22/25 "If that woman tells the truth about Ursula,--and none but Ursula can know the things that sorceress has told me,--I shall say that _you are right_. I wish I had wings to fly to Nemours this minute and verify her words. But I shall hire a carriage and start at ten o'clock to-night. Ah! am I losing my senses ?" "What would you say if you knew of a life-long incurable disease healed in a moment; if you saw that great magnetizer bring sweat in torrents from an herpetic patient, or make a paralyzed woman walk ?" "Come and dine, Bouvard; stay with me till nine o'clock. I must find some decisive, undeniable test!" "So be it, old comrade," answered the other. |