…I have been trying to console Low whose scholarship is being debated today, tomorrow we shall see if he gets anything. On Monday John Sargeaunt told me Sir Clements Markham wanted to see me and had a book for me … Continue reading
I was too disgustingly slack to write any more last night and not much seems to have happened today. I am much delighted with Augustine Birrell as a writer (not as a Cabinet Minister!!). He has a most quaint and … Continue reading
The House has been unwontedly quiet and good the last two days owing to the absence of both Graham (who has been away some time) and Whitmore. Whitmore seems to have taken to his bed with a high temperature and … Continue reading
. I have been reading with some pleasure Ellen Terry’s autobiography, which, I think, is charmingly written and in admirable good taste. Two things have specifically interested me today in it, one when, as the girl-wife of G. F. Watts … Continue reading
Exeat ended consequently we had a roll-call ‘up– School’ after Abbey. Forbes this morning got on two very pet subjects of his Milton and Hobbes. I am bare- faced enough not to care overmuch for Milton, at least, he does … Continue reading
Today feeling somewhat indigestible, so to say, I stayed out of school and neglected my duties for a day. Mrs Thresher this morning poured out her grievances to me ending with up with the meritable ‘they didn’t ought to do … Continue reading
‘Life’ as Mr Kenneth Grahame remarks ‘may be said to consist of things which come off and the things that don’t come off!’ I paid three calls this afternoon and all were out, whereat I was much pleased. I came … Continue reading
Another cold and cheerless day with rain at intervals throughout the day. Father had the Professor in to breakfast this morning which seems to have amused him somewhat. Aunt Mary asked him why he was called ‘Professor’ and he replied … Continue reading
. Hobson tells me Whitmore was asked if it [presumably the tanning he received from the author] was a good one and answered in the affirmative. He is still somewhat quiet and his jauntiness to me has a defiant if … Continue reading
I got up and went to the Early Service this morning and went again at 10 o’clock and sat in Poets’ Corner with Aunt Mary. The Dean of St. Albans preached from the text ‘Study to be quiet’. Somewhat long … Continue reading