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Continuing his questions, Saniel asked her what Madame Dammauville did after the consultation with Monsieur Balzajette. "She dined as usual, but less than usual, eating almost nothing; then she received a visit from one of her friends, who remained only a few minutes, before starting on a voyage." This was what he dreaded: Madame Dammauville might have told this friend.
Will this appearance be possible? That is what I could not learn; only a physician could tell." Saniel did not wish to let it appear that he understood this new challenge. "I forgot to tell you," Phillis continued, "that the physician who attends her is Doctor Balzajette of the Rue de l'Echelle. Do you know him?" "A prig, who conceals his ignorance under dignified manners."
Profiting by this arrangement, Saniel immediately passed between the bed and the windows in such a way that the daylight was behind him, and consequently his face was in shadow. This was done naturally, without affectation, and it seemed that he only took this side of the bed because Balzajette took the other.
"I shall certainly not go; she has her own physician." "Do not imagine that I have come to ask you to pay her a visit; all is arranged with Monsieur Balzajette, who will write to you or see you, I do not know which." "That will be very extraordinary on the part of Balzajette!" "Perhaps you judge him harshly.
"I shall certainly not go; she has her own physician." "Do not imagine that I have come to ask you to pay her a visit; all is arranged with Monsieur Balzajette, who will write to you or see you, I do not know which." "That will be very extraordinary on the part of Balzajette!" "Perhaps you judge him harshly.
Happy to have a complaisant listener, Balzajette did all the talking, so that Saniel had only to reply "yes" or "no" from time to time, and of course it was not of Madame Dammauville that he spoke, but other matters of a first representation on the previous evening at the Opera Comique; of politics; of the next salon.
They passed into the parlor, where they very quickly came to an amicable conclusion, for at everything that Saniel said Balzajette replied: "I am happy to see that you partake of my opinion. That is it. Truly, that is so!" And, besides, each had his reasons for hurrying Saniel, for fear of the lamps; Balzajette, uneasiness for his dinner.
"I am explaining how it happens that you are called into consultation; it is not because I spoke of you, but because you have inspired Monsieur Balzajette with confidence. However stupid he may be, he is just to you, and knows your value."
Balzajette rang the bell, and the door was opened by a maid, who was, evidently, placed in the vestibule to await their arrival. Balzajette entered first, and Saniel followed him, giving a hasty glance at the rooms through which they passed. They reached a door at which Balzajette knocked twice. "Enter," replied a feminine voice in a firm tone.
He would have had time to prepare himself, that was all. But to prepare himself for what? Either to enter the room and brave this danger, or to fly. He entered. "This is what we have decided," Balzajette said, who never lost an occasion to put himself forward and to speak. While he spoke, Madame Dammauville seemed not to listen to him.
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