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1 September 1907 — Abano | |
Sunday. 1st September [1907]. I began drinking the medicinal water this morning after my bath. It is lukewarm but otherwise has no very disagreeable taste. I took a turn in the afternoon. By changing my seat at table so as to let my left hand Italian neighbour sit next her friend I got now a little quiet lady in black & on speaking to her in Italian she answered me in my mother tongue & said she was English. Her husband an Italian Officer. She comes from Messina, is a friend of Elsie Cassis & a cousin of the Whitakers so we found plenty of things to speak about. Then suddenly she told me with tears in her eyes that she had lately lost her father whose name was Sanderson that he had died at 40 last Feby & that she could not get over it. She is a gentle pretty little woman. Her husband a fine big man & for his health they are here for the baths. She told me that he died at Messina & described his funeral taken in a boat covered with flowers to the cemetery & that a yacht lying in harbour had dipped the British flag to the boat as they passed—which pleased her much & made a touching picture in my mind’s eye. Thunderstorm in afternoon. | |
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