Chapter 49

[162]My old schoolfellow, George, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, only son of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.[163]Anthony Lionel Ashley, died Jan. 14, 1836.[164]I afterwards heard this story confirmed in every particular by Lord Waterford’s widow.[165]From “Central Italy.”[166]Miss Wright[167]Whose real name is Cincinnatus.[168]From “Northern Italy.”[169]From “Northern Italy.”[170]From “Central Italy.”[171]From “Central Italy.”[172]From “Florence.”[173]From “Florence.”[174]From “Northern Italy.”[175]From “Northern Italy.”[176]From “Walks in London.”[177]He died March 1888.[178]Dante Gabriel Rossetti.[179]Professor Forster has since assured me that this was impossible, for that hair will only continue to grow for a few hours after death.[180]Daughter of the famous English tenor, John Braham.[181]From “Walks in London.”[182]From “Walks in London.”[183]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[184]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[185]Story told me by Sir J. Shaw Lefevre.[186]Afterwards Sir Charles Newton. He died Nov. 28, 1894.[187]I need scarcely say that, as soon as possible thereafter, I eliminated all reference to Mr. Freeman, and all quotations from his works, from my books.[188]From “Walks in London.”[189]From “Walks in London.”[190]Tom Taylor, editor ofPunch, died 1880.[191]NéeSabine Thellusson.[192]Chancellor of the Exchequer.[193]From “Walks in London.”[194]From “Walks in London.”[195]From “Walks in London.”[196]From “Walks in London.”[197]From “Walks in London.”[198]From “Walks in London.”[199]From “Walks in London.”[200]William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.[201]Sir Samuel Baker died Dec. 1893.[202]This picture was sold to the National Gallery in 1880 for £9000, and is probably the cheapest purchase the Gallery ever made.[203]Isabella, second daughter of Lord Henry Howard.[204]Mr. Abraham Hayward, the well-known critic and essayist, who had been articled in early life to an obscure country attorney, always seemed to consider it thesummum-bonumof life to dwell amongst the aristocracy as a man of letters: and in this he succeeded admirably, and was always witty and well-informed, usually satirical, and often very coarse.[205]Fourth son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.[206]Eldest sister of Prince Christian.[207]From “Walks in London.”[208]Many years afterwards I saw her again: her name was Mrs. Macnabb.[209]Lord Russell died May 28, 1878.[210]Lady Gladys afterwards married the 4th Earl of Lonsdale.[211]My mother’s first cousin, Susan, sixth daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.[212]Eliot Yorke died Dec. 21, 1878—a bitter family sorrow.[213]From “Walks in London.”[214]Anne-Florence, Baroness Lucas, Dowager Countess Cowper, elder daughter and co-heir of Thomas Philip, Earl De Grey. She died in 1880.[215]P.S.—The unpublished letters of Lady Mary Cooke show that this local tradition is incorrect. Lord Tavistock’s accident occurred far away, and he lingered afterwards for three weeks; but it is true that the family never lived at Houghton after his death.[216]Lord Hinton afterwards used to play a barrel-organ in the streets of London, with an inscription over it in large letters, “I am the only Viscount Hinton.” He would play it for hours opposite the windows of Lord Powlett in Berkeley Square.[217]Mr. E. A. Freeman—whose lengthy and disproportionate writings were never wholly without interest—died March 1892.[218]Blanche, Countess of Sandwich, died March 1894.[219]Letters of Alexis de Tocqueville to Mrs. Grote.[220]Sir John Acton was commander-in-chief of the land and sea forces of Naples, and was for several years Neapolitan Prime Minister. His wife was the daughter of his brother, General Acton, and he had by her two sons (the younger of whom became Cardinal), and a daughter, afterwards Lady Throckmorton.