begun Monday, 7 June 1875 — finished Friday, 25 June 1875
Collignon, Dina, and I train our opera glasses for ten minutes on a white shape on the tower, unable to make out what it is. I think it was nothing...
Straight to the sea baths with my aunt. There we find numerous company and the man in white, who blushes deeply. He bows from a distance, then comes...
I am bored and on edge. Yet the day had begun well, and everything passed as usual. We go to the sea baths with the Sapogenikoffs and my aunt. I give...
I have the darkest thoughts on earth.
De Mouzay spends an hour with me; Yourkoff leaves at two for Switzerland, and all our party goes to the station to see him off.
I did the cards for myself and never have I seen a more brilliant spread. Travel, love, wealth, marriage, the complete fulfilment of all my desires,...
I get up lazily, but take my chemistry lesson with Leclerc all the same; we prepare sulphurous acid to decolourise flowers, and nitrogen dioxide.
Yesterday at the baths I borrowed a spyglass. With Collignon we study the white figure. ==Much ado about nothing.== It is a door in one of the...
All night I dreamed I was in a magnificent dark green garden, with branches hanging so low, and the foliage so dense, and the grass so very green.
I scribble less since Audiffret left. So many unpleasantnesses I have, so many troubles!