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I have also operated at once and no doubt saved
the life of a child, but I have also operated at
once and seen the child die under my knife. My
case was even worse than that of many other
doctors in a similar plight, for I was myself in
deadly fear of diphtheria, a fear I have never
been able to overcome. But Arcangelo Fusco
was not afraid. He knew the danger as well as
I did, for he had seen the terrible infection
spreading from one to another, but he had never a
single thought for his own safety, he only thought
of the others. When all was over, I was
complimented right and left, even by the Assistance
Publique, but nobody ever said a word to
Arcangelo Fusco who had sold his Sunday clothes to
pay the undertaker who took away the body of
the little girl.
Yes, there came a time when all was over,
when Arcangelo Fusco returned to his street
sweeping and I to my fashionable patients.
While I had been spending my days at the
Villette and Montparnasse, the Parisians had
been hard at work packing their trunks and
departing to their châteaux or their favourite
seaside watering-places. The Boulevards were
in the hands of pleasure-seeking foreigners who
had crowded to Paris from all parts of the
civilized and uncivilized world to spend their
surplus money. Many were sitting in my
waiting-room, impatiently reading their Baedekers, always
insisting on passing in first, seldom asking for
anything more than a pick-me-up, from a man
much more in need of it than they were. Others,
comfortably established on their chaises-longues
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