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By September 12, after a brief sojourn in Breslau, Chopin was
again safe at home in Warsaw.
About this time he fell in love with Constantia Gladowska, a
singer and pupil of the Warsaw Conservatory. Niecks dwells
gingerly upon his fervor in love and friendship--"a passion with
him" and thinks that it gives the key to his life. Of his
romantic friendship for Titus Woyciechowski and John Matuszynski-
-his "Johnnie"--there are abundant evidences in the letters. They
are like the letters of a love-sick maiden. But Chopin's purity
of character was marked; he shrank from coarseness of all sorts,
and the Fates only know what he must have suffered at times from
George Sand and her gallant band of retainers. To this
impressionable man, Parisian badinage--not to call it anything
stronger--was positively antipathetical. Of him we might indeed
say in Lafcadio Hearn's words, "Every mortal man has been many
million times a woman." And was it the Goncourts who dared to
assert that, "there are no women of genius: women of genius are
men"? Chopin needed an outlet for his sentimentalism.


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