In my country, those whom physicians abandon run the chance of a quack, who kills them ten times but saves them a hundred times." "Has not your eminence observed, that during the last month I have changed my remedies ten times ?" "Yes.

Well ?" "Well, I have spent fifty thousand crowns in purchasing the secrets of all these fellows: the list is exhausted, and so is my purse.

You are not cured: and, but for my art, you would be dead." "That ends it!" murmured the cardinal; "that ends it." And he threw a melancholy look upon the riches which surrounded him.

"And must I quit all that ?" sighed he.

"I am dying, Guenaud! I am dying!" "Oh! not yet, my lord," said the physician.
Mazarin seized his hand.