Tuesday, 8 January 1878

I very nearly quarrelled with Breslau, who, with a most ugly want of delicacy, had seized on some wretched pretext to take my place. It left me furious, and a week of afternoons is lost — just as if on purpose, when Julian had told me to draw a pair of feet to perfection.
— You can do it; apply yourself and draw as though you had been doing it for two years.