It had been used hundreds of times in the last few days and
gave no symptoms of failing. I believe the cable must have gone at
any rate; however, since it went in my watch and since I might have
secured the tubing more strongly, I feel rather sad. . . .
'June 28.
'Since I could not go to Annie I took down Shakespeare, and by the
time I had finished ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, read the second half of
TROILUS and got some way in CORIOLANUS, I felt it was childish to
regret the accident had happened in my watch, and moreover I felt
myself not much to blame in the tubing matter - it had been torn
down, it had not fallen down; so I went to bed, and slept without
fretting, and woke this morning in the same good mood - for which
thank you and our friend Shakespeare. I am happy to say Mr.
Liddell said the loss of the cable did not much matter; though this
would have been no consolation had I felt myself to blame. - This
morning we have grappled for and found another length of small
cable which Mr. - dropped in 100 fathoms of water. If this also
gets full of kinks, we shall probably have to cut it after 10 miles
or so, or more probably still it will part of its own free will or
weight.
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