I said: "Your words only make me more desirous to go, Madame Denise.

Besides, Dr.Casimir has already done me a great deal of good.

You must have heard things of him that are not altogether bad, surely ?" The little woman reflected seriously, and then said, as with some reluctance: "It is certainly true, mademoiselle, that in the quarter of the poor he is much beloved.

Jean Duclos--he is a chiffonnier--had his one child dying of typhoid fever, and he was watching it struggling for breath; it was at the point to die.

Monsieur le Comte Casimir, or Dr.
Casimir--for he is called both--came in all suddenly, and in half an hour had saved the little one's life.