Saturday, October 25:
R. had a very bad night and today hardly works at all. Visit from the dean, who is indignant about our newest Jewish experience (Haymann). R. goes to the theater and comes home via the house, which he calls his Gräfe-Coeur, since every time he goes there the foreman Grafe stops him and gives him some unpleasant news.
R. is very upset when he hears about the possibility of my journey to Pest, and concludes some bitter remarks with the joking observation, “Good, if you go to Pest, I shall visit the World’s Fair in Vienna!”
In Paris a monarchy seems assured, and we come to the conclusion that this would be the best thing for both France and the world; anybody except a legitimate ruler in that country would always be obliged to foment war; a hereditary monarch would not, however, and perhaps things would then develop as in Belgium: freedom, welfare, unproductivity, and Jesuitry.
In the evening, Uhland.