[221]At Sudeley Castle, where “the Mother of the English Reformation” is buried, I wrote for Mrs. Dent:—“Here, within the chapel’s shade,Reverent hands have gently laid,From the suffering of her life,From its storminess and strife,All that rests of one who shoneFor a time on England’s throne,Ever gentle, ever kind,Seeking human souls to bindIn a Christian’s fetters fast,Heavenward leading at the last:And their watch two angels keepOver Katherine’s gentle sleep.. . . . . . . . . .Oh! amid this world of ours,With its sunshine and its flowers,Glad with light and blest with love,Let us still so live aboveAll earth’s jealousies and snares,All its fretfulness and cares,Ever faithful, ever true,With the noblest end in view,Seeking human souls to raiseBy the simplest, purest ways;Then their ward will angels keepWhen we too are hush’d to sleep.”[222]Emma, daughter of John Brocklehurst, Esq., of Hurdsfield, the authoress of an admirable work on the “Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley.”[223]The great feature in views from Stoke Rectory.[224]The name is thus spelt in the epitaph on the tomb of Richard Pendrill at St. Giles in the Fields.[225]Henry Strutt, who succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Belper in 1880, married Lady Margaret, sixth daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.[226]Frederick Arthur, second son of the 14th Earl of Derby, married Constance, eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.[227]He succeeded his grandfather as 5th Viscount Gage in 1877.[228]Frederick, third son of the 6th Earl of Tankerville. See vol. ii.[229]Eldest son of the Hon. Colonel Augustus Liddell, married Christina Catherine, daughter of C. E. Fraser Tytler, Esq., of Sanquhar, the authoress of “Mistress Judith,” “Jonathan,” &c. See vol. iii.[230]Helen, daughter of Sir John Warrender, wife of the 11th Earl of Haddington.[231]Katherine, third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Eldon.[232]Coleridge.[233]Lady Harriet Elliot, sixth daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth.[234]E. Waller.[235]Aldena (Kingscote), wife of Sir Archibald Hope.[236]General Philip Stanhope, fifth son of Walter Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall, celebrated for his kindly nature and pleasant conversation. Died 1879.[237]Charles Nevison, Viscount Andover, son of the 15th Earl of Suffolk, died January 11, 1800.[238]Lord Eslington, afterwards 2nd Earl of Ravensworth.[239]See my visit in 1866.[240]Afterwards Mrs. C. Warren.[241]Lady Charlotte Loftus, eldest daughter of John, 2nd Marquis of Ely.[242]Eldest daughter of William Pitt, Earl Amherst.[243]Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, died 1853.[244]Eldest sister of the 1st Earl of Lathom.[245]Egerton Warburton, Esq.[246]A family home. In 1807 Thomas Tatton of Wythenshawe married my mother’s first cousin, Emma, daughter of the Hon. John Grey.[247]Harriet Susan, eldest daughter of Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden Hall.[248]Fourth daughter of the 6th Earl of Albemarle.[249]Second son of the 3rd Lord Lyttelton and Lady Sarah Spencer.[250]Lady Agneta Montagu was one of the daughters of Susan, Countess of Hardwicke, my mother’s first cousin.[251]Pascal.[252]Sotherton Peckham Branthwayt Micklethwait.[253]Third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Arran by his third wife, Elizabeth Underwood.[254]Dr. William Thompson, Archbishop of York, married Miss Zoë Skene, a beautiful Greek.[255]Adelaide Horatia Seymour, Countess Spencer, who died October 1877.[256]The well-known architect.[257]From “Walks in London.”[258]Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson (“Book of Recollections”) gives a most attractive account of this lady, which may be summed up in his dictum “It is impossible for a daughter of Eve to be a better woman than Geraldine Jewsbury.”[259]Elizabeth Jane, daughter of the first Lord Athlumney.[260]From “Walks in London.”[261]Helen Matilda, daughter of Rev. Henry Chaplin, afterwards 5th Countess of Radnor.[262]Mr. Froude died Oct. 1894.[263]Mrs. Davidson of Ridley Hall. See vols. ii. and iii.[264]From “Walks in London.”[265]I have frequently seen Mrs. L.’s pictures in the Academy. I had often been told of the strange likeness between Napoleon III. and myself.[266]Author of “Unspoken Sermons,” “David Elginbrod,” &c.[267]Died June 20, 1889.[268]The house of Joseph Pease, M.P., afterwards Sir Joseph Pease.[269]Afterwards Lord Rowton.[270]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[271]All the best pictures at Burghley have since been sold at Christie’s.