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Went to Exeter with Christine; 8th, to Chagford and Dartmoor; 10th, back to Foxholes. 29th. To Holyhead and Penrhos with Christine. Bad weather at Penrhos; gout in hand came on. October 2nd. To Knowsley; Lord Lyons there. 6th. To London and Foxholes. Christine went on to Chesters. On the 20th, Mrs. Ogilvie came from Scotland. November 2nd, James Watney died. From Count Vitzthum
Eh, but I was a bad 'un to do the like to thee; and thou's a good 'un to come here. When I saw thee lie there, all scorched and shaking, I didn't like my work; and now I hate it. But I knew no better at the time. And, you see, I've got it worse myself. And cheap served too." "Oh, Mr. Little," said Eliza Watney; "TRY and forgive him."
But there's plenty of outside trades in Hillsbro'. We'll bind him to one of those, and keep an eye on him, for thy sake." "Well, I must take what I can get." "And little enough too," said Eliza Watney. "Now do you know that they have set upon Mr. Little and beaten him within an inch of his life? Oh, Ned, you can't approve that, and him our best friend." "Who says I approve it, thou fool?"
Watney in the 'Palatine' yacht at Bournemouth. Crossed to Trouville in the night. Lay in 'the ditch' for twenty hours. 12th, Cherbourg. Met the French fleet and saw the arsenal. 13th, back to Southampton and to Foxholes. Pleasant trip; good weather. 20th The Eustace Cecils came: took them to Heron Court. This was the last time Lord Malmesbury saw people there. From the Duc d'Aumale
To interest them he told how Evelyn had sung in all the opera houses of Europe; and then, fearing his confessions were indiscreet, he asked the woman nearest him if she was the mother of the little boy Evelyn had taken to live with her. "No, sir, 'e is Mrs. Watney's son in the next cottage." And Owen moved away to interrogate Mrs. Watney, who told him that her son was not a cripple.
He said he was sure his uncle would be only too pleased to see me, and he had a nice house, Watney Lodge, only a few minutes' walk from Muswell Hill Station. I gave him our address, and we parted. In the evening, to my surprise, he called with a very nice letter from Mr. Carrie did not like to go; but Teddy Finsworth pressed us so much we consented.
Two Boers who put on helmets were killed by their own people. The men were given no time to rally or to collect their thoughts, for the gallant Boers barged right into them, shooting them down, and occasionally being shot down, at a range of a few yards. Harwich and Watney, who had charge of the maxim, died nobly with all the men of their gun section round them.
Carrie sent Sarah round to the butcher's and countermanded our half-leg of mutton, which we had ordered for to- morrow. April 28, Sunday. We found Watney Lodge farther off than we anticipated, and only arrived as the clock struck two, both feeling hot and uncomfortable. To make matters worse, a large collie dog pounced forward to receive us.
He set Dan Tucker and another to watch by turns and report. Messrs. Holdfast and Ransome had an ally inside the house. Eliza Watney had come in from another town, and had no Hillsborough prejudices. She was furious at this new outrage on Little, who had won her regard, and she hoped her brother-in-law would reveal all he knew.
'Christine, wrote Reeve in his Journal, 'went up the Sparrenhorn with Binet, whilst, according to Mrs. Reeve, 'Henry and Mrs. Watney, not being moveable bodies, sat at windows and pooh-poohed the energetic use of legs. From the Bel Alp, Reeve, still very much of a cripple, 'was carried' the expression is his own to Brieg.
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