The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 452 pages of information about The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 452 pages of information about The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters.

Then we shall go to your house, the day you wish.  My chief talk with you will be to listen to you and to love you with all my heart.  I shall bring what I have “On the stocks.”  That will give me courage, as they say here, to read to you my embryo.  If I could only carry the sun from Nohant.  It is glorious.

I embrace and bless you.

G. Sand

XXIV.  TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 10 November, 1866

On reaching Paris I learn sad news.  Last evening, while we were talking—­and I think that we spoke of him day before yesterday—­my friend Charles Duveyrier died, a most tender heart and a most naive spirit.  He is to be buried tomorrow.  He was one year older than I am.  My generation is passing bit by bit.  Shall I survive it?  I don’t ardently desire to, above all on these days of mourning and farewell.  It is as God wills, provided He lets me always love in this world and in the next.

I keep a lively affection for the dead.  But one loves the living differently.  I give you the part of my heart that he had.  That joined to what you have already, makes a large share.  It seems to me that it consoles me to make that gift to you.  From a literary point of view he was not a man of the first rank, one loved him for his goodness and spontaneity.  Less occupied with affairs and philosophy, he would have had a charming talent.  He left a pretty play, Michel Perrin.

I travelled half the way alone, thinking of you and your mother at Croisset and looking at the Seine, which thanks to you has become a friendly goddess.  After that I had the society of an individual with two women, as ordinary, all of them, as the music at the pantomime the other day.  Example:  “I looked, the sun left an impression like two points in my eyes.”  Husband:  “That is called luminous points,” and so on for an hour without stopping.

I shall do all sorts of errands for the house, for I belong to it, do I not?  I am going to sleep, quite worn out; I wept unrestrainedly all the evening, and I embrace you so much the more, dear friend.  Love me more than before, because I am sad.

G. Sand

Have you a friend among the Rouen magistrates?  If you have, write him a line to watch for the name Amedee Despruneaux.  It is a civil case which will come up at Rouen in a few days.  Tell him that this Despruneaux is the most honest man in the world; you can answer for him as for me.  In doing this, if the thing is feasible, you will do me a personal favor.  I will do the same for any friend of yours.

XXV.  TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 11 November, 1866

I send you my friend Despruneaux in person.  If you know a judge or two,—­or if your brother could give him a word of support, do arrange it, I kiss you three times on each eye.

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