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28 July 1901 — Peterborough Minster Precincts, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | |
Sunday. 28th [July 1901]. We all went to Cathedral service at 11– The Bishop of Peterboro was there. Cecil preached– In the afternoon we hired a carriage & Kate & I drove over to Orton Longueville to have tea with our cousins Lord & Lady Huntly. Huntly was very pleasant & cordial & showed me all the Layard pictures—portraits of former Layards & as such interesting to me—tho’ of no artistic value. In his usual optimistic way Huntly talked airily of improvements & additions to the house which we all know he has no money for. When last I had seen it, it was the day before the sale & it was full of dirty people wandering about looking what they could buy– It was a comfort to see it again much in the same state in which one had known it before—except that the walls were bare of many pictures. In the drawingroom Huntly has hung up some of his mother’s embroideries to hide the vacuum. His wife was very kind to us but has grown a dreadfully fat bloated woman—mostly I believe the result of her intemperate habits which she has now happily overcome. We drove back to Peterboro’ in time for 6.30 service in Cathedral to which however, I did not go. Cecil brought back the evening’s preacher (Rector of St Marys) to supper; the Bishop also came & I sat near him & he was very pleasant. | |
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