Sunday, 16 December 1877

The atelier posed.
High Mass.
Morning at the Swiss girls’. Visit to Berthe.
Horrible scenes at home — Georges insults and strikes everyone.
If I had to tell it in detail... it is hideous, simply hideous.
The wrong my mothers do me, the harm, the scenes they provoke that feed gossip... but they suffer still more... I do not know whether to detest them or pity them.
What a hell!
Zurlo called.