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25 November 1881 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Friday. 25th [November 1881]. I breakfasted in bed & got up about 11 & Connie, Char: & the girls went over to see Mr Malcolm’s house & to see the Fenice theatre. I wrote some letters. After lunch Mr Brown came to fetch Henry & took him to the Campo di Marte. I went down to the gondola to talk to him. I went out in the gondola with Connie, Charlie and the children. We rowed past the station up the Grand Canal round by the Giudecca from one end to the other & then down the Grand Canal. Left Connie, C & the girls at Css Olga Mocenigo’s & came home myself by 4. Baron Warsberg came to call—gave him tea– He walked a great deal abt the Lyttons & at last the conversation came round to the Novikoff family. He is now Russian Ambr at Consple. Warsberg says that at Ct Prokisch’s funeral Novikoff flung himself on Warsberg’s neck in a flood of tears—that Warsberg said—Prokisch was a good friend of yours. Novikoff’s answer was “He saved my honor & gave me back my wife—when at Beyrouth she was so dreadfully in love with Lord Dufferin (now ambr at Consple). Prokisch remonstrated with her, showed her that I was worth more than Dufferin & brought her back to her duty”– Warsberg declares Mme Novikoff to have since been once or twice out of her mind. Connie came in abt 5 & after tea she played the piano a little, then we went up & I pasted despatches. Dined at 7.30. Afterwards went to spend the evening at the Edens’. Found there Mme Wolkoff, Mme Pilat, Warsberg, Miss Ker & Miss Bagot & a great Italian violinist called Frontali. He played with Mme Pilat’s accompaniment & then with Connie one of Beethovens Sonatas & then after a piece by LeClerc. We got home abt 11.30. My knee was still shaky– | |
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