Letter

  1 Introd   |        botanizing, bathing in her little river, visited by her friends
  2 Introd   |        Gustave Flaubert—perhaps a little suspiciously at first, yet
  3 Introd   |       Flaubert; “spare yourself a little, take some exercise, relax
  4 Introd   |           of your mind, indulge a little the physical man. Live a
  5 Introd   |          the physical man. Live a little as I do; and you will take
  6 Introd   |         of June 14, 1867:~“I am a little remorseful to take whole
  7 Introd   |           spending hours with the little Aurore, who is a marvellous
  8 Introd   |       sings from time to time his little song to the moon, without
  9 Introd   |         Flaubert did “exercise” a little—once or twice—in compliance
 10 Introd   |            that I too have not my little judgments on the things
 11 Introd   |            is to make the brute a little less wicked. But as for
 12 Introd   |            everyone that I know a little and that I study continually.
 13 Introd   |          Nohant—not “above” but a little aside from the conflict—
 14 Introd   |         only important thing is a little group of minds always the
 15 Introd   |        you hide your family, your little group of friends, your intimate
 16 I        |          sent you in September, a little flower in an envelope. But,
 17 III      |           than did the others. My little stories of the heart or
 18 III      |          I sent your affectionate little greeting to Bouilhet.~At
 19 VI       |           The elder Goulard is my little Lambert, it seems to me
 20 XIII     |           am touched, by the kind little line which she wrote to
 21 XIV      |     anyone had made. He was not a little flattered. I am going to
 22 XVI      |       make Bovarys in which every little cranny of life is studied
 23 XVI      |           for him to know after a little experience, what are the
 24 XVI      |        see-saw.~However, we are a little fed up with dolmens and
 25 XVII     |           much and have done very little. What deceives the superficial
 26 XVII     |       least. You shall have “your little table and everything necessary
 27 XVII     |            I think that you are a little severe towards Brittany,
 28 XVIII    |       dream so much and I live so little, that sometimes I am only
 29 XX       |  triumphal way, they stray off by little sidepaths and flounder in
 30 XX       |    Perhaps it would be wise for a little while to return to Holbach.
 31 XX       |            that I too have not my little judgments on the things
 32 XXVI     |         That would have been very little, would it not?~To “love
 33 XXVII    |          and they told me that my little friend Cadol’s [Footnote:
 34 XXVIII   |    journal. It seems that it is a little difficult to be exact for ’
 35 XXVIII   |      Footnote: Francis Laur.] the little engineer of whom I told
 36 XXVIII   |          well, sleep well. Walk a little for the love of God and
 37 XXXI     |            I am QUITE ALONE in my little house. The gardener and
 38 XXXI     |    whistles and infernal chain; a little stream which runs silently
 39 XXXI     |         nothing speaks except the little jet of the spring which
 40 XXXIII   |           that is what I call the little engineer, will decide it
 41 XXXIII   |    logical. Should we put much or little of ourselves in them? Shouldn’
 42 XXXIII   |          Now, let the wind blow a little over your strings. I think
 43 XXXIV    |        journals. That will occupy little space in my book and I have
 44 XXXIV    |          course, but to collect a little of your personal memories.~
 45 XXXIV    |      could profit by her.~If your little engineer has made a VOW,
 46 XXXIV    |            but in full bloom. The little good which remains to me
 47 XXXV     |        ill. If love for them is a little bread-and-butter and art
 48 XXXV     |        bread-and-butter and art a little pot-boiler, all right; but
 49 XXXV     |  vibration. The continual wind of little appetites breaks them.~Try
 50 XXXIX    |        brings into the world dear little children, I abandon myself
 51 XLII     |         ready. I think of going a little to the south when I have
 52 XLII     |          anything which is not my little ideal of peaceful work,
 53 XLIII    |         up one’s mind to have but little. So I do! The habit is formed,
 54 XLIII    |            but have taken up very little of my time. Applying the
