Saturday, 15 December 1883

Ditto. This child is maddening! Rosalie and Irma were exhausting themselves telling her stories... Nothing!
I have angelic patience — but by dint of containing my rage, towards four in the afternoon I fall into an atrocious despair. It is worse than everything, and love is decidedly nothing beside art — that is at least what I think at present. Let us hope that one day it will be quite the reverse.
In the evening to the Invisibles with the Canroberts.
Gabriel Géry sent me a Turkish robe, old-fashioned.

Notes

Les Invisibles: a stage show at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs, from 18 October 1883, a «voyage to the world of the infinitely small» seen through a giant electric microscope, which projected greatly enlarged animalcules from a drop of Seine water. ↩