Letter

  1 Introd    |            actuated as a writer by two complementary passions—the
  2 Introd    |           the hatred of mediocrity—two passions, of which the second
  3 Introd    |   concerned, to group his books in two divisions: on the one hand,
  4 Introd    |             Anthony, Salammbo, and two of the Trois Contes; on
  5 Introd    |         Bovary and Salammbo. These two masterpieces disclose to
  6 Introd    |          wide defile, hedged in by two chains of reddish hillocks,
  7 Introd    |        lower part of her face; her two thumbs were bent into the
  8 Introd    |            The church clock struck two. They could hear the loud
  9 Introd    |          over the paper.”~In these two detached pictures—the one
 10 Introd    |            significance of life in two such books as Madame Bovary
 11 Introd    |            under a tree, or before two lighted logs, with the assurance
 12 Introd    |           known you or loved you.”~Two years later the principles
 13 Introd    |          to deny it. There are not two races. ... No, no, people
 14 II        |       Buloz; but when I return, in two months, I shall ask you
 15 VI        |         novel, and you?~I kiss the two great diamonds which adorn
 16 VII       |            I am going to Berry for two or three months, do try
 17 XVI       |           getting home I find your two letters. That fact, added
 18 XVII      |         vie, of which I knew about two thirds but only fragmentarily.
 19 XVIII     |            a treat, being with you two. Now try to find that hoax
 20 XIX       |              a poor phrase, for we two are worth more than those
 21 XIX       |          are worth more than those two amiable men.~Of the two
 22 XIX       |            two amiable men.~Of the two portraits, I like that of
 23 XX        |         sending the package of the two portraits made me think
 24 XXI       |          for reconstructing one or two pictures which I need. I
 25 XXIII     |           on the 29th I shall give two more days to my children
 26 XXIV      |      society of an individual with two women, as ordinary, all
 27 XXIV      |            left an impression like two points in my eyes.” HUSBAND: “
 28 XXV       |             If you know a judge or two,—or if your brother could
 29 XXVI      |           All the doors between us two are not yet open. You inspire
 30 XXVII     |            it.~I have been ill for two days. I am cured. Your letter
 31 XXVII     |         your mother “MY DAUGHTER,” two tears came in my eyes. It
 32 XXVIII    |          preceding within the next two weeks would be extremely
 33 XXVIII    |         scrupulous exactitude.~For two days I have been taking
 34 XXXIX     |            I went to hear it again two or three days ago and I
 35 XL        |           a deep chasm between the two Frances.~Bouilhet told me
 36 XLII      |          it.~I have not worked for two weeks; so my task has not
 37 XLV       |         movement, and I walked for two hours and a half imagining
 38 XLV       |     psychology), that one can love two people in the same way and
 39 XLV       |            that one can experience two identical sensations about
 40 XLVIII    |       which still amounts to about two thousand francs; it is my
 41 LIV       |           old comrade and send him two lines to tell him that you
 42 LVI       |         name and the appearance of two or three thousand imperceptible
 43 LVI       |      months about that animal with two legs which has the only
 44 LVIII     |             I have enough more for two years, at least (OF MINE).
 45 LX        |          20th of the month to stay two weeks in Paris, perhaps
 46 LX        |            under a tree, or before two lighted logs, with the assurance
 47 LXVII     |        back and forth twice within two steps of Croisset and I
 48 LXXI      |            have it all finished in two years, I must not budge
 49 LXXI      |         very angry at you for your two last trips in Normandy.~
 50 LXXIV     |    unmasked. These plays last till two o’clock in the morning and
 51 LXXIV     |          and YIELDING TO REASON at two years of age. It is very
 52 LXXVII    |            shall be happy to spend two days with my old troubadour,
 53 LXXVIII   |            you or not, I know that two old troubadours love each
 54 LXXIX     | confinement. I hope to go to spend two days at that dear Croisset.
 55 LXXXI     |            wait for me, I lunch on two eggs made into an omelet
 56 LXXXI     |            last, all I want to for two days. Do you know that you
 57 LXXXI     |            have had bad dreams for two weeks about my poor Esther,
 58 LXXXIII   |           birth this morning after two hours of labor, to a boy
 59 LXXXIV    |        discreetly with you between two pages of your novel, and
 60 LXXXV     |            in Socialism. There are two notes which are now on my
 61 LXXXV     |            great admirers of these two gentlemen.~When I am old,
 62 LXXXVI    |          gave supper at La Chatre, two successive nights with all
