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efforts of science would be vain if this fellow were to have anything to buy drink
with."
" But, doctor," interrupted M. l'Ambert,
"suppose my trouble did not rise from
that? If you have been the sport of some
fortuitous coincidence? Didn't you yourself tell me that the theory-"
" I have said, and I maintain, that in the
present state of our knowledge, your case
admits of no logical explanation; it is a
phenomenon whose law is yet to be discovered. The correspondence that we
observe to-day between the health of your
nose and the conduct of this Auvergnat,
opens a perspective which may be deceitful; but it is certainly immense. Let us
wait a few days. If your nose gets well
in the same degree as Romagne behaves
himself, my theory will receive the additional support of a new probability.. I
don't answer for anything, but I suspect
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