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Gervase held out his long, brown, well-shaped hand, and the savant's small, cool fingers pressed lightly on his wrist. "You are quite well, Monsieur Gervase," he said after a pause, "You have a little sur-excitation of the nerves, certainly, but it is not curable by medicine." He dropped the hand he held, and looked up "Good-night!" "Good-night!" responded Gervase. "Good-night!" added Courtney.
It was kept by a Sisterhood; not nuns exactly, because they were Protestants, but almost as good or as bad; and an elderly female cousin of the Savant's was the head of the institution. There Madeleine Destrey had been ever since, though Mamma said she must be nineteen or twenty; and now her father was dead.
And considering that the shell was to be his lodging for a considerable time, the cabin began to look like home; the doctor had a savant's or a child's pleasure in arranging his scientific traps.
A moment later, with a look of pity on her beautiful face, she rejoined me and we went away. It was plain he did not know us." To so much of the savant's strange recital I had listened with absorbed interest, though without a word, but now I burst in with questions. "What was your sister's idea in giving Burwell the card?" I asked.
As the two scholars worked upon the same material from different angles, and as the English writer was unacquainted with the German savant's monograph until after Burton had written his Terminal Essay, it follows that the conclusions arrived at by these two scholars must be worthy of credence.
Those who aimed at saintliness of life consulted him and looked up to him. His simplicity of mind was contrasted with the savant's coldness of soul, and he was adduced as an instance that the gifts of God are absolutely free. All this created a deep division of feeling in the college.
In fifty years when people speak the savant's name with pride, the pug's renown you'll vainly seek it with its owner died. There may be consolation there for him who bravely tries to solve great problems in his lair, and make the world more wise; but when the world is really wise may that day come eftsoons! we'll give the men of learning pies, and give the fighters prunes.
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