Friday, 13 February 1874

A beautiful and cold day. Hitchcock leaves on Wednesday -- what happiness! (Blue dress, blue hat, good.) We collect the princess.
There is almost no one at the Promenade. The son of the King of Hanover is in Nice; I immediately thought of him. I am curious to know what he looks like. I do not walk with Hitchcock -- too happy about that.
I bought forty-five kilograms of confetti, as a beginning; then we pass everywhere there are preparations for the carnival.
The prince, pretty as the day, has arrived -- he looks like a dreadful cadaver.
I was going down to dinner, but a smell of onion suffocated me. They eat it every day, and I rage even more at the audacity of these people than at the smell -- knowing my disgust for this plant, they dare to eat it. I am unnerved; I
rush in fretta upstairs, throw myself on the bed of Maman, who is ill, and dissolve into tears.
I dined upstairs.
I bought [Crossed out: a pair] black gloves and a black fan as well, in secret.
How unhappy I am today!

Notes

Italian in the original: "in a hurry."
In English in the original.