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," he said several times.
A quack had brought a remedy which would cure gangrene, he said.

The sore on the leg was hopeless, but they gave the king a dose of the elixir in a glass of Alicante.

"To life and to death," said he as he took the glass; "just as it shall please God." The remedy appeared to act; the king recovered a little strength.

The throng of courtiers, which, the day before, had been crowding to suffocation in the rooms of the Duke of Orleans, withdrew at once.