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11 May 1882 — Aldermaston Court, Aldermaston, Berkshire | |
Thursday. 11th May [1882]. Got up at 7.30 & read till breakfast at 9. Read, worked & talked to Mrs Burr till 12.30 when she went out to the school exam. I made cigarettes & Miss Scobell came in & sat & talked with me till lunch. She & her sister Isabel had driven over from their little place 3 miles off to lunch. Mr & Mrs Burr brought the examiner Mr Dupont & Mr & Mrs Douglas the clergyman & wife back to lunch, the exam. having gone off very well. When they had all departed Mrs Burr drove me in the pony carriage to the keepers from whence we walked to the pond where the Squire awaited me with the fishing gear. We caught nothing & were just abt to put up our tackle when the Squire caught a big schlei & we were encouraged to go on but we got nothing more & Henry found us disconsolate when he arrived having walked there. Mrs Burr drove me back & we had tea after wh I went up & wrote & read in my room. Henry also read in my room. The weather continued fine & unusually hot for the time of year. After dinner we played four handed cribbage till bed time. Mrs Burr talked a good deal abt her mother Mrs Scobell who she said had known Nelson & Lady Hamilton & told her how beautiful the latter had been. She said the Nelson family had behaved very badly in allowing Ly H. to die in absolute want at Boulogne. Mrs Scobell had also seen Mme Recamier but of course when her beauty was gone. | |
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