 63 LXXXVIII  |          master? Here it is nearly two months since you have written
 64 LXXXIX    |        wrote you from Nohant about two weeks ago that I was going
 65 XC        | comfortable one is here with these two little children who laugh
 66 XCIII     |            evening~I received your two notes, dear master. You
 67 XCIII     |            the Convention with his two secretaries, is of an incredible
 68 XCIV      |      evening from six o’clock till two in the morning. They talk
 69 XCVI      |           good and very tender, my two little grandchildren still
 70 XCVIII    |          we are baptizing here our two little girls as Protestants.
 71 XCIX      |       coming to the baptism of the two darlings of his friend Maurice?
 72 XCIX      |        week when I am in Paris for two days, to get necessary information
 73 C         |           me a grandson instead of two granddaughters, and a Catholic
 74 CIII      |  attractions. We are, I think, the two most different workers that
 75 CIII      |          novel, when I have one or two hours a day to get to work
 76 CVI       |          me. I have, every day, in two hours news from Milan by
 77 CVIII     |          and friends come to spend two out of every three days
 78 CXVIII    |           to me, if the book is in two volumes, it will be 20,000
 79 CXVIII    |         suppose that you will have two volumes, won’t you?~However,
 80 CXVIII    |      success, I shall not begrudge two or three thousand francs
 81 CXXIV     |         Levy? Is he paying you for two volumes? I would like you
 82 CXXV      |          my letter interrupted for two days by my wounded hand
 83 CXXX      |       thought le Batard would last two weeks and it will last forty
 84 CXXXI     |        about the 20th of November. Two and a half months are about
 85 CXXXIII   |          last minute? For the last two days they have been announcing
 86 CXXXIV    |            great deal.~I have seen two short articles which did
 87 CXXXVI    |           the play that he gave me two or three EXCELLENT criticisms.
 88 CXXXVII   |         GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday, two o’clock in the morning,
 89 CXXXVII   |           and a sort of sprain for two days. But we must make haste.
 90 CXLI      |            is so easy to spare you two and a half hours of discomfort!~
 91 CXLIX     |         1870~My troubadour, we are two old rattle traps. As for
 92 CLI       |         Then I am disposing of the two seats that I intended for
 93 CLII      |           of air, even if only for two or three days? I have a
 94 CLVIII    |          conception of things.~The two letters will be placed under
 95 CLIX      |           shall not leave them for two or three weeks. If then
 96 CLX       |          when I go to see him. For two months now he has been confined
 97 CLXII     |       personally, how are you? The two weeks are almost up, and
 98 CLXIII    |            ten thousand;—there are two, he himself told me that
 99 CLXIV     |         been too much shaken also. Two of your dearest friends
100 CLXV      |           a little in blurting out two or three dogmatic opinions
101 CLXXIX    |          have had at my door today two hundred and seventy-one
102 CLXXXVI   |          Croisset, Monday evening, two o’clock.~Dear master,~Why
103 CLXXXVII  |          is dead, one should plant two others. My unhappiness comes
104 CLXXXVII  |            is through them and the two beings who gave them to
105 CXCV      |           not arid as mine is. Our two letters crossed again. That
106 CXCV      |           difference between those two terms. A modern republic
107 CXCVII    |          to deny it. There are not two races, the distinction of
108 CXCVII    |    merchant and the workman, those two agents of labor and of exchange,
109 CXCVII    |            would classify men into two distinct parties? The question
110 CXCVIII   |         have promised to give them two articles a month. The letter
111 CC        |           You would do well to see two or three plays, no matter
112 CCIV      |          have not had for the last two weeks ten minutes of freedom.
113 CCVII     |            I have been leading for two and a half months! How is
114 CCVIII    |          look at MY FLOWERS, these two little ones who are always
115 CCXII     |           weak epithet! he gave me two or three suggestions of
116 CCXVIII   |          it. ... Revery!~There are two very pretty monsters: (1)
117 CCXX      |         with Kant and Hegel. These two great men are helping to
118 CCXXIII   |      cannot live here now. She has two dwellings already, and the
119 CCXXIII   |          realized, during the last two weeks, that my poor dear,
120 CCXXXIII  |            with joy. Decidedly our two old troubadourships are
121 CCXXXIII  |            old troubadourships are two opposites. What bores you,
122 CCXXXVI   |         like light proceeding from two lamps, and I had PRINCIPLES.
123 CCXXXIX   |         Pierre Corneille.~He hated two things: the hate of the
124 CCXL      |           how good for old people! Two hours distant from here,
