Letter

  1 Introd    |         than ever before. “It can’t be imperative to work so
  2 Introd    |        OUTSIDE OF MYSELF. It hasn’t always been like that. I
  3 Introd    |          defect is that she doesn’t know how to “hate.” She
  4 II        |         1864~Dear Flaubert,~I don’t know whether you lent me
  5 IV        |         have read them. You mustn’t get excited about that,
  6 V         |  destroyed a great citizen. I don’t need to tell you that we
  7 VII       |          I used to do. That doesn’t make one person alter the
  8 VIII      |            17 or 18 May, 1866~Don’t expect me at your house
  9 X         |          as I’m always out, I don’t want you to come and find
 10 XIII      |         explore Rouen which I don’t know, or show it to me if
 11 XV        |           me wherever I am. I don’t know yet. If my children
 12 XV        |          letter which I kiss. Don’t forget the three leaves
 13 XV        |          Theatre de Nohant, I don’t want to, it’s too small
 14 XV        |        have that idea, why wouldn’t they try your fairy play?
 15 XVI       |          of the fairy play. I don’t know with whom you have
 16 XVII      |         the number here and I don’t remember the month.~I read,
 17 XVIII     |           distresses me and I don’t need so much bother in order
 18 XVIII     |        dream has been sombre. Isn’t it the same with you? Doesn’
 19 XVIII     |          the same with you? Doesn’t it seem at moments, that
 20 XVIII     |            and at other times don’t you feel over you the weight
 21 XX        |         here. Have courage.~I don’t experience, as you do, this
 22 XX        |    categories, adieu, morale!~Don’t you really think that since ’
 23 XXI       |          to me from Paris. It isn’t lost. I think too much of
 24 XXI       |          let any be lost. You don’t speak to me of the floods,
 25 XXI       |        for an imbecile, but I don’t risk anything; I am imbecile
 26 XXI       |         You are very coy. You don’t find what you do worth being
 27 XXI       |    unfortunates of the world? Isn’t it the people without taste
 28 XXI       |         ideals who get bored, don’t enjoy anything and are useless?
 29 XXI       |       that is inevitable. But don’t abandon them, and always
 30 XXI       |       After reflecting on it, isn’t that your opinion? If you
 31 XXI       |       have been floundering? Didn’t they have to flounder in
 32 XXI       |       Turgot to please you. I don’t promise to go as far as
 33 XXIV      |         Shall I survive it? I don’t ardently desire to, above
 34 XXVI      |       numerous and so rare?~I don’t know what sort of feeling
 35 XXVI      |       understood each other, didn’t we, that was good.~I especially
 36 XXVII     |           mine. One is happy, don’t you think so, to be able
 37 XXVIII    |   doctrine.~Morality aside, I don’t think that the children
 38 XXIX      |    FLAUBERT 16 November, 1866~Don’t take any further steps.
 39 XXXI      |           in the old way.~You don’t have to write to me when
 40 XXXI      |          write to me when you don’t feel like it. No real friendship
 41 XXXII     |           that will pass. You don’t know what it is to stay
 42 XXXII     |         itself. Otherwise shouldn’t one curse the flesh like
 43 XXXII     |       everything generous and don’t begrudge the giving of themselves.
 44 XXXIII    |        ourselves in them? Shouldn’t we put what society puts
 45 XXXIII    |         no difference. You, I don’t really know if by method
 46 XXXIII    |          do afterwards what I don’t do, what I should do. You
 47 XXXIV     |         SAND Saturday morning~Don’t bother yourself about the
 48 XXXIV     |      develop it in talking. I don’t ask you for copy of course,
 49 XXXIV     |       Well! no, IN MY DAY we didn’t take such vows and we loved!
 50 XXXV      |          waking.~As for me, I don’t believe in these Don Juans
 51 XXXV      |         Where is the model? I don’t know, I have never REALLY
 52 XXXV      |           I feel it but I shouldn’t know how to show it.~But
 53 XXXV      |        come down front stage. Can’t that be done? It seems to
 54 XXXVII    |        all surprised that you don’t understand my literary agonies.
 55 XXXVII    |           literary agonies. I don’t understand them myself.
