Letter

  1 Introd    |      addresses her in his letters as “Dear Master.” Yet in the essentials
  2 Introd    |             do as they like; but you, dear friend, you must produce
  3 Introd    |               the injunctions of his “dear master”; but he rather resented
  4 Introd    |            attempt at seduction:~“Ah, dear good master, if you could
  5 I         |                I. TO GEORGE SAND 1863~Dear Madam,~I am not grateful
  6 II        |        FLAUBERT Paris, 15 March, 1864~Dear Flaubert,~I don’t know whether
  7 VI        |         himself anything, the rascal!~Dear friend, I must tell you
  8 VII       |      Wednesday, 16 May, 1866~Well, my dear friend, since you are going
  9 VII       |          Thursday. You will dine with dear and interesting Marguerite
 10 IX        |         Nohant, 31 July, 1866~My good dear comrade,~Will you really
 11 IX        |               this time because of my dear collaborator. Be a good
 12 X         |          FLAUBERT Paris, 4 Aug., 1866~Dear friend, as I’m always out,
 13 XIII      |           August, 1866 Monday, 1 A.M.~Dear friend, I shall be in Rouen
 14 XIV       |              And then, you, you are a dear kind boy, big man that you
 15 XV        |           myself. You write me a good dear letter which I kiss. Don’
 16 XVII      |            1866~I a mysterious being, dear master, nonsense! I think
 17 XVIII     |         September, 1866~It is agreed, dear comrade and good friend.
 18 XIX       |              have it, that beautiful, dear and famous face! I am going
 19 XX        |               that you were in Paris, dear master, and I wrote you
 20 XX        |              embrace you very warmly, dear master.~
 21 XXI       |              evening, 1 October, 1866~Dear friend,~Your letter was
 22 XXII      |           FLAUBERT Nohant, 19 October~Dear friend, they write me from
 23 XXIII     |              Nohant, 23 October, 1866~Dear friend, since the play is
 24 XXIV      |         embrace you so much the more, dear friend. Love me MORE than
 25 XXVI      |              are sad, poor friend and dear master; it was you of whom
 26 XXVII     |             shall go out and buy your dear mother’s shoes. Next week
 27 XXVIII    |             16 November, 1866~Thanks, dear friend of my heart, for
 28 XXXI      |             to say good evening to my dear comrade before starting
 29 XXXI      |               from drying up. And you dear friend, what are you doing
 30 XXXV      |             your anguish. Good night, dear brother, my love to all
 31 XXXVII    |               times. I thank you very dear master, you are as good
 32 XXXIX     |           than those beings.~And you, dear friend, are you experiencing
 33 XXXIX     | daughter-in-law brings into the world dear little children, I abandon
 34 XL        |               no you are not of wood, dear good great heart! “Beloved
 35 XLI       |            ego, you know, I love you, dear friend brother, and bless
 36 XLII      |      Croissset Paris, 9 January, 1867~Dear comrade,~Your old troubadour
 37 XLII      |        embrace you with all my heart, dear friend; remember me to your
 38 XLII      |               to your mother, to your dear family, and write me at
 39 XLIII     |          Croisset, Saturday night~No, dear master, you are not near
 40 XLIV      |             your letter this morning, dear friend of my heart. Why
 41 XLIV      |              distractions. Really, my dear friend, think of the life
 42 XLV       |           have followed your counsel, dear master, I have EXERCISED!!!
 43 XLVI      |         working since yesterday.~You, dear, you go walking in the night,
 44 XLVI      |             have not climbed up to my dear orchard which is so pretty
 45 XLVI      |              the other day, to a very dear friend, while I was showing
 46 XLVI      |           rejoin him.~And good-night, dear friend of my heart. They
 47 XLVII     |               thank him any the less, dear master.~First, let’s talk
 48 XLVIII    |             one another a great deal, dear comrade, for we both had
 49 XLIX      |                  XLIX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~You really ought
 50 L         |        FLAUBERT Nohant, 4 March, 1867~Dear good friend, the friend
 51 LI        |          weather like this. Good-bye, dear good friend.~G. Sand~
 52 LIII      |            Wednesday, if you wish, my dear old fellow. Whom do you
 53 LIII      |               with us? Certainly, the dear Beuve if that is possible,
 54 LV        |             not having news from you, dear master. What has become
 55 LVI       |          Croisset Nohant, 9 May, 1867~Dear friend of my heart,~I am
 56 LVI       |            you are worried about your dear, old mother, and certainly
 57 LVI       |          would be a good sign for the dear mother.~Maurice has plunged
 58 LVII      |             to my mother next Monday, dear master. I have little hope
