After no end of trouble my aunt secured a box at the New Opera, number 16 in the second tier. My hair and the new dress — long, in plain white...
At six o'clock we left that blessed Grand Hôtel, and at a quarter past seven, beautiful Paris.
Now there's a curious marriage. Looking at him this evening I badly wanted to laugh — to imagine that boy married.
I go out alone with Dina; then we collect Marie and Olga, we walk with them and afterward with Mme Sapogenikoff, going to Mortier's and to Manby's,...
We take our place in the third row of carriages, directly opposite the grandstands, but even so I cannot make out the people in them. Everyone is at...
She is as beautiful as ever, and at last in Nice. For a moment I thought it was not 1875 but 1873.
Well, there it is! It is what the poets call a thunderbolt... I am in love! With whom? Ah, that's just it! Well, it is Sir Frederic Johnstone. Nobody...
The musketeer hat in grey felt, with two equally grey plumes and one brim turned up, is truly very pretty; and what is more, it is a hat that has...
On reaching the Hôtel de Rome I had the carriage turned once more, but he had disappeared; so I went home, having nothing further to do. I come home...
The weather is grey, and I was wanting to go out; barely had I begun to do my hair when Mlle Collignon was announced, and almost simultaneously Mme...
A wind more than terrible — to convey its intensity, I shall say that I had the carriage closed up. We all went mad; the interior of that carriage...
At ten o'clock, a walk with Sabatini (grey, well). It is warm; the devil is not there; I am bored.
I have my first walk in English with a young imbecile who will come three times a week.
I feel tired. My head aches a little.
I am utterly listless and the headache has got worse. I go for a walk with the children; we cover the whole town looking for dominos and so forth.
My aunt, having gone to meet Botkine, saw Doria coming out of the station; this time he really has arrived, not like before.
I have bought two ringlets of hair, longer than my waist, in the Gioia style, and am going to attach them. On my head I wish to wear only my own hair...
I have prepared some laxative sweets for my dear ==Porter==; it will spoil his Carnival for the poor devil — but it will be a petty and vile revenge,...
I had not thought of going to the Cours, but Paul comes at half past two with Marie and we go. The same battle as yesterday; two hours later we are...
At two o'clock, Marie, Olga, I, Paul, and Cima — the last two masked — set off. This time, despite the noise, the motley crowd, and the gaiety...
Here is a day as stupid as all its predecessors — but so empty of everything that I hardly know what to say.
Bitterly cold. I walk for an hour and a half with the Englishwoman, and on returning I meet Nadinka who is going out; I go with her and walk for...
I go for an hour's drive, then return for Leclerc. Every day at home I wear a dress that Dina has cast off.
==It is with unparalleled joy that I return to my work.==
There was a great crowd on the Promenade when we came out. Alexandre wishes to speak to my dear Aunt Tutcheff and persuade her that she risks a great...
But ==with God's help==, I hope to put things in order by going to Russia.
I have begun Latin with Brunet, and, save for the execrable French pronunciation, his lessons are excellent.
In short, such as you see me, I am in despair. For three years I have been hammering at Maman and my aunt, and they have always answered that when I...