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I worked up a joy, a courage at the idea of seeing you here. It was like a cure that I carefully contrived, but you are worried about your dear, old mother, and certainly I can not protest. Well, if, before your departure from Paris, I can finish Cadio, to which I am bound under pain of having nothing wherewith to pay for my tobacco and my shoes, I shall go with Maurice to embrace you.
How will the rehearsals of Cadio prevent you from coming to see your poor old friend this autumn? It is not impossible. I know Freville. He is an excellent and very cultivated man. LXXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, Wednesday evening, 9 September, 1868 Is this the way to behave, dear master?
Plauchut saw you once, and he adored you. That proves that he is not stupid. When he left me in Paris, he told me to remember him to you. I left Cadio in doubt between good and average receipts. The cabal against the new management relaxed after the second day. The press was half favorable, half hostile. The good weather is against it. The hateful performance of Roger is also against it.
I would write you at length about Cadio; but it is late and my eyes are smarting. So, thank you, very kindly, my dear master. XCIV. To M. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Paris, end of September, 1868 Dear friend, It is for Saturday next, 3rd October. I am at the theatre every evening from six o'clock till two in the morning.
The censorship has left us alone as regards the manuscript; tomorrow these gentlemen will inspect the costumes, which perhaps will frighten them. I left my dear world very quiet at Nohant. If Cadio succeeds, it will be a little DOT for Aurore; that is all my ambition. If it does not succeed, I shall have to begin over again, that is all. I shall see you.
Thuillier is also religious, but without being changed; she does not like priests, she does not believe in the devil, she is a heretic without knowing it. As for me, it gives me much sorrow not to love her any more. We love you, we embrace you. I thank you for coming to see Cadio. G. Sand Does that astonish you, dear master? Oh well! it doesn't me! I told you so but you would not believe me.
Just at present, dear friend, there is a truce to my correspondence. On all sides I am reproached, WRONGLY, for not answering letters. I wrote you from Nohant about two weeks ago that I was going to Paris, on business about Cadio: and now, I am returning to Nohant tomorrow at dawn to see my Aurore.
Don't you agree with me that a play of very great effect could be made from it for a boulevard theatre? By the way, how is Cadio going? Tell your dear mamma that I adore her. Harrisse, from whom I have received a letter today, charges me to remember him to her, and, for my part, I charge you to embrace her for me.
I shall return here the end of the month, and when they play Cadio, I shall beg you to spend twenty-four hours here for me. Will you do it? Yes, you are too good a troubadour to refuse me. I embrace you with all my heart, and your mother too. I am happy that she is well. G. Sand XC. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 18 September, 1868 It will be, I think, the 8th or 10th of October.
Of the very abundant fruitage of these last years, not many rank with the masterpieces of her earlier periods, although such novels as "Tamaris" , "La Confession d'une Jeune Fille" , and "Cadio," seemed to her admirers to show no decline of force or fire.
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