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What a dreadful journey — at Bingenbrück, I believe, we get out of the railway carriage and walk twenty minutes on foot. Then one embarks on the...
The others go off to the concert, and I stay at home and hear it wailing piteously.
At half past eight we set off for Wiesbaden in two landaus.
Yesterday there were races at Wiesbaden, today again. We do not go (Maman has her own concerns). I do not care to go — I believe there will be nobody...
I dreamed of the Fronde. I had just entered the service of Anne of Austria! She mistrusted me, but I led her into the midst of the rebellious people,...
We spend the day admiring me. Maman admires me, the princess really does admire me: she keeps saying that I look like her or that I look like her son.
I had a dreadful dream — I was losing a tooth. The sign of a death in the family; and yesterday I dreamed the same thing as I did before Madame...
At eight o'clock I go with Machenka to Schwalbach; we leave her dress to be made and return at noon. I had a detestable carriage but have just hired...
My father writes that, despite all his care and all his tenderness, Paul is behaving in an impossible fashion.
Since I have had my carriage, I am less bored — today I am even rather occupied.
I go with Machenka to Schwalbach for the eleven-to-twelve concert. I see ==Obeziana== and her brother. I love seeing familiar faces.
The morning is spent exasperating me, teasing me.
We dine at the Batourines'. A ravishing dinner and excellent wine — I have not drunk much and yet I am giddy. Machenka goes to try her dress at the...
We have received our photographs — some as the Graces, some as *disgraces.* One could die laughing!