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For ten years he had suffered
from so much illness that a relapse was not noticed by the world.
His very death was at first received with incredulity, for, as
Stephen Heller said, he had been reported dead so often that the
real news was doubted. In 1847 his legs began to bother him by
swelling, and M. Mathias described him as "a painful spectacle,
the picture of exhaustion, the back bent, head bowed--but always
amiable and full of distinction." His purse was empty, and his
lodgings in the Rue Chaillot were represented to the proud man as
being just half their cost,--the balance being paid by the
Countess Obreskoff, a Russian lady. Like a romance is the
sending, by Miss Stirling, of twenty-five thousand francs, but it
is nevertheless true. The noble-hearted Scotchwoman heard of
Chopin's needs through Madame Rubio, a pupil, and the money was
raised. That packet containing it was mislaid or lost by the
portress of Chopin's house, but found after the woman had been
taxed with keeping it.
Chopin, his future assured, moved to Place Vendome, No.


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