 59 LVII      |              is not to live together, dear master, I admired you before
 60 LIX       |               golden age.~How is your dear mother? She is fortunate
 61 LIX       |               love you much, much, my dear old fellow, you know it.
 62 LX        |        Flaubert Nohant, 14 June, 1867~Dear friend of my heart, I leave
 63 LX        |             me longer. Therefore your dear good mother, whom I do not
 64 LX        |             evening to Paris; for the dear little one has always her
 65 LXI       |       FLATUBERT Nohant, 24 July, 1867~Dear good friend, I spent three
 66 LXIII     |                1867~Where are you, my dear old fellow? If by chance
 67 LXIII     |              that he was ill, my poor dear, old friend, Rollinat, an
 68 LXIV      |          August, 1867~I bless you, my dear old fellow, for the kind
 69 LXV       |            Nohant, 10 September, 1867~Dear old fellow,~I am worried
 70 LXVI      |                  LXVI. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~What, no news?~But
 71 LXVII     |            Tuesday, 1st October, 1867~Dear friend, you shall have your
 72 LXVIII    |             last, I have news of you, dear master, and good news, which
 73 LXVIII    |          scatter myself. That is why, dear adored master, I deprive
 74 LXX       |             that is to say, my great, dear heart’s friend. My children
 75 LXXI      |               SAND 1st November, 1867~Dear master,~I was as much ashamed
 76 LXXI      |            embrace you as I love you, dear master, that is to say,
 77 LXXI      |               bit that I send to your dear son, a lover of this sort
 78 LXXIII    |           GEORGE SAND Wednesday night~Dear master, dear friend of the
 79 LXXIII    |          Wednesday night~Dear master, dear friend of the good God, “
 80 LXXIII    |              method after all.~Adieu, dear master, write to me, won’
 81 LXXIV     |              tenderly embrace you, my dear old fellow, and Maurice
 82 LXXVI     |               From far, or from near, dear old fellow, I think of you
 83 LXXIX     |             to spend two days at that dear Croisset. But then don’t
 84 LXXX      |             the evening.~Embrace your dear mamma for me, I shall be
 85 LXXXV     |         propos of that, I beg of you, dear master, to read at the end
 86 LXXXVII   |            Dieppe, Monday~But indeed, dear master, I was in Paris during
 87 LXXXVIII  |               this the way to behave, dear master? Here it is nearly
 88 LXXXIX    |      September, 1868~Just at present, dear friend, there is a truce
 89 XCI       |               Does that astonish you, dear master? Oh well! it doesn’
 90 XCIII     |              received your two notes, dear master. You send me “halcyon”
 91 XCIII     |            thank you, very kindly, my dear master.~
 92 XCIV      |                end of September, 1868~Dear friend,~It is for Saturday
 93 XCIV      |              frighten them.~I left my dear world very quiet at Nohant.
 94 XCV       |       FLAUBERT Paris, 5 October, 1868~Dear good friend, I recommend
 95 XCVII     |           length your last letter, my dear master. You told me of the “
 96 XCIX      |                TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday~Dear master,~You cannot imagine
 97 XCIX      |               his friend Maurice? The dear master must write to me
 98 CII       |               my great friend, and my dear, big child. May ’69 be easy
 99 CIV       |          Tuesday, 2 February, 1869~My dear master,~You see in your
100 CVII      |               What do I say about it, dear master? Should one excite
101 CX        |       Croissset Nohant, 2 April, 1869~Dear friend of my heart, here
102 CXX       |             May, 1869~Yes, Monday, my dear good friend, I count on
103 CXXIII    |          Nohant, 6 August, 1869~Well, dear good friend, here it is
104 CXXIII    |           crossed.~Come to see us, my dear old friend, I shall not
105 CXXIV     |               of plans distresses us, dear friend, but we do not dare
106 CXXIV     |               I embrace you tenderly, dear old friend.~G. Sand~
107 CXXV      |         embrace you as if you were my dear big child. Why can’t I put
108 CXXVIII   |            1869~Where are you now, my dear troubadour? I am still writing
109 CXXIX     |                 CXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good adored master,~I have
110 CXXXI     |          GEORGE SAND 14 October, 1869~Dear master,~No! no sacrifices!
111 CXXXII    |             October, 1869~Impossible, dear old beloved. Brebant is
112 CXXXIII   |            What has become of you, my dear old beloved troubadour?
113 CXXXIV    |             Nohant, 30 November, 1869~Dear friend of my heart, I wanted
114 CXXXV     |                 CXXXV. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good master,~Your old troubadour
