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There was something in the tone and attitude of Floriani something more than the chevalier's assurance which, from the beginning, had so annoyed the count. There was a touch of irony, that seemed rather hostile than sympathetic. But the count affected to laugh, as he said: "All that is very ingenious and interesting, and I congratulate you upon your vivid imagination."
But the excitement and the mental distress connected with it threw him once more on the sick- bed, and for a long time people seriously feared that he would soon exchange it for a coffin. George Sand's view of the Lucrezia Floriani incident must be given in full. In Ma Vie she writes as follows:
But notwithstanding all her arguments and explanations there remains the fact that Liszt and thousands of others, I one of them, read Lucrezia Floriani and were not a moment in doubt that Chopin was the prototype of Prince Karol.
"Lucrezia Floriani," "Le Peche de M. Antoine," "Jeanne," of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read twenty years ago. Yet how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is! Life lies about us dumb; the day, as we know it, has not yet found a tongue.
"But it was closed and fastened, and we found it fastened afterward," declared the count. "In order to do that," continued Floriani, without heeding the interruption, "he had simply to construct a bridge, a plank or a ladder, between the balcony of the kitchen and the ledge of the window, and as the jewel-case " "But I repeat that the window was fastened," exclaimed the count, impatiently.
We must admit that it was sufficient to turn the head of a boy at that age. It was all so easy. He had simply to desire the thing, and reach out his hand to get it." "And he reached out his hand." "Both hands," replied the chevalier, laughing. His companions received a shock. What mystery surrounded the life of the so-called Floriani?
You have seen nothing, and yet you contradict all that we have seen and all that we know." Floriani paid no attention to the count's petulance. He simply smiled and said: "Mon Dieu, monsieur, I submit my theory; that is all. If I am mistaken, you can easily prove it." "I will do so at once....I confess that your assurance "
"I? The chevalier Floriani, whom you met at Palermo, and whom you have been gracious enough to invite to your house on several occasions." "Then what does this story mean?" "Oh! nothing at all! It is simply a pastime, so far as I am concerned.
The feelings of Chopin for his gifted companion are best painted by herself in the pages of "Lucrezia Floriani," where she is the "Floriani," Liszt "Count Salvator Albani," and Chopin "Prince Karol:" "It seemed as if this fragile being was absorbed and consumed by the strength of his affection.... But he loved for the sake of loving.... His love was his life, and, delicious or bitter, he had not the power of withdrawing himself a single moment from its domination."
What a contrast to the being of a few years before, of whom it is written: "He was no longer on the earth; he was in an empyrean of golden clouds and perfumes; his imagination, so full of exquisite beauty, seemed engaged in a monologue with God himself!"* * "Lucrezia Floriani." Both Liszt and Mme.
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