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I was hard at work from morning till night with
my patients and not seldom also with the patients
of some of my colleagues who were beginning to
call me in consultation to share their responsibility
—greatly to my surprise for even then I seemed
never to be afraid of responsibility. I discovered
later in my life that this was one of the secrets of
my success. Another secret of my success was
of course my constant luck, more striking than
ever before, so much so that I was beginning to
think that I had got a mascot in the house. I
even began to sleep better since I had taken to
have a look at the little boy asleep in his cot
before I went to bed.
I had been chucked by the wife of the English
parson, but plenty of her compatriots were taking her
place on the sofa in my waiting-room. Such was
the lustre that surrounded the name of Professor
Charcot that some of its light reflected itself even
upon the smallest satellites around him. English
people seemed to believe that their own
doctors knew less about nervous diseases than their
French colleagues. They may have been right
or wrong in this, but it was good luck for me in
any case. I was even called to London for a
consultation just then. No wonder I was pleased
and determined to do my best. I did not know
the patient but I had been exceptionally lucky
with another member of her family which, no
doubt, was the cause of my being summoned to
her. It was a bad case, a desperate case
according to my two English colleagues, who stood by
the bedside watching me with gloomy faces while
I examined their patient. Their pessimism had
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