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"Pouvez-vous siffler?" his doctor asked him one day, when he was almost at his last gasp; "siffler," as every one knows, has the double meaning of to whistle and to hiss: "Hélas! non," was his whispered answer; "pas même une comédie de M. Scribe!" M. Scribe is, or was, the favorite dramatist of the French Philistine.
Last week, after I had had a frightful attack of cramp in the throat and chest, 'Pouvez-vous siffler? he said. 'Non, pas méme une comédie de M. Scribe, I replied. So you may see how bad I was. Well, even that, he said, wouldn't hasten the end, and I should go on living indefinitely! I had to caution him not to tell my wife. Poor Mathilde! I have been unconscionably long a-dying.
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