Sunday, 18 August 1878

Nothing of note happened on the 15th of August — a simple mass, nothing more. Outside of Soden, Schwarz and Gans are nothing at all. Everything is back in place in my sitting room; beside the skeleton lies the stocking I had begun, and the Soden tableaux are scattered everywhere.
This apartment is disagreeable to me. Having left it and then returning makes it seem like a detested home. Walitsky died here, Pincio was lost here, and Cassagnac will return no more. It is childish of me to pretend to lump all these misfortunes together. I denied God as the men I do not love deny my heart.

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In English in the original. ↩