 56 XXXVII    |           and violent ones.~I don’t in the least know how to
 57 XXXVII    |        Happy indeed those who don’t depart from it.~I don’t
 58 XXXVII    |           t depart from it.~I don’t agree with you that there
 59 XXXVII    |        think that a novelist HASN’T THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS
 60 XXXVIII   |           what one writes?” I don’t understand at all, oh! not
 61 XXXIX     |           Those who want them don’t always get them!~When my
 62 XL        |         my nostrils! And then won’t it be time perhaps to enjoy
 63 XLI       |         receive my note and I don’t understand about it, but
 64 XLI       |         another public, and I don’t stand in as well with the
 65 XLII      |          weakness, or work, I don’t know. I don’t think of it
 66 XLII      |         work, I don’t know. I don’t think of it any longer.
 67 XLII      |           very much, and as I don’t know if I am going to be
 68 XLII      |          good.~The cheeses? I don’t know at all, it seems to
 69 XLII      |          to me of them, but I don’t remember at all. I will
 70 XLIII     |           below?~I told you, didn’t I, that I had reread Consuelo
 71 XLIV      |        they? Are they mine? I don’t recall a single word in
 72 XLIV      |           I am perhaps; but I don’t know anything about it,
 73 XLIV      |    without having studied it. Isn’t it an uneasiness, an anguish
 74 XLV       |           and I missed you.~I don’t like to eat alone. I have
 75 XLV       |           a charming being? I don’t know. What is certain is
 76 XLV       |      sensations about them? I don’t think so, since our individuality
 77 XLV       |          subject badly. For I don’t see that he is comic: I
 78 XLVI      |       worrying about money? I don’t know what that is, since
 79 XLVI      |        protect yourself But haven’t you a friend who knows how
 80 XLVI      |           Am I not well? If I can’t go to Paris next month,
 81 XLVI      |          to Paris next month, won’t you come to see me here?
 82 XLVI      |          artist’s jewel. Why aren’t you here? It is horrid not
 83 XLVII     |          probably. Meanwhile, don’t thank him any the less,
 84 XLVII     |        the time, take it. You won’t do anything that I advise,
 85 XLVII     |        intimate friend. Come, don’t stand on ceremony!~Between
 86 XLVIII    |     energy TO WISH TO LIVE. I don’t care about it; moving from
 87 XLVIII    |         is still fresh. But I don’t know why I talk to you of
 88 XLVIII    |          the fulness of life. Don’t let’s talk about them any
 89 XLVIII    |       Holy Virgin. At least I don’t think so. I can not find
 90 XLIX      |       with it! For the rest I don’t find it easy to live. Far
 91 LIV       |         are well and that you don’t forget him.~
 92 LVI       |       shall be well advanced, don’t you think so? Well, these
 93 LVI       |           which open to you I don’t know what infinity. You
 94 LVI       |    INFINITE; my heavens, yes, don’t doubt it, it is his destiny,
 95 LVII      |        the war any more, they don’t talk of anything.~The Exposition
 96 LX        |           I am very free. So, don’t disturb yourself, and arrange
 97 LX        |  thirty-six plans also, but I don’t incline to any one; what
 98 LX        |        OUTSIDE OF MYSELF! It hasn’t always been like that. I
 99 LX        |         one speaks to them. I don’t even know what to call them.
100 LX        |          talk with a group. I don’t know what happened. I fancy
101 LX        |         perhaps longer, but I don’t know. I embrace you tenderly,
102 LX        |       little, I beg of you. I don’t fear anything for the novel;
103 LX        |         forty-eight hours and don’t want any one to speak to
104 LXII      |  Mademoiselle Merquem.] but I don’t see it yet very clearly;
105 LXII      |        not see her long, If I don’t think I am destined to grow
106 LXIV      |       there together. If not, don’t bother about me. I go everywhere
107 LXVII     |          is going well, but I don’t know anything about it.
108 LXIX      |         if you would! But you don’t love us enough for that,
109 LXXI      |      positive passions. But I don’t see simplicity anywhere
