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3 April 1902 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 3rd [April 1902]. Wrote letters. Visit from Mr Montalba in the morning & directly after from Mr Harston who came to pour out his woes as to the difficulty of pleasing the members of the English colony here. By degrees I drew it out of him that it was Mrs Browning & the Miss Wests who were most tiresome & I quite believed it for F. Browning is queer with so many. I consoled him by saying how difficult I found it to be very friendly with those 2 parties & he went away cheered & refreshed at having been able to unburden himself to some one & we mutually promised to keep each other’s secret. At 2 oclock I went out in gondola. Called at Hotel Britannia on Da Laura who sent me a message to say she would come to me at 5 then to the Edens & heard that both were gone to the garden so I followed them there. Carrie was out for the 2nd time. Much better but still looking very delicate. The garden was lovely a mass of daffodils & jonquils & forsythia. I walked a little with them & then came home by 4. At 5 Da Laura came looking much recovered from the shock of her fall. Marchesa Cassis also called as sweet & pretty & gentle as ever—then Baron Alfred de Bülow came & his friend Prince Lichnowsky to fetch away Da Laura & after looking round at the pictures carried her off. In the meanwhile Iduna had come & it was 7 before she left. | |
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