 55 XLIV     |      profaned by cold analysis, a little far from the eye, and one
 56 XLIV     |   troubadour, do SPARE yourself a little.~Consuelo, La Comtesse de
 57 XLV      |            You! I have received a little note from Saint-Beuve which
 58 XLVI     | temptation! Imagine, I received a little box filled with flowers
 59 XLVIII   |         unless he thinks that his little cocottes will regret his
 60 XLVIII   |       renew a dog’s life, it is a little stupid, I think, when it
 61 L        |           Bouilhet! Give him this little note enclosed here. I share
 62 LI       |    intended. Maurice went alone a little while ago, I shall go to
 63 LI       |          him in five or six days.~Little Aurore consoles me for this
 64 LV       |          is this: my mother had a little stroke a week ago. There
 65 LV       |         down, people seem to me a little less foolish. My nausea
 66 LVII     |       Monday, dear master. I have little hope of seeing you before
 67 LIX      |          have only to POLISH it a little. It is like an illness,
 68 LIX      |         get on! Are you walking a little? Are you more reasonable?~
 69 LIX      |           what he said. He speaks little and often badly; but that
 70 LIX      |           is the development of a little child! No one has ever written
 71 LX       |    evening to Paris; for the dear little one has always her ear and
 72 LX       |      respond to your call. I am a little remorseful to take whole
 73 LX       |       splendid old fellow. Walk a little, I beg of you. I don’t fear
 74 LXI      |          that Villemer goes well. Little Aurore is as pretty as anything
 75 LXIII    |           you affectionately. The little one is very well, she is
 76 LXIV     |        walk and to distract her a little? Embrace her for me as I
 77 LXV      |     latest. But if you are even a little bit ill still, or are PLUNGED
 78 LXIX     |      neglects or ignores.~Come, a little courage; you can leave Paris
 79 LXXI     |         strange waters. I have so little resistance.~I do not hide
 80 LXXI     |       hide the pleasure that your little word about SALAMMBO gives
 81 LXXI     |         order to discover certain little nooks. What would be nice
 82 LXXII    |      leaving his children and the little Aurore, but he suffers with
 83 LXXIII   |          good God, “let us talk a little of Dozenval,” let us roar
 84 LXXIV    |       marionettes when there is a little sentiment, for there is
 85 LXXIV    |           our vacation there is a little fete which she organizes.~
 86 LXXIV    |         fete which she organizes.~Little Aurore promises to be very
 87 LXXIV    |          a great serenity in that little brain.~But how I am gossiping
 88 LXXV     |        need so much time to do so little that I have not a minute
 89 LXXVII   |        terrible things; that poor little Madame Lambert [Footnote:
 90 LXXIX    |      Paris, 17 May, 1868~I have a little respite, since they are
 91 LXXXI    |           of coffee. Or dine on a little chicken or some veal and
 92 LXXXI    |           even so much. Tell your little mother, just that. Then
 93 LXXXI    |          would like to give you a little of my sleep that nothing,
 94 LXXXIII  |   FLAUBERT Paris, 28 May, 1868~My little friend gave birth this morning
 95 LXXXVI   |       sand of Arbonne? There is a little Sahara there which ought
 96 LXXXVI   |       surprising wild places. The little girls are the loveliest
 97 LXXXVI   |         and to settle the affair, little Lina, who is high tempered,
 98 LXXXIX   |          the time here to sleep a little, and to eat in a hurry?
 99 XC       |           I plunge every day in a little icy torrent which tumbles
100 XC       |        one is here with these two little children who laugh and chatter
101 XCI      |            is to make the brute a little less wicked. But as for
102 XCI      |        you that there is now very little of that strength! They were
103 XCIII    |         Must I then describe that little creature? But that would
104 XCIV     |      Cadio succeeds, it will be a little DOT for Aurore; that is
105 XCVI     |         sake, you who go about so little: and I did not see you enough
106 XCVI     |           every one that I know a little and that I study continually.
107 XCVI     |           and very tender, my two little grandchildren still pretty
108 XCVI     |    impossible not to idolize that little one. She is so perfect in