[272]The same amusement was in vogue during the parties of the second Empire at Compiègne, where the worst of the many bad organ-grinders was the Emperor himself.[273]Francis-Charles, 9th Duke, a great archaeologist.[274]Hungerford Crewe, Lord Crewe, died Jan. 1894.[275]The Roman sculptress, Gibson’s favourite pupil. See vol. iii.[276]Widow of John Singleton Copley, three times Lord Chancellor.[277]Told me by Mrs. Henry Forester.[278]Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.[279]See Macpherson’s “Memorials of Mrs. Jameson.”[280]Fräulein von Weling afterwards translated my “Life and Letters of Baroness Bunsen” into German, and it has thus had a wide circulation in Germany.[281]Afterwards “Carmen Sylva,” the poet-queen of Roumania.[282]Widow of my cousin Marcus, lost in theEurydice.[283]The epitaph of Prince Otto, by his mother, is—“Made perfect through Suffering and patient in Hope,Of a fearless Spirit and strong in Faith,His mind turned towards heavenly things,He searched for truth and a knowledge of God.What he humbly sought in Life,He, being set free, has now found in Light.”[284]NéeIsabel Waddington, sister of the ambassador from France to England.[285]Younger son of my real mother’s youngest brother Wentworth.[286]My real mother’s younger brother, Wentworth Paul, had married Countess Marie Marcia von Benningsen, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover.[287]Afterwards ambassador in England.[288]From “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”[289]Longfellow.[290]Carlyle.[291]Their grandmother was a Mademoiselle Clary, sister of Queen Desirée of Sweden.[292]From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.[293]From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.[294]From “Central Italy.”[295]From “Central Italy.”[296]See vol. iii.[297]Wife of a north-country baronet.[298]Mary Howitt, aged 89, fulfilled her heart’s desire by also dying at Rome, Jan. 30, 1888, and, though a Catholic, was permitted to rest by her husband’s side in the Protestant cemetery. She never recovered the fatigue of a visit to the Pope. It was all made as easy as possible for her, on account of her great age, and the Duke of Norfolk was allowed to bring her in separately. “Adieu! we shall meet again in heaven,” said Leo XIII., on taking leave of her: a fortnight after she was dead.[299]I have not been able to do this, as there is a prohibition in England against wearing foreign orders, dating from Elizabeth, who said, “My dogs shall wear nothing but my own collars.”[300]I little thought at the time that Frank Crawford would turn out a distinguished and popular novelist: it was at Bombay that he met the original of “Mr. Isaacs.”[301]The Misses Monk, daughters of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.[302]Miss Clarke.[303]From “South-Eastern France.”[304]Of very humble origin himself, to court great personages had been the ruling passion of his life, and it had been a subject of extravagant pride to him that he had occasionally entertained this good-natured Princess at dinner at Pau.[305]From “Walks in London.”[306]I often saw Mademoiselle Bernhardt act afterwards, and was far less impressed by her, feeling the truth of the expression “Une tragédienne du Boulevard.”[307]With whom afterwards I became great friends.[308]The story of Count Piper is curious and highly honourable to him. He discovered that the late King Carl XV. was going to make a most unworthy and disgraceful marriage, and he wrote to him most strongly upon the subject. The king never forgave him, and made it impossible for him to stay in Sweden, but the cause of his disgrace was unknown, till the present king, Oscar, found the letter among his brother’s papers after his death. Count Piper was at once recalled, and given first-rate diplomatic posts.[309]From “Walks in London.”[310]From “Walks in London.”[311]Daughter of John Braham, the singer. She married (1) John James Waldegrave, Esq.; (2) George-Edward, 7th Earl Waldegrave; (3) George Granville Harcourt, Esq., of Nuneham; (4) Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford. When she was a child a gipsy foretold that she would marry first to please her parents, secondly for rank, thirdly for wealth, and fourthly to please herself.[312]Eldest son of the Earl of Tankerville. See vol. iii.[313]Lady Waterford, Lady Jane Ellice, and Lady Marian Alford.

