Letter

 1 Introd    |  relationship extending over twelve years, including the trying period
 2 Introd    |             though he was seventeen years her junior, the flamboyance
 3 Introd    |       Croisset, beginning his seven years’ labor at L’Education Sentimentale,
 4 Introd    |            deference to the sex and years of his friend, addresses
 5 Introd    |           was only to increase with years. At the proper age for beginning
 6 Introd    |            M. Dudevant. After a few years of rather humdrum domestic
 7 Introd    |          loved and nursed for eight years; her master Lamennais; her
 8 Introd    |         young Shelley when, fifteen years earlier, he with Mary Godwin
 9 Introd    |            the novels of her middle years, was supplied mainly by
10 Introd    |            followed for thirty-four years with anguish of spirit and
11 Introd    |         expenditure of half-a-dozen years to each, were composed on
12 Introd    |         indeed a work of erudition; years were spent in getting up
13 Introd    |            finds that she is twenty years younger; and now that she
14 Introd    |        known you or loved you.”~Two years later the principles and
15 Introd    |         feel the insidious siege of years. She can no longer rally
16 Introd    |             the shocks of many long years, and this sentiment made
17 XVIII     |           sometimes I am only three years old. But, the next day I
18 XXVI      |            had not seen you for ten years. My one subject of conversation
19 XXVII     |          will always be twenty-five years of age because of all sorts
20 XXVIII    |             is engaged, he has four years to wait, to work to make
21 XXXII     |             a friend of twenty-five years’ standing), of Gavarni,
22 XXXII     |           he is temperate at twenty years old, he will be a cowardly
23 XLV       |        drier and more bitter twenty years ago than now. I am feminized
24 XLVI      |             threatening for several years, and which became noticeable
25 LVIII     |            have enough more for two years, at least (OF MINE). How
26 LIX       |           present I am only fifteen years old, and everything to me
27 LX        |           of passage, and there are years when they do not appear
28 LXXI      |         have it all finished in two years, I must not budge from my
29 LXXIV     |           YIELDING TO REASON at two years of age. It is very extraordinary
30 LXXVI     |         does not know the flight of years.~G. Sand~My love to your
31 LXXXVI    |         months as others do at five years, and adorable in everything.
32 LXXXVI    | tremendously during the last twenty years and that it would not be
33 CV        |           that little girl of three years, that we were all amazed
34 CVII      |         clearly that at five or six years of age I wanted to “send
35 CXXI      |         They have had three hundred years of existence, that is quite
36 CLVII     |          best (I discovered it five years later) is that there was
37 CLXII     |         infinite pleasure. In fifty years perhaps that will be the
38 CLXXVII   |            marrow!~If I were twenty years younger, I should perhaps
39 CLXXVII   |          that, and if I were twenty years older I should be resigned.~
40 CLXXXVI   |           happen every six thousand years; while the insurrection
41 CLXXXVII  |            whether one is a hundred years old or not!~My little girls
42 CLXXXVIII |             dear, old mother by ten years! What a change! She can
43 CLXXXVIII |            if in twenty or in forty years, a grandson of Jerome will
44 CLXXXVIII |        whole, has lived for several years in an extraordinary mental
45 CLXXXVIII |             the criticism of recent years. What difference did it
46 CXC       |             my youth, I grew twenty years younger. You will tell me
47 CXCII     |          stain. Ah! my friend, what years we are going through! We
48 CXCII     |           restrain itself; that the years passed over me and over
49 CXCIII    |          seems to me that in twenty years there will be only hypocrites
50 CXCV      |             been like that. Several years of quiet deceived us. That
51 CXCIX     |             scorned Homer!~In three years every Frenchman can know
52 CCXIII    |             premature death. In ten years there will not be one single
53 CCXX      |          the presses groan for many years, solely not to have “business”
54 CCXXIII   |            grow a new skin at fifty years of age!~I realized, during
55 CCXXXI    |           to you today. Sixty-eight years old. Perfect health in spite
56 CCXXXIII  |            cascades, my sixty-eight years and my whooping-cough. When
57 CCXXXVIII |            really living for twenty years; and if he had consented
58 CCXXXIX   |            blackguards in his riper years, this last killed him. He
59 CCXLV     |            has to criticise? In ten years they won’t know, perhaps,
60 CCXLV     |           next I shall be fifty-one years old.~If you are not to come
61 CCXLVI    |           me, I think that in fifty years, I shall be absolutely forgotten
62 CCXLVI    |             yourself. You are fifty years old, my son is the same
63 CCXLIX    |    Montaigne speaks, who for thirty years did not leave his room “
64 CCLI      |         which will take five or six years to write, and I am thinking
65 CCLII     |           for weeks, months, almost years, is unjust and cruel to
66 CCLVI     |       strengthen my nerves. For ten years I have been finding a pretext
67 CCLXIV    |          which will take me several years. And moreover, the theatrical
68 CCLXXIII  |            me busy for four or five years!~
69 CCLXXVIII |             will take at least four years. It will have that good
70 CCLXXX    |            1874 (Yesterday, seventy years.)~I was in Paris from the
71 CCLXXXI   |           had tormented him for six years. But to do that you would
72 CCLXXXVIII|            and I have lived seventy years with all that nuisance in
73 CCXC      |           childishness. She is nine years old and so large that one
74 CCCXVIII  |            to take me three or four years. Not less!~Don’t leave me