I stay until the moment of going out with my hair hanging loose; it is wavier than ever, and golden -- I am in love with it.
My hair is rebellious; it escapes and tumbles into curls despite pins and combs. Three-quarters of an hour was barely enough to arrange it. I go out...
I walked for the first time in several days, but first ==I drove out== with Maman and Dina; I bought blue curtains -- M. Leclerc says that blue light...
I was waiting impatiently for that Auguste; at last he comes, maltreats my hair terribly -- I thought I should never be able to untangle it again --...
I sent Fortuné to order a horse; I take a thousand pains to style my hair; it is four o'clock and no horses, so I undress, dress again promptly, and...
I ride out without Dina, and I am quite glad of it -- she cannot ride and only bores me. I pass along the Promenade, but the sun is so strong I could...
I was late for church (I am an unworthy creature -- I have never yet been late for the pigeon shooting trains). Towards two, three o'clock we have...
At last Maman told Miss Hitchcock she may leave, as we are going to travel.
I did not go to bed; the coming carnival occupies me, and I go to talk about it with Dina, who is reading in the sitting room by the light of...
For two days poor Nadia has been ill, and the princess does not come.
I have my hair done by Allard; he gives me a very pretty arrangement -- half the hair swept up as I like, and the other half hanging. Dina, done in...
How I should like to be rid of that foolish Englishwoman -- disgusting, tiresome, and beneath contempt. It is our first Friday. There were some...
This evening we have *Hernani*, which I have awaited so eagerly. Allard comes at two o'clock, does my hair, rushes, and has again done it as I do not...
I am very late, but I dress as quickly as I can and go alone to church; I enter at the same moment as Le Bec, which led the ==*colonel's wife*== to...
(Blue dress, good.) It is very fine; I go out with my aunt and Dina. In the rue Masséna we meet Patton, who stays by the carriage door for half an...
We go to this baptism. The ceremony was comical and stupid. The bishop -- stupid, ridiculous, hypocritical. I was bored. In the evening at the...
I am woken with the announcement of Allard. I take my cold bath and go to the drawing room, where this little man throws himself with fury into a...
An adorable day -- no sign of that star which gives light and life. I go to the Promenade with Dina (brown dress, good). The two little ones are on...
A beautiful and cold day. Hitchcock leaves on Wednesday -- what happiness! (Blue dress, blue hat, good.) We collect the princess.
I wrote nothing yesterday. I went out as usual in the carriage; I sent word to Hitchcock that I would not go with her ==for a walk==.
Since eight o'clock I have been dreaming -- without sleeping -- that I have six billion. ==Ah, how well I disposed of them!==
I go into town with Maman, to the flower market, and to buy two pink dominos -- for Dina and for me. I do not know at what hour we go out; there is...
I am going to pray God to deliver me from a great vexation -- which is that I blush for the Comte de Lambertye, even for his name; it is shameful and...
Worth has sent me the white dress -- very pretty. I take it to Simone's to be altered (blue dress and hat, good). Dina and I meet Maman, my aunt, and...
The sky is grey, the air calm, the Promenade fairly lively.
I am displeased with my outfit (blue dress and hat, not bad), with my face, with everything. This dress has never enchanted me, and especially now...