{"id":11436,"date":"2010-08-20T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2010-08-08T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:51:05","slug":"monday-20-august-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2010\/08\/20\/monday-20-august-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 20 August 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rose at 6 \u2015 grayish fine till 5 or 6 P.M. when al solito \u2015 rain. \u2015 Worked at colouring penned drawings. \u2015 \u201cPainted up\u201d skies of the 2 Nuneham views. At 1.30 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/peel-archibald\/\">Archibald &amp; Mrs. Peel<\/a> came: A.P. was always a nice fellow. \u2015 Afterwards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/jameson-captain\/\">Jameson<\/a> \u2015 who wants me to do another small picture.<\/p>\n<p>Heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/knight-family\/\">C.A. Knight<\/a> being here \u2015 &amp; at 5 (\u2015 coming back again with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/egg-augustus\/\">Augustus Egg<\/a>,) went to find him: \u2015 out: then to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/foord-and-dickenson\/\">Foords<\/a> \u2015 &amp; home in a cab.<\/p>\n<p>At 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/beadon-william-f\/\">W.F. Beadons<\/a> \u2015 no one else. \u2015 Evening quiet &amp; pleasant, &amp; I hope he seems better. Later he told one or two of his exquisitely funny magisterial \u201cexperiences\u201d \u2015 only his imitations are they lost. Once, a very respectable looking woman came for a summons against a neighbor for abuse. How \u2015 &amp; what &amp;c. &amp;c.? \u2015 O! She could not tell! too bad! &amp;c. &amp;c. \u2015 \u201cThen \u2015 there could be no summer-time valuable &amp;c. &amp;c. \u2015 So \u2015 after much difficulty, she came out with great force \u2015 \u201cSir! she called me the most appropriate names \u2015 W\u00ad\u00ad\u2015\u2015 &amp; b\u2015\u2015h \u2015\u201d Whereon the court roared &amp; she rushed out. \u2015 2<sup>nd<\/sup> case \u2015 Woman \u02c7[cook] came to sear child to young footman \u2015 serious Chaplain family. \u201cMuch religious preface \u2015 backsliding &amp;c. seductive unprincipled man &amp;c. &amp;c. too much for her at last sat. \u2015<\/p>\n<p>Footman stands hands hanging down \u2015 speechless. Housemaid witness afainst him \u2015 constant attention \u2015 &amp;c. pious life &amp;c. &amp;c. \u2015\u2015\u2015 Have you anything to say? \u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015 Footman brushes up &amp; attitudes \u2015\u2015 \u201c<em>Well<\/em> Sir, <em>do<\/em> you think that <em>once<\/em> against the stump of a tree on Clapham Corner <em>could<\/em> have got a child out of such an old creature as that?\u201d \u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015 Magistrate. \u201cPossibly: \u2015 so I must &amp;c. &amp;c.\u201d Moral. Clapham Piety &amp;c. &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p>What I hear of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/vaughan-catherine\/\">Catherine Vaughan<\/a> &amp; even of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/stanley-arthur-penrhyn\/\"><em>A.P.<\/em> Stanley<\/a> is terrible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose at 6 \u2015 grayish fine till 5 or 6 P.M. when al solito \u2015 rain. \u2015 Worked at colouring penned drawings. \u2015 \u201cPainted up\u201d skies of the 2 Nuneham views. 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