still looks almost like a sort of young V® But the face, with its fallen cheeks an lips, its deep shady wrinkles, its hollows, its frequent convulsive movement the thin wisps of hair striving to i# their colour and to cover the bald places the yellow, muddy, ghastly hue spreadis from forehead to chin ; the eyes, that a> occasionally aroused under the impulse < great excitement to an unnatural glitterati this seems to suggest one of the n IS fearful forms in which vindictive old % punishes and humbles those who ha 1 shown themselves too obstinate in reSSBj ing her approach. Ml It is curious to observe the little which Mr. Disraeli makes at the ba>Ms the House—or at least the place wh"re wbar ought to be—before he ventures Jj the task of walking up the floorafco sJl|jHp on his Ministerial bench. .3S&&&ssUr still loves to show an appearaiijcl 6f and youthful vigour as. he passes up floor under every eye. So he stops i l JEt moment at the bar and steadies hu as you sometimes see a man who has too much endeavour to steady hinisß fore crossing a street.. H$ distance, makes a false start then goes at it. The attem^^w^B

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