We all went to the Exposition and saw a part of Germany, England, and France.  The costumes were heavenly.

That is the way I shall dress later.  How beautiful art can render finery!  I adore dress, because it will mate me pretty and give pleasure to the man I love, and I shall be happy.  Then dress bestows Paradise upon earth.

The Russian pavilion is extremely beautiful, everything is fine.  We breakfasted at the Russian restaurant.  It is neither restaurant nor Russian.  It is a sort of German beer-hall.  The servants are dressed in red, a perfect caricature.  It isn’t surprising that Russians should be taken for Turks.  I am having a good time to-day.  The first two it seemed as though I was in a lethargy.  That happens to me sometimes.  It is over now.  The Italian statues are very original.  There are some remarkable expressions of face.

Say what you like, our native land is always our native land.  Everything that is Russian in the pavilion is beautiful.  I looked eagerly.  There were Russian names on the goods.  My eyes filled with tears.

At seven o’clock, we went to hear the band.  There were a great many people, the music was very captivating, thoroughly Viennese.  When this orchestra stopped, another began.  All sorts of persons, members of the imperial family, fashionable ladies, young dandies, a whirl of gaiety.

The Viennese climate is delicious, not like Nice, which is burning hot in summer.

At last!  We are leaving!  We are in the train.  There is no time to collect one’s thoughts.  We pass cities, cottages, huts, and in each dwelling people are talking, loving, quarrelling, bestirring themselves.  Every human being whom we see, smaller than a fly, has his joys and sorrows.  We are talking so much of Baden.  We shall pass through it to-morrow.  I should like to go there.

At five o’clock in the morning I was waked.  We were approaching Paris.  I dressed quickly, but there were fifty minutes to spare.  We went to the Grand Hotel.

Paris is comical in the morning.  Nothing to be seen except butchers, pastry cooks, boot-makers, restaurant keepers, opening and cleaning their shops.

Toward noon, I was not only settled, but ready to go out.  In Paris I am at home, everything interests me; instead of being lazy, I am in too great a hurry.  I should like not only to walk, but to fly.  I wanted to make myself believe that there was society in Vienna, but that is impossible.  The hotel is full of a very good sort of English people.  We are going to Ferry’s.  I took the address in Vienna.  We shall buy two pairs of boots, one black, the other yellow.

We went on foot.  I ordered some gloves.  I dress myself.  My allowance is 2,500 francs a year.  I received 1,000 francs.  Then we took a cab and went to Laferriere’s.  I ordered a tete-de-negre costume (three hundred francs).