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3 October 1907 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 3rd [October 1907]. Today Angela Reinelt left Venice & I sent her in my gondola to the station. Arbib niece came to paint my portrait, a sad trial as the result is painful—the girl is a beginner with some dexterity but no practice. While she painted Sister Chaffey was doing massage on my knee & we talked so making the sitting less wearisome. M. & Mme Henri Monod came to luncheon. She is an American of the old fashioned type. he is very pleasant & we have topics together wh interest us—as he writes on Huguenot matters being a french Protestant himself. The old Genl de Horsey came to tea– It is sad to see the poor old gentleman nearly blind groping his way bravely & trying to make believe he can see. He likes to talk of old times & friends—grandparents of the present generations– He is upright & as thin as a lath with long white hair & has still a smart look of the old guardsman tho’ not well kept by his lazy Venetian servants—& with his one arm the other having been amputated for desease. Arbib came in to see me in the evening—still very depressed at his affairs being still unsettled. I did what I could to cheer him. | |
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