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The next morning, at nine o'clock, what was the young lady's stupor to see Dr. Baleinier enter the room, still smiling with an air at once benevolent and paternal. "Well, my dear child?" said he, in a bland, affectionate voice; "how have we spent the night?"
I do not know where they took her, when she was attacked with this frenzy. You will expect me to-morrow?" "Yes to-morrow," said Mother Bunch. The convent whither Florine was to conduct the hunchback contained the daughters of Marshal Simon, and was next door to the lunatic asylum of Dr. Baleinier, in which Adrienne de Cardoville was confined. St.
"What do you say, sir?" asked Mdlle. de Cardoville. "For if they should be arrested," resumed Dr. Baleinier, without answering her, "as they have been guilty of housebreaking and attempted burglary, they would be sent to the galleys." "Heavens! and for my sake!" "Yes; it would be for you, and what is worse, by you, that they would be condemned." "By me, sir?"
The slight paleness of Mdlle. de Cardoville's charming face, and her fine eyes a little drooping, betrayed her recent sufferings; seated before a little table, with her forehead resting upon one of her hands, half veiled by the long curls of her golden hair, she was turning over the leaves of a book. Suddenly, the door opened, and M. Baleinier entered.
"Sir," cried M. Baleinier, "permit me to observe, that the manner in which you open this question is an insult to me." "Sir, it is to the lady that I have the honor of addressing myself," replied M. de Gernande, sternly; "and I am the sole judge of the propriety of my questions." Adrienne was about to answer affirmatively to the magistrate, when an expressive took from Dr.
Baleinier had occasioned her, she promised herself, not reprisals, but a striking reparation. If it were refused her, she was resolved to combat without truce or rest this combination of craft, hypocrisy, and cruelty, not from resentment for what she had endured, but to preserve from the same torments other innocent victims, who might not, like her, be able to struggle and defend themselves.
Rodin shrugged his shoulders and wrote with a firm hand: "Leave me my head; you may take all the rest." The doctor read these words aloud, and the cardinal and Father d'Aigrigny looked at each other in admiration of this dauntless courage. "Reverend father," said Dr. Baleinier, "you must lie down." Rodin wrote: "Get everything ready. I have still some orders to write. Let me know when it is time."
"I need not tell you, my charming friend," resumed M. Baleinier, in a bland tone, "that if I remind you of this circumstance, it is only to offer you my services, in case they should be required. If not and there is the shadow of impropriety in letting me know more forget that I have said a word." Adrienne became serious and pensive, and, after a silence of some moments, she thus answered Dr.
"That, sir, is a question of medical jurisprudence, which has to be examined and discussed," said M. Baleinier, recovering his assurance. "It will, indeed, sir, be seriously discussed; for you are accused of confining Mdlle. De Cardoville, while in the full possession of all her faculties."
"Thank you, M. Rousselet," said Father d'Aigrigny; "do you know at what hour Dr. Baleinier will return?" "He will not be long, father, for he wishes to perform before night the painful operation, that will have a decisive effect on the condition of Father Rodin.
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