According to his own account he passed a wretched
boyhood at Harrow, and as a young man he was
completely overshadowed by his popular and hand-
some brother. In 1852, with a small allowance, he
became attache to Sir John Hudson at Turin. Here
it was said, in order to save expense, he arranged with
the custodian of an arch to let him sleep in the small
chamber where the latter kept his pails and brooms ;
another rumour declared that he was more or less his
own tailor. Be this as it may, the taste for doing
repairs or having them done by his servant was very
evident in his old age when his coat and even his hat
were often held together by rough stitching. He
never, no matter how bad the weather, took a cab —
he never lost and never forgot an umbrella.
In his last years, indeed, the dilapidated condition
of his apparel became more and more evident. My
own opinion is that this arose partly from a feeling
that he could do exactly as he pleased, for he was
quick enough in resenting slatternliness in others,
having on more than one occasion been heard to com-
plain " how careless about dress people had become."



LADY CORK 185

" She frightened me dreadfully at fkst," said she.
No one probably knew more about the inner social
history of her time than Lady Cork, a very clever
woman, who long after she had ceased to be able to
leave her couch, owing to her numerous visitors, kept
herself excellently posted as to everything of interest
which was on foot.
