Journal 48, page 53

interesting & well informed. We went to the "Chalet Somerset" & arranged for a gallery to be built on &c. We climbed the fields up to the costly chalet of the principal ma[..] here-with its glass galleries &c. Scenery exquisite.

August 30, 1893

Villars

We packed up& came away from beautiful Villars where Isabel has now a chalet of her own& will no more be subject to cold soup & a dirty tablecloth in the salon where she pays for "every comfort" & the Hotel Bellevue where she has five rooms! She is a woman of many vicissitudes is this daughter of earls & democrat 'of heart. Early in the moving we sent Edith& the maid with gifts of clothes & money to the peasant woman with the 2 children, lame goat & fingerless husband. This made us feel better whether it does her, poor dear, or not. We said adieu to S. J. Capper, Esq. who has been a good friend of whom we have seen little as we told him we came to get away-ditto the nice Whytes of Edinboro. We took carriages& came away-lunching at Annoz [?] in great peace with our nice restaurant woman-then on to Ches [FEW blank

space] over sweet [?] mountains to see La Marechale Booth- Clibborn [accent over e in marechale].

August 31, 1893

La Marechale, her month old child, her nurse, secretary& friend all came down to Aigle in a landau that Isabel provided & we rode (RR) together to Lausanne where she left to preside over her salvation army officers. She has been expelled from three cantons by Swiss Protestants-they fear to be diminished in numbers by the Salvation Army; the Catholics leave them alone. Madame Gasparin tho't to finish but only began them! It is wonderful to hear the account of La Marechal in Geneva-meetings at 6 AM, rich people paying 20 francs to get a seat-public houses &c practically closed-imprisonments-trials-release-papers full of the turmoil& when in 3 months she left all breathed freer Sc said "now the theaters & publics will be patronized again!"-I asked her if she was to be her father's successor& she said no one knew but it had been her mother's dearest wish& she had inherited her father's administrative talent. He had only said to her "Be ready for whatever may fall to your lot."

September 1, 1853

Paris after 25 years.

(See "memorandum" page opposite Jan. 1.)

We reached Paris and got to the Hotel des deme[?] Monde where Countess Somers stays, at about midnight last night. All day out shopping &I saw Republican Paris-not so brilliant at night-not so dazzling by day; Tuileries gone; crests& napoleonic bees