– Monster ‘cried, unable to restrain, M. Salin.

And in that instant he saw the monster come in person, and the servant announced M. Bernier.

The notary drew back, stepping back to the darkest corner of his room, his eyes wide open, looking lost, and extending the arms forward as if to repel an enemy. Chattering teeth, he muttered stifled, as in the novels of Javier de Montepin:

– He! It! It!

‘Sir,’ said the doctor, I’m sorry I made to wait, and I beg that you calméis. I know the accident victim even while you are, and I dare to hope that evil will cure. But nothing we can do if you are afraid of me.

The word fear is always an unpleasant sound to French ears. M. Salin foot unloaded a heavy blow on the floor, moved decisively toward the doctor, and said with a chuckle too nervous to be natural.

– Come on, doctor! have, apparently, want to kidding. Do I have face, perchance, a coward? If it were, I would not put in a trance this morning that my poor humanity descompletasen me. But while I was waiting, I perused a book of surgery, and just now seeing in him the figure of a surgeon who bears some resemblance to you, when, upon entering, I have made the effect of a ghost. Add to this the emotions suffered surprise this morning, and who knows, perhaps also some febrile movement, and I forgive what you have noticed strange about the reception that I did.