What's the matter with her, eh ?" "Smallpox," replied Mignon.
The actor had already taken a step or two in the direction of the court, but he came back and simply murmured with a shiver: "Oh, damn it!" The smallpox was no joke.

Fontan had been near having it when he was five years old, while Mignon gave them an account of one of his nieces who had died of it.

As to Fauchery, he could speak of it from personal experience, for he still bore marks of it in the shape of three little lumps at the base of his nose, which he showed them.

And when Mignon again egged him on to the ascent, on the pretext that you never had it twice, he violently combated this theory and with infinite abuse of the doctors instanced various cases.

But Lucy and Caroline interrupted them, for the growing multitude filled them with astonishment.
"Just look! Just look what a lot of people!" The night was deepening, and in the distance the gas lamps were being lit one by one.