Charlotte in Giverny by Joan MacPhail Knight

Author:Joan MacPhail Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2000-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

November 6, 1892

This came today. Can it be? Will it be? Lizzy ici? Here in Giverny?

November 15, 1892

Rue de l’Amiscourt, Giverny

It’s been snowing all day. I could hardly wait for Mademoiselle Bertout to leave. The minute she did, I went out to the garden to make a snowman. With Monsieur Seurel’s hat and Papa’s scarf, he certainly is a well-dressed snowman. “Très chic!,” said Raymonde, Very elegant! By the time I saw Papa this afternoon, he looked like a snowman, too. He had gone down to the woods to paint. There was an umbrella over the easel, but his coat and hat were white with snow. And he had icicles in his hair! It wasn’t hard to find him—all I had to do was follow his footprints. He seemed happy to have the hot chocolate I brought him.

Last night there was a winter ice party. After dinner we bundled up and set out by moonlight across the frozen fields. The marsh looked like a fairyland. Lanterns glowed in the trees like big, frozen fruits. Everyone was there—even the Monets. We put on our skates and set out. It was very still and quiet, the only sound the swish of skates on ice.

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