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Some moments afterward, Madame George, Rigolette and Germain had left Bicetre, as well as the Pipelets. Just as Dr. Herbin returned to the courts, he met one of the superior officers of the house, who said to him, "Ah! my dear M. Herbin, you cannot imagine what a scene I have just witnessed. For an observer like you it would have been an inexhaustible source of " "How then? What scene?"
Near one hundred soldiers of the English detachment were frost-bitten, and were brought back to the garrison on sleighs. Capt. Herbin, the commanding officer, escaped; but his watch, hat, and feather, 'fille de joie, with a cask of wine and case of liqueurs, were taken. As Madame de St.
At this moment Madame George turned round, and said to her son and to Rigolette, "My children, here is the doctor." Dr. Herbin, a man of ripe age, had a physiognomy very intellectual and lofty, a look of remarkable sagacity and depth of thought, and a smile of extreme goodness.
"Doctor," said Madame George to M. Herbin, "I thought I might be allowed to accompany my son and daughter-in-law, although I do not know M. Morel. "I count much, madame, on the favorable impression which the presence of his daughter and persons whom he has been accustomed to see will produce upon him."
Gordon approved of the plan, and Stewart offered to command the little force of forty or fifty soldiers all that could be spared to go with it. On board were some Greeks, monsieur Herbin himself, Stewart, and Power the 'Times' correspondent, the only two friends Gordon had. How he must have longed to go with them.
The whole story is told very graphically in a passage of Gordon's own diary: "I determined to send the Abbas down with an Arab captain. Herbin asked to be allowed to go. I jumped at his offer. Then Stewart said he would go if I would exonerate him from deserting me. I said, 'You do not desert me.
"If you do not fear, madame," said Doctor Herbin, to the mother of Germain, "the sight of the lunatics, we will pass through several courts in order to reach the exterior building, where I have had Morel conducted; for I have given orders this morning that he should not be led to the farm as usual." "To the farm, sir?" said Madame George, "is there a farm here?" "Does that surprise you, madame?
Lord Hartington, too, never forgot Gordon, but the rest of the Cabinet turned a deaf ear; they had other things to think about. The next move came from the French consul, monsieur Herbin, who was inside Khartoum.
Herbin had no occasion to direct the attention of Madame George, to the expression of savage brutishness, stupid insensibility, or imbecile amazement, which gave to the features of the unfortunate wretches an expression at once hideous and painful to behold.
"My modesty is suspicious, it is true; but, Anastasia, the door opens I shudder. We are going to see abominable figures, hear the noise of chains and grinding of teeth." Mr and Mrs. Pipelet, not having heard the conversation of Doctor Herbin, partook of the popular prejudice which still exists on the subject of insane hospitals; prejudices which forty years ago were not without foundation.
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