Notebook 025

October 1874 — November 1874

23 entries • 9,707 words • 23 translated

Main location: Nice

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(434 words)

I feel a little unwell. Audiffret reappears with the Marquis de Saëtone — I didn't blush, thank God.

(503 words)

I have scarcely slept — a dreadful cold was tormenting me.

(124 words)

God has had mercy on me. He deigned to hear my desperate prayer — it was only the effect of the cold.

(983 words)

I took all my lessons and am pleased.

(209 words)

Unfortunately I do not forget — it calms my anger, but it is a great sin before God.

(199 words)

I am not going to church — but Dina, that pious creature, is certainly going, her hair curled at the front, taking care to display her most golden...

(287 words)

I did not miss my lessons and am satisfied. Appetite comes with eating, and love of study comes with studying. I had begun to despair — I feared I...

(841 words)

Why the devil am I not as attractive by day as I am in the evening!

(1,019 words)

I am going to Monte-Carlo — that is, I am invited to go; Maman asks me to come so that the party may be complete.

(88 words)

I wake at noon, lunch at half past two, and at three o'clock Biasini arrives with plans and drawings. We build, undo, draw again, and I believe this...

(965 words)

We went as far as Valrose — Nina wanted to see Derwies, their former steward and someone they had helped. How the roles have changed! It is she who...

(480 words)

It had been agreed last evening that we would go riding — Pâris, Paul, and young Lubimoff, that little creature of pitiful appearance, dressed like a...

(610 words)

Ange's husband has arrived and they paid us a visit, as did Patton and Mme Howard. I met Lise and Hélène on the Promenade — tomorrow they are coming...

(193 words)

It seems to me that Dina has overheard how I recounted her foolishness — for up to now there has been nothing, and what could there be? She is...

(142 words)

M. Allen and family have arrived.

(121 words)

Nina and Pâris are with us, looking for lodgings in Nice. I went out very little. We had a little tea-party this evening — a few people only: M. and...

(930 words)

I go to the concert with Dina — our people are at Monaco. M. de Patton is giving a party this evening to which they have not been invited. Death and...

(47 words)

It is cold — cold as winter; I have no doubt that the mountains are covered in snow. (Brown Worth dress, Manby jacket, Parisian collar — good.)

(827 words)

(Same dress as yesterday.) I go out for a very short time. We see Ange, who seems truly fond of me. My thanks to her.

(222 words)

While Maman and Dina were at church we were greatly frightened — Dori fell off the bed as though dead. She was sent to Walitsky who, by means of...

(146 words)

Ange with her husband, Pelikan with his daughter, and Bihovetz and Daniloff lunch with us at home. I find the lunch was far too good for such simple...

(114 words)

I was at the concert, but I felt badly dressed, I do not know why.

(223 words)

Mmes Prodgers and la Vigier are here.