Sunday, October 17:
Traveling home with Siegfried, who wins all hearts. For entertainment Triller's Der Prinzenraub, quite enchanting, also a copy of the Deutsche Rundschau.
At 1 o'clock reunion with R.! He tells me he dreamed during the night that we had been in a dance hall together; my partner had committed an impropriety, I pale with consternation, he demanded a second dance, claiming it was promised and mocking R., whereupon R. kicked him, which sent my bedcover flying and woke R. up.
In the evening Beethoven's A Minor Quartet and the first movement of R.'s favorite fantasy. I find a letter from Mimi awaiting me; she will try to procure 25,000 thalers from Reich funds, the splendid woman! R. very delighted with Feustel, who understands that one must now go on. 'I believe I shall be very old by the time this all ends,' R. says.
Wretched situation in Bavaria, the King less and less to be seen; he is said to converse now only with his groom, who incidentally is described as an upright and intelligent man, but the minute he tries to talk about something serious, the mood in the country, he is sent away. However, the King's unapproachability is of some advantage to him now; the incidents in the Chamber, where a member of the Catholic party said very improper things about the King under the pretext of quoting from a Liberal newspaper, are such that no king could put up with them. The Liberals left the Chamber, the government is demanding his dismissal.
R. says he would like, after the King's death, to see the Bavaria of Napoleon's good graces split up again into its component parts, the Rhine Palatinate going to Baden, Franconia to Württemberg, so that the Catholics would just be left with Old Bavaria. The news of the engagement of Princess Marie of Sachsen-Weimar to Prince Reuss, the German ambassador in St. Petersburg, is greeted with astonishment.