The change must have been very noticeable, for even Mlle.

Sambucco, who had not a mother's eyes, was troubled about it.
M.Martout, satisfied that this malady of the spirit would not yield to any but a moral treatment, came to see her one morning, and said: "My dear child, although I cannot well explain to myself the great interest that you take in this mummy, I have done something for it and for you.

I am going to send the little piece of ear that Leon broke off to M.Karl Nibor." Clementine opened all her eyes.
"Don't you understand me ?" continued the Doctor.

"The thing is, to find out whether the humors and tissues of the Colonel have undergone material alterations.

M.Nibor, with his microscope, will tell us the state of things.