| Description | William is revelling in the cold weather, but has a rheumatic shoulder pain. He has been gazetted to Beauleah [Rampur Boalia] but does not know when he will be going, perhaps the middle of January. There is time to settle his uncle's visit and he notes his anxiety about his next examination. He asks his aunt to identify a quadrille, which he notes, thinking that it might be the 'Marriage Quadrille'. The thermometer stands at sixty-eight degrees, but is below that at dawn. He wishes the telegraph was in and has seen Gordon's name honorably mentioned, but cannot make out what he is doing on the D of C's [Duke of Cumberland's?] staff. |