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3 December 1899 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Sunday. 3rd December [1899]. Advent Sunday. I took Iduna Belmondo to morng service & walked back alone afterwards. I looked in on Fanny Browning on the way & had a little talk about her arrangement to shut up the Palazzo Rezzonico & to go to remain with her husband at Asolo & then on home. M. & Mme Bompard came at 2 to see my house & pictures & were very appreciative. Then came Signorina Giacomelli & we had a little talk about books &c. She is an emancipated young woman for an Italian & feeling about to do good & improve her countrymen & women, morally & in mind. But she is rather crude & slightly shocked me by the constant [use] of the word “chaste” as—“un jeune homme chaste”—“un livre chaste”– But she is feeling after the right thing & writes & publishes books with good tendency. She is very bitter against the Jesuits. At 4 I went out to tea with Mme Noce. There I met Idita Bentivoglio & she took me on with her to see Mrs Hulton & thence brought me home. | |
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