Gray. No rain: & a shimmering of sun.<\/p>\n
All the morning, looked over, & destroyed letters.<\/p>\n
At 1.30 called on the Percys<\/a> \u2015 out, Brights<\/a> \u2015 where was Ogle<\/a>. Grenfell<\/a>, & Chapman<\/a>, \u2015 seeing R. Cholmondeley<\/a> & Gibbs<\/a>: \u2015 Lady James<\/a>, seeing Sir Walter; \u2015 then home. Poi, Mrs. Leake<\/a>, out: \u2015 Cockerells<\/a>, seeing the old gentleman & Fred: \u2015 Miss C. to be Mrs. Benson. Then Mrs. Martineau<\/a>: \u2015 after all which I returned by 5.30 to Stratford Place.<\/p>\n At 6\u00bd to Lady Bethell<\/a>\u2019s \u2015 (Sir R.<\/a> away at Hackwood. \u2015) Wally there, apparently gentle & gentlemanly. \u2015 I say, apparently for I tremble for his youth. \u2015 And, Gussie<\/a>, \u2015 always the same, good & real. \u2015 Then came \u201cBaptiste Meta\u03be\u00e0<\/a> \u2015\u201d & 2 sons \u2015 & it is not possible to say what a disgusting slaverer this man is: how lying, \u2015 false, \u2015 vulgar, \u2015 odious. \u2015 Nothing would be more irritating. \u2015 But the disclosures made by poor Lady B. about Dick, the blackguard, \u2015 were frightful. \u2015 I do not put them down \u2015 but keep them to shudder at. \u2015<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gray. No rain: & a shimmering of sun. All the morning, looked over, & destroyed letters. At 1.30 called on the Percys \u2015 out, Brights \u2015 where was Ogle. Grenfell, & Chapman, \u2015 seeing R. Cholmondeley & Gibbs: \u2015 Lady James, seeing Sir Walter; \u2015 then home. Poi, Mrs. Leake, out: \u2015 Cockerells, seeing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10582,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}