Conscience -- Volume 3

dly had she entered when she was about to throw herself into his arms as usual, with

" she asked paralyze

, at least n

inst

ly not,

are

ich prevent me from embracing you. I will ex

ining him, and trying to

something

g of you, speak first; do

nd when I speak thus, you know that you shou

at you are alarmed,

w what the

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to the presence in the epidermis of a kind of mush

t ser

ieve I have, I am not going to expose you to the risk of catching it in embracing you. It is very easily transmitted, and in that case you would be obliged, probably, t

y 'prob

lieve I was attacked with a parasitic malady merely on account of an itching. But, after some time, my hair became dry and began to fall out. I had no time to attend to it, and the days passed; besides, the excitement of my

your exa

I have reason to believe, tomorrow you will see me without hair and beard. I w

od will

and beard cut because I have a parasitic

ut, what will be co

dly disappear. Before long you may emb

eare

ou have come from M

er side; she would not alarm herself about it. As for others, the embarrassment of confessing

e say to you

that I need never excuse myself for asking her assistance, and that she would help me all she could. With this encouragement I explained what we want her to do, but she did not appear disposed to do it. Without giving her Monsieur Nougarede's reasons, I said we were obliged to conform to the counsels of

ct to be able

come again I will tell you what he says.' Profiting by the door that she opened to me, I kept the conversation on this doctor. It seems to me, but I am not certain, that she has but little confidence in him

you I kn

and finished by learning-without asking her directly-that she has seen no other physician during the year. When she was taken with paralysis a

r to his stupidity in frankly expressin

robable,

in Madame Dammauville's disease that should demand new treatment? Do yo

so dull as

who speak o

that settled the question of Madame Dammauville's disease, and prescribed the treatment tha

imprudence to let Phillis become enamored of the idea that if he attend

not yet given out. Madame Dammauville has promised to question her doctor, to learn

e better to act

r it will not be, and in that case I promise you to see Balzajette. I know him well enough to speak to him of your pati

" she murmured, in a

e an impossible thing, that I was obliged to refuse, to my regret, precisely because i

give

ce I should think as you do, but I beli

rt for what is with you an affair of dignity. It is becau

ro

going?"

e's words to mamma; you can imagin

ve you at the boulevard

with the advoc

ood; bring Madame Dammauville to court,

red the first barber-shop he saw. When he returned to his rooms he lighted t

small glass, asking himself what he would become, and he could now recall his looks-an energetic face with clearly drawn features, a physiognomy open and frank, without being pretty, b

e inside extremity, and a mouth with tightened lips turned down at the corners; furrows we

efore him the man that life had made, and of whom the violent co

th of an assass

is shaved head, he

ed to death, whose toilet has ju