125 CCXL      |           G. Sand~I am sending you two novels for your collection
126 CCXLI     |            clock, has brought your two volumes to me. I am going
127 CCXLIII   |           have!~I give you on your two cheeks, two little nurse’
128 CCXLIII   |            you on your two cheeks, two little nurse’s kisses, and
129 CCXLIV    |           us until after a year or two if a book has SOLD. As for
130 CCXLV     |         draw a parallel between us two, and you will see how you
131 CCXLV     |           I have turned a penny or two.~Why publish, in these abominable
132 CCXLV     |            very boorish! There are two nuts, who have very plebeian
133 CCXLVI    |           You were pleased with my two novels? I am repaid, I think
134 CCXLIX    |      Bouilhet fountain! For nearly two months, I have not been
135 CCL       |        quickly done! At the end of two or three days one feels
136 CCLI      |           first of April.” That is two weeks off. I shall see him
137 CCLI      |        write, and I am thinking of two or three others. There will
138 CCLII     |         enemies if one is loved by two or three good souls? Don’
139 CCLIII    |           am going this evening to two costume balls! Tell me after
140 CCLVI     |            anyone than by me.~Your two friends, Tourgueneff and
141 CCLVI     |        carriage at a smart pace by two horses. Hurrah for the postillions
142 CCLVI     |  countryside that may serve for my two good men. After which, about
143 CCLVII    |         Delacroix” is instructive; two curious pages on what he
144 CCLVII    |            and I shall start at my two good fellows who were set
145 CCLIX     |            a night, not to mention two hours a day. That is resting
146 CCLX      |           the woods.” For the last two hours now an imbecile stationed
147 CCLXI     |        except for the elevation of two thousand meters at Sancy,
148 CCLXVI    |           insisted on my combining two acts in one, which makes
149 CCLXVI    |           long.~I did this work in two days, and Cruchard has been
150 CCLXXI    |            Nohant, March, 1874~Our two little girls cruelly ill
151 CCLXXII   |          supped even better. Menu: two dozen oysters from Ostend,
152 CCLXXII   |           the work) accompanied by two beautiful cat-calls from
153 CCLXXIII  |        badly. The first edition of two thousand copies is exhausted.
154 CCLXXIII  |     journals and praised highly by two or three persons. On the
155 CCLXXIII  |           what I am aiming at with two good people. Don’t fear
156 CCLXXIV   |        much I admired you on those two occasions! The dignity of
157 CCLXXVI   |          simple. I have in my head two or three to write before
158 CCLXXVII  |           her, with Iphigenie, for two weeks in Nohant last autumn.
159 CCLXXIX   |  neighborhood suitable to place my two good men. It will be between
160 CCLXXXI   |            at Aix in Savoy, and in two weeks he was cured of the
161 CCLXXXII  |            that over. I am keeping two or three pretty anecdotes
162 CCLXXXII  |           eight thousand copies in two weeks. Zola’s Conquete de
163 CCLXXXVI  |           life! for it opens these two hypotheses, or to express
164 CCLXXXVIII|          in the legs.~Tell me that two weeks of this regime has
165 CCXCI     |         very well pleased with the two first chapters of my frightful
166 CCXCV     |      nothing of the rest! and your two dear little girls, whom
167 CCXCIX    |          spoken to me of the first two. What do you think of their
168 CCCI      |         thirty pages, I shall have two months more at it. Such
169 CCCV      |        then dependent on the other two, since one has to feel strongly,
170 CCCV      |            form and the matter are two subtleties, two entities,
171 CCCV      |         matter are two subtleties, two entities, neither of which
172 CCCV      |         have your opinion on these two books, which are very different
173 CCCVIII   |       morning, dear master. I have two or three others that have
174 CCCVIII   |       opportunity of reading these two books.~I do not share in
175 CCCVIII   |  understand one another! There are two men whom I admire a great
176 CCCIX     |          nothing to you about your two volumes, not to mention
177 CCCIX     |            have been, for the last two weeks, entirely taken up
178 CCCIX     |       strikes me the most in these two novels (as in all yours,
179 CCCX      |    devoured it.~I find it perfect, two jewels! Marianne moved me
180 CCCX      |       Marianne moved me deeply and two or three times I wept. I
181 CCCXIII   |         not care for, as language, two or three ready-made locutions,
182 CCCXIII   |           for me.~And I grasp your two hands heartily and say “
183 CCCXVI    |           a wife...a rare one! and two exquisite children. While
184 CCCXVI    |           over and above my grief, two desires: to run off with
185 CCCXVI    |          the grandchildren of your two little girls shall have
186 CCCXVII   |           this year I have written two stories, and I am going