Tuesday, December 13, 1831

 1831 December

Tuesday 13

7 3/4

1 1/2

Very stormy windy – fair, but wind very high this morning – F 60° at 8 in my room and 54° in the balcony at 8 3/4 – Downstairs at 9 10/.. – Read the whole of the paper – Miss Hobart came at 9 3/4 – Breakfast at 10 in 40 minutes – Came to my room at 10 50/.. –

Went out with Miss H- at 11 1/4 – We bought toasting cheese and butter, and I ordered her a woodcock, price 3/6 – Then walked up and down King High Street – Went to the bank, Messers Tilling and Smith, and got £50 on my letter of credit from Hammersley for £500 – 1/2 in their notes and 1/2 in cash – Then ordered Noehdin’s German and English dictionary at Mr. Wooll’s – and came in at 12 40/.. –

Came to my room at 12 3/4 and put on my boots, meaning to go out again, but sat down in my great chair and slept till Miss H- came to me at 2 35/.. to see if I was out in the storm.  It had been raining like a water spout for some time – She staid till 3 1/4. We counted over my money – I scented her some pocket handkerchiefs, and we talked and dawdled away the time. Very good friends –

Wrote the above of today – Still raining and very stormy, very high wind now at 3 25/.. –

Repaid Miss H- the half sovereign I found in doing my traveling book yesterday.  She had paid me too much on settling the bill at St. Leonard’s – so that it being counted as if she had paid right at 1st, I made no entry in my accounts of the 10/. paid today.  Settled with Cameron her long account from 27 August up to today inclusive – I had let her have on account £10 by letter to York 8 September, £1 at Chichester 12 October, and 10/. here at Hastings 30 November, so that tho’ her came to £17.14.5 including £5 paid by her to Mrs. Belcombe (vide Mariana’s account), I had only to pay her £6.4.5.

Had just settled all this when Miss H- came to me at 3 1/2, and staid till 5 10/.. – Staying with me in my own room is her own fault, and surely she can have no dislike to my company or she would not so unnecessarily come into my way –

Dressed – Looking over Cameron’s housekeeping accounts – Went down at 7 – Dinner at 7 20/.. in 35 minutes – Miss H- sat down to the piano, but we began talking and so had no music – How she never forgave Captain Yorke for the kiss he gave, her sixteen, he twenty –  Coffee at 8 1/2 – German from 10 1/2 to 11 25/.. Read aloud from page 139 to 191 chapter 24 volume iv Gibbon  –

Came upstairs at 11 1/2 and a second or 2 in Miss H-’s room.  Came to my own immediately – till 12 50/.., read the 1st 66 pages, volume 1, Memoirs of Count Lavalette –

Tolerably fine morning till between 9 and 10 – then rain – then fair but drizzling while we were out – Very heavy rain between 1 and 2 and afterwards, rainy stormy afternoon and evening – F 62° in my room at 12 – and 52° in the balcony now at 1 1/2 tonight –


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/14/0162 and SH:7/ML/E/14/0163

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