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25 May 1884 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Sunday. 25th May [1884]. Breakfast at 9. Cortelazzo came to see me & sat talking over his misfortunes nearly all the morning. Having been tried & condemned to a years imprisonment & 10,000 francs fine because a man at his villa is supposed to have died of poisoning from arsenic. He has appealed here at Venice & there is a slight hope of his getting the sentence reversed. The Judge at Vicenza said in his sentence that the public voice at V. said he was guilty therefore it must be true—but he believed it was the result of an accident. Poor Cortelazzo says that he is avvilito & will never show himself until he is cleared of the imputation. Alice and the Murrays all went to church. After Cortelazzo was gone I wrote a few letters. Henry went off to meet the others at the Academy & they only returned to lunch at 2. Mr Horatio Brown called just as we were going to lunch– Miss Grant the sculptress who is staying here for a little while came to call & I took her all over this house. At 4.30 we all went out in the gondola—Mr Murray, Mr H. Murray, Annie M., Alice, Henry & I. We went to the Edens garden—& there found Mrs Eden. She gave us tea & roses. Olga Mocenigo came there also & we were glad to meet her again. She was looking as pretty & charming as ever. We made an appointment for Mr Murray to go tomorrow to see her rooms which are the ones Byron occupied & to see his writing table which she now uses– At 6 we left the garden & rowed round the Dogana & down the Grand Canal home to dinner at 7. After dinner we went out in gondola. Landed at the Piazzetta & took a walk while the band played– Met Lady Emily Dyke & Mr Alfred Montgomery– Home abt 11 having spent a lively & pleasant evening. | |
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