Thursday, 25 January 1883

Ah! I had rather not speak of it! It is atrocious! My ears! My ears! My ears! Since it has been like this I have white hairs by the quantity... Life is an almost unceasing anguish, and then the famous terror of a future still more!... dreadful... Ah! So with all that has struck me. It had to be! But this does not happen to anyone! But why me! Were not all these miseries enough?
This misfortune was needed too, this despair! This death!...