Part 10 (1/2)

Goodness! What prices people ask in Rome! For 1,800 francs one has only the barest necessaries! At the Hotel de Roe and so fine that it randeur, this ancientwe have taken an apartment in the second story of the Hotel de Londres, with a balcony looking out upon the Piazza di Spagna, a handso-room, several bedrooms, and a study We went to B----'s studio He has very fair talent

Tuesday, January 11th, 1876

We did not go out, but the artist Kalorbinski caneur de Faloux, being unable to go out hi us a nureat deal about affairs in the city

I a son's first decree The Russian priest has come to call on us too I like the cowled monks in Rome They are new to me, and that pleases ; that is so in rose-colour, and I a of a letter in which it will be said of A----: _Et eum dicat super malitiosum, improbum, inhonestum, cupidum, luxuriosum, ebriosum!_ Exactly what Septimus Severus said of Albinus

If only the winter would pass more quickly With all ive , there was nobody there The best people gathered around us P---- was deserted, so were the others While this Spring there will again be nobody, but P---- will have Miss R---- These ladies, under the leadershi+p of T----, will for Princess G---- and Mo

We shall see Meanwhile let us study, and try to go into society

Let us pray to God, and a letters

Wednesday, January 12th, 1876

B---- and his cousin have called to see us When these Russians go, I put on s, and ranke in extravagant speeches, and h I received a letter froives me the news of Nice P----has had a reception, and everybody went It seee number of persons in the consul's house, and the consul and his wife said nothing but good about us

”I was glad,” B---- wrote, ”to see that they were your friends, too, though you no longer went there so often”

After all, I a to bed

Thursday, January 13th, 1876

Mamma and Dina are at church It is our New Year's Day, and I have stayed at home to sew That is my whim at present, and I ood wishes

Not until four o'clock did they succeed in draggingto the embassy That is the hour Baronne D----receives

We had a telegraratulates us, and relass of water at the Fountain of Trevi at two o'clock on the Russian New Year's Day He vowed friendshi+p, I did the same

I received a letter fro attention to an English girl whoination At the end of three days of our acquaintance with the Marvel, she told me that the poor fool was in love withfor him the fate of the Polish count Now she has seen hi them

Oh! it is really atrocious--always conjectures! Ah! if I could know the truth Have patience, that is easy to write But to show it!

Patience is the virtue of sluggish--but gentle, foolish souls

I don't think I love the Marvel, I don't find him in my heart; but at any rate, the surface is very much occupied with him If he loved me, I shouldn't care very much, that is the truth

Friday, January 14th, 1876

Weme, then bowed to neur F----, a thin, black, agile old priest in a wig, a Jesuit, a hypocrite He received us very courteously in his res in the best taste Gobelins, pictures, and all this in the dwelling of a detestable Jesuit Well, well!

We all went to walk in the Villa Borghese, which is more beautiful than the Doria There was a crowd of people, and the pretty Princess M---- alking like any ordinary e, with the coaches with coats of arms saddened me We know nobody, God help me! Perhaps I am ridiculous with my complaints, andMamma asked the date of last year's carnival; I took outover the leaves

I said tomust bow beforenever occurred to me