110 LXXII     |        him go to the devil!”~Aren’t you coming to Paris? I am
111 LXXII     |          to come to Nohant; I won’t reproach you for I don’t
112 LXXII     |          t reproach you for I don’t know how. I have scribbled
113 LXXIII    |         Cannes?~After Cannes shan’t you return to Paris? I shall
114 LXXIII    |          master, write to me, won’t you?~I embrace you tenderly.~
115 LXXIV     |           31 December, 1867~I don’t agree with you at all that
116 LXXIV     |         stick-in-the-mud, who won’t let yourself be dragged
117 LXXIV     |          and my dog himself doesn’t want to go out. He is not
118 LXXV      |         end of the month. You don’t tell me when you return
119 LXXVI     |           what a fine winter, don’t you think so? Isn’t it lovely,
120 LXXVI     |           don’t you think so? Isn’t it lovely, the moonlight
121 LXXIX     |       dear Croisset. But then don’t go on Thursday, I am giving
122 LXXXI     |        you; if it is too late don’t wait for me, I lunch on
123 LXXXI     |           on Sunday then, and don’t inconvenience yourself.~
124 LXXXIV    |          choose my milieu and don’t go to the Senate nor to
125 LXXXV     |           weeks. The patriots won’t forgive me for this book,
126 LXXXVI    |         What a lovely forest, isn’t it? but it is especially
127 LXXXVI    |            as they say. But I don’t understand him. He is a
128 LXXXVIII  |          attach myself, and I don’t know anything that goes
129 LXXXVIII  |        like the camels, which can’t be stopped when they are
130 LXXXIX    |          to rage about. But I don’t rage any more, I laugh;
131 XC        |          egotism; in short, I don’t know what it is, and there
132 XC        |       religious enthusiast, I don’t know what, imbecile! I have
133 XC        |       against THE OTHER. They don’t like her at all. As for
134 XCI       |         master? Oh well! it doesn’t me! I told you so but you
135 XCI       |        much as I can. But you don’t give me any details about
136 XCIII     |         page 161!~In the play won’t you have to give a longer
137 XCIV      |       escaped from Bicetre.~I don’t at all know what the performance
138 XCVI      |        against it. So that we don’t know yet if we shall make
139 XCVII     |        What a nice bit, eh? Doesn’t it seem to you that they
140 XCIX      |      before the end of May. I don’t know anything that goes
141 XCIX      |         in Latin. Therefore I don’t know a word of it any more!
142 XCIX      |        from the opportunity.” Isn’t it a fine piece of idiocy,
143 CI        |            let us talk.~No, I don’t get into a heat, for I have
144 CI        |          and those people who don’t know my life attributed
145 CII       |        doll for Aurore; but I don’t want to turn in without
146 CII       |         be always yourself! I don’t know anything better, and
147 CIII      |          They liked it; but I don’t want them to play it in
148 CIII      |           for the bourgeois, wasn’t it? Ninety out of a hundred
149 CV        |       extricate himself. They won’t entangle us in it: we aren’
150 CV        |        entangle us in it: we aren’t so foolish!~You say very
151 CV        |            what fine weather! Don’t you enjoy it, at least from
152 CVII      |           Moreover, the basis isn’t changed. There are tender
153 CVII      |          in the papers. Why doesn’t he write books, since he
154 CXI       |        which will be called I don’t know what. I am a little
155 CXIV      |         profession is horrid, isn’t it? Between now and Friday
156 CXV       |           it is a fact that I don’t really know whom to listen
157 CXVI      |   troubadour before that. But don’t disturb yourself, I know
158 CXVIII    |        will have two volumes, won’t you?~However, I persisted
159 CXVIII    |         me saying: Be easy, I don’t say no. Should the book
160 CXIX      |          to hearing THE REST. Don’t forget the manuscript.~Your
161 CXXI      |     unconquerable melancholy. Isn’t it queer! He who was so
162 CXXIII    |          promised to come. We don’t forget it, we count on it,
163 CXXIV     |          I used to be. People don’t like such as I am very much.
164 CXXV      |           me,—oh! but no, you don’t travel about; well, we shall
