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共 89 段- I needed all the support my friends could give me, for the f
- “What a dull place Cadiz is. Nothing to make a feature but t
- In September I paid a pleasant visit to my cousin Edward Lid
- I went for two days from Bretton to Lord Houghton at Fryston
- “_Feb. 1._--I have been very ill for the last three days wit
- “Are we really in Arcadia, when the old steward opens the do
- “_Oct. 4-10._--A charming visit at Shavington, the great des
- “He was staying at Harrow, and very late at night was summon
- [Illustration: LAMPEDUSA FROM TAGGIA.][72]
- “_Assisi, April 26._--I had a proposal from the Miss Seymour
- “Lady Mary Lambart came last night--a simple, self-composed
- “_July 30._--Yesterday I dined at Lord Castletown’s, and met
- “_Abbots Kerswell, Oct. 26._--I have been very glad to see t
- “On Friday we went to Gosford--five in the carriage. It is a
- “In an immense gallery, hung with red and covered with pictu
- “_Holmhurst, Dec. 28._--Lea says, ‘You may put ought to ough
- “_Castagnuolo, May 3._--I am writing from the old country pa
- “At the Court of Charles X. it was the Dauphine who received
- “It poured, so I sat some time with R. on one of the seats.
- “The Prince of Wales arrived (from India) at 7 P.M. I waited
- “Lady Percy received in the gallery, and about two thousand
- “Lady Cowper talked much of my mother and the ‘Memorials’ an
- “All that time in Herrenhausen they were alone: only Mrs. St
- “Certainly Edinburgh is gloriously beautiful, but never was
- “Lord Sherborne is both very fond and very proud of his wife
- “_March 4._--Breakfast with Lord Houghton--a pleasant male p
- “_April 15._--Dined with Mrs. Rogerson, daughter of my dear
- “She was overwhelmingly grateful to me.
- “_Glamis Castle, Oct. 26._--I had a delightful visit to the
- “I had a charming drive to-day with Lady Ashburton to Woburn
- It is a long ascent of an hour and a half from Neuwied throu
- “When I returned to the station, I was surprised to find the
- “_Orkeröd near Moss, on the Kristiania Fiord, August 9._--On
- On the evening of November 16 I left Holmhurst, having worke
- “On the 16th of January I went, away with my Prince for a to
- Having undertaken to devote myself exclusively to the Prince
- “Three stations farther on came the shock of a frightful acc
- “_June 27._--Went with the Prince by appointment to Hertford
- “_Llanover, Sept. 20._--From Cheltenham I went to the Vaugha
- In May 1878, my publishers, Messrs. Daldy and Isbister, had
- For three days we remained in a state of siege with the elem
- “The Lord Chancellor received him with fury. ‘So that damned
- “‘It was one of the cases in which the highest and the lowes
- “On Sunday we were at St. Giles’s in the morning, and in the
- “‘When my Lord was a widower, he came to Paris again. I was
- “On the first day of my visit an old Lady Smith Mariott dine
- “_Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 17._--She is still here--still suf
- “To-day, however, has quite satisfied me that it was worth w
- “_Babworth, Dec. 14._--Mrs. Drummond Baring has been most ag
- “_Sarlat in the Dordogne, May 21._--We are still in swelchin
- “_Sept. 30._--A charming visit to the Delawarrs at Buckhurst
- “Si nous comprenions bien notre bonheur, nous pourrions pres
- “_August 31._--I should find it difficult to say how perfect
- “_Cambrai, April 30._--How I thought of you to-day when I wa
- “The Abbey blazed with colour--crimson uniforms, smart ladie
- “At a quarter to five yesterday I went to Buckingham Palace-
- “Raglan Somerset is here, unspeakably funny, so _décousu_ in
- “From the black depths, the ashes, and the dross
- “We have driven up Eskdale--a delightfully wild mountain gle
- “_Sept. 17._--It was a great pleasure to find Sir Howard and
- “_Holmhurst, August 15, 1889._--I wish you were here this mo
- “Lady De Ros was very full of her dispute with Sir William F
- “Another day we went to the mosque of Selimyeh, beautifully
- “_Woodbastwick Hall, August 6, 1890._--I have enjoyed a visi
- “The Dean of Chester says that a friend of his was once bapt
- “I was at Felixstowe for a day afterwards, and made
- “I have seen little of the Easter ceremonies. On Holy Thursd
- At Petworth I saw the magnificent Vandykes, Turners, and Rey
- “The really remarkable communications are those which have r
- “In the afternoon Victoria took me to Lady Sligo’s new house
- “_Bishopthorpe, Oct. 16._--‘That is a portrait of Bishop Wil
- But “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth” was rather a b
- “Very many years after, Lord Stanhope was at a public dinner
- “We went to luncheon at Thorp-Perrow with Sir Frederick and
- “_August 1, 1896._--I have enjoyed my six weeks in London wi
- “‘Those are the black hornless cattle of Angus. That is the
- “_May 8, 1897._--Do you remember the article on my book, or
- “We made a little excursion. In my very early childhood I wa
- ‘Ce n’est pas le temps qui passe, ce sont les hommes,’ was a
- “What an age of independent criticism it is! An acquaintance
- “It was a drive of ten miles in a grand and lonely landau th
- Barker, Mary Ann Stewart, Lady, iv. 304, 331.
- Dorset, John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of, vi. 121.
- ---- Marcus Theodore, i. 6, 11, 85, 96, 175, 190, 192, 194-1
- ---- Priscilla, i. 70-73, 112, 181-182, 410.
- ---- Michelangelo Caiëtani, Duke of, ii. 58; iii. 87; v. 141
- ---- Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of, vi. 262.
- [216] Lord Hinton afterwards used to play a barrel-organ in
- [502] William Wetmore Story died--deeply loved by children,