Monday, November 10:
We send off the verse to Pest. I walk with the children to the theater, which grows ever more splendid!
R. occupies himself with German grammar, the origin of the word Demut [humility], Dienen [serving], etc. He reads a great deal of Grimm, in whom, under the word “think,” he finds a quotation from Lessing that makes our hearts laugh: “A woman who concerns herself with thinking is like a man who paints his face.”
In the evening, Malwida brings along a very pleasant Russian, Prince Mestshersky, very cultured and lively.