For if he waited till the doctor got downstairs, the doctor would be beforehand and bespeak his undertaker, and then he would get the black thirds.

Say I sooth, old Rouge et Noir?
dites!" "Denys, Denys, who taught you to think so ill of man ?" "Mine eyes, that are not to be gulled by what men say, seeing this many a year what they do, in all the lands I travel." The doctor with some address made use of these last words to escape the personal question.

"I too have eyes as well as thou, and go not by tradition only, but by what I have seen, and not only seen, but done.
I have healed as many men by bleeding as that interloping Arabist has killed for want of it.

'Twas but t'other day I healed one threatened with leprosy; I but bled him at the tip of the nose.

I cured last year a quartan ague: how?
bled its forefinger.