. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ; she knows it, and theconsequences terrify her. Ever since she has been dying min-ute by minute. The barrister expected some exclamations of astonishmentand a host of questions from his friend; but the doctor receivedthe explanation without remark, as a simple statement, indis-pensable to his understanding the case. Three weeks, hemurmured; then that explains everything. Has she appearedto suffer much during the time? She complained of violent headaches, dimness of sight, andintolerable pains in her ears; she attributed all that though tomegrims. Do
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ; she knows it, and theconsequences terrify her. Ever since she has been dying min-ute by minute. The barrister expected some exclamations of astonishmentand a host of questions from his friend; but the doctor receivedthe explanation without remark, as a simple statement, indis-pensable to his understanding the case. Three weeks, hemurmured; then that explains everything. Has she appearedto suffer much during the time? She complained of violent headaches, dimness of sight, andintolerable pains in her ears; she attributed all that though tomegrims. Do not, however, conceal anything from me, Herve;is her complaint very serious? So serious, my friend, so invariably fatal, that I am almostundertaking a hopeless task in attempting a cure. Ah ! good heaven ! You asked for the truth, and I have told it you. If I hadthat courage, it was because you told me this poor woman isnot your mother. Nothing short of a miracle can save her; butthis miracle we hay hope and prepare for. And now to work I. nplll;. clock of the St. Lazare terminus wsa striking eleven* U old Tabaret. after shaking hands with Noel, left his house, still bewildered by what he had just heard. Obliged torestrain himself at the time, he now fully appreciated his liberty 720 THE LEROUGE AFFAIR of action. It was with an unsteady gait that he took his firststeps in the street, like the toper who, after being shut up in awarm room, suddenly goes out into the open air. He was beam-ing with pleasure, but at the same time felt rather giddy, fromthat rapid succession of unexpected revelations, which, so hethought, had suddenly placed him in possession of the his haste to arrive at M. Daburons, he didnot take a cab. He felt the necessity of walking. He was oneof those who require exercise to see things clearly. When hemoved about his ideas fitted and classified themselves in hisbrain, like grains of wheat when shaken in a bushel. Withouthastening his pace
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