115 CXXXVI    |               clock, 7 December, 1869~Dear master,~Your old troubadour
116 CXXXVIII  |            clock in the evening, 1869~Dear master, good as good bread,~
117 CXLII     |              year’s task. Seeing you, dear old well-beloved friend,
118 CXLIV     |               joy.~That child is very dear to me. He is so loving and
119 CXLIV     |             effort for me to leave my dear nest to go to attend to
120 CXLV      |             SAND Wednesday afternoon.~Dear master,~Your commission
121 CXLV      |           your friendship blinds you, dear good master. I do not belong
122 CXLVII    |               Paris, 19 January, 1870~Dear friend of my heart, I did
123 CLI       |              sorrow and chagrin. Poor dear friend! Let us continue
124 CLII      |            Paris, 2d March, 1870~Poor dear friend, your troubles distress
125 CLIV      |            GEORGE SAND 17 March, 1870~Dear master,~I received a telegram
126 CLIV      |              that are told to us.~Now dear master of the good God,
127 CLV       |          PATIENT, nothing else. Come, dear troubadour, you must be
128 CLVII     |         devotion was alarmed wrongly, dear madame, I was sure of it!
129 CLVII     |              All that is to tell you, dear madame, that the public
130 CLVII     |        forward to that with pleasure, dear madame, I kiss your hands
131 CLVIII    |               GEORGE SAND March, 1870~Dear master,~I have just sent
132 CLX       |            here is a second one.~Poor dear master! How uneasy you must
133 CLXI      |           GEORGE SAND Tuesday morning~Dear master,~It is not staying
134 CLXII     |              have no more uneasiness, dear master. But you, personally,
135 CLXV      |              CLXV. TO GEORGE SAND~No, dear master! I am not ill, but
136 CLXVI     |               Saint-Antoine.~And you, dear master, what is happening
137 CLXVIII   |        Saturday evening, 2 July, 1870~Dear good master,~Barbes’ death
138 CLXVIII   |             desert, and I assure you, dear master, that I am brave,
139 CLXX      |               What has become of you, dear master, of you and yours?
140 CLXXI     |            losing all.~I love you, my dear old friend, we all love
141 CLXXII    |       Wednesday, 3 August, 1870~What! dear master, you too are demoralized,
142 CLXXVI    |           GEORGE SAND. Saturday, 1870~Dear master,~Here we are in the
143 CLXXVII   |             evening~I am still alive, dear master, but I am hardly
144 CLXXVIII  |              confess to you, however, dear master, that I feel rather
145 CLXXIX    |             Tuesday, 11 October, 1870~Dear master,~Are you still living?
146 CLXXXV    |                Friday, 31 March, 1871~Dear master,~Tomorrow, at last,
147 CLXXXVI   |          Monday evening, two o’clock.~Dear master,~Why no letters?
148 CLXXXVII  |                it is through you too, dear friend, whose kind and loving
149 CLXXXVIII |             that it has aged my poor, dear, old mother by ten years!
150 CLXXXIX   |         Sunday evening, 10 June, 1871~Dear master,~I never had a greater
151 CXC       |                  No, I am not ill, my dear old troubadour, in spite
152 CXCI      |            with me in carrying on the dear and painful burden.~In a
153 CXCI      |             of you to come after him, dear master. I say come after,
154 CXCIII    |                1871~Where are you, my dear old troubadour?~I don’t
