Monday. Nov. 28.
Read when I was in bed last night, Marmontel’s Sheperdess of the Alps.[1] Very pretty; but the heroine never never shd. have married again. Well! that cant be helped now. Talked to Miss Baker, about .. love!— She told me some passages in her life, which might have been left dark passages, without injury to her or me—or at least, lit by only a sky light!—after all she is a sensible woman.—
Nota bene—her prophecy, that Lord Somers will marry again.[2] If he does, he should marry some great great great great do do do do granddaughter of Stentor, or the courtship will never get on with his deafness. Nota bene—my prophecy, that he will vote for reform, tho’ he thinks against it.[3] Glad to get away from Eastnor. A letter from Papa to me. An expression in it about “the happy results” of our long separation, seemed to me at first, to glance at a particular subject. Other people consider it a general expression; & so it may be. What can the report be to which Mrs. Boyd alludes? I am not very uneasy.
Poor Mr. Pindar died this morning.[4]
It has been arranged απανευθε[5] from me, that Misses Glasco & Peyton dine with us today.
Evening past away in a more lively manner than my two last evenings did. Miss Glasco is going to exhibit her puppet show, & has engaged Bro & Henrietta as performers in it. Wont do with Papa.
1. Jean François Marmontel, La Bergère des Alpes (Paris, 1766), a verse pastorale in three acts.
2. He did, on 3 June 1834, when he married his cousin Jane Waddington (née Cocks), a widow.
3. He did, in the decisive division of 14 April 1832 (Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, 3rd. edn., London, 1833).
4. The Worcester Herald, 3 December 1831, under DIED: “Nov. 28th, at his residence, the Upper Hall, near Ledbury, in the 77th year of his age, deeply regretted by his family and friends, the Rev Reginald Pyndar, A.M. rector of Madresfield, in this county.”
5. “Remote.”
