The Henson Journals
Sat 2 May 1931
Volume 52, Page 182
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Saturday, May 2nd, 1931.
["] Religion does not demand new affections, but only claims the direction of those you already have, those affections you daily feel: though unhappily confined to objects, not altogether unsuitable, but altogether unequal to them. We only represent to you the higher the adequate objects of those very faculties & affections.["]
Bishop Butler, Sermon. xiii
Sybil, Lady Eden, came to lunch. She said that when Sargent painted her, he relieved the tedium of the sitting by occasionally going to the piano, & playing exquisitely. He made two unsuccessful attempts to get her portrait, & only succeeded on the third effort.
I walked round the Park in the afternoon, and on returning to the castle, wrote to Mrs Elliott telling her that Derek had returned to school, & also what were my intentions with respect to him. May this, my last venture in this sort, turnout well!