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9 July 1912 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Tuesday. 9th [July 1912]. Breakfast at 8.30 at which time Lord K. said he had decided not to leave for Eng. today & would like to stick to his old plan of going for a night to Bologna where we are invited to stay with Donna Laura Minghetti—a delightful plan. I wrote therefore to her to tell her & so it is settled & we went out early to the Piazza to arrange about tickets at Cooks. While Fitz was doing that Lord K. & I went on to look into various antiquity shops close by & when we rejoined the gondola at the Piazzetta we went on to explore other antiquity shops on the Grand Canal such as the German in the Abbazzia S. Gregorio where everything is escessively dear—to Barozzi who is not much cheaper. To the Academia where Lord Kitchener was anxious to see 2 Oriental vases left to the Institution & he said they are very fine & worth at least £3000 apiece. They are black & green. After that we went home to lunch. Mrs Curtis & Mr Latimer came to lunch with us. We had both heard that Pen Browning is dead & his wife expected. Also I had telegrams to beg me to tell Mr Price that the funeral is tomorrow morng at 10. Mr Price & Mr Montalba are to go to Asolo by tonight’s train. Fitz went to ask for a launch from the Adl & went off to the Lido. Lord K. & I had tea in the drawing room at 4.30 & then went off together for a giro in gondola—up the Grand Canal under the Rialto up to the station wh part of the town he did not know. We talked about the war now going on between Italy & Turkey. He said that the Italians are not behaving well towards their adversaries—that they do not seem to understand the courtesies of civilised war—that they have not behaved well towards the Red Crescent society for sick & wounded—in fact they were clever eno’ to carry on the war in a gentlemanly way—they were a very young people. Then he said that the taking of the Islands in the Egean sea was a great mistake—they wd not be allowed by the other European Powers to keep them & the result might be to upset everyone & to bring about a European war. No one can tell how it will end. I talked to Lord K. about his badly mended leg & tried to persuade him to consult an English surgeon about it. He said all the English surgeons were against his having anything done to it but that he had made up his mind to go to Dussau to put under the German who had told him he was sure that he could successfully break the leg & reset it. I saw that it was useless to say more. We rowed up as far as the station & back in the cool evening air & it was very delightful. Adl Cagni & his wife, Adl Garelli & his wife & Col. Calderari dined with us & in the evening I had my usual reception to wh however, not many people came as it is late in the season & the heat has driven people away to the country. Amongst those who came was Pss Alexis Dolgorouky & Mrs Leigh & her sister of Rome, two funny old ladies who were however very happy at meeting Lord Kitchener. | |
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