155 CXCIV     |          Wednesday, 6 September~Well, dear master, it seems to me that
156 CXCV      |            call a delicate attention, dear master, and I thank you
157 CXCV      |                nothing but greed!~Ah! dear, good master, if you only
158 CXCVI     |               human race or our poor, dear country. But one feels too
159 CXCVI     |               I cannot go to see you, dear old man, and yet I had earned
160 CXCVII    |               eyes, are none the less dear to me. The thoughtless blame
161 CXCVIII   |            Nohant, 16 September, 1871~Dear old friend,~I answered you
162 CXCIX     |                 CXCIX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master, I received your
163 CCI       |            CCI. TO GEORGE SAND~Never, dear good master, have you given
164 CCI       |            only see one! numbers! Ah! dear master, you who have so
165 CCII      |               want to read it to you, dear master of the good God!~
166 CCVII     |             Aisse, moved me to tears, dear well-beloved master. You
167 CCVIII    |            must not be a grumbler, my dear old troubadour. You must
168 CCX       |      forgotten to tell you something, dear master. I have used your
169 CCXII     |             CCXII. TO GEORGE SAND~No! dear master! it is not true.
170 CCXIV     |                 CCXIV. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good master,~Can you, for
171 CCXVI     |          since I have written to you, dear master. I have so many things
172 CCXVI     |             personal allusion to you, dear, kind master.~I have met
173 CCXVII    |          clock in the morning.~Ah! my dear old friend, what a dreadful
174 CCXVII    |               my patient.~Good night, dear good friend of my heart.~
175 CCXVIII   |               GEORGE SAND March, 1872~Dear master,~I have received
176 CCXVIII   |            left to your perspicacity, dear master! That is all.~I am
177 CCXVIII   |               tell me more about you, dear master! Give me at once
178 CCXIX     |           FLAUBERT 17 March, 1872~No, dear friend, Maurice is almost
179 CCXIX     |             with her.~That is all, my dear old friend, it is not my
180 CCXX      |           Here I am, back again here, dear master, and not very happy;
181 CCXXI     |             at every instant, my poor dear friend. I am thinking of
182 CCXXI     |             The end of that noble and dear life has been sad and long;
183 CCXXII    |              and over again, my poor, dear friend, how much I love
184 CCXXII    |           more than I would with you, dear child. They are going to
185 CCXXIII   |               Tuesday, 16 April, 1872~Dear good master,~I should have
186 CCXXIII   |               two weeks, that my poor dear, good mother was the being
187 CCXXV     |           GEORGE SAND~What good news, dear master! In a month and even
188 CCXXVI    |         FLAUBERT Nohant, 18 May, 1872~Dear friend of my heart, your
189 CCXXVI    |            very hard in caring for my dear one, and as soon as my task
190 CCXXVI    |             over, as soon as I saw my dear world reunited and well
191 CCXXVIII  |          hours that I could give you, dear Master! Why, all the hours,
192 CCXXVIII  |               Hoping to see you soon, dear master, your old troubadour
193 CCXXIX    |         GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 7 June, 1872~Dear friend,~Your old troubadour
