Letter

  1 Introd   |          the sex and years of his friend, addresses her in his letters
  2 Introd   |           Flaubert, the querulous friend of her last decade.~As we
  3 Introd   |          they like; but you, dear friend, you must produce a book
  4 Introd   |    attributed to the Puritan. His friend Maxime Du Camp, who tried
  5 Introd   |            fearing to augment her friend’s dismay with more of her
  6 VI       |        anything, the rascal!~Dear friend, I must tell you that I
  7 VI       |          title page simply: to my friend Gustave Flaubert. I have
  8 VII      |           May, 1866~Well, my dear friend, since you are going away,
  9 IX       |           collaborator. Be a good friend and try to come! I embrace
 10 X        |          Paris, 4 Aug., 1866~Dear friend, as I’m always out, I don’
 11 XII      |          1866~My good comrade and friend, I am going to see Alexandre
 12 XIII     |          1866 Monday, 1 A.M.~Dear friend, I shall be in Rouen on
 13 XVIII    |     agreed, dear comrade and good friend. I shall do my best to be
 14 XVIII    |           the performance of your friend’s play, and I shall do my
 15 XVIII    |          by the engraver, my poor friend, Manceau. It is the best
 16 XXI      |     evening, 1 October, 1866~Dear friend,~Your letter was forwarded
 17 XXII     |           Nohant, 19 October~Dear friend, they write me from the
 18 XXIII    |     Nohant, 23 October, 1866~Dear friend, since the play is on the
 19 XXIII    |        will dine with me and your friend on the 29th informally,
 20 XXIV     |           day before yesterday—my friend Charles Duveyrier died,
 21 XXIV     |        you so much the more, dear friend. Love me MORE than before,
 22 XXIV     |           sad.~G. Sand~Have you a friend among the Rouen magistrates?
 23 XXIV     |          will do the same for any friend of yours.~
 24 XXV      |      November, 1866~I send you my friend Despruneaux in person. If
 25 XXVI     |           night~You are sad, poor friend and dear master; it was
 26 XXVII    |       they told me that my little friend Cadol’s [Footnote: Edward
 27 XXVII    |           a dramatic author and a friend of Maurice Sand.] play would
 28 XXVII    |     writing for Buloz.~I saw your friend last evening in the foyer
 29 XXVII    |          that one can reveal to a friend are always the contrary
 30 XXVIII   |       November, 1866~Thanks, dear friend of my heart, for all the
 31 XXVIII   |           any longer. Good night, friend, work well, sleep well.
 32 XXXI     |          Manceau, the engraver, a friend of Maurice Sand.] who has
 33 XXXI     |           drying up. And you dear friend, what are you doing at this
 34 XXXII    |        have heard; of Cormenin (a friend of twenty-five years’ standing),
 35 XXXII    |         the real TRUTH about your friend.~You ask him if he sometimes
 36 XXXVII   |           the first impulse, your friend, no! not at all! Thus for
 37 XXXIX    |       those beings.~And you, dear friend, are you experiencing the
 38 XXXIX    |          good and kind your great friend is. He is adored at the
 39 XL       |     instance, I have just read my friend Du Camp’s new novel: Forces
 40 XLI      |        you know, I love you, dear friend brother, and bless you with
 41 XLII     |           with all my heart, dear friend; remember me to your mother,
 42 XLIV     |         letter this morning, dear friend of my heart. Why do I love
 43 XLIV     |     distractions. Really, my dear friend, think of the life of the
 44 XLVI     |        yourself But haven’t you a friend who knows how to act for
 45 XLVI     |         other day, to a very dear friend, while I was showing him
 46 XLVI     |        see that you have in him a friend whom you did not suspect,
 47 XLVI     |         him.~And good-night, dear friend of my heart. They are ringing
 48 XLVII    |         sure. Only, as it is your friend’s habit to anticipate them
 49 XLVII    |   Bouilhet, or any other intimate friend. Come, don’t stand on ceremony!~
 50 XLVII    |           from the letter of your friend Barbes, whose real biography
 51 XLVIII   |          has quite spoiled my old friend.~We must believe that we
 52 L        |           4 March, 1867~Dear good friend, the friend of my heart,
 53 L        |        1867~Dear good friend, the friend of my heart, the old troubadour
 54 LI       |         this. Good-bye, dear good friend.~G. Sand~
 55 LVI      |          Nohant, 9 May, 1867~Dear friend of my heart,~I am well,
