and George IV.--Carlton
House, and the Brighton Pavilion--Queen Alexandra--The Fairchild
Family--Dr. Cumming and his church--A clerical Jazz--First visit
to Paris--General de Flahault's account of Napoleon's campaign of
1812--Another curious link with the past--"Something French"--
Attraction of Paris--Cinderella's glass slipper--A glimpse of
Napoleon III.--The Rue de Rivoli The Riviera in 1865--A novel
Tricolor flag--Jenny Lind--The championship of the Mediterranean--
My father's boat and crew--The race--The Abercorn wins the
championship.
Every one familiar with John Leech's Pictures from Punch must
have an excellent idea of the outward appearance of "swells" of
the "sixties."
As a child I had an immense admiration for these gorgeous beings,
though, between ourselves, they must have been abominably loud
dressers. They affected rather vulgar sealskin waistcoats, with
the festoons of a long watch-chain meandering over them, above
which they exhibited a huge expanse of black or blue satin,
secured by two scarf-pins of the same design, linked together,
like Siamese twins, by a little chain.
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