I have gone there to see her many times, but I remained only a few minutes.

Madame Gerdy, who has often seen her, and to whom she talked of all her affairs, could have enlightened you much better than I." "But," said the magistrate, "I expect shortly to see Madame Gerdy here; she, too, must have received a summons." "I know it, sir, but it is impossible for her to appear.

She is ill in bed." "Seriously ?" "So seriously that you will be obliged, I think, to give up all hope of her testimony.

She is attacked with a disease which, in the words of my friend, Dr.Herve, never forgives.

It is something like inflammation of the brain, if I am not mistaken.