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22 July 1890 — Motcombe House, nr. Shaftesbury, Dorset | |
Tuesday. 22nd July [1890]. Got up at 11. Sat with Merthyr & Theo in their sitting room. Merthyr wrote, Theo painted & I arranged the guitar. Lunched at 1. At 3 Henry & I started for a drive in the Victoria—Theo on the box & Merthyr sitting at my feet, & they both got out very soon to go rabbit shooting. We drove on to Shaftesbury a nice little town on the top of a hill—& round by Semley Station back to Motcombe. Took a turn in the garden with Henry & went in to tea at 5 with Lady Westr in her sitting room– Goody Merthyr’s child took me to call on Mrs Warner, the butler’s wife who lives in the stables & she showed us 5 bullfinches she had brought up from the nest quite tame. Warner was the footman for years & has lately been made butler in the place of Clark who had been 30 years with Merthyr & was discovered to be cheating & taking percentages from all the little shops. They also found the woman cook who had been 8 years with them was sending away hampers of meat & provisions by train to her relation—& she was got rid of at an hour’s notice. The dishonesty of the English servants in many cases is appalling. | |
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