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I ask your pardon for troubling you with all these things. I love you, and apply to you as I would to my brother. Embrace your children. My regards to Madame Franchomme. Your devoted friend, F. Chopin. A thousand compliments from Madame Sand. Chateau de Nohant, Indre, August 2 .
But cross the Indre, and you will see sights worse than a battle-field a week old! You will find no living soul in house or stable or church, but corpses plenty. The land is cursed! cursed for heresy, some say! Half are dead, and half are fled to the woods! And if you do not die of the plague, you will starve. 'God forbid! I muttered, thinking with a shudder of those before us.
"He is a good man and loyal lord. I will go." said he. Thereupon he passed into the church, took the silver box where the blessed bread is, rang the little bell himself in order not to wake the clerk, and went lightly and willingly along the roads. Near the Gue-droit, which is a valley leading to the Indre across the moors, our good vicar perceived a high toby. And what is a high toby?
Beneath the shelter of the favour of this Sieur de la Riviere, Lord of Cande did exactly as he pleased in the valley of the Indre, where he used to be master of everything, from Montbazon to Usse. You may be sure that his neighbours were terribly afraid of him, and to save their skulls let him have his way.
He does, however, scant justice to the banks of the Loire; his want of appreciation of the picturesque want of the sketcher's sense causes him to miss half the charm of a landscape which is nothing if not "quiet," as a painter would say, and of which the felicities reveal themselves only to waiting eyes. He even despises the Indre, the river of Madame Sand.
Your old father, who is very fond of you and very sad to think of the trouble he is giving you, Isidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, "Cuzion, Indre." The Indre! The department which he had been stubbornly searching for weeks! He consulted a little pocket-guide which he always carried. Cuzion, in the canton of Eguzon he had been there too.
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