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Recent gossip declares that Sand was jealous of
Chopin's friendships--this is silly.
Mr. A. B. Walkley, the English dramatic critic, after declaring
that he would rather have lived during the Balzac epoch in Paris,
continues in this entertaining vein:
And then one might have had a chance of seeing George Sand in
the thick of her amorisms. For my part I would certainly
rather have met her than Pontius Pilate. The people who saw
her in her old age--Flaubert, Gautier, the Goncourts--have
left us copious records of her odd appearance, her perpetual
cigarette smoking, and her whimsical life at Nohant. But then
she was only an "extinct volcano;" she must have been much
more interesting in full eruption. Of her earlier career--the
period of Musset and Pagello--she herself told us something in
"Elle et Lui," and correspondence published a year or so ago
in the "Revue de Paris" told us more. But, to my mind, the
most fascinating chapter in this part of her history is the
Chopin chapter, covering the next decade, or, roughly
speaking, the 'forties.


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