165 CXXV      |        our heads. Bah! that doesn’t exist. Everything is prose,
166 CXXV      |           dear big child. Why can’t I put the rosy, tanned face
167 CXXVIII   |        delightful lodgings. I don’t know the address although
168 CXXIX     |       myself together enough.~Don’t be disturbed about your
169 CXXX      |        make an attempt with de la T(our) Saint-Y(bars). I yielded
170 CXXXII    |        going to make you ill, don’t come, I know very well that
171 CXXXIII   |           arouse envy and you don’t care, do you? Nor I either
172 CXXXIII   |          arranged that way; I don’t know if I am making a mistake.
173 CXXXIII   |     winter in Paris, and I, I don’t know when I shall go. The
174 CXXXIV    |      think. It is my right.~I don’t know exactly when, but during
175 CXXXV     |    Duranty. I most profoundly don’t care a fig! but that does
176 CXXXV     |        hurts me.~I told you, didn’t I, that I was working over
177 CXXXV     |     hackneyed. Raphael Felix didn’t seem to me eager to become
178 CXXXVI    |           of Arsene Houssaye, won’t write articles on mine,
179 CXXXVII   |         better idea, I really don’t know the importance and
180 CXXXIX    |    successes. The clever ones don’t like the successes of others.
181 CXXXIX    |        successes of others. I don’t pay attention to the malicious;
182 CXL       |         way; too much theory!~Don’t be troubled by all that
183 CXL       |         and keep straight on. Don’t attempt a system, obey your
184 CXL       |         expecting him. If you can’t come with him, come at least
185 CXLI      |       pedantic as the Revue. Aren’t they prudish in that set?
186 CXLIII    |           a compartment, and didn’t you suffer on the way? Reassure
187 CXLIV     |        damn your book. That doesn’t prevent it from being a
188 CXLIV     |          both? Chi lo sa?—He hasn’t let himself out yet. The
189 CXLIV     |      brain troubles him. He doesn’t know if he is a poet or
190 CXLVI     |           to my lodgings. You won’t be forced to swallow down
191 CXLVII    |    Nothing if it is yes. So I don’t want you to write to me.
192 CXLVIII   |         from Edme Simonnet)~I don’t see you, you come to the
193 CXLVIII   |        are there, I hurry and don’t find you. Do set a day then
194 CXLIX     |         of days.~Do get well, don’t go out, at least unless
195 CLIV      |      Cornu mentioned me.~—Oh, don’t say that I spoke to you
196 CLIV      |     However hard I work, it doesn’t go! Everything irritates
197 CLV       |      Nohant, 17 March, 1870~I won’t have it, you are not getting
198 CLV       |        the midst of all that, don’t forget that we love you
199 CLVI      |        and bad friends.~But I don’t write satires: I am ignorant
200 CLVI      |        meaning of the word. I don’t write PORTRAITS either;
201 CLVII     |            You understand me, don’t you?~But enough of this.
202 CLIX      |           than a physician, I don’t know what exactly, A SEEKER—
203 CLXIV     |         one cares for that; I don’t dare to say how very simple
204 CLXV      |         whist after dinner. I don’t know one of them who would
205 CLXV      |       Mademoiselle Hauterive, isn’t it? This suicide of lovers
206 CLXVII    |           sun and the wind. I don’t know where I get the courage
207 CLXVIII   |        you and Tourgueneff, I don’t know a living being to whom
208 CLXVIII   |          end of this month. I don’t think that the hope of seeing
209 CLXX      |       duchy of Baden! Ah! why can’t I live among the Bedouins!~
210 CLXXIII   |         for reasons that they don’t understand! Here we are
211 CLXXV     |       instructions the 8th. Weren’t you there then? Probably
212 CLXXVI    |        That is their dream.~I don’t think the siege of Paris
213 CLXXVII   |           for I am so sad! I didn’t write you any sooner, for
214 CLXXVII   |         for news from you. I didn’t know where you were.~Here
215 CLXXVII   |          a very little bit.~I don’t think that there is in all
216 CLXXVII   |         abhor us so fiercely? Don’t you feel overwhelmed by
217 CLXXVIII  |         which are models. One can’t swallow up a country where
218 CLXXIX    |    Maurice, and the others?~I don’t know how it is that I am
