One must be driven to extremes, as I am, to undertake such a journey — into a country almost foreign to me, distant, and... almost repellent. I am...
I nearly cried out upon entering the Place de la Concorde, so vast and beautiful is it. I have seen Vienna, London, Rome, Florence — I remember Milan...
"What a pity," she said, "that you come three days too late — I would have introduced you to my old friend the Comtesse Garcia, whose daughter is...
It seems that the little hat I am wearing is very pretty. The other day Caroline told me that one of the most elegant women in Paris had followed me...
Rémy and his father called on us. You know that Rémy is twenty? He is an excellent young man and I am very glad to have him as a childhood friend....
The day was spent at the beautifiers' and then in the Bois. I was almost cheerful, for I was much noticed, but this "much" seemed very little after...
At three o'clock our carriage was brought round — the new one. And Vigier watched us, with the eyes of a satisfied good father, step into this...
Since this morning I have been thinking about yesterday's idea, and I am too proud to carry it out. For I cannot bring myself to regard Antonelli as...
Next to us was the young man who followed us yesterday from Mellerio's, where we had gone to leave some diamonds to be set; he was with his mother,...
At last we set out, pick up Mme de Mouzay and arrive at the door of No. 37, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, the house of M. Wartel, the foremost teacher...
I took Mmes de Mouzay and de Mertens to Laferrière's to watch me try on my dresses.
Chocolat, in his chocolate-coloured livery, takes up his duties. He is a marvellous boy; in Paris he already seems quite at home.
In thirty-two degrees of heat, de Mouzay, my aunt and I went to see Mme Mongruel, a somnambulist.
Today I saw quite extraordinary things. My aunt, Mmes de Mouzay and de Mertens were with me. We went to the celebrated somnambulist Alexis. He now...
That wretched Pierre made me forget one of the most interesting parts of yesterday's prediction. I take up the dialogue again at page [293], at the...