Friday, 22 August 1884

It is a cancer.
Baude, who is spending the evening here with Emile, tells Maman.
Baude is his great friend; he had written him a long letter from Algiers — the one I read...
So it is over.
Can it be?
But I do not yet understand the effect this abominable news has upon me. It is a new feeling — to see a man condemned to death.