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Now do you ask why I believe that Sand left Chopin when she was
bored with him? The words "some days afterwards" are significant.
I print the Pagello story not only because it is new, but as a
reminder that George Sand in her love affairs was always the man.
She treated Chopin as a child, a toy, used him for literary copy-
-pace Mr. Hadow!--and threw him over after she had wrung out all
the emotional possibilities of the problem. She was true to
herself even when she attempted to palliate her want of heart.
Beware of the woman who punctuates the pages of her life with
"heart" and "maternal feelings." "If I do not believe any more in
tears it is because I saw thee crying!" exclaimed Chopin. Sand
was the product of abnormal forces, she herself was abnormal, and
her mental activity, while it created no permanent types in
literary fiction, was also abnormal. She dominated Chopin, as she
had dominated Jules Sandeau, Calmatta the mezzotinter, De Musset,
Franz Liszt, Delacroix, Michel de Bourges--I have not the exact
chronological order--and later Flaubert.


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