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Sooner than not have you come I shall go to drag you here by the hair. I embrace you most warmly on this good hope. G. Sand CVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 24 February, 1869 I am all alone at Nohant as you are all alone at Croisset. Maurice and Lina have gone to Milan, to see Calamatta who is dangerously ill.
You must stick them on a shelf in a corner and dig into them when your heart prompts you. XVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 21 September, 1866 I have just returned from a twelve days trip with my children, and on getting home I find your two letters. That fact, added to the joy of seeing Mademoiselle Aurore again, fresh and pretty, makes me quite happy.
I have met Madame Viardot whom I found a very curious temperament. It was Tourgueneff who took me to her house. CCXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, from the 28 to the 29 February 1872. Night of Wednesday to Thursday, three o'clock in the morning. Ah! my dear old friend, what a dreadful twelve days I have spent! Maurice has been very ill.
At last I am experiencing an entirely new sensation: the approach of old age. The shadow invades me, as Victor Hugo would say. Madame Cornu has spoken to me enthusiastically of a letter you wrote her on a method of teaching. CLV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 17 March, 1870 I won't have it, you are not getting old. Not in the crabbed and MISANTHROPIC sense.
Have you promised your support to the candidacy of Duquesnel? if not, I should like to beg you to use to the utmost your influence to support my friend, Raymond Deslandes, as if he were Your old troubadour, G. Flaubert Thursday, three o'clock, 13 June, 1872. Answer me categorically, so that we may know what you will do. CCXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset ..Nohant, 5 July, 1872
May '69 be easy for you, and may it see the end of your novel. May you keep well and be always yourself! I don't know anything better, and I love you. G. Sand I have not the address of the Goncourts. Will you put the enclosed answer in the mail? CIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 17 January, 1869
I read last week the Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian. How very boorish! There are two nuts, who have very plebeian souls. Adieu, dear good master. Your old troubadour embraces you, I am always thinking of Theo. I am not consoled for his loss. CCXLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 8 December, 1872
Have you read the Antichrist? I find that indeed a beautiful book, aside from some faults of taste, some modern expressions applied to ancient things. Renan seems to me on the whole to have progressed. I passed all one evening recently with him and I thought him adorable. CCLXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 3d October, 1873
That was like a gift to me, the thing is so rare. Moreover, the days when there are not politicians at his house, he is an adorable man. CCLXXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 8th December, 1874 Poor dear friend, I love you all the more because you are growing more unhappy.
It is a good story, whatever one says about it. That fellow decidedly had an imagination. Well, adieu. Think of me. I send you my best love. XLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 1867 Bah! zut! troulala! Well! well! I am not sick any more, or at least I am only half sick. What is my illness? Nothing.
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