Tuesday, 21 May 1878

One misfortune is not enough for me — I need two! He is getting married — the second him — Léon Gambetta!
There are foreigners who come to Rome for a fortnight and stay all their lives.
Divine, irresistible city... Rome, goddess of lands and peoples
There are women like that too.
I am very unhappy. It is the fatigue.
Tell me now... I believe in clairvoyant somnambulists — you too, if you have seen any... well then, one is no longer safe. So apart from the nonsense that Cassagnac’s Marie can tell him, which may serve her in the mind of this new Balsamo — she may also have told him truths. With her assistance he can know what I think, and I do not doubt he has enquired at least once. That would be funny... not very.

Notes

In Latin in the original: terrarum dea gentiumque Roma (Martial). ↩