January 3 + 

From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile⁠—always singing to himself as he goes⁠—a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind.⁠ ⁠… I should like to throw mud at him. By Jove, how I hate him. He makes me wince with my own pain. It is heartless, indecently so, for an old man to be so blithe. Life has, I suppose, never lain in wait for him. The Great Anarchist has spared him a bomb. + 