A Parisian Romance — page 24: what you’re looking at

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A PARIS[AN ROMANCE... 15 “A charming prospect for my old playmate. :Do you know the baron well, doctor?” “Yes, lam his physician, and so have had many opportunities of studying him closely. I am in his confidence.” “You abuse it a little,” said. De Targy, with a smile. ay | The doctor shrugged his shoulders impatiently. “Bah!” he said. “He is no friend of mine. He is simply a subject of observation. I study the workings of his mind and the vagaries of his moral nature as I would dissect a cadaver at the hospital. But let us talk of something pleasanter.” For the next half-hour, the two men strolled on together, the doctor chatting gayly on all sorts of subjects from “Shakespeare to the musical glasses,” touching them all lightly but yet in a way which ~ showed that he was aman of vast reading and in- formation. His companion was much less talkative, answering chiefly in monosyllables, but this mat- tered little to Chesnel, who loved a good listener; moreover he was very fond of the lad, whom he had. known from boyhood, and was always glad to be in his company. At last they came to a cross-road, about four miles from Sainte Roche, and the doctor began to think of the walk back, and concluded that he had come about far enough. “T say, my boy,” stopping and leaning against the milestone. “How far do you propose to go? Gomichbookssco im