had been the termination of the consultation.
At the theater the house was not good, neither was my acting. My
father acted admirably, to my amazement: for he has been in a most
wretched state of depression for the last week, and to-day at
dinner his face looked drawn and haggard and absolutely
lead-colored.

_Tuesday, 6th._--After breakfast went with Henry and my father to
Cox and Greenwood's, the great army agents, to pay for his
commission. Oh, what a good job, to be sure! Then to the Horse
Guards, to thank dear Sir John Macdonald; then to Stable Yard, to
call upon Lord Fitzroy Somerset; and then home, much happier than I
had been for a long time.... Madame le Beau brought my dress for
Louisa of Savoy; it is very handsome, but I look hideous, and as
grim as Queen Death in it. However, it is a precise copy of the
woman's own picture, and I must comfort myself with that. In the
evening we went to a pleasant party at the Basil Montagues', where
for an hour I recovered my love of dancing, which has rather
forsaken me of late. The Rajah Ramohun Roy had himself introduced
to me, and we presently began a delightful nonsense conversation,
which lasted a considerable time, and amused me extremely. His
appearance is very striking; his picturesque dress and color make
him, of course, a remarkable object in a London ball-room; his
countenance, beside being very intellectual, has an expression of
great sweetness and benignity and his remarks and conversation are
in the highest degree interesting, when one remembers what mental
energy and moral force and determination he must have exerted to
break through all the trammels which have opposed his becoming what
he is. I was turning away from him for a few moments, to speak to
Mr. Montague, who had begun a very interesting discourse on the
analysis of the causes of laughter, when the Rajah recalled my
attention to himself by saying, "I am going to quote the Bible to
you: you remember that passage, 'The poor ye have always with you,
but Me ye have not always.' Now, Mr. Montague you have always with
you, but me you have not always." So we resumed our conversation
together, and kept up a brief interchange of persiflage which made
us both laugh very much, and in which he showed a very ready use of
English langu