An organ, accompanied by a fine and powerful wind instrument called the sommerophone, was being played, and it nearly upset me.

The canvas is very dirty, the red curtains are faded and many things are very much soiled, still the effect is fresh and new as ever and most beautiful.

The glass fountain was already removed...

and the sappers and miners were rolling about the little boxes just as they did at the beginning.

It made us all very melancholy." But more cheerful thoughts followed.