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"I cannot?" "No. The commonwealth attorney has sent us orders not to let any one, except the sister who nurses him, come near Cocoleu, no one, doctor, not even the physician, a case of urgency, of course, excepted." Dr. Seignebos smiled ironically. Then he said, laughing scornfully, "Ah, these are your orders, are they? Well, I tell you that I do not mind them in the least.
Seignebos thought he had said enough about it, and was rising to take leave, when M. de Chandore asked him how Count Claudieuse was doing. "He is not doing well," replied the doctor. "The removal, in spite of all possible precautions, has worn him out completely; for he is here in Sauveterre since yesterday, in a house which M. Seneschal has rented for him provisionally.
Seignebos is no doubt right, my dear friends," wrote Jacques. "I have but too good reasons to be sure that Cocoleu's imbecility is partly assumed, and that his evidence has been prompted by others. Still I must beg you will take no steps that would lead to another medical investigation. The slightest imprudence may ruin me.
Why on earth should a man like Jacques, young, rich, well made, in love with a charming girl, and beloved by her, why should he amuse himself with setting houses on fire, and killing people? You tell me he did not like Count Claudieuse. Upon my word! If everybody who does not like Dr. Seignebos were to come and fire at him forthwith, do you know my body would look like a sieve!
One of the judges entered, who, after having bowed very civilly, asked the clerk a number of questions about a case which was to come on the same day. "Good-bye, M. Mechinet," said the young advocate. And his next visit was to Dr. Seignebos. When he rang the bell, a servant came to the door, and said,
"Sir, the priest from Brechy is waiting for you at your office." "I am coming directly," replied M. Daubigeon. And, turning to his companions, he said, "Let us go, gentlemen." The priest was waiting, and rose quickly from his chair when he saw M. Daubigeon enter, accompanied by M. Galpin, M. Folgat, and Dr. Seignebos. "Perhaps you wish to speak to me alone, sir?" asked M. Daubigeon.
Seignebos." The latter did not keep M. Folgat waiting long; for his name had hardly been mentioned, when he himself repeated it in the passage, telling a servant, "Say it is I, Dr. Seignebos, Dr. Seignebos." He fell like a bombshell into the room.
Since his return from Boiscoran, he had kept close in his house; and he had just made up his mind not to leave the house that day, when some one rang his bell furiously. A moment later Dr. Seignebos fell into the room like a bombshell. "I know what brings you, doctor," said M. Daubigeon. "You come about that order I have given concerning Cocoleu." "Yes, indeed, sir! That order is an insult."
Seignebos did not allow him to go on. "What, Martha? I did not know you were so timid. I thought, on the contrary, you were very brave. Your papa told me the night of the fire you were not afraid of any thing." "Papa was right." "And yet, when you were aroused by the flames, it must have been terrible." "Oh! it was not the flames which waked me, doctor." "Still the fire had broken out."
When the usher has left the room, M. Domini says, "We shall now proceed to hear the witnesses, and we propose to begin with Count Claudieuse. Although seriously indisposed, he has preferred to appear in court." At these words Dr. Seignebos is seen to start up, as if he wished to address the court; but one of his friends, sitting by him, pulls him down by his coat.
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