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234 UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
tience. It is in such particulars that the
paternal treatment of M. Auvray is so
much admired. That excellent man had
a genius for gentleness. On the 25th of
December, Francois, seated on the side of
his bed, and ballasted with some chickensoup and half the yolk of an egg, told,
without any interruption, trouble, or wandering, without any feeling of shame or
regret, and without any other emotion
than a tranquil joy, the occurrences of
the three months which had just passed.
Claire and Mme. Auvray wept while they
listened. The doctor acted as if he were
taking notes or writing from dictation, but
something else than ink fell upon the
paper. When the tale was told, the convalescent added, by way of conclusion:
"To-day, the 25th of December, at three
o'clock in the afternoon, I said to my
excellent doctor, to my beloved father,
M. Auvray, whose street and number I