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He began by saying that neither the countess, nor I, nor the doctor had known how to take care of him; we were ignorant of his constitution and also of his disease; we misunderstood his sufferings and the necessary remedies. Origet, infatuated with his own doctrines, had mistaken the case, he ought to have attended only to the pylorus.
There is still time to save her; pray send for Origet, and persuade her to follow his advice." "Origet, who half killed me?" cried the count. "No, no; I'll consult Carbonneau." During this week, especially the first days of it, everything was anguish to me the beginning of paralysis of the heart my vanity was mortified, my soul rent.
Moreover my servants torment me; blockheads who take my French for Greek! When our fortune was finally remade inch by inch, and I had some relief from care, it was too late, the harm was done; I had reached the period when the appetite is vitiated. Then came my severe illness, so ill-managed by Origet. In short, I have not six months to live." I listened to the count in terror.
Monsieur Origet went away without my noticing his departure. After he left, Henriette leaned against the window, from which she watched us for some time without our seeing her. It was one of those warm evenings when the sky is copper-colored and the earth sends up among the echoes a myriad mingling noises.
Swear to me that you will send for Origet and obey him in everything." "Would you oppose the mercy of God?" she said, interrupting me with a cry of despair at being thus misunderstood. "You do not love me enough to obey me blindly, as that miserable Lady Dudley does?" "Yes, yes, I will do all you ask," she cried, goaded by jealousy. "Then I stay," I said, kissing her on the eyelids.
During the last forty days the stomach, being as it were closed up, has rejected all nourishment, under whatever form we attempt to give it." Monsieur Origet pressed my hand with a gesture of respect. "Courage, monsieur," he said, lifting his eyes to heaven. The words expressed his compassion for sufferings he thought shared; he little suspected the poisoned arrow which they shot into my heart.
Beyond Tours, as I came down the road bordered with poplars which leads to Poncher, which I so much admired that first day of my search for mine Unknown, I met Monsieur Origet. He guessed that I was going to Clochegourde; I guessed that he was returning. We stopped our carriages and got out, I to ask for news, he to give it. "How is Madame de Mortsauf?" I said.
Henriette and I each watched twenty-six nights. Undoubtedly, Monsieur de Mortsauf owed his life to our nursing and to the careful exactitude with which we carried out the orders of Monsieur Origet.
As he spoke Origet studied my face and expression; but he saw in my eyes the clear look of an honest soul. In fact during the whole course of this distressing illness there never passed through my mind a single one of the involuntary evil thoughts which do sometimes sear the consciences of the innocent. To those who study nature in its grandeur as a whole all tends to unity through assimilation.
He could have cured the countess, but a husband ought not to take so much responsibility upon himself, especially when he has the misfortune of finding his experience, in this as in everything, despised. In spite of all he could say, the countess insisted on seeing Origet, Origet, who had managed his case so ill, was now killing his wife.
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