Saturday, November 13, 1830

1830 November

Saturday 13

(Got up at) 6 25/..  /  (Went to bed at)10 1/2

Breakfast at 8. Took leave of Lady Stuart and the party.  Shook hands with them all.Off from Villeneuve-la-Guyard.  We all walked five minutes up the hill out of the town, then got into our carriages and drove off at 8 3/4.  I next after Lady Stuart as usual.   Shook hands with them all a second time.  At Fossard at 9 22/..  Changed horses.  

Lady Stuart turns right, to Melun, and I rather left to Fontainebleau at 9 1/2.  Nodded a last goodbye, and thus ends our journey together. I really felt regret at parting after very nearly four months together, but ’tis over.  ’Tis already almost as if it had never [happened], and thus pass rapidly away all the pleasures of this fleeting scene.

I must think of myself and my affairs, and take care of my money matters, and give the past all the reality I can by reaping all the benefit I can from the connection.  I am to go at one on Tuesday ‘that we may not be interrupted.’

I have been very open with Lady Stuart.  She knows me pretty well, and I should fancy she likes me.  We shall see.  

Hardly looked out till 10 10/.., never musing much, never letting it alone.   Alight at the hotel de Lyon, Fontainebleau, at 11 48/..  Ordered dinner à la maitre d’hotel ../75  Went out – walked about – came in at 4. I had asked the price of Chasselas (grapes) de Fontainebleau, and the little girl in the shop asked me 25 sols a pound. I said it was impossible, and walked off.  On having heard at the Inn that a little vol-au-vent would be 3/. francs, would not have one, and bought five little apple-tartlets for ./50, and on these and what I had ordered (bottom last page) and one of the pears I bought yesterday, dined and desserted at 5 in 50 minutes. No wine – a little of my brandy with water.  Got my dinner and I have dined very well, costs 2/25 + ./50 + ./10 for the pear = 2/85. 

Before dinner, looking over my money.  Afterwards, finishing the note of today. I have a comfortable little bedroom, but no fire.  In traveling by myself I should have many not a dull hour, but the feel of many a solitary one.  Calculating my share of bills since Lyons etc. etc. 7340.40 is what I have to account for out of which I shall have about two hundred francs when I have got home and paid all belonging to the journey, including a shawl for Miss MacLean.

After paying for the carriage springs mending, I shall have nothing left out of the sum above named – That I shall have spent about two hundred and ninety or say three hundred pounds. Calculating 1 thing or other till 8 35/.. , at which hour F 50 1/2°.  Fine day, but very thick and foggy till after 10 a.m. and even then still hazy. F 52° at 10 a.m., F 52° in my bedroom at 8 a.m.

My watch 1/2 hour too soon the day we left Lyons and ever since to this day.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/13/0106


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