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to him would betoken cowardice. As was ex- 

 pected, the duel proved fatal to Lord Camelford, 

 who died declaring that no blame attached to 

 Captain Best as he (Lord Camelford) was the 

 sole aggressor, and imploring to be buried on the 

 borders of the Lake of Lampierre, in the Canton 

 of Berne, and leaving ^1,000 as compensation to 

 the owners. 



The Orangery lies beyond the ballroom at the end 

 of the Terrace, below which, on the right, is the 

 Italian Garden, only separated by a path from 

 the Green Lane. This latter is a long avenue 

 of magnificent trees, turfed from end to end, a 

 marvellous possession in the midst of the wilderness 

 of bricks and mortar which form modern London. 

 And it was here that in his later years 

 Charles Fox loved to wander. In Trotter's 

 Memoirs of the great orator he says : " It (Holland 

 House) was the place where he had spent his 

 youthful days Every Lawn, Garden, Tree and 

 Walk were vwed by him with peculiar affection. 

 He pointed out its beauties to me, particularly 

 showed me the Green Lane, or Avenue, which 

 his mother, the first Lady Holland, had made by 

 shutting up a road." There is another walk which 

 always goes by the name of the Alley Louis 

 Philippe; as in 1848, when they were exiled from 

 France, Lady Holland lent King Louis Philippe 

 and Queen Marie Amelie Holland House for 