219 CLXXX     |         the next catastrophe.~Don’t let’s say that it is impossible;
220 CLXXX     |        that it is impossible; don’t let’s think it. Don’t let’
221 CLXXX     |         don’t let’s think it. Don’t let’s despair about France.
222 CLXXXI    |     Nohant, 4 February, 1871.~Don’t you receive my letters,
223 CLXXXIII  |         since September. Why didn’t I die from it? That is what
224 CLXXXIII  |          humanitarian. That doesn’t matter. I had some illusions!
225 CLXXXIII  |        unhealthfulness! But I don’t care a hang for that.~
226 CLXXXIV   |          party humbugs. But I don’t know if you are of my opinion,
227 CLXXXVI   |     master,~Why no letters? Haven’t you received mine sent from
228 CLXXXVII  |      weakness of heart that I don’t know how to overcome. I
229 CLXXXVII  |        too much stoicism.~You don’t tell me in what state you
230 CLXXXIX   |         come from Paris and I don’t know to whom to talk. I
231 CXC       |        the ravages of time. I don’t care for that, the heart
232 CXC       |          foretold that, and I don’t doubt it; but after the
233 CXCI      |          the God Horn, and it isn’t easy. I spent all the month
234 CXCI      |          I consider charming. Don’t I want to read you that
235 CXCI      |        going to Nohant, for I don’t care to go further I away
236 CXCI      |          news of the Odeon? I can’t get any response whatsoever
237 CXCI      |          which is charming. I don’t know if he is still director,
238 CXCII     |          you need me, and you don’t come see me! That is not
239 CXCII     |        troubled as you, and I don’t dare to talk, nor to think,
240 CXCIII    |        dear old troubadour?~I don’t write to you, I am quite
241 CXCIII    |          are all going off, I don’t know where. Have you more
242 CXCIV     |  forgetting your troubadour, aren’t you? Are you then quite
243 CXCIV     |         need you very much.~I don’t dare to leave my poor mother!
244 CXCIV     |         one to talk to. For I can’t talk of anything whatever
245 CXCV      |           and le Figaro, they won’t read anything else, because
246 CXCV      |         good God, a Saviour), isn’t it perhaps capable of taking
247 CXCVI     |         as far as I know. Why don’t you consider the Theatre
248 CCI       |          the same thing. They don’t bother about the play, but
249 CCII      |       your good impulse? Why didn’t you come this autumn? You
250 CCII      |      sustains me, or rather I don’t need to be sustained, as
251 CCIII     |        from Plauchut that you won’t let yourself be abducted
252 CCVI      |         now and always, but I don’t want you to answer me, you
253 CCX       |         sacred thing with me, don’t disavow it.~Today I am starting
254 CCX       |           to Tourgueneff. Why won’t you be there!~I embrace
255 CCXI      |        well stay at home.~You don’t tell me of your mother;
256 CCXVI     |          to say to you that I don’t know where to begin. Oh!
257 CCXVII    |         of my heart.~Heavens! don’t work nor sit up too much,
258 CCXVII    |       that we want her to, we don’t know how, without seeming
259 CCXVII    |         is a barrier to that. Isn’t it a question of material
260 CCXVIII   |           with heart trouble, don’t you think so? Still another
261 CCXIX     |           week in le Temps, I don’t see where I shall publish
262 CCXIX     |         des Deux Mondes, they don’t want me to write criticism;
263 CCXXII    |          wondering too if you don’t like it better to be left
264 CCXXII    |        into that sad house. I don’t know anything about your
265 CCXXII    |        them at your disposal. Don’t feel constrained with me
266 CCXXVIII  |      being finished. However, don’t come if your cough continues.
267 CCXXXI    |    frantic trips there; but I don’t know Luchon. Is it lovely,
268 CCXXXI    |           it lovely, too? You won’t go there without seeing
269 CCXXXII   |         that establishment, I don’t give a whoop.~As I am going
270 CCXXXII   |          reading, and since I don’t want to ruin myself in books,
271 CCXXXIII  |      where we are going; it doesn’t make any difference to me.
272 CCXXXIII  |         to Mario Proth, and I don’t know where he finds them.
273 CCXXXIII  |        read it to me. Why shouldn’t you come to us in September?
