The curtain falls. Whether Melle Lucia is eventually fished out of the chasm I cannot tell, for we had not the patience to sit out the 3d act.

Goodbye my dearest Papa

Your Baby

Wednesday April 17- between 5 & 6. Dearest Henry, got thy telegram yesterday & truth to say was quite delighted at its purport and I telegraphed thee & Eugène ran off to the teleg. office the moment he had swallowed his luncheon that I ~~should~~ finally decide on Salzbourg- & that I shall leave this about 28th- my departure may be some days later and to where shail telegraph thee from Verona.

Tomorrow moming at 10 or 11am Eugène leaves --he got a letter yesterday or

day before from Wodehouse saying that he & Sheffield are the only help Lord Lyons has at Versailles, the other men being in Paris and that they will be very glad to get his Eug.'s "valuable assistance" as soon as possible. This moming A note from A Geroorse proposing that Eug. join him this evening in going to Florence, but this ~~Eug~~ by no means suited Eug. who always suffers so much from night travelling & has been yesterday was very unwell having xxxx cold (but I have doctored him very successfully) besides of course he prefers stopping with us as long to the last moment possible. Yesterday and today very stormy sirocco - day before yesterday we paid Mrs Foljambe a visit & ~~found~~ met Mrs Ramsay translator of Dante & her sister. They are stopping at the villa.

Thousand best loves dearest Henry

from Eugène & self

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Lettre de Vernon Lee et Matilda Paget à Henry Paget - 15 Mai 1871

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