[162]My old schoolfellow, George, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, only son of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.

[163]Anthony Lionel Ashley, died Jan. 14, 1836.

[164]I afterwards heard this story confirmed in every particular by Lord Waterford’s widow.

[165]From “Central Italy.”

[166]Miss Wright

[167]Whose real name is Cincinnatus.

[168]From “Northern Italy.”

[169]From “Northern Italy.”

[170]From “Central Italy.”

[171]From “Central Italy.”

[172]From “Florence.”

[173]From “Florence.”

[174]From “Northern Italy.”

[175]From “Northern Italy.”

[176]From “Walks in London.”

[177]He died March 1888.

[178]Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[179]Professor Forster has since assured me that this was impossible, for that hair will only continue to grow for a few hours after death.

[180]Daughter of the famous English tenor, John Braham.

[181]From “Walks in London.”

[182]From “Walks in London.”

[183]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[184]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[185]Story told me by Sir J. Shaw Lefevre.

[186]Afterwards Sir Charles Newton. He died Nov. 28, 1894.

[187]I need scarcely say that, as soon as possible thereafter, I eliminated all reference to Mr. Freeman, and all quotations from his works, from my books.

[188]From “Walks in London.”

[189]From “Walks in London.”

[190]Tom Taylor, editor ofPunch, died 1880.

[191]NéeSabine Thellusson.

[192]Chancellor of the Exchequer.

[193]From “Walks in London.”

[194]From “Walks in London.”

[195]From “Walks in London.”

[196]From “Walks in London.”

[197]From “Walks in London.”

[198]From “Walks in London.”

[199]From “Walks in London.”

[200]William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.

[201]Sir Samuel Baker died Dec. 1893.

[202]This picture was sold to the National Gallery in 1880 for £9000, and is probably the cheapest purchase the Gallery ever made.

[203]Isabella, second daughter of Lord Henry Howard.

[204]Mr. Abraham Hayward, the well-known critic and essayist, who had been articled in early life to an obscure country attorney, always seemed to consider it thesummum-bonumof life to dwell amongst the aristocracy as a man of letters: and in this he succeeded admirably, and was always witty and well-informed, usually satirical, and often very coarse.

[205]Fourth son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.

[206]Eldest sister of Prince Christian.

[207]From “Walks in London.”

[208]Many years afterwards I saw her again: her name was Mrs. Macnabb.

[209]Lord Russell died May 28, 1878.

[210]Lady Gladys afterwards married the 4th Earl of Lonsdale.

[211]My mother’s first cousin, Susan, sixth daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.

[212]Eliot Yorke died Dec. 21, 1878—a bitter family sorrow.

[213]From “Walks in London.”

[214]Anne-Florence, Baroness Lucas, Dowager Countess Cowper, elder daughter and co-heir of Thomas Philip, Earl De Grey. She died in 1880.

[215]P.S.—The unpublished letters of Lady Mary Cooke show that this local tradition is incorrect. Lord Tavistock’s accident occurred far away, and he lingered afterwards for three weeks; but it is true that the family never lived at Houghton after his death.

[216]Lord Hinton afterwards used to play a barrel-organ in the streets of London, with an inscription over it in large letters, “I am the only Viscount Hinton.” He would play it for hours opposite the windows of Lord Powlett in Berkeley Square.

[217]Mr. E. A. Freeman—whose lengthy and disproportionate writings were never wholly without interest—died March 1892.

[218]Blanche, Countess of Sandwich, died March 1894.

[219]Letters of Alexis de Tocqueville to Mrs. Grote.

[220]Sir John Acton was commander-in-chief of the land and sea forces of Naples, and was for several years Neapolitan Prime Minister. His wife was the daughter of his brother, General Acton, and he had by her two sons (the younger of whom became Cardinal), and a daughter, afterwards Lady Throckmorton.

[221]At Sudeley Castle, where “the Mother of the English Reformation” is buried, I wrote for Mrs. Dent:—“Here, within the chapel’s shade,Reverent hands have gently laid,From the suffering of her life,From its storminess and strife,All that rests of one who shoneFor a time on England’s throne,Ever gentle, ever kind,Seeking human souls to bindIn a Christian’s fetters fast,Heavenward leading at the last:And their watch two angels keepOver Katherine’s gentle sleep.. . . . . . . . . .Oh! amid this world of ours,With its sunshine and its flowers,Glad with light and blest with love,Let us still so live aboveAll earth’s jealousies and snares,All its fretfulness and cares,Ever faithful, ever true,With the noblest end in view,Seeking human souls to raiseBy the simplest, purest ways;Then their ward will angels keepWhen we too are hush’d to sleep.”