109 XCVI     |          tenderly as well as your little mother. Give me some sign
110 XCVIII   |        are baptizing here our two little girls as Protestants. It
111 XCIX     |          think that you will be a little vexed with your old troubadour
112 XCIX     |          I read nothing, except a little of the French Revolution,
113 C        |         not free. It is perhaps a little coquettish on your part,
114 C        |          know him personally very little, but I know his work by
115 C        |           One really has to lie a little to divert oneself.~
116 CIII     |           spending hours with the little Aurore who is a marvelous
117 CIII     |       sings from time to time his little song to the moon, without
118 CIII     |         the time. I am writing my little annual novel, when I have
119 CIV      |        poise. What disgusted me a little, between ourselves, was
120 CIV      |       love, which humiliated me a little; for it was as if he took
121 CIV      |        same level. They exalt the little, and they lower the great,
122 CV       |           The pearl was Lolo as a little Louis XIII in crimson satin,
123 CV       |       pretty and so funny on that little girl of three years, that
124 CVI      |           affection. I would like little ones to be shown only the
125 CVII     |       tendency to too much or too little. Moreover, the basis isn’
126 CVII     |         some dreadful ones.~“Show little ones only the sweet and
127 CVII     |       could read clearly in these little brains would grasp in them
128 CVII     |           to “send my heart” to a little girl with whom I was in
129 CX       |      exhausted. Aurore has been a little ill. Lina’s mother has come
130 CX       |      better now, and our charming little girls console their little
131 CX       |        little girls console their little mother. If it were less
132 CX       |        Tourgueneff, whom I knew a little without having read him,
133 CXI      |           don’t know what. I am a little tired, for I have done a
134 CXIII    |         after dinner; I dine on a little fish, a chicken wing, an
135 CXVIII   |        with me at Magny’s? I am a little weary.~You would be very
136 CXVIII   |          is beginning to suffer a little from Paris habits. Your
137 CXXI     |        have advised him to take a little trip to the south of France.
138 CXXI     |        academician. Oh! ye men of little faith! Long live Saint Polycarp!~
139 CXXII    |           divine right although a little less odions!~The question
140 CXXIV    |         Maurice, and of his brave little wife who sets herself to
141 CXXIV    |         botanize and I bathe in a little icy torrent. I teach my
142 CXXIV    |          However, love me still a little, for I feel by the disappointment
143 CXXV     |           have certainly earned a little holiday. I have worked like
144 CXXV     |       only in isolating oneself a little that one can find in oneself
145 CXXV     |    console me by joking with me a little when you have the time.~
146 CXXVIII  |           each other. Here am I a little sfogata (eased) from my
147 CXXIX    |      Aisse to you so as to talk a little about it; some of the actors
148 CXXXI    |   Sainte-Beuve’s funeral. How the little band diminishes! How the
149 CXXXII   |     Brebant is too far, I have so little time. And then I have made
150 CXXXIII  |       much, but which I like very little. It is arranged that way;
151 CXXXIII  |         head. At present it is my little children who devour all
152 CXXXVI   |           definite answer. Then a little while ago, a letter (very
153 CXLII    |   impossible the great joy of our little ones who would be kept up
154 CXLIV    |       public that wants to eat in little mouthfuls, whom large pieces
155 CXLIV    |        Gabrielle calls Punch, HER LITTLE ONE, and will not eat her
156 CXLIV    |        can delay your departure a little. It is too bad weather to
157 CLV      |         troubadour, you must be a little patient, to begin with,
158 CLVII    |         accusation has hurt her a little. The papers roll us in the
159 CLVIII   |         LADY and will teach her a little about aesthetics.~I saw
160 CLVIII   |         to give you a kiss like a little child. My oppressed heart
161 CLIX     |          as I love you; it is not little.~G. Sand~My friend Favre
162 CLX      |           depths of my heart is a little larger, that is all. But,
