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want him always to be mad enough to
love me as I love him."
"We'll see," responded M. Auvray.
"Wait till the fever is past. If he's
ashamed of having been ill, if I find him
sad or melancholy when he gets well, I
can't answer for anything. If, on the
other hand, he looks back upon his disorder without shame or regret, if he
speaks of it resignedly, if he meets the
people who have been taking care of him
without repugnance, I can laugh at the
idea of relapses."
"Ah, father, why should he be ashamed
of having loved to excess? It is a noble
and generous madness which never enters
petty souls. And how can he feel repugnance on meeting those who have nursed
him? For they are we! "
After six days of delirium, an abundant
perspiration carried off the fever, and the
patient began to convalesce. When he