eached a convent, where she was received. Afterward she came to Paris
and hid herself away in a garret of the slums. All the light of her
life had gone out. She wished that she had died with him whose glory
had been her life. Friends of Gambetta, however, discovered her and
cared for her until her death, long afterward, in 1906.

She lived upon the memories of the past, of the swift love that had
come at first sight, but which had lasted unbrokenly; which had given
her the pride of conquest, and which had brought her lover both
happiness and inspiration and a refining touch which had smoothed away
his roughness and made him fit to stand in palaces with dignity and
distinction.

As for him, he left a few lines which have been carefully preserved,
and which sum up his thought of her. They read:

To the light of my soul; to the star, of my life--Leonie Leon. For
ever! For ever!

LADY BLESSINGTON AND COUNT D'ORSAY

Often there has arisen some man who, either by his natural gifts or by
his impudence or by the combination of both, has made himself a
recognized leader in the English fashionable world. One of the first of
these men was Richard Nash, usually known as "Beau Nash," who
flourished in the eighteenth century. Nash was a man of doubtful
origin; nor was he attractive in his looks, for he was a huge, clumsy
creature with features that were both irregular and harsh.
Nevertheless, for nearly fifty years Beau Nash was an arbiter of
fashion. Goldsmith, who wrote his life, declared that his supremacy was
due to his pleasing manners, "his assiduity, flattery, fine clothes,
and as much wit as the ladies had whom he addressed." He converted the
town of Bath from a rude little hamlet into an English Newport, of
which he was the social autocrat. He actually drew up a set of written
rules which some of the best-born and best-bred people follow slavishly.

Even better known to us is George Bryan Brummel, commonly called "Beau
Brummel," who by his friendship with George IV.--then Prince
Regent--was an oracle at court on everything that related to dress and
etiquette and the proper mode of living. His memory has been kept alive
most of all by Richard Mansfield's famous impersonation of him. The
play is based upon the actual facts; for after Brummel had lost the
royal favor he died an insane pauper in the French town of Caen. He,
too, had a distinguished biographer, since Bulwer-Lytton's novel Pelham
is really the narra