Today is the day of the famous excursion to Sorrento, which I had opposed several times.
It is not for that love that I praise him — it is to do honour to the truth. I was exchanging a few morning pleasantries with him when Bijou...
He told me yesterday that he had written to me and that the letter was in the post; I shall send for it — here it is. [Letter missing from the...
The King arrived yesterday, and this morning at ten o'clock he came to pay a visit to the Prince of Prussia. Forewarned by Doenhoff, I placed myself...
He came back presently with Prater, and:
It is our Easter. We attended divine service, celebrated abominably by a Greek priest in the chancellery of the Consulate.
I stooped to ten small acts of cowardice to send those ladies off on their own at about four o'clock; they had the stupidity to come upstairs just as...
— Well, how are you, Mademoiselle? Rosalie asked me, leaning on the bed as she used to.
We run into Zunica, who takes us round. I am pale, and when a large painting reminds me of La Piccolellis, I grow nervous. I was ridiculous to make...
I am so sad that Rosalie comes and tells me silly things to cheer me up, and the efforts of that good girl make me sadder still. All I can answer her...
Larderel arrived at five in the afternoon. He and Melissano have already seen Maman, I forget where, but they talked together for an hour.
What would you have me talk about, what would you have me think of!
The races are run in two-wheeled carriages, and as one is afraid at every moment that the horse will break into a gallop, it is very interesting.
I am cheerful, but it is nerves.
He went out after exchanging grimaces with Rosalie, who comes this very moment to tell me:
Never once has that man seen me with my natural face! He is friends with Maman, he flirts with Dina in a teasing way, and he is almost rude to me.
Here is the main part of my aunt's letter, which I cannot resist the urge to translate:
The Hamontoff ladies came and spent an hour. I scarcely speak and am absent-minded, as may be imagined. He came in and went out several times with...
— And now, she says, you are both at odds. And it is your fault. Naturally you said things to him... and the Count flared up, and now you are both at...
==*So gentle and so honest appears* *My lady, when she greets another,* *That every tongue becomes trembling, mute,* *And the eyes do not dare to...
Dressed in a white hooded robe, I went out onto the balcony — I had not been there five minutes before I had to retreat in haste, for Larderel caught...
I am the most wretched of women. No one can measure the full extent of my degradation! Hideous degradation — I thought myself so far from these...
What have I forgotten?