Chicot the Jester

me again, he was still

doctor. I must seek for it-surely I can find it again." Then Bussy, after having the bandage of his wound resettled by a valet, put on high boots, took

aris was deserted. Bussy arrived at the Bastile, then he sought for the place where his horse had fallen, and thought he had found it; he next endeavored to repea

dgers, spend a thousand crowns to make valets and old women speak, I might learn w

ved a small and trembl

a man, holding a lantern in his left hand. He appeared to Bussy to belong to the honorable fraternity of drunkards, for nothing else seemed to explain the eccentric movements of the lantern. At last he slipped over a piece of ice, and fell. Bussy was about to come forward and offer his assistance, but the man and the lantern were quickly up

s suggested by the w

here." And then he raised his bandage, and finding h

is calculations. "491, 492, 493, 494; I must be close." And he raised his bandage again, and

might, but all these

on I have just mad

d to the next door, and going up to it

d he, step

cried

not pos

xtraordinary. You

the gen

st

u! how s

ssy, "who yesterday dresse

the rig

ad a gentle, light

not expect to

were you l

hou

u do not

brought me here wi

really c

this house

did no

re

feared it was

d there was s

h you must help

ling

is you

r, if you please; but you have a long sword, and I only a lancet; you seem to me a gentleman, and I can

hank you. I am Louis de C

ed the young doctor, joyfully. "What,

now, wet and dirty as you are,

ondas the Theban, to stay two days at home, for I have but one doublet a

asked you how you

e in the Rue Beauheillis, 502 steps from here

nswer fo

d the Arsenal a stab with a knife, I sewed up the wound, and cured him. This made for me some reputation

oman

knew it to be the voice of

at did

when two little hands, not very soft, but not very har

re you are going, be discreet, here is your r

what did

id not know if she were charming or not, but I thought t

asked n

I had remarked that they always turned out well for the

this must

vents, unless she led me by som

he pronoun

on

remarked

ingers, a door with nails, then

the

hen I think we came to a corrido

el

that belonged to the mistress, I

s, it wa

it wa

sure o

where you were, and told me to ta

re w

a

hite and go

es

hung with

st

ainted c

between tw

ortr

es

g a woman ab

es

beautiful a

beau

at did you

sed you

foi! ve

l as I

s morning it wa

ereign, for many times, not knowing who to practise upon, I have mad

are a charming docto

n. The voice aske

m wh

room at

did not

N

ou rep

angerous, and in twenty-f

emed pl

cried, 'I am ver

, I will make yo

o more to do; and the

ew your

not compromise a poor woman carried away by an excess of human

promi

ve my

ou kep

, for I am

man, and here is my

e touched the hand of Bussy d'Amboise. However, I ha

el

sous for his visits, when he does not give

urn the

st

delicacy; you have earned the mon

?" said Rémy,

ought to have paid you, and not the lady. Come,

othing; but I would i

for there is scarcely a day when I do not deface God's noblest work for others, or they for me

Comte! th

live with me; you shall have your own rooms, and yo

, I cannot express it. I will w

for myself and my friends. Now,

thi

e to find out, if

wil

account for it, that after being doctored by you,

ou

you help to t

sed it if they had consulted me; for t

ing. Will you search

much fear it will be useless f

ust come ag

hen we shal

e must

l, mons

ystery. Be sure, Rémy, now