A Parisian Romance — page 45: what you’re looking at

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36 A PARISIAN ROMANCE. face wore an expression of the utmost seriousness. Without noticing him, Henri threw his hat down upon the table, and asked, cheerily: “ Where is my mother, Francois?” The man hesitated a moment. “Pardon me, Monsieur Henri,” he said; “but Doctor Chesnel wishes to see you at once in mon- sieur’s study.” Something in the man’s voice made Henri turn and glance hurriedly in his face. What he saw there was not reassuring. “What is it, Francois?” he asked, quickly, his bright face clouding. -“ Has anything happened?” “The doctor will tell you, Monsieur Henri,” was the solemn reply. : Without waiting to question the man further, oppressed with a nameless dread, Henri turned and mounted the stairs two steps at a time. As he entered his father’s study, which was a large room in the front of the house, connected by a narrow passage with the bed room occupied by Monsieur de Targy, the doctor rose from a chair beside the table and advanced to meet him with the grave manner of one who -has ill-tidings to disclose. “What has happened, doctor 2” “My dear boy, I have very bad news for you.” Henri turned white as chalk. “My mother!” he gasped. “No, no,” returned the doctor, quickly. “Your Eomicbooks..¢o =}