A Parisian Romance — page 81: what you’re looking at

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72 A PARISIAN ROMANCE If Henri had not been so madly in love with his wife, a love which was so great that it completely absorbed him, his mother’s condition would have ‘been a terrible thing to him, and, as it was, it could not fail to worry him at times. Doctor Chesnel, with whom he had many along > talk on the subject, declared that his science was powerless against a mental affection. Madame de Targy’s physical health was perfect, but she seemed to be besieged by some one fixed idea which poisoned her whole existence. Henri, at the doc- tor’s instigation, had once attempted to obtain her confidence, but with no effect save to throw his mother into a state of terrible nervous de Sag which lasted for several days. It was altogether inexplicable; and it was the one little drop of gall in the young couple’s over- flowing beaker of happiness. - Gomicbooks (€(0)