I couldn't go even to see 'Les Vacances de Pandolphe' when George Sand had the goodness to send us tickets for the first night.

She failed in it, I am sorry to say--it did not 'draw,' as the phrase is.

Now she has left Paris, but is likely to return.
I am sure it will do you great good to have change and liberty and distraction in various ways.

The '_anxiety_' you speak of--oh, I do hope it does not relate to Gerardine.

I always think of her when you seem anxious.
I shall be very glad if, when you come, you should be inclined to give your attention, you with your honest and vigorous mind, to the facts of the political situation, not the facts as you hear them from the English, or from our friend Madme Mohl, who confessed to me one day that she liked exaggerations because she hated the President.