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Gladstone always professed perplexity in understanding why the violent end of the gallant Cavagnari in Afghanistan, stirred the world so little in comparison with the fate of Gordon.
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Morley notes Gladstone's confusion over the differing public reactions to two tragic events in Afghanistan and Sudan.
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