After breakfast I rode to Lewes about Darby’s affair, but it still wears a gloomy aspect and I make no doubt I shall lose the whole sum. I dined at the White Hart on a knuckle of veal boiled, a piece of bacon, a breast of veal roasted and French beans and greens. My family at home dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Came home about 9:20, but not quite sober. My sister and niece went home in the evening…