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My outfit was charming and rather unusual. It was a batiste chemisette, gathered at the neck like a peasant woman's blouse, perfectly plain — so that...
I was woken with a letter whose handwriting made me tremble. But having opened and read it I fell back on the pillow, disappointed, almost angry at...
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.
An unbearable heat kept us in until six. Then we went down to dine and, in passing, I caught sight of Audiffret buried in a newspaper. We were...
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...
At eleven o'clock we were awaiting our guests in a large salon where luncheon was laid.
How strange — the night before last I went to bed, and until I fell asleep I kept seeing Antonelli's face detach itself like a shadow from behind the...
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 telegraphed my father yesterday begging him to come to meet me. Here is his reply: "You probably wish to affront me — as you please. I cannot come....
Yesterday my aunt, Chocolat, Amélie and I arrived at the station at ten o'clock. I was rather downcast, but the sight of a coupé — large and...
I want to write a novel of chivalry. For the one I had begun has been thrown to the bottom of the white box. I am still in the blessed inn of...
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 Audiffret's...
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...
A wedding of common folk was being celebrated. The couple were ugly and we did not look for long. I love the Russian people — good, brave, loyal,...
"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 am penniless. An agreeable situation. Étienne is an excellent man but always wounds my delicate feelings. This morning I lost my temper — but half...
I cannot forgive myself for having offended the young Horse Guard who was so ==well-bred==. Yesterday I did not say everything. When he was already...
At seven o'clock I departed — rather humiliated by the adventure, but agreeably moved at the moment of departure by the appearance of a dozen Guards...
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...
Throughout the whole journey Étienne positively got on my nerves. Imagine my grand-ducal reverie and my reading of a study of Cleopatra and Mark...
Towards dinner, which follows very close upon luncheon, another visit: the brother of the aforesaid; a young man who has travelled a great deal and...
In two years he will be a Councillor of State, and he is itching to be decorated. I put on blue silk, with my ==bonbon-box shoes==.