I would not die yet, for that young man's sake." And he sat upright in his bed, and fixed his dim eyes anxiously on his visitor.
"What are your symptoms, your disease ?" "Fire, fire, fire in the heart, the entrails: I burn!" "How long is it since you have taken food ?" "Food! only this broth.

There is the basin, all I have taken these six hours.

I had scarce drunk it ere these pains began." The stranger looked at the basin; some portion of the contents was yet left there.
"Who administered this to you ?" "Who?
Jean! Who else should?
I have no servant,--none! I am poor, very poor, sir.

But no! you physicians do not care for the poor.

I AM RICH! can you cure me ?" "Yes, if Heaven permit.