Thursday, 5 December 1878

I took Nadine and Paul to the Chamber. We come back with Gavini, Baron Larrey, Prince d’Arenberg, and Baron d’Ariste — one of the seconds in Cassagnac’s recent duels, a man about town, an Alexandre with fingers loaded with ugly rings, a being who shocks.
Formerly I had mistaken that feeling for amorous terror.

Notes

In French in the original: viveur. ↩