Thursday 6 October 1664 ... her niece came and dined with me to a rare chine of beefe and spent the afternoon very pleasantly all the afternoon, ... and then home to supper and to bed, my mind coming to itself in following of my business. Was Pepys, a busy man and rarely free of suffering in his body, wasting his time when he had a 'to do' list more convoluted than most people of his time? For...

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