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28 January 1901 — Rome | |
Monday. 28th [January 1901]. I walked out early this morning & met Countess Canevaro & the Bss Reinelt in Via Condotti & went a little way with them & did other shopping & then went to Piazza Paganica 4 & lunched with Donna Laura– Ada Duchess of Sermoneta came in to see us—as lovely & attractive as ever. I asked her about her feelings when she had believed her son Livio had been massacred at Pekin this summer. She said it had been all too dreadful—the alternations of hope & no hope, & now that he was safe home she was feeling more the strain on her nerves– I went out driving with Donna Laura. She took me into St Peters just to have a look around. Also to the English Cemetery to see Lord Vivian’s grave in order that I might write & let his girls know. We found white camellias on the grave & all in good order– We went to call on Mme de Westenberg, and then I went to our Embassy to see Lady Currie. Found with her Lady Susan Townley & a Lady Buxton whom I had hardly seen since I married when we were both young. Now she is old & got up—& I am old & white headed! Lord Currie was there also– Lady Currie babbled on like a stream. She told me much about her nephew Lord Rodney—who married my niece & said he had always been a sorrow & a trouble to his family especially to Mr Singleton Lady Currie’s first husband—& that he had inherited his mother’s bad temper—which she Lady C. knew something of “as Mr Singleton though kindness itself had had a violent temper.”! I went to dine with the Hurtados & there met Princess Arduino Buoncompagni who was charming as ever. | |
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