G. Sand
CCXXX. TO GEORGE SAND
Dear master,
Have you promised your support to the candidacy of Duquesnel? if not, I should like to beg you to use to the utmost your influence to support my friend, Raymond Deslandes, as if he were
Your old troubadour,
G. Flaubert
Thursday, three o'clock, 13 June, 1872.
Answer me categorically, so that we may know what you will do.
CCXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset
..Nohant, 5 July, 1872
I must write to you today. Sixty-eight years old. Perfect health in spite of the cough, which lets me sleep now that I am plunging daily in a furious little torrent, cold as ice. It boils around the stones, the flowers, the great grasses in a delicious shade. It is an ideal place to bathe.