163 CLX      |            that is all. But, in a little while, I hope that it will
164 CLXI     |          to me very strange and a little mad, between ourselves.
165 CLXIII   |       better and better here, the little ones well again, Maurice
166 CLXIII   |          am not ill, and I work a little now and then while loafing
167 CLXIV    |       could hardly swallow even a little water and wine. Bouillon
168 CLXIV    |          my boy, and now that the little mother is away, the little
169 CLXIV    |        little mother is away, the little children absorb me. I work,
170 CLXV     |          I shall console myself a little in blurting out two or three
171 CLXV     |      officials, thinking of their little business the entire year,
172 CLXV     |            As for the ladies, “my little locality” furnishes none
173 CLXV     |      strong you are!~Aside from a little Spinoza and Plutarch, I
174 CLXVII   |        the end. You write me very little, I am worried about you.~
175 CLXVIII  |          have intermingled with a little of Plutarch and Spinoza.
176 CLXIX    |         me in my sleep, looking a little sad.”~What preoccupies me
177 CLXIX    |          we see them no longer. A little while before he died, Duveyrier,
178 CLXIX    |           fatigues as sick-nurse. Little Buloz recently came to stir
179 CLXIX    |           a bit. You will see the little girls grown and prettier;
180 CLXIX    |           grown and prettier; the little one is beginning to talk.
181 CLXXVII  |         keep myself from hoping a little, a very little bit.~I don’
182 CLXXVII  |           hoping a little, a very little bit.~I don’t think that
183 CLXXX    |      horrible. We had to take our little ones into the Creuse, to
184 CLXXXIV  |     remembrance of you eases it a little from its perpetual disquiet.
185 CLXXXIV  |         and for all my brood. The little girls are splendid. The
186 CLXXXIV  |           splendid. The Lamberts’ little boy is charming.~
187 CLXXXVI  |         is heavy over it!~And the little reaction that we are going
188 CLXXXVII |       distresses me. One pities a little bird that has fallen from
189 CLXXXVII |      hundred years old or not!~My little girls bring me back to the
190 CLXXXVIII|           house. They HOOKED some little things of no importance,
191 CLXXXVIII|        whom one loves deteriorate little by little!~In order to think
192 CLXXXVIII|       loves deteriorate little by little!~In order to think no longer
193 CLXXXVIII|           do come to see me for a little while. Your old troubadour
194 CLXXXVIII|           the unlimited. It is of little matter whether many peasants
195 CLXXXIX  |     details which I spare you.~My little trip to Paris has troubled
196 CXCI     |         July, 1871~I find Paris a little less mad than in June, at
197 CXCI     |        possible. And I also did a little Buddha that I consider charming.
198 CXCII    |           same. Embrace your good little mother for me.~G. Sand~
199 CXCIII   |           the pretty faces of our little girls. They remember you,
200 CXCV     |          What darlings! What fine little heads so serious and sweet!
201 CXCV     |         only important thing is a little group of minds—always the
202 CXCVI    |         today the portraits of my little grandchildren, not pretty
203 CXCVI    |       public, I think about it as little as possible. Le Temps has
204 CXCVI    |        inspired in him, and these little returns to the past ought
205 CXCVII   |        you hide your family, your little group of friends, your intimate
206 CXCVII   |           in which a mind ever so little inclined to be philosophical,
207 CXCVII   |          of bandits followed by a little army of bewildered men has
208 CXCVIII  |        scholar.~I received a kind little note from the Princess Mathilde.
209 CXCVIII  |      upsets.~I am glad that these little faces of children pleased
210 CC       |        less than in the past. The little fortunes are too much cut
211 CCI      |         however, interest me very little. I think that they should
212 CCII     |           busy with? Embrace your little girls warmly for me.~Your
213 CCIII    |          too’ were written by the little girl herself.]~
214 CCVI     |          all getting on well, our little girls are growing, we speak
215 CCVII    |          where to begin: (1) Your little letter of the 4th of January,
216 CCVII    |     Bouilhet’s heir will get very little money. Honor is saved, that
