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Their screams and howls could be heard all over
the Hôtel Dieu, people said even below in Place
Nôtre Dame. The whole hospital was in
emotion. Nobody wanted to go near the ward, even
the courageous sisters fled in terror. I can see
now the white face of Pasteur as he passed in
silence from bed to bed, looking at the doomed
men with infinite compassion in his eyes. He
sank down on a chair, his head between his hands.
Accustomed as I was to see him every day I had
not noticed till then how ill and worn he looked,
though I knew from an almost imperceptible
hesitation in his speech and a slight
embarrassment in the grip of his hand that he had already
then received the first warning of the fate that
was to overtake him ere long. Tillaux who had
been sent for in the midst of an operation rushed
into the ward, his apron stained with blood. He
went up to Pasteur and laid his hand on his
shoulder. The two men looked at each other in silence.
The kind blue eyes of the great surgeon, who had
seen so much horror and suffering, glanced round
the ward and his face grew white like a sheet.
“I cannot stand it,” he said in a broken voice
and sprang out of the room.
The same evening a consultation took place
between these two men. They are few who know
the decision they arrived at, but it was the only
right one and an honour to them both. The
next morning all was silent in the ward. During
the night the doomed men had been helped to a
painless death.
The impression in Paris was enormous. All the
newspapers were full of the most ghastly
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