The walk I took to Annette et Lubin delighted me; I learned a great many fine things about the human race.
The little Pole gave us a game of croquet. Eristoff, Body, Dina, and Paul on one side, and myself, Maman, Walitsky, and the count on the other. We...
Alfred has dispatched... I wrote two letters, one furious and insolent to my aunt, the other sweet and grateful to Papa. I should think so! My aunt...
We play croquet as on Monday, only instead of Maman a cousin of the count plays -- a detestable creature, mean, overripe, and made of butter.
Same children's ball as last Thursday. The count's cousin's name is Vancoslawska. This detestable person was at our house. There are people who...
In the morning, first the Dieulafait coat arrives, then the long-awaited riding habit. Apart from the usual fault of all my bodices, there will be...
It would be bliss to have a Saint Bernard; I name him Notlimah. He can -- Basilevitch calls to us from her window that she will come to go to the...
I dreamed that they wanted to lock me in a castle. I ran, I leapt over barriers, I went down staircases. By tricks, two women shut me in again. I...
When I finished writing yesterday, it was: no longer night, not yet day.
I have just reread my journal since Gericke's appearance. I was mistaken several times -- first in saying that Basilevitch is a virtuous woman, and...
I no longer remember what I did. In the avenue, saw the everyday people (white and silver dress).
Maman, Dina, and Walitsky go off to Liege.
At last I arrive at this Friday, for it is all at once that I have written my three days. One must never *let things trail behind* [Crossed out: I...
We rise late; everyone looks disconcerted. Dina returns from the Pouhon and reports that she saw Basilevitch there with Gambart, then with de Tanlay,...
We leave and all the men stay with Basilevitch. I return in a mood easy to guess.
We leave at eleven o'clock for the Cascade de Caux, where we will meet Gambart with his hippopotami. The road is arid, the heat crushing. I say...
Maman wanted to go to La Geronstere for dinner, but it rains. Basilevitch is at our house when the boots from Paris arrive. Gericke and the Greek...
Departure of the diva, of the man-eater.
The alarm rings when I am already awake at half past seven. Everyone is in a bad mood. There were difficulties on account of the horses. The marquise...