magnificently that Zielinski declared it alone was worth a
thousand ducats." Ah, these enamored ones! Chopin left Warsaw
November 1, 1830, for Vienna and without declaring his love. Or
was he a rejected suitor? History is dumb. He never saw his
Gladowska again, for he did not return to Warsaw. The lady was
married in 1832--preferring a solid certainty to nebulous genius-
-to Joseph Grabowski, a merchant at Warsaw. Her husband, so saith
a romantic biographer, Count Wodzinski, became blind; perhaps
even a blind country gentleman was preferable to a lachrymose
pianist. Chopin must have heard of the attachment in 1831. Her
name almost disappears from his correspondence. Time as well as
other nails drove from his memory her image. If she was fickle,
he was inconstant, and so let us waste no pity on this episode,
over which lakes of tears have been shed and rivers of ink have
been spilt.

Chopin was accompanied by Elsner and a party of friends as far as
Wola, a short distance from Warsaw. There the pupils of the
Conservatory sang a cantata by Elsner, and after a banquet he was
given a silver goblet filled with Polish earth, being adjured, so
Karasowski relates, never to forget his country or his friends
wherever he might wander. Chopin, his heart full of sorrow, left
home, parents, friends, and "ideal," severed with his youth, and
went forth in the world with the keyboard and a brain full of
beautiful music as his only weapons.

At Kaliz he was joined by the faithful Titus, and the two went to
Breslau, where they spent four days, going to the theatre and
listening to music. Chopin played quite impromptu two movements
of his E minor concerto, supplanting a tremulous amateur. In