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VI
Worn out by anxiety and fatigue, the Doctor
sank down on the bench in the sacristy. The
long effort to keep himself in hand had taken
away his last strength, and the words of the
German officer burnt like fire in his weary
brain.
He wondered how the surgeon had
succeeded in bringing his irascible comrade to
his senses, and he tried to feel grateful to his
colleague for his intervention. He almost
smiled as he remembered the only word he
had managed to overhear in their
conversation at the foot of the Bavarian’s bed. Little
did this odious German know, thought he,
that by calling Josephine’s defender der
Engländer, he had paid him what he
considered the greatest compliment of his life.
He began to wonder how the poor Mayor
and the Curé were getting on, and was just
on the point of despatching Josephine for
news when the nun came and reported that
the Bavarian was very restless and agitated.
The Doctor found him quite altered. The
expression in his eyes was altogether different
and he no longer seemed to understand what
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