 56 LIX      |         Here you are at home, old friend of my heart, and I and Maurice
 57 LIX      |        walks three leagues with a friend of like energy in order
 58 LX       |        Nohant, 14 June, 1867~Dear friend of my heart, I leave with
 59 LXI      |           24 July, 1867~Dear good friend, I spent three weeks in
 60 LXI      |         proud of him.~Good night, friend of my heart. I embrace you
 61 LXII     |        When I see how hard my old friend has to work in order to
 62 LXIII    |        was ill, my poor dear, old friend, Rollinat, an angel of goodness,
 63 LXV      |      Rouen and Jumieges, where my friend Madame Lebarbier de Tinan
 64 LXV      |         sick over the death of my friend Rollinat. My body is cured,
 65 LXVII    |            1st October, 1867~Dear friend, you shall have your information.
 66 LXVIII   |           I finish my novel. Your friend is a man of wax; everything
 67 LXX      |            my great, dear heart’s friend. My children have threatened
 68 LXXIII   |           night~Dear master, dear friend of the good God, “let us
 69 LXXVII   |          Paris, 10 May, 1868~Yes, friend of my heart, am I not in
 70 LXXVIII  |        decide the fate of my poor friend.~A word of response, and
 71 LXXXII   |           delightful and charming friend Du Camp. We talked of you,
 72 LXXXIII  |            28 May, 1868~My little friend gave birth this morning
 73 LXXXVII  |       coming to see your poor old friend this autumn? It is not impossible.
 74 LXXXIX   |        1868~Just at present, dear friend, there is a truce to my
 75 LXXXIX   |        will be looked after by my friend and collaborator, Paul Meurice.
 76 XCIV     |           of September, 1868~Dear friend,~It is for Saturday next,
 77 XCV      |           October, 1868~Dear good friend, I recommend again to your
 78 XCV      |          to your good offices, my friend Despruneaux, so that you
 79 XCVI     |          Plauchut, a writer and a friend of George Sand.] I was angry
 80 XCVIII   |           about his children. Our friend Napoleon is the godfather
 81 XCIX     |           the two darlings of his friend Maurice? The dear master
 82 C        |    distressed at having an adored friend, a captive in chains far
 83 C        |           talking of you with our friend of the Palais Royal, [Footnote:
 84 C        |    embrace you just the same. Our friend Plauchut wants to be remembered
 85 CII      |      embracing you also, my great friend, and my dear, big child.
 86 CIV      |       courteous man. If one has a friend, a rather good fellow, and
 87 CIV      |      rather good fellow, and that friend has given one thirty thousand
 88 CV       |       think.~As for our masculine friend, he is ungrateful, while
 89 CV       |    ungrateful, while our feminine friend is too exacting. You were
 90 CX       |        Nohant, 2 April, 1869~Dear friend of my heart, here we are
 91 CXX      |         Yes, Monday, my dear good friend, I count on you and I embrace
 92 CXXI     |         prophecy is fulfilled; My friend X——has gained only ridicule
 93 CXXIII   |      August, 1869~Well, dear good friend, here it is August, and
 94 CXXIII   |       Come to see us, my dear old friend, I shall not go to Paris
 95 CXXIV    |         plans distresses us, dear friend, but we do not dare to complain
 96 CXXIV    |    embrace you tenderly, dear old friend.~G. Sand~
 97 CXXX     |         13 October, 1869~Our poor friend is not to be buried till
 98 CXXXIV   |            30 November, 1869~Dear friend of my heart, I wanted to
 99 CXXXVIII |           What do you think of my friend Saint-Victor, who has refused
100 CXLII    |        you, dear old well-beloved friend, would be my recompense:
101 CXLVII   |      Paris, 19 January, 1870~Dear friend of my heart, I did not see
102 CLI      |     sorrow and chagrin. Poor dear friend! Let us continue to hope
103 CLII     |          2d March, 1870~Poor dear friend, your troubles distress
104 CLVI     |         19 March, 1870~I know, my friend, that you are very devoted
105 CLVII    |         The first sentence of our friend Maury in talking to me about
106 CLIX     |         is not little.~G. Sand~My friend Favre has quite a FANCY
107 CLX      |           M. Favre; since he is a friend of yours I shall like him.~
108 CLXIV    |          this life, the veritable friend whose feeling for the differences
109 CLXVI    |           has just buried another friend! From the seven that we
110 CLXVII   |        grief for you, my poor old friend. I too have a great one,
