But at least he has provided for its future by an endowment of two hundred thousand francs, in such a way that whoever marries the mother and legitimizes the child will enjoy the interest of this sum until the child's majority.

If that ever arrives--these little creatures are so fragile! You being a physician, you know more about that than any one.

In case of an accident the father will inherit half the money from his son; and if it seems cruel for an own father to inherit from his own son, it is quite a different thing when it is a stranger who receives the fortune.

This is all, my dear sir, plainly and frankly, and I will not do you the injury to suppose that you do not see the advantages of what I have said to you without need of my insisting further.

If I have not explained clearly--" "But nothing is more clear." "-- it is the fault of this pain that paralyzes me." And he groaned while holding his jaw.
"You have a troublesome tooth ?" Saniel said, with the tone of a physician who questions a patient.
"All my teeth trouble me.