VIII. 



A -SWELL." 



The noble Baron Tourneymeade can only be described 

 as a " swell," unmitigated and gorgeous. 



The epithet is not accorded to him by reason of his 

 title. 



There are numerous peers who are not swells, and 

 still more numerous swells who are not peers. The 

 Duke of Kyleshire, for example, carries on his circula- 

 tion by means of the very bluest blood ; but he looks 

 like a cad, and successfully takes pains to justify his 

 appearance. Lord iSterteris, again, inherits an es- 

 cutcheon which has been borne in the van of battle by 

 some of those who have added honour to the noblest 

 names in English history ; but his lordship is the type 

 of a greedy Lord Mayor at the termination ot a hard 

 dining year of office. Another nobleman, second to 

 neither of these in descent and in the quarterings on 

 his coat of arms, resembles a political nonconformist in 

 the grocery line so closely that you would be inclined 

 to bet ten to one he was accustomed to occupy the 

 pulpit of his local Bethel for the purpose of calling 

 Lord Beaconsfield a man of sin, and an immediate 



