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Circourt was with us. 28th, to Fontainebleau. Met William Stirling and Lady Anna there; they were just married. 30th, races in Bois de Boulogne. Took Mrs. Henry Baring there. Dined at the Embassy. May 3rd. 13th. My uncle, Tom Reeve, the rector, died. I attended the funeral, and went on to Thorpe Abbotts. June 10th. Party given by the Hudson's Bay Company to see their ships at Gravesend.
Just before the publication of the first of these Reeve wrote to her, introducing M. de Circourt, who was then at Florence where Miss Clerke was. A fortnight later he wrote again in answer to her reply. Rutland Gate, April 19th. My Dear Miss Clerke, It gives me very sincere pleasure to have contributed to introduce you to your first literary success. I hope it may be the prelude to many more.
On the day the Ordinances were signed, Polignac said to Circourt: 'From this day the King begins to reign, which he has not done before. These were the motives which precipitated the blow, and caused it to overwhelm its authors with ruin and confusion. April 8th. I was elected a corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, in France. 14th.
Ainsi n'en parlons plus. I have just been reading an excellent article on the Catacombs, in the 'Edinburgh Review. It is a subject which has always interested me, but very likely I should not have begun with this particular article if I had not known it was by you. Circourt wrote to me about it, and so deprived me of the pleasure of finding it out for myself, which I think I could have done.
Even in his exterior, the young Italian, with blond hair and blue eyes, was then more attractive than those who only knew the Cavour of later years could easily believe; while his gay and winning manners, combined with a fund of information on subjects not usually popular with the young, could not but strike so discerning a judge as the Countess de Circourt as indicating not a common personality.
These are of a purely Spanish diction. T.A. de Circourt. I. iii., p. 327-332. Some romances, but not of these last-named, have kept traces of the real legends of the Arabs. There is among them one which treats of the adventures of Don Rodrigues, the last king of the Visigoths "The Closed House of Toledo."
Reeve, 'her face her sole fortune, to win the love of a man so clear-headed and warm-hearted. Circourt came on a visit to us in March. We went together to Lincoln. Thence to Ampthill, also with Circourt. From Lord Westbury March 1st. I send you the proof of the judgement in Edwards v. Moss, corrected and purged of some of its colloquial pleonastic forms of expression.
He was struck with apoplexy on the 15th, and died on the 17th of November. The last token of fifty years' friendship': From the Comte de Circourt La Celle, November 12th. My dear Sir, Many thanks for your kind letter of the 6th. I am still an invalid, conjuguant in all its tenses the verb grippe, with its near relation bronchitis.
Miss Wynne was a delightful person, who lived in the society of Paris, when it was most agreeable. M. de Circourt is the last survivor of it unless I may be reckoned a survivor too. I am glad you appreciate him. He was private secretary to M. de Polignac in 1830, and married in 1832 an incomparable Russian Mlle. de Klustine. They used to say that she knew seventeen languages and he eighteen.
No wonder if Mme. de Circourt impulsively entreated the young man to shake the dust of Piedmont off his feet and to seek a career in France. In his answer to this proposition, he asks first of all, what have his parents done that he should plunge a knife into their hearts? Sacred duties bound him to them, and he would never quit them till they were separated by the grave.
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