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Excerpt from Private Diaries of the Rt. Hon. Sir Algernon West, G. C. B
I knew him in private and social life only, but I believe that he was a perfect model of the permanent official. His courtesy never failed, his temperament disposed him to avoid extremes both in Opinion and action, his natural modesty made the subordinate position of a secretary to a great man easy and pleasant to him, yet his rare good sense enabled him to retain, in the subordinate position, an unfettered judgment even of the man whom he served and whom (in the person of his greatest master, Gladstone) he adored.
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