He knew, as did the others, that that frail and emaciated figure had been one of the greatest friends that Britain had had at the most dreadful crisis in her history.

He has many times told of this parting scene at Waterloo Station and always with emotion.
"I loved that man," he once said to an American friend, recalling this event.

"I almost wept when he left England." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 75: Of Aberdeen, N.C., the Ambassador's sister.] [Footnote 76: "Dramatic Moments in American Diplomacy," by Ralph W.
Page, 1918.] [Footnote 77: The reference is to a letter written in 1823 by Thomas Jefferson to President Monroe at the time when the Holy Alliance was threatening the independence of South America.

"With Great Britain," Jefferson wrote, "we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause."] [Footnote 78: See Vol.

II, page 307.].