Contents

PAGE
I.Jocund Youth[15]
II.She[24]
III.Mars and Venus[35]
IV.The Primrose Path[42]
V.Byron[48]
VI.Pilgrims of Love[53]
VII.Marriage[65]
VIII.Rome[76]
IX.Paris[81]
X.A Solemn Undertaking[92]
XI.Seamore Place[100]
XII.Handsome is—[116]
XIII.A London Salon[135]
XIV.Round the Town[145]
XV.Gore House[157]
XVI.Stars[172]
XVII.Company[174]
XVIII.More Friends[189]
XIX.Nap[195]
XX.W. S. L.[216]
XXI.The Artist[225]
XXII.Letters[235]
XXIII.Exchequer Bonds[245]
XXIV.Sundry Festivities[255]
XXV.Sunset[270]
XXVI.The End of Gore House[280]
XXVII.Paris for the Last Time[284]
XXVIII.D’Orsay in Decline[289]
XXIX.Death[302]
XXX.What Was He?[311]

List of Illustrations

Count d’Orsay[Frontispiece]
After a Painting by Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.
FACING PAGE
Lady Blessington[28]
From a Water-colour Drawing by A. E. Chalon, R.A.
St James’s Square in 1812[36]
Lord Byron[50]
By D’Orsay.
D’Orsay, 1830[96]
10 St James’s Square[100]
Seamore Place[114]
Crockford’s[150]
Gore House[160]
From a Water-colour Drawing by T. H. Shepherd.
The Countess Guiccioli[164]
By D’Orsay.
Edward, First Baron Lytton[176]
From a Painting by A. E. Chalon, R.A.
Carlyle in 1839[188]
By D’Orsay.
Napoleon III.[206]
By D’Orsay.
Lady Blessington[234]
From the Bust by D’Orsay.
Hyde Park Corner in 1824[250]
Garden View of Gore House[280]
Mausoleum of Lady Blessington[288]
From a Photograph by D’Orsay.