274 CCXXXV    |          but still love me.~I don’t know if I shall find you
275 CCXXXV    |         hope Tourgueneff too, won’t you come also? it would
276 CCXXXVI   |        DESIRES.~My roots, one can’t extirpate them, and I am
277 CCXXXVI   |         and I had PRINCIPLES. Don’t laugh, very candid, childish
278 CCXXXVI   |          of the profession. I don’t know if you were at Magny’
279 CCXXXVI   |         to embrace you, but I don’t dare to spend the money,
280 CCXXXVI   |       have so much to do!...I don’t know anything and I don’
281 CCXXXVI   |           know anything and I don’t learn anything, for I am
282 CCXXXVIII |          in being loved. Why didn’t you come to us with Madame
283 CCXXXVIII |          and grip my heart. Haven’t you any woman whom you love
284 CCXXXVIII |         her to live with you. Isn’t there anywhere a little
285 CCXXXIX   |         is not amusing.~No, I don’t think that HAPPINESS IS
286 CCXXXIX   |          get excited about?~I don’t think, however, that I am
287 CCXXXIX   |        find fantastic. Why? I don’t know. But it is so. Explain
288 CCXXXIX   |    ecclesiastical that people don’t know. We shall talk about
289 CCXL      |           22 November, 1872~I don’t think that I shall go to
290 CCXL      |      lovely in this weather, didn’t look good to me at all;
291 CCXL      |       because you are sad and don’t want to look at the sun.
292 CCXL      |        for those about whom I don’t care, I don’t care either
293 CCXL      |          whom I don’t care, I don’t care either about the evils
294 CCXLI     |        very curious about it.~Don’t worry any more about your
295 CCXLII    |           your portfolio. You don’t like Levy, but there are
296 CCXLII    |          in the mean time you don’t want to do anything to jolt
297 CCXLII    |   Croisset, for a man? If you won’t come when we are gay and
298 CCXLIII   |          commonest reader. (I don’t think that the common reader
299 CCXLIII   |            too intelligent! I don’t like the episode of the
300 CCXLIII   |       over her fat shoulders, isn’t she decidedly of the Restoration!
301 CCXLIV    |       angry at all that and I don’t talk about it. That is how
302 CCXLIV    |           emptied my bag, and don’t let us talk of it again
303 CCXLIV    |        But when shall I go? I don’t know.~I am a little afraid
304 CCXLIV    |           business reasons.~I don’t think that they will play
305 CCXLIV    |           die laughing. But I don’t agree to all that, and I
306 CCXLIV    |          things. As for me, I don’t care if they stand in my
307 CCXLV     |       Cuvillier-Fleury has, haven’t I? Well, draw a parallel
308 CCXLV     |         there at this time, I don’t say, admiration or sympathy,
309 CCXLV     |  criticise? In ten years they won’t know, perhaps, how to make
310 CCXLV     |           Dame aux Camelias, hasn’t he?~And you want me not
311 CCXLVI    |      often on your account; I don’t want you to exhaust yourself.
312 CCXLVI    |           you are too, if you don’t heat the oven of your ideas
313 CCXLVI    |           wish you were dead? Don’t you believe then in your
314 CCXLVII   |        1872~Dear good master,~Don’t take seriously the exaggerations
315 CCXLVII   |   exaggerations about my IRE. Don’t believe that I am counting “
316 CCXLIX    |        chemistry now (which I don’t understand a bit), and the
317 CCXLIX    |          sorts of information don’t I need, for the book that
318 CCLI      |         depths of my being? I don’t know. What is certain, is,
319 CCLII     |        yourself. Now, forget; don’t you know how to forget?
320 CCLII     |          or three good souls? Don’t you love me too, and wouldn’
321 CCLII     |           love me too, and wouldn’t you reproach me for thinking
322 CCLII     |        When I lost Rollinat, didn’t you write to me to love
323 CCLIII    |           But nowadays people don’t look so closely.~
324 CCLIV     |    getting on very well. We haven’t come to that yet.~That FETID
325 CCLIV     |        trouble of reading, I didn’t finish it, one turns away
326 CCLVI     |           so interesting.~Why can’t we live together, why is
327 CCLVIII   |        Nohant, 4 July, 1873~I don’t know where you are at present,
328 CCLVIII   | frantically? Unhappy one! you don’t know the ineffable pleasure