111 CLXXI    |           I love you, my dear old friend, we all love you.~Your troubadour,~
112 CLXXXVII |          is through you too, dear friend, whose kind and loving heart
113 CLXXXVIII|  according to tradition. I have a friend in Rouen who proposed to
114 CLXXXIX  |           What do you think of my friend Maury, who kept the tricolor
115 CXCI     |    against it; the godson of your friend Michel de Bourges, Bardoux,
116 CXCII    |           from that stain. Ah! my friend, what years we are going
117 CXCVII   |   remained in its hands.~And you, friend, you want me to see these
118 CXCVIII  |          September, 1871~Dear old friend,~I answered you day before
119 CC       |          part of a letter of some friend whom no one knows, no one
120 CCI      |        lesson to be preached. Our friend Dumas dreams the glory of
121 CCI      |  affectionate greetings.~Your old friend~
122 CCII     |           warmly for me.~Your old friend~
123 CCIV     |         kiss you for me.~Your old friend~
124 CCV      |     imagine that in working for a friend one puts more heart in it,
125 CCX      |           I embrace you.~Your old friend~
126 CCXI     |          But I see that this poor friend was, like you, one who DID
127 CCXVI    |           drum on the tomb of his friend, a vulgar wretch who debases
128 CCXVII   |          morning.~Ah! my dear old friend, what a dreadful twelve
129 CCXVII   |    patient.~Good night, dear good friend of my heart.~Heavens! don’
130 CCXIX    |           17 March, 1872~No, dear friend, Maurice is almost well
131 CCXIX    |          That is all, my dear old friend, it is not my fault, I embrace
132 CCXXI    |       every instant, my poor dear friend. I am thinking of all the
133 CCXXII   |         over again, my poor, dear friend, how much I love you. Perhaps,
134 CCXXVI   |         Nohant, 18 May, 1872~Dear friend of my heart, your inability
135 CCXXIX   |        FLAUBERT 7 June, 1872~Dear friend,~Your old troubadour has
136 CCXXX    |           influence to support my friend, Raymond Deslandes, as if
137 CCXXXIII |       with what I said about your friend; I have done a second fantastic
138 CCXXXVI  |       myself this time TO A WOMAN FRIEND, who has written me also
139 CCXXXVII |        lose patience, and, when a friend is slandered before my very
140 CCXXXVIII|     Nohant, 26 October, 1872~Dear friend,~Here is another chagrin
141 CCXXXVIII|          the funeral of this poor friend. What cruel and repeated
142 CCXLI    |          best affection,~Your old friend.~Always as indignant as
143 CCXLV    |            for it always has! Our friend Alexandre Dumas fils, to
144 CCXLVIII |    January, 1873~Yes, yes, my old friend, you must come to see me.
145 CCL      |          give his patronage to my friend Despruneaux in his suit
146 CCLIII   |       from going tomorrow But our friend seems to me to enjoy very
147 CCLV     |           1873~I am writing to my friend General Ferri Pisani, whom
148 CCLVII   |        good-for-nothing Cruchard, friend of Chalumeau. Note that
149 CCLIX    |          everything from your old friend.~
150 CCLXVI   |     different from the Odeon!~Our friend Chennevieres is now our
151 CCLXVII  |            Have you a part for my friend Parade? And for Saint-Germain,
152 CCLXX    | censorship to forbid my play. Our friend Chennevieres gave me a good
153 CCLXXVI  |      frenzy for pictures, for our friend never leaves the auction
154 CCLXXVI  |          to you from me.~Your old friend.~
155 CCLXXXIV |          Fromont et Risler, by my friend Daudet, and les Diaboliques,
156 CCLXXXV  |          December, 1874~Poor dear friend,~I love you all the more
157 CCLXXXVII|         were there in force!~Your friend, Paul Meurice, came a week
158 CCXCIII  |      CCXCIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~Friend, I shall come at your call
159 CCXCV    |     incomprehensible trouble. Our friend Renan is one of the most
160 CCXCVI   |   complain than keep silent, dear friend. And I don’t want you to
161 CCC      |          my strange and excellent friend Favre has cured me wonderfully,
162 CCCI     |       said to me one day: “Ah! my friend, man is an unstable compound,
163 CCCXIII  |          the first place, my dear friend, is, that your book has
164 CCCXVI   |           let yours flow, my dear friend, do all that is necessary
165 CCCXVI   |           in his mother!~Now dear friend, adieu! When shall we meet
166 CCCXVII  |         kind remembrance, my dear friend. Neither do I forget, and
167 CCCXVIII |         my good Maurice,~Your old friend~Gustave Flaubert~