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8 March 1873 — Madrid | |
Saturday. 8th [March 1873]. It was a wet day & I did not go out but painted & practised the harmonium. There was great alarm & excitement as there was a good deal going on in the Cortès. The Govt was to try & pass a project of law for dissolution & vowed if they were beaten that they would resign & there was a large crowd round the building who would have had recourse to fighting had that been the case– In the evening Mirecki & Inzenga came to practise & it was not till 10 that the news came that the Govt had been successful—very few radicals having voted—the crowd was dispersed & all over. Prendergast had been to see me in the afternoon to pay me for Mme Dragonetti’s furniture & he said things looked very bad & that a row was inevitable—but curiously it all passed away. | |
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