[141] Ibid., II. 83.
[142] That Liszt was the cause of their quarrel was well known. Mme. Sand had written of it in her novel Horace, Mme. d’Agoult in Nélida.
[143] For the bitterness of Mme. d’Agoult’s resentment, see Souvenirs, II. 201-4.
[144] pp. 145-7.
[145] Correspondance, V. 220.
[146] The great George, apparently like Juliette herself, was a believer in palmistry. See Souvenirs, II. 97.
[147] Souvenirs, III. 161, 239.
[148] Ibid.
[149] See George Sand’s letter to Flaubert, Correspondance, V. 220.
[150] It was at this restaurant that Sainte-Beuve gave that Good Friday dinner which clerical circles regarded as a shocking blasphemy.