Nov 2 Wednesday

Marie came to work and we got her room ready with rejected furniture & pictures from the attic.
Alan & I went on bicycles to Montauban in the morning and I ordered two black corduroy trousers & a waistcoat, to measure, for 100 fr [francs] the trousers & 45 the waistcoat. And bought a black cotton heavy jacket for 45 francs. Returning; cleaned &[RG] polished the chandelier with ammonia.
At midnight we all drank wine mulled with lemon peel, orange juice, cognac, sugar, nutmeg, water; and ate melted cheese with toast.
Laura made a new hippocamp1 monument.

Editorial Notes

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