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dived into his Speech. This was for several minutes 

 quite inaudible, owing to the noise and quarrelling of 

 the ol TroAAoi, in spite of endeavours by some of the 

 suite to check it. With but few intermissions this dis- 

 graceful noise was kept up the whole time. Several 

 times the King stopped and tried to look down the row, 

 and once in a loud voice commanded silence, with 

 hardly even a momentary effect. Directly he had 

 finished the Speech he retired, and the business of the 

 day was over. The King looks a good-tempered lad, 

 but with no force of character, and, I should think, of a 

 weak and vacillating temperament/ 



While at Athens my father went up Mt. Pentelicon 

 (walking most of the way) with a small party of friends, 

 being unaware that the mountain was the haunt of 

 dangerous brigands; happily they met no one but 

 a shepherd, and had a very enjoyable excursion. 



On June n they left Athens, and sailed, with a short 

 break in the voyage at Corfu, to Trieste. There is 

 a quaint entry in the diary for Sunday, June 18 : 

 c To church at 1 1 and 6. Sermons and collection for 

 S.P.C.K., as a thank offering for the 50 years of peace 

 obtained by the Battle of Waterloo. The sermons, 

 preached by the English Chaplain of Trieste, were 'vox 

 et praeterea nihilj the vox being of the loudest descrip- 

 tion. . . . The Chaplain took occasion to say that ec he 

 had uttered no uncertain sound in Trieste since his 

 appointment as Chaplain. He had set up the Banner 



