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Thursday the 5th being mail day, we were busy 

 all day with despatches for London, and, after dining 

 together at the hotel, Mr. Chamberlain, Bergne, 

 and I went to the National Theatre to see Dorothy 

 with Lillian Russell in the name part, and Harry 

 Paulton as Lurcher the bailiff. It was a capital 

 performance, the fair Lillian looking very beautiful 

 and singing charmingly. She had previously gone 

 through an unrehearsed scene, accompanied by 

 some language and many tears, because the landlord 

 of our hotel, who had a pretty conceit, and had been 

 a quartermaster or something of the sort during the 

 war, declined to take her in. She thought she had 

 just as good a claim to stay at the Arlington as Mrs. 

 Langtry, about whom no difficulty had been made. 

 *' Langtry's a lady " was the landlord's dictum, 

 so Lillian had to go elsewhere after recording an 

 emphatic protest ! ! ! 



On Friday, the 6th, Bergne and I and a Congress- 

 man named Hopkins went to see poor Beauclerk off 

 on his melancholy journey to England. 



On Saturday, the 7th, I went a second time to a 

 matinee of Dorothy with Mrs. Edwardes and her 

 dear little girl, Sylvia, who four years ago became 

 the wife of that distinguished soldier Count 

 Gleichen. 



On Sunday, the 8th, Mr. Chamberlain and I 



