Eduard went to elementary school in Paris. During his first year, a letter was sent home to ask if he would be going home for summer, winter or spring breaks, but the letter was always intercepted by his mother and she always told them "no". The principal of the school eventually came to the conclusion that Eduard was practically an orphan with no ( Read more... )

Eileen went missing today. Coincidentally, so did Cow. The whole household was looking for her all over the place. Daddy didn't know about it because he was at work, but Mother just sneered at me when I asked her if she knew where Eileen was. Oh, well. I didn't expect to get much of an answer out of her anyway. She's not really very clever, though ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be packing today, but Eileen came in and messed all my things up. Honestly. She ought to know better. She's nine, after all. I told her that I would make her help me pack, and then she left. She didn't want to help ( Read more... )

Daddy has just told me that he's going to send me away to Paris. He didn't say why, but I think I know. I heard him and Mother arguing last night about Eileen and I. I heard Mother through the floorboards saying that I was a negative influence because I was a "bastard" child. I don't really know what that means, and Daddy won't tell me. He just ( Read more... )

Ms. Wright stayed in the service of the Markgraf family until Eduard was nine. She resigned two months after his birthday, saying that his spelling and grammar were completely perfect and now that her duty had been done, she wished to return back to her town to get married to her childhood sweetheart. It was her who told Eduard the story of the ( Read more... )

The new tooter makes me write things too, but they're diferrrent things from the ehseays. Miss W-Right says that if I can write good, then I could become a novealist. She told me that a noveal is like a really, really long story. I don't really know why anyone would want to write a really, really long story. Wouldn't they get boared?

The new tooter came today. She's not very prity at all. The last one was prityer, but she was a lot meaner too. This tooter has brawn hair and braun eyes. Mother says she looks like a mouse, then she went away. Daddy said some words to the tooter, then turned to me and told me her name was Miss Right. Except he said it was with a dooble-u in front ( Read more... )

Eileen told me that Mother told her that Daddy told her that he had found a new tooter for me. I tole her she was laiing, but she just shruggered. She told me that Daddy told her that the new tooter was going to be even werse than the first one.

I got yelled at by the matron later becuse it was "unsitely" to run from room to room skreaming.

Eileen just poked her head in through the doorway and tole mt that I was a tattletale. She says that the io-u is called off because I told on her.

Daddy didn't like the way my hair looked. I tried xplaining to him, but he didn't get it either. He can be even stupider than Eileen, sometimes. He sent me up to my room and told me that he would have a Talk with my tooter.