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AN APOLOGY.
9 P.M.
I have made up my mind.

I shall go to see M.Charnot.But before that I shall go to his publisher's and find out something about this famous man's works, of which I know nothing whatever.
December 31st He lives in the Rue de l'Universite.
I have called.

I have seen him.

I owe this to an accident, to the servant's forgetting her orders.
As I entered, on the stroke of five, he was spinning a spiral twist of paper beneath the lamplight to amuse his daughter--he a member of the Institute, she a girl of eighteen.