Friday, September 20, 1833

1833

September

Friday 20

7 1/2

12 40/..

Thinking of π [Mariana] last night in bed, even to tears.  More satisfied this morning.  Let her take Willoughby Crewe.  She will never again suit me? Why be like the dog in the manger about her? How odd if she should marry him and die of her second child, as she, in days of yore, said her fortune was told her. It will not be a good match for her, nor do I think she will be quite happy – But nevermind.  Heaven has withheld what I for long so fondly wished, and I am satisfied it was for the best. –

Fine morning. F 67° at 7 20/.. a.m.  Breakfast at 9 – Had up the master of the house about rooms if I should stay the winter – To keep my own 2 and Thomas’s and take the one opposite my salon door for Eugénie will be 3 rigsdalers a day = 7/6 English.  Wood will be 3 marks per corbeille – Eating as at present – The 2 servants cost – 5.0.2 rigsdaler schillings = 12/6 English.

Yesterday! – All this talking and looking at a vez de changé in the house at 5 Ecus (12/6d English) a day, and writing out yesterday and so far of today took me till 11 35/.. – Changed my dress –

Out at 1 1/2 to Lady H. de H- [Harriet de Hagemann] for 1/4 hour – Gave her Madame de Bourke’s packet to herself and that to Madame de Rosenkrantz –

Then to Countess Blucher’s.  Sat near 1/2 hour – Then she and Miss Ferrall and the oldest girl (ætatis 6) walked out along the ramparts with Comtesse Blucher’s ticket (a ticket required) for about an hour – Miss F- [Ferrall] and the child came almost home with me –

Took Eugénie with me to Lady H. de H-’s to do my hair, and there at 5 – Dinner at 5 10/.. – Lady H. de H- and I tête-à-tête, –He on duty as one of the king’s aides de camp, but came in for a little while in the evening – Said I had given up Jutland for the present –

Thomas came and walked home – Back at 10 40/.. – Wrote the last 1/2 dozen lines – Fine day. F 54 1/2° now at 11 25/.. p.m.


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/16/0115

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