As a matter of fact, the archbishop called almost daily, but they had not allowed him to see the patient.
"The archbishop?" repeated Talma. "What are you saying about the archbishop?"
Amédée hastened to reply—
"M. Dupuytren was telling these gentlemen, uncle, that the Archbishop of Paris has called every day to ask after you."
"Oh! what good a fellow the archbishop is!" Talma exclaimed. "I am much touched by his remembering me.... I used to meet him at the house of the Princesse de Wagram: he is a very excellent man."
"Yes," Amédée reiterated,—"yes, he has called nearly every day."
"Here?" Talma asked.
"Here; I have spoken to him myself twice; I have even promised him that, when you are better, you will see him."
"Oh! no, no," said Talma quickly; "but when I am better he shall be the first on whom I will call. I remember once he was good enough to send an ecclesiastic to me to tell me that he had nothing to do with the insult put on my children in the matter of the distribution of prizes and that the whole blame should fall on the headmaster of the school."