# Thursday, 21 December 1876

Thursday, 21 December 1876

Oh! when I look at these four brown walls of the dining room, that Audiffret, that Pelikan (very respectable people), us, old men, cards! Oh! Ah! Oh!
I used to tell myself that too acute a grief could not last, that sooner or later there always came either an improvement or some sort of end...
I was wrong.
Editors’ notenote of the Cercle edition’s editors on the order of the passages
[1876: Passages written in the middle of 21 December]