I often used to think, however, he frightened people, and that they did not show to their best advantage, nor was their intelligence at its brightest when talking with him.

I now refer especially to those in his employ.
To his opponents in the political world he was generous when discussing them in private, however bitter and stinging his remarks were in public.
I remember one evening, on Mr.Merriman's name being mentioned, how Mr.
Rhodes dilated for some time on his charms as a friend and as a colleague; he told me I should certainly take an opportunity of making his acquaintance.

"I am so fond of Merriman," he added; "he is one of the most cultivated of men and the most charming of companions that I know.

We shall come together again some day." And this of the man who was supposed then to hate Cecil John Rhodes with such a deadly hatred that he, an Englishman born, was said to have been persuaded to Dutch sympathies by his vindictive feelings against one great fellow-countryman.

Before leaving the subject of Mr.Rhodes, I must note his intense kindness of heart and genuine hospitality.