Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
You must bring her to me at Challot, rue Basse-Saint-Pierre, private hospital of Doctor Halpersohn." "How can I?" "On a stretcher, just as all sick persons are carried to hospitals." "But the removal will kill her!" "No." As he said the word in a curt tone he was already at the door; Godefroid rejoined him on the staircase.
This, however, I will not insist upon. Meantime here are five hundred francs," he added, giving a bank-note to the stupefied old man, "to meet your present needs. I do not ask for any receipt; you will be under obligations to your own conscience only, and that conscience is not to move you until you have recovered a sufficient competence, I undertake to pay Halpersohn."
"Ah! if she is a baroness, you must be a baron," remarked Halpersohn. At that instant the theft was accomplished. While the doctor was looking at his sopped bread heavy with chocolate, Auguste snatched four notes and put them into his pocket, as if he were merely putting his hand there by accident.
Godefroid now gave her a minute account of the Jewish doctor and his study; of which she knew nothing, for Monsieur Bernard had cautioned Auguste not to tell his mother of his visits to Halpersohn, so much had he feared to rouse hopes in her mind which might not be realized.
Sometimes I think I used to be too stern to misery." "Monsieur, I do not ask your name. I cannot provide three thousand francs, especially if I pay Halpersohn and your lesser debts; but I will save you if you will promise me not to part with your book without letting me know. It is impossible for me to arrange a matter as important as this without consulting others.
"From what you say," went on the doctor, "the lady in question is the granddaughter of that imbecile who had no courage but that of fighting, and who took part in delivering over his country to Catherine II?" "Yes, monsieur." "Well, be at her house Monday next at three o'clock," said Halpersohn, taking out a note-book in which he wrote a few words.
Only yesterday Halpersohn begged him to forgive the boy; but my father, who never before refused me anything me, whom he loves so well! replied: 'You are the person robbed; you can, and you ought to forgive; but I am responsible for the thief. When I was attorney-general I never pardoned. 'You'll kill your daughter, said Halpersohn. My father made no reply and turned away."
Perhaps the grasping but infallible doctor took this method of showing his clients, mostly rich persons, that gold must be dropped into his pouch, and not buttons. Moses Halpersohn was, undoubtedly, largely paid, for he cured, and he cured precisely those desperate diseases which science declares incurable. It is not known in Europe that the Slav races possess many secrets.
"Oh, monsieur!" "The fact is that the municipal judge and I doubted if it were possible that you and your grandson could be guilty. We thought, and the doctor, too, that some scoundrels had taken your name." He took the baron aside, and added: "Did you go to see Doctor Halpersohn this morning?" "Yes, monsieur." "Your grandson went there half an hour after you." "Did he? I knew nothing of that.
Then he directed the whole to Doctor Halpersohn: Monsieur, The fruits of twenty years of my grandfather's toil were about to be seized by usurers, who even threatened to put him in prison. Three thousand three hundred francs were enough to save him. Seeing all that money on your table, I could not resist the happiness of freeing my grandfather from his danger.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking