They say, he who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday. I laugh all week long, Fridays included, and I do not weep.
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 a large 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 binoxide of nitrogen.
We are all gathered in the drawing room when d'Audiffret brings in and introduces his uncle Saëtone. The great lump! How can he be the leader of Nice...
This nose makes me melancholy. In spite of it I go to the baths with a double veil.
Just as I thought, my aunt is hurt that Girofla does not fall on his knees and proclaim me queen of his heart.
And now my aunt says that Audiffret has cooled. You understand? Besides, everything is turning out better than I thought. People are talking (I...
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 am impatient to go out. I send Brunet away half an hour early.
I find my journal of these last few days stupid. Everything is disjointed; I skip about; I write down the simplest things as one writes down...
We go for a walk, and Maman, on seeing Danis and the rest, said very aptly: "There go the handsome remnants."
I am dressed for winter, my hair is nicely done, and, delighted with myself, I need to be seen. So I go to the concert, where one meets the remnants....
I scribble less since Audiffret left. How many vexations I have, how many troubles!