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Sand enjoyed the subtle and truly feminine
pleasure of again entering the city which six years before she
had visited in company with another man, the former lover of
Rachel.
Chopin's health in 1839 was a source of alarm to himself and his
friends. He had been dangerously ill at Majorca and Marseilles.
Fever and severe coughing proved to be the dread forerunners of
the disease that killed him ten years later. He was forced to be
very careful in his habits, resting more, giving fewer lessons,
playing but little in private or public, and becoming frugal of
his emotions. Now Sand began to cool, though her lively
imagination never ceased making graceful, touching pictures of
herself in the roles of sister of mercy, mother, and discreet
friend, all merged into one sentimental composite. Her invalid
was her one thought, and for an active mind and body like hers,
it must have been irksome to submit to the caprices of a moody,
ailing man. He composed at Nohant, and she has told us all about
it; how he groaned, wrote and re-wrote and tore to pieces draft
after draft of his work.


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