introduced the quadrille from Paris.

"I recollect," says Captain Gronow, "the persons who
formed the first quadrille that was ever danced there.
They were Lady Jersey, Lady Harriet Buller, Lady Susan
Ryder, and Miss Montgomery; the men being the Count St
Aldegonde, Mr Montgomery, and Charles Standisti."

It was at Almack's, too, that she introduced the waltz, which so
shocked the proprieties even in that easy-going age.

"What scenes," writes Mr T. Raikes, "have we witnessed in
these days at Almack's! What fear and trembling in the
_débutantes_ at the commencement of a waltz, what
giddiness and confusion at the end! It was, perhaps,
owing to the latter circumstance that so violent an
opposition soon arose to the new recreation on the score
of morality. The anti-waltzing party took the alarm, and
cried it down; mothers forbade it, and every ballroom
became a scene of feud and contention."

But through it all Lady Jersey circled round and round the ballroom
divinely, with Prince Paul Esterhazy, Baron Tripp, St Aldegonde, and
many another graceful exponent of the new dance, for partners; and her
victory was complete when the world of fashion saw the arm of the
Emperor Alexander, his uniform ablaze with decorations, round her waist,
twirling ecstatically, if ungracefully, round in the intoxication of the
waltz.

For fifty years, Lord Jersey's Countess reigned supreme in the social