If possible, lovelier still.<\/p>\n
Yet, it must needs that I stay in & work: \u2015 these 4 upper Ascension subjects try me dreadfully \u2015 only, if I leave them I could not well enjoy going out, knowing how impossible it will be for me to move from Corfu, unless they be done & sold. So I have to reflect on the destiny of millions \u2015 who cannot even enjoy the sun in doors as I do. A keen sense of every kind of beauty, is, I take it, if given in the extreme \u2015 always more or less a sorrow to its owner, \u2015 tho\u2019 productive of good to others. \u2015 The coming of J.G.<\/a> does not aid me either, but rather the contrary. \u2015<\/p>\n Bye & bye, after several interruptions, Maude<\/a> came in & what with talking, & one\u2019s work going wrong, & the thought of dining up there with the Forts<\/a> & Cravens<\/a>, \u2015 I grew over irritable, \u2015 & now could \u201ccry bitterly\u201d as J.E. said. It is seldom nowadays that I am so \u201cutterly cast down.\u201d \u2015 Weariness of life \u2015 & loneliness!<\/p>\n Rushed out at 5, blinded & weary; \u2015 nor seeing the hill nor sky. Met the nice Decies<\/a> \u2015 who stopped, & Sir H.J. Stokes<\/a>, who stopped also. Round by Kastrades, & called at the Kokalis \u2015 \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 is better: saw all the family. Called at the Sargents<\/a>: saw no one, & home.<\/p>\n Dined at the Maudes. Fort & Mrs. F. next to whom I sate. Craven & Mrs. C. Maude & Mrs. M. \u2015 Sterling \u2015 & L. By great effort I got tho\u2019 dinner & evening \u2015 but with greatest difficulty. This weary work won\u2019t<\/em> do.<\/p>\n Fresh row between Maude & Paramythiotti about the dogs, \u2015 wh. Maude ought not certainly to keep in the cellar.<\/p>\n Down in my room by 11. & penned out Kalama drawing till 12.30[.]<\/p>\n \u201cTrouble on trouble \u2015 pain on pain\u201d \u2015 the drain smell is beginning again. I shall not be able to live here anyhow, if anywhere in Corf\u00fb.<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If possible, lovelier still. Yet, it must needs that I stay in & work: \u2015 these 4 upper Ascension subjects try me dreadfully \u2015 only, if I leave them I could not well enjoy going out, knowing how impossible it will be for me to move from Corfu, unless they be done & sold. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830"}],"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=17830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17852,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830\/revisions\/17852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}