217 CCVII    |          municipal de Rouen. This little production seemed too violent
218 CCVIII   |          at MY FLOWERS, these two little ones who are always smiling,
219 CCXIII   |           if one did not have the little sanctuary, the interior
220 CCXIII   |           sanctuary, the interior little shrine, where, without saying
221 CCXVI    |           But that amuses me very little. Decidedly nothing but sacrosanct
222 CCXVII   |       energy to react. With that, little or no fever, almost always
223 CCXVII   |        one.~Pray why is your poor little mother so irritable and
224 CCXIX    |     published, he could find me a little corner in the body of the
225 CCXXII   |         me, I am well again. That little illness and this departure
226 CCXXV    |      attracts me any longer. In a little while I shall have no more
227 CCXXVI   |        the first part of June. My little ones are both in the sheepfold.
228 CCXXVIII |           of a really appropriate little gem, I lack the snap and
229 CCXXIX   |           such a bad cough that a little bit more would be the last
230 CCXXXI   |       plunging daily in a furious little torrent, cold as ice. It
231 CCXXXII  |          than at Croisset, even a little less so, for I am very idle.
232 CCXXXII  |         now? We saw each other so little and so inconveniently the
233 CCXXXIII |          to take her rabbits, her little dog, and a little pig that
234 CCXXXIII |    rabbits, her little dog, and a little pig that she is taking care
235 CCXXXV   |       been glad to leave it for a little change of air.~I have resumed
236 CCXXXVI  |        than you, of course, and a little from an aristocratically
237 CCXXXVI  |           feet, much learning and little sense; thanks to the convent,
238 CCXXXVI  |          spend the money, however little it may be, when there is
239 CCXXXVI  |           to see you again, for a little bit; it is a part of myself
240 CCXXXVIII|            Isn’t there anywhere a little urchin whose father you
241 CCXXXIX  |            What weakness! and how little he must have esteemed himself!
242 CCXL     |          insects for Maurice. The little children run like rabbits
243 CCXLI    |       causes solitude to increase little by little around me, and
244 CCXLI    |    solitude to increase little by little around me, and now I am
245 CCXLIII  |           the interest slackens a little when Nanon gets the idea
246 CCXLIII  |           on your two cheeks, two little nurse’s kisses, and I pass
247 CCXLIV   |          go? I don’t know.~I am a little afraid of bronchitis in
248 CCXLV    |           but the appearance of a little attention to works of art?
249 CCXLVI   |         approach it continually a little nearer.~That is enough for
250 CCXLVIII |       Lina loves you too, and our little ones have not forgotten
251 CCXLVIII |           about myself. I live so little in myself. This will be
252 CCL      |   returned there. I asked you the little favor which you have already
253 CCL      |           like to infuse in you a little of our Berrichon patience
254 CCLII    |        this or that person, is of little importance if it is a comfort
255 CCLII    |          and from playing with my LITTLE CHILDREN. They are so dear,
256 CCLII    |        have distracted yourself a little. Paris is good for you,
257 CCLIII   |         seems to me to enjoy very little liberty and I myself have
258 CCLIV    |           days.~On the day when a little intoxication is no longer
259 CCLVI    |          with him. We both felt a little heavy hearted. We did not
260 CCLIX    |           a success. But I put so little confidence in the intelligence
261 CCLX     |    enthusiasm has been immense. A little more and they would have
262 CCLXII   |        surprised if we should see little Father Thiers again! On
263 CCLXIII  |          into the cold rush of my little river and I feel better.
264 CCLXIV   |           to exasperate me. Those little curt phrases, this continual
265 CCLXIV   |       glad to have diverted you a little with the biography of Cruchard.
266 CCLXVI   |         profit by it by talking a little with you, dear good master!
267 CCLXVIII |         master; now let us talk a little.~I knew through Tourgueneff
268 CCLXVIII |         As that play gave me very little trouble and as I do not
269 CCLXVIII |          has ruined the role of a little legitimist ragamuffin, so
270 CCLXIX   |         day. Lina and I are well, little girls superlatively so.
