Wednesday, February 14, 1821

1821

February

Wednesday 14

7 40/60

11 55/60

Before breakfast, doing Example 1, page 87, volume 1, Hutton –

Letter from (Mrs. Norcliffe) 3 pages and the ends, closely written – Full of Langton news, and very kind –

Came upstairs at 11 1/4 – Till 1. making short extract from volume 2, Léontine de Blondheim – From 1 to 3, read the first 100 pages, volume 3, Léontine de Blondheim, and then (till 2 40/60), impatient to know the end, skimmed over the remaining pages –

In the afternoon from 4 25/60 to 5 50/60, my aunt and I walked as far as the Crow Nest

gates and back (along the road) –

In the evening and during supper, read from page 101 to 215, end of volume 3, Léontine de Blondheim. It is altogether a very interesting thing, and I have read it with a sort of melancholy, feeling the very germ of [that] which I thought had died forever – I cried a good deal over the second, and more over the third this morning and as soon as I was alone during supper.  Arlhofe reminds me of Charles, Leontine of Mariana, and Wallerstein of myself.  I find my former feelings are too soon awakened, and I have still more romance than can let me bear the stimulus, the fearful rousing of novel reading – I must not indulge it.  I must keep to graver things and strongly occupy myself with other thoughts and with perpetual exertions. I am not happy.  I love Mariana, and yet into what have I been led with Miss Vallance, and alas with Anne.  Oh that I were more virtuous and more quiet.  Reflection distracts me, and now I could cry like a child – but I will not, must not, give way –

Came upstairs at 10 35/60 – Then wrote the afternoon part of this journal of today –

Very fine frosty day, though not very cold – Barometer 1 1/2 degree below fair – Fahrenheit 31° at 9 p.m. –


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/5/0005


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