Saturday, February 17, 1821

1821

February

Saturday 17

7

12 10/60

Before breakfast, wrote 1 1/2 pages to Anne Belcombe –

Came upstairs at 11 10/60 – Filled the sheet (the ends close, and every side crossed) to A.B. 

Speaking of Mrs. Milne, and her being in such high favour at Wykeham – ‘There is a something about Mrs. Milne, tout à fait je ne sais quoi – She is sweetly pretty, and provokingly pleasing; for, if she chooses it, you have no choice, but must be pleased – I would not be her most particular friend on any account – I should either not see her faults, or not think them such, or forget them’ –

This letter and reading it over took me till three.  It is certainly well written.  I might almost say beautifully written –

In the afternoon at 4 10/60, down the new bank to Halifax – A horse, saddled and bridled but standing loose opposite the new cottages in the new bank, reared up at me as I passed, open-mouthed, very viciously and, kicking out its forefeet, nearly pounced upon me –

Went to Edwards’s.  Got J B Couteau’s Confessions, two volumes, eight shillings, fancying the name wrong spelt for Rousseau, and came away without looking at the books.  Borrowed five shillings of Miss Kitson as I could not get change, and with the help of this, paid Mr. Edwards.

Sat 1/2 hour with my Aunt Lister – Called at the Saltmarshes’, but they were from home; and got back at 5 3/4 –

Found as I came along my mistake about the books, a low-lived account of scenes during the French Revolution, and I must get the work changed.  I cannot help smiling at my being so taken in, I should have looked at the things –

Fine day – Frosty air – Barometer 2 degrees below fair.  Fahrenheit 31° at 9 p.m. –

In the evening read from page 180 to 236, Outline of the Spanish American Revolution –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/5/0006


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