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13 February 1898 — 3 Savile Row | |
Sunday. 13th [February 1898]. I went to the 12 o’cl service at the Chapel Royal St James’ Palace. Bee Eliot came there & was put into the same pew so she returned to Savile Row with me & lunched with me. At 4.30 Sir Henry Thompson came to see me & I told him all about Arthur’s illness. He was very kind & sympathetic but all he said confirms the accounts of the other Drs that there is no hope of recovery in the end. Lady Gregory came having this very morning returned from Ireland. Ruth & Nela Du Cane also came to tea. After they had left I walked with Augusta Gregory to Q. Anne’s Mansions with her & left her there. She asked me to go in & dine with her to meet Yeats the Poet but I told her I could not as Nellie wd be home to dinner. I got back abt 7 & finding a note from Nellie to say she was not coming back to dinner I returned to Q. A. Mansions & dined with Auga & her friend the Poet. He is tall refined & good looking & unaffected—but talked a good way over my head—which is perhaps natural as I am not up in the slang of literature & of Irish national literature. He had long thick black hair & allows a straight lock to fall over his forehead. This he occasionally throws back but evidently prefers it to hang forward. This seems to me to be his only affectation. He was nicely & cleanly dressed in black– He seemed full of enthusiasm & to have a great love of his Ireland. Thence home soon after 9 o’cl. This morning I gave my maid Annie notice to leave. She has been always very illtempered both to me & her fellow servants & ended by abusing my brother Monty & saying very unpleasant things wh hurt me & made me see she would never let things go right either here or at Venice. | |
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