Wednesday 13 June 1838
Very fine morning - counting over money &c. breakfast at 9 1/2
Note from Madame de Bourke enclosing the answer of Madame la Comtesse de Pourpris, no! not so spelt - I cannot make it out, - to say she had given Rosalie a certificat and had nothing more to add sur sa compte - but very civil ladylike note - therefore Rosalie is to be engaged at 500/- per annum + 2/- a week for washing while en voyage - If I send her off for anything not serious (e.g. dishonesty or any great fault) I am to pay all her expences back to Paris - if she herself me quitte de sa propre compte then I have nothing to do with paying her expences back
Dressed - mention to Oddy that I should engage Rosalie, not doubting that her certificat character, was good, and that therefore I should send Oddy home of which I thought she would be glad for I was going farther away where comforts would not be greater or difficulter, I should be away some time - much longer than I thought of when I left home
Ready at 11 1/2 at which hour Fahrenheit 65 1/2 out about 11 3/4 took Ann and Oddy in the carriage the latter to choose a new gown - sat 1/2 hour with Madame de Bourke en robe de chambre or Douliette in her privat sitting room - Miss Gassie and Mr. Edward Ferral there - he very much improved - I really did not know him again - wish I could remember people better - Madame de Bourke full of the folly of my going to the Pyrenees in such haste with no other opinion than that of Dr. Double - the man who could mention 1st Barrège and then at my request say St. Sauveur could not know much about the waters - the waters of these 2 placed, of quite different nature and strength - true - Very great harm might be done by an improper use of the waters - I surely ought to know what I was about - I was responsible for the young person I was taking and I should be mad to go without other advice I said all that might be true; but what could I do? Every young ladies had wills of their own and my friend was bent upon consulting nobody else and bent upon following implicitly Dr. Double's prescription come what might - Madame de Bourke astonished - I said it mattered not I could do no other - she then explained how she herself had suffered from an improper use of waters that Double was très respectable &c. &c. but he knew nothing it would seem of the waters of the Pyrenees - very few here did - perhaps not more than 2 out of all the number of medecins as for Double he so mistaken the case of the only daughter of the Duchesse de ....... Crêze? or some such name that she had died - and another lady also had slipped thru' his fingers thro' want of better management - I should be mad if I had nobody else - would I have Magendrie to whom Madame de Bourke now pays largely per annum for attending her - She would send to him - he would be now chez la Princesse Bragation or some other princesse or duchesse close by - I might see him directly at Madame de Bourke's and say nothing to the young lady no! O could not do that - the young Lady was sitting in the carriage below - well! it was all nothing - Madame de Bourke would send to inquire - Mr Magendrie not expected till 2 or 3 p.m. I forget which - n'importe - that would not do - well he had better call on me tomorrow I consented - How could I do otherwise - especially when Madame de Bourke added you need not tell Magendrie of Double nor Double of Magendrie - you need not tell anyone and it will only be 20/- 20/- the 1st visit and 10/- for each visit afterwards - there was no saying more - for I had latterly engaged without effect, that I had seen aunt's old English physician who agreed me that there could be no harm in goin
Miss Gassie gave me the address of the shop aux Montagnes Russes no 9 rue de Faubourg St. Honore - very good shop - some time there till 2 10/60 - Oddy bought a brown silk gown, I some cambric for 6 pocket handkerchiefs and Ann a little shawl, and saw a nice piece of mousseline en laine at 38 sols l'aune for robes de chambre, in place de white dressing gowns, - then to Madame Figarol to pay her - had not her bill - returned home for it - in vain - not to be found - then back to Madame F- Figarol and paid her 423/- taking a receipt in full for the money up to this time - then got gum for Ann at Beral's rue de la Paix at 3 3/4 then to Madame Thomas, Madame Hauticœur, for each of us a second per de brides our Capotes - then to Madame Contant and paid her for the last little pelerine, pour moi, then Passage des Panoramas and bought custard for dinner = 1/50 and Ann ate one méringue and I 2 petites patisseries - then to the passage Choiseul as recommended by Madame Hauticœur, Chez Mongauze for 2 umbrellas 25/- and 22/- - then changed the order about the newspapers at Galignani's - bought the Messenger of today and no more to be sent to Bordeaux till further orders - then Wallerand's for curling paper - oil d'olive for the carriage at a grocer's en passant, and biscuits at Michel's and home about after 6
Note from Madame de Bourke about before 7 to say Magendrie out of town - Should he come to me at 5 tomorrow or would I go to him at 3 p.m. tomorrow? - wrote and sent back by Madame de Bourke's servant as follows ' ma chère Madame de Bourke j'aimerais mieux d'aller chez Mr M- Magendrie à 3 heures demain - J'espère se passer chez vous ca soir à huit heures et demi environ - mille mille remercie nous de toute votre bonté - Mercredi. Hotel se la Terrasse' - 'à madame madame la comtesse de Bourke rue du Faubourge St. Honoré no 53'
I had, on coming in, told Ann that Madame de Bourke would make me consult Magendrie - that it would but be 20/- and I thought I had better give in - for Ann did not need see him, indeed Madame de Bourke had said I needed and had not tell her of consulting him - Ann took it very ill - said I had sacrificed her to Madame de Bourke cried and was quite wrong and it is you I said who can do in this way one can bear to a certain point and not beyond it and walked off and wrote the note as above and Ann sulked and was poorly and I kept my thoughts to myself meaning to get rid of her by and by
dinner at 7 1/4 - wrote till 8 25/60 - at Madame de Bourke's from 9 to 10 1/4 - She introduced me to a Monsieur and Madame Lagarde - just before coming away, went into Madame de Bourke's private room with Miss Gassie Vergez who called in Rosalie and wrote out a paper of agreement and a double or duplicate one signed by myself and given to Rosalie and one signed by Rosalie and given to me - purporting the engagement at 500 francs per annum and 2/- per week allowed for washing while en voyage
Home at 10 25/60 - had Oddy - she very nervous about going home by herself - what shall I do about it? what with poor simple Oddy and Ann I have pother enough - said I to myself after leaving Ann well tis the first time I have ever been downright unhappy in Paris but I soon got up my spirit a little in promising to get quietly rid of Ann by and by - very fine day -
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