Letter

 1 Introd   |      little river, visited by her friends and undistracted by the
 2 Introd   |         should have become loving friends towards the end of their
 3 Introd   |           distinguished series of friends and lovers that ever fluttered
 4 Introd   |      family, your little group of friends, your intimate happiness,
 5 XIV      |           me to all the very kind friends. I was truly exceedingly
 6 XXVIII   |   Berrichon Despruneaux. They are friends from the old country, a
 7 XLIV     |           than old and well-tried friends? I am asking, for my condition
 8 XLIV     |      personality, one tests one’s friends as one tests the earth,
 9 XLIV     |          go to Cannes, where some friends are urging me to come. But
10 XLVI     |           it does not seem to his friends, that death will separate
11 LIV      |         have the time to think of friends, remember your old comrade
12 LXIII    |          sometimes of your absent friends. We embrace you affectionately.
13 LXIX     |          you have a lot of better friends: you are very much mistaken;
14 LXIX     |           it is always one’s best friends whom one neglects or ignores.~
15 LXX      |          so soon. Just at present friends are coming. You are the
16 LXXIV    |       nephews, and sons of my old friends. They get excited to the
17 LXXXIV   |           love you as the best of friends and comrades. You see that
18 LXXXV    |        not prevent us from having friends who are great admirers of
19 LXXXVI   |       among whom were several old friends to whom we gave supper at
20 LXXXVI   |  successive nights with all their friends, after the play;— songs,
21 XCI      |          For it is sad to see the friends one loves change. This replacement
22 XCI      |        book (written by one of my friends, a magistrate), on the Revolution
23 XCVII    |        think that several of your friends were warm enough towards
24 CVIII    |     grandchildren; my nephews and friends come to spend two out of
25 CXVII    |         or with Plauchut, or with friends who are also yours.~I embrace
26 CXXIII   |    surrounded by older and better friends than I am. I wrote you at
27 CXXIV    |          But it is so hard to see friends in Paris and one is so overwhelmed
28 CXXIX    |         offend me. Between simple friends, one needs manners and politenesses;
29 CXXXV    |           praised me...As for the friends, the persons who received
30 CXL      |          better served than one’s friends. And then, when one frog
31 CLVI     |        case, bad servants and bad friends.~But I don’t write satires:
32 CLIX     |         he only practices for his friends, and he is offended if they
33 CLXIV    |         also. Two of your dearest friends gone one after the other.
34 CLXV     |        But how? Almost all my old friends are married officials, thinking
35 CLXIX    |        that they remembered their friends. I said, WHO KNOWS? Then
36 CLXXV    |           for all my children and friends, who perhaps are to be hacked
37 CLXXVII  |           Paris any more! All the friends that I had there are dead
38 CLXXX    |          ones into the Creuse, to friends who came to get us, and
39 CLXXX    |          we have come back to the friends who lived the nearest to
40 CLXXXII  |     fortune not to lose any of my friends, young or old. That is all
41 CXCI     |      colossally absurd. One of my friends made a good speech against
42 CXCVII   |      family, your little group of friends, your intimate happiness,
43 CXCVII   |           ask myself where are my friends or my enemies. They are
44 CXCVIII  |         her to return near to her friends, at the risk of new upsets.~
45 CCIV     |           I have seen none of our friends except Tourgueneff, whom
46 CCVIII   |     yourself, your kind, and your friends above all. I have some very
47 CCXXII   |     staying several days with our friends, at Nimes, to stop a bad
48 CCXXIII  |          Paris any longer. All my friends are dead, and the last one,
49 CCXXV    |        while I shall have no more friends there. The human being (
50 CCXXXVII |          the way, BETRAYING ONE’S FRIENDS IN PUBLIC, seems to me to
51 CCXXXVIII| astonishes you too much. You shun friends, you plunge into work, and
52 CCXLIX   |         of Rouen! That is the way friends are! Everything is difficult,
53 CCLVI    |       anyone than by me.~Your two friends, Tourgueneff and Cruchard
54 CCLX     |        that is reassuring to your friends. May you live long. Take
55 CCLXIII  |        your work better than your friends, and in that you are inferior
56 CCLXX    |            I dream of all my dead friends, I wallow in blackness!
57 CCLXXV   |        use, now, no more than are friends at the theatre. I have told
58 CCLXXV   |          much against you to your friends. No one indeed ever says
59 CCLXXXII |           slight) not to succeed, friends turn from one. They are
60 CCLXXXVI |       ought to be examples to our friends, our neighbors, our fellow
61 CCXCVI   |          frequent sorrows. My old friends are dying before I do. One
62 CCC      |           formulate on the author friends of whom you speak. I, myself
63 CCCI     |    formulate on the authors, your friends, etc.” Well? indeed! but
64 CCCI     |           not you?~Speaking of my friends, you add “my school.” But
65 CCCIII   |          liked to send some of my friends there, and he does not offer
66 CCCV     |     approval were heard. All your friends who had come at your summons
67 CCCVIII  |         public when one’s nearest friends are so remote? All that
68 CCCXVIII |         table by the side of your friends whose “idol” I am.~You speak