[221]At Sudeley Castle, where “the Mother of the English Reformation” is buried, I wrote for Mrs. Dent:—

“Here, within the chapel’s shade,Reverent hands have gently laid,From the suffering of her life,From its storminess and strife,All that rests of one who shoneFor a time on England’s throne,Ever gentle, ever kind,Seeking human souls to bindIn a Christian’s fetters fast,Heavenward leading at the last:And their watch two angels keepOver Katherine’s gentle sleep.. . . . . . . . . .Oh! amid this world of ours,With its sunshine and its flowers,Glad with light and blest with love,Let us still so live aboveAll earth’s jealousies and snares,All its fretfulness and cares,Ever faithful, ever true,With the noblest end in view,Seeking human souls to raiseBy the simplest, purest ways;Then their ward will angels keepWhen we too are hush’d to sleep.”

[222]Emma, daughter of John Brocklehurst, Esq., of Hurdsfield, the authoress of an admirable work on the “Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley.”

[223]The great feature in views from Stoke Rectory.

[224]The name is thus spelt in the epitaph on the tomb of Richard Pendrill at St. Giles in the Fields.

[225]Henry Strutt, who succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Belper in 1880, married Lady Margaret, sixth daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.

[226]Frederick Arthur, second son of the 14th Earl of Derby, married Constance, eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.

[227]He succeeded his grandfather as 5th Viscount Gage in 1877.

[228]Frederick, third son of the 6th Earl of Tankerville. See vol. ii.

[229]Eldest son of the Hon. Colonel Augustus Liddell, married Christina Catherine, daughter of C. E. Fraser Tytler, Esq., of Sanquhar, the authoress of “Mistress Judith,” “Jonathan,” &c. See vol. iii.

[230]Helen, daughter of Sir John Warrender, wife of the 11th Earl of Haddington.

[231]Katherine, third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Eldon.

[232]Coleridge.

[233]Lady Harriet Elliot, sixth daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth.

[234]E. Waller.

[235]Aldena (Kingscote), wife of Sir Archibald Hope.

[236]General Philip Stanhope, fifth son of Walter Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall, celebrated for his kindly nature and pleasant conversation. Died 1879.

[237]Charles Nevison, Viscount Andover, son of the 15th Earl of Suffolk, died January 11, 1800.

[238]Lord Eslington, afterwards 2nd Earl of Ravensworth.

[239]See my visit in 1866.

[240]Afterwards Mrs. C. Warren.

[241]Lady Charlotte Loftus, eldest daughter of John, 2nd Marquis of Ely.

[242]Eldest daughter of William Pitt, Earl Amherst.

[243]Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, died 1853.

[244]Eldest sister of the 1st Earl of Lathom.

[245]Egerton Warburton, Esq.

[246]A family home. In 1807 Thomas Tatton of Wythenshawe married my mother’s first cousin, Emma, daughter of the Hon. John Grey.

[247]Harriet Susan, eldest daughter of Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden Hall.

[248]Fourth daughter of the 6th Earl of Albemarle.

[249]Second son of the 3rd Lord Lyttelton and Lady Sarah Spencer.

[250]Lady Agneta Montagu was one of the daughters of Susan, Countess of Hardwicke, my mother’s first cousin.

[251]Pascal.

[252]Sotherton Peckham Branthwayt Micklethwait.

[253]Third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Arran by his third wife, Elizabeth Underwood.

[254]Dr. William Thompson, Archbishop of York, married Miss Zoë Skene, a beautiful Greek.

[255]Adelaide Horatia Seymour, Countess Spencer, who died October 1877.

[256]The well-known architect.

[257]From “Walks in London.”

[258]Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson (“Book of Recollections”) gives a most attractive account of this lady, which may be summed up in his dictum “It is impossible for a daughter of Eve to be a better woman than Geraldine Jewsbury.”

[259]Elizabeth Jane, daughter of the first Lord Athlumney.

[260]From “Walks in London.”

[261]Helen Matilda, daughter of Rev. Henry Chaplin, afterwards 5th Countess of Radnor.

[262]Mr. Froude died Oct. 1894.

[263]Mrs. Davidson of Ridley Hall. See vols. ii. and iii.

[264]From “Walks in London.”

[265]I have frequently seen Mrs. L.’s pictures in the Academy. I had often been told of the strange likeness between Napoleon III. and myself.

[266]Author of “Unspoken Sermons,” “David Elginbrod,” &c.

[267]Died June 20, 1889.

[268]The house of Joseph Pease, M.P., afterwards Sir Joseph Pease.

[269]Afterwards Lord Rowton.

[270]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[271]All the best pictures at Burghley have since been sold at Christie’s.

[272]The same amusement was in vogue during the parties of the second Empire at Compiègne, where the worst of the many bad organ-grinders was the Emperor himself.

