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They had gone to VeniceHe recalled that happy holiday after the election"We had ices at Florians He smiled--she was still such a child; she loved ices"Gilbert gave me a most interesting account of the history of VeniceHe told me that the Doges she had written it all out in her schoolgirl handOne of the delights of travelling with Angela had been that she was so eager to learnShe was so terribly ignorant, she used to say, as if that were not one of her charmsAnd then--he opened the next volume--they had come back to London "I was so anxious to make a good impressionI wore my wedding dress He could buy chanel bags see her now sitting next old Sir Edward; and making a conquest of that formidable old man, his chiefHe read on rapidly, filling in scene after scene from her scrappy fragments"Dined at the House of CommonsTo an evening party at the LovegrovesDid I realize my responsibility, Lady Lasked me, as Gilbert's wife?" Then, as the years passed--he took another volume from the writing table--he had become more and more absorbed in his workAnd she, of course, was more often aloneIt had been a great grief to her, apparently, that they had had no children"How I wish," one entry read, "that Gilbert had a rolex vintage women's watch son!" Oddly enough he had never much regretted that himselfLife had been so full, so rich as it wasThat year he had been given a minor post in the governmentA minor post only, but her comment was: "I am quite certain now that he will be Prime Minister!" Well, if things had gone differently, it might have been soHe paused here to speculate upon what might have beenPolitics was a gamble, he reflected; but the game wasn't over yetHe cast his eyes rapidly over more pages, full of the little trifles, the insignificant, happy, daily trifles that had made up her life He took up another volume and opened it at chanel clearance random"What a coward I am! I let the chance slip againBut it seemed selfish to bother him with my own affairs, when he has so much to think aboutAnd we so seldom have an evening alone What was the meaning of that? Oh, here was the explanation--it referred to her work in the East End"I plucked up courage and talked to Gilbert at lastHe was so kind, so goodHe made no objection He remembered that conversationShe had told him that she felt so idle, so uselessShe wished to have some work of her own She wanted to do something--she had blushed so prettily, he remembered, as she said it, sitting in that omega olympic watch very chair--to help othersHe had bantered her a littleHadn't she enough to do looking after him, after her home? Still, if it amused her, of course he had no objectionWhat was it? Some district? Some committee? Only she must promise not to make herself illSo it seemed that every Wednesday she went to Whitechapel He remembered how he hated the clothes she wore on those occasionsBut she had taken it very seriously, it seemedThe diary was full of references like this: "Saw Mrs Husband lost his arm in an accidentDid my best to find a job for LilyHis own name occurred less frequentlyHis interest chanel white j12 watch slackened

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