271 CCLXX    |           letter) about your dear little girls moved me to the depths
272 CCLXX    |          It would have taken very little for the French censorship
273 CCLXXI   |       Nohant, March, 1874~Our two little girls cruelly ill with the
274 CCLXXI   |          I could leave these dear little invalids. So it is on Wednesday
275 CCLXXIII |           and, making Rousselin a little more jealous. The anxieties
276 CCLXXIII |           idea to the limit. This little work that I shall start
277 CCLXXIV  |      which I should have made. My little milk-jug is broken. I should
278 CCLXXIV  |         yours. Kisses to the dear little girls, and all my love to
279 CCLXXVI  |          how is it?~Kiss the dear little girls for me and let them
280 CCLXXVIII|         air, I am tired. I need a little rest. After that I shall
281 CCLXXVIII|           Embrace warmly the dear little girls for me, and entirely
282 CCLXXIX  |          A fortnight ago I made a little trip to Lower Normandy,
283 CCLXXX   |          children and I forget my little miseries which will pass;
284 CCLXXX   |     hurrying as much as I can! My little girls embrace you, they
285 CCLXXXI  |       habits, Nohant and the dear little girls. You will remain at
286 CCLXXXII |    December. The manager of that “little theatre” is enchanted with
287 CCLXXXIV |           of my profession are so little of my profession! There
288 CCLXXXV  |   ourselves, and to assimilate it little by little, through contemplation
289 CCLXXXV  |           assimilate it little by little, through contemplation and
290 CCLXXXVI |         of others. There is but a little time left, old age creeps
291 CCLXXXVII|   Flamarande; that will give me a little air.~I embrace you all,
292 CCLXXXIX |           have nothing serious, a little grippe, and this right arm
293 CCLXXXIX |           read bit by bit.~I am a little tired; however, I want to
294 CCXCI    |   hydrotherapy, however, I feel a little less like a COW, and this
295 CCXCI    |         gone away, I shall make a little archeological and geological
296 CCXCI    |            That is what I miss: a little girl like that! But one
297 CCXCV    |           rest! and your two dear little girls, whom I embrace as
298 CCXCVII  |           I should try to shift a little capital. Answer me seriously,
299 CCXCIX   |           1875~Things are going a little better, and I am profiting
300 CCXCIX   |         novel in order to write a little MEDIEVAL bit of nonsense,
301 CCXCIX   |           felow.~As I go out very little, I have not yet seen Victor
302 CCC      |     slaves of themselves.~My dear little girls are well. Aurore is
303 CCC      |         patient teacher, and very little time is left to me to write
304 CCC      | Flamarande and the pictures of my little girls? If not, send me a
305 CCCI     |     weariness!~I am writing now a little silly story, which a mother
306 CCCI     |            not my energy, but the little story).~
307 CCCII    |            Being a man amounts to little; we are still near the monkey
308 CCCIV    |       true, although he falls but little short of it, but he is a
309 CCCV     |           especially well played. Little Baretta is a real treasure.~
310 CCCVIII  |         end of the week, during a little two-days’ trip that I am
311 CCCIX    |           entirely taken up by my little tale which will be finished
312 CCCIX    |           less and less.~After my little story, I shall do another,—
313 CCCX     |          to the temptation. As my little story was finished last
314 CCCXII   |          see you so as to read my little medieval folly to you! I
315 CCCXII   |           the human basis of this little work will please you!~Adieu,
316 CCCXIII  |          When the impression is a little less fresh I shall take
317 CCCXV    |       this morning reassures me a little. But that of last night
318 CCCXVI   |           waiting till you were a little freer, more alone. Thank
319 CCCXVI   |         grandchildren of your two little girls shall have joined
320 CCCXVI   |      stairway at Nohant, and your little girls.~Yours, from the depths
321 CCCXVII  |          Paris.~Embrace your dear little girls warmly for me, my
322 CCCXVIII |          fortnight I shall make a little trip to Lower Normandy for
323 CCCXVIII |           long look for me at the little corner of the holy ground!...
324 CCCXVIII |       dear wife, embrace the dear little girls and sincerely yours,