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21 March 1909 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Sunday. 21st [March 1909]. Still raining & very foggy. Went to morning service & afternoon left Ola at church as I passed in gondola & I went on to the Cos. Hospital to see Mrs Eram whose husband died there last Friday. She tells me she wishes to sell all her furniture & give the proceeds to the Hospital in memory of her husband. She keeps calm by day, but evidently breaks down by night. I talked over her plans with her & tried to help her to disentangle them. She inclines to live in London. On going to bid the nurses good bye in their sitting room I found an unknown man who was introduced to me as Mr Rolfe. I have heard much of him as being a kind helper at the Hospital—taking out convalescent patients in his sandolo, doing other useful things, but had not met him before. He is a queer creature—an R.C. ’vert who had wished to become a priest but had not been accepted at the seminary at Rome– I had sent him an invitation to join our party last Christmas Day & when he refused I said to some one—“Tell him to come all the same.” On this he wrote me an odd letter begging “I would let him alone!” | |
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