he would never outlive the century ...

the English people would not stand him--he was responsible for the failure of the Exhibition, the English having gone away when they saw him there so well-dressed and happy ...

all the French people knew this, too, and would not stand him any more....

On October the 29th, Oscar got up for the first time at mid-day, and after dinner in the evening insisted on going out--he assured me that the doctor had said he might do so and would not listen to any protest.
I had urged him to get up some days before as the doctor said he might do so, but he had hitherto refused.

We went to a small cafe in the Latin Quartier, where he insisted on drinking absinthe.