and silver bag, wrote journal, lunched. Lu brought some Les Graces [The game of Graces] played at that a little time. At dinner our company was joined by a Mr Duffy & his daughter very Irish. At tea we talked to them & found her in particular so agreeable that after tea us 3 fetched our work & sat in the drawing room. Mr Duffy is an amusing old gentleman. August 2d Friday. A fine morning. My cold worse therefore I stayed at home while the rest of the party went to Castleton to see the wonders of the Peak taking Miss Duffy along with them who The game of Graces Picture credit: Wikipedia (public domain) The game had recently been invented in France and was called le jeu des Graces. The Game of Graces was considered a proper game benefiting young ladies and supposedly, tailored to make them more graceful.