329 CCLVIII   |        trouble of being said!~Don’t believe a word of that,
330 CCLX      |           pages long. But I haven’t anyone to show it to. Alas!
331 CCLX      |            I breathe again.~I don’t know whether they talk as
332 CCLXI     |       something of mine, it doesn’t matter what, in exchange.
333 CCLXII    |    produce a year from now. I don’t think the thing is quite
334 CCLXIII   |       much in keeping, that I don’t know if it is a fictitious
335 CCLXIII   |        dark side of things; I don’t see anything, but I perceive
336 CCLXIV    |         corrected, perhaps he won’t want it. In short, if after
337 CCLXIV    |       Sexe faible.~However, I don’t care, I am so eager to start
338 CCLXVI    |         theatre. However, I haven’t anything to complain of
339 CCLXVII   |      touch with your play and don’t get ill this hateful winter.~
340 CCLXVIII  |          distresses me. For I don’t want to please the political
341 CCLXX     |      depths of my soul! Why haven’t I that? I was born with
342 CCLXX     |          the temporal powers. Isn’t it funny, this simple hatred
343 CCLXXI    |       published in book form.~Don’t you delay to give me the
344 CCLXXI    |           news on Thursday, I don’t need to tell you that success
345 CCLXXII   |        the real public, but I don’t think so! I know the defects
346 CCLXXII   |          is distressed, and I don’t know what to do to soften
347 CCLXXII   |         do not pity me, for I don’t feel pitiable.~P. S.—A nice
348 CCLXXIII  |         with two good people. Don’t fear that they are too realistic!
349 CCLXXIV   |           comparison! Well, I don’t bat an eye-lid. That is
350 CCLXXV    |       about my novels. That doesn’t make any difference to me.~
351 CCLXXVII  |           still on my play, I don’t at all know if it is worth
352 CCLXXVII  |         is worth anything and don’t worry about it. I shall
353 CCLXXIX   |       return of the Empire. I don’t believe in it! However...
354 CCLXXIX   |          calming my nerves! I don’t think that the remedy will
355 CCLXXX    |          no more. I love you; don’t have black ideas, and resign
356 CCLXXXI   |        much faith in you.~You don’t tell me how your play is
357 CCLXXXII  |          me. But, I decidedly don’t bat an optic, and the fate
358 CCLXXXIII |          if you are in Paris, won’t you come to keep the Christmas
359 CCLXXXVI  |    despairing; for my part, I don’t believe that: I believe
360 CCLXXXVI  |   citizens. And how about me, don’t you think that I need help
361 CCLXXXVI  |          is not yet finished? Don’t you love anyone, not even
362 CCLXXXVII |           stiff, I have ... I don’t know what. Bromide of potassium
363 CCLXXXVII |      endless solitude to go I don’t know where. And it is I
364 CCLXXXVIII|       lived an athletic life.~Don’t sulk then about the very
365 CCLXXXIX  |      Nohant, 25th March, 1875~Don’t be worried about me, my
366 CCXC      |         the price of walking!~Won’t you come to see us? Whether
367 CCXCIV    |        young and intelligent, can’t he begin over again, or
368 CCXCV     |         months, especially, I don’t know what has been the trouble
369 CCXCV     |           adds to my chagrin.~Don’t tell me again that imbecility
370 CCXCVI    |            dear friend. And I don’t want you to stop writing
371 CCXCVII   |        ready and courageous, shan’t I? If you have made, through
372 CCXCVIII  |       Theatre Francais; but I don’t know whether I shall go
373 CCXCIX    |        bit of nonsense, which won’t run to more than thirty
374 CCC       |       FINANCE? For my part, I don’t know; I am in relations
375 CCC       |    literature. Are you right? Isn’t it rather a lack of conviction
376 CCCII     |       doctrine. Not at all, I don’t think of such a thing. Everyone
377 CCCII     |        true, the beautiful.~I don’t say that humanity is on
378 CCCII     |       literature, you want, I don’t know why, to be another
379 CCCIV     |        into human feelings. I don’t mind his out-of-date reasonings
380 CCCVIII   |           is a charming book, isn’t it? If you knew the author
381 CCCXIII   |         thing very well done.~Don’t you agree with me that a
382 CCCXVIII  |         four years. Not less!~Don’t leave me so long without