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23 May 1885 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Saturday. 23rd [May 1885]. Worked at sewing machine. Mr Vigor came & made his preparations to do Henry’s portrait, he stayed to lunch & we all had lunch in the library. Tea in my room & we dined in the library. Henry & Lord Lytton talked politics a great deal & Ld L. was very much depressed about the state of affairs now & for the future. Henry also said he felt sure that before 25 years were over we should have a civil war in England wh might be postponed by a great foreign war but he considered it inevitable. Lord Lytton said he had just the same opinion & he believed it was also shared by Lord Salisbury. Henry was for the reform of the House of Lords. Lord Lytton maintained that if it was touched it would become altogether useless & a Senate was utterly powerless in every country where it had been tried. Lord Lytton said that our unwritten constitution had been always directed against the power of the nobles & the crown & no one had ever thought of putting a limit to the power of the people who consequently wd become supreme. They went out for a row by moonlight. I sat up writing letters. | |
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