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_-- ... I went to see Cecilia Siddons; I
thought her looking aged and thin, and Mrs. Wilkinson (Mrs.
Siddons's companion for many years previous to her death) looking
sad and ill too. They have both lost the one idea of their whole
lives.
_Saturday, 3d._-- ... It seems the doctors recommend my father's
going to Brighton. I was urging him to do so this morning.... After
tea I looked on the map for Rhodez, the scene of that horrible
Fualdes tragedy (a murder the commission of which involved some
singular and terribly dramatic incidents). I read Daru's "History
of Venice" till bedtime.
_Sunday, December 4th._-- ... My father, for the first time this
fortnight, was able to dine with us. After dinner I read the whole
trial of Bishop and Williams, and their confession. My mother is
reading aloud to us Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Life.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, December 4, 1831.
DEAR H----,
It is at the sensible hour of a quarter-past twelve at night that I
begin this immense sheet of paper, and with the sensible purpose of
filling it before I go to bed.


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