Letter

 1 Introd  |         passionate and erratic youth may have captivated our grandfathers,
 2 Introd  |          justice as it should, as it may, be in our modern society?”~
 3 Introd  |          that the happiness of a few may not be criminal and cursed
 4 Introd  |            and by way of contrast we may speak of Flaubert as a disgruntled
 5 Introd  |            change in the time-spirit may help to explain the most
 6 Introd  |              Rouen, Gustave Flaubert may have acquired from his father
 7 Introd  |            serenity, and envy me. It may well surprise you. Sick,
 8 Introd  |             Bouvard and Pecuchet. We may call the tales in the first
 9 Introd  |              terrible, atrocious. We may call the stories in the
10 Introd  |            Emma Bovary’s history.~We may go still farther than that
11 Introd  |             tract it would make. “It may be very seriously maintained,”
12 Introd  |          human history is there; you may show it by painting on broad
13 Introd  |            debate in which her cause may be better than her arguments
14 Introd  |    depression of her physical energy may diminish her power to put
15 Introd  |         faith, too lightly. Flaubert may have been a better disputant;
16 Introd  |             for writing. George Sand may have chosen her side with
17 IV      |          Temple, 42, Paris Paris, 10 May, 1866~  [The postage stamp
18 IV      |           bears the mark Palaiseau 9 May, ’66.]~  M. Flobaire, You
19 VI      |        GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Palaiseau 14 May, 1866~This is not a letter
20 VII     |             Palaiseau, Wednesday, 16 May, 1866~Well, my dear friend,
21 VIII    |          GEORGE SAND Paris, 17 or 18 May, 1866~Don’t expect me at
22 XVI     |              vicious. But perhaps he may see with somewhat unclean
23 XVI     |           that a man of intelligence may have great curiosity. I
24 LVI     |      FLAUBERT, at Croisset Nohant, 9 May, 1867~Dear friend of my
25 LIX     |               at Croisset Nohant, 30 May, 1867~Here you are at home,
26 LX      |          without disturbing whatever may be the plans of your mother
27 LXXVII  |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 10 May, 1868~Yes, friend of my
28 LXXVIII |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 11 May, 1868~If you were to be
29 LXXIX   |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 17 May, 1868~I have a little respite,
30 LXXXI   |          FLAUBERT Paris, 21 Thursday—May, 1868~I see that the day
31 LXXXII  |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 26 May, 1868~Arrived while dozing.
32 LXXXIII |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 28 May, 1868~My little friend gave
33 LXXXVI  |             Normandy still more. You may know that comedian. His
34 XCVII   | individualities, however odious they may be. I have just gulped down
35 XCIX    |            to be visible.~So that it may arrive more quickly, I have
36 XCIX    |       finished all before the end of May. I don’t know anything that
37 C       |         nothing more to say; but one may well be distressed at having
38 C       |            chains far away, whom one may not free. It is perhaps
39 CI      |            to which I condemn myself may be a “state of joy,” no.
40 CII     |              and my dear, big child. May ’69 be easy for you, and
41 CII     |              69 be easy for you, and may it see the end of your novel.
42 CII     |           see the end of your novel. May you keep well and be always
43 CIV     |            from Easter to the end of May, This spring I shall go
44 CVI     |            is delayed as my children may be absent a month; I shall
45 CXV     |           CXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 3 May, 1869~They are encroaching
46 CXVI    |            GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 4 May, 1869~On Monday then, and
47 CXVII   |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Sunday, 9 May, 1869~Tomorrow, your reverence,
48 CXVIII  |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 18 May, 1869~I saw Levy today,
49 CXIX    |             am going to Palaiseau, I may be a few minutes late or
50 CXIX    |      troubadour Thursday evening, 20 May, 1869.~
51 CXX     |           GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 29 May, 1869~Yes, Monday, my dear
52 CXLI    |          clock? I am afraid that you may be uncomfortable in that
53 CXLII   |            morning, so that everyone may be perfectly comfortable,
54 CXLII   |        comfortable, so that everyone may have time to embrace everyone
55 CXLII   |             else, and so that no one may be interrupted in the joy
56 CXLV    |            any constraint. Come what may!~
57 CLX     |             to Croisset the first of May. But I shall see you before
58 CLXIV   |               at Croisset Nohant, 20 May, 1870~It is a very long
59 CLXXXV  |           long life. I admit that it may overcome the troops at Versailles
60 CXCVII  |             proletarian of just now, may turn into a bourgeois in
61 CXCVII  |            the conqueror, whoever he may be. Let us desire to establish
62 CXCIX   |        respected, however inept they may be, because they contain
63 CCI     |           equal of his neighbor, who may be worth a hundred times
64 CCIII   |            but I fear that the money may have been stolen or lost,
65 CCVI    |           children embrace you also. May our affection bring you
66 CCXI    |           like and tell me so that I may have it sent to you.~I have
67 CCXVII  |           poor poet? She is mad.~You may well think that I was not
68 CCXIX   |            As for the companion, you may rest assured that I am looking
69 CCXXIV  |         between the 20th and 25th of May, at the latest. Perhaps
70 CCXXV   |         hurried in Paris, so that we may have the time to talk. What
71 CCXXVI  |          GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 18 May, 1872~Dear friend of my
72 CCXXX   |            categorically, so that we may know what you will do.~
73 CCXXXVI |             money, however little it may be, when there is so much
74 CCXLV   |       inferior to the preceding one. May I be hung if that is not
75 CCXLIX  |             recollections, so that I may know what mistakes he made
76 CCL     |     Experience can never deceive, it may be incomplete, but never
77 CCLII   |           were left? Come, so that I may OVERWHELM you with reproaches;
78 CCLVI   |          discover a countryside that may serve for my two good men.
79 CCLX    |          reassuring to your friends. May you live long. Take care
80 CCLXV   |          hear that it is bad, but it may very well be a success all
81 CCLXVIII|             anyone, no matter who it may be, having, as you know,
82 CCLXIX  |             to me, it is so that she may have a greater share. You
83 CCLXXI  |          going to judge it. The jury may be good or stupid, one never
84 CCLXXIII|             on the contrary, that it may seem beyond the bounds of
85 CCLXXVI |             SAND Friday evening, 1st May, 1874~Things are progressing,
86 CCLXXVII|         GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 4th May, 1874~Let them say what
87 CCLXXX  |            in Paris from the 30th of May to the 10th of June, you
88 CCLXXXII|              am all right, come what may! But one needs to be absolutely
89 CCLXXXV |      acceptation of life whatever it may be! There is one person
90 CCLXXXVI|              Year, and wish that you may have a tolerable one, since
91 CCXC    |         GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 7th May, 1875~You leave me without
92 CCXCI   |           GEORGE SAND Croisset, 10th May, 1875~A wandering gout,
93 CCC     |          control them, whatever they may be, by effort. What is it
94 CCCVI   |        published quickly, so that we may read it.~Your old troubadour,~
95 CCCXI   |             anyway until the 20th of May he will get letters addressed
96 CCCXII  |           his zeal if you think that may be useful).~I have been
97 CCCXIV  |          SAND Thursday evening, 25th May, 1876~Dear Madam,~I sent
98 CCCXVIII|          more inept than the 16th of May? Where is there an idiot
99 CCCXIX  |          till the 8th or the 10th of May. So, my old fellow, when