8/31 I will write you a full account of our day. The only rule laid down by the League is that things are to be so managed that Miss Bretherton is to have no possible excuse for fatigue so long as she is in the hands of the society. I have been making a long study of De Musset, with the result that the poems seem to me far finer than I had remembered, and the _Confessions d' un Enfant du Siecle_ a miserable performance. How was it it impressed me so much when I read it first? Do you remember how you used to read them aloud to our mother and me after dinner, while the father had his sleep before going down to the House ?' Ten days later Kendal spent a long Monday evening in writing the following letter to his sister:-- 'Our yesterday's expedition was, I think, a great success. |