I had only to turn my head slightly to meet his eyes.
I said that Pietro had not yet trampled everything underfoot for my sake.
— What a misfortune?
— I, yield to you! Never in my life! I will not live to see such a humiliation!
We visited the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. Is it possible to see anything more immense? I was very frightened going through the entrance gate,...
After the Caccia-Club, after the Barcaccia, after Fanny Lear, Marie de Saxe, Torlonia, Saint-Joseph, Pandola! I am curious and impatient to see him...
I was surprised that he had not yet spoken to his parents. But what would he say to them, since I tell him I do not love him? Had I told him the...
Maman wants to frighten me by speaking of diseases. It serves no purpose except to rob me of my peace of mind. But since the principal aim of her...
Were it still winter I should perhaps not think so much of Torlonia — but this confounded spring sharpens all the senses so keenly that one is...
The day after tomorrow I shall see Pietro! One would think I loved him, to judge by my impatience.
While I was taking my painting lesson, I heard in Walitsky's room — which is next to the studio — a man's voice speaking Russian. I knocked at the...
How disagreeable this hotel is! Plowden came two days ago — the day before yesterday — and no one told us; it was he himself who mentioned it...
With a fervent faith, a moved heart, and a well-disposed soul, I made my confession and received communion. Maman and Dina too. Then we heard mass —...