"
"I shall do every thing just as you wish," said Jeanne Marie, who
had suddenly become humble and bashful, apparently entirely
forgetful of the republican "thou." "It seems to me, now that I have
disburdened my heart to you, that I have become well and strong
again, and certainly I shall owe it to you if I do live and get my
health once more. But shall you come again to-morrow, doctor?"
"No," he replied, "I will send a man to-morrow who understands
better than I do how to continue this matter, and to whom you can
give unconditional confidence. He will announce himself to you as my
assistant, and you can talk over at length every thing that we have
been speaking of. Hush! I hear Simon coming! Farewell!"
He nodded to Jeanne Marie, and hastily left the room. Outside, in
the corridor, he met Simon and his silent young ward.
"Well, citizen doctor," asked Simon, "how is it with our sick one?
She has intrusted all her secrets to you, and they must have made a
long story, for you have been a whole hour together. It is fortunate
that you are an old man, or else I should have been jealous of your
long tete-a-tete with my wife."
"Then you would be a great fool, and I have always held you to be a
prudent and good man. But, as concerns your wife, I must tell you
something very serious, and I beg you, Citizen Simon, to mark my
words well.
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