I have been reading my old diary and am afraid that the atrocious expressions of those days may creep back in here. I am far from pleased with my...
I am so overwrought my hand is trembling, from the dinner scene.
I am properly dressed — the immortal grey dress has been mended once more, the black London hat on my head, and the whole effect is quite respectable.
Pâris left for Geneva yesterday.
There is already quite a crowd and one may say the season has begun — the more so as today the Masséna club is giving its first afternoon dance.
My people had better escorts than one might suppose!! Monsieur le comte de Barrême, president of the club, and Monsieur Barbier, vice-president;...
I studied, played, and went for a walk.
Around two o'clock the rain stopped and I went with my aunt to the outdoor concert.
1° Markevitch came in the morning to tell my mother that Schablikine, just leaving her house, had told her that the entire expatriate colony — weary...
I dismissed Michelazzi, the Latin and Italian teacher, because he was taking several lesson tokens for a single lesson. I could not very well tell...
But let us leave this charming model of sobriety and the many other virtues.
France — or more precisely, Dr. Lefèvre — arrived yesterday. He is a Nice physician, owner of the villa near the Château Smith, whom we have known...
That is where these cowardly indulgences and this contempt for all propriety lead! And the lack of society is the cause. For what man living among...
Hélène has been launched into society — she was promenading with an elegant English lady and two gentlemen. God has given me a splendid idea: we...
I put on my new white dress and Hamilton-grey hat, entirely of white wool — and the bodice suits me, a rare thing, *res rara!* We stayed the whole...
At Laussel's I saw Hélène and Lise — they are completely cold towards us. This evening they are giving a girls' party; we are not invited. Why, then,...
All the young women I happen to know begin by liking me and end by envying me. What a misfortune!
They spoke of Madame Prodgers — Florence knows her from London. She goes a great deal into society, but is widely mocked, and is considered to have...
At the opera again — *Il Trovatore* — Florence with us. (White dress, my hairstyle, good.) The house is full, and four boxes [Crossed out: with that...
Markevitch dined here. Walitsky has composed his own answers, and the poor man begins thus: *Je me suis née* — etc.
I walked with Sabatini from half past two until four; then drove with Foster. (Grey dress, black hat — this immortal dress suits the hat...
Lies! A day less happy than the others — quite the contrary — for during my ride with Foster and Dina I was constantly troubled by either my black...
On returning from my walk I learned that Markevitch had just left here, coming from Madame Howard's, and that she had invited him to the matinée she...
Bitterly cold — a wolf-cold — and we walked with Florence, wrapped in beautiful blue-fox furs. Enoteas and Terffidua (Saëtone and Audiffret reversed)...
"Filth: public contempt, family shame" — says *La vraie clef des songes* by Lucimius.
To the drop of ink in the glass of water a teaspoonful of ink has been added. What a pity — a pretty girl like me, fresh and rosy, riddled with...
It is horribly cold, I am not properly dressed, and I am weeping because I cannot go to Paris.
I saw Terffidua — he overtook us, and at the sight of his pretty hair, his pink ear, and his fresh cheek, I had to admit to myself that he is...
I do not live when I am not properly dressed.
The Howards, on seeing us at Laussel's, keep their eyes lowered. Before going to the lesson there was a long discussion: are we to greet the Howards...