turn. I look instead at the wall here, where to-night, beside the plan of
Millbank, I pinned a print. I found it in Pa''s study, in an album from the Uffizi: it
is the Crivelli picture I thought of when I first saw Selina Dawes—except, it is not
an angel, as I seemed to remember it, but his late Veritas. A stern and melancholy girl
she is—she carries the sun in the form of a blazing disk, and a looking-glass. I
brought it up, and shall keep it here. Why shouldn''t I? It is handsome.
30 September 1872
Miss Gordon, for a queer pain. Mother to spirit May ''71, heart. 2/-
Mrs Caine, for her child Patricia - Pixie - lived 9 weeks, to spirit Feb
70. 3/-
Mrs Bruce & Miss Alexandra Bruce. Father to spirit Jan, stomach. Is
there a later will? 21-
Mrs Lewis (not Mrs Jane Lewis, crippled son, Clerkenwell) -This lady
did not come for me, but Mr Vincy brought her up, saying he had gone a
little way with her but modesty forbade he should go further, besides he
had another lady waiting. When she saw me she said ''O! How young
she is!'' - ''But quite a star,'' said Mr Vincy at once, ''quite a rising star in our
profession, I assure you.'' We sat for half an hour, her sorrow being -
That at every night at 3 o''clock she is woken by a spirit who comes &
puts his hand upon the flesh above her heart. She never sees the