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He might accept medicines for the watches, but not for the body!" "What shall we do?" murmured Gerande. "Has he gone to work, or to rest?" "Gerande," answered Aubert softly, "some mental trouble annoys your father, that is all." "Do you know what it is, Aubert?" "Perhaps, Gerande" "Tell us, then," cried Scholastique eagerly, economically extinguishing her taper.
His mind is attacked by a very natural delusion, and in working with him, repairing the watches, you will bring him back to reason. Aubert," she continued, "it is not true, is it, that his life is mixed up with that of his watches?" Aubert did not reply. "But is my father's a trade condemned by God?" asked Gerande, trembling.
Gerande went to her accustomed bench, and kneeled with profound and simple reverence. Master Zacharius remained standing upright beside her. The ceremonies continued with the majestic solemnity of that faithful age, but the old man had no faith.
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