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5 May 1910 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 5th [May 1910]. Ascension Day. I remember that last Ascension Day the Queen was here & came to lunch with me bringing the Emp. mother of Russia & a suite of 8 people. I went to church with Ola—& walked afterwards to see Angela Reinelt—but it poured hard all day. Betty Murray & her friend Miss Elizabeth Boyle arrived from Dresden to stay with me at 1 o’cl. Mr Cobb our resident of Govalior also came to lunch being at Venice for a few days. He is very low about the disaffections in India & says we shall certainly have another mutiny—& if a war with Germany was to take place, there would be an immediate rising in the whole country. He says that Germany is sending her most important men as consuls to India & things look very black. We bewailed the state of politics in England & I said we ought all be ready to help in case of need & if Germany invades our country even the women must fight. I said that in the scare when France was supposed to be going to attack England & when the volunteer movement had been started—I had joined a women’s Welsh volunteer movement & had learnt to use a rifle. Well said Mr Cobb every body who goes to India now a day even women should learn to shoot. I asked him how the present viceroy had succeeded. He said he was charming but not very clever but that after Curzon the country had wanted a rest. He knew that Kitchener would like the part & thought it would be a good thing if he got it. I asked Mr Cobb if he would come & stay with me on his way back to India & he said he would do so if he could but would probably go by Marseilles. Afterwards Mrs Whitaker came in bringing a Lady Burrell to see my pictures. I did not go out again as it was too wet. Put the 2 girls to bed to rest & took them in the evening to a ball given by Countess Papadopoli in honor of the Italian fleet now in Venice. The D. of the Abruzzi was there and all the society of Venice. I came home about one leaving the girls in the care of Ola. | |
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