do you do in Paris?"

"What do I do? I do nothing; but I would if I had a connection."

"Well, that is just right; I will give you a patient. Will you
have me? I am famous practise; for there is scarcely a day when
I do not deface God's noblest work for others, or they for me.
Will you undertake the care of all the holes I make in the skin
of others or others in mine?"

"Ah, M. le Comte! this honor."

"No; you are just the man I want. You shall come and live with
me; you shall have your own rooms, and your own servants; accept,
or you will really annoy me."

"M. le Comte, I am so overjoyed, I cannot express it. I will work--I
will make a connection----"

"But, no, I tell you, I keep you for myself and my friends. Now,
do you remember anything more?"

"Nothing."

"Ah, well! help me to find out, if it be possible."

"I will."

"And you, who are a man of observation, how do you account for
it, that after being doctored by you, I found myself by the Temple,