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3 January 1904 — Paris | |
Sunday. 3rd [January 1904]. Sophy sent me & the 2 English maids to the English church Rue d’Aguesseau in the carriage for the 10.30 service. The singing was moderately good and the sermon decidedly so. We drove back to La Muette by about 12.15 & at once sat down to lunch. Abt 2 we set off for a drive in a motor car—a mode of locomotion wh to me is not blissful. The carriage was like a phaeton– The Count sat by the driver, I & Sophia behind. We went to a suburb of Paris called Chatillon to visit 2 old ladies Mlles Johnston old cronies of the Counts. They have a nice old fashioned roomy kind of villa & it there “jour de réception.” The village in wh they live is said to be pretty in summer. They received us cordially & seemed to like Sophy– A lady & gentleman came in to call soon after—the husband just home from Tunis in which he is one of the French officers. He was a youngish man, pale with a large black beard. He had [been] absent from his wife & children 2 or 3 years & was happy at being at home & his wife very proud of him in his uniform. We took leave of the ladies after staying abt ½ hour & returned to La Muette. It struck me what a comparatively small place Paris is that the town seemed to end quite abruptly. Sir Edmond & Lady Monson came to tea. We dined alone. | |
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