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The same vision presented itself, more or less, at the house of every physician of eminence. One at length was pointed out to him in a distant quarter of the city, at whose door he only perceived two little ghosts. "Behold," exclaimed he, with a joyful cry, "the good physician of whom I have been so long in search!" The doctor, astonished, asked him how he had been able to discover this? "Pardon me," said the afflicted lover complacently, "your ability and your reputation are well known to me."
"My reputation!" said the physician, "why I have been in Paris but eight days, and in that time I have had but two patients."
"Good God!" involuntarily exclaimed the young man, "and there they are!"
