A Parisian Romance — page 155: what you’re looking at

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146 A PARISIAN ROMANCE. once as salon and dining-room, Doctor Chesnel was announced. . The doctor entered in his bright, cheerful way, that seemed to bring’a flood of sunshine into the apartment. The good man had been unremitting in his attentions to his old friends in their disaster, and he had done for them all that he could do, without offending their pride. “Ah! what a pleasant surprise!” exclaimed Madame de Targy, stretching out her hand, with a bright smile of welcome. As the doctor took the proffered hand in his and looked into the fine face, with its crown of snow- white hair, he thought that never in her young days had she looked handsomer than she did now. “Well! how is everything?” he said. “Do you want to go to Asnieres.” “To Asnieres!” exclaimed Madame de Targy, laughing. “Why should I go to Asnieres,” “Because I am going there myself. I have a patient there. SolIsaid to myself, ‘On my way to the station, I will stop and see my friends in the Rue de Rome. The weather is delightful—a real spring day. I will take therm into the country with me. They will enjoy it.’ And then, at the same time, I can show you the cottage I have purchased there. Itisa little sem.” Madame de Targy shook her head. “The prospect is very tempting, my dear doctor,” she said, “but it is simply impossible, My son is at