allais-je

Updated: May 17, 2025

Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of September: "All attempts at dining very fruitless. Basins in requisition. Wind hard ahead. Que diable allais-je faire dans cette galere? Writing or thinking impossible: so read 'Letters from the AEgean." These brief words give, I think, a complete idea of wretchedness, despair, remorse, and prostration of soul and body.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo