Tuesday, December 6, 1831

 

 1831 December

Tuesday 6

7 35/..

1 10/..

Very rainy, windy morning.  F 48° at 8 1/2 a.m.  Determined to wait for the chances of better weather –

At my desk at 7 40/.. – An hour at my foolish letter to Lady Stuart de Rothesay, then reading Dr. Harwood on the climate of the town of Hastings –

Letter from Mariana (Lawton), 3  pages and ends and 2 first pp. pages crossed – dated Thursday the 1st instante mense – How singular to be so long on the road! Much better account of herself – Mr. Lawton had got her a horse – can’t tell exactly the consumption of meat, as they kill their own mutton and pork, ‘but certainly nothing like your consumption takes place . . . . . without waste or extravagance, bad management will be expensive’ –

Downstairs at 10 10/.. – breakfast at 10 20/.. in 40 minutes and staid down afterwards till 11 25/.. –

Miss Hobart gave me her letter from Lady Northland to read – very nice, affectionate, well written letter – and speaking of my kindness and how glad she should be ever to meet me, and, said Miss Hobart, I hope you will be kind and civil to her. I shall give you a letter to take about with you. You will see her in your travels. She read me parts from Lady S’s letter and Mr. Charles Stuart’s and we got on very well. She said of herself how ill she looked, and she had not slept well, and I fancied she had been thinking of all I said to her yesterday.  Surely we shall now get on comfortably enough.

Out at 11 35/.. Walked to the 3 mile stone on the London road and back at 1 35/.. A shower as I went, and then small rain, but finer in returning –

Changed my dress – Out with Miss Hobart at 2 5/.. – Walked on the parade (damp and windy and disagreeable) and came in at 2 3/4 – Came to my room immediately – About 20 minutes nap – wrote the last 14 lines –

From four to six and three quarters, wrote one half sheet notepaper full and two pages of another to Lady Stuart de Rothesay, keeping very little of what I wrote yesterday. How stupid I have been about it.

Dressed – Dinner at 7 1/4 in 35 minutes – Music – Coffee at 8 1/2 – Played and lost one hit at backgammon – From 9 50/.. to 11, read aloud from page 328 to 371, chapter 21 volume iii Gibbon –

Came to my room at 11 25/.. after wishing Miss H- goodnight for a minute or two in her own room, not having done so before since last Friday week.   We are now comfortable again, but I still keep up my utter refraining from all tenderness, though I now do it with ease and it is more as if I had never shewn any at all than as if I had left it off.  This is all right –

Rainy, windy morning till between 10 and 11 – Rain and small rain for some time while I was out, and damp and a little small rain and windy and disagreeable while Miss H- and I were out – She changed her dress on coming in, to avoid cold from the dampness of it, and really seems to bear the strong winds (south and southwest) very well – F 51° now at 11 40/.. p.m, the sea roaring as usual, but the night fair tho’ windy –

Till 12 40/.. read from page 320 to end of page 330, end of the work itself, and then to page 356, appendix –

Raining fast now at 12 50/.. tonight with high wind –

 

WYAS Finding Number  SH:7/ML/E/14/0159

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