CHAPTER XI.
KENELM remained a year and a half with this distinguished preceptor.
During that time he learned much in book-lore; he saw much, too, of the eminent men of the day, in literature, the law, and the senate.

He saw, also, a good deal of the fashionable world.

Fine ladies, who had been friends of his mother in her youth, took him up, counselled and petted him,--one in especial, the Marchioness of Glenalvon, to whom he was endeared by grateful association, for her youngest son had been a fellow-pupil of Kenelm at Merton School, and Kenelm had saved his life from drowning.

The poor boy died of consumption later, and her grief for his loss made her affection for Kenelm yet more tender.

Lady Glenalvon was one of the queens of the London world.