9 40/601 20/60 Lay quietly with her from eight and forty minutes for an hour. She is very fond of me certainly and not very brisk at the thought of being so near home. Breakfast at 11 20/60 & Mrs & Miss Macdougal of Dunolly Castle called & sat with us near an hour. Off […]
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Wednesday 23 July 1828
9 10/6011¾Q She left her own room and slept with me. One kiss last night. Breakfast at 11¾. Came up to my room at 12¼. Wrote 3 pages & the ends to my aunt, ditto to Mariana, ditto to Mrs Barlow & very nearly 3 pages to my sister, & 1½ page to Mrs Duffin, […]
Thursday 24 July 1828
811¾Q Again with me and a good kiss last night, the best she has had, better than at Inverary. Breakfast at 9½. Went out at 11 for an hour with Miss McLean & her brother. He rowed us across the little home lake. Went to the far garden. The house when finished will be large, […]
Friday 25 July 1828
8½12Q Breakfast at 9½. Kiss last night but not good to her tho’ pretty well to me. See over the house. All the entertaining rooms (to front the little lake) to built. May be done for £3,000. Expense already £6,000. Done in a hurry. Old Coll against. Therefore obliged to take him when once in […]
Sunday 27 July 1828
9¾12½ No kiss. Breakfast at 10¾. Messers Johnson & Dundas with us. Gentlemanly young men. Sat talking to Albine in the drawing room till 2½ about charity schools &c. Hint that she might combine hers with a friendly society & a shop on a larger scale than the one she has at present for merely […]
Tuesday 29 July 1828
7 50/6012 20/60 Breakfast at 9 35/60. Afterwards talking to Miss MacLean about her family matters and about her going to Paris. Then talk a little to Mrs MacLean in her sitting room then from from 12 50/60 to 4 20/60 have Miss McLean with me a while & settle accounts & wrote out journals […]
Wednesday 30 July 1828
8½1 Still no kiss. Breakfast at 9 10/60. Sat talking in the breakfast room to Mr & Mrs McLean & Albane about their going abroad, the expense &c. Then talking to Miss MacLean. Beg her speaking to her brother about money to go with to Paris. At 1½ Miss McLean & Albine & her brother […]
Thursday 31 July 1828
8¼1 No kiss. Asked her last night but she said she was not well enough and I not much in the humour for it. Said no more. Breakfast at 9 10/60. Albine came to tell me all was changed again. Sibbella going to Paris. Had asked her father for fifty pounds and was to have […]