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4 May 1871 — Seville | |
Thursday. 4th [May 1871]. We went off at 10 o’cl: to Cordova. Mr Will: came to see us off & also Mr Pickman. Mr Bernar & his boy went by the same train as they are going thro’ to Madrid. We arrived at Cordova at abt one o’cl: & were met by Mr Rutledge & Dr Duncan Shaw who took us up to the Hotel Suisse in his carriage & invited us to dine with him at 7. We had some luncheon and then went for a walk in the town to call on a gentleman called Diego & his daughter. We also went to the Cathedral. We went at 7 to Dr Duncan’s & there dined only his wife & Mr Rutledge besides ourselves. Mrs Shaw is a Spaniard & not very amusing & was very much preoccupied because her baby had the whooping cough. It is a child of 15 months old & horribly fretful & cross & she would not send it away from the drawing room because she could [not] bear to mortificar the child– I thought we should have been less mortificato & the child would have been happier if it had been safe in bed– After dinner we played the harmonium & I sang & Mr Shaw put on the harmonium something wh made it play like a barrel organ by turning a handle—only I had to blow with my feet. We went home abt 11. A lovely moonlight night & the Shaw mansion being close to the Patio de las Naranjas we could hear the nightingales singing. The M. & S. went from Seville to Cadiz by 1st train– | |
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