At last! ==Resume my livres.==
Woodcock, donkey by nature.
I did not want to go at eleven o'clock; Maman insisted, and we departed. We lunch at the Hotel de Paris, the three of us -- Dina, Paul, and I. Which...
I do not go out until five o'clock; it is fortunately cool. We go to the villa, to the Promenade. Lewin was walking and bowed; I do not know what I...
April Fool's Day! Paul caught me out several times, but I did better -- I wrote Walitsky a letter on behalf of the Englishman whom he slapped last...
O night! It is thee alone I love. Thou art beautiful, thou art vast, mysterious, profound, sweet and calm! I have just closed the window; the moon...
O what dreadful fright! My heart is still pounding. I go to take my journal from behind the painting; I feel about as usual, and... o terror! My...
One evening as I was praying to God, here is the thought [sic] that came to my mind: I had my head bowed, and from my right breast emerges the Duke...
What a ravishing little horse the Prince of Wittgenstein was riding! A horse such as I have never seen -- small, very broad, flat. A man as tall as...
My green dress is ruined like the grey one. That is the tenth lesson I receive never to have anything made here. I shall write to Laferriere; Worth...
All night I dreamed of Wittgenstein. Quite simply, as of anyone. At eleven we go to church to begin fasting (blue dress, good; hair down). I am...
I have just broken the lock of my little casket. I keep my journal in it and hide the key under the clock. I do not know what devil could have taken...
Why, when one wishes to look at someone, is one drawn to look at the eyes? [Crossed out: and everything] I cannot judge a person before having seen...
Two or three days ago Paul gave me a bouquet of daisies. A bouquet from him astonished me; now we believe we have discovered where it came from. A...
What a pity that no customs are observed. Today is Easter; nothing is changed -- no presents, no amusements, nothing. It detaches one from the family...
Mme Anitchkoff asked us to take her daughter Marie to church for communion. I come to fetch her; I called the maid -- quickly, a comb, ribbons, off...
Another death: M. Fedoroff **passed from life to death** yesterday evening while playing cards at M. Patton's. What a surprise for the master and...
What a day of tensions, of tears, of vexations, of scolding!
It is not raining, and everyone hurries to the exhibition. I come alone and a little late; Paul and Walitsky come to meet me. I admired above all a...
Well, what an affair! Mam'zelle Dina writes. Do you understand -- she writes, she writes! And at my place, before me, beside me, while I write. She...
28 is quite simply *M. Zaitchenko; Palajka* is a chambermaid in their house, and they are merchants, or something of the sort. Maman says: *I thought...
The Howards at church ==invited us for tomorrow evening at a dancing-party, for children== (new dress and hat). ==I asked several times Mama to go to...
There was a scene about the trip to Geneva; they were irritating me; I was furious, irritated, grieved.
Yet another scene over Geneva. Oh, how they irritate me, and how happy I shall be when I live as I please, without all these petty annoyances that...
Oh, what an evening! My God! I do not know what is happening with Maman, but she is incomprehensibly irritated. I come to her room inadvertently in...
This morning, speaking of Lewin, of la Durand and la Prodgers, they said that even Hamilton, if he passed through Nice, would go to Gioia's -- *in*...