0Monday. 31st [December 1900]—Ca’ Capello, Venice
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31 December 1900 — Ca’ Capello, Venice
Monday. 31st [December 1900]. Up at 7.30 as usual & breakfasted in my room letting out the two little Conures as usual one of which is so tame he comes & sits on my shoulder & eats fm my mouth. This morning’s Gazzette has an alarming telegram about the Queen—saying she is ill, her memory is going & a Regency is spoken of. This is the saddest thing possible. I also hear from Count Seckendorff that the Empress gets worse & causes much anxiety—& there is no longer possibility of moving her. I wrote letters—& began to copy a picture for my home catalogue. Got a letter from Css Cora Brazzà saying she has found me a nice apartment at Rome in Palazzo Spada– I was just going out at 2.30 when Carry Eden came to say I am to dine with them tomorrow at 7.15 & go to the Fenice with them afterwards. I then went out for a short time but it began to rain so I hurried home & wrote more letters. Iduna Belmondo dined with me. The Hultons & Mr Montalba were the only people who came tonight as a storm had got up—so we did not have a “punch” as we had intended & I got to bed just as the New Year came in—not sorry to begin it quietly for it is sad enough to me—every year that carries me farther away from Henry—& from my good friend the Countess Pisani with whom I was staying this time last year–& now we are also in a New Century. It makes me feel very old & very lonely. The bells of the midnight mass are ringing loudly & some of the houses are brilliantly lighted up for the family supper & I must go to sleep–

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