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So much the published letters clearly show. Many of them are
dated from Nohant. But in themselves the letters are dull
enough. Chopin composed with the keyboard of a piano; with ink
and paper he could do little. Probably his love letters were
wooden productions, and George Sand, we know, was a fastidious
critic in that matter. She had received and written so many!
But any rate, Chopin did not write whining recriminations like
Mussel. His real view of her we shall never know--and, if you
like, you may say it is no business of ours. She once uttered
a truth about that (though not apropos of Chopin), "There are
so many things between two lovers of which they alone can be
the judges."
Chopin gave his last concert in Paris, February 16, 1848, at
Pleyel's. He was ill but played beautifully. Oscar Commettant
said he fainted in the artist's room. Sand and Chopin met but
once again. She took his hand, which was "trembling and cold,"
but he escaped without saying a word. He permitted himself in a
letter to Grzymala from London dated November 17-18, 1848, to
speak of Sand.


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