Notebook 059

April 1876 — May 1876

20 entries • 31,126 words • 20 translated

Main location: Nice

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Belmonte Pandola Odescalchi Pizzardi Zucchini Cesaro Antonelli Angelini

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On entering the drawing-room this morning I was almost stifled by the scent of flowers — the room is literally full of them: flowers from Doenhoff,...

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The second day of the races!

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Everything was going well — we left the hotel cheerfully; I was pleasant with Altamura, and Saint-Joseph's bouquet served as our topic of...

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I had the whole day to recount but can remember nothing! I know only that on the Corso we encountered Antonelli two or three times, and then Maman...

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Opening my eyes at noon my first thought was: Is it possible to behave as I did yesterday? Is it possible to forget one's pride? But it was not my...

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It is again two in the morning when I sit down to write — but what does it matter.

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And God got me out of it. Having gone to bed at four o'clock, I woke at half past seven, which made three and a half hours of sleep.

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And at six o'clock we were once again in the railway carriage. I fell asleep several times and always had frightful dreams — nightmares.

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So here I am in this blue room for which I was sighing — and in which I sigh still.

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At eleven o'clock I was summoned to Maman's room for a letter that had just been received and which they would only give to me. You can guess my...

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I dreamed that I was marrying Giacometto Doria, and I was very displeased when I woke up.

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He told me all about his confinement in the monastery. The superior, having been warned that he was receiving the most dissolute and most...

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Is there anywhere in the world more charming, and worse inhabited, than Nice? All the permanent residents are still here, but they are so...

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I have been in Nice not a week, and yet it seems to me I have been here a month.

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The Rome races have been put off to the 11th or the 14th — there is time enough then for the telegram. I sent one this morning to the hotel...

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Today is the opening of the flower exhibition at the Villa Borghese. The Princess will be there, and everyone. I am just as glad to be at Nice — for...

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At twenty minutes past eight we were at the station, where the Sapogenikoffs and Collignon met us.

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It is raining and I spend my day playing the piano, reading, and above all grumbling, cursing, and complaining — now laughing, now weeping — so that...

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The first anniversary of the founding of the Society A.T.E.