[273]Francis-Charles, 9th Duke, a great archaeologist.

[274]Hungerford Crewe, Lord Crewe, died Jan. 1894.

[275]The Roman sculptress, Gibson’s favourite pupil. See vol. iii.

[276]Widow of John Singleton Copley, three times Lord Chancellor.

[277]Told me by Mrs. Henry Forester.

[278]Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.

[279]See Macpherson’s “Memorials of Mrs. Jameson.”

[280]Fräulein von Weling afterwards translated my “Life and Letters of Baroness Bunsen” into German, and it has thus had a wide circulation in Germany.

[281]Afterwards “Carmen Sylva,” the poet-queen of Roumania.

[282]Widow of my cousin Marcus, lost in theEurydice.

[283]The epitaph of Prince Otto, by his mother, is—“Made perfect through Suffering and patient in Hope,Of a fearless Spirit and strong in Faith,His mind turned towards heavenly things,He searched for truth and a knowledge of God.What he humbly sought in Life,He, being set free, has now found in Light.”

[283]The epitaph of Prince Otto, by his mother, is—

“Made perfect through Suffering and patient in Hope,Of a fearless Spirit and strong in Faith,His mind turned towards heavenly things,He searched for truth and a knowledge of God.What he humbly sought in Life,He, being set free, has now found in Light.”

[284]NéeIsabel Waddington, sister of the ambassador from France to England.

[285]Younger son of my real mother’s youngest brother Wentworth.

[286]My real mother’s younger brother, Wentworth Paul, had married Countess Marie Marcia von Benningsen, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover.

[287]Afterwards ambassador in England.

[288]From “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”

[289]Longfellow.

[290]Carlyle.

[291]Their grandmother was a Mademoiselle Clary, sister of Queen Desirée of Sweden.

[292]From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.

[293]From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.

[294]From “Central Italy.”

[295]From “Central Italy.”

[296]See vol. iii.

[297]Wife of a north-country baronet.

[298]Mary Howitt, aged 89, fulfilled her heart’s desire by also dying at Rome, Jan. 30, 1888, and, though a Catholic, was permitted to rest by her husband’s side in the Protestant cemetery. She never recovered the fatigue of a visit to the Pope. It was all made as easy as possible for her, on account of her great age, and the Duke of Norfolk was allowed to bring her in separately. “Adieu! we shall meet again in heaven,” said Leo XIII., on taking leave of her: a fortnight after she was dead.

[299]I have not been able to do this, as there is a prohibition in England against wearing foreign orders, dating from Elizabeth, who said, “My dogs shall wear nothing but my own collars.”

[300]I little thought at the time that Frank Crawford would turn out a distinguished and popular novelist: it was at Bombay that he met the original of “Mr. Isaacs.”

[301]The Misses Monk, daughters of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.

[302]Miss Clarke.

[303]From “South-Eastern France.”

[304]Of very humble origin himself, to court great personages had been the ruling passion of his life, and it had been a subject of extravagant pride to him that he had occasionally entertained this good-natured Princess at dinner at Pau.

[305]From “Walks in London.”

[306]I often saw Mademoiselle Bernhardt act afterwards, and was far less impressed by her, feeling the truth of the expression “Une tragédienne du Boulevard.”

[307]With whom afterwards I became great friends.

[308]The story of Count Piper is curious and highly honourable to him. He discovered that the late King Carl XV. was going to make a most unworthy and disgraceful marriage, and he wrote to him most strongly upon the subject. The king never forgave him, and made it impossible for him to stay in Sweden, but the cause of his disgrace was unknown, till the present king, Oscar, found the letter among his brother’s papers after his death. Count Piper was at once recalled, and given first-rate diplomatic posts.

[309]From “Walks in London.”

[310]From “Walks in London.”

[311]Daughter of John Braham, the singer. She married (1) John James Waldegrave, Esq.; (2) George-Edward, 7th Earl Waldegrave; (3) George Granville Harcourt, Esq., of Nuneham; (4) Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford. When she was a child a gipsy foretold that she would marry first to please her parents, secondly for rank, thirdly for wealth, and fourthly to please herself.

[312]Eldest son of the Earl of Tankerville. See vol. iii.

[313]Lady Waterford, Lady Jane Ellice, and Lady Marian Alford.

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