"That will do," said the doctor, "provided that you do not go
on horseback, or walk ten miles the first day."

"Capital! you are a doctor; however, I have seen another to-night.
Yes, I saw him, and if ever I meet him, I should know him."

"I advise you not to seek for him, monsieur; one has always a
little fever after a sword wound; you should know that, who have
had a dozen."

"Ah, mon Dieu!" cried Bussy, struck with a new idea, "did my
dream begin outside the door instead of inside? Was there no
more a staircase and a passage, than there was a bed with white
and gold damask, and a portrait? Perhaps those wretches, thinking
me dead, carried me to the Temple, to divert suspicion, should
any one have seen them hiding. Certainly, it must be so, and
I have dreamed the rest. Mon Dieu! if they have procured for
me this dream which torments me so, I swear to make an end of
them all."

"My dear seigneur," said the doctor, "if you wish to get well,
you must not agitate yourself thus."

"Except St. Luc," continued Bussy, without attending; "he acted
as a friend, and my first visit shall be to him."

"Not before five this evening."

"If you wish it; but, I assure you, it is not going out and seeing