I shall never forgive her for the mask at Paul de Cassagnac's. Never in my life.
... A heap of things... but no. I should simply like to have arrived sooner. It is silly, it is idiotic. Don't think anything bad. It is mere...
He spoke of everything in that passionate and amorous Italian manner that no woman can dislike. And then a way of throwing his head back that puts...
Monsieur Multedo made a good impression on me because we spoke Italian.
I had asked for tickets to Versailles elsewhere, and as they were slow in sending them I asked Cassagnac for them today — and what was my vexation...
"You will be among the strongest — and note," he added, glancing at the canvas of the absent Breslau, "note that I mean those who are not here."
Don Carlos, who was seated in front of us, five or six rows of chairs ahead, looked at me a great deal as we were leaving. Did he recognise the...
I have a fairly good place and I believe I am in form. Besides, I mean not to tire myself out by staying up late.
We did not return until eight o'clock; I had insisted on staying to see the end of M. d'Egremont's speech, which he read from a million disconnected...
But it is dreadful, this misfortune that has befallen you, and believe that I deplore with you the loss of young Pincio, the more so because you will...
I have built myself such a balcony that I am taken for Mlle de Reszké (singer at the Opera) when I enter the box where Multedo is to be found. After...
I had not reckoned that from my place I should always have to turn my head to see the model. This business wears on my nerves greatly and my...
Our travellers have departed and will arrive in Florence on Monday.
She told me all this in the evening; I could not believe my ears, and if I had the time I would tell you to what degree of blindness, stupidity, what...
I trailed in my wake Mouzay and her daughter, my mother and Dina.
Viik gets the medal (which is natural enough), then comes Madeleine (the one who almost always gets the medal), and then me. I am so surprised that I...
Paris, 36 rue du Colisée
I went to the Luxembourg and then to the Louvre with Schaeppi.
Several times Maman had to go to Grand-papa's; Multedo spoke to me of the ball.
The by-elections are a complete debacle! Republicans have been elected all along the line. *M. Gent is elected.* That gives you a good picture of the...
I have finished *The Lily of the Valley*. It is a very tiring book, despite its beauties. The letter from Nathalie de Manerville that closes the book...
We talked for a few minutes; he told me in brief what you will read in *Le Pays* of Thursday 11 April, which I am keeping for you.
This flight had been preceded by a violent scene caused by an anonymous letter in which Mme Boyd was told that Berthe was the mistress of this...
Yesterday Julian met Robert-Fleury at the café, and Robert-Fleury said that I was a truly interesting and astonishing student and that he had great...
I was entirely in black, slender and extremely graceful; a black straw hat with feathers, slightly Directoire. Never have I had a slimmer waist. I...
Then MM. de Plancy and Goldsmid. Multedo began by paying court to Dina, hoping I would go and claim him as I did yesterday and before — but I left...
When I draw I no longer live the life of ordinary people — I am at my work. But when I sit for my portrait...
I am calmer and once again on the mountain from the heights of which I see only one star in the sky — that of my future... and when I reach it I...
Breslau often speaks of Cassagnac to her landlady's son, who is a sort of journalist and has already told her some nasty things about him, and who...
I went to church with Madame my mother, whom I railed at the whole way without fear of hell — for she cares nothing about losing her children and...
But it would be him instead of Multedo.
The young do not know how to value themselves, but I am like an old woman who knows what all this is worth and does not want to lose a single...
Multedo came at two o'clock; we were left alone several times, and he made me a declaration of love, quite a serious one. Such things are disturbing...
Dina plays the madcap and I the sage; that are very virtuous — which are, for that matter, only my innermost convictions, but which I am not in the...
My drawing room is lit by a peculiar lamp that recalls old castles; the skeleton, the harp, the books, the notebooks, the pieces of wood, the...
"They say that you are to be married.
Half an hour before dinner we receive a note from Cassagnac asking to be allowed to come in town dress.
But what a fright this morning! Grand-papa nearly died. Thank God he is better.
I had the mad idea of having men invited to the midnight mass at our church. Goldsmid, de Morgan and d'Alt came. I was terribly vexed by our...
But what a charming little hell our household is.
First, since it is Russian Easter one must kiss. I beg you to believe that our host did not deprive himself — but I defended myself with all my...
What more is there to say of it, except that the French Republic is not a government of order and economy! They have strewn the paths with horribly...
The Swiss girls find that from the waist up I am absolutely perfect; it is true that I have only seen in antique sculpture a bust so upturned. From...