194 CCXXX     |                 CCXXX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~Have you promised
195 CCXXXII   |            here since Sunday evening, dear master, and no happier than
196 CCXXXII   |            Odeon, beginning with you, dear master, will repent of the
197 CCXXXIII  |        FLAUBERT Nohant, 19 July, 1872~Dear old troubadour,~We too are
198 CCXXXIV   |               SAND Croisset, Thursday~Dear master,~In the letter I
199 CCXXXVII  |              CCXXXVII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~In your last letter,
200 CCXXXVIII |              Nohant, 26 October, 1872~Dear friend,~Here is another
201 CCXXXIX   |             You have guessed rightly, dear master, that I had an increase
202 CCXLI     |               it when we meet.~Adieu, dear good, adorable master, yours
203 CCXLIII   |               CCXLIII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~Here it is a night
204 CCXLIII   |           done me good. So thank you, dear, good master. Yes, they
205 CCXLV     |         Wednesday, 4th December, 1872~Dear master,~I notice a phrase
206 CCXLV     |           very plebeian souls.~Adieu, dear good master. Your old troubadour
207 CCXLVII   |          GEORGE SAND 12 December 1872~Dear good master,~Don’t take
208 CCXLIX    |             evening, 3 February, 1873~Dear master,~Do I seem to have
209 CCLI      |               Tuesday, March 12, 1873~Dear master,~If I am not at your
210 CCLII     |          LITTLE CHILDREN. They are so dear, and my big children are
211 CCLIII    |              Thursday, 20 March, 1873~Dear master,~The gigantic Tourgueneff
212 CCLVI     |              is from Croisset!~Yours, dear good master, all my affection.~
213 CCLVII    |                CCLVII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~Cruchard should
214 CCLVII    |         admire your pedagogic spirit, dear master, there are many pretty
215 CCLVII    |            play. We shall see.~Adieu, dear master, embrace all yours
216 CCLIX     |         without any news of yourself, dear good master? I am cross
217 CCLX      |               to talk a bit with you, dear master.~In the first place,
218 CCLX      |             care of yourself for your dear grandchildren, for the good
219 CCLXII    |       yesterday, I found your letter, dear good master. All is well
220 CCLXII    |      Quintinie, you were too stoical, dear master, or too indifferent.
221 CCLXIV    |            spent ten days. In a word, dear master, I think now that
222 CCLXIV    |              a mistaken joy about it, dear good master whom I adore
223 CCLXVI    |            talking a little with you, dear good master! And first of
224 CCLXVI    |            the end of January.~Adieu, dear master! When shall we meet?
225 CCLXVIII  |              last a moment to myself, dear master; now let us talk
226 CCLXX     |            evening, 28 February, 1874~Dear master,~The first performance
227 CCLXX     |               last letter) about your dear little girls moved me to
228 CCLXXI    |                if I could leave these dear little invalids. So it is
229 CCLXXII   |              no more of it. Farewell, dear good master, do not pity
230 CCLXXIV   |             the causes, I ask myself, dear master, if you are not one
231 CCLXXIV   |            surprised, etc.”~Farewell, dear good adored master, friendly
232 CCLXXIV   |               to yours. Kisses to the dear little girls, and all my
233 CCLXXVI   |               Things are progressing, dear master, insults are accumulating!
234 CCLXXVI   |              for life.~Well! and you, dear good master, that play that
235 CCLXXVI   |            Fadet, how is it?~Kiss the dear little girls for me and
236 CCLXXVII  |               all love you and all my dear world embraces you with
237 CCLXXVIII |             Tuesday, 26th March, 1874~Dear good master,~Here I am back
238 CCLXXVIII |             dream. Embrace warmly the dear little girls for me, and
239 CCLXXIX   |             3d July, 1874~Is it true, dear master, that last week you
240 CCLXXXI   |                1874;~What? ill? poor, dear master! If it is rheumatism,
241 CCLXXXI   |           your habits, Nohant and the dear little girls. You will remain
