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10 December 1910 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Saturday. 10th [December 1910]. I took the 8 a.m. train for Milan to pay a little visit to Angela Bss Reinelt who is staying at the Hotel de la Ville for the last month. I got there at 12.30. Herr Fritz, her nephew secy met me at the station & helped me into a cab & saw me off to the hotel. I was in time for luncheon & we had much talk & many Milanese ladies came to call—amongst them Marchesa Becé d’Adda, her sister Css Sala, Css Borromeo & Sra Vigoni Mylius, a constant round of visitors. They are all very friendly to Angela & the Milanese society is evidently more refined & respectable & pleasant than that of Venice. We dined in Angela’s sitting room & I retired to bed at 10, rather tired as the talk had run all the afternoon on the manners & customs of Milan society & their peccadillos. With all her kindness of heart, A. is very susceptible & rather jealous & proud & anxious to be made much of. She does nothing but work at her financial affairs wh take a gd deal of her time—read French novels from the lending library & receives visitors. She is wonderfully generous & openhanded & is constantly being deceived by friends who make up to her for her money & had many disappointments—but she is very affecte & kind & is especially so to me—& she is really very clever & good company. I cannot blame for trying to know the highest & best & to keeping herself high. She has always been respectable but is not straight laced towards others. She insists upon my being her guest here & pays all my expenses at this Hotel. | |
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