Happily, with care, your recovery will not, I hope, be very much delayed." Accustomed though she was to the audacity of this tool of the Congregation, Mdlle.de Cardoville could not forbear saying to him, with a smile of bitter disdain: "What impudence, sir, there is in your probity! What effrontery in your zeal to earn your hire! Never for a moment do you lay aside your mask; craft and falsehood are ever on your lips.Really, if this shameful comedy causes you as much fatigue as it does me disgust and contempt, they can never pay you enough."
"Alas!" said the doctor, in a sorrowful tone; "always this unfortunate delusion, that you are not in want of our care!--that I am playing a part, when I talk to you of the sad state in which you were when we were obliged to bring you hither by stratagem.Still, with the exception of this little sign of rebellious insanity, your condition has marvellously improved.You are on the high-road to a complete cure.By-and-by, your excellent heart will render me the justice that is due to me; and, one day, I shall be judged as I deserve."