Tuesday, 1 / Wednesday, 2 / Thursday, 3 October 1878

God bless me if I know... Yes, Doenhoff dined with us yesterday and I was even pretty... This gentleman, as you know, is seeking to remarry a wealthy young lady, and I please him well enough. Good Lord — if he were given an embassy at Paris or Rome, I should very much like... Madrid and London are still tolerable. But to live in Prussia at the court of Prince Charles or of the Emperor... that does not suit me with a husband like Doenhoff.
I have letters from Abaza and from Florence, to whom I am decidedly not going — I prefer the Exposition and the rest... the atelier. But you will have found there a letter from Mouzay, which is interesting to me and almost precious, for she is an intelligent woman, though common and mad.