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THE DOCTOR'S FRIENDS.
Curiously enough, though it explains the old proverb that "extremes meet," the materialistic doctor and the cure of Nemours were soon friends.

The old man loved backgammon, a favorite game of the priesthood, and the Abbe Chaperon played it with about as much skill as he himself.

The game was the first tie between them.

Then Minoret was charitable, and the abbe was the Fenelon of the Gatinais.