GABDEIf AND CONSEETATOEY OF THE EOYAL nOKTICULXUEAL SOCIETY. 



CHAPTER VI. 



LAYING OUT GAEDEi;r3 



13S, Some of cm- readersmay remember Gore llousc; Keiisington, wten tlie 

 presiding- deities of the place were the beautiful and accomplished Countess of 

 Blessington and the fashionable Count D'Orsay, whose claim to be a leader of 

 fashion was the smallest of his merits. Its portals were never closed to those 

 who could wield pen or pencil, or had other claim to distinction ; and, among 

 other halitues of the place, some will remember a moody-looking and some- 

 what silent individual, who was looked upon as not very bright by those who 

 met Mm casually. Alas for poor humanity ! — the beautiful, the kind, and the 



