God uses him as a scourge!" "Leave me alone with her," said Bianchon, "and let me find out if the disease is curable." "If you cure her, Philippe Bridau will die of rage," said Desroches.

"I am going to draw up a statement of the condition in which we have found his wife.

He has not brought her before the courts as an adulteress, and therefore her rights as a wife are intact: he shall have the shame of a suit.

But first, we must remove the Comtesse de Brambourg to the private hospital of Doctor Dubois, in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis.

She will be well cared for there.