Italian letters of a diplomat's wife, January-May 1880, February-April, 1904 . se these lovely springdays; only the getting to it is disagreeable. It is a hot,glaring walk up the Via Veneto, not an atom of shadeanywhere until one gets well inside the grounds. I waswalking about on the grass quite leisurely, and verydistraite, not noticing any one, when I heard my turned and saw two ladies making signs to me fromthe other side of the road, so I squeezed through a verynarrow opening in the fence, and found myself with thegrand duchess and her lady-in-waiting, who were takingtheir morning
Italian letters of a diplomat's wife, January-May 1880, February-April, 1904 . se these lovely springdays; only the getting to it is disagreeable. It is a hot,glaring walk up the Via Veneto, not an atom of shadeanywhere until one gets well inside the grounds. I waswalking about on the grass quite leisurely, and verydistraite, not noticing any one, when I heard my turned and saw two ladies making signs to me fromthe other side of the road, so I squeezed through a verynarrow opening in the fence, and found myself with thegrand duchess and her lady-in-waiting, who were takingtheir morning walk. We strolled on together. Sheasked me if I always came to the villa in the said No, I often went shopping in the morning, andtold her about my photographer of the Via Sistina and thedifficulty of getting a photograph of Antonelli. She in-stantly said: Oh, but I can help you there, if you reallywould like a photograph of Antonelli. I have a fine por-trait of him that was painted for my beau-pere. It is inthe palace at Weimar, and I will give orders at once for. Cardinal Antoiielli. From .1 picture |>^iintc-(l fur ilic <iriiiKl Duke rifSaxe-Weimar. Iruiii a pliDtonraph jfivcii to Madame Waddincton l)y the Duihes^ of Saxc-Weimar at Koine. 1904] OF A DIPLOMATS WIFE 289 the court photographer to go and copy it. I was muchpleased, as I do want the photograph and was rather indespair at not having found one. It seemed incredibleto me, until I had asked a little, that there should benothing of Antonelli. After all, it isnt very long sincehe played a great part here, so it was a most fortunaterencontre for me this morning. We parted at the gate—I walked home and she got into her carriage. Friday, April 7th. We made a pleasant excursion yesterday to San Gre-gorio, the Brancaccios fine place beyond Tivoli. The dayunluckily was grey, looked as if it would pour every min-ute, we had none of the lovely lights and shades thatmake the Campagna and th
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