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1908: 101r

Year: 1908
Hand: [E.C.]
Diary Num: XXIII
Folio Num: 101r
Manuscript Num: 46798
Transcription Status: **
Transcriber: Holly Laird

[E.C.]

Such a sweet smile Gordon gave

Michael from the carriage – so

a sun smiles over the green,

wheat he must sink hm[?]

behind & leave still green.

It made one very tender to

the gentle sufferer in his

laughter[?], to dwell in that

smile.

He has had two delicious dreams

(1)16 In a book bound in an

amber-skin this page was

shown[?] to his vision “ He

would substitute taste for

Salvation”. The Eighties

laughed[?] round are phantasmal.

Gordon reading was very much

frightened.

(2)17 Giorgione came & promised to

show him all the real

pictures he had painted, &

the tactless Gordon told

Giorgione that the Companile

was fallen . . . Giorgione vanished

. . . Fay declares not with sorry

– but with fear he had encountered

a bore!

Fay’s miniature of me kept him

drowsy[?] with wonder. I said

it frightened me, as if a seal

of the Last Judgment were on

it. “But it is only the revelation

of loveliness!” What wd Goss have