Letter

 1 XIV      |        you are a dear kind boy, big man that you are, and I
 2 XXXII    |    order not to KISS you like a big child).~Your ears ought
 3 XLVI     |     shall believe that I love a big ingrate who does not pay
 4 LXVII    |    Croisset and I sent you some big kisses; always ready to
 5 LXXVI    |      kiss you on your beautiful big eyes. Maurice embraces you
 6 LXXXVI   |    about it all. Gabrielle is a big lamb, sleeping and laughing
 7 CII      |      great friend, and my dear, big child. May ’69 be easy for
 8 CIV      |         five months now. What a big “Hooray” I shall utter,
 9 CXXV     |      you as if you were my dear big child. Why can’t I put the
10 CXXVII   | together? I have written to the big Marchal to come to Magny’
11 CXLI     |      unhappy and you would be a big ingrate. Do you want me
12 CCLI     |          it is the fault of the big Tourgueneff. I was getting
13 CCLI     |        I am taking notes for my big book which will take five
14 CCLII    |        They are so dear, and my big children are so good to
15 CCLXIII  |         except Viardot) and the big Muscovite, who was charming
16 CCLXIII  |        world: well, sends you a big kiss. Lina, Maurice send
17 CCLXIV   |        Republicans; the body of big business in Paris has pronounced
18 CCLXXVIII|        that I shall start at my big book which will take at
19 CCLXXXIX |      well.~Aurore is getting so big that one is surprised to
20 CCXCIX   |        that I have abandoned my big novel in order to write
21 CCXCIX   |    Sunday are first of all, the big Tourgueneff, who is nicer
22 CCCXVII  |       that I hope to resume the big novel that I laid aside