From Wednesday, 19 July 1876 to Wednesday, 16 August 1876
Berthe again! She asks at what time. I tell her at five o'clock, and after a while Chocolat brings back her reply. At five o'clock she is going to...
Well, I forgot to say that yesterday in the Bois we saw Lambertye with his eternal smile — though, given my age now, he smiles a little less.
Yssayevitch, not seeing me arrive in Russia, telegraphs to Maman, who writes to tell me that he and Lôbbecke are my true faithful ones. Yes — that is...
My aunt was out; I was reading downstairs in the hotel salon, and the idea came to me to go up — I go up, I find this letter from Mouzay. I did not...
"You write?" he asked again, with the same kind expression.
Audiffret was [words crossed out] informed that we were lunching.
Berlin reminds me of Florence. Wait! — it reminds me of Florence because I am here with my aunt, as at Florence, and leading the same life.
There is no sun! Two or three years ago I detested the sun; now I cannot be happy without it. We went to the Russian Embassy to ask for Julie...
I did not know what to do with myself — I bought a book and gave Chocolat a lesson. He says it amuses him! It helped me pass half an hour.
Yesterday, I, my aunt, Chocolat, and Amélie arrived at the station at ten o'clock. I was tolerably oppressed, but the sight of a coupé — large and...
Let God give me a life like that of other women, and I shall be at peace.
While waiting for other joys, my hair has begun to fall out.
I have not a single book. I have read two volumes of Bulwer — ==*The Last of the Barons*== — "and, once again, I have nothing left," as in...
Yesterday at three o'clock I went to watch the arrival of the train, and fortunately my uncle was there. But he could stay only a quarter of an hour,...
We went to collect my trunks from customs. The corridors, rooms, and offices we passed through, the customs officers and men of every description we...
"We have nothing original but the Middle Ages" — I said this in the last volume.
We sat up until four o'clock; I am tired this morning and Yssayevitch was not admitted to my rising.
I cannot forgive myself for having offended the young Horse Guard who was so *comme il faut*. Yesterday I did not say everything. When he was already...
Everything was ready; Yssayevitch had said his farewell; the Sapogenikoffs were with me at the station — when... oh, tedium! the money ran short. We...
One could not imagine who, for these three days, has occupied my mind — who it is I think of, who seems to me full of interest and for whom I feel a...