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That is why we have them now,
instead of Chopin having been the target of some black-browed
Russian. Chopin was psychically brave; let us not cavil at the
almost miraculous delicacy of his organization. He wrote letters
to his parents and to Matuszyriski, but they are not despairing--
at least not to the former. He pretended gayety and had great
hopes for the future, for he was living entirely on means
supplied him by his father. News of Constantia gladdened him, and
he decided to go to Italy, but the revolution early in 1831
decided him for France. Dr. Malfatti was good to him and cheered
him, and he managed to accomplish much social visiting. The
letters of this period are most interesting. He heard Sarah
Heinefetter sing, and listened to Thaiberg's playing of a
movement of his own concerto. Thalberg was three years younger
than Chopin and already famous. Chopin did not admire him:
"Thalberg plays famously, but he is not my man...He plays forte
and piano with the pedals but not with the hand; takes tenths as
easily as I do octaves, and wears studs with diamonds.


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