242 CCLXXXI   |               want me to remain calm! dear master! I have not your
243 CCLXXXV   |               8th December, 1874~Poor dear friend,~I love you all the
244 CCLXXXV   |               of the human race. Poor dear! imbecility, that, for my
245 CCLXXXVI  |             16th January, 1875~I too, dear Cruchard, embrace you at
246 CCLXXXVI  |             you with all my heart, my dear Polycarp. My children large
247 CCLXXXVII |               Paris, Saturday evening~Dear master,~I curse once more
248 CCLXXXVII |              all, and especially you, dear master, so great, so strong,
249 CCLXXXVIII|               Then you are quite ill, dear old fellow? I am not worried
250 CCLXXXIX  |              pale sun will become the dear Phoebus-Appolo with the
251 CCXCI     |           what is the matter with me, dear and valiant master. Add
252 CCXCI     |               would go well. You see, dear, good master, that I am
253 CCXCIV    |            Nohant, 15 August~My poor, dear, old fellow,~I learn only
254 CCXCIV    |           today in a letter from that dear, lazy soul of a Tourgueneff,
255 CCXCIV    |             amidst your spleen.~Come, dear splendid old fellow, cheer
256 CCXCV     |            you forgive my long delay, dear master? But I think that
257 CCXCV     |             of the rest! and your two dear little girls, whom I embrace
258 CCXCVI    |            complain than keep silent, dear friend. And I don’t want
259 CCXCIX    |             occasion to write to you, dear, good, adorable master.~
260 CCC       |              slaves of themselves.~My dear little girls are well. Aurore
261 CCC       |               taste in secret.~All my dear world embraces you and rejoices
262 CCCI      |         gentleman?~I think as you do, dear master, that art is not
263 CCCIV     |             penetrates you deeply!~My dear old Sedaine! He is one of
264 CCCV      |                1876~COMPLETE SUCCESS, dear master. The actors were
265 CCCV      |                You distress me a bit, dear master, by attributing esthetic
266 CCCVII    |             FLAUBERT 30th March, 1876~Dear Cruchard,~I am enthusiastic
267 CCCVIII   |             your volume this morning, dear master. I have two or three
268 CCCIX     |            OUGHT to call me inwardly, dear master, “a confounded pig,”—
269 CCCIX     |      execution; but afterwards?~Well, dear master, and this is to answer
270 CCCX      |               the bottom of my heart, dear master! You have made me
271 CCCXII    |            GEORGE SAND Monday evening~Dear master, Thanks to Madame
272 CCCXII    |               will please you!~Adieu, dear good master. Remembrances
273 CCCXIII   |                in the first place, my dear friend, is, that your book
274 CCCXIII   |             is Cadio going?~Tell your dear mamma that I adore her.~
275 CCCXIV    |               evening, 25th May, 1876~Dear Madam,~I sent a telegram
276 CCCXIV    |           immediately and believe me, dear madam,~Your very affectionate,~
277 CCCXV     |             CCCXV. To MADAM LINA SAND~Dear Madam,~Your note of this
278 CCCXV     |            very frequent news of your dear mother-in-law.~Embrace her
279 CCCXVI    |               You had prepared me, my dear Maurice, I wanted to write
280 CCCXVI    |         mother the second time. Poor, dear, great woman! What genius
281 CCCXVI    |                And let yours flow, my dear friend, do all that is necessary
282 CCCXVI    |              pride in his mother!~Now dear friend, adieu! When shall
283 CCCXVII   |             your kind remembrance, my dear friend. Neither do I forget,
284 CCCXVII   |             and I dream of your poor, dear mamma in a sadness that
285 CCCXVII   |          visit to Paris.~Embrace your dear little girls warmly for
286 CCCXVIII  |             your kind remembrance, my dear Maurice. Next winter you
287 CCCXVIII  |               You speak to me of your dear and illustrious mamma! Next
288 CCCXVIII  |          ground!...My regards to your dear wife, embrace the dear little
289 CCCXVIII  |           your dear wife, embrace the dear little girls and sincerely
290 CCCXIX    |               morning, April, 1880~My dear Maurice,~No! Erase Cruchard
291 CCCXIX    |       COMPLETE EDITION? Ah! your poor dear mamma! How often I think