THE

BELLE OF THE SEASON.

"She was a form of life and light,

That seen, became a part of sight,

And rose, where e'er I turned mine eye,

The morning Star of Memory."-THE GIAOUR.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LEIAN

LONDON:

WILLIAM SHOBERL, PUBLISHER,

20, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET,

1851.

249. W. 463.

MINA

LONDON:

PRINTED BY MYERS AND CO.,

22, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

CLARA CAMERON.

CHAPTER I.

"Finor beltà maggiore
Mai non formar gli Dei,
E il minor pregio in lei
E'il pregio di beltà."

METASTASIO.

THE clock of St. George's, Hanover-square, was striking ten, as an old fashioned chariot drove up to one of the most splendid mansions in Grosvenor-square. The door speedily opened, and the long train of gorgeously-dressed servants, would not so soon or so obsequiously, have attended to an arrival of such apparently little consequence,

VOL. I.

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