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27 July 1870 — Madrid | |
Wednesday. 27th [July 1870]. They called me before 8 in the morning to say the Dr was come so I put on a dressing [gown] & went there & found all going on well. He said he would return at 1 to dress the arm so I wrote in the morng etc till he came when I went & assisted and this took us till lunch time when he took some with us. In afternoon I set to work to finish my embroidery & at 5 had just finished it & taken if off the frame when Mercier came to call. Henry showed him the Times wh contained news an attempt at a secret treaty between France & Prussia in wh the Emp: offered to give Prussia the S. of Germany if Prussia gave him Belgium & Luxembourg. This Mercier denied as impossible & denied it vehemently. At ½ past 6 we went out riding a kind of ramble on the Upper Mon Cloa road direction. Dined at 8 & directly after went to the Buen Retiro Concert. After the 1st part we went to get an ice & then saw Topete & asked him to dinner on Sunday also Mr Esperanza—& afterwards while walking round met Mercier, Canitz & Sickles besides Weisweiller &c & young Mr Weil whom we were astonished to see, because his uncle Mr Bauer had told us he had gone into the Garde Mobile wh was being got up at Paris. It appears Mr Bauer would not let him join but sent him back here at once– I told him how my mother’s French cook had left her at a moment’s notice to join the army wh greatly amused them all. We stayed to hear the overture to Tannhauser by Wagner wh I had not heard before & came home at 11.30. Mercier looked very pale & unhappy. | |
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